Something to cheer you all up!

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Thursday 24th January

In class today we carried on with the topic of food - again there was a lot of new vocabulary.   Try to learn the words which you think will be useful for you - don't worry about learning every word - be selective!  We did a listening (page 55 in the Student's book) and we also did a reading (pages 56/57 and page 156 -file 3 student's book) and we exchanged information and ideas about these articles.

Your homework is to do pages 46 and 47 in the workbook.  Also try to learn the new vocabulary we have studied.

REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO CLASS FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.  WE BEGIN CLASSES AGAIN ON TUESDAY 12TH FEBUARY.

Good luck to those of you with exams!

Tuesday 22nd January

In today's class:

We looked again at the zero conditional and at the first conditional.  We did a few exercises from the student's book page 53 and we also used some handouts.
We looked at some vocabulary connected to food and cooking.  (page 54 student's book)

Homework is pages 44 and 45 in the workbook.

See you on Thursday.

Durga

Thursday 17th January

In today's class,

we looked at some more vocabulary connected to schools, teachers and students.  We did a listening on the topic and we practised listening for specific information and also listening for gist.

Finally we had a brief look at the zero conditional and the first conditional.  (see pages 52/53 student's book).  We will do more work on these conditionals next class

Homework:  Workbook page 44

Tuesday 15th March

For those of you who couldn't come to class today, this is what we did:
Grammar:
When we are talking about the future and when we use the words:  after, when, once and as soon as, we use the present simple or the present perfect.  The present perfect gives emphasis to the completion of the action or situation.  (see page 146 of the student's book for more help on this grammar point)

Reading:
We read a couple of texts about education and we gave our opinions on these texts.

Vocabulary:
We guessed the meaning of new words from context.
We looked at word families

See student's book pages 49 and 50

Homework:
Workbook:  pages 41,42,23

Thursday 10th of January 2013

In yesterday's class we revised 3 uses of must; we looked at some vocabulary connected to school, university and studying and we also looked at ways to develop conversations.  There was a lot of new vocabulary but I was pleased to see you all using it successfully in your conversations!

Homework:  page 40 workbook.

P.S remember that your written projects are due in next week.

Have a nice weekend!

Durga

Tuesday 8th January

Hi and happy new year again to you all!

In today's class we began by talking about the Christmas  holidays and our new year's resolutions.  We then did a listening between two people who were discussing buying tickets for a gig (concert) and finally we looked at three uses of 'must'.  (Student's book pages 46,47)

Homework is:

• Read the grammar summary about must in the student's book page 145
• Do the exercises on page 38 in the workbook  - they practise the use of must.
• Do the vocabulary builder quiz 6 on page 39 in the workbook.

See you all on Thursday!  Hopefully the room won't be so cold....