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:

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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,…