Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 28 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Listening: Coconut Hotel and political gaffes

- Relative clauses


- Speaking: emotions and work


Homework:

- Complete the activities on relative clauses on page 147

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 22 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Vocabulary: crime

- Speaking: mass tourism and crime

- Speaking tests: technology and shopping

- Listening

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 21 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Speaking

- Vocabulary: crime. Click here to see the worksheet.

- Speaking: crime. Click here to read the questions.

- Speaking tests

Homework:

Finish the vocabulary activities in the worksheet.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 14 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Idioms: time and parts of the body

- Vocabulary: driving and cars

- Speaking: driving. Click here to read the questions.

- Listening

- Vocabulary: crime

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 9 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: infinitives, bare infinitives and gerunds

- Speaking: questions (infinitives, bare infinitives, and gerunds)

- Listening: review

- Reading: witness



Homework:

- Complete activities on idioms on pages 97 and 155.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 7 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- Reading and speaking: stereotypes. Click here to see the document.

- Vocabulary: feelings


- Grammar: bare infinitive, infinitive with to, and -ing forms





Homework:

- Page 96, exercise 7A

- Page 143, 8.2 (activities A and B)

- Page 145, 91 (activity A)

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 2 May 2013

Summary of the class:

- PUC assessment rubrics

- Speaking: conditional sentences

- Listening: review

- Vocabulary: Lark or owl

Homework:
 
Complete the vocabulary activities on page 155

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 25 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: reported speech

- Writing: transactional letters

- Reading: it's a tough call

- Grammar: conditional sentences

- Speaking: conditional sentences

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 23 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Book review: The Talented Mr. Ripley



- Grammar: reported speech.

- Grammar: reporting verbs.

- Listening

Homework:

Complete the activities on reporting verbs on page 84

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 18 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: inversions

- Vocabulary: work. Click here to read the worksheet.

- Speaking: work and jobs

- Listening:  hoaxes

Fifth year - 5ºCAL - Tuesday 16 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: future and quantifiers.

- Article writing. Click here to see the worksheets.

- Listening: newspaper headlines


- Function: adding emphasis

- Grammar: inversions. Click here to see the handout


Homework:

- Write an article on one of the suggested topics.

- Complete the rest of the sentences in the handout about inversions.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 4 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Correct activities on quantifiers

- Review: listening

- Vocabulary: the press

- Speaking: the media. Click here to see the questions.

- Writing: an article. Click here to read the handout.


Homework: Complete the activities on the handout about article-writing, and write an article about one of the suggested topics.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 2 April 2013

Summary of the class:

- Exams

- Vocabulary: Good and bad. Click here to see the document.

- Vocabulary: television

- Reading: television shows

- Grammar: quantifiers



Homework:

Complete the activities on quantifiers on page 141

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 7 March 2013

Summary of the class:

- Reading test

- Listening: review

- Speaking: controversial topics.


Note:

Remember that next Tuesday we have the writing and listening exams. Good luck

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 5 March 2013

Summary of the class:

- Speaking workshop with Dieter

- Oral presentation: Madame Curie. Here's a brief video about Curie's biography, and there is an interesting part at the end about Marie Curie's carelessness about the materials she worked with and how she was affected by radiation.



- Listening: review

- Vocabulary and speaking: optimism and pessimism

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 26 February 2013

Summary of the class:

- Book presentation: Lighhousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

This is the trailer for a play adaptation:




- Reading and listening: Revolting rhymes: Cinderella by Roald Dahl


- Listening: Future me

- Grammar: future perfect and future progressive

- Speaking: predictions


Homework:


- Complete the activities on future tenses on page 139

- Write a traditional fairy tale, changing the roles and attitudes of the characters.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 21 February 2013

Summary of the class:

- Oral presentation: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

This is the trailer of the film based on the book:
- Grammar: modal verbs

- Writing: a report. Click here to read the worksheet.

- Listening: review

- Speaking: generation gap


Homework:

Write a report on one of the topics from the worksheet.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 19 February 2013

Summary of the class:

- Grammar: modal verbs

- Grammar: activities on modal verbs

- Listening: review

Homework: 

Complete the activities on modal verbs on page 139

Fifth year - 5CAL - Thursday 14 February 2013

Summary of the class:

- Book presentation: The Citadel. This is the trailer of the film (1938) based on the book



- Vocabulary: activities on health

- Listening: sicko. Click here to read the question about the video below.

- Listening: review

- Reading: Age


Homework:

- Read the powerpoint on modal verbs I sent you.

Fifth year - 5CAL - Tuesday 12 February 2013

Summary of the class:

- Book presentation: The Silver Locket

- Vocabulary: health (powerpoint)


- Vocabulary: activities on health. Click here to see the worksheet.

- Speaking. Health. Click here to read the questions.


Homework:

Complete all the activities of the worksheet on health.