To warm up today we were practising numbers and dates. Students also had to say something they are supposed to do today, so they don´t forget the passive. They said things like I´m supposed to do the laundry.
After that students read their homework, which was a very good exercise, because they had had to complete some simple questions and give answers. Because the sentences were fairly simple, they could think about the verb tense they were using. The questions were about sports the students practice at present or have practiced before. Remember: we use play for ball sports, do for sports like gymnastics , yoga o aerobics and go for things like swimming, running or cycling.

We started a new unit. In this unit we are studying the past tenses: past simple: I bought/ did you buy?/ I didn´t buy; past continuous: I was buying/ were you buying?/ I wasn´t buying; past perfect: I had bought / had you bought? / I hadn´t bought.

Students listened to a story and filled up the gaps with some given phrases. Some new or not so well known terms which are used in the story are: boast, scream, suck and fearless.

For homework remember to write a story. You don´t have to make it up, you can just retell a well known fairy tale, like Little Red Riding Hood. Try to include those 3 past tenses we have been talking about in the lesson.

We started the lesson saying what we had been doing before the English class. Then students remember words related to laughter: laugh, funny, joke, clown, comedy, comedian.

Students said what they knew about Halloween and then they answered a questionnaire so they could find out if they are witches.

We listened to a recording where 3 different people talked about sports they practiced or exercise they enjoyed doing. Students had to fill in a chart

Homework
Complete the questions and give the answers for Ex. 5, page 21, New Headway Inter.

We started the class with a little conversation. Now we know that Beatriz has a five- years- old child and Veronica a fifteen- years- old dog. They are both loved.

Students read their homework: some sentences in passive voice and the answers to some questions.

Teacher explained how to make an impersonal passive sentence.

Example:
 People know that she is a good swimmer.

She is known to be a good swimmer.

Students wrote questions for L.´s interview. Ex. 7 New Headway Intermediate, page 19. Then we listened to the interview to check the questions.

Finally students looked for strong adjectives to match the given ones. Tired- exhausted, bad-awful, good-fantastic, big-huge, difficult-impossible, frightened- terrified, surprised-amazed.

Homework: 
Finish rewriting last day sentences.

What´s a typical day like for L.? 

What´s a typical day like for you?

Enjoy your weekend!

We started the lesson talking about things we did on the weekend. A classmate had to ask an echo question and  a following up question. Example: I went to the mountains on Saturday. Did you? And how was it?

We worked on a text called The Clown Doctor. First a student asked some questions about the text that she had written as homework. Students read it aloud. Remember to pay attention to the pronunciation of plural words like faces or nurses.

Students searched for sentences in the text that had a similar meaning to some given sentences. Now everybody knows that being useless is the same as being no help at all. Learned words like unwind, race, crash out, charity. 

Students searched for verbs in the passive vooice: present simple and present continuous. Teacher explained how to build a sentence in the passive voice and we did some examples.

Homework

Rewrite the sentences in passive voice.

1. William will not repair the car. -
2. Did Sue draw this circle? -
3. Could you feed the dog? -

1. People know that she is a good swimmer.
   →
2. They say that Francis is in hospital.
   →
3. They think that the children are in bed.
   →
4. People believe that the robber has worked in the bank.
   →
5. People believe that nuclear power stations are dangerous.
   →
6. His collegues thought that he was on holiday.
   →
7. People know that cars pollute the environment.
   →
8. They suppose that the new product will come out soon.
   →
9. They found that the mission was impossible.
   →
10. They believe that she will win a gold medal.
    →

Write a paragraph for each of the questions under the heading What do you think?

Today´s lesson

Some questions about the students´daily life.

Warming up: questions in the present simple. Simple answers. What does a fisherman do? A fisherman catches fish.

Reading homework: corrections.

Listening: interview of clown doctor. (only to become familiar with the story).

Vocabulary: professions. An architect, a rock musician, a research scientist, an artist, an actor, a web page designer, a journalist, a film director, a football player, a zookeeper. Pronunciation.

Reading aloud of text. Finding new terms an expressions, discussing them.

Grammar: Present simple, prsent continuous. Other points: the use of the article in English: a, an. some,
any.

Homework: writing some questions about the text we read during the lesson.

Today we started by practicins short answers.

Lorena and Veronica read their homework. Veronica told us about her older´s sister daily life and Lorena about a friend o hers´.

We were listening to Jeff Norman telling us about her wonderful job and learned a few expressions from him like on top of that, paper boy ,marriage counsellor, it´s not much of a job.

The difference between action verbs and state verbs was explained.

Completed the sentences on page 16 New Headway Intermediate.

All through the lesson we had plenty of conversation. Students talked about their expectations for their future professional careers.

Homework
5 sentences using frequency adverbs (  present simple).
5 sentences with state verbs.
5 questions in the present continuous tense.

Hello again,

I have the feeling the homework I gave you may not be enough for hardworking students. So if you don´t know what to do with your time write about 3 different inventions  that have really meant better conditions of living for you or for mankind in general.

If you need it for writing I recommend the Oxford Spanish Dictionary: www. wordreference.com. That one includes the Collins too. On top of the page you can see the picture of a loudspeaker. You can click on US or UK and listen to the way the word is pronounced  in either place.

See you next Tuesday. I think the weather will be sunny tomorrow so enjoy the day.

We have just finished the first lesson of the month.

I mention it because we have been practising the Present Perfect tense, and that is one of the cases we have seen.

I really enjoyed Lorena´s quiz and I think Andrea did too. Great job!

For next day remember to write 10 statements that can be argued, something like this:

A. The lights were on when we came in.

and a sentence correcting it.

B. No, they weren´t, I turned them on.

See you Thursday.