Contents of the course

Tuesday 31st July

During this last session we completed the sub-topic of travelling by plane. We listened to a conversation between a member of the ground staff and a traveller. The students had to correct the mistakes in the dialogue.

Then we studied the vocabulary related to trains and buses and watched a video about the tube in London. The students had to test their visual memory and correct and complete some phrases. (You can check the answers to the unfinished exercises in the documents section).
We also reviewed the differences between travel, trip and journey.

To finish this course, we had a sort of contest in which the students had to answer correctly to some questions studied in class.

Thursday 26th July

We started a new topic: travelling. During this session the students thought about their dream holiday and compared it to a survey carried out on the net.

After that, we talked about problems while travelling, the students told their personal experiences and checked the vocabulary related to airports.

We continued discussing about those things we must or mustn't do in an airport and about airport/aircraft security.

Then, we learnt how to give and ask for advice and listened to several conversations to practise these new structures.
To consolidate this point, the students had to create sentences of advice/warning using some prompts and correct the mistakes in other sentences.

To finish the class, we listened to 6 different announcements in an airport and the students had to complete the gaps in a table.

Tuesday 24th July

We finished the topic related to working life. To start with, we corrected the pending exercise about look,seem and appear. Then, we quickly explained the main differences in use between as/like. The students will have to complete the grammar exercises at home and they'll be corrected next Thursday.

After that, we studied and reviewed the grammar of the question tags. To do so, the students had to elicit the grammatical structures and  their main use. In this case, we focused on its functions of looking for confirmation. We could also practise the intonation and consolidate our knowledge by means of a role-play activity.

Then, we tried to practise the new grammatical structures in an oral activity. The students were asked to role-play as job seekers and job interviewers. They needed to prepare a dialogue for job interview as a head chef in a Korean restaurant.

To finish the class, the students were asked to watch a video job application and analyze its visual impact, the tone of the candidate's voice and his qualities or attributes for the post.

Thursday 19th July

During this session we continued studying how to write an online profile. We kept on working on the example and analyzing its content and structures.

Then, we listened to 4 different people talking about recruitment in their countries: Venezuela, Ireland, England and China. The students could also read about some useful  advice when applying for a job in a foreign country.(audio+script uploaded)

After that, we analyzed a job advert published in a Spanish paper. It was full of mistakes (grammar, false friends…). The students had to identify them and try to correct them. Then we did the same with an applying letter.

To finish the class, we learnt more about copular verbs: look, seem and appear. They have similar meanings but they can differ grammatically.

Tuesday 17th July

We finished the first topic about friends and relationships dealing with flat problems. The students had to listen to two tenants phoning their rental agent and complaining about an unsolved problem (audios section).
After listening the students had to write about a possible problem in their flat and then role play a dialogue with a classmate who acted as a rental agent.
Go to grammar section, read about the passive voice (have something done) and do the exercises online.
 
Then we started a new topic: working life.
To introduce it we did a matching exercise, in which the students had to find definitions to certain words. After that, we listened to someone being interviewed for a charity and the students not only answered some comprehension questions but also completed some expressions to describe skills and talents.

To consolidate the new structures students did an oral activity: they had to describe an odd job.



 To finish the class we learnt about online profiles. We read and analysed an example given in one of the photocopies.

Thursday 12th July

We started the lesson revising the topics to be asked when interviewing a new flatmate. Thus, we could also review how to make questions in English.
The students paid attention to a slide projected on the board with some incomplete questions. They needed to listen and complete them and then, identified different types of questions:
-indirect questions
-subject questions
-with prepositions
to consolidate this grammar point, the students had to make questions using the prompts.
(go to grammar section to download this document).

We continued the class studying the vocabulary related to personality.
They first read the descriptions from a flatmate finder site, discussed who they'd like to live with, and then, matched some phrases in bold from those texts with their definitions. Finally, we read some descriptions and matched them with some personlaity adjectives.

After that, we did a role-play activity. Half the class were looking for a room and the other half had a spare room to share. The activity consisted of interviewing each other to find the perfect lodger. Here's an example of a possible dialogue:




We finished the class watching a video about flatsharing (go to videos section) and answering some comprehension.