lunes, 28 de octubre de 2013

There is a new student in this group, WELCOME Jose Carlos.

The new vowel sound for the week is /I/: remember words like: sit, in, pick, ship, bit, women (both vowel sounds), hill, building (both vowel sounds), village, manage.

Students: you should practice at home. Remember you can listen to many words clicking on the little loudspeaker in the Oxford online dictionary. Listn and repeat, listen and repeat.

After practicing that sound students read homework.

We were practicing relative clauses, so students had to complete sentences like It would be fun to go out with a person who.... (Example: who is fun of hiking ).

We learned some adjectives to describe personalities: easygoing, independent, modest, moody, opinionated, sociable, stingy, unreliable. We were defining those adjectives.

Students had to fill in the questions for an interview and then listen to the interview itself and find out the actual questions that were asked. In this occasion it was British accent.

Homework
Tell us of someone we could say that he/she is one of those adjectives and explain why, give an example of his or her behavior to prove it.
And since we don´t have a class this week, you can use your time to read the story of Lucy, the clown doctor and make a summary of it. Also, you might write 3 questions about the text.

lunes, 21 de octubre de 2013

In our last lesson we were practicing the vowel sound /3ːl/ : some words that have this sound are: world, word, girl, bird, urge, third, nurse. 

We also listened to John Something talk about his wonderful job as a paper boy. We all agreed that his was a better life than most people´s. He had an American accent so his te sound was hardly noticeable. 

We started with the topic That´s what friends are for and learned what surveys show men and women usually look for in a partner. Students read a dialogue and were practicing it. New words are: arrange, a record aof achievement, leadership qualities, selflessness, playfulness. 

For homework, remember tu match the sentences in column A of Ex. A with the most appropriate relative clause in column B.