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

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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..

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.

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?"