How do you Feel? -ed,-ing? / what's the matter? Are you ill?

Week 19^th – 21^st  May

Hello! How’s everybody today?

Some of you will feel excited because winning the 10^th Champions’ League was exciting! Others will feel disappointed because losing is always disappointing.  And some others will feel amused because feeling worried about football when there are such a lot of more important things to worry about, is amusing or, should I say, a bit depressing!

Anyway, next season things can change! I’m talking about football, of course!

We learnt the difference between “-ed” and “-ing” adjectives.

Somebody feels “ed” because something or somebody is “ing”. In other words,  “-ed” is how you feel and “-ing” is the reason why you feel like that.

She is bored because the film is boring.

·         What do you think is the most exciting sport to watch?

·         What music do you listen to when you feel depressed?

·         Have you ever been disappointed by a birthday present?

·         What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?

We started the talking about illnesses. Describing symptoms and giving advice.

·         Good morning. What’s the matter?

·         Last week I was enjoying in the park when I got a terrible sore throat. At home, I was surprised to see that my eyes were very red. It isn’t a cold, but I don’t feel right.

·         It sounds as if you have hay fever and are allergic to the pollen from trees and plants.

·         Stay inside and keep the windows shut.

             _____________________________________________

·         Good afternoon, doctor.

·         Good afternoon. What’s the matter?

·         I have a headache and a backache. In fact, all my body aches.

·         Do you have a temperature?

·         Yes, I think so.

·         You may have the flu. I’m going to write you a prescription for some tablets.

·         Stay in bed, drink a lot of water and take these tablets three times a day for one week.

Listening - Health issues

More vocabulary on illness

Cheer up! And see you tomorrow!

Prepositions, In, On, At; Agreeing, So do I / Neither do I and Formal Letters

Week 12^th – 14^th May

Hello!

Well, this is what we did the first weeks of May:

We started the month checking the tests we had taken in the week before. They were very good. But we went through some doubts you still had.

That’s why we revised questions with and without auxiliaries, again.

We did an exercise based on school fights! All the kids hit somebody and they were hit by somebody else.

Do you remember? (You can have a look at the blog from 7^th – 9^th April)

·         Who hit John? George hit John.

·         Who did John hit? He hit Simon and Dave.

·         Who hit Dave? Paul and John hit Dave.

·         Who did Dave hit? He hit Mark and Simon.

And so on . . .

We revised the uses of “in, on, at” for place.

Rules for the use of prepositions? Which rules do we use in Spanish? The only thing both, in English or Spanish is learning them in context. That is, if you say “in the mountain”; it’s “in”. If you say “He works on a farm”; it’s “on” and so on ( etc.)

·        Write your name at the top/at the bottom of the page.        AT

·        What have you got in your hand? What do you wear in your feet?   IN

·        I’ll wait for you at the bus stop.    AT

·        I sit in the front row of the class. IN

·        My friend also sits at the front of the class, close to me. AT

·        Can you do the exercise on page 40, please?   ON

·        I saw the news on TV.   On

·        He read the news in the yesterday’s paper.   IN

·        They live on a beautiful island. ON 

·        They live in the south of the country.  IN

·        They live on the south coast.    ON

·        I was sitting in the front /the back (of the car) when we crashed. IN

·        The house has two gardens. The big one is at the front and the small one is at the back.(the front/ the back of a building or group of people)   AT

·        Write your name on the front / on the back of the test paper. (On a piece of paper)  ON

We also learnt how to agree with affirmative and negative opinions.

AGREEING WITH AN AFFIRMATIVE OPINION		AGREEING WITH A NEGATIVE OPINION
I want to learn French	So do I / me,too	I don’t like cold countries	Neither do I / Me, neither
She can speak three languages	So can I / Me, too	They can’t speak Japanese	Neither can I / Me, neither
I’m going to buy a new car.	So am I / Me, too	I’m not going to travel by car.	Neither am I / Me neither
I went to London last year.	So did I / Me, too	I didn’t study French at school.	Neither did I / Me neither
He has arrived very early.	So have I / Me, too	They haven’t arrived yet.	Neither has Ellen.
I’d like to live in a bigger house.	So would I / Me, too	I wouldn’t like to have a lot of children.	Neither would I / Me neither.

As you can see, we use the structure “So do I” to agree with affirmative opinions. Take into account that you have to change “do” into the auxiliary used in the sentence you agree with.  And the same with the structure “neither do I”, which is used to agree in the negative.

And we finished the week by learning how to write formal e-mails and filling in forms.

Formal	Formal	Informal
Starting Dear Sir /madam	Starting: Dear Mr/Ms + surname	Starting: Dear + name
Closing: I look forward to hearing from you	Closing: I look forward to hearing from you	Closing: I hope to…
End: Yours faithfully	End: Yours sincerely	End: Regards Love / lots of love

Remember not to use contractions, abbreviations or acronyms in formal letters or emails. Be polite. Use “could”, “would like” etc.

And that was about it!

See you on Monday!

Revision Test & Fun with English!

Week 28^th – 30^th April

Hi again!

Although this was a short week, we had time for taking in (doing) a test. Some of you did it on Monday and others did it on Wednesday.

On Monday we had time to check most of the answers but there were still some left. It was fairly good in general.

On Wednesday, while some students took in the revision test, the other ones did question – and - answer exercises. We had different information about how six people spent their leisure time (free time).

 Remember to use “ing” after love, like, hate, don’t mind, enjoy, prefer.

·         Dave loves cooking and watching football on TV.

·         Sue hates listening to pop music or getting up early.

·         Robert likes being untidy but he likes getting up early.

·        John likes football and motorbikes.  + and +

·        She likes going to the cinema but she doesn’t like going to the theatre. 

+ but -

·        Ned doesn’t like coffee or tea. – or -

·        On Saturdays, I go out or watch TV.I do one thing or the other, but not both at the same time.

And we finish the class having “Fun with English”

You had to find words according to some given instructions. They were acronyms, palindromes, tongue twisters, words clipped at the end etc.

 It was really funny!

Can you repeat the tongue twisters? Keep practising!

Swan swam over the sea; swim,swan,swim! Swan swam back again; well swum swan.

More Tongue Twisters

See you next Monday!