WEEK 11 24th February - 2nd March 2014

Hello students,

How are you doing?

We reviewed the chart I last gave you in which you had 24 character strengths and you had to mark them from 1-24 in order of importance for you. And you were right!!! Some of them should be number 1. It was great to see you attempt the exercise. We link the nouns and the adjectives too, so we broadened our vocabulary a bit more:

grit-gritty;

resilience-resilient

open-mindedness- open-minded vs. narrow-minded;

bravery-brave

creativity-creative

curiosity-curious

fairness-fair

gratitude-grateful

hope-hopeful

humility-humble

We went through your homework and corrected them.

We corrected and reviewed vocabulary about travelling. We had a look at collocations: to go on/to be on/ to take a holiday and some more vocabulary: package holidays, to book a flight, a long-haul flight. You did great work. Well done.

We had some listenings and we focused on stress of compound nouns.

Then we have a game “easy ride” in which you have to ask and answer some questions about travelling.

I really love your recordings, it was great to listen to them. I want to congratulate you on your work. Well done!!! For next Monday I think perhaps it could be an idea to record yourself on your daily activities to practise the endings of past simple, for example: On Monday, I got up at 7, I had breakfast, I had a shower, I put on my clothes, I kissed my mother goodbye, … etc. So you practise the ending of regular past simple and review the irregular past simple.

Also as homework you have the exercise on sentences for checking-in; on the page of rephrasing you have to do sentences 12 to 18 included; and on the page about travelling you should do the first exercise and try to do the second on adjectives.

Please, review everything we have seen in class, on Monday we will have an exercise to assess your progress.

Have a nice week. See you on Monday.