Monday 27th Wednesady 29th October

Hi class, how is it going? Are you thinking about your Halloween costume? We had a very interesting chat on this topic last class. What I liked the most was the way you expressed your ideas, they sounded really "true"

On Monday we continued with the topic on studies. We read an article based on a kind of experiment about separating students at school. After speaking about this article (and your ideas) we moved into pronunciation practice through some listening activities, We worked with silent letters. We will practise more throughout the course.

On Wednesday  the main focus of the class was on Halloween. We watched a short video about the history of this celebration and how it has changed through the centuries. We talked about this and learn new things about this celebration in different countries. We're lucky!

We were also working with question-response activities and then we completed a wordsearch about Halloween; then we listened to chapter 3 of Frankenstein (at last!) and as I told you... I'm impressed with your skill. Very happy!

To finish you started a crossword which couldn't be finished. It's really challenging becausse it's a bit difficult, so I hope you take some time to complete at home, ok?

And please, don't forget to prepare your homework. You just have to talk about your favourite horror film for some minutes, basing your talk on the ideas we wrote in class:

- director, year
- main actors
- where the action takes place
- and a brief summary

I hope you do your best!

Be good (and a bit naughty, it's Halloween) have fun, see you in class!

Bye!

Monday 20th, Wednesday 22nd, October

Hi class, how are you? I hope you're ok, although last day you weren't here...except one student. I hope everything's ok.

These days we talked about studies, subjects, school, university... and stuff like that. It was very good because everybody took part in the conversation. We revised a lot of voc and structures related to auxiliary verbs. Also we practised listening activities related to this topic and you did very good job.

On Wednesday just one student attended to class... so I had to change the lesson plan... We watched a video and commented on the lyrics of a song, suggested by the student who was in class. Then we had a long long chat about many topics, most of them related to the main one showed in the song. I enjoyed a lot; it was "different" but we cannot do like this very often.

Let's see if next week we can continue with the lesson plan, finish this topic and start something new, ok?

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye!

Monday 13th, Wednesday 15th October

Hello class! How are you? I hope fine and fine with the weekend so near.

These days we have been working with lots of vocabulary related to family. Also we continued listening chapter 2 of our novel, Frankenstein... it's becoming interesting!! Last Monday we worked with many speaking activities and had a look to the use of common expressions to say our opinion.

Last Wednesday  however, we had more listening activities. We completed this topic about family listening to four people talking about different situations. You did very good work. Also you did your best with the family tree activity. Remember that you will do something similar for homework for next week, ok? You don't need to be so creative as you can see in the photo above. You can choose the pattern you prefer

what about this one? Well, do as you like, but do it. Then you will show your work to the class and comment on some details as we did with the activity in class. So please, take a little time to do it and be careful when presenting, use appropriate voc and expressions as studied and notice your pronunciation, tone and intonation, ok? Rehease at home if you need!

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Monday 6th - Wednesday, 8th, October

Hi class! How are you? Waiting for the weekend to disconnect a bit, I guess... That's right, me too... but preparing our next class.

These days we have been working with phonetics, you're doing a good job taking into account that this is almost your first time. We revise pronunciation day after day in order to get a better one and we practise lots of speaking and listening. I really like this time.

We were working with vocabulary related to family and different kinds of families. We read about birth order and we learnt new ways to agree and disagree with new structures and so on. Also we worked with the differences between ANY and EVERY and now it seems clearer.

In our last session we started this "project" of listening-reading to improve listening skill in context. It was just the first chapter but I hope you enjoy this activity. By the end you will get an adapted novel in your hands you can read whenever you want. As I say, I hope you like and we can comment on the novel and the time it was written and all the contents involved.

Well, that's all. Have a nice week.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye

Monday 29th September, Wednesday 1st October

Hello class!!How are you? I hope you're fine enjoying these days with this great weather! We will miss this hot very soon...

I have included this video since the last class we were working with the pronunciation of the -ed ending. Although you did ok you still have to practise a bit more, probably it sounds a bit hard at the beginning because until now you haven't paid too much attention, but from now on it will be easier, believe me. So have a look to this video in order to get an idea about this topic, right?

We were also working with phonetics and pronunciation first with an activity (very difficult to begin with, I know) and then filling the gaps in a song with the phonetic transcription of the missing words. It was "different", wasn't it? We had a good time.

Then, to finish the last class (and to go on working with speaking) we were playing this kind of "Who am I?" game having lots of fun. You gave very ineresting descriptions of your characters and we laughed a lot.

I hope you like the classes every week, I really try not to be boring. Remember that you can suggest different kinds of activities or topics to have useful lessons for your everyday life.

And remember: do your homework. You have to practise with phonetics so complete transcriptions 2, 3 and 4, ok?

Be good, have fun, see you in class.

Bye