Guess the Word! Let's Compare! Let's Rehearse!

Monday 26^th May

Hello Everybody!

We had a visitor in our class today! Her name is Belén. I’ll tell her to come to class more often because you behaved better than usual!

We started the class checking homework.

 It was fairly good. Congratulations to Nacho for remembering doing homework! Amazing!

The rest did a very good job! Although, somebody misunderstood and instead of describing clothes, they described appearance. But it was good and we had to guess who the people were, so it was interesting.

After that, we played a game based on definitions. We have to ask and answer questions so as to guess the word written on the card you had picked out (selected)

You had to make a sentence, for example:

You usually do this in summer.

·           Is it a sport?

·           Do you do it with your family?

·           Do you need some transport? A car, a train etc.?

·           Do you go to the beach?

·           Is it travelling?

·           Is it when you finish school?

·           Can you stay in a hotel?

Is it ‘going on holiday’? Yes, it is!

 And so on…

We started the last lesson in our planning. It is about comparative of adjectives.

Nacho is tall. Manuel is taller.

Nacho is shorter than Manuel.

And you compared different places and gave me their opinions.

London is more expensive than Madrid.

Madrid is bigger than Barcelona.

A river is smaller than the ocean.

The sea is wider than a river.

A hill is lower than a mountain.

The ocean is more dangerous than a stream.

Cities are dirtier than the country.

A mountain is more beautiful than a valley.

Remember:		ADJECTIVE	COMPARATIVE
1-Syllable		hot long	hotter longer
2 -syllable ended in “y”		dirty	dirtier
	REST OF ADJECTIVES
1-syllable not ended in “y”		violent	more violent
More than  2- syllable adj.		expensive	more expensive
		IRREGULAR
		good	better
		bad	worse

Practise comparatives in here :

http://www.englishmedialab.com/higherlevels/comparatives/comparatives.html

Enjoy these exercises!

And we rehearsed our theatre play.

Although I don’t know if we are able to perform it because Nacho and Manuel said that they aren’t going to be here on 24^th or 26^th of June. Please confirm attendance!

For homework, write five sentences using comparative adjectives!

GAME 7

Player 1	5
Player 2	7
Player 3	9
Player 4	6
Player 5	7

See you on Monday!

Clothes: Cardigan, Wellies, Balaclava

Monday 19^th May

Hello Everybody!

Are you enjoying your weekend? 

What did we do in class? We finished talking about shopping.

 We listened to Chloe, Ellen and Mathis. They told us where they prefer shopping and why.

Mathis prefers shopping on the net because there’s more variety. Ellen prefers the shops in the high Street because the shop assistants are friendlier and they chat with you. Chloe doesn’t like buying clothes in the street market or on the net because she can’t try them on.

What about you?

Where do you prefer shopping? In the High street shops, in the street market, on the internet, in shopping centres? What things do you like shopping in each place?

I usually buy clothes from the high street because they’re good quality.

To finish the topic of shopping, we focused on clothes.

We did an exercise on vocabulary related to clothes. Can you tell me which clothes do you wear…

…on your top half? …on your bottom half? …on your top and bottom half? …on your feet?

Anorak, tights, trousers, coat, vest, jacket, suit, tie, shorts, dress, stockings, trainers, jumper, shoes, boots, sweater, shirt, T-shirt, sandals.

We read about clothes with a tradition.

·         Do you know what a ‘balaclava’ is? It’s a woollen hat.

·         Did you know where it got its name from? From the battle of Balaclava, in the Crimea war.

·         What did you know about ‘wellies’? Not much; but now you know that they are the traditional rubber boots that we wear when it rains. And that they are named after (had their name from) Wellington, a British soldier.

·         What’s a ‘cardigan’? It’s   a short woollen coat with buttons. It got its name after another British soldier, Lord Cardigan.

And we finished the class with our first rehearsal for our play: ‘Island for Sale’

It’s a pity Player 1 didn’t take it seriously as he is one of the main characters and then, the rest couldn’t rehearse properly!

Anyway, I hope you tell me who will be able to attend our end of course show. Please bring the notices (pieces of paper) we gave you back, to let us know which of you we can count on!

Homework: find three photos or make three pictures of people and describe the clothes they’re wearing.

    GAME 6

Player 1	7
Player 2	10
Player 3	12
Player 4	10
Player 5	6

See you on Monday!

Kinds of Shops and a Theatre Play

Monday 12^th May

Hi everybody! How’s it going?

What did we do in our last class?

First, we started talking about The Eurovision Contest because Almudena is a great fan of it!.

After that, we learnt the names of different kinds of shops.

Chemist’s – greengrocer’s- fishmonger’s – baker’s – florist – confectionery – stationery – butcher’s – newsagent’s – hairdresser’s – shoe shop – book shop – clothes shop and of course, supermarket.

·                What can you buy at a greengrocer’s?

·                Where can you buy medicine?

·                What can you buy at the fishmonger’s?

·                Where can you buy lamb chops and sausages?

We continued practising shopping dialogues:

C: Good morning!

S: Morning! Can I help you?

C: Yes, please. Can I have a kilo of bananas?

S: yes, here you are. Anything else?

C: Yes. I’d like some tomatoes.

S: How many would you like?

C: A kilo, please.

S: Anything else?

C: No, thank you. How much is it?

S: the bananas are £2.50, the tomatoes are £1.99; so, that’s £4.49           

C: Here you are.

S: Your change, £0.51.Thank you.

C: Bye.

Then, we learnt the differences among several shopping places.

                   

·         Supermarket: is a place where you can buy different products: food, cleaning products, toiletries etc.

·         Street market: is a place where you can buy food and clothes. It’s in the street and the sellers use stalls to sell their products.

·         High street shops: different types of shops in the main street of towns or cities.

·         Department store: a big shop that has different floors (departments). They sell different products on each floor. E.g. “El Corte Inglés” “Harrods”etc.

·         Shopping centre (shopping mall – in American English): it’s a big place with lots of different shops inside. E.g. “Plaza Norte”, “Parquesur”

And we started reading the play we are going to perform for the end of the course!

Its title is “Island for Sale” We selected the characters. Our casting is this:

Leaping Larry    Manuel

Duncan                Nacho

Roxanne              Almudena

Jean                      Andrea

Storyteller           María

Homework: write the name of six shops and several items you can buy there. For example:

·           “Myriam’s” is a hairdresser’s or a hair salon. They wash, cut or dye your hair in here.

·           “Turkeys and chickens” is a butcher’s. You can buy meat, sausages, lamb chops and steaks in here etc.

… and read the play once.

GAME 5

Player 1	7
Player 2	11
Player 3	12
Player 4	11
Player 5	6

Have a look at this links.

Shopping

How much is / are?

Kinds of Shops

And … that’s all folks!

What Would you Like? Do you Sell Envelopes?

Monday 5^th May

Hello guys!

How are you doing? I’m fine, thanks.

We finished listening to the song by John Lennon, ‘Imagine’. And sang it! Well, in fact, only Nacho sang! Manuel, you told me you liked The Beatles and you wanted to sing. Why didn’t you do it?

Can you answer these questions?

·        According to some religions, where do good people go when they die?

·        According to some religions, where do bad people go when they die?

·        Where can you see the clouds and the sky?

·        How do you call the action when somebody wants much more then they need?

·        What’s the noun for hungry?

·        What’s the opposite of ‘war’?

               

Imagine! Can you imagine all the people living life in peace?

Then, we went shopping.

 We had three shoppers, customers and three kinds of shops. There was a souvenir shop, a chemist’s and a news-stand. The person who works in a shop is the shop assistant or the shop keeper. The shop assistant sells and the customer buys.

You had to follow the instructions written on your cards and go shopping. You had €13.

Dialogues went like this:

Shop assistant (S): Good morning, Can I help you.

Customer(C): Yes, please. Do you sell envelopes?

S: Sorry, we don’t sell envelopes. Maybe in the other shop.

C: Thank you. Good bye.

________________________________________________

C: Hello!

S: Hi! Can I help you?

C: Yes. I’d like some aspirins.

S: How many packets would you like?

C: Two, please.

S: Here you are. Anything else?

C: No, thank you. How much is it?

S: £3, please.

C: Here you are. Bye

S: Bye.

________________________________________________________________

C: Hello!

S: Hi! Can I help you?

C: Yes, please. Do you sell stamps?

S: How many would you like?

C: How much is each stamp?

S: they’re 40p each.

C: Can I have 20 stamps for Europe?

S: 1, 2, … 20; here you are. Anything else?

C: No, thank you. How much is it?

S: £9.

C: Here you are.

S: Your change, £1. Thank you.

C: Bye.

Don’t forget:

In English, we use a ‘point’(.) for decimals and a ‘comma’ (,) for ‘thousands’.

We usually write the currency symbols £, €, $ before the figure (number) and the fractions (small units like penny- pence- in plural- or cents) after the number.

£2,000   Two thousand pounds.  

 £115.95 one hundred and fifteen pounds ninety-five

13p thirteen ‘p’ Colloquially, British people say ‘p’ instead of ‘pence’

€2.50 two euros fifty

17c seventeen cents

And that was all!

Next day we’ll continue talking about different kinds of shops and we’ll buy some clothes.

Don’t forget to write a dialogue at a shop for homework. You can use the models ABOVE BUT DO NOT COPY THEM!

GAME 4

Player 1	3
Player 2	8
Player 3	9
Player 4	5
Player 5	4

Enjoy your weekend!