Mind Your English!

Hi, folks!

I just wanted to remind you that on Monday we'll have the last class before Christmas holidays, so we'll have a lot of fun playing games and singing Christmas carols. Remember that on Tuesday, 22nd you are invited to come to the CHRISTMAS PARTY 2009 in the "Salón de Actos". Here is the list of activities (don't be shy and take part in any of them, you can win fantastic prizes!):

17:00 Entrega de los platos para el concurso gastronómico.

18:00 Presentación del acto.

18:15 Presentación y degustación de productos típicos franceses a cargo de representantes del Centro comercial E.Leclerc (Idioma Francés con traducción al Castellano).

19:15 Entrega de premios:

· mi expresión favorita
· concurso gastronómico

19:45

· Actuaciones de los alumnos de la E.O.I. con canciones de Navidad.

· Karaoke en Inglés

· Sorteo de un regalo entre los participantes en las actividades musicales.

By the way, I really enjoyed reading about your embarrassing situations, some of them were really funny!
Please, write them down on the "comments" section of this post so that your classmates can also read them, ok?

See you on Monday, cheers!

Published by Mariluz en 11:54 AM Comments

Good snowy Tuesday! Brrr!

Well, I guess yesterday some of you couldn't make it to the school because of the heavy snowfall, but a few students finally turned up and we had a regular class. We basically corrected homework about quantifiers (see answers) and we went over the reading test you did last Wednesday. In Básico 2A we finished unit 3D by learning how to ask for and give directions, and tomorrow (if a new snowstorm lets us reach the school) we'll do a listening test to revise for the exam, OK? In Básico 2B we already did the test and tomorrow we'll finish Unit 3D.

If you want to revise unit 3, download these files:

Unit Test 3
Unit Test 3 (answer key)

You can also do the Review test of unit 3 on page 150 of your Student's book and check your answers here.

 Now watch this video about directions:

Published by Mariluz en 2:40 PM Comments

Hi!

I'm back in action! After a long weekend it's always hard to get down to work but we'll try and do it. Yesterday we learnt some vocabulary for describing towns and worked on quantifiers, words (or phrases) that say how much or how many of something there is (or isn't), that is, the quantity. This is the chart I wrote on the blackboard for you to learn:

We use…	with CNs	with UNs	in + sentences	in questions	in – sentences
some	√	√	√	√*	x
any	√	√	x	√	√
much	x	√	x	√	√
many	√	x	√	√	√
a lot/lots of	√	√	√	√	√
a few	√	x	√	any	few
a little	x	√	√	any	little
enough	√	√	√	√	√

For homework, you must do the exercise 3 on the grammar section, p 31 and the exercise on this activity sheet.

Extra activities:

Much and many
Little and few 
Quantifiers, too, not enough (1)
Quantifiers, too, not enough (2)

Quantifiers worksheets with answers (pdf)

Extra listenings:

What is good about your home town?
What is bad about your home town?

See you on Friday!

Published by Mariluz en 5:02 PM Comments

Hi, folks!

December is finally here and it's freezing out there, but the good news is that few weeks are left for Christmas! Anyway, before the end of this term, I'd like to test you on the reading and listening skills. If we have time left tomorrow, you'll complete a reading task and I'll mark it for you so you can see if you're doing well so far.

Yesterday 30th November was St. Andrew's Day. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and St. Andrew's Day is Scotland's official national day. Check this site to learn about this festivity. Tomorrow's homework is on page 28. Do exercises 2, 3 and 4 about the text "Scots Abroad", and also think about any words that you associate with Scottish culture.

In our latest lesson we spoke about the problems in a shared flat and we learned some house and home collocations. We also listened to a conversation between two friends about where they live. Finally we did some exercises on countable and uncountable nouns with some, any & no.  For more practice, do the following activities.

Grammar:

(Un) Countable nouns

Some/any

Extra listenings:


British Council Elementary Podcast 05 Home (download the file and listen to section 6, Carolina)   
(+ exercises and transcript)

The Roommate quiz game (see transcript)

Finally, remember that tomorrow is the last day to hand in your assignment on an embarrassing situation. If you can't attend the class tomorrow, you can always send me an e-mail with your assignment in an attachment.

Cheers!

Published by Mariluz en 4:41 PM Comments