Week 3: October 19th, 2022- Telling stories

 

- We exchanged in pairs the telling of the three jokes we had prepared.

- Here we have a video on Dramatic present, if you want to know more.
- Revision of the dictation activity we did the last class.

- Some of you told us about BBC news you had listened to.

- We did a reading and listening exercise on a Holiday Story. It gave us ideas to organise and give interest to any story.

Homework:

- I gave you a handout on vocabulary related to stories and telling stories.

- You are going to choose a story or anecdote to tell your partners, with a beginning, a middle/development and an ending. Don't write it out but have some notes prepared instead.

- You got a Halloween card to do some research about how that words connects to the celebration of Halloween.

IMPORTANT!!!

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- Please have with you the handouts I gave you. We'll be using them.

Week 2: 5th October, 2022- Revising verb tenses for narration

- We got to know each other a little bit by drawing the information in a circle.
- We exchanged information about our hobbies.

- We saw a short film about learning a language and discussed our best learning strategies.

- We did a speaking exercise to revise the verb system.

- We started the dictation of a story about neighbours.

Homework:

- Record and send a bit of the photocopy I gave you. You can use Vocaroo and send it to gema.mazon@educa.madrid.org

- Prepare the telling of a joke I gave you. Remember: use dramatic present!!

Here you have the photocopy for the recording and the jokes: choose one of the boxes of the reading and a joke.