The Day That Changed My Life

Choose an important moment in your life so far and describe it using 175-200 words. It doesn't have to be about something as drastic as the title above suggests; any important moment will do--whether it really changed your life drastically or just slightly. Also, it's not necessary to write about true events. You can always make it all up.
Here are  some prompts to help you:
-What happened?
-What had happened before?
-What were you doing at the time?
-How did it change your life?
Remember to check for grammar or spelling mistakes, cohesion, coherence, vocabulary, and so on, before you hand in your composition.

Tuesday 16th February

On Tuesday 16th we had Paqui talking about Morgan Freeman and we finished lesson 12B. With this unit we end the section on Condintionals and Future Tenses (lessons 5B, 6A, 6B, 7B, 12A and 12B). We will do revision on the topic next week. During the second part Justin talked about St Valentine's Day (click here for more information)
Remember,there will be no class on Thursday 18th since we are going to the cinema (click here for more information)

Tuesday 2nd February

Yesterday we learnt about 2nd type conditionals and we covered lesson 7B activities 1-6. Click here for some extra activities on leson 7B
On the second part Justin was with  us and we practiced future tenses and 1st and second conditional (click here)
Here is a nice video, have a look at it.

Written Assignment: Childhood Memories

Write a composition (150-200 words) about a nice memory from your childhood, in case no ideas come to mind, you may write about something exciting, surprising, shocking or frightening that happened to you as a child (and of course you can use your imagination). Remember to use the Past Perfect Tense that we have practiced (if you need to go over it click here)

I would appreciate if you could leave your writing on the comment section or sent it to me by email. If you are going to write it on  paper please respect margins, paragraphs and pay attention to presentation
This writing assignment is due on Tuesday 9th February.

 If you need to make sure on how to leave a comment click here.

Last Week (18th-22nd January)

Last week we finished lesson 6A, Decisions and Choices :
-Listening and Grammar (activities 3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9). We worked on different tenses used to express future (which we practiced on Thursday with a communicative activity) and learnt about the first conditional
-We  moved to lesson 6B , Protective parents, where we did some reading "The  Parent Trap" and looked at zero conditionals

Past Perfect and Extra material

I thought that this teacher's explanation would make it easier for you to understand this new verb tense. In order to study it, I asked students to do activity 2 from this handout (click here to download it). Students were also asked to read the grammar section on Past  Perfect G.4.3 (page 138).

Click here to get extra material on lesson 5B, and here to get activities from the lesson.
Click here to get extra material on lesson 6A, here to get extra material on lesson 6B, and here to get activitities from the workbook on both 6A and 6B.

Thursday 14/01/2010

On Thursday we finished lesson 5B, we corrected the grammar activities, worked on intonation and practised speaking talking about things students:

a) had arrranged to do b) had planned to do and c) would probably do in the next 4 weeks.

I also gave them a handout to revise vocabulary (we did the first part in class and the second was set for homework. I have extra copies, ask for them tomorrow in class)

After the break we started lesson 6A Decisions and choices and covered activity 1: vocabulary make and do.
Remember: we tend to use make for "food" words while we use do for "study"words and jobs connected to the house.
HOMEWORK: finish the handout and read grammar page3 G6.1 First Conditional

Unit 5B A load of old junk (12/01/2010)

-On Tuesday 12th  we started the lesson by revising and learning new vocabulary and phrasal verbs. The excuse was reading the text Just get rid of it! (page 44). After reading the text and answering some questions, students got into pairs and did the communicative activities on pages 117/122

-We  listened to Ian and Liz and we got to know which things they are going to give away, throw away and keep. The grammatical point of the lesson was the future and the different forms we have to express it.

-We also did some writing. Students had to write a list including

1)two things they have arranged to do

2)two things they have planned to do

3)two things they will probably do in the next four weeks

Once they finished the list they shared it with other people from the class.

HOMEWORK: check the blog for garage sale and grammar ( the future )on page 45

New Year's Resolutions

Welcome back!!!

For those of  you who did not attend the class (only 7 people did) here is what we did last Thursday.

-We started of by talking about the gifts we got fom The Three Wise Men or Santa  and we had an interesenting discussion on SALES.

-We made comments on the topic of New Year's Resolutions and we also did a dictation on the origins of the tradition. I also gave a handout on tips to make your New Year's Resolutions and students wrote their own.

-A few people had a look at their exam since they were not here on the last day of class before Christmas.

-Then we went for a coffee and Alfonso invited us.

Homework: have a look at the blog and after watching the video and reading the document write your own NYR on the comment section.