Our new book for class: THE BIG PICTURE (B1!!!!)

-THE BIG PICTURE is an expression that is referred to overall perspective on a situation or issue. This is the reason why our book has got this tittle.
-This book provides from 90 to 120 hours of classroom material.
-One unit may take around 8 or 10 classes.
-We can find these parts:
*Grammar reference
*Writing bank
*Communication bank
*Selected transcriptions from some listenings included
-There is an online Learning Platform available for all users of this book. To access you should go to www.richmondelt.com/thebigpicture and there you will find detailed instructions on how to register.

10/02/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS

-Corrección Review, page 98, GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY.

-Listening “Can you understand these people”, page 99.

-Corrección del texto “Wouldn´t it be fun to run a restaurant!”

 HOMEWORK

-Book, page 5, section KEY VOCABULARY complete.

-Book, page 7, section GRAMMAR, exercise 3

05/02/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

  

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Fotocopia de fonética a Verónica.

-Explicación de la tarea como Homework para el próximo día

-Corrección ejercicios sobre REPORTED SPEECH de la sección 12B del GRAMMAR BANK, page 149.

-Corrección texto HERE´S SECRET, page 95, sección 6 reading.

-En grupos, terminamos de preparar argumentos a favor y en contra de gossip (en contra de la opinión personal de cada estudiante). Después hacemos la puesta en común. En ella podremos utilizar expresiones como las siguientes:

*We can´t forget that…

*I believe that…

*I think that…

*In my opinion…

*We have to consider that…

*I agree / I don´t agree with

*However…

*…

-Debate/puesta en común de las ideas sobre gossiping

-Book, page 94, listening 5.21 + 5.22 del ejercicio B de la sección 1 SPEAKING AND LISTENING

-Corrección Book, page 95, ejercicio 3 de la sección VOCABULARY

HOMEWORK

-Texto: “Wouldn´t it be fun to run a restaurant!”

-Writing sobre el mismo tema del texto: Would it be fun to run a restaurant?

03/02/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:

-Entregar exámenes + comentarios + composiciones corregidas

-Corrección traducción a inglés los siguientes tiempos verbales:

 VERB TENSES

 1. Habrán visto:          ________________________________________________

2. Habéis buscado:     ________________________________________________

3. Agitará:                  ________________________________________________

4. Fue:                        ________________________________________________

5. Dormiría:                ________________________________________________

6. Habíamos dicho:     ________________________________________________

7. Ella enciende:        ________________________________________________

8. Habríamos vendido: ____________________________________________________

9. Había:                     ________________________________________________

10. Romperá:              ________________________________________________

11. Había sangrado:    ________________________________________________

12. Habrás encontrado (a alguien): __________________________________________

-Terminar la corrección la fotocopia con frases de estilo indirecto.

-Corrección texto HERE´S SECRET, page 95, sección 6 reading.

-En grupos, preparar argumentos a favor y en contra de gossip (en contra de la opinión personal de cada estudiante). El próximo día haremos la puesta en común. En ella podremos utilizar expresiones como las siguientes:

*We can´t forget that…

*I believe that…

*I think that…

*In my opinion…

*We have to consider that…

*I agree / I don´t agree with

*However…

*…

HOMEWORK

-Book, page 95, ejercicio 3 de la sección VOCABULARY

-Review, page 98, GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY.

Here you have our first term exam...

NAME: ________________________________       DATE: ________

YOUR POINTS: _____

TOTAL POINTS: 271

MARK: ________

SECTION I – LISTENING ( 44 points)

1. Write the missing words from this song. We are going to listen twice (12x2=24 points)

You can call me a 1. ______________ , you can call me a saint,
Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for 2.______________ I ain't,
Put me up on a pedestal, or drag me down in the 3. ______________.
Sticks and 4. ______________ will break my bones
But your names will never 5. ______________.

I'll be the garden, you´ll be the 6. ______________,
All of my 7. ______________ is yours to take,

Better the devil that you 8. ______________.
Your love for me will grow 9. ______________ …

This is who I am, you can 10. ______________ it or not
You can 11. ______________  me or leave me,
´Cos I'm 12. ______________ gonna stop. No no.

2. Listen to the conversation and circle the correct answer. (5x4=20 points) - Challenge 2 / CD 2 / Track 40

1. John is moving in the summer / winter.

2. John´s new house is smaller / larger than his old house.

3. John is getting a new desk / bed.

4. Helen has got sisters / brothers.

5. John´s new home has got / hasn´t got airconditioning.

SECTION II – VOCABULARY (40 points)

Dolor (pain)		Irse de vacaciones
De hecho (in fact)		Cuidar
Sangre		Buscar
Ladrón (que entra en  casas)		Heredar
Descapotable		Probarse (ropa)
ChuchilloS		Alumno
Pertenecer		Recoger a alguien
Reservar		Culpable
Enamorarse de		Ratones
Dejar, abandonar una costumbre		Depender de

SECTION III – GRAMMAR  ( 102 points)

1. Complete the sentences with de past simple or the present perfect (you can find the verbs in brackets) according to the meaning (6x2=12 points)

1.1. We ___________________ (buy) his present and later we _______________ (meet) him in the street.

1.2. We ______________________ (go)  to the cinema because we _______________ (decide) it before.

2. Change these active sentences into the passive . (2x10=20 points)

2.1. The wonderful teacher explains the lesson very well.

_______________________________________________________

2.2. The terrific students understood the lesson in a minute.

_______________________________________________________

3. Express your agreement with the following statements. (3x5=15 points)

3.1. Yesterday I listened to the radio.

________________________________________________________

3.2. I am working very hard to improve my English.

________________________________________________________

3.3. I don´t like walking to my office.

________________________________________________________

4. Write two sentences telling two habits you had five years ago. Remember you have to use the right expression we have studied. (2x5=10)

4.1. _____________________________________________________

4.2. _____________________________________________________

5. Write a short explanation to show how could I go from Mecafast to the town hall in Azuqueca de Henares. (15 points)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Complete the sentences with the right preposition ON, AT or IN. (5x3=15 points)

6.1. We are having dinner with them _____ Sunday.

6.2. I don´t like driving _____ night.

6.3. My friends go shopping _____ the morning.

6.4. We could meet _____ the cinema.

6.5. The decoration is _____ roof, so everybody can see it.

7. Fill the spaces in the following sentences by using FOR or SINCE: (5x3=15 points)

7.1. They´ve been working ________ five or six hours.

7.2. Nobody has come to see us ________  we bought this small house.

7.3. She has been a doctor ________  1998

7.4. Nobody has seen her ________  then.

7.5. They have all been ill ________  the last week.

8. Change these direct speech sentences into reported. (5x4=20 points)

8.1. He said: “I don´t want to go”.

________________________________________________________

8.2. They said: “We will phone later”.

________________________________________________________

8.3. She said: “I haven´t broken that window”.

________________________________________________________

8.4. He said: “I can´t do it, I need some help”.

________________________________________________________

SECTION IV – PHONETICS (18 points)

Write the phonetic transcription for the following word (6x3=18)

-love

-car

-beautiful

-that

-cheap

-women

SECTION V – READING (32 points)

1. Read carefully the following text.

NEWS

The Minister was reading the newspaper as the nine o´clock news began on the radio. The newspapers were spread out on the table where the children´s breakfast bowls had been.

He read quickly, with little outward sign of annoyance or pleasure. It was said that only his closest fellow-ministers in Parliament could tell his moods at a time like this. But today´s selection of papers offered him little of interest. During his eighteen months as Minister for Northern Ireland, he had been kept out of the public eye. This morning he and his department weren´t mentioned.

The news was mostly foreign – South Africa and the mine strikes, changes in Spanish government. “In Belfast” – suddenly he was concentrating – “a city centre pub was destroyed by a car bomb. Two masked men had warned the customers to leave but the bomb went off before the area could be fully cleared. Three men were taken to hospital suffering from shock, but a witness said no-one was seriously hurt.”

2. True / False questions. (8x4=32 points)

2.1. The Prime Minister´s children were having breakfast while he was reading the newspaper.

2.2. The Minister was reading the newspaper because it was full of interesting news.

2.3. There was an article about a car bomb in South Africa.

2.4. Two men were serious hurt because of the car bomb.

2.5. It was easy to know the Prime Minister´s thoughts.

2.6. The Prime Ministers had two kids.

2.7. He had lived in Northern Ireland for eighteen months.

2.8. He had problems with his right eye when he had to talk in public.

  

SECTION VI – WRITING (35 points)

Write about 80-100 words on the following topic: is it useful to read newspapers nowadays?

27/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:

-Composiciones no corregidas…

-Fecha para el examen: 29/01/201: dudas y preguntas

-Phonetics: Corrección de la frase nº 3 que pusimos en el blog:

 3. Our chair is very comfortable, but it isn´t very cheap.
/ˈaʊə ʧeə ɪz ˈverɪ ˈkʌmfətəbl bʌt ɪt (isnt) ˈverɪ ʧiːp/

-Corrección y LECTURA del reading: page 99, sección CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?, “Heart couple´s amazing coincidence”.

-Revisión del concepto de Reported Speech para corregir la fotocopia con frases.

HOMEWORK FOR NEXT 03/02/2014

-Ejercicios sobre REPORTED SPEECH de la sección 12B del GRAMMAR BANK, page 149.

-Traduce a inglés los siguientes tiempos verbales:

VERB TENSES

1. Habrán visto:          ________________________________________________

2. Habéis buscado:     ________________________________________________

3. Agitará:                  ________________________________________________

4. Fue:                        ________________________________________________

5. Dormiría:                ________________________________________________

6. Habíamos dicho:     ________________________________________________

7. Ella enciende:        ________________________________________________

8. Habríamos vendido: _________________________________________________

9. Había:                     ________________________________________________

10. Romperá:              ________________________________________________

11. Había sangrado:    ________________________________________________

12. Habrás encontrado (a alguien): _______________________________________

22/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:

-Fecha para el examen: 29/01/201

-Acabamos la lectura de los textos de la page 92, con el ejercicio B de la section 1 READING AND SPEAKING, sobre los textos leídos.

-Corrección de page 92, ejercicio D de la section 2 GRAMMAR, sobre past perfect

-Corrección ejercicios sobre past perfect: BOOK,page 149, ejercicios A y B de la sección 12A

-Explicación del concepto de Reported Speech.

-Explicación de los cambios verbales en el Reported Speech tomando como referencia las frases de traducción de la fotocopia.

-Explicación del tema Reported Speech en el GRAMMAR BANK del libro, sección 12B, page 148.

HOMEWORK:

-Reading page 95, section 6 READING: “Here´s a secret” + ejercicio A + ejercicio C como redacción antes del domingo 26/01/2014  a mediodía por e-mail

-Fotocopia con frases para traducir sobre Reported Speech.

-Transcripción fonética de la frase siguiente: “Our chair is very comfortable, but it isn´t very cheap”.

20/01/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:

actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, news, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:

-Listening 5.13, page 91, sobre Rob, Jenny and Barbara:

*escuchar

*completar diálogo    

-Listening + video page 91, 5.15.

*page 87, sección 3 GRAMMAR , completamos el ejercicio B.

-Corrección pages 92 + 93: readings about “News round the world”, con lectura del texto + ejercicio A de la sección 1 READING AND SPEAKING 

-Análisis todas las frases que hemos elegido como opciones correctas para completar el texto del ejercicio anterior y llegamos a la conclusión de que:

*el texto está narrado en pasado

*la frase expresa una acción que ocurrió antes que el texto, en un pasado II

*usamos el past perfect: revisión de su formación

-Explicación de los HOMEWORK de las frases de preparación de REPORTED SPEECH

HOMEWORK:

-Page 92, ejercicio D de la section 2 GRAMMAR, sobre past perfect

-Traducción de frases de preparación de REPORTED SPEECH

FRASES PARA TRADUCCIÓN COMO PREPARACIÓN

PARA LA EXPLICACIÓN TEÓRICA DEL REPORTED SPEECH

1.Él dijo: “Estoy cansado”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.Tú dijiste: “Estaba cansado”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.Ellos dijeron: “Estamos esperando el autobús”

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.Vosotros dijisteis: “Podemos estar cansados”

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.Nosotros dijimos: “Hemos estado cansados”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5.Ella dijo: “Había estado cansada

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.Ellos dijeron: “Estaremos cansados”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7.Yo dije: “Estaría cansado”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________