miércoles, 31 de octubre de 2018

martes, 30 de octubre de 2018

Monday, 29th October 2018


TODAY IN CLASS:
Resultado de imagen de kinds of film-Speaking: Did you have a nice weekend? Why?
-Book, page 159, VOCABULARY BANK, 1KINDS OF FILMS

-BooK, page 57,6SPEAKING&LISTENING, b)listenings 3.36 (T/F) + d) listening 3.37 (notes): just the first three points.

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, caricature /ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊə/, charge /'tʃɑ:dʒ/, church /'tʃɜ:tʃ/, hurt /hɜːt/, laugh /lɑːf/, love /lʌv/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/,

HOMEWORK:
-OPEN CLOZE, FCE MAC, PAGE 156, “Roast ghost”

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:
Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
··I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…
·It is / would be extremely important
·It is / would be quite interesting
·It is / would be absolutely essential

lunes, 29 de octubre de 2018

Another great TV series in NETFLIX: "Happy Valley"

Resultado de imagen de happy valleyHappy Valley is a British crime drama television starring Sarah Lancashire and Siobhan Finneran. The first season debuted on BBC One on 29 April 2014, and the second series debuted on 9 February 2016. In May 2015, Happy Valley won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series.
The main character is Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant in West Yorkshire. She can´t forget the suicide of her teenage daughter, Becky, eight years earlier. Cawood is now divorced from her husband and living with her sister, Clare, who is helping her bring up Becky's young son, Ryan, the product of rape. Neither Catherine's ex-husband nor their adult son, Daniel, want anything to do with Ryan. Catherine hears that Tommy Lee Roy, the man responsible for the brutal rape that drove Becky to suicide shortly after Ryan was born, is out of prison after serving eight years for drug charges. Catherine soon becomes obsessed with finding Royce, unaware that he is involved in the kidnapping of Ann Gallagher.Things quickly take a dark turn as the abductors scramble to keep the kidnapping secret, although Catherine is on to them.

viernes, 26 de octubre de 2018

Wednesday, 24th October 2018

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Corrección del ejercicio de revisión de condicionales tipo 2 y 3, page 57
-Explicación completa de la oraciones PENÉLOPE HOUSTON y WHITNEY CRUZ.
-Corrección Reading gapped text from FCE GOLD, pages 94 + 95, “Theft” (a la vuelta del listening)
1.F   2.E   3.H   4.B   5.G   6.D   7.A
-Speaking ahout the picture at the top of page 191 (sobre MIGHT). 

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, caricature /ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊə/, charge /'tʃɑ:dʒ/, church /'tʃɜ:tʃ/, hurt /hɜːt/, laugh /lɑːf/, love /lʌv/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/,

HOMEWORK:
-FCE TARGET, gapped text, “When will I be famous?” page 19: 5 + 6      


INFINITIVE OR GERUND:
Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
··I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…
·It is / would be extremely important
·It is / would be quite interesting
·It is / would be absolutely essential



martes, 23 de octubre de 2018

Monday, 22nd October 2018


TODAY IN CLASS:
-Corrección texto “Celebrity parents”, siguiendo el modelo de 
WORD FORMATION del examen FCE:
1.exciting   2.necessarily   3.dependable   4.attention  
5.embarrassed   6.fascinating   7.impression   8.unkind     
-Después de corregir el cloze text sobre “Celebrity parents” vamos a tratar sobre los aspectos positivos y negativos que conlleva la fama. Haremos un speaking-debate: ventajas y desventajas de ser una celebrity. (Oscar + Juanma + Gema // Javier + David. Preparación en salas diferentes).
-Revisión teórica de las oraciones condicionales: ya habíamos revisado los dos valores de las oraciones condicionales del segundo tipo. Hemos presentado las oraciones PENÉLOPE HOUSTON y WHITNEY CRUZ

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, charge /'tʃɑ:dʒ/– church /'tʃɜ:tʃ/, hurt /hɜːt/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/

HOMEWORK:
-Book, page 58 & 59, 1READING & SPEAKING: c) + d)


INFINITIVE OR GERUND:
Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
·I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…
·It is / would be extremely important
·It is / would be quite interesting
·It is / would be absolutely essential

sábado, 20 de octubre de 2018

Have you realized there are new adverbs in ADVERBS TO BE USED?

Resultado de imagen de realizeHave you realized there are new adverbs in the section ADVERBS TO BE USED in our blog? Try to have a look and, of course, try to use them!!

Wednesday, 17th October 2018


TODAY IN CLASS:
-Terminamos DOCUMENT 00821 sobre DESPITE, IN SPITE OF, ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH. Desde La frase  7
-Explicación de HOMEWORK a la vuelta de DOCUMENT 00821: relacionar frases de simple past y past continuous.
-What happened before what my mate has written?
-Listening multiple matching: FCE Gold / Page 48 / CD 1 / Track 8: “Computers” (a la vuelta está el reading de  HOMEWORK)
-Corrección del ejercicio de revisión de condicionales tipo 2 y 3, page 57, ejercicios 7 y 8.
-Revisión teórica de los valores de las oraciones condicionales del segundo tipo: condición poco probable + condición imposible en el presente.

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, charge /'tʃɑ:dʒ/– church /'tʃɜ:tʃ/, hurt /hɜːt/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/

HOMEWORK:
-Reading gapped text from FCE GOLD, pages 94 + 95, “Theft” (a la vuelta del listening)
-EFPinkWork, page 29 sobre first and second conditional
-NEFBluePhot., page 191 sobre MIGHT


INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
·I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…
·It is / would be extremely important
·It is / would be quite interesting
·It is / would be absolutely essential

miércoles, 17 de octubre de 2018

Warning!

Resultado de imagen de don´t forget your book

Monday, 15th October 2018


TODAY IN CLASS:
-Comentarios sobre las anotaciones de las correcciones de los writings que han recibido por email.
-Revisión del uso de IN SPITE OF / DESPITE / ALTHOUGH / EVEN THOUGH,
-Practicamos este punto gramatical con algunas frases del DOCUMENT 00821.
-Speaking: how was your week end?
-Terminamos la corrección transformations from FCE GOLD, page 86 & 87.

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, hurt /hɜːt/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/

HOMEWORK:
-Page 242 about past perfect
-Complete DOCUMENT 00821 about ALTHOUGH / DESPITE


INFINITIVE OR GERUND:
Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
·I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…

jueves, 11 de octubre de 2018

About JANE THE VIRGIN

Here you have just a summary of JANE THE VIRGIN. 
If you want to enjoy and have a really good time while 
practising your English you shouldn´t miss it.

Resultado de imagen de jane the virgin


Wednesday, 10th Octobrer 2018


TODAY IN CLASS:
-Revisión teórica con Speaking del uso de los modales para expresar PERMISO y PROBABILIDAD (de repetir la revisión de la canción)
-Revisión número 2 sobre la canción “Intervention”, Madonna
20. Sometimes its such a 21. pleasure
20. Sometimes I 22. wanna tear it all down
Its 23. easy to be 24. lazy and hard to go away from the 25. crowd
I know the 26. road looks 27. lonely
But thats 28. just Satan´s 29. game
And 30. either way my 31. baby,  we´ll never 32. be the 33. same
-Short speaking sobre “my first job” como introdución al reading FCE..
-Corrección reading matching from FCE GOLD, page 86 & 87, “My first job” + transformations en la misma hoja.Anotamos resultados en la hoja de registro.
1.D   2.B   3.D   4.A   5.B   6.D   7.C   8.B   9.A   10.C   11.D   12.B  
13.A   14.C   15.D
-Corrección from FCE GOLD, page 86 & 87,TRANSFORMATIONS. Sólo hemos corregido la primera frase:
1.We´ll go for a walk in the mountains unless it is too hot.
-Explicación de HOMEWORK recordando la explicación del ESSAY: estructura y conectores.

VOCABULARY:
You should check Quizlet.com

PHONETICS:
Bird /bɜːd/, hurt /hɜːt/, mountain/ˈmaʊntɪn/, women /ˈwɪmɪn/, word /wɜːd/, world /wɜːld/

HOMEWORK:
-Writing essay: “Why should students get a part-time job while they are are students”. Try to keep the right structure (four paragraphs) and send it as an attachment before Sunday 14th October 08:00 p. m. to meetingclass@gmail.com. By the way, why don´t you use some of the adverbs you can find in our blog section ADVERBS TO BE USED?
-Word formation “Celebrity parents” (Target, page 13)


INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, arrange, 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 help, can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, finish, 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


ADVERBS TO BE USED:
·I strongly believe that…
·It is generally agreed that…
·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…