Tuesday 18th December.

Please note that today was the last class for this term.  THERE IS NO CLASS ON THURSDAY 20TH (Sorry!!  but I'm afraid I can't teach this Thursday because I have to go to my daughter's school play).  However, don't worry, we will recoup this class at the end of the course. The last class of the course will now be  Thursday 23rd May and the final exam will be on Tuesday 21st of May.











In today's class we did the following:

Vocabulary:  clothes and accessories
Reading:  finding meanings of words in context and reading for detail
Speaking:  clothes, accessories, shopping and Christmas.

(Student's book pages 44 and 45)

It was great to hear you all talking about clothes,accessories and shopping.  Well done for using the using the vocabulary we studied last class and also then new vocabulary which we studied  today.

You also talked about Christmas fluently and with few mistakes.

Homework:

• Workbook pages 34, 36 and 37
• Write your written project.  Please note that the deadline has been extended and is now Tuesday 15th January 

Finally  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!  Enjoy the holidays and take care



All the best,






Durga

Thursday 13th December

In yesterday's class we looked at:
Vocabulary - souvenirs and presents (we looked at adjectives which describe how something is made, materials and opinions.)  We also looked at the order of adjectives when we use more than one.
 - one/ones

listening - for details.

The homework is:  Workbook page 31, page 33 (just the vocabulary builder - quiz 5)

Tuesday 11th December

In class today we looked at how to talk about rules in English and we did a reading about awful jobs (pages 39, 40 in the student's book)

Homework is:

• Exercise E page 41 student's book
• page 30 Grammar talking about rules page 30 workbook

Tuesday 4th December

Hi All,


Yesterday in class we looked at vocabulary related to jobs, the workplace and activities related to jobs. We also looked at have to, don't have to and can. (See student's book pages 36,37,38)

Homework is the work book pages 28 (the whole page), page 30  - Just the grammar section, have to, don't have to, can)

Enjoy the bank holiday and see you all next Tuesday

Thursday 29th November

Hi

In today's class , we checked the revision exercises which looked at grammar and vocabulary (see student's book pages 34 and 35)
We then did some writing practise. We did a variety of exercises, looking at useful vocabulary particulary linking words and we also looked at how to structure a for and against essay. (see student's book pages 132 and 133 )  Finally we looked at common ways to start and end a short email(see student's book pages 122, 123)

Hopefully this will be useful for you all when you are writing your written project.  REMEMBER these pages at the back of the book are full of useful vocabulary for writing. 

Homework is to make sure you are up to date with all the homework in the workbook units 1 to 4.

Enjoy the weekend!

Durga

Tuesday 27th November

In today's class we did various revision exercises - some were from the student's book pages 32 and 33.

The homework is to do the following exercises from the student's book:
Page 34: Grammar, Present perfect questions and answers, ing/ed adjectives
Page 35:  Forming words.

We will quickly check the answers on Thursday.

Remember that you need to hand in your preparation sheet for the written project on Thursday.

Thursday 22nd November

Hi,

In today's class we looked at pages 29-31 in the student's book.  We reviewed ´duration' and we looked at vocabulary connected to music.

It was nice to hear many of you using the new vocabulary when speaking - well done!

If you are still having difficulties with the difference between for and since, click on this link and do some online exercises:  http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1394

Tuesday 20th November class

Hi
In today's class we looked at pages 28 and 29 in the student's book.
Homework is the workbook pages 24/25

class thurs 15th November

Hi ,
for those of you who couldn't come to class today, we looked reviewed the future tenses and then we looked at the student's book pages 26/27.  We looked at vocabulary connected to free time activities and we also looked at how to express frequency in the past and the present.

The homework is the workbook pages 22/23.  Also if you think you need to review frequency read page 142 in the student's book.  Here you will find a grammar explanation of what we studied today in class and some exercises to practice.

Have a nice weekend!

Durga

General strike

Hi!

Tomorrow here in Spain and in many other countries in Europe there is a general strike.

Are you going on strike?
Have you ever been on strike?
Would you ever go on strike?
Do you think that strikes work?

Practise your English and post your opinions on strikes .....

Tuesday 13th Novemeber English class

Hi all,

Today in class we looked at pages: 24 and 25 in the Student's book
Homework:  Workbook pages 20/21 and to read page 141 in the student's book.

Good speaking activities today. It was nice to hear you all speaking in English and using the new vocabulary connected to weather.

Hi

Remember you need to hand in your preparation sheet for your written project by the end of this month:  29th November.  You don't need to write much - just a general outline of what you plan to write about.  If you need any help, please ask me  ...I don't bite!

Hi class,

I have set up this class blog to:

• review what we did in class and to post the homework for those who didn't come to class
• to post some useful links and materials  
• so that you can practice writing English and give your opinions by contributing to some topics  - but in English PLEASE!!!

Remember this is your space - so you are free to write your own comments and add to the blog in any way you think will be useful and interesting to you and your class mates.

I hope it's useful!

Durga