30/01 Thursday. Class 8

Hello!
Today we have been revising the verb "to be" and practised asking questions:

What was Tania´s day to remember?
Where was she?
When was she there?
Who was Pascal at the football match with?
Why was he so happy?

Practise the questions with this links - Link 1, Link 2 and Link 3.

We aslo started talking about Regular and Irregular verbs in Past Simple.

• Regular verbs are formed with the help of -ed/-d ending:

like - liked
start - started 

• Verbs with consonant + Y change into -ied:

study - studied

• Verbs with vowel + Y take only -ed ending:

play - played

• Verbs with a stressed vowel between two consonants double the last consonant:

stop - stopped

• Verbs ending in "L" double the "LL":

travel - travelled

Practise the spelling with the on-line exercises:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4

It´s very important to pronounce the regular verbs correctly.
Watch the pronunciation video and practise saying the verbs (try to repeat them aloud).

We also started some irregular verbs:
come - came, get - got, have - had, go - went, leave - left, take - took etc.

Find the list of irregular verbs in your Aula Virtual. Here´s one more list with transcription - Irregular Verbs List.

Your homework is to learn the verbs, to do the exercise filling the missing verbs in, to read the next text and do exercise 3 p.72.

28/01 Tuesday. Class 7

Hello!
How was your week? Were you tired/upset/happy? Where were you yesterday?
So, we´re revising "to be" in the past. Last class you were talking about your important events:
What was your important event?
Where was it?
How many people were there?
When was it?
How old were you then?
Were happy?

Also we talked about the past life of some famous people:
Nelson Mandela was a president.
Michelle Pfeifer was a cashier at the supermarket.
J.K.Rowling was an English teacher in Portugal.

Read and listen to the biography of Angelina Jolie (a bit difficult).

Your homework is to write a short biography of a famous person. Also to read a text and do the exercises in the copy.

23/01 Thursday. Class 6

Hello
Today there were only two students in the class. Hope, Sonia will get better.

We´ve been practising saying the dates:
When´s your birthday? - It´s on September 15th. (on the fifteenth of September).
When is Halloween? - It´s on October 31st.

We aslo learnt today a new grammar issue - Past Simple of the verb "to be":
I was                                       we were
you were                                 you were
he, she, it was                         they were

We were talking about famous people:
Who was Leonardo da Vinci? - He was a famous painter.
When was he born? - He was born in 1452.
Where was he born? - He was born in Italy.

When were you born? - I was born in 1976.

Pronunciation of was/were, wasn´t/weren´t in stressed or unstressed position:
Leonardo da Vinci was a musician. (wₔz)
No, he wasn´t. (woznt)
He was a painter. (wₔz)

Beethoven and Mozart were writers. (wₔ)
No, there weren´t. (wₔ:nt)
They were musicians. (wₔ)


Practise here the use of the verb "to be".

Watch a short video and pay attention to how "was" and "were" are used in the conversation.

P.S. Were you good at school? Hmmm, I was quite good at school, but not the best.
Watch a short video and pay attention to what people are saying.

Your homework is to do a Brainteaser in your copies, to practise making and answering questions and to read a text about the past of the famous people. 

21/01 Tuesday. Class 5

Hello!
Today we started a new topic "Past events". We´re going to talk about the past.
We learnt how to say the years:
1467 - fourteen sixty seven
1809 - eighteen oh nine
1700 - seventeen hundred, but
2001 - twenty oh one, but more often we say "two thousand and one".

We usually use preposition "in" with the year: in 1467.
Saying the date is a bit different from writing it: September 17, 2007 (the seventeenth of September, two thousand and seven).
When we say the date we use the ordinal numbers:
one - the first
two - the second
three - the third
four - the fourth
five - the fifth etc.

To practise saying the dates see a link here. (click on the date to listen to the speaker).
Watch also a video here with full explanations.

Your homework is to practise saying the dates and answer the questions from the copy.

16/01 Thursday. Class 4

Hello again!
Today we had one more new student - Adrian, welcome to our group!

So, we played a board game and revised a lot of vocabulary we´ve learnt so far.
Also we learnt some grammar - should and shouldn´t to give advice:
You should peel the onions under the running water.
You shouldn´t put salt on the meat before grilling it.

We read a text and learnt new phrases (eggs crack, share my secrets, eyes water, run the restaurant, save time, give advice etc.).

You also gave very useful and interesting advice for cooking!

When we´re talking about food we can´t avoid talking about the restaurants. We usually use can/could and would to speak politely:
Can I have a menu, please?
Would you like some dessert?
Could I get a bill, please?

Watch a video and pracrise new phrases - At the Restaurant.
Here are some extra expressions on this topic - Restaurant Vocabulary.

Homework: revise the topic and prepare for the test.

14/01 Tuesday. Class 3

Hello everyone!

Today we´ve listened to your recipes of your favourite dishes. Hmmm, delicious! Thanks for sharing!

We also learnt some new things of grammar (much, many, a lot of):
Is there much cheese left? - Yes, there´s a lot of cheese left./No, there isn´t much cheese.
Are there many apples? - Yes, there are quite a lot./No, not many.

Here´s an exercise for you to practise (read all the sentences aloud when you do grammar exercises).

And one more grammar issue - Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, you, us, them):
I don´t see him (John) very often.
My mum cooks it (beef stew) every Sunday.
My brother loves her (girlfriend).

Practise both Subject and Object pronouns here.

Your homework is to read a text and write out the advice that different chefs give. Add some more advice about cooking from you. Also, don´t forget to do the exercises in your copy (Object pronouns).

09/01 Thursday. Class 2

Hello and Bon appetit!

Today we talked about kitchen utensils (a teapot, a knife, a plate, a saucer, a cooker etc.) and cooking (to fry, to bake, to cut, to slice, to grate, to boil etc.).
Here´s a link where you can practise ways of cooking more and a video - Cooking, watch and repeat, learn the new words.

Also we watched a video - Grandma´s Trifle (you can watch it again and read the transcript) and learnt how to give instructions while cooking:
First, peel the potatoes.
Then boil the eggs.
Next add salt, pepper and parsley.
Finally, serve the dish with the salad.

Watch a video - Let´s Enjoy Cooking, pay attention how they give instructions, learn new words.

Your homework is to read the recipe and do the activities, then to write your own recipe of your favourite dish.

Trimester II. 07/01 Tuesday. Class 1

Hello
I´m happy to see you again, refreshed and full of energy! Welcome Belen and Irene to our group.

So, today we continued the topic we had started in December - "Food and Drinks". We revised today countable and uncountable nouns and containers ( a bar, a loaf, a jar, a jug, a tin, a can etc.).

We´ve been practising using them in our sentences and we were also making a shopping list using the nouns and their containers.

Also we´ve revised "some, any and a(n)":
Do we have any cheese in the fridge? - No, we don´t have any.
I´d like some apples. I´ve just eaten an orange.

If you want to practise more here´s an activity.

Here´s a video with kitchen vocabulary, check your pronunciation, repeat the words and learn them - In the Kitchen Video.

Your homework is to study the copy with the kitchen utensils and to do the exercises (for more kitchen vocabulary check Aula Virtual).