Wednesday 31 January 2024

Thursday 25 January 2024

HOLIDAYS (U3)

1. Watch the video. What types of holidays do they mention?

2. Watch the video again. Where do the speakers go? What do they do there?

PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS, USED TO

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE VS CONTINUOUS

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

PAST SIMPLE, PERFECT AND CONTINUOUS

NOUNS TO ADJECTIVES

Sunday 21 January 2024

CLOTHES

1. Describe what one of the people in the picture is wearing. Don't say who it is. Your classmates must guess the person you are talking about.

2. Describe an item of clothing. Your classmates must guess what it is.

3. Test your vocabulary.

4. Choose the odd one out and explain why it doesn't fit.

SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES

STAN LEE: THE MAN WHO INVENTED SPIDERMAN

CONSCIOUSNESS (C1-U4)

MORE ABOUT NOUN PHRASES

THE PASSIVE CAUSATIVE

PASSIVE AND CAUSATIVE EXERCISES

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE 4 (ADVANCED)

EVERYDAY ENGLISH (4C)

1 What has been the same about Nadia’s behaviour and what has been different?

2 How do you think Sara feels when she is asking Alex for Max’s phone number? Why?

3 What advice does Alex give Sara? Why?

Wednesday 10 January 2024

HOUSE AND HOME

OUR HOUSE

BRAINSTORM!

Write down as many words related to the HOME that you can think of.

JUST FOR FUN

Describe the sequence of events in the video.

A ROOM

HOME

HOMES OF THE FUTURE

GRAMMAR

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME: VIDEO, EXPLANATION AND PRACTICE

ADVERB POSITION

v BEFORE THE MAIN VERB

Ø We often watch movies on Friday nights.

v AFTER THE VERB "BE"

Ø Lucy is always punctual. She hates arriving late.

v AFTER AUXILIARY AND MODAL VERBS

Ø I can never understand what he says.

v WE PUT PHRASES AT THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF A SENTENCE.

Ø Every Friday, we have a family movie night with pizza.

Ø I have football practice twice a week.

Frequency Adverbs: video and online activities

WORKSHEET

Explanation and activity

WRITE: Put the words in the correct order.

ONLINE ACTIVITY

ONLINE ACTIVITY 2

LET'S PRACTISE!

Present Continuous review: video, explanation and practice

Read the explanation then do the activities

1. Dynamic and Stative verbs

2. Dynamic and Stative verbs 2

3. Dynamic and Stative verbs 3

4. Dynamic and Stative verbs 4

5. Dynamica and Stative verbs 5

2. Present Continuous explanation and activities

3. Listen to the recording then do the following:

A. Choose the correct answer for speakers 1, 2 and 3. How does each one feel about London?

B. Why? Note down your answers for speakers 1, 2 and 3.

C. Listen to the recording again and complete the activities.

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS: VIDEO, EXPLANATION AND ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

EXPLANATION:

QUANTIFIERS 1

ACTIVITY: AT, IN OR ON - EXPLANATION AND PRACTICE

ACTIVITY: AT, IN OR ON - EXPLANATION AND PRACTICE 2

ACTIVITY: AT, IN OR ON - EXPLANATION AND PRACTICE 3

Houses around the World

Watch the video and write down: the countries and one original characteristic of each house described.

21 Houses You Won't Believe Exist

SPONGEBOB THEME SONG

A LUXURY HOME

Describe your home to your classmates. Draw.

Monday 8 January 2024

It's winter!

OUT AND ABOUT

What are adverbs of degree?

We use adverbs of degree to qualify what we are talking about. I’m really happy, I’m quite happy or I’m not very happy.

Adverbs of degree can be split into two groups:

adverbs that intensify the degree of something

vs.

adverbs that weaken the degree of something.

Adverbs that increase, or intensify, the meaning include words such as: very, totally, completely, and absolutely. For example: I’m totally convinced Sam will quit his job.

Adverbs that decrease or weaken the degree of meaning include words such as: fairly, quite, slightly, and a bit. For example: I’m fairly certain it will rain tomorrow.

1. Weakening the meaning

There are times in English when we want to specifically describe our use of an adjective or adverb. For instance, we may wish to express that we are quite nervous or a bit cold. This is more exact than just saying I’m nervous or I’m cold. The adverbs in this category are all used in the same way. The position of the adverb is before the adjective or adverb.

2. Intensifying the meaning (gradable adjectives)

There are many adverbs that intensify, or make the meaning stronger. For grammatical reasons, we need to separate these adverbs into two groups. Our choice of adverb depends on whether the adjective (which the adverb is intensifying) is gradable or ungradable.

For example, ‘hot’ is a gradable adjective, but ‘boiling’ is ungradable. So, we can say: It is very hot AND It is absolutely boiling, but NOT It is very boiling. The table below gives further examples of gradable and ungradable adjectives and the intensifiers used with them.

Intensifier + gradable adjective	Intensifier + ungradable adjective
Very cold	Absolutely freezing
Extremely tired	Completely exhausted
Really happy	Absolutely ecstatic
Very hungry	Totally starving

MORE EXAMPLES

TOO AND ENOUGH