I already uploaded the listenings to the Aula Virtual. The names of the files are: Ordering a meal, Mistakes and Social English. The last one is new, we didn't listen to it in class. It goes with an exercise at the end of the page 36.

Remember this week we have been talking about food and meals.

Some cooking methods are:

boil
fry 
bake

When we eat dinner we usually have a starter, a main course and a dessert.
In Britain and in the USA the main course is usually a combination of  meat or fish, potatoes and vegetables.
In most restaurants they'll give you a choice of potatoes:Fries or baked potato? (Very often they will also offer you mashed potatoes.)
If you are eating meat they will ask you: How do you want your steak? Rare, medium or well done?


Yesterday we started a new unit. The grammar focus in this unit is the Present Perfect tense of the verb. We had already studied it at the beginning of the year, but it's not easy to use so it's not a bad idea to go over it.
We use the Present Perfect (this is the main idea) when an action started in the past and it's still going on.
We use it to talk about experience as at the beginning of the unit: Have you ever been to a Zara store?

We can say things like: Have you ever tried Mexican food? Have you ever played an instrument? And so on.

HOMEWORK
Complete test on page 38.
Answer questions about the article: 1b
Write 4 questions about the article.

Clara: if you have the time you can do the writing ( a reply letter) on page 37.

Hello!

I already uploaded the listening to the Aula Virtual. It's called Dream Interpretation. It's just below the other listenings.

Yesterday we listened to a psychoanalyst asking a patient questions about a dream. Then we matched the images in the dream to possible interpretations. The tenses used were the Past Simple (for completed actions)  and the Past Continuous (when we want to focus the attention on the time spent in an action).

Some new words the we studied are:

Success (n)
Successful (adj)
Succeed (v)
Owl
Nightmare (a bad dream)

Students talked about their own dream and nightmares.

Clara had made her own horoscopes for some of the astrological signs. She made her predictions using verb + will. Here is a the video with the interviews about astrological signs. http://www.real-english.com/reo/7/unit7.aspThe main questions asked are:

What's your astrological sign?
What are ......(a specific sign) like?

HOMEWORK

Do the Grammar exercises on p. 35. Ex. 2, a & b.
Do the Vocabulary exercise on p. 35. About is a very common preposition. It is used with verbs like: talk, think, ask, dream, write. 
The verb think can also take the preposition of, mostly when the object is a person.

These ones are not phrasal verbs, because the meaning of the verb remains the same.

Write about an interesting dream you remember.

Listen to the Dream Interpretation and write down the most interesting parts.

Last week  we continued practicing will +infinitive for a number of purposes.

The first purpose is making predictions:

Example: You won't get the job


We also use it to make promises:

Example: I'll pay you back.


To make an offer:

Example:  Shall I clean the windows?


To make a sudden decision:

Example: Ill call him right now.
  

In our last lesson we read about promises people usually make but find it very hard to keep. Promises like I won't tell anybody, I'll pay you back or I'll always love you. 

Remember we say:

make a promise
and
keep a promise

We studied other words: , research, injection, journey, to mean (be sincere, have the intention to do what we say), to swap, whole.

Verbs + back: pay back, call back, came back, take back, give back.

HOMEWORK

Read the horoscopes in Workbook sheet I gave you (You have it, Diana) and write 3 more horoscopes for other astrological signs. Make up the predictions and imitate the style.

Finish the exercises in the sheets I gave you.

Happy New Year 2015!

Let's hope it's a good one

Without any fear.

(Happy Christmas by John Lennon)

In our first lesson this term we studied  will + verb for predictions.

For instance, when you say:

I am having a job interview tomorrow. (We use the present continuous to talk about the near future. Remember? That's the last thing we studied last month.)

And somebody, who is a bit pessimistic tells you:

You won't (will not) get the job.  That is a prediction, which may come or not come true.

We practiced conversations like that one, then we practiced the pronunciation of  the contractions: I'll, you'll, he'll, she'll, it'll we'll, you'll, we'll, they'll. Also the difference between the words want and won't.

We listened the presentation of a Radio Program. In this program they talk about how important it is to have a positive attitude in life: to be optimistic as opposed to pessimistic.

You can find that listening plus 2 more in the Aula Virtual: Remember that in order to log in you must use your ID number + letter as a user's name and a password, which is the same for everybody. Call the school if you don't remember it.

The names of the files for listening are: Want & Won't, Radio Program and Tips.  We didn't do the last one in class but I suggest you listen to it at home and then write 4 tips given in the program to stay positive.

HOMEWORK

Write 10 statements as the example above followed by a  negative predictions using will + verb or won't + verb.

I am having a job interview tomorrow.   

You won't get the job.

You can also do the listening exercise written above.