Hi Again!!!

Thursday 9^th April

Hi, we’re back! All of us except Paco!

We started the class talking about last Easter.

Then we talked about the news.

The news is that only Pilar and Óscar did homework!!!

Now, honestly…we commented on recent news. The most striking (surprising) items referred to the ‘German wings’ plane crash, the tragic death of two Spanish mountaineers in Morocco while they were potholing (exploring caves) and the terrorist attack on tourists at the Tunis museum.

Then, we read a really interesting news article, “Kangaroo saves farmer’s life.”

It was the story of a kangaroo that was adopted by an Australian farmer after the kangaroo’s mother had been run over by a car and was killed. Time went by (passed) and the kangaroo grew up (became an adult). One day there was a terrible storm that damaged the fence around the farm. The farmer was repairing it when a branch of a tree came off and hit him unconscious. The kangaroo was standing near him and started to make a loud noise (bark) to attract somebody’s attention. The kangaroo succeeded and the farmer’s family came to help him.

It was a nice story. Unfortunately most of the news is usually bad

Afterwards, we started a new topic: ‘The world of work’ I know it’s a bit too soon for you to start looking for a job because you are very young and you are supposed to finish your studies first but…Who knows? Maybe in a couple of years’ time you will search for a summer job so as to get some extra money for your driver’s license or to go on holiday with your friends or any other thing… and then, being able to speak English will become handy! (be useful).

Here is some useful vocabulary related to the topic.

And we finish the class doing a personality test in order to match our personalities to the right job for you!

There were questions such as:

·  Are you good at listening to people?

·  Don’t you mind not earning a very large salary?

·  Does taking risks stress you?

·  Is it important for you to be creative?

·  Are you able to calculate space and time?

Etc.

This test may not have helped to match the job to your personality but it helped to introduce the grammar topic of ‘gerunds and infinitive’ that we will try in depth (with attention), next week.

Enjoy the weekend! See you on Thursday!