Videos on "News of the World"

Here you have the website I told you about yesterday in class.
Enjoy it!!

Interesting article

Read this article to start unit 5C. What's your opinion about it? Use the "comment" section below to write what you think about privacy.

More interesting online newspapers here.

Session 18

On Friday, Ernesto was talking about Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. We watched a video about our internal clock and talked about the "siesta syndrome".

Answer Key Vocabulary

SENSES:

71.1. Possible answers:

1. It smells wonderful

2. looks great

3. sounds brilliant

4. tastes delicious

5. feel great

6. sounds fantastic

7. you look upset

8. he smells disgusting

71.2

1. witness, 2. peer, 3. observe, 4. glance, 5. stare

71.3

1. witnessed, 2. gazed/stared, 3. grasped, 4. press, 5. stroked, 6. observed, 7. grabbed/snatched, 8. glanced

71.4

1. bitter, 2. sweet, 3. hot, 4. sour, 5. Spicy, 6. salty

71.5

1. snatch/grab, 2. finger, 3. handle, 4. paw

71.6

1. aromatic, 2. smelly, 3. evil-smelling, 4. fragant, 5. sweet-smelling, 6. scented

71.7

1. UFO, 2. telepathy, 3. ghosts, 4. intuition, 5. déjà-vu, 6. premonition

Session 16 & 17

Last Friday, we were describing our favourite pictures in detail. We revised points to bear in mind when writing a composition (handout in class). We played "Find someone who..." using the following structure: used to.
Do the following exercises:
exercise 1
exercise 2
exercise 3
This later led us to practise "get used to + verb-ing" and "be used to + verb-ing". Finally, we did a long listening comprehension exercise to infer certain information (sent via email).

On Monday, we started unit 5B about "being sleeping deprived". We followed the activities in your books to learn new vocabulary. Finally, we listened to the song "I don't wanna miss a thing". Click here to listen to it again!

Tongue Twisters

I hope you find them useful to practise pronunciation. Click here.

Session 14 &15

On Friday, Ernesto talked to us about culture and religion (quite interesting lesson indeed). Yesterday, we watched the second part of the video, we did an exercise on "should" and "had better". We learnt some vocabulary to describe music and you were given some points to bear in mind when writing a composition.
HOMEWORK.
Write an email talking about your favourite song. Include what's the song about, the rhythm, the lyrics and say why it is important for you. Convince the addressee to listen to it. 150-180 words. Deadline: 21st November.

Those who didn't come to class should address the email to me.

Session 13

On Monday, we read the text about postures. We watched a video about a Canadian actor and I showed you my favourite picture.
Send me your favourite pictures via mail!!

Gerund and Infinitive

Do the following exercises to revise this grammar point.

Exercise + key

Answer key Revise and check unit 4

GRAMMAR

A. 1 hadn't found, 2 must have, 3 should have told, 4 had much time, 5 can't have got

B. 1c, 2a, 3c, 4b, 5c

VOCABULARY

A. relieved, anxious, calf, hip, nod

B. remind, matter, stole, raise, argue

C. over, up, in, off, down

D. chew, yawn, scratch, frown, stare

PRONUNCIATION

A.notice, delighted, frown, comb, chew

B. exhausted, prevent, expect, kidney, elbow

READING

A-0, B-1, C-4, 5-D, 2-E, F-3

Session 12

Another rainy day yesterday! We kept on practising verb of senses. We learnt some idioms expressions and actions related to parts of the body and vocabulary about the six senses (exercises from handout due to Monday). We also watched a video of Hugh Laurie and Ellen talking about English slang.

HOMEWORK:

- Describe mentally what you look, taste, smell, touch and hear in ENGLISH!!!!

Session 11

Happy Halloween! (happy bank holiday, to be honest:-) On Monday, we continued giving opinion about some controversial issues. We also kept on practising verbs of senses and new vocabulary to describe things. We listened to some contestants guessing mystery objects. We then focused on body vocabulary, verbs related to some parts of the body. For Friday, remember to hand in your opinion essay and read the text in 4C about body language.