Class 7. Thursday 21/05

Hello

Today we revised saying the dates. We talked about famous people and their places and years of birth:

Who was William Shakespeare? - He was a famous writer.
When was he born? - He was born in 1564.
Where was he born? - He was born in - Stradford-upon-Avon.
When did he die? - He died in 1616.

We also revised the use of WAS/WERE with historic dates and events:

When was French Revolution? - It was in 1789.
What was in 1492? - A discovery of America was in 1492.


Your homework: read the text and fill in the gaps with "was/were".

Prepare the text for your presentation in Spanish.

Attention: next class we´re going to have a Flipped Class (when you´re - teachers). Prepare some activities for the students from the other group on the topic "Summer"!

Class 6. Thursday 14/05

Hello

Today we checked our exercises from the video - Scene 1. And also we learnt some new vocabulary:
amazing, fantastic, rush hour, to show someone the sights, to hurry, terrible, traffic, surprise.

 We watched Scene 2 from the video and found out about the surprise for Ashlie!
Here´s the link for Scene 2 Video if you want to watch it again:
Scene 2

We also started a new topic today - "Dates to remember" where we´re going to talk about the past.

We learnt how to say the year in English:
1456 - fourteen fifty-six
1809 - eighteen oh nine
1900 - nineteen hundred
2003 - two thousand and three

When was William Shakespeare born? - He was born IN 1564.

Here´s a good link for you to practise saying the year:
How to say the year in English



We also learnt how to write and say the date:
1st January - the first of January
12th April - the twelfth of April

Practise saying the dates with this link:
Days and Dates in English

We played Olympic Games and got some points:

Player 1 -  points
Player 2 - 1 point
Player 3 - 0 points
Player 4 - 0 points


Your homework is to write 5 sentences with the years of birth of different people.


Extra activity - do the exercise from the link in your notebooks (match the dates):
Dates Exercise

P.S. Bring, please, your pen drives to upload photos from the project!!!

Class 5. Thursday 7/05

Hello

Today we watched two scenes from the video "Transport and Travel" - about the trip to London. We learnt new words:
to travel, cheap, busy, to leave, to decide, to find etc.

We did a True/False exercise from the video. Here´s a link for Scene 1 - watch it at home again.
Scene 1

We also watched Scene 2 and found out (averiguar) what was the surprise for Ashlie.
We played Olympic Games and got some points:

Player 1 - 3 points
Player 2 - 4 points
Player 3 - 3 points
Player 4 - 3 points

Here´s the link for Scene 2 Video if you want to watch it again:
Scene 2

We also started to prepare our presentation of the project that we´re going to show at the end of the trimester. So, we outlined some stages that we had during our project:
1. Feel (Siente) - Jimena is going to prepare this part.
2. Imagine (Imagina) - Miguel is responsible for this part.
3. Act (Actua) - Marco and Lidia take this part.

For the next time bring please the pen drives to get our photos of eaach stage.

Your homework is - to do the vocabulary exercise in the copy.
Extra task: make up 5 questions to the video (1 point for each correct question).

Class 4. Thursday 30/04

Hello

Today we revised our prepositons and practised using them.

- Excuse me, how do I get to the library?
- Go straight on Hill Road, turn right and go along Green St. At the pet shop turn left. The library is on your right, opposite the clothes shop.

Today we learnt some new prepositions of place (under, behind, over, near etc.) and movement(along, up, down, across etc.):

The school is near the bank. (place)
Go down the street. (movement)


Your homework: to write 2 dialogues with the directions how to get to 2 places on your map.