Hello, my dear pupils, here I give you the link to the website we sometimes use in class. It’s all about listenings and the games/ questions are in different formats. Check it out, it could be a good tool for you to practise your listening skills at home (if u want to, of course…)
http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/english_audio_activities.html
Hello guys,
This is the homework for next Tuesday (April 28th). Enjoy it!
Rewrite using a modal verb. If there is already one, use another modal verb:
a) You aren’t allowed to get into the swimming pool without paying.
You __________________________________________________
b) It’s absolutely necessary that you bring all the books and notebooks everyday.
You__________________________________________________________
c) You mustn’t bring food into this cinema.
You ______________________________________________________
d) If I were you, I wouldn’t smoke so much.
You__________________________________________________________
e) She must study for her final exams.
She______________________________________________________ _
f) It’s possible to learn 8 languages at this school.
Pupils ________________________________________________________
g) Smoking here? No way, it’s forbidden.
You__________________________________________________________
Hello, I am Juan.
This is the diary of class of the day 2009/03/31, Tuesday.
Well, today we corrected the exercise of the previous day. And when Sandra the young teacher switched on the projector, it didn’t work. Dario has gone to tell the colleague of the porter’s lodge. Then we have changed classrooms.
Sandra has switched on the projector and she has put on the exercise about the famous couples, for example: Leticia and Felipe, Javier and Penélope, Julio and Isabel, Lennon and Yoko etc.
One of us has talked about one famous couple and the other colleague has found out the couple.
The class has finished with this exercise.
Thursday, 2009/04/2
Well, today at 8:10 Sandra, the young teacher, has switched on the projector and she has put on a “listening” exercise about the photographs of couples. They are in different places and we, the students, had to find out.
Then we have talked among ourselves about the change of mentality in Spain in the last 30 years about the couples, for example, today there is divorce, homosexual weddings, people don’t marry etc.
That’s all.
Juan
Hello everybody!
I found these two comic strips on the Internet, related to our lesson two weeks ago. I hope they bring a smile into your faces!
Enjoy your Easter holidays!
It’s my turn. On last Thursday, Sandra picked me, and although she asked if I wanted to be the next, what could I say?. Only yes.
We started the week, as usual, on Tuesday. The first thing that we did was to correct exercises that she had set us on the Thursday before. These were to give the correct verb forms. This time has been more complicated because there were many possibilities, unlike other times when there were only one or two possibilities.
Then we started a listening about marriage of convenience. Like all the listening, I found it quite difficult because I need more practice with the ear.
Finally, we worked on marriages of convenience, we did four couples, two marriages and two immigration policemen. As there weren’t enough women, Miquel had to play the woman. In my case, I was the husband of the couple. We didn’t have much time to prepare, but we didn’t do too bad when our pair of interrogators had doubts about whether we were a marriage of convenience or not.
We finished the class with an exercise for the next day in which we must place the alphabet letter corresponding to a sentence in the correct place on a letter.
On Thursday 26th, we corrected the letter (application letter). The problem was that if you made a mistake at first place in a box, all the others were already displaced and didn’t match any.
Then she handed us some notes, each with a character with its features. She gave a male character to the men and a female character to the women. Based on some series of questions, we had to deduce who our ideal partner would be.
We finished the class with a quiz of irregular verbs, which Group B won by a margin of only one hit.
Nothing more. I hope not to give Sandra a lot of work editing this text.
Joe Mary