jueves, 31 de octubre de 2013

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!

jueves, 24 de octubre de 2013

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!

jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013

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


Have a nice weekend!

martes, 15 de octubre de 2013

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!

jueves, 10 de octubre de 2013

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
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PLAYER 7
8 POINTS
PLAYER 8
8 POINTS


viernes, 4 de octubre de 2013

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

jueves, 3 de octubre de 2013

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
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PLAYER 7
2 POINTS
PLAYER 8
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