Wednesday 30 September 2009

1B Love it or hate it.

On Thursday 24th
-We talked about the reading book for this year The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (click on the title and get all the infomation) and the we discussed 1) What kind of books do you like reading? When and where do you read? What are you reading at the moment?
-Then we moved to lesson 1B, pages 8-9 and and we covered the Vocabulary (1,2)
-Autumn is already here, athough the weather does not seem to care. We had a look a the post on the general blog (click here) .
On Tuesday 29th we finished lesson 1B.
-We started off with a communicative activity on celebrity gossips where students had to match sentences with 5 different celebrities and then check with their partners whether they were right or wrong.
-Back to the book we did the reading on page 8(activities 3-4) and talked about mobile phones and discuss the pros and cons of their use.
-Grammar: Positive and negative verb forms, words and phrases
-Listening: our friends Jeremy and Amy shared their views on flying, cooking, football on tv and customer service phone lines with us. Students had to identify the speaker, whether he/she loved o hated the activity and give two reasons.

Wednesday 23 September 2009

1A Be happy!


The first lesson of the book deals with things that make us happy or sad.
-We started working on some vocabulary related to the weekend and revise short answers and frequency adverbs (act. 1 page 6).
-Reading: The secret of happiness (continues on page 127). We discussed reasons to be happy and read the text.
-Listening. We listened to Sarah, Jenny and Greg and practice listening for gist (general idea) and listening for detail. The grammar point we covered was interrogation.
-To finish the unit we worked otn the Get ready get it right section (page 7)
HOMEWORK:Check the short film on the general blog "What makes you happy?"

Monday 21 September 2009

Back to School

Well, you survived your first week.Last week I did a presentation on the course and how the School and the evaluation for this year worked. We also got to know a bit about each other, you are quite a big group and there are many people you still do not know, do not worry, I am in the same situation.

Homework was quite easy for you last week:
-send me an email rosa73eoi@gmail.com
-check the blog
-bring a photograph of yourself for me to keep

See you on Tuesday!!!