We started the lesson saying the opposite adjective of a given one. Somebody did not know the meaning of crowded, nor its opposite, empty. Another interesting pair is reserved/outgoing.

Students read homework, which was about complaints. I enjoyed listening to them. Remember you can complain about + noun or gerund, complain that + clause. You can also complain of as in  Complain of shortness of breath and a cough.

We studied some two-part verbs or phrasal verbs: turn down, turn off, tun on, put away, pick up, take out, take off, put on, clean up, hang up, put out. 

Remember that in English you turn on or turn off a faucet or a tap. 

For homework: write some short conversations - request and answer - using the phrasal verbs we are studying. 
Example:
 Please, take the groceries home and put them away, I need to park the car. 
Ok, I´ll take them home and put the frozen things in the freezer, but I´ll wait for you to put away the other things.

Something else: please, look at your notes and make a list with 20 verbs, 20 nouns and 20 adjectives you have learned ( or at least intended to learn) during this term.

Homework: what advice would you give your child if he/she was moving away to go to university?

What advise would you give a new employee in the place where you work?

Remember to use should, not must. You are giving advise, you are not giving orders.


We are still studying modal verbs. Today we started the class practicing the question Have you ever met anybody from...? That way we had the chance to practice the names of countries. But as usual we got a little lost talking about many different things.

Andrea read her homework, which was a conversation she had written between two friends who were preparing a trip together. 

Then students read a couple of times the dialogue on page 32 New Headway and role played it. Interesting and useful expressions they had to use: 

What do you think?

Should we...?

I think you´re right.  

We did a matching exercise, making sentences starting either I think we should or I don´t think we should...

Finally Lorena read the fairy tale she had written about a month ago. Good job¡ I really enjoyed all your fairy tales.