Tuesday 30th April

Hi

For those of you who couldn't make class today this is what we did:

• Discussed ways of travelling and transport problems
• We did a reading about immigration and emigraton.
• We looked at the 3rd conditional and also at should have plus the past participle
• We compared the 3rd conditional with the 1st and 2nd conditional and reviewed the use of these conditionals.  (We used some of the exercises from pages 94 and 95 in the student's book and then we did one exercise on page 97 in the student's book)

HOMEWORK:

• Workbook page 76 - Do exercise number 1 only - Vocabulary.  Ways of travelling an travel problems.  A and B only!
• Workbook page 78 - Do the Grammar exercise on the 3rd conditional only

If you weren't in class today, you can take a look a grammar section on the 3rd conditionals which is on page 152 in the student's book.


JUST TO REMIND YOU:

THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE ON TUESDAY 21ST MAY.  YOU MUST TAKE THE EXAM IN ORDER TO PASS THE COURSE.

THE ORAL EXAM WILL BE ON THURSDAY 23RD  MAY.  THIS IS ALSO THE LAST DAY OF CLASS. 

Tuesday 23rd April

Hi for those of you who couldn't come to class today we did the following:

• we spoke about travelling and places we have visited.
• we looked at the difference between the words: travel, trip and journey.
• we looked at some vocabulary connected to ways of travelling and travel problems.  (See page 92 in the student's book)
• we prepared the oral projects.

Homework:
Prepare the final project.  REMEMBER WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT THE PROJECTS ON THURSDAY IN CLASS.

See you then and good luck!

Durga

Thursday 18th April

Hi,

In today's class:

• We did some revision of the past 4 units.    (Some was taken from the Student's book on page 89)
• We also worked on preparing our oral projects.

Homework:

• prepare your oral projects.  I will give you some time on Tuesday in class to prepare and practise.
• do the revision progress test which I handed out.  If you weren't in class today, ask me on Monday to give you a copy.  This can be handed in on Tuesday 30th April.

Tuesday 16th April

Hi

In today's class we did the following:

• reviewed how to express wishes in the past (wish + past perfect) to talk about things in the past that we now regret.
• We did a reading about friends and the internet - we read for gist, for specific information and we guessed words from context.
• We talked about the text giving our opinions on what the author talked about
• Finally we looked at the phrase 'If you ask me' and we talked in groups about friendships.

See student's book pages 86/87.


Homework

Continue preparing your oral projects and bring all material to class on Thursday.  On Thursday we are going to do some revision and then we will spend the last half an hour of the class working on the oral projects.  REMEMBER YOU NEED TO HAND IN THE PREPARATION SHEET ON THURSDAY (one per pair or group)

Thursday 11th April

Hi class,

Today we did the following:

• reviewed the use of used to and would
• we did a listening where we practised listening for detail and then choosing a statement to sum up what the listener had said.
• we looked a some common synonyms and word collocations
• we looked at how to talk about things in the past that we now regret (wish + past perfect)

Homework:

workbook page 72 - vocabulary synonyms
workbook page 73 - the whole page

Tuesday 9th April

Hi,

In today's class we looked at the following:

• We reviewed vocabulary connected to the family.
• We looked at used/would and the past simple.
• We talked about our childhood
• We listened to 5 speakers talking about how they met a person called Nicolas. 

See pages 84 and 85 in the Student's book

Homework:  Workbook page  72 - Would/used to exercise ONLY.

On Thursday we will continue with the listening and we will also spend some class time preparing the oral projects so please bring anything you need in order to prepare.

See you Thursday!

Thursday 4th April

Good morning!

In yesterday's class we did the following:

• looked at vocabulary to describe family and to describe character
• We did a listening to hear the new vocabulary in context and to listen for detail
• We spoke about our families and used adjectives to describe character.  We looked at ways to develop conversations.  (See student's book pages 82 and 83)

Homework:  Workbook pages 70 and 71.

Have  a good weekend!

Tuesday 2nd April

Hi everyone,

In today's class we:

• talked about our Easter holidays and about pets
• reviewed the passive
• did a listening about pets to remind us of pet/animal vocabulary
• Looked at forming nouns from adjectives
• Practised making questions
• Talked about the oral projects - groups/ideas etc.  (There are still a few people who haven't formed groups/pairs etc, so if you weren't in class today, tell me and I can tell you who the people are, so you can form groups/pairs.

Homework:

workbook page 68 - forming words
workbook page 69 - vocabulary quiz