Good-Bye

Dear class, I am really sorry our time together was so short, nevertheless it was a wonderful time.
Today was our last lesson together, and I can only wish you all the best and hope you keep on loving and enjoying learning English.
You are more than welcome to keep checking the blog (although the Class Diary 3A section will dissapear in a few weeks), feel free to keep adding comments and having a look at the posts.
All the best.

Here is a funny clip by the muppets, if you want to have a look at the lyrics, click here.

2B Ready, Steady, Eat

Dear all, today was our last class together.
-We started with an exercise on world rules and learnt about what things you can, cannot, have to, do not have to or are allowed to do in different countries.
-Then we moved to lesson 2B and worked on kitchen (not chicken) and food vocabulary. We also discussed about our favourite meals and cooking habits. We covered activities 1 and 2 pages 18.
-We also read the text What's for dinner? and completed activities 3 and 4a.
No homework as a farewell present.
Nevertheless you can still send me the informal letter and I will correct it and give it to your new teacher, Raquel.

Slow down lesson 2A

Hi everyone, last week we only had one session but we worked very hard through it.

To start with we had elections to choose your class representatives.

We finished unit 1 with some revision and the prepared homework.
Homework was set: click here to get the photocopies I gave in class and here for the anwers. You have to produce and informal letter following instructios on activity 5a&b. The due date is Wednesday 21st.
We also did some presentations on the Happiness Club.
Today (Monday 18th), we started unit 2 and focused on lesson 2A SLOW DOWN.We covered nearly the whole lesson 2A. We talked about slowing down things and what  people's jobs are like. We did pages 16 and 17 (activities 1,2,3, 4 and 6) Activity 6 was to be completed at home as HOMEWORK.

At a barbecue lesson 1D

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 leiusre 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.

The Best Medicine 1C

Today I handed the corrected mock exam to the students who attended the lesson.

We did lesson 1C pages 10-11 except activities 8-9. The topic was: What do you do to relax?

Then we read the text "Laugh? I feel better already!" on page 11 and discuss Latughter Therapy.Here is a video about laugh.

I set no  homeworks.

A bit of testing and a bit of fun.

-On Wednesday 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 I thought the class deserved a treat and we played "Guess Who?". Students were divided in groups of 4 or 5 members and received different class with a name, a photograph and a basic biography. The rest of the students had to guess by means of Yes/No questions who the famous person was.

1B Love it or hate it!!!

On Monday we finished lesson 1B.

-We started off with a communicative activity on celebrity gossips where students had to match sentences with 5 differnet celebrities and then check with their partners whether they were right or wrong.

-Back to the book we started with the correction of homework and then we moved to antoher grammar activity (6 page 9). We listened to answers and suggested new ones.

-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. To finish up, we listen to and read the transcript of the 4 speeches, focussin on stressed words.
Extra activity: we had some extra time and students got into groups of 4 or 5 people and describe a secret place, then they read it aloud and the rest of the groups had to guess the country and the city.