Hello students!

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In our lesson yesterday we continued with the topic Friends. Some of the students read their homework. We practiced questions like:

How old were you when you met your best friend?

Met is the past of meet and that's the tense we need to use when we are not using an auxiliary. In the question above, the question form is in the first part of the question: How old were you, and the second part when you met your best friend, is not really a question, it's just a part of a question.

The other questions:

Did you buy him/her a present? the verb is the most important part of the question so we use did you buy?

After answering those questions about our friends, the teacher explained the possessive: my partner's best friend or Raquel's best friend. Students got together with a partner and and asked him/her questions about their best friend. Then, they told the rest of the group about their partner's best friend, using the possessive. Vera's best friend is ...

We learned and practiced some time expressions: last weekend, last night, yesterday, the other day, recently.

We did a listening exercise. A girl talked about her best friend. Then, every student wrote something similar about their own best friend and some of the students read their writing aloud.

Homework

Go to the following link and listen only the first part, until the word summer, which is in the middle of the text. Then, answer the questions: http://menuaingles.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/recording-susan-my-best-friend.html

1. What's Susan's husband's job?

2. How old is Susan's daughter?

3.Where does the writer's best friend live?

Now, look at the questions and underline  the possessives. Ex. Susan's