17/12/12 present perfect cont.

Lesson 12- changing your life

• Listening- going abroad to change your life
• Grammar practice- exercises 
• Speaking- Situations using grammar
• Reading-Change my life- leaving it all
• Strong adj.- worksheet
• Change my life grammar two- exercises
• Present perfect continuous- movie 

10/12 Food and non-action/action gerunds

Lesson:

• Review from Monday-Practice
• Listening
• Food review speaking- worksheet
• Food review listening comp.- Worksheet
• Grammar and speaking- Grammar 
• Pronunciation 

04/12/12

Grammar focus: Present perfect for experience

TOPIC 1 Experience

You can use the Present Perfect to describe your experience. It is like saying, "I have the experience of..." You can also use this tense to say that you have never had a certain experience. The Present Perfect is NOT used to describe a specific event.

Examples:

• I have been to France.
  This sentence means that you have had the experience of being in France. Maybe you have been there once, or several times.
• I have been to France three times.
  You can add the number of times at the end of the sentence.
• I have never been to France.
  This sentence means that you have not had the experience of going to France.
• I think I have seen that movie before.
• He has never traveled by train.
• Joan has studied two foreign languages.
• A: Have you ever met him?
  B: No, I have not met him.

Have you ever? Complete the questionnaire and add 6 questions of your own (using verbs that have not been used)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXQVBBS3FnUVd5djg/edit

Language focus: Talking about Christmas and the holiday season.

What are the differences between Christmas traditions in France and the UK/Ireland? Compile a questionnaire and ask the questions to find out.
Write a paragraph comparing the two.

Listening activity:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXbGVfWlV2SXhJS3M/edit

3/12/12 Education superlatives

Lesson:

In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.

report / world education / learning curve / statistics / literacy rates / attendance / leaders / spending lots of money / good teachers / technicians / the future / job titles

3. EDUCATION: How can we make it better? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you wrote. Change and share again.

Improvements	What's wrong now?	How to make it / them better?
Classrooms
Technology
Subjects
Teachers
Exams
Hours / Days

4. BETTER: Students A strongly believe education will get better in the future; Students B strongly believe not.  Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

GRAMMAR: Grammar have to-worksheet, Practice 

5. SUBJECTS: What's the best thing for today's students to study? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the best at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

environmentalism community relations English health and sports SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article. 1. report a. reading/writing 2 system             b. necessary 3. provide c. method 4. analysed d. important 5. literacy e. examined 6. essential f. study 7. valuable g. giant 8. huge h. give 9. key i. names 10. titles j. precious Listening- Article 1. What was the new report into? 2. What is the name of the report? 3. What two rates did the researchers look at? 4. In which position did South Korea finish on the list? 5. What was Mexico's position on the list? 6. How many things did the report want education leaders to remember? 7. What are good teachers essential to? 8. How should teachers not be treated as? 9. What must a country's culture have a strong focus on? 10. What did the report say about many job titles today? Questions-

26/11/2012

Lesson- 1 Advertising . Work with a partner and discuss the following questions:

1. What makes a good commercial?

2. What are some of the best TV commercials you canremember? Why do you like them?

3. What are some of the worst ads you can remember?

4. When is an ad effective?

5. Is a commercial that you like effective even if you don't remember what it is advertising?

6. How influenced are you by advertising?

7.Do you watch the TV commercials during the TV programs breaks or do you switch channels? Why do you do it?

8. Check the items of features that you think make commercials effective:

( ) Beautiful people

( ) Music

( ) Humor

( ) Real comments made by consumers

( ) Slogans

( ) Famous people

( ) Scientific facts about the product

( ) Animals

( ) Sad stories

( ) Happy families

( ) Ugly people

II. In pairs, decide if you agree or disagree with these statements and why.

1. Advertising must be to be relevant to the consumer’s needs, wants, and values.

2. It should capture your the consumer's attention. It is getting harder and harder to get a consumer’s attention these days.

3. Consumer’s might not listen advertisements, so you need to try and find a unique way of getting them to pay attention.

4. Advertising should be truthful.

5. The advertisement won't work if it is untruthful. The consumer will have a negative view of the company.

Modal verbs- explanation

Advertising listening

exercise

27/11/12 student B

STUDENT B You have some information about films to see in your local cinemas. Your partner has the missing information. Ask and answer to complete the table.

	Title	Type of film	Name of Cinema	Start time	Length of film	Price
1	The Two of Us		Picture House		2 hrs 10 mins
2		a cartoon		7.45 pm		£5.00
3	Riders in the Night		The Majestic		2 hrs
4		science fiction		8.15 pm		£3.75
5	Singles Night		The Splendid		1 hr 20 mins
6		martial arts		7.15 pm		£5.00

27/11/12

Programme:

Grammar: Using comparatives and superlatives

Language focus: Reviewing movies (expressing opinions, connecters in writing, talking about different film genres)

Movie conversation questions: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXOHFJYVhVYzVqMHM/edit

Movie vocab http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/cinema/1/wordmatch.html

Check homework: Watch the trailer and write a review of the latest James Bond film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xac0DuOYglM


Fashion Good Enough to Eat 

Watch the video clip and look at the worksheet below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQW30Vu4pWFq16_eWYphMAxXo631Wtm89pYAxG5JlK4/edit

STUDENT A You have some information about films to see in your local cinemas. Your partner has the missing information. Ask and answer to complete the table. Then decide which film you would like to see together.

	Title	Type of film	Name of Cinema	Start time	Length of film	Price
1		a love story		8.30 pm		£7.50
2	Mouse on the Run		Odeon		1 hr 20 mins
3		a western		7.15 pm		£9.50
4	Starboy		The Apollo		1 hr 45 mins
5		comedy		7.00 pm		£4.75
6	Karate Kings		Palace Pictures	7.15 pm	2 hrs

20/11/12

Programme for today:

Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives

Language focus: Talking about films, different film genres, writing a film review

Homework: Watch the trailer for the new James Bond film and write a review using the new vocab we saw in class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw

Extra activity:

Read the sentences below to remember how comparatives are formed.

• Tennis is a more difficult sport than Rugby.
• I think John is happier now than a year ago.
• Could you open the window, please? It's getting hotter in this room by the minute.

• interesting -> _____
• weak -> _____
• funny -> _____
• important -> _____
• careful -> _____
• bad -> _____
• big -> _____
• far -> _____
• small -> _____
• polluted -> _____
• boring -> _____
• angry -> _____
• good -> _____

Read the sentences below to remember how superlatives are formed. Give the superlative form for each of the adjectives listed

• New York has got to be the most exciting city in the world.
• His biggest desire is to return home.
• She is probably the angriest person I know.

• interesting -> _____
• weak -> _____
• funny -> _____
• good -> _____
• important -> _____
• careful -> _____
• big -> _____
• bad -> _____
• small -> _____
• far -> _____
• polluted -> _____
• boring -> _____
• angry -> _____

14/11/12

Programme -

Today we will do the activities that we did not have enough time to start yesterday - Fashion Good Enough to Eat listening comprehension and speaking!

We will also look at the difference between present simple and present continuous :)

12/11/12

Programme:

Review last week's vocab (adverbs of frequency and hobbies, adjectives )

Grammar focus: Past simple

The difference between make and do: http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/mod.html , lyrics gap fill,

Language focus: Shopping when on holiday and talking about fashion.

Listen and watch the following video clip about the latest catwalk fashion craze
:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/11/121106_vwitn_chocolate_fashion.shtml

Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQW30Vu4pWFq16_eWYphMAxXo631Wtm89pYAxG5JlK4/edit

What Can I Do

The Corrs

I haven't _________ at all in days
It's been so long since we've ________
And I have been here many times
I just don't know what I'm _________ wrong

What can I do to make you ________ me
What can I do to make you ________
What can I say to make you _________ this
What can I do to get you there

There's only so much I can take
And I just got to let it go
And who knows I might feel _________, yeah
If I don't try and I don't _________

What can I do to make you love me
What can I do to make you care
What can I say to make you feel this
What can I do to get you there

No more ________, no more, aching...
No more _________, no more, trying...

Maybe there's nothing more to say
And in a funny way I'm ______
Because the power is not mine
I'm just going to let it fly