Wednesday, 22nd March 2017

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Corrección PET Richmond / Part 5 / Page 100-101 / Cloze text, “Comic” [26.B   27.D   28.A   29.D   30.C     31.C   32.B   33.A   34.D   35.B]

-PET Richmond / Transformations  / Page 80

1.The band met last month for the first time.

The band met a month AGO for the first time.

2.There are only a few trumpet players in the jazz band.

There are not very MANY trumpet players in the jazz band.

3.My teacher asked me if I wanted to play trumpet in the band.

My teacher asked me, “Do YOU WANT to play trumpet in the band?

4.I haven´t practiced my trumpet for ages.

It´s ages SINCE I practiced my trumpet.

5.I prefer playing in a band to playing alone.

I like playing in a band MORE THAN playing alone

-Corrección oraciones condicionales 1 & 2, from EFBlue Phot. Page 186.

-Práctica speaking PET  J & G

VOCABULARY: you should check quizlet!

PHONETICS:

Ache /eɪk/ - bear /beə/ - beard /bɪəd/ - beer /bɪə/ - bird /bɜːd/ - blood /blʌd/ - car /kɑː/ - cat /kæt/ - could /kʊd/ - enough /ɪˈnʌf/ - flood /flʌd/ - heart /hɑːt/ -hurt /hɜːt/ - island /ˈaɪlənd/ - love /lʌv/ - man /mæn/ - men /men/ - minutes /ˈmɪnɪts/ - month  /month / -  mountain /ˈmaʊntɪn/ - society /səˈsaɪətɪ/ - son /sʌn/ – sun /sʌn/ - talk /tɔːk/ - though /ðəʊ /- thought /θɔːt/ - through /θruː/ - tower /ˈtaʊə/ - variety /vəˈraɪətɪ/ - walk /wɔːk/ - woman /ˈwʊmən/ - women /ˈwɪmɪn/ - word /wɜːd/ - world /wɜːld/  

HOMEWORK:

-PET Richmond, page 96, reading true / false: “The old cotton mill”

-Writing option 7 (letter) from PET Burlington, page 24

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, ask, begin (in non-continuous tenses, you can either use a gerund or an infinitive), begin (in continuous tenses, with infinitive), claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, mean, need, offer, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like, would prefer.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, begin (in non-continuous tenses, you can either use a gerund or an infinitive), can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look forward to, love, mention, miss, need, practice, prefer, quite like, recall, recommend, regret, risk, spend, stop, suggest, understand,

Bare infinitive: had better, make, modal verbs, would rather, help