Monthly Archives: febrer 2009

February, 19th and 24th

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

February 5th

Song: Soft Cell, “Say hello, wave goodbye” LyricsYoutube

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

February, 3rd

 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.