Class 21/03/2015

Hi guys! I will put here the conclusion of our last class (21/03/2015). I hope to be useful for you with this post =)

1- SPEAKING: We spend a lot of time speaking in our last class. These were the issues we talked about:

-HOBBIES: activities we enjoy doing.
-MEALS: we talked about the type of food we usually have for breakfast/lunch/dinner

Remember! Whit meals we say: "I have milk for breakfast"/ I have dinner at 9:00/ We have a coffee

2- EXERCISES WE DID:

*Ex. 2-3-6, page 112 (LISTENING)

*Ex. 7, page 113: (COLLOCATIONS)

*Ex. 1-2-3, page 114 (COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE)

*Ex. 5, page 115 (FAMILY)

*Ex. 4, page 119 (LISTENING)

3- HOMEWORK:

*READING, page 112 (How sound and colour influence the taste of food)

*Ex 5, page 112

*Ex. 4, page 115

*Read the theory of articles and relative clauses in pages 194 and 195.

*Ex. 6, page 119

4- NEW VOCABULARY:

These are new words which I learned the last class day (I put a personal definition because I know Tom doesn't like translations).

-CRAMPS: the following day you have done a lot of sport you have cramps. All your body hurts!

-POISONOUS: the adjective of "poison".

-A CAN/TIN: It's a container where you preserve tomato or something like that.

-REINDEER: It's an animal who goes always with Santa Claus on Christmas.

Perfect tense time-lines.

If you're having trouble sorting out your perfect tenses, this link will clarify everything.

Scroll down to the perfect tenses, and compare the visuals with the explanations. It's soooo good!

1. http://www.eslcharts.com/verb-tenses-chart.html.

Thanks a lot, www.eslcharts.com

Class 14/3/15

Hello everyone!

Today in class we have studied pages 102 and 106-109.

SPEAKING:

Compare photos. SB p.106 Ex.1

How environmentally friendly are you? SB p.107 Ex. 6

Questions about numbers. SB p. 107 Ex. 8

 

LISTENING:

The Grand Canyon National Park Service. SB p.106 Ex. 2

Practise saying numbers correctly. SB p.107 Ex. 7

GRAMMAR:

Perfect tenses. SB p.102

Countable and uncountable nouns. SB p.108

VOCABULARY:

Topic set - the natural world. SB p.106 Ex. 3 

Expressions of quantity. SB p.109 Ex. 4&5

REVIEW: we have seen our progress test.

 

HOMEWORK:

-       Write 6 sentences that are true for you using a variety of perfect tenses + one simple past (Send Tom by Wednesday).

Examples:

                       I will have been living in Madrid for 30 years next September.

                       I had studied Spanish before I came.

-       CD-Rom Units 13&14: Reporting verbs and Perfect tenses.

-       Word formation: Polluting the environment. SB p.107 Ex 5

 

 

Reported speech update. Ex.10, p.97.

Hello, everyone.

In answer to our questions about Ex.10, p.97, here's the explanation. I hope you find it useful. 

Read it slowly, with the exercise in front of you.

There are two ways of reporting speech:

1) following the tense change rule; present to past, past to past perfect etc. and,

2) using reporting verbs which require certain verb forms like infinitive or gerund after them - this is the case for your example Q.4.

 We have both forms of reported speech in Q.4, using the reporting verb denied …ing  + the tense change - had not wasted. 

In Q.1 we change direct speech ‘put', (simple past), to reported speech, using the reporting verb accused + of.
So, in Q.1 we have to use the correct verb form to follow accused of so it’s “Sally accused Charlie of putting a frog….” - for the purposes of this exercise. However, if you weren’t required to use ‘of' you could also report it as “Sally said Charlie had put a frog….”

THE BEST ROMANTIC FILM

Hi!!!


I would like to recommend this romantic film to everybody. I've found the film in English with subtitles in English too and I think if you haven't seen it, you will enjoy it. Its name in Spanish is "Todos los días de mi vida".

Here, you have the film online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPPlveo4TB4 

See you soon!!

The natural world.

The natural world.

Canal

Dam and reservoir

Floods

Lake

Pond

Rapids

River

Stream

Waterfall