• Song: Elvis Costello “I stand accused” (Get happy) Video  Lyrics
• Vocabulary “Crime and punishment” (photocopy)
• grammar.-ing /to. -photocopies  25-november, page 8-
  • exercise “Put the verbs in brackets…
• Game: play the roles of a judge, a lawyer for the defence, a lawyer for the prosecutions, and the accused

Homework:

Grammar -ing / to, page 11 text “Guilty secrets of town with blood on its hands” (in 20 minutes)

Grammar: -ing / to

• Graffiti
• -ing form or infinitive, that is the question

Song: Joe Cocker “One night of sin” Video Lyrics

I should have come, but in the end I couldn’t. So, if anybody can help…

Thank you!

(I wasn’t there! Can anybody write a comment with the content of the class?)

Book, page 91

• Grammar, relative clauses: exercises 4 – 5

• Song: Ian Dury “Sex, drugs and rock and roll”   – Lyrics

• Book Total English
  •  Unit 3.3, page 42, Vocabulary 8; Listening 10 a-b; Speaking 11a-b
• Video “Beyond a joke”, and activity on photocopy
• Book
  • Unit 7.7, page 90, Reading: text “How watching animals will save us…and how rats will rescue us”Ex. 1-2-3

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Thank you, Montse!!

• Song: Backstreets. Bruce Springsteen  – Video   Lyrics

Total English:

• Page 38. Reading. Exercise 6.
• Page 39. Grammar. Compound words.
  • 8.Explanations 1,2,3.
  • 9.Ex.a.
  • 10.Person to person.Ex.a,b.
• Page 40. Reading.
  • 1.Discuss.
  • 2.Read about Groucho Marx.
• Page 41. Grammar. Participle clauses/ gerunds
  • 5.Explanations 1,2,3,4.
  • 6.Correct the mistakes

And the end of class we saw the scene of the wedding of the film Four weddings and a funeral.

Homework for next Tuesday:

Total English. Page 39. Speaking and writing. Ex. 11.

Have a nice weekend!

Ah! John encouraged us to revise past participles

• Song: Janis Ian Seventeen  Video (Lyrics)
• Speaking (book Total English, page 35, ex 7a) : prepare to tell a story about something that has happened in your life, eg. a time you were cheated / got into trouble / did something funny / learned an important lesson / made a silly mistake…
• Speaking (book Total English, page 37, ex.1): think about three books and three songs you would take to a desert island
  • Discuss and choice one book and one song in each group
  • In our group we choose a “Survival handbook”, and “Don’t worry, be happy”
  • Exercice 2 a-b-3
• Listening (book, page 37, ex. 4 a-b). Fictional characters
  •  Philip Marlowe, the detective created by Raymond Chandler
  • Elisabeth Bennet, the heroine of Janet Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
  • the old man from “The Old Man and the Sea by  Ernest Hemingway

• Song: Donovan “Universal soldier” Video   Lyrics

Homework: composition.

• “I  could see by the smile on her face …” Finish the composition

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Song: The weakness in me Video  – Lyrics

• Game: “The choice is yours”. In pairs, each student has 6 questions, different from their partner’s questions. You have to guess your partner’s answers and compare them with yours.
• Game: The first player says a word, and the next player has to say another word starting with the last letter of the first player’s word

That day I couldn’t go to class, but, after asking a classmate, I was said the next exercices and activities were done.

Total English book:

• Page 34. Text “Hoaxes that fooled the world”
• Page 35: Grammar 4-5
• Page 36: Vocabulary, synonims 8-9-10

Homework for the next tuesday: page 35, Speaking 7

If somebody is reading this blog and went that day to class: could you send me a comment if you did something more, or these activities aren’t right?

• Song: Eagles “Hotel California” Video – (Lyrics)

• Book Total English
  • Page 15: prefixes, exercices 1 a-b-c-d / 2
  • Page 33: Lead-in, 1 / 2 a-b / 3 / 4
• Homework: read text page 34

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