Meeting Class

viernes, 24 de enero de 2014

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”.

martes, 21 de enero de 2014

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”.

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2.Tú dijiste: “Estaba cansado”.

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4.Ellos dijeron: “Estamos esperando el autobús”

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3.Vosotros dijisteis: “Podemos estar cansados”

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4.Nosotros dijimos: “Hemos estado cansados”.

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5.Ella dijo: “Había estado cansada

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6.Ellos dijeron: “Estaremos cansados”.

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7.Yo dije: “Estaría cansado”.

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viernes, 17 de enero de 2014

15/01/2014, 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, 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, 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 enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, 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 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:

-Corrección ejercicio B de la page 147, sección 11B

-Corrección BOOK, page 147, los ejercicios A y B de la sección 11C sobre SO / NEITHER

-Page 87, sección 4 PRONUNCIATION: pronunciación de las palabras cortas, que deben unirse de forma oral. Listening 5.4

-Pronunciación y fonética: BOOK, page 89, section 2, listening 5.7

-Phonetics: Corrección de la frase nº 2: That woman is very nice but those women aren´t.

-Práctica: cada alumno escribe una frase en simple past y la cambia con un compañero para que la complete con una acción anterior en past perfect.

-Explicación teórica del uso del past perfect: GRAMMAR BANK, page 148, section 12A

HOMEWORK:

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

-Reading: page 99, sección CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?, “Heart couple´s amazing coincidence”.

Contents for our exam (though we haven´t decided the date yet...)

-UNITS from the book: 9B, 9C,10A,10B,10C,11A, 11B,11C, 12A, 12B and 12C (¡espero que nos dé tiempo a ver las unidades 12B y 12C antes de la fecha del examen...!)

-SONGS: "Like it or not" (Madonna), "This is me" (Faith Hill) and "Santa Baby" (Kylie Minogue)

Remember that you can find those songs (listening and lyrics) in this blog.

En el examen habrá un ejercicio que consistirá en completar la letra de uno o varios fragmentos de una o varias de las canciones escuchadas en clase.

-VOCABULARY: All the words we are learning.

-GRAMMAR:

*Cuándo duplicamos consonante (big > bigger)

*Uso contrastado del Past Simple y del Present Perfecgt

*Voz pasiva

*Uso de las preposiciones AT, IN, ON

*For / since

*Cómo dar indicaciones de direcciones

*Used to / didn´t use to

*Might, may, could y can para indicar probabilidad

*Can y may para dar o pedir permiso

*Preposiciones de ubicación y movimiento

*Phrasal verbs

*So / neither

*Past perfect

*Reported speech (aún lo tenemos que ver en clase)

*Transcripción fonética de palabras o frases

-TEXTS: READING, LISTINING AND ERROR CORRECTION

*Listening que no hayamos escuchado en clase

*Reading de un texto que no hayamos leído en clase

*Corrección de errores ortográficos / gramaticales en un texto que sí hayamos leído en clase

-CONSEJOS:

*Para quienes se hayan incorporado más tarde al curso: no os preocupéis, se tendrá en cuenta ese hecho diferencial.

*Para quienes lleváis en el curso desde el comienzo: no temáis, estaréis sobradamente preparados para enfrentaros a este desafío.

martes, 14 de enero de 2014

13/01/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:

actually = in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cave, 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, 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 enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, 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 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:

-Entrega de correcciones de composiciones.

-Corrección reading, page 88, text “I´m Jim” “So am I”, contestando a las preguntas del ejercicio B de la sección 1 GRARMMAR. -Page 88, Listening 5.5, ejercicio C: sin leer el texto.

-Page 88, Listening 5.5., completar las palabras que faltan en el ejercicio, sobre SO + NEITHER

-GRAMMAR BANK: explicación en page 146, section 11C:

*lectura de los ejemplos del cuadro blanco

*explicación de la teoría

*lectura de la tabla

-Práctica: cada uno piensa una frase en primera persona con los tiempos verbales siguientes:

*simple present: I live in Azqueca

*present continuous: I´m getting bored in class

*simple past: I went to Hawaii ten years ago

Cada uno dice una frase y el siguiente alumno tiene que mostrar acuerdo o desacuerdo con lo que ha dicho. Incluimos explicación de acuerdo positivo (=so) con lo dicho anteriormente por el interlocutor o acuerdo negativo (=neither) con lo dicho anteriormente por el interlocutor

-Page 88, Listening 5.5.: corrección y explicación de las respuestas.

-Corrección texto BOOK, page 89, section 4 VOCABULARY.

HOMEWORK:

-BOOK, page 147, los ejercicios A y B de la sección 11C

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

viernes, 10 de enero de 2014

08/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

actually = in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cave, 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, 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, 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 enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, 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 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:

-Comentarios y dudas sobre las últimas correcciones de composiciones 5 SPEAKING, page 87. ¿Dudas y preguntas en los comentarios del BLOG para que queden a la vista de todos?

-Corrección de la frase de fonética: