VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually = in fact, afford, aisle /ail/,
ancient, appointment, armchair, ASAP,
available, bargain, bat, become-became-become,
beforehand, behave, beings, bench, bib, bill, bin, blood, brain, brand, brick,
budget, burglar, cabbage, cap (=gorra / tapón de botella), change one´s
mind, chimney, choice, clay, cliff, clue, cockroach, coffin, college, come
up with, concerning, convertible, cufflinks, curly, dam (presa, de
pantano), dangerous, date, dead, death, demonstration, desert /ˈdezət/, dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/, drawer (/dro:/), Dutch, earthquake,
essay, eve, eventually, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), faith,
fan, far, fate, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep,
for, fork, FYI, get on/off,
gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, hairdryer, ham, hammer, hide-hid-hidden,
hill, huge, handcuffs, human beings,
hurry up, in bold, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is
up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, kind (noun / adjective), knife,
knowledge, landscape, lazy, leather, likely, loan, look
forward to hearing from you, lung,
main square, matches, mate, mice, misunderstanding, mud, neither,
new, nightmare, on one´s own = by oneself,
once upon a time, owner, path, PE, plug, pregnant, prey, puddle, pumpkin, pyramid
/´piramid/, rainforest, referee, remote, rest room, right now, road, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout,
rucksack, sand, seldom, seed, selfish, shark, sheep, shelf, shelter, silly,
sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, snowmobile, so,
socket, spear, spoon, stage, stepmother, stopper,
straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tiny, tissue, tonight, town hall, twice,
to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to arrive in, to arrive at, to ask for, to
be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to breathe, to be fed
up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to
break into, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to defeat, to
delete, to die, to enter, to face, to fail, to fall in love with, to
fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on
holiday, to hire, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to
mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to
postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the
phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rescue, to rest, ravine /re´vi:n/, to sail, saline
/´seilain/ , to shout, to speak to, to surrender, to take into account, to
take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload,
to wait for, to worry about, thumb, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn
left, turn right, umpire, unfair, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo
que), whale, whose, wild, wildebeest, wire, wireless, witness, yatch,
TODAY IN CLASS:
-Fecha examen final:
25/06
-Corregir BOOK, page 28+29, GRAMMAR: 3
-Corregir BOOK, page 142, ejercicio 3.1.a (sólo las dos
primeras frases) + 3.b sobre ORACIONES DE RELATIVO
-Revisión (thanks a
lot, Virginia!!) de la ampliación de explicación sobre
oraciones de relativo:
a)Defining relative clauses: cuándo podemos omitir el
pronombre relativo
b)Non-defining relative
clauses: “that” no puede sustituir a “who” o “which”
-BOOK, page 30: 1a +
1b + 2a + 2b + 3a + 3b + 5a +
HOMEWORK:
-Reading comprehension:
Crossing borders
It´s not only students who get excited about setting up
links with people from other cultures – their teachers do too. Nowadays, more
and more teachers are travelling abroad in search of contacts and ideas they
can bring back to their own classrooms.
One teacher who recently made an exciting link is Maria
Pelman, the Head of Music at a large secondary school in the UK. She took part
in a visit to a school in the Punjab, a region in the northwest of India. The
aim was to find out how students in India learn music, and what new ideas she
could bring back to her school at home.
Maria found her visit extremely interesting but at the
same time hard work. She toured a range of different schools and colleges in
the Punjab, and although she found that there was not much music on the
curriculum, music was an important part of local life. Since returning to the
UK she has developed a project with the staff of various departments in her own
school to introduce 11- and 12-year-old children to a range of Indian cultural
experiences. They learn to make Indian music, food, jewellery and textiles.
Another teacher from the UK, Tim Wilde, visited Japan. He
spent time in schools learning about the lives and attitudes of Japanese
students in order to plan a visit to Japan for his own students. Many of the
Japanese students he met spoke English, and this encouraged his UK students to
begin learning Japanese. They also organised typical activities like a
tea-drinking ceremony as a way of understanding traditional Japanese customs.
Other teachers have visited countries as far apart as
Iceland and Australia, Uganda and Siberia. They all consider their visits to
schools abroad to be one of the most satisfying and enjoyable things they have
ever done in their teaching careers. They believe that in a world which is getting smaller all the time,
it is increasingly important to know about and understand other people, their
lives and their cultures.
Just occasionally, a teacher decides to remain abroad for
a few years, and although this decision comes as a surprise to their schools,
they are always welcomed back. While away, they are able to set up all kinds of
links and, if a foreign language is involved, students can make friends by
emailing each other and even take part in video conferences. These friendships
do not necessarily last, but they certainly go a long way to creating positive
attitudes in young people.
TRUE OR FALSE?
1. Teachers are more keen than students on working with
other cultures.
2. According to the writer, teachers travel abroad to
help students in developing countries.
3. Maria Pelman expected music teaching in the UK and
India to be similar.
4. Maria Pelman found that the amount of music teaching
in the schools she visited was limited.
5. Maria Pelman now works closely with colleagues
teaching another subject.
6. Tim Wilde hopes his own students will visit Japan.
7. Most teachers find that trips abroad have a negative
effect on their careers.
8. Teachers who stay away for a few year are unpopular
with their schools.
9. Student contacts can be organised even when teachers
are absent.
10. According to the writer, people develop long-lasting
friendships based on emailing each other.
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