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Dear all, we worked on our books yesterday.  - First we listened to a song related to the topic: travelling. The song is Destination: anywhere by the Marvelettes - We did pages 21, 22 and 23 Your homework:  - page 131 exercises 1 and 2  - handout: matching headings and paragraphs On 9th November we will go to the assembly room to listen to a photographer tell us about his trips to The Antartica. The title of the talk is: Climate crisis in the end of the world If you´d like to have a password for educa.madrid so you can read books online on MADread, ask me for one. Remember you can also take out books from the school's library downstairs And if you'd like to see this exhibition in English at these times Miércoles 29 noviembre - 19h Miércoles 20 diciembre - 17.30h Jueves 14 diciembre - 19.00h Friday morning Please, send me a message. It's only 1 euro, the rest of the cost of the ticket will be paid by the school

In today's lesson we have revised:  - emphasis - reviews We have looked at expressions we can use in our dialogues HOMEWORK: Mediation ( a review)  And.... Look at this for the difference between travel, trip, cruise, journey and tour https://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/grammar/travel-trip-journey.html and try this exercise https://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/travel-trip-journey_quiz1.html

We have looked today at: - vocabulary related to films - reviews of books and films - emphasis with WHAT..... and ONE THING THAT .... We did exercises on pages 18 and 19 in your books and looked at the review on page 149. We also did an ORAL MEDIATION HOMEWORK Your homework is a WRITTEN MEDIATION. Look at the information below. Deadline: next THURSDAY WRITTEN MEDIATION. A REVIEW B2.1 An English friend of yours has heard of the feel-good film Campeones and its success in Spain. She/he has asked you if you could write a review for their local newspaper. Listen and/or read the information in the links below, take notes about the most important information and then, ·        write a review of the film. ·        Follow the conventional characteristics of film reviews (page 19 and 149 in your student´s books): o    Introductory sentences that give basic information about the film or book o    A short d...

  This is what we did yesterday: - We watched a TED Talk  - We introduced dialogues. Go to https://victoriassecretenglishblog.wordpress.com/speaking/dialogues/ for some tips on how to tackle dialogues - Your homework . Go to kialo edu and post your opinion. What are the pros and cons of technology? https://www.kialo-edu.com/p/48e91810-c63e-4cb8-829b-53fe71d3e2b1/118673 EXTRA HOMOWORK. NOT COMPULSORY.  WOMEN WRITERS It was women writers' day last Monday 16th. You can try different activities to know more about women writers Quiz about British women writers: https://www. britannica.com/quiz/women- writers-of-england-mostly-quiz   American Women writers:  https://www.britannica.com/ quiz/american-women-writers- quiz   Novels written by women:  https://www.sporcle.com/games/ Rockerchick1080/novels- written-by-female-authors- minefield An interview. How much do you understand?  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ul1pGDWspqs  

Dear all, this is what we did yesterday: - we checked our homework paying special attention to adverbs - we did exercise 5 on page 15 - we introduced Mediation (written and spoken), a new skill.  Read this presentation for more information on mediation  https://prezi.com/view/sEey3sSGLfsahFmmy7lt/ STEPS for a good mediation: Mediation is a technique used to express relevant aspects of a text in another language.  Do not translate literally!!  You have to process the text . The task is given in a specific situation, e.g. you help a tourist to understand information in Spanish, you write an article for an American school’s year book using a Spanish source, etc.  Step 1: Read the task carefully to find out what information your addressee needs.  Step 2: Read the text given to get its meaning and intention.  Step 3: Highlight or underline keywords. Don’t panic if the text is long and /or complex – Concentrate on the points relevant for the focus of the med...

 Dear all,  - we checked our homework yesterday. Subject/Object questions - we played with adjectives and nouns that derive from them - we listened to a text (or read it), did exercises 5 and 6 and then summarized it in pairs (pages 12 and 13) - we looked at the functions of rhetorical questions Your homework:  - one person of yesterday's couples will upload a summary of the article about smiling in no more than 20 words.  Go to https://padlet.com/valentinaylaura/padlet-b2-1-9o73um507ta4jg25 to upload it - page 14 exercises 2 and 3 in your student´s books - page 15 exercise 4 STUDENT RESOURCES http://NGL.Cengage.com/Perspectives Then go to Student Resources, British English, Intermediate.  The resources included are the:  Student Book audio  Workbook audio  Videos