INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Hi guys,
Remember to finish worksheet C at home so that you consolidate your knowledge about Halloween.
Important: I will collect your letters next Tuesday ONLY, so don´t forget to bring them!!!
Be ware of all the spooky creatures around this weekend!!! ;)

BASIC LEVEL

Hi there,
On Tuesday we were working on the topic of Halloween. Remember that you have to finish worksheet C in order to consolidate the vocabulary on the text.
Spooky Halloween to all of you.. ;)

ADVANCED LEVEL

Hi there,
On Tuesday we will start our lesson with the speaking activity that I gave you ( My Top 5) which is connected to the article about the Beatles that we were working on last week.
After that, we will move on to talk about GENDER ROLES & we will do some reading, speaking and listening activities in class. So here you have a video about "Stay-at-home Dads" to get you into the mood of our new topic

http://www.newsy.com/videos/stay-at-home-dads-on-the-rise/

Hope you enjoy it!!!

Nice bank holiday to you all!!!

ADVANCED LEVEL

This is the link to the video we didn´t have time to watch today

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/videos#haunted-history-of-halloween

Besides, here you can also find the articles we´ve been working on today:

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween

And, finally, this is the link you need to do your homework. Remember that you have to listen to "Firebird Suite: Infernal Dance" and write a short paragraph about what it suggests to you...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15383917

BASIC & INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This is a brief presentation about question formation, something we´ve been looking at today...I hope it is useful for you...

Subject

View more presentations from rrrosaco.

British-Council-Brings-Afghan-Musicians-to-UK-Schools/

An article about how music can help understanding between different cultures.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/press-office/press-releases/British-Council-Brings-Afghan-Musicians-to-UK-Schools/

HALLOWEEN IS GETTING CLOSER ( All levels)

Hi guys,
When learning a language, one of the most important elements you need to know is related to cultural aspects. It´s essential that you know the culture of a society if you want to understand its people...As you may know, Halloween is next week, so probably we will work on this typical Anglo-Saxon custom next Tuesday.
Be ready!!!!

BASIC LEVEL

Hi,
Just a quick note to remind you to listen to the "secret admirer" listening activity and BRING a short summary ( 1 or 2 lines is enough) next Tuesday.
See you!!

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Homework: write the letter in exercise 4 for November 2.( We´ve corrected the mistakes in exercise 1 in case you want to check woth your classmates...)
We will continue with the text about the Beatles next Tuesday ( the speaking and reading part)
See you!!

ADVANCED LEVEL

Hi there!

This is the link for the activities we´ve been working on today. Homework: remember that you can choose between the essay about a song you like or the magazine article about important bands.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0512/051217-beatles-e.html

See you next week!

Joy as Chile miners reach surface

Everyone´s been talking about this piece of news today, so you might be interested in reading about it in English and also watching a video. I´m sure you´ll be able to understand much of the information on the article beacuse you´ve already heard about it in Spanish.
Hope you enjoy it!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11518015#

Debussy/ d'Indy/ Schmitt/ Tomasi/ Maurice: Works for saxophone and orchestra

A brief article about works for saxophone and orchestra where you can find some useful vocabulary related to music.
http://gu.com/p/2k6jj

BASIC LEVEL

These are the basic grammatical aspects you are supposed to know.

GRAMÁTICA

Oración Oración simple: concordancias básicas. Oraciones declarativas afirmativas y negativas; interrogativas y respuestas breves (Yes, I am; No, I don´t …) en los tiempos verbales del nivel. Orden de los elementos. Posición de la negación. Supresión de elementos (… pardon?, … sure!). Oraciones exclamativas (That’s wonderful!). Interjecciones más usuales con what y how What a pity! How nice!). Oración compuesta: coordinación afirmativa y negativa con los enlaces más frecuentes (and, but). Subordinación para expresar causa (because) y tiempo (when).

Nombres y adjetivos El género del nombre. Nombres invariables (teacher). Masculinos y femeninos (boy, girl). Sufijo -ess (waitress). Nombres compuestos (boyfriend). El número y su formación. Nombres contables e incontables. Plurales irregulares (women, wives); invariables (fish, trousers, people). - El posesivo ‘s / s´ (my brother´s friends, my brothers´ friends). - El adjetivo: formas, uso y posición en la oración. Números cardinales (one, two, …) y ordinales (first, second, thirty-first). - Adjetivos comparativos y superlativos. Expresión de la comparación de superioridad (adj + - er / more + adj… than…).

Determinantes - El artículo determinado e indeterminado y su contraste. Usos más comunes y omisión. Demostrativos y su concordancia (this, that, these, those; That car is very fast). - Interrogativos (What, Which, What colour is it?). - Indefinidos y cuantificadores más frecuentes: some (I’ll have some wine), any, (how) much, (how) many, a lot (of), a cup of). - Posesivos (my, your, whose…).

Pronombres - Personales de sujeto (I, he, she…), de complemento (me, him, her…). - Personales de complemento con preposición (for me, with him...). - Posesivos (mine, yours…). - Impersonales (it, there). - Demostrativos y su concordancia (I like this, This is my coat). - Indefinidos y cuantificadores más frecuentes (some, any, much, many, a lot, a cup; I’ll have some).

Verbos - Las formas y usos del verbo be y de los verbos más frecuentes en:

§ Presente simple y presente continuo. Contraste entre ambos.

§ Pasado simple .Formas regulares e irregulares de los verbos del nivel.

Presente perfecto (I have been to Paris). Participios regulares e irregulares de los verbos del nivel.

§ Presente continuo y la forma be going to para expresar el futuro.

§ Futuro simple (I’ll have an omelette, I’ll see you tomorrow).

- Verbos modales: can, could, may . Características y uso. - Formas impersonales del verbo be (there is / are). - Expresión de la posesión con have / have got. - Would like, contraste entre would like y like. - El Imperativo. (Come here. Let’s go). - Verbos con partículas más comunes ( wake up, get up, look at...)

Adverbios - Forma, uso y posición más frecuente de los adverbios y locuciones adverbiales para indicar: lugar (there), modo (slowly), tiempo (early), cantidad (much, many, more), probabilidad (perhaps, maybe) y frecuencia (always, every day), afirmación y negación. - Modificación básica mediante el adverbio (very) y enfatización (very, very….). - Grado positivo, comparativo y superlativo.

Enlaces - Conectores más frecuentes (and, but, so, because, when). - Preposiciones más frecuentes de lugar (at home, on the desk), dirección (from London) y tiempo (in the morning, at three o’clock) y su uso. - Frases preposicionales (at the end of, in front of…). - Preposiciones que preceden ciertos nombres (by car, on holiday).

ADVANCED LEVEL

Hi!!
Remember that you have to do exercises 3 and 4 of the Reading activity for Tuesday 19th. Be also prepared to discuss the questions in exercise 2 and 5 in class.
As I have said to the Intermediate students, it would be a good idea if you made a note of all the different words connected to music that you can find in the text so that you have a kind of "music dictionary"( you could check the pronunciation as well...).
Enjoy the bank holiday!!

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Hi!
I just want to remind you that you have to finish exercise 3 of the Reading activity ( the one about the synonyms) and do the writing activity. Remember that you have to check and correct the spelling and grammar in the messages and you have to hand in your answers on a separate piece of paper on Tuesday 19th.
I would suggest you re-read the text and make a note of all the different words and expressions connected to music as they will be useful for you in the future.
Have a nice bank holiday!!!

BASIC LEVEL

Hi there!
As promised, here you have the link to the listening activity you have to do as homework for the long bank holiday:
http://www.xtec.es/~ncasas12/segon/secretadmirer.htm
It´s very short so it won´t take you a long time. Hope you enjoy it!!!