Week 17 6th - 12th January 2014

This week we have studied and practised the formation and use of the comparatives and superlatives for both adjectives and adverbs.

This is a link for you to revise:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBm1kaLPUX0

Thank you for your effort. Well done!

Week 16 16th - 22nd December 2013

This week we have studied how to form conditional sentences type 0, 1, 2 and 3 and practised the new learning through writing, listening and speaking.

This is a link you may find useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Np7dmvw0U

Thank you for your participation and effort. Well done!

Week 15 8th - 15th December 2013

Hello!

This week we have learnt to express instant decisions, plans, arrangements, predictions, offerings, promises, actions in progress in the future and fixed events in the future and use it in the classroom through role plays:

- Instant decisions: "This pen is broken. I will buy a new one".

- Plans: "I am going to visit my family next month".

- Arrangements: "I am meeting my manager on Tuesday at 5 pm.

- Predictions based on evidence: "It is cloudy. It is going to rain this evening".

- Predictions based on no evidence: "Arsenal will win the Champions League next year".

- Offerings: You look tired. "I will carry your bags".

- Promises: "I will love you for ever".

- Actions in progress in the future: "Tomorrow morning I will be working".

- Fixed events in the future: "The train leaves at 11.30 pm on Wednesday".


This is a link you may find useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPizZpX0OE

Thank you for your participation.You did very well!

Week 14 2nd - 8th December 2013

Hello class!

This week we have learnt modal verbs (can, cannot, could, ought to, to be able to, may, might, must, mustn’t, should, shouldn’t, have to, had better…) and how to use them. We have discussed about abilities, needs, probabilities, and we have given advice and asked for permission in both formal and informal ways.

This is a link for you to revise modal verbs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpA_McVjorM

Thank you all for your participation. You did very well!

Week 13 25th November - 1st December 2013

This week we have learnt vocabulary on sports and leisure and have work on it through speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. We have also learnt phrasal verbs related to leisure, such as “take up”, “give up”, “get into”, and “join in”, and talked about which activities we like and dislike and why. We also learnt what Britons like and dislike to do and discussed about it.

Homework: Remember the writing about your hobbies for next day using the vocabulary you have learnt this week.

Those are some links you may find useful:

Vocabulary on sports:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudXwjZ4Bm8

Vocabulary on sports and leisure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nc5AAIrlpM

Phrasal verbs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDJhpqYfkY

A little on hobbies (listening):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkeBsF3IlI

Thank you all for your participation and effort. Well done!

Week 12 18th - 24th November 2013

Hello, class!

This week we have learnt vocabulary on special ocassions (weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, retirements...).  We have also revised the "present continuous" tense and have used it to express what we are currently doing.

This is a link to revise some vocabulary on wedding:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkfXG4pOEo

Enjoy your learning!

Week 11 10th - 17th November 2013

This week we have learnt:

Vocabulary on shopping, including measures (a bottle, a litre, a pint, a gallon, a kilo, half a kilo, a pound, grams, a can, a tin, a dozen, a pound, a carton, a jar…), paying methods (credit/debit card, cash...), discounts…

Expressions related to shopping, such as “to run out of something” and “to have plenty of something”.

How to build sentences using the "past simple" and the "past continuous" tenses, and how to link them using “when” or “while” as needed.

These are some links to be used to check your learning at home:

Pronunciation of the past simple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsLLGnYhJ0

Vocabulary on shopping through a conversation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wbm0VRwbU

Explanation of basic shopping vocabulary in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXqOvMntc0

Thank you for your participation and effort. You are doing very well!