Our Seventeenth Session (11 March 2015)

Last Wednesday we sat an EOI exam. Good luck!

Our Sixteenth Session (4 March 2015)

Last Wednesday:

1- We sang this song by Abba: "Money, money, money". We also filled in the gaps and underlined some vocabulary related to "wealth". Examples: work, pay, bills, penny, wealthy, rich, fortune and win.

2- We answered these questions:

a) Underline the conditional sentences you find in this song.
b) Underline the modal verbs you find. What's the difference between "must" and "have to"?
c) Find the word "must" expressing certainty.

3- We explained "modals of obligation and prohibition" (have to, must and should-recommendation) and "zero and first conditional with if/when/unless/as soon as".

4- We did exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 49.

5- We corrected exercise 4 on page 51 and played a fun game with some "crazy hands" on our whiteboard. We recapped on those phrasal verbs: pick up, make up, end up, etc. Women won, well done, girls!!

6- We listened to a real EOI listening.

7- We played a game using some modals of obligation and prohibition. We had to fill in these recommendations:

How to be fit + how to be rich + how to be a good friend

-You must / you don't have to / you shouldn't / you mustn't / you should / you have to

Paqui and Lucía were the winners, CONGRATULATIONS!

8- We discovered that ATTITUDE is the best word in English, 100% guaranteed ;).

Our Fifteenth Session (18 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected a letter about the Coca-Cola ad.

2- We explained how to write a report.

3- We listened to exercise 2 on page 46 and filled in the gaps. "Living in the country or the city?"

4- We spoke about our dreams and hopes (look at exercise 3 on page 46).

Our Fourteenth Session (11 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:


Do you know the difference between:


"I want to clean the floor" and

"I want you to clean the floor"?


1- Corrected some exercises about "the passive". I encourage you to do some more.

2- We corrected exercise 1 on page 34.

3- We learnt that the modal verbs "could", "might" and "may" are used to express possibility. Rememeber not to use the negative with "could" to express possibility. 

4- We did exercises 1, 2 and 4 on page 45. You can reinforce your ideas doing the exercise about prefixes and suffixes that I sent you on Monday.

5- We saw how different our grandparents' lifestyle was while we watched a video about Coca-Cola. 

6- We discussed in class those differences using the comparatives and superlatives.

Our Thirteenth Session (04 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 6 on page 26.

2- We watched the video corresponding to Unit 3 with English subtitles. 

3- We did exercises 2 and 3 on page 35.

4- We corrected exercises 1 and 2 on page 36.

5- We listened to exercise 4 on page 37 and completed parts "a" and "b".

6- We learnt how to build the future tense and did exercises 5 and 6 on page 37.

7- We read the chart "How to...complain" and learnt different ways to express ourselves if something goes wrong in a hotel, restaurant, shop, etc.

8- We did a role-play in which the students had to split in two groups: one of them was the manager of a hotel and the other one was the client who wanted to complain about the cleanliness and noise in the hotel.

9- We listened to exercise 1 on page 39 and tried to differentiate between city sounds and country sounds.

10- We explained how to build the comparative and superlative adjectives and discussed about our likes and dislikes while we compared our decisions.

Taken from New Total English

Our Twelfth Session (28 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Watched the video "The Mag" and answered some questions.

2- We also created our own interview. That was awesome!

3- We corrected these exercises:

• 8 and 9 on page 26. (Textbook)
• 10 on page 27. (Textbook)
• 2 and 3 on page 28. (Textbook)
• 4 and 5 on page 29. (Textbook)

4- We learnt the differences between "past simple" and "past continuous".

5- We did exercise 8 on page 30.

6- We listened to exercise 2 on page 32.

7- We watched a video where some people explained the differences between living in a city or in the country. Finally, we completed a worksheet using these differences.

Our Eleventh Session (21 January 2015)

Do you remember what "gripping" means? 

Eg. I love "Los Otros". Nicole Kidman and Alakina Mann star in this gripping thriller by Alejandro Amenábar. 

1- We corrected exercise 3 on page 23, but before we explained again the relative pronouns.

2- We corrected exercises 4 and 5 on page 23.

3- We completed exercise 9 on page 24. We learnt how to show our agreement or disagreement on any subject.

4- We listened to exercise 10 on page 24 and spoke in pairs while we practised what we've already learnt.

5- We read exercise 11 on page 24 and gave examples of real English outside the classroom.

6- We completed the "How to..." box with the correct prepositions. Do you remember the exercise we did last Wednesday about objects? It's just the same:

Eg. Pen: It's a kind of pencil, it's used for writing and it's made of plastic.

7- We played "Shh!". We made two teams and tried to describe an object or a word withouth saying three essential expressions related to that object:

Eg.  TV channel: we couldn't pronounce the words "to watch", "programme" or "film".

Finally, the Superwomen won.

8- We explained the passive voice and did exercise 11, 12 and 13 on page 27.

9- We watched the video "The Mag" and we discovered where Leicester is in the map of the UK.