24/04/2013, Wednesday

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Entrega de composiciones corregidas.

-Corrección de HOMEWORK:Página 135, ejercicios a desde frase 3 y b desde frase 3.

-Corrección del ejercicio b de la página 37, sección 2 GRAMMAR.

-Corrección del DVD “House for four”, chapter 2, section 3.

-Trucos para recordar el orden de los días de la semana en inglés.

-Visionado para completer espacios del DVD “House for four”, chapter 2, section 1:

SECTION 1

HELEN: There are four __________ in the house now, and I´m very happy. And Jane? Well, we all like her.

JANE: __________ everybody.

HELEN: What´s this?
JANE: It´s a video film, about my new house and my new __________. It´s for my sister, Alison.

HELEN: Oh, right.
JANE: Is it __________?

HELEN: Yeah, sure.
JANE: OK, Ali. This is the __________. And who is this? Say something.
DAVID: Say __________? It´s half past seven in the morning.

JANE: Talk to my sister. __________ yourself.
HELEN: Go __________, David.

-Hemos iniciado, pero no acabado, el Questionnaire de la página 36, ejercicio e de la sección 1 READING AND VOCABULARY. La clave o solución está en la página 101 del libro

HOMEWORK:

-Ejercicios sobre comparativos.

1. Escribe el comparativo

Ej. small - smaller
1. good            ______________
2. intelligent ______________                                                                      

3. old ______________
4. dark ______________
5. bad ______________
6. large ______________
7. narrow ______________
8. new ______________
9. easy ______________
10. funny ______________

2. Completa las frases usando un comparativo.
Ej. My flat isn’t very big.- I want a bigger flat.
1. My motorbike isn’t very fast. I’d like ________________________.
2. My husband isn’t very rich. I need ________________________..
3. Your computer is old now. You need ________________________..
4. His camera isn’t very good. He needs ________________________..
5. It isn’t very hot today. It was  _______________________ yesterday.
6. I’m not very interested in football. I’m __________________ in tennis.

3. Escribe frases que signifiquen lo mismo usando ‘as………as’.
Ej. A Porsche is faster than a Skoda. – A Skoda isn’t as fast as a Porsche.
1. Football is more popular than cricket in Spain.
Cricket isn’t _________________________________________.                                                   2. I work harder than you.
____________________________________________________.
3. My car’s newer than yours.
____________________________________________________.
4. His watch is more expensive than hers.
____________________________________________________.
5. Your flat’s nicer than ours.
____________________________________________________.
6. Paris is colder than Casablanca.
____________________________________________________.

-Completar, sin haberlo visto, los espacios de DVD “House for four”, chapter 2, section 2. Para ello debemos inferir qué palabra puede ir mejor en cada espacio analizando su categoría gramatical (¿necesitamos un verbo? ¿o un adjetivo? ¿una preposición? ¿qué tal un nombre? ¿…?) y la coherencia del sentido de la conversación.

SECTION 2

DAVID: Hello. I´m David. I come __________ Manchester. I´m a __________. I work in Oxford. That´s it.

JANE:  What things do you like?

DAVID: I like my job. I like football, swimming. I like a __________ breakfast. And I don´t like video cameras. And I start working at eight o´clock. __________, bye.

JANE: Bye. David´s nice really. Ready?

HELEN: Just a minute. Ready. Hello; my name´s Helen. I come __________ London, but I live in Oxford. What __________?

JANE: What do you do?

HELEN: I´m a marketing __________ for a publishing company. I work in Oxford, but I sometimes go to the London office. I __________ go to work at eight o´clock, and I __________ home at half past six.

JANE:  Is it a good job?

HELEN: It´s a very good job, I really like it. What __________ do I like? I also like good food, __________,… I go to the gym at the __________. Oh, and I like travel. I love France and Spain. I speak a little French and Spanish.

JANE: What things __________  you like?

HELEN: Well, I __________ like noise. Oh, and I don´t like cigarettes.

JANE: __________.

HELEN: You are __________.

JANE: Where´s Matt?

HELEN: I think Matt´s still in __________.