NEXT MEETING!!!

Let's celebrate together again!!!

When? Saturday, 23rd November

Where? At Feli's farm in Pellegrini

What time? Lunch time

Note: This meeting can be rescheduled for the following Saturday

 if Nora cannot go.

          We keep in touch through mail;)

LUISA's Birthday & End-of-ALL Seniors-Course Celebration!!!

NEXT MEETING!!!!

On Tuesday, 29th October

at about 8pm

we'll meet at 

Caminos del Vino

to celebrate:

1. Luisa's birthday

2. Maryella's welcome 

3. End of ALL Seniors course

SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!!

The American girl is here!!!!!!

I hope you can ALL come tonight 

and meet Maryella!!! 

She is the new 

Language and Culture facilitator at LH!!!

 A lovely lady from California

 you would love to speak with....

Password:

"Live HIGH!!!
Let's go to Feli's farm!" 

by Jason Mraz

B&B:

• Solve the test without looking at the manual.

SOUND Focus:

•Diphthongs

•Homophones

•Weak and strong forms

•Assimilation

•Elision

•Omission of /h/

•Linking /r/

Intrusive /r/

VOCABULARY Focus:

•NOUNS

•ADJECTIVES

•VERBS

•ADVERBS

•PREPOSITIONS

• PRONOUNS

GRAMMAR Revision!

•Present Tenses

•Past Tenses

•Future Tenses

•Relative Clauses

•Modal Verbs

•Passive Voice

•Conditional Sentences

•Causative HAVE sth. DONE

SONG

Password:

"I will be.....................

this time next year"

B&B for the last class:

• Read Act 8.
• Solve activities 3 and 5 on page 42 of the manual.
• Dress up for a Latin Club experience next class:)

SOUND Focus:

  LINKING R

In BrE a final -R is silent, because it is not followed by a vowel, so TEACHER is pronounced /ti:tʃə/. 

But if that word is followed by another word that begins with a vowel, then the R is followed by a vowel and so, it is pronounced:

He's the new teacher of maths  now, the final -R in TEACHER is pronounced 

"teacherofmaths": /hi:z ðə nju: ti:tʃər əv mæθs/

This final R that joins one word with the next is called a "linking R".

  INTRUSIVE R

In Brititsh English, words ending in R sometimes pronounce it (linking R) and sometimes don't pronounce it. 

From a native's point of view, there are words that end in a vowel but when the next word begins with a vowel they use an / r / to join both words. Then, it is only natural that sometimes they use a "linking R" in the wrong place. We call that an "intrusive R", and it happens a lot in BrE. 

A book about Africa and America  many British people will pronounce this "africarandamerica"

VOCABULARY Focus:

partner
jelous
atrium/porch
black mailing
to slide
traffic calming bumps
bumpy
parking lot
omen
to give sb a ride
to chase someone
to knock over
beggar
honeymoon

SONG:

PASSWORD:

"It takes two to tango"

B&B for next class:

•       Write down a conversation between two friends at a Irish PUB. 

                 Option a: They are talking about closing pubs at 11. One is against and the other is in favour of this topic.

                 Option b:They are talking about having tatoos and piercings done. One is against and the other is in favour of this topic.

                  Option c: They are talking about sending mails. One is against and the other is in favour of this topic.

•  Listen and read ACT 8 and underline new words
•  Solve activities on page 41 of the manual.

SOUND Focus:

1. Short sounds

Unstresssed syllable of words starting with schwa are very short, weak and difficult to hear:  

Examples: 

alone/ alive/ aware.

Don’t you get lonely in that big house?

No, I like living…alone…

Is the bank near here?

Yes, it’s…about…five minutes…away…….

 b. Elision of /h/ sounds 

     /h/ is sometimes not pronounced. 

Examples:

 Does he like it?

 I used to love her but I had to kill her.

              

VOCABULARY Focus 1:

VOCABULARY Focus 2:

1. Features of non-verbal communication:

2. Words related to technology:

3. Things you can have done on/to your body:

1. distance, orientation, posture and body language, physical contact, facial expressions, gestures, clothing, eye-contact.

2. high-tech, technologist, techie, OS operating system; quantum physics, AI artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, IT information technology, techno babble = talk.

3. to get a chip implanted, to have a weigh lose surgery or gastric bypass, to have your blood tested, to have a facelift or neck lift, to have a breast reduction, to have liposuction, to have a tummy tuck, to have a body contoured, to get anti aging treatment on your skin, to get your hair removed with laser.

SONG

PASSWORD:

" Those who wish to sing 

always find a song "

B&B for Tuesday 24th September

• Complete Activities 3 and 5 on page 38 in the manual.
• Bring a small bottle of beer/sth to eat for next class snack:

          Felicitas: stout
          Mariela: lager
          Luisa: promised "Garotos"
          Nora: ale
          Haydee: sth to eat
          Ana: ale
          Sergio: bock
          Santi: stout

GRAMMAR Focus:

Have something done

If you 'have something done', you get somebody else to do something for you.

• I'm going to have my hair cut.
• She's having her house redecorated.
• I'm having a copy of the report sent to you

In informal English, we can replace 'have' by 'get'.

• We're getting a new telephone system installed.
• They will be getting the system repaired as quickly as they can.
• I got the bill sent direct to the company.

Exercises:
http://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_09_012e?cc=ar&selLanguage=en

SOUND Focus:

ELISION:/ɪˈlɪʒn/

Elision is the omission of one or more sounds (such as 

a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.

When /t/ and /d/ comes in between two consonants, they are elided or removed.

Examples:

old man

gold ring

and church

most famous

hand bag

VOCABULARY Focus:

• maid
• iron
• make up
• hidden
• asap

Most popular TYPES of BEER:

 ALE:  /eɪl/

·    Pale ale: Light and bitter.

·    Brown ale: dark and bitter.

·    Stout: bark bitter, slightly creamy.

·    Porter: dark, made from heavy roasted malt.

LAGER:  /ˈlɑː.ɡə/

·    Pale lager: contains lots of bubbles.

·    Bock: sweet and dark.

·    Dunkel: dark amber in colour.

·    Marzen: full bodied, rich, dark copper colour

       Beers can be:

·      Mild: soft taste

·      Bitter: Strong taste

·      Special: Strong and thick

·      Shandy: mixed with lemonade, ginger ale or fizzy drink.

CAMDEN TOWN

Password for next class:

" I wish I could

 have my ears pierced

   tonight " Laura

B&B:

• Solve page 37 in the manual.
• Choose 5 words from Vocabulary Focus and invent sentences with them.

SOUND Focus:

MORE ASSIMILATION cases:

1.  /d/ can change to /g/   good girl  

2.  /v/ can change to /f/    have to go 

    Examples:

1. mad goat   /mæg ɡəʊt/ 

2. fave taste / feif teist/

VOCABULARY Focus:

      IN ACT 7:

To look forward

Get through

Bargain

Farewell party

Dearly

Grateful

Put somebody through

Hug

Pierce

Encouraging

Log in

Piece of cake

Icon

Handwriting

Cute

    In Class:

posh 

receiver

ivory

taxido

reveal

grumpy

tongue twister

tools

fancy dress party

fave /feiv/

SONG:

PASSWORD:

There are three classes of people:

 those who see,

those who see when they are shown, 

those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci

B&B:

A. Place the expressions under the correct headline:

At the hostel:        At the museum:        In the street:

  Where is the Picasso exhibit?    How much does it cost per night?    Do you mind telling me the way to the National Gallery? Can you smoke in the room?   Is there a museum near here?     Do you have any free rooms?   How far is the Art gallery from here?  The audio guide will tell you about the school of painters.    Is this a portrait or a self-portrait of the artist?

         

B. Prepare a short conversation about one of the following situations:

1. Santi and a tourist information officer: complaining about the hostel

2. Police officer and Marco: Asking for directions to get to the museum

3. Laura and a French guy: Romantic dialogue at the river bank.

4. Julie phones to a hostel to make reservations to stay there for three nights.

OPTIONAL B&B:

• CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/conditional-sentences-3

• PASSIVE VOICE:

http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/passive/exercise2.swf

SOUND Focus 1

SOUND Focus 2

VOCABULARY Revision:

strength

tepee

breast: east and west

jargon

dialect

doubt

magnifying glass

eraser

vibes

sparrow

parrrot

chain

SONG:

Password:

 "A picture is worth a thousand words" 

B&B:

• Listen to the song included in Milka advertisement: "Bubbles of Tenderness" and write down its lyrics.

             http://youtu.be/Z-FFcQfxpKA

• Complete activity 3 on page 33 of the manual.
• Complete extra copy on HOTELS ( activity 88.2)

SOUND Focus:

Assimilation in Connected Speech

Assimilation is a process where sounds in separate words change when they are put together in speech. One way this happens is by the first sound changing to be more similar to the second.
  /t/ becomes /p/
  /d/ becomes /b/          when followed by /m/ /b/ or /p/
  /n/ becomes /m/

The phrase 'white bag' becomes 'wipe bag' when it is said.

The expression Great Britain becomes Greapbritn.

The phrase blood pressure becomes bloob pressure

The phrase brown bag becomes browm bag.

The phrase en pesos becomes em pesos.

Complete the sentennces with one word and practise them orally:

begin  felt  need  third  might  clean  rained  want  thin

1. We ……….meet him again.

2. Please, …..……my shoes for me.

3. I …………bad after the party.

4. It ………..… before we got back.

5. I ……..….Peter to come.

6. We …………..more milk.

7. This ………….blanket isn’t warm enough.

8. The ………….problem’s difficult.

9. I’ll…………..painting the house tomorrow.

VOCABULARY Focus:

Types of Accomodation:

a terraced house a semi-detached house a block of flats a cottage a farmhouse           a villa a skyscraper a palace a castle a bungalow               a tent a caravan an igloo

a terraced house à a house next to an other house a semi-detached house à a house that is attached to another house on one side a cottage à a small house in the country a bedsit à a flat with one main room and no separate bedroom

SONG:

PASSWORD:

“If you don’t stand for something,

 then you’ll fall for everything”

B&B for next class:

• Listen to ACT 6 looking at the memory map.
• Complete activities 2 and 3 onpages 32 and 33 of the manual.

SOUND Focus:

GRAMMAR Focus 1:

Passive Voice:

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My bike was stolen.

In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows:

Example: A mistake was made.

In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame anyone (e.g. You have made a mistake.).

Tense		Subject	Verb	Object
Simple Present	Active:	Rita	writes	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	is written	by Rita.
Simple Past	Active:	Rita	wrote	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	was written	by Rita.
Present Perfect	Active:	Rita	has written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	has been written	by Rita.
Future I	Active:	Rita	will write	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	will be written	by Rita.

GRAMMAR Focus 2:

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:

Conditional Sentence Type 1

→ It is possible and also very likely that the condition will be fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Present, will-Future

Example: If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 2

→ It is possible but very unlikely, that the condition will be fulfilled.

Form: if + Simple Past, Conditional I (= would + Infinitive)

Example: If I found her address, I would send her an invitation.

Conditional Sentence Type 3

→ It is impossible that the condition will be fulfilled because it refers to the past.

Form: if + Past Perfect, Conditional II (= would + have + Past Participle)

Example: If I had found her address, I would have sent her an invitation.

VOCABULARY Focus:

SONG:

PASSWORD:

“ Adieu! Bon Voyage!!!!Bring me a petit eau de toilette as souvenir from Paris so I’m à la mode !" 

B&B for next class:

• Read ACT 6 and take out new words.
• Listen to Act 6 and follow the memory map at the back of the manual.
• Complete Activity 1 on page 32 of the manual.
• How are the following words related to the act? 

          a light bulb, two dogs, Leonardo Di Caprio,

      The Sunflowers by Van Gogh and The Eiffel Tower.

SOUND Focus: Strong vs Weak Forms

VOCABULARY Focus

FOOTBALL: send off, save, head, shoot, obstruction, penalty spot, tackle, linesman, throw in, dribble, corner, goalie

TENNIS: set, service, drive, lob, deuce, smash, double fault, tie-break, net, umpire, ace

BASKETBALL: dodge, dunk or slam dunk, jump shot or jumper, backboard.

PASSWORD:

" The measure of a good goal is how determined you’re to meet it" 

B&B for next class:

• Listen and read ACT 5
• Bring information about a famous sports personality
• Discover the diphthongs in the homophones ( Look at Sound Focus below!)