Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Class 5

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Back on track -- Happy Halloween!

  1. Magazine: p.3 ex1 answers
  2. BMX Racing
  3. What's up with the picture?

Followup: Third conditional for regrets

  1. Five third conditional transformations

Followup: Writing 2 -- informal letter/email


Quiz

  • FFS.T01.UE 3, 4 and 1
  • Intelligent, disciplined repetition is effective!

Post-quiz


Homework

  • Next week: practice exam (Reading and Use of English, some Listening)
  • Optional join.quizizz.com games: 198291, 272174, 565301

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Class 4


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Back on track


  • Qzz results
  • CF p.11
  • Letters to Sam -- next week (31 Oct)
  • Partial practice test -- 7 Nov


Use of English


  • Part 1 – multiple choice gapfill (CF)
  • Part 4 – sentence transformations (cont.)
  • Part 3 – word transformations


Magazine


  • Cover (p.1)
    • Collecting Europe: Identity


Video on regrets + third conditional

Helpful vocabulary in Kahoot.
  1. Have you ever done something you wish you hadn't?
  2. Have you ever not done something you wish you had?
  3. Which is worse -- 1. or 2.? Why?
We watched a short film on the topic of regret called Tick Tock.


Tick Tock - short film by Ien Chi from Ien Chi on Vimeo.

Homework


  • Read Magazine p.2 (We're all one family) and do p.3 exercise 1
  • Do Use of English Part 1 (BMX Racing)
  • Study the Use of English we have done in class (Parts 3 and 4) for a QUIZ







Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Class 3

Get your brakes checked
Back on course

  • Quizizz results
  • Compact First, p.7
    • Vocabulary
    • Use of English Part 1


An informal letter or email (cont.)

  • Context:
    • Writing part 1: Essay
    • Writing part 2: Email/letter, report, review, story
  • Prompt


Listening and speaking

  • Family celebrations
    • What does your family celebrate? How do you celebrate it?
    • In the English-speaking world, what do people celebrate? How?
  • Collocation cloud for celebrations:
  • Audio track 2
    • What usually happens? Is it well organised?
    • Was there a change of plan? How did it go?
  • CF p.6 = Listening part 3
  • Free listening: 6 collocations or phrases YKBDU


Homework





Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Class 2

Homework review

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  • Amigos ingleses
    • My colleagues and I laughed when the said the man said he had eaten biscuits and vegetables in the castle on the island of Edinburgh.
  • Sleeping – What was strange?
  • Vocabulary game (report)

Your letters

  • General comments
  • Opening greeting and closing lines
  • Lexical and grammatical errors and infelicities: (Kt)
  • An exam prompt


First – exam format

  • What do you know?
  • What shall we focus on?
  • First attempt – late October/early November
  • Part 4 tutorial (Kt)

Listening and speaking


  • On the topics of family and friends and celebrations
  • song
  • Free listening.

Homework

  • Review of errors: http://join.quizizz.com PIN: 424892
  • Compact First p.7: Vocabulary and Exam task (the whole page)
  • Family vocabulary:



Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Class 1

Class

  1. Course overview and your aims
  2. Get-to-know-me game
  3. Getting-to-know-you letter
  4. Out of time (photo)
    1. Ten words needed to speak about the photo
    2. Which five are most important?
    3. Listen
    4. True or false?
  5. vocabulary for 'Sleeping' by Katharine Weber

Homework

  • join.quizizz.com (PIN 836219)
  • 'Sleeping' by Katharine Weber
  • Watch the video below and be ready to pronounce the words correctly next week.