Year 1: Exam Calendar

1st year

Year 4: Exam Calender

4th year

Year 1: Homework

Composition: My Daily Routine

Write a composition about the things you do on a typical Monday or Wednesday.
Remember to use the vocabulary of daily routine on page 147, adverbs of frequency and the time.
Deadline: Monday, 25 January

Year 4: Homework

Shopping in Sales

Year 4: Vocabulary of clothes and fashion

Did you do the exercises on page 148?
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Click here if you need to revise the vocabulary of clothes and fashion

How do you say 2010?

Happy 2010!

Some people refer to the new year as "two thousand and ten," and other people refer to the new year as "twenty-ten." In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll 69% responded "two thousand and ten," with 29% choosing "twenty ten." CNN affiliate WCAX hit the streets for an unscientific poll. How about you? Are you more likely to say "two thousand and ten" or "twenty ten?

The following video may help you make up your mind

How did you get on your exams?

YEAR 1

Group A

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Group B

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YEAR4

Group A

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Group B

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Year 1: Speaking test

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Check Your Progress 2

Check Your Progress 2

Year 4: Check your progress 2

Did you do the exercises on page 37?

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Christmas party at the school

Remember that on December 22 we're having a Christmas party at 18.30.

Come along and enjoy a karaoke evening, taste our popular Christmas desserts and have fun singing Jingle Bells with other students. If you still don't know the lyrics, click here and have a look at the lyrics of the best known Christmas Carols or watch this video:

See you around.

Year 1: summary of the classes

Monday 30 November

- We corrected exercises on the possessive s p.125

- Students learnt the vocabulary of the family, p.145

- Pronunciation practice, p.23

-Listening practice, p.23

- Remember that for the Writing Test you'll have to write something similar to the e-mail that you have on page 26

Wednesday 2 December

-Practical English 2: At a hotel, p.24

- We corrected exercises in the Revise and check section, pages 26-27

-At Carina's time students practised the vocabulary of family and jobs

Are you still having problems with the possessive s ? Click here if you need some more practice for the exam.

Year 4: Test Dates

Here you are the test dates for this term:

-Writing and Reading: Thursday 10 December

-Listening and Use of English: Tuesday 15 December

- Speaking: Thursday 17 December

Year 4: Summary of the classes

Week of November 24-26, 2009

-SS did revision exercises on future forms, section 5 p.22.

-SS went through an e-mail and checked it for spelling mistakes, p. 31. Then I checked their answers and we read some rules for spelling on page 141.

-SS extended and revised their knowledge of the vocabulary of computer and science doing the Science and computers quiz, p.31 and the exercises on page 131.

- Listening practice: SS listened to part of a science-fiction story, p. 28

- Julia talked us about the history of Thanksgiving day and explained the way Americans celebrated this holiday.

- Pronunciation practice: the letter y, p. 31

- We started File 2C, entitled Hooked on Caffeine, and worked on sections 1 and 2, p.32.

- HOMEWORK

Group A: Check your punctuation section, p.141

Group B: You have to read the text Confessions of a Coffee addict, p.33

Year 1: Test Dates

Here you are the test dates for this term:

-Writing and Reading: Wednesday 9 December

- Listening and Use of English: Monday 14 December

-Speaking: Wednesday 16 December

Good Luck!!

Year 1: Summary of the week

Monday, 23 and Wednesday, 25 November

-We finished File 2C.

-Julia talked us about Thansgiving day, which is celebrated on the last Thursday of November.

-We corrected exercises on a/an, this/these, that/those c.143

-We started File 2D and studied the possessive s, p. 22 and 124.

-Group B only: Students learnt family vocabulary and started compliting two family trees, p.145.

-HOMEWORK

Group A: section 2D, exercise b, p.125

Group B: section 2D, exercises a and b, p.125

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Year 4: Summary of the class

-Last Thursday SS gave in their homework, p.21. Then, we corrected exercises on page 23 and went through the differences between first and second conditionals, Section 5, p. 25.

-You have to read the text 10 things you probably never knew about the common cold for homework. Try to guess any new words from the context or look them up in a dictionary, if however you don't comprehend the text, let me know on Tuesday.

-(Group A only) At Julia's time we were reading the article Unhealthy America by Nicholas D. Kristof, who revealed how precarious America's health care system was.

- SS listened to four people talking about alternative medicine, p. 26

-(Group B only) We went through linkers and connectors and SS completed text 2 on page 142.

HOMEWORK: (Group B only) Write a for and against composition entitled What are the advantages and disadvantages of the public health service in Spain? (instructions p. 26). Remember you have to use as many connectors as possible and the vocabulary of health and medicine.

Deadline: Thursday 19 November (If you aren't coming to class, you can send me your compositions to my e-mail address)

Year1: Summary of the class

Wednesday 11 November

Grammar:

-We corrected exercises on page 143.

-We studied and revise present simple in questions. Then students did exercises 2B A and B, p.125. If you're still having problems with the present simple, watch the following video and do these exercises:

Pronunciation practice:

- We listened to some consonant sounds and, p. 17.

Speaking practice:

At Carina's time, students practised the present simple in positive and negative sentences by describing two brothers, copy p. 189.

Listening practice: Students listened to conversation on page 18 (file 2B).

Writing practice:

-Completing a form

Homework for next Wednesday:

Write a short composition about you (instructions p. 13)

Year 1: Summary of the class

- Last Monday we were reading the text Typically British? on p.16

-We studied the present simple in possitive and negative sentences. Then, students did exercises A and B, p.125.

-At Julia's time, students completed the form A typical _____family choosing the words that fitted a typical Spanish family best, p. 17. Then Julia told us what things were the same/different in a typical American family.

-Homework:

Vocabulary Bank Verb phrases on p.143

Year 4: specially /especially

Are you still having problems with these adverbs? The following sites may help you distinguish these confusing adverbs:

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000287.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv265.shtml