Weekly Planning: 10th & 12th January 2023

Weekly Planning: 10th & 12th January 2023

There is nothing more traditional at this time of the year than the New Year's Resolutions. So, let's find out more about them with this game:

Write down your own New Year's Resolutions and share them with the rest of the class!

And now time to practice some speaking with this prompts:

Here you can find an interesting article related to money for you to practice your reading and acquire some new vocabulary:

Let's continue with an exercise about grammar. This time on the use of the Present Perfect and the Past Simple:

Have a look at the Grammar Bank:

We mustn't forget to practice listening. This time about a very current topic: scasms.

Audio 2.12

And to finish, a song from ABBA: Happy New Year

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th October 2022

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th October 2022

For starters, a game to review the Present Perfect:

Then, we will correct our homework.

After that, have a look at this notes and worksheet about the Present Perfect:

You can further practice with this online exercise. This time you have to choose between Present Perfect and Past Simple:

Time to improve our listening skills with this activity:

Now, time to start practicing our writing. Let's start with an informal e-mail. Have a look at this example and its answer:

Now it is time for you to practice. Answer the following e-mail that a friend of yours sent you:

Here you can find a guide on how to write it. Have a look!

And to finish, as usual, a song:

Adele, "Set Fire to the Rain"

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th October 2022

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th October 2022

Let's start reviewing the expression of the future with this game:

And now let's move on to a challenging tense: the Present Perfect

Let's have a quick practice with this exercise:

And some extra work with this worksheet:

Practicing it is not meant to be boring, so check it out with this game about the Present Perfect:

We mustn't forget to do some reading and listening activities, so let's have a look at this interesting piece of news:

And to finish, a song: 

The Smiths "There is a light that never goes out" (1986)

Weekly Planning: 14th & 19th October 2021

Weekly Planning: 14th & 19th October 2021 

Today we are going to review the Present Perfect and Past Simple:

Let's practice with this GAME

And now let's see how to use the Present Perfect with for & since:

Did you get it right? Practice HERE

And let's finish with a song to review the uses of articles:

Adele's Skyfall

Weekly Planning 19th January 2021

Weekly Planning 19th January 2021

This week we have worked on two worksheets about the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous:

You can further practice and have some fun with this Bamboozle about it (click on the image to access):

Regarding the Student's Book, we have covered the contents of page 23, about grammar (Present Perfect vs Progressive) and page 165 (grammar explanation).

We have continued then with a Listening practice (page 24) about "classroom design":

And here you can find the listening transcript (page 192):

And here you can find the last song we worked on:

That's all for this week, since there will be no class on Thursday.

Weekly Planning: 12th November 2020

Weekly Planning: 12th November 2020

Today we have corrected our homework about the future and talked about our plans (for tonight, for tomorrow, for the weekend, for next summer, ...) using the differente forms of future we have learnt (present simple, present continuous, going to, will, ...)

GRAMMAR:

Present Perfect and its use with for / since

Here you can find a video explaining the use of the Present Perfect in conjunction with since/for:

And a very helpful summary:

MEDIATION:

We have started to train with mediation activities, since it is a new skill to be evaluated in our EOI exams.

Here you have a video explaining the importance of mediation:

And here you can find another video about mediation. This time it is a hands-on  example, including the production and correction:

So, now that you are a bit more familiar with mediation, you can try to do this mediation exercise:

And to conclude our lesson, a song to improve our listening skills and our vocabulary:

Song: 500 Miles by The Proclaimers