Wednesday, May 29, 2013
B&B:
- Read ACT 3
- Listen to ACT 3 and follow the memory map.
- Complete Activity 1 and 2 of page 20 in the manual.
Optional B&B: Listening Practise
Go to the following link
and work with the song STREETS of LONDON:
Select Game Mode: BEGINNER
and start completing the lyrics of the song!!
VOCABULARY Focus:
- to decriminalize: to stop sth for being illegal
- to ban: to forbid something especially officially
- to flood / the floods
- steep ( adj) rising or falling at a sharp angle
- to mix
- to whisk
- a cab or taxi
- director or principal ( Am E)
- headmister or headmistress ( Brit E )
- tea leaves
- facial expressions or gestures
- to fly - flew ( past tense)
- because or 'cause
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
PASSWORD: Choose one quotation:)
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York. Jay-Z
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Alistair Cooke
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Pearl S. Buck
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Alistair Cooke
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Pearl S. Buck
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer
B&B for next class:
- Read Act 3 and underline new words.
- Listen to Act 3 and follow the memory map.
- Answer the following general comprehension questions:
2. Where did they stay there?
3. What places did they visit there?
4. What public transport did they use?
5. What happened to the girls coming back to the hotel?
6. Where are they travelling in two days time?
VOCABUALRY Focus:
- respectful
- ordered carefully arranged or controlled:a well-ordered (= tidy) room
- tidy
- organized
- brittle delicate and easily broken
- to jeer to laugh or shout insults at someone to show you have no respect for them:The people at the back of the hall jeered (at) the speaker.
- skyscrapers
- morphia= morphine
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
B&B for next class:
- Listen and read ACT 2
- Solve activities 1, 2 and 3 in the manual ( page 15 and 16 )
- Choose one of the following situations and write down a conversation:
2. Santi phones home and tell his mum about his missing case.
3. Julie phones Alex and tells him how she spent the end of the Year at New
4. Santi describes his bad dream to Marco.
5. Santi describes the bullies and the beggar in the crowd.
VOCABULARY Focus
- vaccine /ˈvæk.siːn/
- vaccum /ˈvæk.juːm/
- vaccum cleaner
- decoy
- oyster
- employer /ɪmˈplɔɪ.ə/
- avoid
- available
- frying pan
- pots and pans
- quince /kwɪns/
- queen /kwiːn/
- keys /kiːz/
- kiss /kɪs/
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
B&B for next class:
- Read and listen to ACT 2 and underline new words in pencil and Past Tenses in Yellow!!
- Listen to the song " New York, New York" by Lisa Minelli and find the differences with Frank Sinatra's version.
GRAMMAR FOCUS:
VISIT the following link to practise
the Present Perfect and the Simple Past Tense:)
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3059
VOCABULARY Focus:
- to frisk
- to touch down / to land
- to take off
- conveyor belt
- case/ suitcase
- heap
- button
- bottom
- buttocks
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
B&B:
- Solve Activity 3 on page 12 of the manual SIX ABROAD.
- Place the sentences under the correct Present Tense:
1. My friends and I
have won a trip abroad!!
2. We’ve been collecting money for several months.
3. Julie talks to her brother and asks
him to do her a favour.
4. Julie is elbowing her way through
the crowd.
5. Alex is watching Julie
saying Good bye.
6. Alex phones Marco twice a week.
PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS PRESENT PERFECT
or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
- Prepare one of the following dialogues to act out next class::
1. Dialogue
between Julie and a friend.: Julie tells her friend about her trip and the
situation with Alex.
2. Dialogue
between Alex and a friend:. Alex tells his friend about the situation with Julie
and asks him for a piece of advice.
3. Dialogue
between Alex and Julie when he takes her to the airport.
4. Dialogue
between Julie and her mum: Julie explains why she has been crying and asks her
mum for a piece of advice.
GRAMMAR Focus
VISIT :
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=8748
and practise The Present Perfect and The Present Perfect continuous!!!!
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=8748
and practise The Present Perfect and The Present Perfect continuous!!!!
SOUND FOCUS:
Diphthong /əʊ /
- loathe/ləʊð/ to hate someone or something + ing
- hoe /həʊ/ garden tool with a long handle and a short blade used to remove weeds and break up the surface of the ground
- mauve /məʊv/ having a pale purple colour
- mole /məʊl/ a small mammal which is nearly blind, has dark fur and lives in passages that it digs under the ground
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