Wednesday, 13th November 2019

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Revisión Quizlet

-Corrección C5: FCE Target, page 64

I.  1.rains  2.provided that   3.would be  4.in case  5.wouldn´t have missed  6.unless  7.hadn´t run  8.would buy

II.  1.outskirts  2.underground  3.slogans  4.consumers  5.change  6.beat  7.won  8.successful

III.  1.isn´t  2.named, remember, have kept  3.continues, to grow, will have expanded  4.don´t like, shouldn´t go, is being  5.lies, are monitoring, to prevent  6.hasn´t been, were fighting, served, had finished/finished, moved

-Listening, Book, page 92, PRACTICAL ENGLISH, UNEXPECTED EVENTS, 1. Janes gets a surprise: picture description + listening 5.22.

-Recordamos las características del essay: (Formal expresions + introduction + on the one had + on the other hand + conclusion  / personal opinión).

-Corrección Book, page 163, VOCABULARY BANK, WORD BUILDING, 2. Making adjectives and adverbs: c (sentences)

PHONETICS:

Ache /eɪk/, caught /kɔːt/, cousin /ˈkʌsn/, favourite /ˈfeɪvrət/, heart/hɑːt/, hurt /hɜːt/, whereas /weərˈæz/  

HOMEWORK:

-Essay 140-190 words: What do you think makes a happy family? 

(Please, don´t forget to use some of the expressions we have in the section ADVERBS TO BE USED in our blog!!)

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, continue, 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