Week 30: April 29th, 2020- Vocabulary, Obama, humour and music

- Another day in a hellish technical failure but, well, we warmed up by talking about space austerity and how it may affect us, from the file in the last entry.
- We then had a look and revised adjectives to describe attitude and practised the pronunciation of spelling "th". It's in today's handout.
- We then saw a video in which Barack Obama, back in 2014, explained the need to organise the fight against future pandemics, a visionary. We revised some vocabulary and structures from it.
- We also had a look at some, pretty bad, jokes in English that played with double meanings and pronunciation.
    - The previous exercise reminded me of a Mark Knopfler song in which a knight sang a song for his lady, how he met her, fought for her and finally got her. A Night in Summer Long Ago. It's such a beautiful song. I wanted to have talked about it a bit more but it really was impossible. I hope you can enjoy it some other time.

Homework:
- I have seen this link on the positive side of the coronavirus outbreak, it would be great if you could read some part of it and tell us about what you've read.
- I'm also enclosing another reading just in case you want to do it, it's on fitness. Here you have the key for the exercises.

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.