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

Dossier

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

Dossier October, 4th

No class

• TV report about the best 100 films between 1960 and 2000
  • Films considered the greatest ever
  • AFI’s (American Film Institute) 100 movies
  • The best asian films of all times

• Song: Verdi cries (Natalie Merchant) Video – Lyrics
• Homophones
• Ways of walking
• Body movements
• Book “Total English”
• • Exercise 4 “Who did it first?” (page 10), and exercise 8 (page 11)
• Dossier

Learn English by watching videos at “yappr.com”

• Boomtown rats, Bob Geldorf 1979   Video –Youtube – Lyrics This  song song was  inspired in a real fact
• Ways of looking
  • frown – stare – peep – wink – glance – blink – peer – glare – gaze – glimpse
  • “Peeping Tom”, the legeng
• Homonyms: homophones and homographs
• Passive voice: “problem areas” and some grammar rules
• dossier

Writing exercise: write a formal letter claiming the rights of a member of your family or an acquaintance who was imprisoned during the Spanish civil war.  Narrate what happened (use as many passives, inversions, etc. as possible), and state exactly what you are claiming: money, a pension, public admitttance of lack of guilt….)

• Song:   Lloyd Cole and the commotions: Grace Video – Lyrics
• Exercise: “Human sounds”
• Personality test: “How moral are you?”
• Adjectives: use four adjectives to describe
  • your favourite colour
  • your favourite animal
  • an empty room
  • your favourite body water (sea, lake, river, ocean…)
• Dossier October, 16th