Wednesday, 16th October 2019

TODAY IN CLASS:

-A question, to start with: how many hours do you think you should study / learn /use English in order to be fluent enough? Tricky question to link with the following text.

-Corrección de los HOMEWORK: Book, pages 86 + 87, 5READING AND LISTENING, b) questions about the text.

-Book, page 85, 5 READING & LISTENING: listening 5.6, c) + d)

-Corrección TEST STANLEY: hasta la 13.

PHONETICS:

HOMEWORK:

C.2 FORMADA POR:

-FCE GOLD / Cloze / Page 120 / What makes someone intelligent?

-FCE MCMLLN WRKBK, pg 53, WORD FORMATION & CONTRASTING IDEAS

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, tend, understand,

Bare infinitive: had better, let, 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, want, realize, recognize, remember, seem, suppose, understand

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

·Not only A, but also B

·(I) either A or B

·(I) neither A nor B