Merry Christmas!!!!

I just want to wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!!!

5ºC - Thursday 21 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Vocabulary: Extreme sports

- Speaking: Extreme sports

- Listening: A fitness fanatic

- Listening: Review

- Review of first term

- Christmas game

Language Snippets - Christmas Vocabulary

5ºB - Thursday 21 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Vocabulary: Health and Fitness

- Speaking: Fitness

- Review of first term

- Christmas: Game

- Christmas carols




 - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Language Snippets - Idioms about Books

5º A - Wednesday 20 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Vocabulary: Sports equipment and venues

- Listening: Sports equipment

- Powerpoint: First term (Grammar and Pronunciation)

- Christmas: Game

- Christmas carols

- Twas the Night Before Christmas

Homework:

Complete the reading activity and the vocabulary activity in the copy about sport

Book Recommendation - Mullholland Dive by Michael Connelly

Yesterday we had another book presentation and recommendation in one of the classes. This time it is a book which contains three mystery stories.

5ºC - Tuesday 19 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Book Presentation: Mullholland Dive

- Review: sports

- Listening: Sports equipment

- Reading: Sports and Money

- Listening: Sports and Money

- Speaking: Debates

- Vocabulary: Health and fitness

- Speaking: Fitness

Language Snippets - Sports

5ºB - Tuesday 19 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Review: sports

- Vocabulary: Sports equipment and venues

- Listening: Sports equipment



- Reading: Sports and Money

- Listening: Sports and Money

- Speaking: Debates

Homework:

Do the activities on fitness in the copy

Language Snippets - Sports

5ºA - Monday 18 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: Monologues

- Listening: Review

- Speaking: sport

- Vocabulary: Sport

- Speaking: Sport and fitness

- Vocabulary: Sports equipment

Homework:

- Complete Review 2 on page 41

- Complete the activities on the video page on page 40 (After Christmas)

NA2. Listening: sports

Click on the following links for extra practice on listening:

- Sports Interviews

- Hockey Violence

- The Great North Run

- The Tour de France

- World Cup Soccer

- Dream Team

- Basketball

5ºC - Thursday 14 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading and speaking: Poverty

- Listening: Review

- Speaking: Sports

- Vocabulary: sports

- Speaking: sports and fitness

- Vocabulary: sports equipment

- Listening: equipment

NA2 - Vocabulary: Sports and equipment

Watch the following videos to practise and learn some sport-related vocabulary:

5ºB - Thursday 14 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Reading and speaking: Poverty

- Speaking: Monologues

- Listening: Review

- Speaking: sports

- Vocabulary: Sports

- Speaking: Fitness and sports

Language Snippets - Water Sports

5ºA - Wednesday 13 December 2017

Summary of the class::

- Monologues

- Speaking: Elections

- Writing: Essays


- Reading: Poverty

- Speaking: Charity


Homework:

Write an essay, using one of the topics on the powerpoint

Language Snippets - Essays

5ºC - Tuesday 12 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues.

- Grammar: So and Such

- Grammar: The+ comparative... the + comparative

- Grammar: Complex comparative structures

- Writing: Opinion essay

- Speaking: monologues (Lessons 3-4)

Homework:

- Read the text on page 39 and do activity 3

- Write an opinion essay about one of the topics on the powerpoint.

NA2 - Grammar: Comparative Structures

Click on the following links to do some exercises:

- Exercise 1

- The ... the 

- Double comparatives

- Exercise 4

5ºB - Tuesday 12 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues.

- Grammar: So and Such

- Grammar: The+ comparative... the + comparative

- Grammar: Complex comparative structures

- Writing: Opinion essay

- Listening: Review



Homework:

- Read the text on page 39 and do activity 3

- Write an opinion essay, using one of the topics on the powerpoint

NA2 - Listening: Politics and other social issues

Click on the links below for some listening practice:

- Campaign speech

- Democracy in action

- American politics

- Senior citizens

- The dole

- Welfare

NA2 - Grammar: so and such

Click on the links below for some extra practice on so and such:

- Worksheet 1

- Worksheet 2

- Worksheet 3

- Worksheet 4

Language Snippets - Do and Make

5ºA - Monday 11 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Grammar: So and such/// the... the

- Grammar: complex comparative structures

- Vocabulary: Elections

- Vocabulary: British political system

- Listening: American political system


Homework:

Read the text on page 39 and complete activity 3

NA2 - Listening: Elections

Watch the following video about general elections in Britain:

5ºC - Tuesday 5 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues


- Review: politics

- Vocabulary: Elections

- Vocabulary: British political system

- Listening: American political system
- Vocabulary: politics

- Speaking: Elections

- Listening: politics

- Listening: Review


Homework:

Complete activities on grammar on pages 170 and 171

Language Snippets - Expressing opinions

5ºB - Tuesday 5 December 2017

Summary of the class:

- Monologues

- Review: politics

- Vocabulary: Elections

- Vocabulary: British political system

- Listening: American political system

- Vocabulary: politics

- Speaking: Elections

- Listening: politics

- Listening: Review


Homework:

Complete activities on grammar on pages 170 and 171

Language Snippets - Borrow and Lend

Book Recommendation - A Small Part of Me by Noelle Harrison

Today we have had our first book presentation. The book presented in class is "A Small Part of Me" by Noelle Harrison, which is mainly about family and dark secrets.

Name: A Small Part of Me
Author: Noelle Harrison
Pages: 352

5ºA - Monday 4 December 20

Summary of the class:

- Book presentation: A Small Part of Me by Noelle Harrison


- Review: The Media

- Listening: Phone-in programme

- Speaking: The media and the Internet


- Reading: Twitter

- Listening: Twitter

- Listening: Tabloids and Broadsheets


- Vocabulary: the government, economy and society

- Speaking: Politics

Homework:

Complete the grammar activities in lesson 4 (Pages 170-171) ---- So / Such and Double Comparatives (The...the)

5ºC - Thursday 30 November 2017

Summary of the class:

- Review: The Media

- Listening: Phone-in programme

- Speaking: The media and the Internet


- Reading: Twitter

- Listening: Twitter

- Listening: Tabloids and Broadsheets

- Vocabulary: the government, economy and society

- Speaking: Politics

Language Snippets - Hope, Wait and Expect

5ºB - Thursday 30 November 2017

Summary of the class:

- Review: The Media

- Listening: Phone-in programme

- Speaking: The media and the Internet

- Reading: Twitter

- Listening: Twitter

- Listening: Tabloids and Broadsheets

- Vocabulary: the government, economy and society

- Speaking: Politics

NA2 - Listening: The Media

Click on the following links for some listening practice:

- Social Media

- The History of Social Media

- Newscenter

- World News Stories

- Is TV a bad influence?

- The Age Newspaper