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-