27 Oct 2012

HOMEWORK (last week of October)

- Reading and Listening from "Revise and check section" (p. 19)

- COMPOSITION 1. Writing about you.

Who are you? Where do you live? What’s your job? What have you got? Who is your family? Who is your favourite actor/actress? What are your hobbies? Etc.

Extension: 80 words
Deadline: 6th November

- Test Units 1 and 2: Tuesday 30th November

22nd to 26th October (Summary)

- Check homework: "have got" and "adjectives"

- Vocabulary: feelings (p. 16)
Questions from teacher

- Listening and Reading: The Carter family are on holiday in Ireland (p. 16 and 17)

- Grammar 2C: imperative - let's (p. 17 and 126) + worksheet
Imperatives:
- positive: Open the door (infinitive; no subject)
- negative: Don't open the door (Don't + infinitive; no subject)

Let's + infinitive (vamos a...)

- What's the meaning of these signs? (p. 17)

- Pronunciation: dictation (p. 17)

- Oral practice in groups: Writing a dialogue with imperatives and Let's.
Reading the dialogue

- Revising adjectives and feelings: crossword in pairs

- Revise and check p. 18: grammar and vocabulary

- Introduction to Unit 3. Present Simple (to be continued next week...)

17 Oct 2012

15th to 19th October (Summary & Homework)

- Check homework: worksheet "questions" and "common objects"

- Pronunciation: final -s and -es (p. 12)

- Listening: Three people talking about the things on their table (p. 13)

- Verb "to have"
Positive:
I have = I have got (I've go)
you have = you have got (you've got)
he/she/it has = he/she/it has got (he's got)
we have = we have got (we've got)
you have = you have got (you've got)
they have = they have got (they've got)

Negative:
I don't have = I haven't got
you don't have = you haven't got
he/she/it doesn't have = he/she/it hasn't got
we don't have = we haven't got
you don't have = you haven't got
they don't have = they haven't got

Questions:
Do I have...? = Have I got...?
Do you have...? = Have you got...?
Does he/she/it have? = Has he/she/it got...?


Oral questions with teacher

- Oral practice in pairs: Revising verb "to be" and "to have" with dictations about Nikos.

- 2B. Starts and Stripes
Vocabulary: Colours (p. 14)
Vocabulary: Adjectives (p. 152)

Remember: - adjectives never take the plural (-s): one child - two children
                    - adjectives can be modified by very, really and quite
                      Examples: He is very good-looking (és molt guapo)
                                        He is really good-looking (és molt molt guapo)
                                        He is quite good-looking (és bastant guapo)

. Oral practice in pairs: write names for...

- Grammar: adjectives (p.14 activity a)

- Grammar bank:  activities 2B a and b

- Pronunciation: vowel sounds and adjectives

- Reading and writing in pairs (p. 15) -- actors and actresses

HOMEWORK:
- Worksheet "have got" and worksheet "adjectives" 2B

11 Oct 2012

8th to 11th Octobter (Summary & Homework)


- Check homework: worksheet verb “to be” and worksheet “classroom objects”

- Oral practice: teacher asking questions

- Vocabulary: things (p. 12 and p. 151)

- Grammar: a / an – plurals
We use a / an for singular nouns:
. a + consonant: a table; a computer
. an + vowel: an apple, an umbrella

- Plural nouns: we NEVER use a / an with plural nouns
Regular plurals
. We add –s in most nouns: key – keys / book – books
. We add – es when a noun ends in –ch, -sh, -s, -x: box – boxes / what – watches
. We add –ies when a noun ends in –y: country – countries / nationality – nationalities

Irregular plurals
. a man – men
. a woman – women /wimen/
. a child – children
. a person – people

Demonstrative adjectives: THIS / THAT / THESE / THOSE
this (este, esta) – these /i:/ (estos, estas)
these (aquel, aquella, ese, esa) – those (aquellos, aquellas, esos, esas)

- Board game in groups: nationalities and countries

- Practical English: Arriving in London (pp. 10-11)
Vocabulary: "In a hotel"
Introduction of Jenny and Rob
Checking in
Jenny talks to Rob 

Interesting expressions:
. Can you sign here? = pots signar aquí
. Can you spell that? = pots deletrejar-ho
. Can I have your passport? = em pots ensenyar el passaport
. Would you like a coffee? = t'agradaria prendre un cafè?

- Write and read dialogues in pairs (Well-done!)

- Song: Eternal Flame 

HOMEWORK:
- Worksheet "common objects" and worksheet "question words"
- Remember to do Workbook. Unit 1


7 Oct 2012

1st to 5th October (Summary & Homework)

- Check homework: Worksheet verb "to be" 1B

- Listening practice: Listen and answer with a short answer (1.24, p. 7)

- Listening practice: Listen and choose the number you hear (1.29, p. 7)

- Vocabulary: Classroom language (p. 150)

- The Alphabet: 1.37 in p. 8; activities c, d and e (p.8)

- Play hangman with your partner

- Dictation: teacher dictates numbers and words

- Bingo: nationalities (to revise nationalities)

- Listening and speaking: Completing a form (1.39, p. 9)

- Grammar bank 1C: Possessive adjectives (p.124)
I am - My car
You are - Your car
He is - His car
She is - Her car
It is - Its car
We are - Our car
You are - Your car
They are - Their car

- Communicative activity to practice possessive adjectives (p. 100 and p. 106)

HOMEWORK:
- Worksheet on classroom language
- Worksheets to practice verb "to be"

Remember:
QUESTION WORDS -- what (que), where (on), when (quan), why (porque), how (com), how much (quan val), how many (quants)

1 Oct 2012

19th to 27th September (Summary & Homework)


- Introducing each other:
What’s your name? My name is….
Where do you live? I live in…
What do you like? I like…..

- Listening and speaking (p. 4)
My name is = I’m
Hello = Hi
Very well = Good
Thank you = Thanks
Goodbye = Bye

- Grammar Bank 1A and Grammar Bank 1B: verb to be (ser o estar) (p. 124)

I am = I’m – I am not – Am I?
You are = You’re – You are not = You aren’t– Are you?
He is = He’s – He is not = He isn’t – Is he?
She is = She’s – She is not = She isn’t – Is she?
It is = It’s – It is not = It isn’t – Is it?
We are = We’re – We are not = We aren’t– Are we?
You are = You’re – You are not = You aren’t– Are you?
They are = They’re – They are not = They aren’t– Are they?

- Vowel Sound (p. 5 and p. 166) – listen and repeat

- Vocabulary (p. 148) – DAYS and NUMBERS
. Days of the week always go in capital letters (majúscules):
Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday – Saturday – Sunday

. Numbers:
one – two – three – four – five – six – seven – eight – nine – ten
elven – twelve – thirteen – fourteen – fifteen – sixteen – seventeen – eighteen – nineteen – twenty – twenty-one – twenty-two, etc.
thirty – forty – fifty – sixty – seventy – eighty – ninety – a hundred
a hundred and one
a hundred and ten
two hundred and twenty-six, etc.
a thousand …

- Listening and Speaking (p. 5) – Where are they?

- Vocabulary: the World (p. 149)
Countries, Nationalities and Languages always go in capital letters

- World Quiz in pairs (p. 6)

- Grammar: dialogues (p. 7) – Listen, complete and repeat

- Song: “All Over the World”



HOMEWORK: Worksheet verb "to be"