Monday 9th Wednesday 11th March

Hi class! How's it going? You're a bit tired, you told me, and waiting for holidays... I know. Fortunately we're enjoying wonderful weather these days and it doesn't feel like staying at home! At last!


Ok. These days we were working a bit more with passive sentences and we revised the structure HAVE SOMETHING DONE. Here you have some short notes, just in case. Also we were doing some exercises in order to have this clear. And even you could play a game and you did really good. I hope you liked. This week I tried to make this things more often since you have been  really hard-working, I thought you deserved this kind of class once in a lifetime!


We were reading and talking about pets when talking about excess again. Remember this is the main topic in this lesson. We had lots of fun and we laughed a lot. Also we learnt some common expressions that use animals to convey a different meaning. Very interesting, don't you think?

And to finish I'll remind you to do your homework: Please, complete the activities you have on Page 108, the ones that revise all the contents in this unit, and some passive activities, too, ok?


That's all.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye!!

Monday 2nd Wednesday 4th March

Hi class! How's it going? I hope you're enjoying a very nice weekend now that the weather is good and holidays are near... I also hope you can have a little time to revise passive voice, since that was the grammar section we worked with last class. To do a good job with this it's important to review the past participle, especially of the irregular verbs.

These days we completed more listening activities and we worked with the letter of complaint. Remember that it's homework, to write a formal letter as we saw in class. You can write it here or in your notebook, it's up to you; and it should look like the one we took as an example, right?

Next week we will work with the next section: reading. And we will learn idioms and other expressions related to animals... Very interesting, you'll see.


Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye!

Monday 23rd Wednesday 25th February

Hi class! How are you? I guess you're ok ready to enjoy this weekend. I hope you have a good time... no excess!

This is the topic we are working with these days. Last week we have been doing lots of listening and speaking activities. We have revised countable and uncountable nouns while reviewing voc related to food. Last week we saw this short video which showed us the excess in relation to food. Supersize me. This week we discussed excess when talking about money and items people can get in an auction house

We worked with this voc

• to bid
• a bargain
• a discount
• to haggle
• not worth
• memorabilia
• can't afford
  

We will finish the listening activities next week and revise passive sentences.

Remember your homework:

Choose one of the things in the list below. Think about how it is prepared and cooked.

1. your favourite dish
2. the last meal you made for visitors
3. a traditional dish in your country
4. a dish you used to love as a child
   

You'll tell the class next Monday, ok?

That's all.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye!

Monday 16th Wednesday 18th February

Hi class! How's it going? I guess you're still thinking about this word EXCESS and the things we have said. I think these days we have had really interesting conversations. This topic is really enjoyable and you have done your best in speaking activities.

Also listening  and reading activities have been very very good. I'm really happy. Believe me.

We  had a great debate about excess, health, obesity ... especially after watching the  1st  part of the documentary "Super Size me".

I think it could be a good idea if you go on watching the rest of the documentary. Next day we will continue working with the text and will finish the questions. We'll have a look to grammar revising countable and uncountable. And also we will work with voc and more listeniing activities.

As I said before, I'm very happy with your performance.. I hope you go on like this.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye

Monday 9th Wednesday 11th February

Hi class! How are you? Waiting for this special Saturday with so many things to celebrate?. I hope you have lots of fun no matter what you decide to do.

These days have been more "thematic" than others because of these two celebrations. On Monday you showed your presentations about Carnival or Mardi Gras in different places in the world; I want you to know that you did a very good job. Two of you did your best and that makes me very happy, also because after your presentations you were speaking for a long time about all the info you had.

On Wednesday we had a very good time, really funny, when presenting the topic aboutValentine's. We had lots of fun when speaking about the origin and the business and so on and so forth. Well, we had a very good time.

We learned lots of voc related to these two topics this week, but the most important thing has been your speaking. And also that we changed the routine, don't you think?

So, for next day I'd like you to translate the text we worked with and no more. You deserve to enjoy.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye

Monday 2nd Wednesday 4th February

Hello class, how's it going? I'm sure you're fine enjoying some free time, having a rest or maybe looking for interesting things about Carnival in differents places of the world. You haven't written any word here yet; doesn't  matter, as I told you last Wed you can write here or show your presentation in class next day. But just for you to know, here you have the topics chosen:

• New Orleans: Elena
• Venice: Alberto
• Cadiz: Fidel

So, "rest of the class", if you want to join us next class with a presentation about Carnival or Mardi Gras in some other places, we also mentioned Rio de Janeiro,Tenerife, and Veracruz (Mexico). Last class we introduced this topic just talking about this celebration in different cities, its origin, its symbolism, and so on and so forth.

Also this week we have talked about alternative technologies and we had a very interesting debate. I'm really happy when I hear you speaking, believe me. Maybe for this reason I ask you to prepare some kind of presentation from time to time!

I think this one is going to be very interesting, since carnival represents this feeling of joy and happiness and party!!

I'm sure you'll do your best.

That's all

Be good, have fun, see you in class!!

Monday 26th Wednesday 28th January

Hi class! How's it going? I hope everything's ok enjoying some free time... maybe you're going to watch Frankenstein since we couldn't do in class because I couldn't play the movie in English...

Anyway, these days we had a look to the -ing vs -ed ending of adjectives and what's more, subordinate clauses with these structures:

• Do you know the girl talking to Tom? (-ing clause)
• The man injured in the accident was taken to hospital (-ed clause)

We said that we use -ing clauses to say what someone or something is or was doing at a particular time; however we use -ed clauses with a passive meaning.

We explained the form and use and then completed some activities about these kind of clauses, You seemed to understand perfectly!

To finish with our novel we listened to the final chapter in which both Victor and his creature die. After that we watched a very interesting documentary about the times in which the novel was written by Mary Shelley. We knew about the writer and her backgroung in order to understand the power of the novel better. I found it very interesting, I hope you too. If you liked it, I encourage you to go on investigating and discovering so fascinating things.

That's all by now.

Be good, have fun, see you in class!

Bye!