23rd March

Today we've talked about health and illness.
We started the class marking some expressions according to whether they were good or bad for our health. Then we read four short texts about what some people did to keep healthy and expressed our opinions about them.
To continue with this topic, we did a health quiz and talked about what we usually do to treat some illness. Then, we listened and checked if we were right or not (t.10.1).
After that,we completed some expressions with verbs and adjectives/nouns combination.
Then, we read an extract from a website and listened to a patient calling to a helpline to ask for advice for his problem (t10.2).
To consolidate the new vocabulary and structures, we did a role-play in which the students acted as doctors and patients.
We finally listened to other two patients talking about their problems and completed a dialogue with the missing words (t6.4)
Homework: vocabulary photoocopy about illness and disease, injuries

16th March

We finished the topic talking about money and shopping reading a text about tipping in Britain and asnswering the comprehension questions.
Then, we started a new point of discussion:health and fitness. To start with, we did a questionnaire about healthy habits. The students answered the questions first, personally, and then, we listened to an expert giving the correct answers.
After  that, we expressed our opinions about the questionnaire and so, we could practise how to express surprise in English: I was surprised about...
Finally, we studied the grammar structure from this unit: first conditional.
Zero condtional is formed as follows: if+present/present
First conditional: if+present/future
We completed a grammar practice exercise, ad finally we did a personal list of ten pieces of advice to keep healthy.

9th March

During this session we finished talking about fashion. First, we listened to 5 different dialogues and we had to decide the thing they were buying (audio 8.4).
Then, we practised in pairs a conversation using the prompts given in the photocopy. (ex.7) and finally, we completed some gaps in the phrases.
We also learnt how to describe thing we don't know their exact name, using expressions like:
that thing that, that stuff, it's a type of, it's a kind of...

Then, we started a new topic, money. To start with, we match some definitions with the words and discussed in pairs some questions about how we usually spend our money. Then, in pairs tried to guess how people in other countries spent their money and then, we compared our guesses with what the graphics showed.

We studied the vocabulary related to money and finally we watched a video podcast in which some people talked about shopping.

Homework: Photocopy- Money vocabulary
                   Reading text about tipping in England.

2nd March

During this session we continued talking about fashion.
We corrected the pending exercises of vocabulary and continued working with a role-play dialogue in a boutique.
Dialogue
The students had to play the role of a customer shopping for clothes and the shop assistant. They needed to use the vocabulary learnt in class.
After that, we analysed different ways and places for shopping and read some pieces of advice: DOS AND DON'TS for shoppers.

Homework: Write a composition. Choose one of the 3 options from the photocopy.
          Complete photocopy 17. worksheet 2.Exercises 1,2.