29/04/2013, Monday

VOCABULARY:

Queue, to happen, wide, narrow, bench, speed, illness, sick, ill, whatever, whoever, whenever, wherever.

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Terminamos 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.

-Para terminar el tema del uso del tiempo libre, hacemos el ejercicio 5 LISTENING de la página 37, con el listening 2.42.

-Repaso de la sobre los comparativos.

-Corrección de fotocopia de ejercicios sobre comparativos.

HOMEWORK:

-Fotocopia con ejercicios sobre comparativo (no hay que preparar el ejercicio primero de la fotocopia sobre superlativos)

-Reading fotocopia: Who believes in ghosts?

-Writing: page 111, ejercicios a, b y c

COMPARATIVO

II. Use the correct forms of comparison in the following sentences. There may be some spelling changes:

1. A bicycle is not __________________ a car. (fast)

2. An elephant is __________________ a camel. (big)

3. To a European, Chinese is __________________ French. (difficult)

4. A vegetable is not __________________ a flower (beautiful), but it is __________________ (useful).

5. An apple tree is seldom __________________ an oak tree. (tall)

6. She is much __________________ (pretty) her sister, but is not __________________ (attractive) her charming brother.

7. Try to write __________________ (much) possible.

8. A horse usually runs __________________ (fast) a dog.

9. Do you agree that men are usually __________________ (impatient) women?

10. Nothing is __________________ (bad) arriving late at a very important meeting in shoes that squeak as one walks to one´s place.

11. That is the __________________ (extraordinary) idea  I have ever had.

READING

Who believes in ghosts?

Do you believe in ghosts? In the past, I thought ghosts only existed in books and films. But then my friend told me this story. I don´t think it´s true, but I´m not sure…

A married couple were on their way home from a party when they saw a young girl on the side of a country road. They stopped and gave her a lift in their car. The girl´s name was Lucy and she lived in a cottage opposite the pub in the next village.

For the whole journey, Lucy didn´t say very much. All she did as look out of the window. So the couple drove quietly to her village. When they arrived at Lucy´s cottage, the man turned around to speak to her – but she wasn´t there!

The man was very surprised. He knocked on the door of the cottage to tell the people there about Lucy. When he described her, it became clear that she was their lost daughter. Several years before, she disappeared while waiting for a lift on that same country road.

So what do you think? Is it a true story or just someone´s imagination?

TRUE OR FALSE:

1. The couple in the car stopped and asked for directions.
2. They drove to Lucy´s village.
3. When the couple arrived at Lucy´s cottage, she wasn´t in the car.
4. The couple in the car were friends of Lucy´s parents.
5. Lucy wasn´t the lost daughter of the people in the cottage.

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES ACCORDING TO THE STORY

1. The couple were in the car because ____________________________

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2. They stopped the car when __________________________________

3. When Lucy was in the car, she _______________________________

4. Then man went to the cottage because _________________________

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5. The daughter of the people in the cottage disappeared _____________

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