NA2. Big Freeze

This week Europe is being hit by very cold temperatures. Click on the links below to read the articles and watch the videos. That way you can practise the vocabulary on the weather:

UK snow: Britain braces for big freeze amid amber weather warnings

Irish weather: Heavy snow and freezing gales

UK weather: Snow chaos with roads blocked and trains cancelled

UK weather: Snow falling as Siberian blast hits UK

Language Snippets - Connectors for examples

5ºA - Monday 26 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Modifiers

- Writing: Advantages and Disadvantages

- Review: The weather

- Listening: Extreme weather

- Listening: A flood


- Speaking: The weather

- Listening: American Psycho


Homework:

Write an essay on one of the topics on the powerpoint.

5ºC - Tuesday 22 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Review: The Environment

- Dialogues: The Environment

- Writing: Narratives

- Listening: The Internet

Homework:


Complete the activities in the worksheet on narratives

Language Snippets: Synonyms: You seem familiar

5ºB - Thursday 22 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Vocabulary: The Environment

- Speaking: Environmental problems

- Writing: Narratives

- Listening: single parents

Homework:

Complete the two activities in the worksheet on narratives

NA2. Listening: The Weather

Click on the links below to practise listening:

- Friday's Weather Report

- Predicting British Summer Weather

- Britain's Big Freeze

- Thai Tsunami

- Natural Disaster

- Landslides

- Storm Chasers.    Script

- Advice for staying warm and safe in freezing weather

- Tsunami

- The Mount St Helen's Eruption

NA2. Vocabulary: The weather

Click on the following links to practise the vocabulary on weather:

- British weather

- Weather and Adjectives

- A Snowstorm

- Natural Disasters

5ºA - Wednesday 21 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Passive Voice


- Vocabulary: The weather

- Listening: High Heels


Homework:

Complete the activities on modifiers on page 173

Language Snippets - Expressing Effect

5ºC - Tuesday 20 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Exams: Writing tips

- Exams: Mistakes in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

- Listening: High Heels

NA2. Grammar: Passive Voice

Click on the links below to do some grammar practice on passive voice:

- Passive 1

- Passive 2

- Passive with subordinate clauses

- Passive or Active

- Passive Verb Patterns

- Reporting structures

5ºB - Tuesday 20 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Exams: writing structure

- Exams: Mistakes in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

- Listening: The Internet

- Grammar: Modifiers

Language Snippets - Connectors

5ºA - Monday 19 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Writing exams: tips

- Grammar and vocabulary mistakes

- Pronunciation

Language Snippets - More weather

5ºC - Tuesday 15 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Passive Voice

- Review: The weather and natural disasters

- Vocabulary: The environment

- Speaking: Environmental problems

Language Snippets - The Weather

5ºB - Tuesday 15 February 2018

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: Passive Voice

- Review: The weather

- Listening: Extreme weather

- Listening: a flood

- Speaking: Natural Disasters

- Video: Natural Disasters and family





Homework:

Complete activities on modifiers on page 173