Wednesday, 10th January 2018

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Today we are going to work deeply about the text “Race across London”; because of that we can increase our active vocabulary concerning “transport” Book, page 155, TRANSPORT, 2. “On the road”. Introduction about compound nouns + pay attention to phonetic transcription + checking with listening 2.2.
-As we told two days ago, this is a real tv programme from BBC. Ans, if yu look back on last class, we mentioned another important piece of news related to BBC last 8th January. Have you got any information about it? Comments about "BBC China editor Carrie Gracie has quit her post over equal pay"
-Book, pages 24 & 25, 3READING: a)introduction & questions + b) + c) + d) vocabulary + e) listening 2.9 + g) listening 2.10
-Youtube video about this programme, "Rece across London"

VOCABULARY: you should check Quizlet!

PHONETICS:
above /əˈbʌv/, ache /eɪk/, although /ɔːlˈðəʊ/, blood /blʌd/, carbohydrate /ˈkɑːbəʊˈhaɪdreɪt/, dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/, flood /flʌd/, mountain /ˈmaʊntɪn/, private /ˈpraɪvɪt/, scene /siːn/, sure /ʃʊə/, women/ˈwɪmɪn/, vulture /ˈvʌlʧə/

HOMEWORK:
-Reading gapped text from FCE MACMILLAN WORKBOOK, pages 42 & 43: Gapped text in page 42, “Keeping it in the family” + exercises in page 43


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


ADJECTIVE ORDER:
Opinion + size + age + shape + colour + pattern + material + nationality


NON-ACTION VERBS:
Agree, be, believe, belong, depend, forget, hate, hear, know, like, love, mater, mean, need, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, seem, suppose