Wednesday, 4th March 2020

TODAY IN CLASS:

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

1.A  2.D  3.G  4.E  5.C  6.F

-Picture comparison (D)

-Corrección C24: word formation from FCE Macmillan TESTBUILDER, test 1, page 11

17.lifetime   18.selection   19.successful   20.demanding   21.populated   22.spectacular   23.extraordinary   24.competitors

-FCE Target, page 58, listening 5.2, Situations: hemos escuchado las 4 primeras

1.A   2.B   3.A   4.C  

PHONETICS:

Above, 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 6

-C26A: FCE OXFORD, OPEN CLOZE, “See dinosaurs eating”

-C26B: FCE OXFORD, OPEN CLOZE, “Britain´s forst shopping centre” 

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