"An optimist? A pessimist?" "Promises, Promises"

Week 18^th - 20^th November

This week you told me how you see life. Things are difficult at the moment but I’m lucky because I have optimistic students!!

So, you are optimists.

Adjective	Noun
I am an optimistic person.	I am an optimist.
I am a pessimistic person.	I am a pessimist.

But before talking about optimism and pessimism, we wrote a news report. The news was really interesting. “Kangaroo saves farmer’s life.”

Remember: we use present tense in headlines, (the “titles” in the news) so the item of news looks more interesting or shocking. After that we use a variety of tenses, past simple, continuous or present to report the piece of news.

Look out! News is uncountable in English and takes the singular form of the verb.

I’ve got two news. I’ve got some news. 

The news are bad.  The news is bad.

We also learnt to use “will / won’t” for predictions and promises.

Which promise do you find the most difficult to keep? Why?

Think about it and tell me on Monday!!!

And finally, we made sentences with some opposite verbs and also some confusing verbs.

Do you often lose your glasses?

Have you missed any English lessons?

Have you ever missed a bus? And a plane?

What things do people lose more frequently?

Do you lend money to friends? Why/ why not?

Do you borrow money from friends? Why/ why not?

will vs. going to

The worst film, the hottest place I've ever been to & "La Isla Bonita"

Physical Appearance

Week 11^th -13^th November

Hello again!

This week we talked about:

 ·          The coldest place in Spain. Somebody said it was Burgos.

 ·          For another one of our classmates, the worst film s/he has ever seen is “Torrente.”

 ·          The most intelligent person ,in one of our classmates family, is her husband.

 ·          The healthiest person that one of our classmates know, is her granny.

 ·          For another of you, tennis is the most boring sport to watch on T.V.

And so on...

We brainstormed vocabulary on descriptions.

We played 10 Questions, a guessing  game. Find the celebrity through questions on their appearance.

You are much better than me and you beat me!

We also learnt that in indirect questions there’s no word inversion.

Do you know who is he? Do you know who he is?

And we ended the week with a song: “La isla bonita” by Madonna.

Do you remember the meanings of these words:

Lullaby / long to / pray / breeze/ siesta ?

                                                          

For homework, don’t forget to describe someone in your family.

Adjectives - Appearance - pronunciation

Future Plans and Arrangements

Hello Everyone! Nice to meet you!

Last week was my first week with you. On Tuesday 5^th and Wednesday 6^th,we did some exercises on plans and arrangements.

We learnt that we can use either going to or present continuous for plans or arrangements. Although present continuous is the best choice when we talk about arrangements e.g.: going to the doctor’s, seeing friends etc.

We do not use present continuous for future predictions. In that case, we use will or going to- depending if the prediction is an opinion or something based on evidence.

We planned our diary for the week & made suggestions or invitations to our classmates in order to fill in = complete, the free time we had.

“Are you free on Monday?” “Sorry, I´m going to the dentist’s.”

“Would you like to come to the gym with me tomorrow?” “I’m afraid I have to look after my niece.” “What about Friday morning?” “Perfect.”

“How about going to the cinema on Saturday?” “I’d love to.” “Where shall we meet?”

Do you remember the meaning of these verbs: look forward to + ing / look up /look after  and look for? Fantastic! Because you have to write a couple of sentences with each of them!

See you!