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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