Thursday 16 June 2011

Lesson 69 (sixty-nine) - 14/06/2011

And that's all for this year!

Thanks to all the classmates and specially to JD and Nuria!

And congratulations to all of us for our good performance during this year!

Next year there'll be more!

Have a great Summer!

Saturday 11 June 2011

Lesson 68 (sixty-eight) - 09/06/2011

Talked about food and new perspectives for near future!

Tinerfeños rullez! ;)

Friday 3 June 2011

Friday 27 May 2011

Lesson 64 (sixty-four) - 26/05/2011

Multi-lesson where we played something related with TABU...

After it, we tried to discover the meaning of some paintings!

Thursday 26 May 2011

Lesson 63 (sixty-three) - 24/05/2011

In the last lesson we talked a little about dying languages, like Ayapaneco.

We also played TABU!

The homework is the exercises from the Aypaneco text.

Friday 20 May 2011

Lesson 62 (sixty-two) - 19/05/2011

Yesterday we did exercise 2 from page 93 and exercise 3 from page 94.

The homework is the exercise 4 from page 95.

Lesson 61 (sixty-one) - 17/05/2011

In this lesson we did some role-playing.

After it, we worked about a New Zealand text.

The homework is an Intermediate Crosswords.

Monday 16 May 2011

Lesson 60 (sixty) - 12/05/2011

Special lesson about Eurovision with Alex.

Lesson 59 (fifty-nine) - 10/05/2011

In this class we checked the homework.

Then we worked a little with the song "Take on me" by A-HA.

In the end, we watched some stuff about Dragon's Den.

Friday 6 May 2011

Lesson 58 (fifty-eight) - 05/05/2011

Yesterday we analyse the results of our personality tests.

After it, we did some charades!

The homework is the exercises from pages 60 and 61 (workbook), except the Vocabulary.

Lesson 57 (fifty-seven) - 03/05/2011

I missed this lesson and Nuria too... But JD and Jan did some researching about personality tests.

Friday 29 April 2011

Lesson 56 (fifty-six) - 28/04/2011

In the last lesson we did the exercises from "Eureka!" unit (pages 92 and 93)

Then we talked a little about www.profilingforsuccess.com.

Lesson 55 (fifty-five) - 26/04/2011

In the last lesson we did exercises 6b, c, d, e and f from page 87.

After it, we talked a little about other students works.

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Lesson 54 (fifty-four) - 14/04/2011

In the last lesson we did exercises 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d from pages 50 and 51 (workbook).

After it me and Nuria did some role-playing with Jan about a situation at an hotel another one in a jail.

Lesson 53 (fifty-three) - 12/04/2011

In the last lesson we read a text about the segway and after it we did a worksheet about that.

Then we simulated some role-playing about a situation at an hotel.

Lesson 52 (fifty-two) - 07/04/2011

I missed this lesson...

Monday 11 April 2011

Lesson 51 (fifty-one) - 05/04/2011

Today we sang a David Bowie's song - Space Oddity...

And then we checked the homework.

Friday 1 April 2011

Lesson 50 (fifty) - 31/03/2011

Yesterday we talked about job interviews and about the possible questions that we'll have to answer to get the job.

Then we simulated a job interview.

There's no homework.

Wednesday 30 March 2011

Lesson 49 (forty-nine) - 29/03/2011

Yesterday we read the text from page 84.

After it we did exercises 1a and 1d.

The homework is exercises 2a and 2c from page 85.

Saturday 26 March 2011

Lesson 48 (forty-eight) - 24/03/2011

Today we saw several scenes of the film "life of brian", did exercises about listening, comprehension and invented a dialogue.

There's no homework.

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Lesson 47 (forty-seven) - 22/03/2011

Today we talked a little about adverbs and did some games with them.

After, we checked the reading and listening exercises from page 83.

There's no homework.

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Lesson 46 (forty-six) - 17/03/2011

In the last Thursday we did exercises 4a, 4b and 4c from page 64.

Then we checked the grammar an vocabulary exercises from page 82.

The homework is writing an article as explained on the page 65.

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Lesson 45 (forty-five) - 15/03/2011

Today we had a great lesson!

Some intermediate students joined us, we chose Seur as the company and we did some role playing between each other.

After we read a text about a moral problem to discuss.

The homework is vocabulary, grammar and reading exercises from the Unit 5' revision.

Friday 11 March 2011

Lesson 44 (forty-four) - 10/03/2011

Yesterday we did exercises 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d and 4e from pages 78 and 79.

The homework are the exercises from pages 50, 51 and 52 (workbook).

Thursday 3 March 2011

Lesson 43 (forty-three) - 03/03/2011

Today we did exercises 3a and 3b from page 78.

After it, we did some listening with a show of "Fascinating Aida".

There is no homework.

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Lesson 42 (forty-two) - 01/03/2011

Today we did did some exercises about the most important items to survive in the moon!

After we discuss some ideas we would like to have in the future.

The homework is to do a composition just about that, in what we would like to have in the future!

Thank you

Hey!

I want to say thank you to Nuria for the blog's update! I have been sick but today I'll join you again! I have to post the lesson 39, so I move the two Nuria's posts!

See you later!

Lesson 41 (forty-one) - 24/02/2011

In the last thursday we corrected the homework and did exercises 1c and 1d from pages 76 and 77. Furthermore we were talking about jokes.

The homework is traduce Spanish (or Portuguese) jokes, and Jan'll correct our works.

Lesson 40 (forty) - 22/02/2011

In the last tuesday, we red several english jokes. And a homework is traduce Spanish (Portuguese) jokes (doing 2 o 3 jokes if they are short).

In the last class we did exercise 5 from page 74, 1a, 1b from page 76 and 2a from page 77.

Another homework is exercise 2c from page 77.

And, I'm not sure if exercises 1c 1d from page 76 are homework or we will do these exercises in the next class, mmmm, I'm sorry!! :-)

Lesson 39 (thirty-nine) - 17/02/2011

In this lesson we corrected the questions from the page 73 and after we did exercise 4a from page 74.

The homework is try to answer the questions from the exercise 5, page 74.

Lesson 38 (thirty-eight) - 15/02/2011

I missed this lesson. Sorry...

Monday 14 February 2011

Lesson 37 (thirty-seven) - 10/02/2011

In the last thursday, we did exercise 1c from page 72 and red the texts from page 73.

The homework is exercise 3b from page 73.

Lesson 36 (thirty-six) - 08/02/2011

In this lesson we had an exam!

Thursday 10 February 2011

Comparative

Well, as I promised, I posted the rule about the comparative.

Short words (1 syllable) -» er

old -» older
nice -» nicer
slow -» slower
late -» later
cheap -» cheaper
big -» bigger

Long words (2/3/4 syllables) -» more...

careful -» more careful
expensive -» more expensive
polite -» more polite
interesting -» more interesting

Thursday 3 February 2011

Lesson 35 (thirty-five) - 03/02/2011

Today we talked a little about ice breaking and chat up lines.

After it we continued talking about music and then we did exercises 2a, 2b from page 69 and exercises 4a and 4e from page 70.

There is no homework.

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Lesson 34 (thirty-four) - 01/02/2011

Today we corrected the homework and after it we talked a little about music what what kind of feelings the music inspire in us.

Then we did exercise 1c from page 68.

There is no homework.

Lesson 33 (thirty-three) - 27/01/2011

In the last lesson we did a little role-playing about the english nights!

After it we did Pronunciation a) exercise from page 66.

The homework are all the exercises from the pages 66 and 67.

Tuesday 25 January 2011

Lesson 32 (thirty-two) - 25/01/2011

Today we did exercise 5b from page 62 and read the text from page 63.

The homework is prepare a little explanation about a character from the movie we picked.

Thursday 20 January 2011

Lesson 31 (thirty-one) - 20/01/2011

Yesterday we made a little discussion with two teams.

And the subject was the independence of Catalunya and País Vasco!

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Lesson 30 (thirty) - 18/01/2011

Today we did exercise 3c from page 62.

After we played a little game about body language vocabulary with some idioms.

Jan told me to put in the blog the next class subject's: bullfighting

Friday 14 January 2011

Lesson 29 (twenty-nine) - 13/01/2011

Yesterday we did exercises 3a and 3b from page 57.

After we did exercise 1a, 1e and 1g from pages 60 and 61.

The homework is prepare a little presentation about smoking to show to the class in a couple of minutes.

Wednesday 12 January 2011

Lesson 28 (twenty-eight) - 11/01/2011

Yesterday we talked a little about the holidays.

After it we did exercises 1a and 1d from the page 56.

The homework is 2c from page 56 and 3b from page 57.

Sunday 2 January 2011

Lesson 27 (twenty-seven) - 21/12/2010

Well, I forgot to post the last lesson before Christmas... On that day, the "survivors" that came to the class ate a delicious portuguese "bolo rei"... Shame on the people who missed this event...!

Happy 2011!