Book Total English

• page 114, ex 1a-b-c, 2 – 3 – 4
• Photocopy 81: Agreement, disagreement and compromise: theory and exercises

• Exercises photocopy “Cause and effect”: 70.2 – 70.3 – 70.4
• Book Total English, page 164: Cause and effect essays 1-2
• Book Total English, page 113: 8Vocabulary “Academic English”
• Photocopy “Academic crossword”
• Book Total English, page 6: Grammar, Emphasis, 6-7

February 19th:

• Total English book:
  • Page 110: Reading
  • Page 111,  Grammar:  Fronting and ex. 4
    

February 24th:

• Fronting and Cleft sentences (photocopy)
•  Total English book:
  • Page 55, Grammar: Inversion and ex. 8a
  • Page 112, Vocabulary: Cause and effect and ex. 8a-b, 9
• Cause and effect: photocopy
  • “Cause” verbs and their collocation
  • Other “cause” verbs
  • Exercises 70.1 – 70.3

Song: Soft Cell, “Say hello, wave goodbye” Lyrics – Youtube

Two Conditionals re-taught: Unreal – Hypothetical

•  exercises 5 – 6

Exam reading – speaking: “strict new rules should beat the cheat”.  Read the text and be prepare to retell it in your own words. (3 minutes: 2 for retell the text; 1 for give your opinion)

Homework for tuesday:  read text page 5 “Why are we becoming allergic to modern life”, and fill the gaps

 Song: Texas, “In demand” Lyrics –  Youtube

•  Correction 5th level MOCK 2 Exam
• Two conditionals re-taught
  • Open conditionals
  • Alternatives to the word “if”

Song: It… Joan Armatrading Lyrics

Homework for february, 24th: write two compositions  (> 180 words, 1h45m)

• children should learn second (and third, fourth…) languages right from nursery school.

• In Catalonia more and more shopping centres are being built, with a negative effect on the traditional small shops. Advantages and disavantages of the different types of shops and shopping

• You have recently returned from a disastrous package holiday, with problems of all kinds: transport, acommodation, health… You would like compensation: financial or otherwise, as ypu consider that all the problems were due to the company’s negligence. Write a letter of complaint to the company chairman detailing the problems you had, and what you expect now in the way of compensation.

Song: Bruce Springsteen “I wish I were blind” Lyrics

Song: Elvis Costello “It’s time”

• Wish:
• unreal tenses
  • conditionals / I’d rather, I’d sooner / suppose, imagine /  as if, as though / it’s time…

• Song: Gladys Knight & The Pips Lyrics Video youtube

Book Total English:

•  Page 50:
  • 5: grammar “Future probability” (sure to happen, likely to happen, unlikely to happen, impossible)
  • 6: options wich are not possible: 1-opion / 2-hopeless / 3-doubt / 4-chance / 5-hope / 6-doubt / 7-any chance / 8-doubt
• Page 52:
  • 6: Active grammar “future forms review”(present simple, wil, be going to, present continuous, future continuous, future perfect)
  • 7: 1-she’s going to faint / 2-I’ll pick it up / 3-We’re getting married / 4-We’re going to be late / 5-you’ll have retired… / 6-I’m using it – I’m going to use it / 7- we’ll be lying / 8-you’ll be doing…/ 9-we will have finished / 10-starts / 11-I’ll write / 12-they’ll have eaten
  • 8: 1-will still be studying / 2-will have / 3will be living / 4-will have/ 5-will have changed / 6-will have / 7-will have / 8-will have seen

• Song: The supremes and the four tops  I’ll try not to cry Lyrics  (find all the examples of future forms)
• Song:  Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over troubled waters Lyrics Youtube

Next two weeks we’ll review the conditional

Song: The Jam, “Going underground” Lyrics – Video

•  The madman debate A sad story  – The drawbridge

Homework for thursday:

• 5th level MOCK 2 EXAM

• Song: Bruce Springsteen “Human touch” Lyrics Vídeo
• Total English:
  • Page 135: ex. 5 – 6 (Reference page, 143: Modals – Modals of deduction – Uses of would)
  • Page 137 Vocabulary Strong feelings, ex. 11, 12, 13
  • Page 138 Listening “Looking back” ex. 1 – 2 – 3

Homework for thursday: Read text page 136 “So what does it fell like?

• January writing task: two compositions (without dictionnary or grammar book)
  1. “Every time I smell that smell and hear that song, memories come creeping back…
  2. You are the representative of a charity organisation. You are planning an event. You want someone famous to come and appear. Write to that famous person explaining the situation and trying to persuade him / her to come

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