Saturday, April 27, 2013

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

 " Six Abroad" manuals and CDs 
for students are at Lingual Home!!
Pass by whenever you want to fetch them:)

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

PASSWORD:

They should guess the weight of that cake
 or take a day’s rest.

B&B:


  • Listen to "About Us" and ACT 1 and follow the manual.
  • Choose six NEW words and write down personal sentences including them.
  • Complete Activity 1 and 2 of the manual.

SOUND FOCUS: /ei /


  • jade
  • jail
  • wraith
  • raid
  • race
  • nape
  • rage
  • faith

VOCABULARY Focus:


tricky

adjective (DISHONEST)
 
 
 /ˈtrɪk.i/
likely to deceive people:
He's a tricky character, that one.

disguiseverb [T] 
 
 
/dɪsˈɡaɪz/
to give a new appearance to a person or thing, especially in order to hide its true form:
He disguised himself by wearing a false beard.

SONG:

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

PASSWORD for next class:

When there is a will,
 there is a way.

B&B:


  • Read About Us & Act 1
  • Find words and expressions that correspond to these definitions:
  1. extremely pleased 
  2. to cause physical or mental pain, or trouble, to someone or something
  3.  to finally understand something or someone, or find the solution to a problem after a lot of thought
  4. to take sth quickly and keep or hold it: You can seize somebody’s arm or you can seize the chance/opportunity of a free flight.
  5. to finally agree to what someone wants, after refusing for a period of time
  6.  to take the place of something lost or damaged or to compensate for something bad with something good
  7. to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous, or be rude or silly enough to do something that you have no right to do
  8. bored, annoyed, or disappointed, especially by something that you have experienced for too long
  9. to criticize or complain often in an annoying way
  10. a friend
  11. an expression of usually slight anger or surprise, or a way of adding force to a statement, question, etc
  12. to push someone rudely with your elbows so that you can move or have more space:

  • Solve page 11 of the manual

Optional B&B:


VOCABULARY Focus:


  • squint: a condition caused by weakness of the eye muscles that makes the eyes look in different directions from each other
  • a crossed-eyed woman
  • myopia: /maɪˈəʊ.pi.ə/
  • to WEAR clothes
  • Goldilocks
  • blonde hair
  • fair hair
  • dyed hair
  • good-looking
  • attactive
  • handsome
  • smart
  • savoury/salty
  • I'm able to...
  • desert/ dessert
  • Pasties:a piece of food mady of pastry filled with meat, vegetables or cheese.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

PASSWORD:

"Everyone must row with the oars he has
to get to the coast he wants"

B&B:


  • Read the photocopy " About Us" and underline new words and expressions.
  • Memory game: Answer the following questions:
  1. What colour hair has Julie got?
  2. What eye characteristic has she got?
  3. She has got four things in her bag: What are they?
  4. What dilemma has she got at the moment?
  5. How do you think she would solve it?

Optional B&B:

six abroad first page

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

VOCABULARY Focus


  • Peek-a-boo!
  • You got it!
  • plums and prunes
  • cinnamon
  • To be the black sheep of the family
  • To be at the bottom of something: to be the real cause of something. Example: The desire for money is at the bottom of much of the violence in the world.
  • bottom of the barrel and bottom of the heap
    Fig. the location of persons or things of the very lowest quality; someone or something of the lowest quality. (The fruit at the bottom of a barrel of apples is likely to be bruised from the weight of the other apples.) That last secretary you sent me was really the bottom of the barrel.

SONG: Stand by me