Monday, 27th November 2023

 TODAY IN CLASS

-Speaking MEDIACIÓN from Escuela Oficial de Idiomas: NAVIDAD VERDE

-Christmas = spending money ON many things. So, our listening today from English File Green, page 15, Track 1.40

SPENDER OR SAVER

Listen to six people answering the question Are you a spender or a saver? Match speaker 1 – 6 with A – F. Who…?

A.   Always has money in the bank?         5

B.   Often ends up with no money?           1

C.   Thinks he / she is careful with money, but not mean?   6

D.  Enjoys spending money on his / her hobby? 3

E.   Can save money if he / she needs to?        4

F.   Prefers to live now than worry about the future?  2

-Corrección Reading multiple choice from FCE GOLD, pages 104 &105, “Polar purpose”:

1.C   2.D   3.D   4.C   5.B   6.C   7.A   8.A

-Explicación SIMPLE PAST / PAST CONTINUOUS / USED TO (=WOULD): GRAMMAR BANK 3A, page 136 teoría + 3Aa

PRONUNCIATION

bear /bear/, beard /biard/, beer /biar/, bird (berd/, blood /blad/, butcher /buchar/, deaf, drawer /droo/, famous /feɪmas/ ,flood /flad/, future /fiuchar/ heart /hɑaat/, hurt /hert/, husband /hasband/, literature /lítrechar/,lice, louse, month, mice, museum /miusíam/, nature /neichar/, orange, tough, village, woman /wuman/, women /wimin/, word /werd/, world /werld/, work /werk/

HOMEWORK 

-FCE Gold, cloze text (texto para completar con opciones), page 8, “The century´s best film”

-Listening with pictures from PET RICHMOND 2020, pages 88&89, Test 4, Part 1

Monday, 20th November 2023

 TODAY IN CLASS

-Modelo de texto, review from FCE Target Richmond, page 174 (reading & analysis). Seguiremos este modelo para el writing del mes de noviembre: review sobre el libro ANOTHER WORLD que hemos leído en clase durante este mes (140-190 words).

-Expresiones que se forman con TO + GERUND: be used to + gerund & look forward to + gerund

-Speaking about ANOTHER WORLD, 7 & 8

-Strong adjectives (en Quizlet)

-Book, page 24, 1: d)reading and choosing tenses

-Corrección Book, page 26, 4LISTENING b)con track 2.10 + c)&d)con track 2.11, Could they hear the mosquito tone?

-Book, page 26, 3VOCABULARY a)

PRONUNCIATION

bear /bear/, beard /biard/, beer /biar/, bird (berd/, blood /blad/, butcher /buchar/, deaf, drawer /droo/, famous /feɪmas/ ,flood /flad/, future /fiuchar/ heart /hɑaat/, hurt /hert/, husband /hasband/, literature /lítrechar/,lice, louse, month, mice, museum /miusíam/, nature /neichar/, orange, tough, village, woman /wuman/, women /wimin/, word /werd/, world /werld/, work /werk/

HOMEWORK 

-Review sobre ANOTHER WORLD (140-190 words)

-Reading multiple choice from FCE GOLD, pages 104 &105, “Polar purpose”

Monday, 13th November 2023

 TODAY IN CLASS

-Quizlet.live: revisión de vocabulario

-Corrección pendiente Book, page 22, VOCABULARY b)

-Book, page 22, 1&2REVISE&CHECK, GRAMMAR (Ya habíamos hecho hasta la pregunta número 10)

-Corrección Listening T / F from Challenge III – Page 25 – Unit 2 – CD 1 – Track 16, “TWINS”

Listen to the interview between a pair of twins and a scientist. Are the sentences true or false?

1. Dr Snow doesn´t know the twins well.   T

2. Frank and Peter grew up together.   F

3. They met for the first time last year.   T

4. Frank saw Peter´s advert in a newspaper.   F

5. The first meeting was in Frank´s house.   F

-Speaking about ANOTHER WORLD, chapters 5 & 6

-Corrección ejercicio sobre comparativos from GRMMR N S Rd

-Book, page 25, 2PRONUNCIATION: -ed a)track 2.5 +b)track 2.6 + d)track 2.7

-Book, page 24, 1: describing the picture + a)matching adjectives & people in the picture

PRONUNCIATION

bear /bear/, beard /biard/, beer /biar/, bird (berd/, blood /blad/, butcher /buchar/, drawer /droo/, famous /feɪmas/ ,flood /flad/, future /fiuchar/ heart /hɑaat/, hurt /hert/, husband /hasband/, literature /lítrechar/,lice, louse, month, mice, museum /miusíam/, nature /neichar/, orange, tough, village, woman /wuman/, women /wimin/, word /werd/, world /werld/, work /werk/

HOMEWORK 

-ANOTHER WORLD, chapters 7 & 8

-Book, page 26, 4 LISTENING b)con track 2.10 + c)&d)con track 2.11

Monday, 6th November 2023

 TODAY IN CLASS

-”Another world”, chapters 3 & 4: speaking and comprehension questions

-Listening from BJCTVS, Unit 2, page 16, Listening 3a & 3b about Business English

-Book, page 22, 1&2REVISE&CHECK, GRAMMAR, revisión de temas de gramática que estudiamos el curso pasado hasta la pregunta 10, con revisión teórica de los comparativos y de los non-action verbs

PRONUNCIATION

bear /bear/, beard /biard/, beer /biar/, bird (berd/, blood /blad/, butcher /buchar/, drawer /droo/, famous /feɪmas/ ,flood /flad/, future /fiuchar/ heart /hɑaat/, hurt /hert/, husband /hasband/, literature /lítrechar/,lice, louse, month, mice, museum /miusíam/, nature /neichar/, orange, tough, woman /wuman/, women /wimin/, word /werd/, world /werld/, work /werk/

HOMEWORK 

-ANOTHER WORLD, chapters 5 & 6

-Ejercicio sobre comparativos (incluye revisión teórica)

-Book, page 22, ejercicio b) de la sección VOCABULARY (pendiente del curso pasado)

-Listening T / F from Challenge III – Page 25 – Unit 2 – CD 1 – Track 16, “TWINS”