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!

Week 10 4th - 10th November 2013

Hello!

This week we have revised the “present simple”, vocabulary on physical appearance and used it to describe people.

We have studied the “present continuous”, compared it with the “present simple”, and used it to express what we are doing currently.

We have also revised word agreement and punctuation (remember that adjectives always keep the same form: a red car, some red cars) as well as “likes and dislikes” ( I love, I like, I don’t like, I hate ) and used it to express our likes and dislikes for both things and actions ( Example: I like cars / I like driving cars ).

Thank you for your participation and involvement. You did very well. Please, don’t worry about making mistakes. Remember that making mistakes is a part of the learning process.

What's the noisiest place you have ever been to?
Who is the most interesting person you have ever met? Can you describe him/her?
If you were the witness of a crime, would you be able to describe a suspect?
I'm sure you would!

Enjoy the long weekend!

This week we have talked about our daily routines.
What time do you have a shower?
What time do you get to work?
We have also reviewed how to ask questions (how long do you...? what do you....? When...?) and the difference between present simple and present continuous.
How do you celebrate your birthday? And mother's day? And Christmas? Do you exchange presents? Do you visit your relatives? And what about carnival?
We have also learnt how people celebrate birthdays in other countries. Did you know that all Chinese people celebrate their birthdays with thier New Year?
Finally, we have seen how we use the present continuous tense or "going to" for future arrangements.
The difference is quite sutile, but here you have a grammar explanation that can be handy:

- (be) going to + infinitive: we use it to talk about future plans:
                                                 " I'm going to work in the UK for 6 weeks"
- Present continuous for future arrangements: future arrangements fixed for a fixed time or place. It is very common to find it with expressions such as tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, etc. 

Here you have some exercises so you can practise these tenses:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4291

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-future-plan.php#.UmlxLHDwlQM

Have a nice weekend!

Today we have kept working on modal verbs: we use should and shouldn't for giving advice or making polite requests; we use have to and don't have to for obligation/lack of obligation.

Remember the difference between HAVE TO (modal verb expressing obligation) and HAVE or HAVE GOT (expressing possesion)!!

The last part of the class we have been talking about daily routines. Here you have you homework, a listening and some questions

http://www.esl-lab.com/day1/day1.htm

Have a nice weekend!

Congratulations for your speeches, they were very good!
Today he have listened to each other stories and made a lot of questions, so we know each other a bit better now.
What do we use should for? it has two uses: to make polite requests and to give advice.
We have also started to talk about our jobs and what is important for us in our careers.
We'll keep working on that on Thursday, see you then!

Remember your homework for next week: you have to prepare a 3-4 minutes long speech about your first time on something, or tell us a story...
Have a nice weekend!

GAME 3: FILL THE GAP

 10 OCTOBER 2013

PLAYER 1	8 POINTS
PLAYER 2	8 POINTS
PLAYER 3	5 POINTS
PLAYER 4	8 POINTS
PLAYER 5	8 POINTS
PLAYER 6	---------
PLAYER 7	8 POINTS
PLAYER 8	8 POINTS

Hello!
Would you like to play a little game to review the prepositions of time?
Follow the link, this is your homework this week
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2947

GAME 2: GUESSING

3 OCTOBER 2013

PLAYER 1	6 POINTS
PLAYER 2	6 POINT
PLAYER 3	6 POINTS
PLAYER 4	2 POINT
PLAYER 5	1 POINT
PLAYER 6	---------
PLAYER 7	2 POINTS
PLAYER 8	---------

OLYMPIC GAMES

GAME 1: SPELLING 

26 SEPTEMBER 2013

PLAYER 1	2 POINTS
PLAYER 2	6 POINT
PLAYER 3	10 POINTS
PLAYER 4	8 POINT
PLAYER 5	10 POINT
PLAYER 6	10 POINTS
PLAYER 7	6 POINTS
PLAYER 8	8 POINTS

We've got our blog! Finally!
So far, we have talked about British famous people, what we do in our free time (go swimming, go to the cinema, play basketball, do pilates...), etc.
And we have shown our amazing skills playing memory with irregular verbs ;)