Buying a House.

 Week 9^th – 11^th June

 Hello!

Gema, welcome back! It was nice to see you again.

We started the week checking our revision exercises.

 Tense review:

Present perfect simple vs present perfect continuous.

Jane’s hungry. She hasn’t eaten anything for six hours.

She is tired. She’s been studying for hours.

I don’t want to see that film. I’ve already seen it twice.

Sandy has been teaching English for years.

Past simple vs. past continuous.

My friend was walking home from school last week when she heard a loud bang. Some men were robbing a bank. She quickly ran to a telephone and rang the police.

Used to

When I was a little girl, I used to be very unhappy, but I’m not now. I didn’t use to have many friends and I used to cry a lot. I didn’t use to talk to anybody, but I do now.

Will, shall and going to.

We also revised comparative & superlative adjectives.

We revised possessive adjectives and pronouns.

We did a communication activity.

We had to choose a way of life. We chose a job, how many children we wanted to have, what kind of education we wanted to give them, the type of holiday we’d like to have and where we would like to live. Then, we chose among different houses the house we were going to buy. We calculated our income (the money we earned) according to our new ‘lifestyle’ and checked if we could afford it.

There were different types of houses.

A penthouse, a semi-detached house, a detached house, a terraced house, a flat in a block in downtown, a manor (Victorian) house and even a bungalow!

As Alberto couldn’t afford to buy the house he wanted to and didn’t want to ‘kill’ one of his kids, so as to save £1,000, he decided to go for a cheaper house, farther from the city centre but he could keep both cars! And both kids!

Types of Houses

Then, on Wednesday we started to see the film ‘Wag the Dog’. We’ll finish it tomorrow.

See you then!!!