Category Archives: English

December, 18th

Game “scruples”

 In this card game the players have 5 cards with questions about moral problems and an answer card which can be “Yes”, “No”, “Depends”. When it’s your turn, you have to read a question and, depending on the answer you have, you have to decide which player will say “Yes”, “No” or “Depends”. If the answer is the same, you drop your card, but if you are wrong, you take another question card, and change your answer card.

If somebody says “depends”, you can ask him or her on what it depends, or if you don’t believe an answer, you can ask an explanation. Even you can ask the other players to vote if they believe or no the explanation, and depending on the result, you will let your card, or you will change it.

The player who first loses alll the question cards, wins the game.

December, 11th

  • Song: Paul Young “Wherever I lay my hat” Video (Lyrics)
    • Maybe you’ll like this other video. It’s funny
  •  Book Total English.
    • Page 21: grammar, exercise 6; speaking and writing, ex. 7
    • page 22: speaking: ex. 9 – 10 – 11 – 13
    • page 23: Listening, discuss ex 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

December, 4th

  • Lab: video with an interview Parkinson- Sting and Billy Connolly
    • choose the 8 true statements
  • Dictation of numbers without voice: /i:/, /i/
  • Sound  /i:/, /i
    • sheep / ship
    • bean / bin
    • eat / it
    • seat / sit
    • leek / lick
    • cheeks / chicks
  • Video Franco speaks in English

    December, 2nd

    • Song: Peter Gabriel “Don’t give up” Video  Lyrics
    • Photocopy “-ing  / to + infinitive
      • page 11: Guilty secrets of town with blood on its hands
      • page 9: “lawyers”
    • Book “Total English”
      • page 95 Grammar: verbs followed by the infinitive or -ing form
        • mean – remember – regret – stop – try – go on
        • exercises 9, 10
      • page 21 Grammar: verb patterns
        • exercises 4a-b, 5, 6
        • page 22: speaking, ex.9 discuss about “cultural awareness”

    Homework:

    • thursday: read text page 24 “The Internet’s largest encyclopaedia”, and ex. 8-9
    • next week: writing as a discuss “exams are unfair and do not serve any useful purpose” 
      • introduction
      • reasons in favour
      • reasons against
      • conclusion

    November, 27th

    • 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)