Week 5: November 2nd, 2022- Mysterious mysteries after Halloween

 

- We warmed up explaining some of the pics from the long weekend we had in our phones.

- We saw the first three mysteries of the video Top 10 Creepiest Mysteries You've Never Heard of. 

- We told the stories of two short videos: Bite Size Horror The Lake and The Lift.

- We read and identified the titles of some terror film summaries.

- In pairs, we built up a terror story made of clichés.

Homework: do the crossword of creepy words and the grammar exercises of narrative tenses.

Week 28: April 15th, 2020- Easter wall and making requests

- We exchanged opinions and feelings about the coronavirus lockdown. I celebrated your wonderful contributions to the Easter wall.
- We identified structures for making requests in three conversations and completed the gaps with them in their transcripts (see file Speaking Extra 6 in your email inbox).
- You have a pdf file of a reading exercise about a very interesting very British culinary ingredient, Marmite. This is for you to do if you feel like it.
- I'm enclosing very fun TV ads for Marmite for you to enjoy, there're lots of them as it's been a very typical spread for many many years.

- Marmite: First date

- My mate Marmite

- A new jar version: squeezy Marmite.

- A more modern and developed idea: the rescue team.

Homework:

- Apart from the Marmite reading and watching of ads, if you'd like to send me a recording for me to give you feedback on, here I give you an idea: tell me about new habits the confinement is creating in your routine. As an example is my arriving late to videoconferences! and explain a little.

Keep your English fit!

Week 6: October 24th- Moving into unit 2: expression of future with cinema and artistic expression

taken from Pinterest

- We told each other about our imagined ending to Jack's story.
- We corrected the exercise with adverbs in sentences from the story.
- We saw the different components of a good story.
- We practised another way of telling stories with dramatic present (simple present) by telling the jokes we had been given.
- We saw some structures to talk about repetitive actions in the past and practised by talking about our childhoods (used to/ would/ were always -ing)
- We saw and explained to each other two very creepy tv ads:

• Bite Size Horror Snickers Commercial.
• Bite Size Horror Skittles Commercial.

- We saw a quick brush of how to talk about the future, about predictions based on clues and plans (going to/ present continuous)

Homework:

- Complete the exercises of the photocopied handout.

- Do some research about how different countries celebrate Halloween or any celebration of the dead. Those students present in class have already chosen one of these; if you were not here yesterday, choose any and I'll pair you up with a different country: USA, UK, any country of the Commonwealth, Australia, Spain, any country in South America.