Halloween

I'm not a big fan of this festivity, but in case you are...

Thanks to my colleague Brittany Gray for this ppt.

In case you wanna go treat or treating, here's how to do it properly:
How To Trick Or Treat (Halloween Games)

Here you have a great song by Sting inspired in the life of a vampire. You can read the lyrics here. As you can see, this song is part of the soundtrack of Interview with the Vampire. Have you seen the film? Do you like vampires?


Enjoy the long weekend!

Present perfect and past simple

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
More exercises

Jobs + extreme adjectives

I have just found this extra listening about jobs and an activity to review extreme adjectives.

Jobs

Watch the video and take notes about the questions below.


What do they do?
What did they dream of doing when you were younger?
Is your job a dream job?

This site is full of activities and quizzes to build on your knowledge of career-related vocabulary and offer some tips on things like how to put together a good CV or come across well in an interview.

More vocabulary about work

Writing an opinion essay

Click here
Deadline: Monday 5th or Wednesday 7h

Which job is the most...

This is the speaking activity we have done in class.

Clocks go back this weekend

Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour this weekend! Long dark winter evenings make me feel miserable!

Extreme adjectives

Exercise 1
Exercise 2 
Exercise 3

The best job ever

We'll check the answers next week

Unit 1 Review and extension

Click here to find the answers to exercises on p. 18

Talking about work

This is the video we watched with Sandra in class, with lots of interesting vocabulary.



These are the notes I took:

I work shfts
I work day/night shift
I am on morning shift
I am on days/afternoons/nights

to call in sick

to do overtime (OT). I'm doing overtime
to work like a dog 
to work your ass off (vulgar)

to have to stay late, to come in early
time off, to take a day off  

 Test your understanding of this lesson here

Word order in questions

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Mistakes happiest day from torrepacheco

Extra copies

Here's some extra copies taken from the teacher's book for you to print, bind them somehow and bring them to class every day, as we will use them throughout the year. Thanks!

Learning languages

We've been speaking in class about learning languages. This is the ppt we saw in class.

Here you have some more questions for you to reflect on.

Does your accent really matter?

This is the arcticle about speaking with an accent that I mentioned in class. I find it really interesting.

Información de principio de curso

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