Class 28/11

In class on Friday we looked at the use of past tenses, an area which can be surprisingly tricky.

For homework you need to complete exercise 5 on page 35 of your students' book. This was part of last week´s homework but not completed by most of those in attendance.

We did the reading on page 32.33 of the students' book, and the listening on page 16 of the workbook as assessed exercises. Most of you did pretty well on both exercises.

And don't forget today's joke:      
                
                          waɪ dɪd ðə flaɪ flaɪ ?                                                                                                    bɪˈkʌz ðə spaɪdə spaɪd ə !

Class 21/11

read In Friday's class we focused on Key Word Transformations. We looked at those on page 27 (ex 6, all conditional sentences) and then p40, and we did the task on page 31 as an assessed activity.

We heard the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling- a nice reading of this poem is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drBIhnATwuc

by Michael Caine, one of my favourite actors!

For homework you should do pages 34 and 35 of your class book.

Class: 7/11/2014

Yesterday we had a writing intensive. We looked at how to approach Writing Part 1, the compulsory essay.

If you missed class you should write either the essay based on the two texts about museums on page 22

or the essay about music based on the two texts on page 56.

Remember:

• structure your essay carefully into 3-5 coherent and discrete paragraphs
• to achieve a good mark for 'content', you should identify, summarise and evaluate two or three key points in each text, make some comment about similarities and differences between the texts, and add some relevant content of your own
• this is homework, not an exam- I expect some people to use spell-checkers and dictionaries, so YOU might as well too. Check your work and rewrite as often as you like. I will be more strict about correctable errors (spelling, low-level grammar mistakes, incorrectly used vocabulary) than if it were a timed writing

Halloween 2014

In yesterday's halloween special we.....

• Spoke about holiday preferences, and tried to discover whether our classmates would be good people to go on holiday with;
• Looked at Paper 1 Part 7 (Reading, multiple matching) on page 17;
• Revised our knowledge of future forms on page 18;
• Spoke about photography and
• Did Paper 1 Part 2 (Use of English, Open Cloze) on page 30

If you missed the class you can do any of these exercises. Everyone should try to do as much of the workbook as possible, plus the Vocabulary on page 17, and the exercises on page 18