2B Ready Steady Eat

On Thursday 22nd we started with an activity on world rules and learnt about what things you can, cannot, have to, do not have to or are allowed in different countries.

-Then we started lesson 2B and we moved to the kitchen. We learnt and talked about food, meals, kitchen equipment, different ways of cooking, etc. We focused on the food and meals in Spain and whether or not we had cooking patterns.

We covered activities 1 and 2 pages 18.
-After the break we read What's for dinner? (page 18) and completed activities 3 and 4a (true or false)
-To finish off the day we review the differences betwenn the Present Continious and the Present Simple (page 19)

On Tuesday 27th we discussed ready meals and fast food. We talked about how eating habbits have changed.

2A Slow down

dáis 15 y 20 de octubre

Hi everyone, last week we only had one session but we worked very hard through it.

To start with we had elections to choose your class representatives.

We finished unit 1 with some revision and the prepared homework.
Homework was set: click here to get the photocopies I gave in class and here for the anwers. You have to produce and informal letter following instructios on activity 5a&b. The due date is Wednesday 21st.
We also did some presentations on the Happiness Club.
Today (Monday 18th), we started unit 2 and focused on lesson 2A SLOW DOWN.We covered nearly the whole lesson 2A. We talked about slowing down things and what  people's jobs are like. We did pages 16 and 17 (activities 1,2,3, 4 and 6) Activity 6 was to be completed at home as HOMEWORK.

Extra material unit 1

Here is a little something for you to do in case

a) you are bored
b) you just love doing homework
c) you want to improve your skills
Please, have a look at this document for extra activities on each of the lessons of unit 1.
In case you want to revise vocabulary click here.
You can also check the progress test for unit 1 .
Interested in extra skills? Click here.

1E Work and Leisure

elección de representantes

1D At a Barbacue

No, we did not go have a barbacue in class but we used that situation as an excuse to work on question tags. Pages 12 and 13. We also did the review activity on page 13.
We also worked in small groups and created a Happiness Club.

 Homework:Work and leisure pages 14 and 15 (not pronunciation). You will need a listening track in order to do activity 2, I will send it to you by email today. Once you finished doing homework check here the answers.
-Groups did minipresentations on their Happiness Club.

1C The best medicine

-Today I handed the corrected mock exam to the students who attended the lesson.

We did lesson 1C pages 10-11 The topic was: What do you do to relax?
Listening: Jeremy and his wife had freeind over for dinner and told us about what they do to relax. (we focused on sentence stress)
Reading: Laugh? I feel better already! We revise and learn new adjectives and got to know about Laughter Clubs.
-Get ready get it right! Students were divided into groups and worked on their own Happiness Club

HOMEWORK: have a look at this blog post

Mock exam

-On Thursday the group was taken by surprised when I gave them a mock test. I needed to check writing skills and I gave the students a modified version of a "selectividad" exam that took place in Castilla la Mancha in 2008. In case you could not attend the class you can download it clicking on: mock exam. I gave the students 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum, no dictionaries were allowed.  If you are not attending lessons you can emial me the composition.

-After the break the got Justin, our new language assistant to visit us and introduce himself to the class. We worked on communicative activities from lessons 1A and 1B and comment on the blog comment on autumn..