23rd February

During this session we did some exam practice. One of the students had to develop her topic and the rest of the class made questions about the content and how she prepared it.

After that, we started a new topic: fashion and money.
First we reviewed the vocabulry matching some photos and styles, then we tried to complete some exercises with the new expressions and listened to a couple talking about what to wear in a wedding (listening 16).

Homewrok: Complete vocabulary exercises 56.3, 56.4, clothes and shopping 17 ex.1a

16th February

During this session we revised the modal verbs of obligation and prohibitinon. We tsarted correcting the pending grammar exercises and then we put these structures into practice with an oral activity firt and then, working the vocabulry exercise from p.61.
In this exercise we had to describe the signs first, where we could find then and finally express our opinions about them.
To finish, we moved to the conversation phase section on p.63. We listened to a student talking about her topics and the teacher asking questions about she prepared them and the reasons why she chose them.(audio 23- trinity).

Homework: Write a composition about one of the topics you'll find on p.65

                     Go to audios section, listen to audio 5(16thFebrero) and match each of the staments you listen  to the situation where you hear them.

9th February

 During this class we completed the photocopy about Max, a journalist who did an intensive Spanish course. We listened to him and the test he took in MAdrid:
learn a language in a month- Max- listening exercise 3c-d

After that, we discussed how well we could do that test ,but in London and in English, and we learnt different modifiers alternative to very: incredibly, really, quite, a bit, not very...

Then, we described some pictures related to the topic of learning a foreign language and we match them with the vocabulary from the exercse 1a and finally discussed which were the three best ways to learn and improve a foreign language.

To finish the class, we read an article about the best tips to improve our foreign language and so we could identify the modal verbs of prohibition, necessity and obligation.

Homework: grammar exercises from Grammar focus photocopy (4a)
                   Grammar bank 3A
                   

2nd February

During this session we started a new topic: learning a foreign language.
We started looking at some scripts of different languages and trying to guess which they were. Then we listened and checked.
Then, we read an extract from a website article about Esperanto and wrote the questions to some FAQs  about Esperanto.
We continued the class, discussing the pros and cons of learning Esperanto and deciding the reasons why people learnt a foreign language.
We finished the class reading about an experiment carried out by a British journalist who decided to learn Spanish in one moth.

Homework: Topic "Making friends around the world" (photocopy "What languages do you speak?")
Listen to Mark and answer questions c/d 3.15.