WEEK 10 17th - 23rd February 2014

Hello dear students,
How are you doing?

It was great to see that Sergio brought the assignment to class this week and draw what he has in his head and what he is passionate about. Samuel and Mario also did it well in class. We spend quite a long time making questions and asking about your interests. I learnt lots of new facts about your daily life and the things you are interested in. I really enjoyed listening to you all. It's nice to see when we talk about something we like, structures seem to be easier. Thanks for your participation in class. You all did it great!!!!!! I love it when you try your best. Here are your masterpieces, very interesting choices!!!!

Then we practiced again the structure: "How long does it take you to do something?" not only in questions but in answers using all the tenses: present simple, past simple, present perfect, future, etc.

We went on reviewing future tenses. We wrote sentences in all the futures and we realised that: When we use the future perfect or future perfect continuous we use have+past participle after will: I will have finished the book by the end of the month.

We also had some rephrasing to do, which involves changing the structure of the sentence in order to have the same meaning as the sentence given. As we had seen comparatives and superlatives the previous lessons, this rephrasing was to practice that. We did 5 sentences in class. For homework we go on with sentences 6 to 11. Don´t forget to do it, it´s just a review and it won´t take long.

I pointed out (phrasal verb, another one!!!! meaning draw attention to, observe, remark on) the difference between later and latter not only in phonetics but in usage. Check this link and try to do the exercise and bring it to class next Monday, we will be correcting the exercise on Monday in class, OK?

later vs. latter

Here it´s a link to distinguish between : late, last, later, latter, latest:

late, last, later, latter, latest

As we also have learnt the difference between former and latter, I have included a link:

former vs. latter


As required here you have a great variety of future perfect and future continuous:

future perfect vs. future continuous

Remember for homework:

1. photocopy rephrasing: 6 to 11. 
2. do the exercises of phrasal verbs : put up, put off, put out, put on, put aside.... 
3. vocabulary travel exercise 7
4. preposition and vocabulary for traveling 8 and 9
5. Record yourself practicing sentences like: how long does it take you to do something? in different tenses (remember endings in pronunciation -ed, -s)

We are finishing traveling and going into the next topic: how we learn a foreign language. As we have talked about the importance of learning I think the next link is going to be to your liking. It's a questionnaire about your type of learning. I have already done mine, we will talk about that next class.

how do I learn best?

Ok students, that's all for now. Have a nice week, enjoy yourselves and review. Bye.