Homework: "One day at a time" (Netflix), season 1, episode 5

1.Who´s Kathy?

2.Where should Lydia and Penelope sell the chocolates for Alex´s baseball team?

3.What´s Lydia´s idea for Carmen to sleep in Penelope´s house?

4.Why doesn´t Lori get the ballons for Dr Berkowitz´s birthday party on her way?

5.What did Dr Berkowitz´s daughter want when she phoned him on his birthday?

6.Who and why says the sentence “I feel like I´m watching the end of Titanic”?

7.What´s Dr Berkowitz´name?

8.What´s strange about Lori´s dancing?

9.What´s the reason why Dr Berkowitz hesitate if he should blow or not the candles?

10.What´s Penelope reaction when she finds out Schneider considers himself as an immigrant (from Canada)?

11.What were Lydia´s only possessions when she arrived in the United States from Cuba in 1962?

13.What do people usually go on saying after the sentence “I´m just being honest”, according to Penelope?

14. Why does Elena explain Penelope about Carmen´s parents in that very moment?

15.Why does Carmen like “Frozen on Ice”?

16: What´s the worst place in the planet, according to Elena?

13.How do you say in English…?

-raro, extraño, un poco gay:

-triunfador / ambicioso:

-quedarse a dormir una noche:

-cortauñas:

-jarra:

-centro de mesa:

-RSVP:

-despensa:

-varita mágica:

Key for ONE DAY AT A TIME (season 1, episode 4)

1.Where and when did Lydia meet her husband for the first time?

Cuba 1958, Saturday night.

2.What´s the best part of being single, according to Scott?

Dating apps.

3.Who says the sentence: “I´m the Dr Berkowitz of women”? What does it mean?

Penelope. It means she is old to get a date.

4.What does the waitress think of Penelope when she says she´s a snowman?

She may be a coke dealer.

5.What´s the problem with the picture Penelope would like to use when Schneider is uploading her profile for a dating app?

Her children are in the photo too.

6.Write one of Schneider´s advices to Penelope for her date?

Lie about everything.

7.According to Schneider, what two kinds of guys should Penelope avoid when looking for a date online?

Those showing their abs but not their face + those who say they are an entrepreneur.

8.Why was Abby crying?

Because she thought her boyfriend was going to propose that night, but he didn´t.

9.Why did Lydia find out about Penelope´s date?

Because she had shaven her moustache.

10.Why is Elena so angry or sad about her own behaviour when Alex leaves the living-room?

Because she had said before she is not a gossip, but she wanted to tell Alex about Penelope´s date.

11.In this episode, how many unknown people listen to Penelope speaking about her dating?

Taxi driver, waitress in the bar, Abby, woman in the restaurant, waiter

13.What does the last waiter ask Penelope? What´s the consequence of that question?

“Do you know what you want?”. Penelope leaves the restaurant before meeting her date

14. What happen to women in their late thirties, according to Elena and Alex?

They are in their sexual prime.

15.Who said the sentence “Tell her to stop talking to me!”?

Alex.

13.How do you say in English…?

-maletero: trunk

-empresario: entrepreneur

-mono (ropa): jumpsuit

-bache: ??????

-salón de máquinas recreativas: arcade

-dólares (colloquial): bucks

Monday, 24th February 2020

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Comentarios sobre correcciones del único writing que ha preparado un estudiante

-Puesta en común sobre ONE DAY AT A TIME, season 1, chapter 4: aún tienen que investigar los estudiantes una palabra de vocabulario.

-Corrección C21: EFOrangePhotoc.Grammar pag 151: Question formation a) + b) con revisión de la estructura para las SUBJECT / OBJECT QUESTIONS

PHONETICS:

Ache /eɪk/, care /keə/, caught /kɔːt/, chair /ʧeə/, choir /ˈkwaɪə^r/, cousin /ˈkʌsn/, daughter /ˈdɔːtə/, detective /dɪˈtektɪv/, enough /ɪˈnʌf/, favourite /ˈfeɪvrət/, heart/hɑːt/, hurt /hɜːt/, keyboard /ˈkiːbɔːd/,  parents /ˈpeərənts/, soldier /ˈsəʊlʤə/, sugar /ˈʃʊə^r/, sure /ˈʃʊə^r/, through /θruː/, tough /tʌf/, whereas /weərˈæz/  

HOMEWORK:   

-C22: Reading gapped text from FCE TARGET, pages 126-127, “Outsider art”

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

Wednesday, 19th February 2020

DOWNTOWN (Glee version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0eFAXbaLQ

When you're 1.__________ and life is 2.__________ you lonely
You can 3.__________ go - downtown
When you've got 4.__________, all the 5.__________ and the hurry
Seems to 6.__________, I know – downtown

Just 7.__________ to the music of the 8.__________ in the city
Linger on the 9.__________ where the neon 10.__________ are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much 11.__________ there
You can forget all your 12.__________, forget all your 13.__________

So go downtown, 14.__________ will be 15.__________ when you're downtown,                                             no 16.__________ place, for 17.__________
Downtown - everything's 18.__________ for you

Don't hang 19.__________ and let your problems 20.__________ you
There are movie 21.__________ – downtown

22.__________ you know some little 23.__________ to go to
Where they never 24.__________ – downtown

Just listen to the 25.__________ of a gentle bossa nova
You'll be 26._______ with him too 27._______ the night is over, happy 28._______

The lights are much 11.__________ there
You can forget all your 12.__________, forget all your 13.__________

So go downtown, where all the lights are 29.__________
Downtown – 18.__________ for you tonight
Downtown - you're gonna be all right 30.__________

And you 31.__________ find somebody kind to help and 32.__________ you

Someone who is 33.__________ like you and needs a 34.__________ hand to
35.__________ them along

So maybe I'll 36.__________ you there
We can forget all our 12.__________, forget all our 13.__________
So go downtown, 14.__________ will be 15.__________ when you're
Downtown - don't wait a 36.__________ more
Downtown - everything's 18.__________ for you
Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown ...

-Corrección Book, page 132, ejercicio 1Ab

-Book, page 4, 2PRONUNCIATION, 1, 2 y 3

PHONETICS:

Ache /eɪk/, care /keə/, caught /kɔːt/, chair /ʧeə/, choir /ˈkwaɪə^r/, cousin /ˈkʌsn/, daughter /ˈdɔːtə/, detective /dɪˈtektɪv/, enough /ɪˈnʌf/, favourite /ˈfeɪvrət/, heart/hɑːt/, hurt /hɜːt/, keyboard /ˈkiːbɔːd/,  parents /ˈpeərənts/, soldier /ˈsəʊlʤə/, sugar /ˈʃʊə^r/, sure /ˈʃʊə^r/, through /θruː/, tough /tʌf/, whereas /weərˈæz/  

HOMEWORK:   

-ONE DAY AT A TIME, season 1, episode 4

-Book, page 6, 6 LISTENING & SPEAKING, ejercicio f): reading + preguntas de comprensión

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

Homework: "One day at a time" (Netflix), season 1, episode 4

1.Where and when did Lydia meet her husband for the first time?

2.What´s the best part of being single, according to Scoot?

3.Who says the sentence: “I´m the Dr Berkowitz of women”? What does it mean?

4.What does the waitress think about Penelope when she says she´s a snowman?

5.What´s the problem with the picture Penelope would like to use when Schneider is uploading her profile for a dating app?

6.Write one of Schneider´s advices to Penelope for her date?

7.According to Schneider, what two kinds of guys should Penelope avoid when looking for a date online?

8.Why was Abby crying?

9.How did Lydia find out about Penelope´s date?

10.Why is Elena so angry or sad about her own behaviour when Alex leaves the living-room?

11.In this episode, how many unknown people listen to Penelope speaking about her dating?

13.What does the last waiter ask Penelope? What´s the consequence of that question?

14. What happen to women in their late thirties, according to Elena and Alex?

15.Who said the sentence “Tell her to stop talking to me!”?

13.How do you say in English…?

-maletero:

-empresario:

-mono (ropa):

-bache:

-salón de máquinas recreativas:

-dólares (colloquial):