Passives Quiz, What if...? and a Song!

Thursday 12^th

Hi everybody!

Well, I guess Pilar, Óscar and Alejandro will be already enjoying their end of course trips in Potaventura and Italy, respectively. I couldn’t say goodbye to Óscar because he didn’t come to our last class, but I hope you to have lots of fun. I did say bye to Pilar and Alejandro.

Due to their trips we couldn’t perform our play, which is a pity because all of you seemed quite enthusiastic while we were writing the script. Remember that we have class on Thursday 26^th; and remember that we agreed on seeing a movie. I’ve thought of a comedy. A detective comedy, as we had thought about detectives for our show.

As Jorge, David and Óscar didn’t come to our last class, I’ll tell you what we did. By the way, congratulations to David on passing his Trinity exam. Well done!

In our last class, we unscrambled groups of cards and we asked and answered the questions on them.

This served us to revise the zero conditional, which is the one we use to talk about facts or events. It’s the real conditional.

We learnt what you do if …:

·         If a waiter forgets to put some expensive drinks on your  bill, you remind him / her to add them to the bill. (Or at least, that’s what you told me! And I trust (confide) you! You look (seems to be) honest.

·         If a shop assistant mistakenly gives you too much change, you keep it. Where’s your honesty now?

·         If people push into a queue in front of Andrea, she sends them to the back of the queue.(Sensible behaviour! People should learn to wait their turn!)

·         If a friend asks Pilar to borrow some money to buy a lottery ticket, she asks him/her to share with her. (That’s a right thing to do! You never know where luck lies!)

Real situation : If + present------------------------  present  (Zero Conditional)

Then, we did a quiz to revise the passive voice.

Did you know that …:

…until 1800 New York was called New Amsterdam?

…chess was invented by the Chinese?

…the Italian flag was designed by Napoleon?

….the first Levi jeans were worn by miners?

…the Indiana Jones films were directed by Steven Spielberg?

Some facts you knew, others, you didn’t!

And after talking about holidays, clothes and frequency, we listened to the song “Sk8ter Boi” by Avril Lavigne.

Sk8ter Boi

And our last points went for:

GAME 9                                              

Player 1	10
Player 2	---
Player 3	7
Player 4	12
Player 5	---
Player 6	---
Player 7	---

See you on Thursday!

Sports, Rules & Balderdash!

Thursday 5^th

Hi everybody!

(Except David and Óscar who didn’t attend to class. Yeah! I know…exams!)

First you made your presentations on sports, mentioning some basic rules.

Alejandro talked about handball – what did you expect? He’s been playing handball for quite some time! Pilar surprised us talking about boxing! We expected her to talk about gymnastics – the sport she does. And how could we not mention FOOTBALL? Jorge told us about football! And Andrea didn’t talk about any sport because she is a couch potato (she doesn’t practise any sport but lying on the sofa watching TV… or does she?)

Vocabulary on Handball                         Vocabulary on Boxing

                Video Boxing

                 Football

     

We went on talking about rules. We had to guess if the rules were true or false.

Did you know that …

·         In Italy if you give flowers you should give them in odd numbers, e.g. 1,3,5,7 etc.? It’s bad luck if you give, for example, two flowers.

·         In Singapore, you mustn’t eat chewing gum. It’s against the law.

·         Of course! In Scotland, boys don’t have to wear kilts at school!

·         In Australia, women mustn’t sit on the top floor of a bus, only downstairs.

·         In Samoa, it is against the law for a man to forget her wife’s birthday!

And so on…

We read about useful tips for tourists to the UK.

·         You should always carry an umbrella. (Advice, recommendation)

·         You must drive on the left. (Obligation)

·         You don’t have to pay to visit most museums and art galleries. Entrance is usually free. (No necessity)

·         You mustn’t smoke in public buildings. It’s forbidden. (Prohibition)

We learnt words related to mobile phones with a guessing game.

·         When you send a message to somebody, you t - - - them.

·         The line is b- - - or e- - - - - -, when you phone somebody and they are already talking.

·         If you call somebody and their mobile isn’t on, you can leave a m- - - - -on their v- - - - m- - -.

·         If you want to dial a number quickly, you can use sp- - - dialling.

·         If you phone somebody and they don’t answer, you can c- - - b- - - later.

And we ended the class playing ‘Boulder dash’, a board game.

Balderdash

Talking of games:

        GAME 8                                              

Player 1	7
Player 2	---
Player 3	12
Player 4	13
Player 5	---
Player 6	---
Player 7	12

No homework this week! I know you’re very busy with exams!

Good luck!

Sports, Games & Quizzes

Thursday 29^th May

Hi everybody!

We finished talking about sports in our previous class.

 Sometimes teams play very badly and they need words of reassurance and encouragement (to cheer up, to feel better) from their coach!

“We have something good going, but you’re not a player until you’re the best player. And you’re not a team until you’re the best team. Until you’re the team that wins the title, you never stop trying!”

We did the listening and try to raise the morale of our team imitating the coach stress and intonation.

For homework: can you write a short composition on a sport? Describe a sport, any sport. You must mention where it’s played, number of players, equipment, and some basic rules. Remember to use modal verbs for the rules : have to, must, mustn’t.

We played a board game related to sport.

There were ‘quiz questions’ and also ‘sixty seconds’. And you had to answer the questions or talk for a minute about the sports related statement (affirmative or negative sentences).

·           Which is an extreme sport: bungee jumping, horse riding or aerobics?

·           In tennis, what does ’15-Love’ mean?

·           Which is the top mark a judge can award in ice- skating?

·           Where were the 2000 Olympics held?

·           Talk for sixty seconds about ‘A sport you would like to learn’.

·           Talk for sixty seconds about ‘A dangerous sport ’.

·           Talk for sixty seconds about ‘An extreme sport, e.g. parachuting, you would/wouldn’t like to try’.

We had a competition with a lot of points awarded!

Congratulations to our winners: Jorge and Alejandro!

·         Can you say this tongue twister with the right pronunciation?

·         ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; a peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked’.

·         ‘Lab, gym and disco’ have been clipped at the end; can you say the whole words?

·         What do ‘CD, UFO and RAM’, stand for (meaning of each initial letter)?

·         Do you remember any words which are a combination of two words squashed together? (e.g.brunch= breakfast+lunch). Do you know the meaning of the words?

                                     

GAME 7                                              

Player 1	12
Player 2	15
Player 3	18
Player 4	12
Player 5	12
Player 6	---
Player 7	18

 And this was all!

Bye!