Wednesday 30th October

This week we have seen some future forms: present continuous for arrangements, going to for plans and predictions and will for predictions and spontaneous decisions.

And yes, finally I found all the listenings! All done!

Have a nice long weekend!

What can we say about someone we admire? Someone we like can be friendly, generous, cheerful, sociable, easygoing, charming, witty and bubbly. We usually don't people who are smug, pretentious, hypocritical, shallow or pushy.

Some people can give the impression of being rude, but most time it's a consequence of being shy. It's not that shy people are not interested in other people, is only that they don't dear to ask! We have learnt today that Bob Dylan, Kim Bassinger and Eric Clapton are extremely shy people.

And finally, a bit of grammar: gerunds and infinitives (again)
Remeber these rules:

- The verbs like, love, hate, prefer, begin and start are usually followen by a gerund, but an infinitive can also be used with little or no difference in meaning

- The verbs enjoy, detest, don't mind, imagine, feel like, suggest, practise, miss and can't stand must be followed by a gerund

- The verbs refuse, hope, promise, ask, learn, expect, decide, afford, offer, choose, and want must be followed by an infinitive

- The verbs stop and remember can be followed by either a gerund or an infinitive, but the meaning is different.

- We use try + gerund to say that somebody does something to see what wil happen
- We use try + infinitive to say that somebody makes an effort to do something

Here you have a few games so you can practise the infinitives!

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/ingform/exercise5.swf

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/verbs_ing1b.htm

Today we have started working on how to write a CV and a covering letter in English.

Don't forget to bring your own CV on Monday, so we can work on it!

We have reviewed some time expressions and some grammar, including when we use the present simple or continuous. Well done, by the way!

Here you have this week's olympic games:

GAME 4: PRESENT SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS?

 16 OCTOBER 2013

PLAYER 1	------------
PLAYER 2	8 POINTS
PLAYER 3	8 POINTS
PLAYER 4	------------

 I so love Frank Sinatra! Now that you know the lyrics, I'm leaving My Way here for you to sing with him :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU

Have a nice weekend!

Today we have been talking about the present perfect simple and the present simple continuous.
He have also seen some time expressions and how they relate to the different tenses. Here you have the grammar:

Past simple
          I lived in Chicago for six years
          I saw Jack two days ago
          They met during the war
          She got married while she was at University

Present perfect
           We've been married for 10 years
           They've been living here since June
           She hasn't been working since their baby was born

Future
            We are going on vacation for a few days
            The class ends in 20 minutes
            I'll be home in half an hour

Prepositions with dates, months, years, etc:

IN September, 1965. summer, the  holidays, the 1920s, the 20th Century

ON Monday, Monday morning, 8 August, Christmas Day, holiday

AT 7 o'clock, the end of May, Christmas, the age of ten, dinner time

See you again on Wednesday!

Talking about towns and cities... this is your homework for next week: listen to the recording and take the comprenhension test. How did it go?

http://www.elllo.org/english/0001/021-Steven-Home.htm

GAME 3:

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE.

7 OCTOBER 2013

PLAYER 1		8 POINTS
PLAYER 2		8 POINT
PLAYER 3		7 POINTS
PLAYER 4		------------

Gerunds (-ing) and Infinitives (to) are great fun! Don't you believe me? Well, check this then! ;)
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/En%20garde/gerunds%20infinitive/gerunds%20or%20infinitive.html

OLYMPIC GAMES:

GAME 2: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE

2 OCTOBER 2013

PLAYER 1	7 POINTS
PLAYER 2	8 POINT
PLAYER 3	6 POINTS
PLAYER 4	4 POINTS