WEEK 13 10th - 16th March 2014

Hello students,

How are you?

Today we have missed Samuel, I hope to see you in next session. Good luck with your exams, guys.

Let’s review what we have seen in the class today.

We have seen the tests and I hope you have learned from them. As homework we have to take the test again and see if we can understand the difference between future continuous, perfect and perfect continuous.

We went on with the topic: “learning a foreign language”, we read some quotations and decided which was the one we agree most and we discussed them. We have some micromoments in which you, students, built on each other’s responses, I loved and love that, it was really interesting how you defended your opinions. Well done.

We have talked about the reasons of learning a foreign language: we have to decide about the order of some statements given. Sergio and Mario did it pretty quick. You agree with each other’s order of importance. We talked about the difference between being “knowledgeable” and “wise”. It was an interesting discussion.

We also had a look on word formation, doing an exercise in which you had to decide which word was the correct one and how to form it from the roots given. We will have to do more exercises on word formation, it will help you to enrich your vocabulary.

I pointed out the importance of phonetics and we have seen in detail how to pronounce the /t/, /d/ /id/ in past. We saw the difference between voiced and unvoiced consonants and we had a pronouncing session of past regular verbs. We also did the exercise I posted on the last blog. We also saw some common verbs and their difference in pronunciation: “walk”, “work”; “love”, “laugh”.

I’m posting you a link in which you can actually listen to the correct sound and link it to the phoneme: 

phonemic chart

We end up with a game in which you have to pick the correct ending to a given starter to review some modals: ought to, need to, should, shouldn’t and structures like “want to”

I hope you have a good week, good luck with your exams. See you next Monday.