Unit 3B Lonely Planet

Dear, well done!!!

You have survived lesson 3B and Thanksgiving videos (funky turkey included). Please visit the general blog for Thanksgiving material (click here)
In case you are interesed this is the link to the lonely planet webpage: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Last week we covered unit 3B and learnt about the Wheelers and how they came up  with the idea of producing travel guidebooks.

3A, Thursday's class

On Thursday we finished unit 3A.
-we revised some phrasal verbs in small group doing an oral activity
-we corrected "help with grammar" page 25
-we practiced entonation and the differences in pronunciation when using the PPS(Present Perfect Simple) and the PS (Past Simple).

After the break we worked on the song Viva la Vida by Coldplay. Visit the general blog for a copy of the activity and a new song here.

Lesson 3A (Tuesday 17th November 2009)

In the one hour session before Justin came to our class we started by listening again to Roxana Saberi's text and correcting the questions.

Then we had a taste of phrasal verbs with the first page of unit 3 where students did activities 1 and 2 including the listening by Sam and Cintia.

Homework: help with grammar unit 3A.

JUSTIN: here is a copy of the material Justin used in class yesterday.

This week's work

On Tuesday we finally finished unit 2. We covered lesson 2D and work on showing concern, giving and responding to advice (we focused on intonation)

We also had a look at notices and practice in class. Students had to leave a notice in the blog board (click ) for homework. I handed out some photocopies on the topics, if you are interested and did not come to class, please ask for one.

On Thursday we started with a listening practice on journalist Roxana Saberi (click here for more information) and then students had 40 minutes to complete the progress test for unit 2.

After an early break we worked on the song "You can't hurry love", the lyrics are at the end of the book and we did an activity where studets had to choose between two words and underline the one they listened to. We also had a look at a karaoke version (check general blog)
Have a nice weekend.

Lesson 2D

Today we ended lesson 2C by doing activities 8 and the Gradable and Strong adjective game board (students worked in groups of 3 or 4 and had to complete sentences or talk for 30 seconds on different topics.)

Then we moved to unit 2D What's the matter?.

We covered activities 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Homework. I will leave a post with three "problems" here and you have to show concern and give advice on one of them. Please indicate on the comment section the problem you are writing about and your name.

You also have to do activities 1a, 2a and 4a from Review, page 23.

Extra material unit 2

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
d) all of the above
e) none of the above.

Please,  have a look at this document for extra activities on each of the lessons of unit 2.
In case  you want to revise vocabulary click here.

2C It's a nightmare!

3 y parte del 5 de noviembre