23 Dec 2012

10th to 20th December (Summary)

- check homework: practice on present simple

- Reading: "Nico's day" (p. 30)
Interesting vocabulary: own=propio, busy=ocupado, everyone=todo el mundo, go back=volver

- Listening: "Amelia's day, Nico's stepdaughter" (p. 31)

- Grammar 4B: prepositions
Prepositions of place and movement:
. go + to = He goes to work
. AT + work, home, school, university
. IN + other places: flat, a room, an office, etc.

With public places you can use AT or IN:
Examples: We meet at the restaurant (in front ot it) / We meet in the restaurant (inside)

- Oral practice in pairs: practicing prepositions and the present simple

- Vocabulary: Time - expressions of time with present simple (p. 157)

- Grammar 4C: Present simple + expressions of frequency (p. 130-131)
. Frequency adverbs: ALWAYS - USUALLY - OFTEN - SOMETIMES - HARDLY EVER- NEVER
They go before the "verb to be": He always goes to the swimming pool at three o'clock.
They go after the "verb to be": He is always late.

. Time adverbs: once a week / twice a week / three times a week, etc. / every day
They go at the end of the end of the sentence: He goest to the swimming pool twice a week.

- Pronunciation: the letter "h"

- Reading and oral practice: "Today's teenagers may not live as long as their parents" (p. 32)

- Oral practice in pairs: Communication - Short life, long life? (p. 101)

- Revise and check Units 3 and 4 - homework (p. 34-35)

- Revision through oral activities in groups

- Video listening: Everyday activities

- Test Units 1,2,3, 4

- Christmas Carols and Karaoke

                                                                        HAVE A NICE CHRISTMAS!!!

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