Last Wedgnesday we started a unit about travelling and activities we can do while travelling:
We can
go rafting
go skiing
take a guided tour
go backpacking
take a bus tour
go to the beach
go on a cruise
In this unit we study how to talk about future actions. When we talk about planned actions we use the form: going to + verb. Ex: I'm going to go rafting on my next holiday.
When something is not planned or completely sure but we are considering doing it, we use will + verb. We use it in sentences that start with the words I think or include the word probably.
Ex: I think I will stay home next weekend. I have a lot of homework to do.
We also use will + verb when we make a sudden decision: The movie is starting and he is not here yet. I ' ll (contraction of I will) call him.
HOMEWORK
Go to the link: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3135. Do both exercises. Write down the numbers and the verbs on your notebook. Example: 1. I am going to travel.
As we need to read them in class but I don't want to give you too much work, I am going to give each one of you a number of sentences to write:
Rachel and Vera: Ex 1, Sentences 1,2,3 & 4.
Miriam and Jorge: Ex 1, Sentences 5, 6, 7 & 8
Nico and Sandra: Ex 1, Sentences 9 & 10. Ex 2, Sentences a & b.
Victor: Ex 2, Sentences b, c, d & e
viernes, 6 de marzo de 2015
lunes, 2 de marzo de 2015
Hi! Anybody there?
Anyway, it is my job to keep on trying.
Last Wednesday very few students had done their homework. So we spend a lot of time working on it. It was about defining things, people, places and times using a relative clause. We introduce the relative clause with a relative: which, who, where or when.
We also talked about the kind of music each student likes. We asked: What kind of music do you like? We listened to a recording of a number of people talking about types of music they currently liked. We practiced the question: What do you think about...? which is a question we ask when we want to know somebody's opinion about something or somebody.
Some students asked if we could spend the second hour of class talking about things that students like to talk about. That may be a good idea, although I don't know yet the kind of things students like to talk about. I'll ask you that question.
HOMEWORK
5 more words to define using relative clauses. I hope everybody does it this time.
A spoon.
A tennis court.
A wardrobe
The summer
A shop assistant.
If you want to just talk about a range of topics you 'll need to prepare yourself:
1st: What would you like to talk about?
2nd: What do you usually talk about with your friends?
3rd: How do you imagine your life when you are a grownup?
Anyway, it is my job to keep on trying.
Last Wednesday very few students had done their homework. So we spend a lot of time working on it. It was about defining things, people, places and times using a relative clause. We introduce the relative clause with a relative: which, who, where or when.
We also talked about the kind of music each student likes. We asked: What kind of music do you like? We listened to a recording of a number of people talking about types of music they currently liked. We practiced the question: What do you think about...? which is a question we ask when we want to know somebody's opinion about something or somebody.
Some students asked if we could spend the second hour of class talking about things that students like to talk about. That may be a good idea, although I don't know yet the kind of things students like to talk about. I'll ask you that question.
HOMEWORK
5 more words to define using relative clauses. I hope everybody does it this time.
A spoon.
A tennis court.
A wardrobe
The summer
A shop assistant.
If you want to just talk about a range of topics you 'll need to prepare yourself:
1st: What would you like to talk about?
2nd: What do you usually talk about with your friends?
3rd: How do you imagine your life when you are a grownup?
viernes, 20 de febrero de 2015
Hello!
3 students were missing last Wednesday. I guess you were all sick. I was a bit sick myself so to make life easier for everybody we were doing fun activities. Students did learn something though as they did quite well when they had to define things using a relative clause.
We've done it before but I remind you. We use a relative clause to give information about a thing: we use which or that
A knife is something which we use to cut meat.
About a person or profession using who.
A doctor is a person who cures sick people.
About a place using where:
A cinema is a place where we watch films.
About a time using when:
The spring is the season when flowers grow.
HOMEWORK
Define the following words using a relative clause: (there are different possibilities, not everybody has to come up with the same definition).
An astronaut
A camera
A nurse
A road
A hotel
The Renaissance
Christmas
A dessert
A desert
A toothbrush
3 students were missing last Wednesday. I guess you were all sick. I was a bit sick myself so to make life easier for everybody we were doing fun activities. Students did learn something though as they did quite well when they had to define things using a relative clause.
We've done it before but I remind you. We use a relative clause to give information about a thing: we use which or that
A knife is something which we use to cut meat.
About a person or profession using who.
A doctor is a person who cures sick people.
About a place using where:
A cinema is a place where we watch films.
About a time using when:
The spring is the season when flowers grow.
HOMEWORK
Define the following words using a relative clause: (there are different possibilities, not everybody has to come up with the same definition).
An astronaut
A camera
A nurse
A road
A hotel
The Renaissance
Christmas
A dessert
A desert
A toothbrush
lunes, 2 de febrero de 2015
Hi!
Don't forget you still have do the homework from last week. It wasn't such a great deal.
Now, we are working a a new unit. This one is about T.V. So we have studied the names in English of the most usual types of programmes (UK spelling):
News, cartoons, talk shows, game shows, sitcoms, wildlife documentaries, nature programmes, soap operas, reality shows, and more.
We also studied some adjectives that we can use to describe or give our opinion about these programmes.
HOMEWORK
Choose 3 types of programme from above and give an example of each one of them. Then make a little summary of what that programme is about and use some of the adjectives we studied last Wednesday.
I usually watch a game show called Saber y Ganar. I find it entertaining and fun to watch because sometimes I know the answers to the questions. In this game show contestants have to answer questions about all kinds of subjects: history, geography, sports, music, literature, current affairs, etc.
Don't forget you still have do the homework from last week. It wasn't such a great deal.
Now, we are working a a new unit. This one is about T.V. So we have studied the names in English of the most usual types of programmes (UK spelling):
News, cartoons, talk shows, game shows, sitcoms, wildlife documentaries, nature programmes, soap operas, reality shows, and more.
We also studied some adjectives that we can use to describe or give our opinion about these programmes.
HOMEWORK
Choose 3 types of programme from above and give an example of each one of them. Then make a little summary of what that programme is about and use some of the adjectives we studied last Wednesday.
I usually watch a game show called Saber y Ganar. I find it entertaining and fun to watch because sometimes I know the answers to the questions. In this game show contestants have to answer questions about all kinds of subjects: history, geography, sports, music, literature, current affairs, etc.
jueves, 22 de enero de 2015
I noticed yesterday that some of the students had already learned all the questions we had studied to find out about a movie or film. Good for you! The rest of you should check them in the last blog and try to memorize them.
In our class yesterday we practiced a short conversation related to the same topic. The conversation was:
A. Do you feel like seeing a movie?
B. Sure. What movie would you like to see?
A. How about The Clam Takes Over? It's playing at the Royal Theater. It's about a brave clam who takes over the Earth. Johnny Hook is in it.
B. It sounds good. What time is it playing?
A. Showtimes are at 5:00 and 7:00.
New words we studied:
Feel like: it is followed by another verb in the -ing form.
Take over: take control of something.
Showtime: the time when a film or movie is played.
Clam: we eat it in paella.
Later we listened to a recording about the adventures of Pinocchio and Gepetto. We also studied a few new words:
wood: the material many tables are made of.
wooden puppet: a puppet made of wood.
grow: plants and people grow, they become taller.
HOMEWORK
1. make 2 sentences with the words feel like.
2. Make 2 sentences with the word grow.
3. Write the opening paragraph of a fairy tale. Example: opening paragraph for Pinocchio.
Once upon a time there was an old carpenter who lived alone. He did not have any children and wished he had a son, so he made a wooden puppet and dreamed the puppet would sometime become a real boy.
In our class yesterday we practiced a short conversation related to the same topic. The conversation was:
A. Do you feel like seeing a movie?
B. Sure. What movie would you like to see?
A. How about The Clam Takes Over? It's playing at the Royal Theater. It's about a brave clam who takes over the Earth. Johnny Hook is in it.
B. It sounds good. What time is it playing?
A. Showtimes are at 5:00 and 7:00.
New words we studied:
Feel like: it is followed by another verb in the -ing form.
Take over: take control of something.
Showtime: the time when a film or movie is played.
Clam: we eat it in paella.
Later we listened to a recording about the adventures of Pinocchio and Gepetto. We also studied a few new words:
wood: the material many tables are made of.
wooden puppet: a puppet made of wood.
grow: plants and people grow, they become taller.
HOMEWORK
1. make 2 sentences with the words feel like.
2. Make 2 sentences with the word grow.
3. Write the opening paragraph of a fairy tale. Example: opening paragraph for Pinocchio.
Once upon a time there was an old carpenter who lived alone. He did not have any children and wished he had a son, so he made a wooden puppet and dreamed the puppet would sometime become a real boy.
viernes, 16 de enero de 2015
In our last lesson we read about the movie Matilda. We also listened to a recording that seemed a bit difficult for most of the students.
Some new words that we studied are:
bright (very intelligent)
taught (the past of the verb teach)
grownup ( adult)
worse (comparative of bad)
far worse ( much, much worse)
What's wrong with...? (What's the matter with, why don't you like...?)
Students had to answer some questions about the listening.
HOMEWORK
1. Remember you need to do the homework you hadn't done last week. Think of a movie you liked and answer the questions:
What kind of movie is it?
Who is in it? or Who starred in it?
Where does it take place?
What is it about? or What happens in it?
How does it end?
What did critics say about it?
2. Write a sentence with each one of the words and expressions above:
Examples:
Matilda taught herself to write when she was 3 years old.
The film is far worse than the movie.
What's wrong with your maths teacher? It's difficult to understand him.
viernes, 9 de enero de 2015
Welcome back!
And Happy 2015
In our first lesson this term we were learning how to talk about films or movies.
These are the questions we used and must learn:
What kind of movie is it?
Who is in it? or Who starred in it?
Where does it take place?
What is it about? or What happens in it?
How does it end?
What did critics say about it?
We studied the passive voice of verbs.
Why do we use passive voice? When we are more interested in the action itself than in the subject.
How is a passive verb formed?
To be in the right tense + past participle (3rd column) of the verb we want.
Ex: The wall is (Present verb to be) painted (past participle verb to paint) black.
It is not important who painted the wall, only that it is painted.
HOMEWORK
Write passive sentences in Simple Present:
Active Passive
- the documents / print
- the window / open
- the shoes / buy
- the car / wash
- the litter / throw away
- the letter / send
- the book / read / not
- the songs / sing / not
- the food / eat / not
- the shop / close / not
Learn the questions about movies.
Check in the Internet for the movie There is Something About Mary and answer the questions above.
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