Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Password:

" No sooner had the plane taken off than they................................... "

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:

http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/11459/ralph_mctell/streets_of_london

Select  Game Mode: BEGINNER 
and start completing the lyrics of the song!!

SOUND Focus:

/ ʊə /
bureau
endure
poor
moor
cure
sure
jury
influence
manure
tour

VOCABULARY Focus:


  • to decriminalize: to stop sth for being illegal
       There was campaign to decriminalize cannabis

  • to ban: to forbid something especially officially
      The film was banned in several countries.

  • 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


SONG

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

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:
          1. Where did Julie and her friends fly to?
          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?

Optional B&B: Revising Prepositions of Time

http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=5278#a

SOUND Focus

/ ɪə /
beer
merely
serious
furious
leer
clear
here
sear

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

NEW YORK CITY

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

PASSWORD:

" If you had followed my advice,
 you wouldn't have....................."

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:
1. Marco describes the airline assistant his missing case.  
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 York
4. Santi describes his bad dream to Marco. 
5. Santi describes the bullies and the beggar in the crowd.

SOUND Focus:

SOUND FOCUSɔɪ

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/

SONG:

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

PASSWORD:

" You can find Isle.
 It's a quiet site to write rhymes 
and see the vines"

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

SOUND Focus:

/ aɪ /
fine
vine
chives
dice
wild
mild

VOCABULARY Focus:


  • to frisk
  • to touch down / to land
  • to take off
  • conveyor belt
  • case/ suitcase
  • heap
  • button
  • bottom
  • buttocks

SONG:

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

PASSWORD:

"I am the change I want to see"

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!!!!

VOCABULARY Focus:

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SOUND FOCUS:

Diphthong /əʊ /
  • loathe/ləʊð/ to hate someone or something + ing
  • hoe /həʊgarden 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 




SONG: