This week we have started a new unit. But we mustn't forget what we have learned in the last one: especially the use of the Present Perfect, which we use when something has started in the past but it's still going on.

Now we are practicing .the present tenses: Present Simple and Present Continuous, focusing particularly in the way to ask questions, which always follows the same formula in English: auxiliary verb + subject + verb. In the Present Simple the auxiliary is do or does (depending on the person) and in the Present Continuous is the verb to be: am, are, is.

We have been working on how to describe character or personality and have learned a number of adjectives to do this: hard-working and lazy, friendly and unfriendly, shy and extrovert, generous and mean, boring and interesting, serious and funny, talkative and quiet and some other words.

Remember that when you want a description of a person the question to ask is:

What's he/she/name like?

The word like in this question is a preposition and you must differentiate it from the word like in the question:
What do you like? or What does he/she/name like? In these questions the word like is a verb.

We also studied a little bit about relative clauses. We used the relatives who - for people- which -for things, where - for places. We may also use that instead of which or who. 
Students had to define some words using relative clauses such as: a cinema is a place where you can watch films. A waiter is a man who works in a restaurant and serves the food on the tables. A fridge is a machine which keeps food cold.


Homework

As I promised, here is a link to a video so you can train your ear. Listen to the video on top first (without subtitles). Then, if you find it necessary watch the video at the bottom, the one with subtitles.http://www.real-english.com/reo/40b/unit40b.asp
Answer the questions:

How does Tyler describe his girlfriend?

Who uses the following words to describe their loved ones? Caring, gorgeous, charming, easy going, handsome, embarrassing.

Example: Who uses the word determined?

Tyler uses the word determined when he describes his girlfriend.


Enjoy yourselves!