17th November

We started the session correcting the pending listening exercises the students had been asked to complete at home.
Then, we commented the different types of problems one can have when on holidays and studied the differences between those adjectives ending in -ing and -ed.

Read the grammar and click on the quiz1/2/3 of the left

We continued the class with the photocopies from the coursebook "Trinity Grades 5-6". We focused on a series of pictures taken in different parts of the world. The students had to deduce where they were from, which continent, and then, reviewed the differences between travel, trip and journey. To finish, we completed a chart with words connected to the topic of travelling and used those expressions to describe the pictures form the beginning of the unit.



Homework: photocopy from Trinity coursebook p.56 "exam expert", ex.13a,b,c,d
exam expert- t.20

10th November

During this session we worked the vocabulary and reading skills, but the ss had also their first contact with the reality of the Trinity exam.
To start with ,we corrected the pending exercise about the vocabulary bank ( holiday accomodation).
Then we read 3 texts written by different people who experienced something wrong during their holidays. The ss had to match the photos with the texts and find adjectives synomyms to very good and very bad.

After that, we worked the pronunciation of the regular past tense and listened to Sean telling the story of his aunt and uncle's disaster holiday (t.2.3).
To finish with the photocopies, we did an oral activity (ex.6). The ss had to write the correct questions and the ask them to their classmates.

We ended the class with a mind map. In the Trinity exam they can bring a piece of paper with a mind map written on it, and it's related to the topic they are going to develop.
The ss were asked to create a mind map together as a whole class, it should be based on the topic "the most important person in my life". At home they need to think of possible answers to the questions the examiner can ask about that topic.

Homework- Real life-dealing with problems ex.2,3

2nd November

During this session we finished the topic about friends and relationships. First, we read a short text about a BBC TV documentary and the ss answered some comprehension questions, then we did an experiment to check if our brain was male or female (audios 1.3,1.4,1.5) and discussed the conclusions.
After that, we worked on the vocabulary and talked about the roles played either by men or women.
(To work at home, the ss were asked to bring a composition about an important person in their lives).

Then, we started a new topic: travel and tourism.
To start with, the ss had to make questions to the teacher to find out about her last holiday, then ,in pairs, they needed to write down 5 things they like doing when they're on holiday. And finally, we completed a photocopy full of expressions related to this new topic.

double object verbs grammar+exercises

27th October

During this session we talked about family and relationships. To start with, we asked our classmates to find out as much as we could about their family, job and likes. Then, we read some questions which used common expressions related to this new topic and then, after finding the correct answer to each of them, we asked them to our partner.

Then we did the vocabulary exercise about the family tree and read a text about some celebrities' ancestors. To finish the first half, we did a listening comprehension exercise in which a man talked about his family members (ex.5A,T.1.1).

The students were asked to work at home the Grammar and Practice exercises, on the same page, at home.

We finished the class talking about a controversial topic: differences between men and women. (watch the funny video).We read a text which mentioned some stereotypes and discussed if we agreed or not. With this text, we were also introduced the grammar point (review of tenses).

20th October

During this class we reviewed the question forms (Photocopy "All about you") .

Wh-question+auxiliary verb+subject+ verb

First, we had a look at 4 different photos, we analysed them and finally thought about different questions these people might be asking.

Then we listened to the CD (T.1.1) and answered the questions with our personal ideas, completed some other questions with the missing verbs and tried to join those sentences with the photos.

Finally, we worked in pairs and suggested questions to the situations proposed in ex.4 (T1.4)

Homework: Grammar exercises about present continuous, question forms.
                    Watch the video podcast and do the comprehension exercises.

13th October

We started the session reviewing the questions expressed in different tenses and which could be used in the oral exam by the Trinity exarminer.

Then we moved to the grammar point of the present tense. The students elicited its meaning: to talk about habits and routines, general truths and its form: -s/-es in the 3rd person singular, the use of auxiliary do/does for making questions.

After that, we studied some expressions used to talk about routines which included common verbs like : do, have, take and get. Then, we read a text about the best time of the day to do certain things and we finished the class completing more expressions with go,take,get and go.

For homework the students were asked to do the grammar point 1B about the use of present simple and complete the vocabulary exercise related to collocations.

It would be advisable you wrote a short composition about your daily habits using the new collocations and expressions. It can be collected in our next class or send it by email to olgapelaezster@gmail.com

*** Go to pronunciation page if you want to learn more about silent letters in English
** Go to grammar page to study and practise the present simple tense

6th October

Trinity College London

Click on the link and here you'll have direct access to the syllabus in Spoken English Examination. Go to page 26. There level 5-6 starts. And that's your B1 level exam. Pay attention to the topics we'll deal in class and start thinking about the topic you'll talk about in your examination.

Remember: you can't choose any of the topic we'll work in class, they have to be completely different.
Trinity College- syllabus