Week 26: March 27th, 2019- Film credits and more

- We remembered and talked about the 25th Anniversary Party and how The Efficient Florist did really well and came Second Finalist. All the cast got a prize!!
- We listened to Arancha's really interesting presentation on film credits and how they have developed through time.
- We saw the TED website and how it contains loads of interesting presentations.
- We had a look at Matt Cutts's Try Something New for 30 days. We looked for structure and communication strategies and completed the gapped transcript.

Homework:
- We'll be having a look at the ellipsis handout because there were two exercises as old homework.
- We're going to have a lesson on SPRING, the new season, so I would like you to choose one of these topics, read a little and be ready to tell your classmates, in pairs, about it. You can choose from the following list:
- Spring weather
- Spring flowers
- Spring traditions
- Spring myths
- Spring allergies
- Spring holidays
- Spring equinox
- Spring film releases (this year's)
- Spring sales
- Spring events (anywhere)
- Spring politics (you choose)
- Spring food

Week 25: March 20th- 25 Anniversary Celebration

Last Wednesday instead of our class we had the party for the 25th Anniversary of the school.

The cast of The Efficient Florist performed beautifully and came Second finalist!!

We had also danced Scottish dances with Francesca Di Mambro and enjoyed some songs and anecdotes by lovely singer Conchita.

Have a look at a video of the day.

Week 24: March 13th- Córdoba and finally... we finished with ellipsis!

National Geographic

- On this day we started by revising the photocopy about the use of "the" that you had received as previous homework. We corrected the exercises and revised the use of it when we are talking about things in general.
- I gave you a handout with an explanation and two exercises of verbs LIE and LAY to practise after my confusion in the last class.
- We listened to and asked quite a few questions to Antonio about his excellent presentation on his hometown, Córdoba.
- We revised the use of the ellipsis after connectors and auxiliaries that we had already seen and checked the use of ellipsis with "not" and "so".
- We practised ellipsis with an exercise with two very different paragraphs.

Homework:
- We have to do the rest of the exercises of the photocopy on the practice of ellipsis and we had to come to March 20th's Anniversary Party!!
- We also have to complete the two exercises of the photocopy LIE/LAY

Week 23: March 6th, 2019- Malaysia!!

Malaysia-hotels.net

- We saw a little bit about the English File advanced web, if you want to practise some easier grammar you can have a look at the Upper-Intermediate web or even the Intermediate Plus one.
- We had Rubén's presentation on Malaysia!! A very complete view on the country, food, people, cities and nature together with the wierdest aspects he had encountered.
- We didn't have time to complete the ellipsis photocopy!!
- When I went to the library the day after our class the words on the whiteboard hadn't been cleaned yet and I realised I had made a mistake when writing one of the three verbs Arancha had asked about (lie- lay- lain)!! It's a terrible thing because I might be confusing you forever so I'm working on a handout to try to undo the disaster.
- We talked briefly about the sounds Spanish native speakers usually have problems with when speaking English. we tried to guess some German native speakers may have and we checked it with the video We're sinking.

Week 22: February 27th, 2019- Large Hadron Collider

fermilabs news

- We revised vocabulary and structures we had seen in the previous day's videos.
- We listened to Alex's presentation on his experience living and working in Switzerland.
- We made questions about his presentation and saw:
- A video from The Big Bang Theory that mentions a visit to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and completed the five gapped questions. We also read its transcript.
- We did a pronunciation exercise on vowel sounds.

- We tried to work out the lyrics and overall meaning of the winner of this year's Academy Award to the best original song, Shallow.
- We tried to sing!!

Homework:
- Have a look at the Stress Monster, from English File and practise s little.
- You can also practise speculation and deduction with the same site.
- And future plans and arrangements.

Week 21: February 20th, 2019- Solar power!

freepik

- We decided to stage a short theatre play for the anniversary party talent show!!
- We saw how to practise vocabulary and listening with BBC's 6 Minute English.
- We answered some questions on a video on solar power, Solar Is Growing Way Faster than Predicted.
- We also completed the gaps of a video on Smart Energy.
- We practised discussion language on controversial topics about animals.

Homework:
- Have another look at the two videos that we worked with in class and find:
     1. Ten words you know, you never use but would like to.
     2. Five structures, groups of words, ways of saying things that, again, you understand, you never use but would like to start using.
- If you want to practise more language, you can have a look at English File Advanced website, which is the textbook I'm using a lot when preparing your lessons.

Week 20: February 13th, 2019- Presentations

American Pest Control

- We saw the option to practise interactive speaking exercises in Talk English.
- I told you my positive piece of news about honeybees, butterflies and bumblebees (that's why the photo) that I took from Good News Network.
- Some classmates told us about good news that they had read about.
- We did a listening comprehension about becoming a vegetarian.
- We saw the structure of a presentation for us to do our presentations.
- We saw how we cut up chunks of language when practising pronunciation, just as Phoebe does with Joey in a hilarious video we saw at the end of the class.

Homework:
- We have a card and instructions to record a short presentation of your ideas on the hypothesis around the card.
- You can also prepare your ideas for a presentation on a hobby or something you like or know a lot about. Tell me when you'd like to do the presentation, so that we don't have some together on the same day.