Tuesday, 17th April 2016

TODAY IN CLASS

-Corrección Traducción 00003

-Corrección PET Burlington, reading matching, “Isle of Wight”, page 9: con lectura del texto en clase

[6 G   7B     8D     9H     10E] 

-Corrección New English File Intermediate, Photocopiable page 150 about modals, segunda parte.

-Corrección EF Pink, Photocopiable, page 151 about modals

**If you couldn´t attend this class you may give me your exercises and I´ll correct them at home!

VOCABULARY:

Abroad, actually = in fact, advice (consejo),advise (aconsejar), afford, a little bit of, as well, at (=@), at all, at least, ATM, auction, available, avoid, at the last minute, beforehand, be against something, be for something, be good at something, be keen on something (=ser entusiasta de), be looking forward to + gerund, be made of, be scared of, be used to + gerund, bench , believe, bet, beware, borrow, brand, breeder, brother-in-law, bulb, burglar, by heart, cable, careful, careless, carelessness, cash machine, change one´s mind, chemist, chimney, closet (=wardrobe),clue, cockroach, conceal, concrete, contest, cook, crossword, degree, demonstration, depend on, disappear, dish-washer, do a job, do a research, do a test/exam, do an experiment, do exercise, do one´s best, dot, do the washing-up, download, drop, earn, effort, encourage, engagement, essay, exhibition, fall in love with, fair, feed-fed-fed, figures, find out, fire (to), fireplace, flea, fork, fraud, frightened, from my point of view, gess, get on well, guest, give someone a call on the telephone, give up, gonna, grumpy, have a temperature, heal (=curar), heater, heating, helpful, hesitate, hesitation, hire, how long?, I can´t believe it, I can´t stand + verbo en –ING o sustantivo, I don´t think so, improve, instead of, invest in, I think so, in bold, indoors, instead of, jigsaw, keep-kept-kept, keyboard, knock, knock on wood,landlady, landlord, laptop, leaflet, lecture, lend, lightning, lightning rod, likely, make a choice, make a decision, make changes, make food, make noise, note (billete), make progress, make sense, mayor, melt, memory stick, miss, nursery school, one word, parcel, pavement, pay for,  pedestrian, pickpocket, plug,  puddle, pull over, punish, punishment, reach, ready-steady-go, realize, rehearsal, rehearse, remind, rescue, research, rest, rod, save, shark, seldom, shell, sensible, sensitive, shift, sleigh, somehow, somewhere, spend-spent-spent, spoon, stepfather, stepmother, surf the internet, sidewalk, sleigh, socket, staff, stubborn, survey, swindle (to), task, terrific, text somebody, that, the whole + noun, these, thief, this, those, though, tiny, tip, toe, unfair, upload, van, waiter, waitress, wanna, washing machine, waste, watch, waste, ut, wax, wheat, whoever,...wire, wise, wonder (to), we both = the both of us,

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), ask, claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, need, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, consider, deny, discuss, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look forward to, love, mention, miss, need, recall, recommend,suggest, understand,

PHONETICS:

*Word /wɜːd/ - world /wɜːld/ - work /wɜːk/ - hurt /hɜːt/ - bird /bɜːd/ - survey
/ˈsɜːveɪ/

*Talk /tɔːk/ - walk /wɔːk/

*Car /kɑː/ - heart /hɑːt/

*Future /ˈfjuːʧə/ - nature /ˈneɪʧə/ - adventure /ədˈvenʧə/ - literature /ˈlɪtrəʧə/ - temperature /ˈtemprɪʧə/ - picture /ˈpɪkʧə/

*think /θɪŋk/ - thing /θɪŋ/ - mother /ˈmʌðə/ - though/ðəʊ/ - thought /θɔːt/ - through θ/ruː/

*done /dʌn/

*beer /bɪə/- bear /beə/ - beard /bɪəd/

*image  /ˈɪmɪʤ/ - age /eɪʤ/ - giant /ˈʤaɪənt/ - job /ʤɒb/

*cable /ˈkeɪbl/

*architecture /ˈɑːkɪtekʧə/  - atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪə/

*minute /ˈmɪnɪt/ - month /mʌnθ/

*sugar /ˈʃʊgə/

*air /eə/

*enough /ɪˈnʌf/ - laugh /lɑːf/

*women /ˈwɪmɪn/

*blood /blʌd/ - flood /flʌd/

*auction /ˈɔːkʃən/

*receipt /rɪˈsiːt/

*desert  /ˈdezət/ - dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/

HOMEWORK:

-NEFP Photocopiable, page 146 (So, because, but, although)

TEXTS FOR TRANSCRIPTION:

-Transcripción 9-162

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.14

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.44

Wednesday, 11th May 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRvVXBC72o

BANDITS

SONG 1:   I need a hero,

I´m holding out for a hero till the 1. __________ light.

          He´s gotta be sure and he´s gotta be soon

          And he´s gotta be larger than life. Larger than life.

          It´s gona take a Superman to sweep me off (=APARTAR, SEPARAR)  my 2. __________.

          I need a 1.hero,

I´m holding out for a hero till the end of the 3. __________,

And he´s gotta be strong, and he´s gotta be fast

And he´s gotta be fresh for the 4. __________.

I need a hero,

I´m holding out for a hero till the end of the 3. __________.

TERRY:    Out of 5. __________. Shit.

HUSBAND:  What is that 6. __________?

KATE:          It´s a gratin of Florence fennel (=HINOJO) and new 7. __________, clam (=ALMEJA) and sorrel (ACEDERA) soup with cream and mirepoix. And stuffed (RELLENO) quail (=CODORNIZ).

HUSBAND:  Kate, I have a dinner tonight. 8. __________.

KATE:     Tonight? Oh, well. It was just for fun.

HUSBAND:  I´m going to the 9. __________. See you.

          Sweetheart?

KATE:     Yeah?

HUSBAND:  Why don´t you go and see a movie?

SONG 2:   … hold me 16.tight. We´ll be holding on 10. __________.

And we´ll only be making it right ´cause we´ll never be wrong.

11. __________ we can take it to the en of the line.

Your love is like a 12. __________ on me all of the time.

(All of the time. All of the time).

I don´t know what to do and I´m always in the 13. _________.

We´re living in a powder keg (=BARRIL) and giving off sparks.

I really need you 14. __________!

Forever´s gonna start 14. __________.

Forever´s gonna start 14. __________.

Once upon a time I was 15. __________ in love,

Now I´m only 15. __________ apart.

There´s nothing I can do: a total eclipse of the 16. ________.

TERRY:    No!

KATE:     Oh, my 17. __________! Oh, my 17. __________! Are you all right? Are you okay? Come on. I´m so 18. __________. Come on… hospital, hospital.

CAR:      Cascade Memorial Hospital… is located… at…

KATE:     Can you wiggle (MENEAR) your toes?

TERRY:    19. __________.

CAR:      Northeast 32^nd Avenue.

TERRY:    … little 19. __________ are in… Are those in my…?

Hey, wait! Hey, you pull, you pull. You pull over and get out of the 20. __________!

KATE:          You don´t have to get all huffy (=SUSCEPTIBLE, ENOJADO, OFENDIDO) about it.

TERRY:    You need to pull the 20. __________ over.

KATE:     Hey, wait. It was an 21. __________.

TERRY:    Listen. I´ll shoot you with this thing.

KATE:     Oh, go ahead! It´ll be an improvement, 22. __________ me.

 

Let´s go to the cinema this evening... with Cate Blanchett!!!

Yes, you´ve guessed... my voice is not perfect today.

So, Cate Banchett could be a great medicine!

But my voice is improving, 

this morning I could say "Hello" to the sun!!

Monday, 9th May 2016

TODAY IN CLASS

-Simulacro PET (=drill):

     >Listening BURLINGTON, page 34, Tracks 8 + 9

>Reading viñetas PET Oxford, Reading short texts, pages 58&59

>Reading T / F, PET Oxford, Great Bear Rainforest, pages 80+81

>Long writing from Burlington, page 26

VOCABULARY:

Abroad, actually = in fact, advice (consejo),advise (aconsejar), afford, a little bit of, as well, at (=@), at all, at least, ATM, auction, available, avoid, at the last minute, beforehand, be against something, be for something, be good at something, be keen on something (=ser entusiasta de), be looking forward to + gerund, be made of, be scared of, be used to + gerund, bench , believe, bet, beware, borrow, brand, breeder, brother-in-law, burglar, by heart, cable, careful, careless, carelessness, cash machine, change one´s mind, chemist, chimney, closet (=wardrobe),clue, cockroach, conceal, concrete, contest, cook, crossword, degree, demonstration, depend on, disappear, dish-washer, do a job, do a research, do a test/exam, do an experiment, do exercise, do one´s best, dot, do the washing-up, download, drop, earn, effort, encourage, engagement, essay, exhibition, fall in love with, fair, feed-fed-fed, figures, find out, fire (to), fireplace, flea, fork, fraud, frightened, from my point of view, gess, get on well, guest, give someone a call on the telephone, give up, gonna, grumpy, have a temperature, heal (=curar), heater, heating, helpful, hesitate, hesitation, hire, how long?, I can´t believe it, I can´t stand + verbo en –ING o sustantivo, I don´t think so, improve, instead of, invest in, I think so, in bold, indoors, instead of, jigsaw, keep-kept-kept, keyboard, knock, knock on wood,landlady, landlord, laptop, leaflet, lecture, lend, lightning, lightning rod, likely, make a choice, make a decision, make changes, make food, make noise, note (billete), make progress, make sense, mayor, melt, memory stick, miss, nursery school, one word, parcel, pavement, pay for,  pedestrian, pickpocket, plug,  puddle, punish, punishment, reach, ready-steady-go, realize, rehearsal, rehearse, remind, rescue, research, rest, rod, save, shark, seldom, shell, sensible, sensitive, shift, sleigh, somehow, somewhere, spend-spent-spent, spoon, stepfather, stepmother, surf the internet, sidewalk, sleigh, socket, staff, stubborn, survey, swindle (to), task, terrific, text somebody, that, the whole + noun, these, thief, this, those, though, tiny, tip, unfair, upload, van, waiter, waitress, wanna, washing machine, waste, watch, waste, ut, wax, wheat, whoever,...wire, wise, wonder (to), we both = the both of us,

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), ask, claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, need, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, consider, deny, discuss, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look forward to, love, mention, miss, need, recall, recommend,suggest, understand,

PHONETICS:

*Word /wɜːd/ - world /wɜːld/ - work /wɜːk/ - hurt /hɜːt/ - bird /bɜːd/ - survey
/ˈsɜːveɪ/

*Talk /tɔːk/ - walk /wɔːk/

*Car /kɑː/ - heart /hɑːt/

*Future /ˈfjuːʧə/ - nature /ˈneɪʧə/ - adventure /ədˈvenʧə/ - literature /ˈlɪtrəʧə/ - temperature /ˈtemprɪʧə/ - picture /ˈpɪkʧə/

*think /θɪŋk/ - thing /θɪŋ/ - mother /ˈmʌðə/ - though/ðəʊ/ - thought /θɔːt/ - through θ/ruː/

*done /dʌn/

*beer /bɪə/- bear /beə/ - beard /bɪəd/

*image  /ˈɪmɪʤ/ - age /eɪʤ/ - giant /ˈʤaɪənt/ - job /ʤɒb/

*cable /ˈkeɪbl/

*architecture /ˈɑːkɪtekʧə/  - atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪə/

*minute /ˈmɪnɪt/ - month /mʌnθ/

*sugar /ˈʃʊgə/

*air /eə/

*enough /ɪˈnʌf/ - laugh /lɑːf/

*women /ˈwɪmɪn/

*blood /blʌd/ - flood /flʌd/

*auction /ˈɔːkʃən/

*receipt /rɪˈsiːt/

*desert  /ˈdezət/ - dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/

HOMEWORK:

-Traducción 00003

Special class today: practice for PET exam

As I´m suffering from a sore throat today, I have thought it could be interesting to have some PET exam exercises to be prepared in class. So get ready for that!!

WHY I DON´T RECEIVE ANY TRANSCRIPTION LATELY??!!

Wednesday, 4th April 2016

TODAY IN CLASS

-Fecha de recuperación de la clase: martes 17/05 (aprovechando que el lunes 16/05 no hay clase).

-Revisión de vocabulario escrita.

-Corrección New English File Pink Photocopiable, page 153, about infinitive and gerund (you may need www.wordreference.com to check vocabulary)

2.staying (allow me to go) 2.to find 3.paying

5.to turn off 6.ringing 7.not to take 8.not having

9.check in 10.to change (por pronombre) 11.to listen 12.to go

13.eating 14.having 15.saying 16.not to charge 17.not to expect

18.to do 19.get 20.to go out 21.to give up 22.study

-Corrección New English File Intermediate, Photocopiable, page 150 about modals, primera parte.

VOCABULARY:

Abroad, actually = in fact, advice (consejo),advise (aconsejar), afford, a little bit of, as well, at (=@), at all, at least, ATM, auction, available, avoid, at the last minute, beforehand, be against something, be for something, be good at something, be keen on something (=ser entusiasta de), be looking forward to + gerund, be made of, be scared of, be used to + gerund, bench , believe, bet, beware, borrow, brand, breeder, brother-in-law, burglar, by heart, cable, careful, careless, carelessness, cash machine, change one´s mind, chemist, chimney, closet (=wardrobe),clue, cockroach, conceal, concrete, contest, cook, crossword, degree, demonstration, depend on, disappear, dish-washer, do a job, do a research, do a test/exam, do an experiment, do exercise, do one´s best, dot, do the washing-up, download, drop, earn, effort, encourage, engagement, essay, exhibition, fall in love with, fair, feed-fed-fed, figures, find out, fire (to), fireplace, flea, fork, fraud, frightened, from my point of view, gess, get on well, guest, give someone a call on the telephone, give up, gonna, grumpy, have a temperature, heal (=curar), heater, heating, helpful, hesitate, hesitation, hire, how long?, I can´t believe it, I can´t stand + verbo en –ING o sustantivo, I don´t think so, improve, instead of, invest in, I think so, in bold, indoors, instead of, jigsaw, keep-kept-kept, keyboard, knock, knock on wood,landlady, landlord, laptop, leaflet, lecture, lend, lightning, lightning rod, likely, make a choice, make a decision, make changes, make food, make noise, note (billete), make progress, make sense, mayor, melt, memory stick, miss, nursery school, one word, parcel, pavement, pay for,  pedestrian, pickpocket, plug,  puddle, punish, punishment, reach, ready-steady-go, realize, rehearsal, rehearse, remind, rescue, research, rest, rod, save, shark, seldom, shell, sensible, sensitive, shift, sleigh, somehow, somewhere, spend-spent-spent, spoon, stepfather, stepmother, surf the internet, sidewalk, sleigh, socket, staff, stubborn, survey, swindle (to), task, terrific, text somebody, that, the whole + noun, these, thief, this, those, though, tiny, tip, unfair, upload, van, waiter, waitress, wanna, washing machine, waste, watch, waste, ut, wax, wheat, whoever,...wire, wise, wonder (to), we both = the both of us,

Palabras nuevas

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), ask, claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, need, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, consider, deny, discuss, doesn´t /don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look forward to, love, mention, miss, need, recall, recommend,suggest, understand,

PHONETICS:

*Word /wɜːd/ - world /wɜːld/ - work /wɜːk/ - hurt /hɜːt/ - bird /bɜːd/ - survey
/ˈsɜːveɪ/

*Talk /tɔːk/ - walk /wɔːk/

*Car /kɑː/ - heart /hɑːt/

*Future /ˈfjuːʧə/ - nature /ˈneɪʧə/ - adventure /ədˈvenʧə/ - literature /ˈlɪtrəʧə/ - temperature /ˈtemprɪʧə/ - picture /ˈpɪkʧə/

*think /θɪŋk/ - thing /θɪŋ/ - mother /ˈmʌðə/ - though/ðəʊ/ - thought /θɔːt/ - through θ/ruː/

*done /dʌn/

*beer /bɪə/- bear /beə/ - beard /bɪəd/

*image  /ˈɪmɪʤ/ - age /eɪʤ/ - giant /ˈʤaɪənt/ - job /ʤɒb/

*cable /ˈkeɪbl/

*architecture /ˈɑːkɪtekʧə/  - atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪə/

*minute /ˈmɪnɪt/ - month /mʌnθ/

*sugar /ˈʃʊgə/

*air /eə/

*enough /ɪˈnʌf/ - laugh /lɑːf/

*women /ˈwɪmɪn/

*blood /blʌd/ - flood /flʌd/

*auction /ˈɔːkʃən/

*receipt /rɪˈsiːt/

*desert  /ˈdezət/ - dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/

HOMEWORK:

-EF Pink, Photocopiable, page 151 about modals

-PET Burlington, reading matchin, “Isle of Wight”, page 9

TEXTS FOR TRANSCRIPTION:

-Transcripción 9-162

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.14

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.44

Make up for the missed lesson

We´re going to make up for the missed lesson 

next 17th May at 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 27th April 2016

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Book, page 101, 3 (speaking)+ 4a listening 9.11 + 4b

-Corrección PET Oxford, Transformations, pages 67

1.If I were you I WOULD / I´D switch off the TV and do something more interesting.

2.I used TO LOVE watching cartoons when I was a child.

3.I like watching films MORE / BETTER THAN watching documentaries.

4.The MADE that programme in America.

5.I get BORED by games shows.

-Corrección PET Oxford, Reading matching, pages 60 + 61, “Holiday choice” [6C  7D  8G  9A  10E]

VOCABULARY:

Abroad, actually = in fact, advice (consejo),advise (aconsejar), afford, a little bit of, as well, at (=@), at all, at least, ATM, auction, available, avoid, at the last minute, beforehand, be against something, be for something, be good at something, be keen on something (=ser entusiasta de), be looking forward to + gerund, be made of, be scared of, be used to + gerund, bench , believe, bet, beware, borrow, brand, breeder, brother-in-law, burglar, by heart, cable, careful, careless, carelessness, cash machine, change one´s mind, chemist, chimney, closet (=wardrobe),clue, cockroach, conceal, concrete, contest, cook, crossword, degree, demonstration, depend on, disappear, dish-washer, do a job, do a research, do a test/exam, do an experiment, do exercise, do one´s best, dot, do the washing-up, download, drop, earn, effort, encourage, engagement, essay, exhibition, fall in love with, fair, feed-fed-fed, figures, find out, fire (to), fireplace, flea, fork, fraud, frightened, from my point of view, gess, get on well, guest, give someone a call on the telephone, give up, gonna, grumpy, have a temperature, heal (=curar), heater, heating, helpful, hesitate, hesitation, hire, how long?, I can´t believe it, I can´t stand + verbo en –ING o sustantivo, I don´t think so, improve, instead of, invest in, I think so, in bold, indoors, instead of, jigsaw, keep-kept-kept, keyboard, knock, knock on wood,landlady, landlord, laptop, leaflet, lecture, lend, lightning, lightning rod, likely, make a choice, make a decision, make changes, make food, make noise, note (billete), make progress, make sense, mayor, melt, memory stick, miss, nursery school, one word, parcel, pavement, pay for,  pedestrian, pickpocket, plug,  puddle, punish, punishment, reach, ready-steady-go, realize, rehearsal, rehearse, remind, rescue, research, rest, rod, save, shark, seldom, shell, sensible, sensitive, shift, sleigh, somehow, somewhere, spend-spent-spent, spoon, stepfather, stepmother, surf the internet, sidewalk, sleigh, socket, staff, stubborn, survey, swindle (to), task, terrific, text somebody, that, the whole + noun, these, thief, this, those, though, tiny, tip, unfair, upload, van, waiter, waitress, wanna, washing machine, waste, watch, waste, ut, wax, wheat, whoever,...wire, wise, wonder (to), we both = the both of us,

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), ask, claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, need, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, consider, deny, discuss, doesn´t /

don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look

forward to, love, mention, miss, need, recall, recommend,

suggest, understand,

PHONETICS:

*Word /wɜːd/ - world /wɜːld/ - work /wɜːk/ - hurt /hɜːt/ - bird /bɜːd/ - survey
/ˈsɜːveɪ/

*Talk /tɔːk/ - walk /wɔːk/

*Car /kɑː/ - heart /hɑːt/

*Future /ˈfjuːʧə/ - nature /ˈneɪʧə/ - adventure /ədˈvenʧə/ - literature /ˈlɪtrəʧə/ - temperature /ˈtemprɪʧə/ - picture /ˈpɪkʧə/

*think /θɪŋk/ - thing /θɪŋ/ - mother /ˈmʌðə/ - though/ðəʊ/ - thought /θɔːt/ - through θ/ruː/

*done /dʌn/

*beer /bɪə/- bear /beə/ - beard /bɪəd/

*image  /ˈɪmɪʤ/ - age /eɪʤ/ - giant /ˈʤaɪənt/ - job /ʤɒb/

*cable /ˈkeɪbl/

*architecture /ˈɑːkɪtekʧə/  - atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪə/

*minute /ˈmɪnɪt/ - month /mʌnθ/

*sugar /ˈʃʊgə/

*air /eə/

*enough /ɪˈnʌf/ - laugh /lɑːf/

*women /ˈwɪmɪn/

*blood /blʌd/ - flood /flʌd/

*auction /ˈɔːkʃən/

*receipt /rɪˈsiːt/

*desert  /ˈdezət/ - dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/

HOMEWORK:

-New English File Intermediate, Photocopiable, page 150 about modals

-New English File Pink Photocopiable, page 153, about infinitive and gerund (you may need www.wordreference.com to check vocabulary)

TEXTS FOR TRANSCRIPTION:

-Transcripción 9-162

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.14

-Transcripción 118-EFP-1.44