Classes 6-7. Monday-Wednesday 27-29/01

Hello

This week we´ve been talking about Dream Jobs. What is your dream job?
Watch this video where different people answer this question. Does the majority have a dream job or not?
Dream Job Video

We also listened to some people talking about the jobs they would like to do. Listen to it again:
Cool Jobs Listening

What jobs would you never do? Why? Listen to six people talking about it:
Bad Jobs Listening


We also learnt some new vocabulary.
We talked about "strong adjectives".
These are the adjectives that have the idea of "very", they emphasize the quality:
big - huge
good - wonderful etc.

Practise strong adjectives:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

We started talking about one more grammar issue - "used to" and "would".




Used to or would are used to talk about a repeated past action that now is no longer performed. You can use Past Simple as well:
When I was a pupil, I used to take a bus to school. 
or I took a bus to school when I was a pupil.

Past simple and NOT used to - to talk about an action in the past that happened once:
Once I won a competition.

Used to and NOT would - for a past state:
I used to be very naughty at school. 

Practise used to and would:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Your homework: practise the vocabulary and grammar in the copies and online!

Classes 4-5. Monday-Wednesday 19-21/01

Hello

This week we talked about some confusing words in English or those that are false friends in Spanish:
actually - currently
forget - leave
remember - remind
work - job
fun - funny
career - course etc.

You can practise more with the following exercise:
Commonly Confused Words 

Also some words are false friends like caree or actually, they exist in Spanish, but have  different meaning (carera - Higher Education, actualemente - nowadays, currently etc.)

Here´s a list of some very common false friends. Choose those that seems familiar to you and which you usually use incorrectly:

Spanish False Friends

We also started talking about grammar (modal verbs - should/shouldn´t, must/mustn´t, have to/don´t have to):

Should - advice, it´s a good idea to do that
Shouldn´t - advice not to, it´s a bad idea to do that
Must - personal obligtion
Mustn´t - prohibition
Have to - rule, external obligation
Don´t have to - not necessary

Here´re some exercises to practise:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Also here´s a link for a BBC Learning course. Unit 10 - Jobs. Do some extra practise!
BBC Unit 10 - Jobs

Your homework: practise the vocabulary and grammar using the exercises in your copies and online.

Classes 2-3. Monday-Wednesday 12-14/01

Hello

This week we´ve started a new topic "Jobs and money". 

So, we revised some jobs and professions, we also talked about different personal qualities each job needs to have (a risk taker, competitive, to think out of box etc.)

If you want to practise more and improve your vocabulary, check for these links:
Jobs Exercises
Describing People Exercises

Choose the exercises form the list and practise, check your answers.

We also discussed a text "Have you got what it takes" about millionaires. What are millionaires like? What qualities do you need to have to be one?

Watch a BBC video about the survey they did on mi the millionaires:
BBC Video

Answer the questions in the comments below:
What qualities are necessary to be a millionaire?
How did millionaires "make themselves"?


One of your tasks at home is to study the examples of easy confused words (job, work, career, profession etc). Practise in the following webpage:
Job, work Difference Exercise

Your homework: to do the copy with confusing words and exercises in the copies.

Trimester II. Wednesday 07/01

Hello
I´m happy to see you again at our classes. Hope you had some rest and enjoyed your holidays.

So, at the class we revised the use of future expressions. Especially, the use of - to be going to and will to predict future.

will - to predict far future or express our opinion about future:
In the future we´ll use flying cars.
I think Atletico de Madrid will win the match. 

to be going to - to predict future based on the evidence
There´re a lot of black clouds, it´s going to rain.

You can practise with the following exercises:
Grammar 1
Grammar 2

We also learnt some new idioms: small talk, not my cup of tea, to be on one´s mind, run out of time etc. 

There´re loads of idioms and they´re changing all the time, becuase idioms mostly are used in spoken language. The best recommendation is to learn those you like or hear very often and always in the context.
Here´s a link for a fun youtube channel where they explain different (American) idioms:
American idioms
Also you may learn idioms by categories:
English idioms categories

Your homework is to finish grammar tasks in your copies and choose 5 idioms to illustrate them in your situations.