Class: Wednesday, 20^th March 2013

Unit 4: Review

Can-Do Objectives:  Talk about education

                               Describe homes

                               Talk about friends

Pages: 66 and 67

Grammar: Conditionals, used to

Vocabulary: Education and Homes

Homework: Workbook pg. 50 and 51; work on Oral Project

Remember: Our first class after the holiday will be on the 3^rd of April. We will start 15 minutes early.

Class: Wednesday, 13^th March 2013

Unit 5B/C: Job swap

Can-Do Objectives: Generalize about men and women’s habits

                               Talk about work

Pages: 74, 75 and 76

Grammar: Prepositions after verbs and adjectives

Vocabulary: smooth, sticky, polish, cleansing, facial, swap, apply for, get promoted, to be sacked

Homework: Workbook pg. 49; write composition from the latest blog list; hand in draft of Written Project.

Remember: NO CLASS on Monday, 18^th March!

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Class: Monday, 11^th March 2013

Exam results: I’ll be correcting your exams as fast as I can. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get them all done before you go on holiday but be patient.

Homework: Work on your Writing Project so that you can turn the draft in before the Easter holidays. Also, you should be telling me what your Oral Project (Topic) is going to be about by the 20^th of March.

Class: Wednesday, 6^th March 2013

Unit 3: Review

Can-Do Objectives: Describe a person’s personality and physically

                              Talk about money, manners, food

 Talk about obligations

 Make deductions

 Compare forms of transport

 Talk about your habits

Pages: 50 and 51

Grammar: Grammar Banks for Units 1 – 3

Vocabulary: Vocabulary Banks –

from Food and restaurants to Describing People

Homework: Study for Monday’s Exam on Units 1 – 3. E-mail me about any doubts you might have.

  

Remember Calendar stuff: Starting on the 11^th of March we will end class 15 minutes later, at 18:15, to make up for my absence. (Sorry.) We will do so for 6 classes: 11^th, 13^th, 20^th March and 3^rd, 8^th, and 10^th April. No class on the 18^th March (San Jose). No class from the 22^nd March to 1^st April both dates included, (Easter).

Class: Monday, 4^th March 2013

Unit 5B: Same planet, different worlds

Can-Do Objectives: Generalize about men and women

Pages: 72 and 73

Grammar: a/an, the, no article; review of future time clauses

Vocabulary: bed sheets, to suit, whereas, however, on the other hand

Homework: Workbook pg 48; Course book pg. 73 Reading and pg. 152 Vocabulary bank - Work

Remember: By now you should have a better idea about the topic for your Written Project. I’m sending in an e-mail, again, with the Project Organizer. Don’t forget that we will have an ‘exam’ for units 1-4 on the 11^th of March.

Also, here are additional writing topics related to units 4 and 5:

High school vs. university: a comparison

The subject I hated the most in high school and why

What a good teacher should do

Why I chose to do the degree I’m doing

If I were rich, I would...

If I were a man/woman, I would...

My ideal home

My ideal partner

What makes a good friend

Things I used to do when I was 5 but now I don’t

You can turn in compositions at any time. You know I will correct anything you want me to.