Thursday 5th
March, 2015
Hello again!
We started the class yesterday with your presentations.
You read the biography of some public figures that you had downloaded from Wikipedia! At least, you could have corrected the language mistakes you found there! Ok, so you downloaded your homework straight away. (The ones who did homework, I mean). Next day, I want you to make the same presentation without reading the data. Let’s practise speaking!!!
As for our ‘Design
for Change’ project, I must admit I’m rather annoyed (very
disappointed) because we aren’t
getting anywhere! Could you make up your minds (make a decision) and suggest
something to do? There are only two classes left! Yes, I know Jorge is happy
because he’ll miss it! First you suggested making bags
to carry with you so as not to throw sunflower seeds shells to the ground. Then
you put
forward (suggested) talking about ‘bullying’ but you didn’t do
anything related to it…
At least you worked
in class!
We studied ‘past perfect’.
If the tense is ‘perfect’ it means the auxiliary verb
is ‘have’.
Present
perfect, present of ‘have’ (have /has)
Past perfect, past of ‘have’ (had)
And of course, the participle of the verb we are using. Regular verbs –ed
/ irregular verbs, the 3rd column of the list.
We compare the different past tenses with their uses.
1. When Sylvia arrived home at eight
o’clock, Tim cooked dinner.
o’clock, Tim cooked dinner.
First, Sylvia arrived home. After that, Tim cooked
dinner.
We use past
simple for finished actions in the past that happened one after the
other.
2. When Sylvia arrived home at eight o’clock, Tim was cooking dinner.
Tim had started cooking dinner before Sylvia arrived and he continued
after she got home. The action, cooking, was in progress when it was interrupted by the
arrival of Sylvia. It’s an
action in progress (past continuous) interrupted by a short, finished action, ‘arrived’.
3. When Sylvia arrived home at eight o’clock, Tim had cooked dinner.
When Sylvia arrived, Tim had finished cooking. Present perfect ‘had cooked’,
expresses an action that happened before another action in the past. First, Tim
cooked dinner and after that, Sylvia got home.
We went on (continued) the class reading and telling
stories.
In this way we practised the
different ways of expressing the past in English.
David told us the fable of ‘The hare and the tortoise’; Jorge, ‘The boy who cried wolf’; Paco, ‘The ant and the grasshoper’; Pilar &
Andrea helped Óscar with ‘The emperor’s
new clothes’. As for Alex, he seems not to remember any fable.
And we finished the class writing stories.
One student started a story and
the rest followed it up. I may have liked the plot (it’s possible I liked the story)
or not, but the big problem is being able to understand what you meant.
A pronoun is used to substitute a noun. If you use ‘he’ out of the blue (suddenly) without having previously
mentioned the person it refers to, I don’t know if you refer to Óscar, the orc
or what!!!
We’ll go through this next class.
Homework: I’d like you to do exercises 3 & 4
from photocopy p.18. To those who didn’t search for the biography of a public
person, please do it! And to everybody, present your ‘public figure’s biography’
orally. Prepare the talk.
As we didn’t have time for games
the week before, you have a general mark of 6.
GAME 7 GAME 8
Player 1
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6
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Player 2
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6
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Player 3
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6
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Player 4
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6
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Player 5
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6
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Player 6
|
6
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Player 7
|
6
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Player 1
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8
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Player 2
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6
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Player 3
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9
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Player 4
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6
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Player 5
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5
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Player 6
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9
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Player 7
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7
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See you on Thursday!
Have a nice weekend!
