Information about exams, film and Friday

Please remember the following:

• Next Friday 22nd of January we have a lesson (we are going to do listening practice and also some writing)
• Next Monday 25th of January the class will take place at "Jesús Delgado Valhondo library" where we will watch an excellent film (Once). I'll prepare some questions for you to answer at the end.
• On Wednesday 27th of January we'll do a listening test.

Speaking activity on descriptions and vocabulary

Today, I asked everybody to describe a friend or member of your family answering the following questions:

1. Why did you choose him/ her?
2. What does he /she look like?
3. What is he/ she like?
4. Has the position in his / her family had an influence on his/her personality?

I gave pupils 5 minutes to think about it and then talk to at least 2 people in the class. I asked them to use the vocabulary on descriptions I handed out in class and also some vocabulary from the listening exercise we did last monday. You can have a look at it here.

The Wilsons

Last week we were reading about them. Today we are going to listen to one of their famous hits. In the following links you'll be able to have a look at the vocabulary from the reading I've selected and also to the song.

• Vocabulary from reading
• Exercise on the song
• Song

Extra practice on resolutions

For those of you who want more extra practice on New Year's Resolutions here is an interesting link. The level is probably a bit difficult for you but you can download the audio and the script and listen to it as many times as you want.

• 6 minute English: New Year's Resolutions.

New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday. Well, here we are again trying to brush up our English after such a long period. As you know in class we started by talking about our plans for the new year. You made your own resolutions and so did I. One of them is to keep the blog up to date and I'm determined to do it from day 1. Here you have what we did in class yesterday.

• Resolutions worksheet.
• Listening on resolutions.
• Song by Jamie Cullum
• Video of the song
  
• Speaking revision game.

And since I've mentioned my resolutions I'd love you to write some comments on your resolutions for this year. Try to use some of the vocabulary included in the worksheet. I'm looking forward to reading them. Thanks!

The boy does nothing (Alesha Dixon)

Yesterday we did this song in class. Here you'll be able to have a look at the video with and without lyrics.

• Video
• Video with lyrics

Biographies of famous people

As we said in class here is a link to a page where you can find lots of biographies. Choose one (the person must be alive) and talk about it in class. Don't forget to talk about the following:

• Personal details
• Why he/ she is well known.
• His/ her past
• The present

LINK