Hello!

Today I'll record some of the interviews. Raul is not coming so we'll do what we can.

Last week we did the exam and we practiced the interviews, we didn't do anything new.

As we were learning words about nature here is some HOMEWORK for you (for Irene):http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=9289 You can do all the exercises.

Hello!

Last Friday we reviewed vocabulary: nature and hobbies.

We also practiced the interviews we are going to record in video. Irene is going to be a nurse who lives in London. Alejandro and Raul are both football players and they both play for the same team, the Real Madrid. Alvaro was did not come to class, but he is also going to be a football player.

Some of the students have to ask the questions, be the interviewers, and these are the questions they must ask:

What's your name?
How old are you?
What do you do?
Where do you work? or What team do you play for?
Where are you from?
Where do you live?
Who do you live with?
How many children have you got?
What are their names?
What do you like doing in your free time?


Please, Irene and Raul, practice the questions. Not all the questions are for everybody.

HOMEWORK

Answer the questions:

1. How many chairs are there in your living room?

2. Is there a desk in your bedroom?

3. Are there any pictures in your kitchen?

4. Is there a lamp next to your bed?

5. Is there a sharpener in your pencil case?

Examples:  Is there a book case in your living room? Yes, there is.
Are  there any toys on your bed? No, there aren't, the toys are in the toybox.

Then go the link:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3161

Answer the questions.

Finally, choose 1 boy or 1 girl as your friend and write about him or her:

What's his/her name?
How old is he/she?
What does he/she look like?
What is he/she wearing?
What does he/she like doing? (Invent it)

Hello!

Last week we continued practicing sentences like " I like playing the flute" or " I don't like fishing"
Students filled a chart with the names of 5 children and pictures of various activities. They had to decide what activities the children liked and which ones they didn't. Then they had to talk to a partner and ask questions such as:

Does Mary like eating vegetables?
And their partner had to answer:

Yes, she does
or
No, she doesn't

That way students could fill in the second chart, which had to look the same as their partner's.

Later students tried to imagine a character and answer a number of questions about them:

What's your name?
How old are you?
Where do you live?
What's your job?
Who do you live with?
What do you like doing in your free time?

And some other questions unique to each character. 

It was "mixing day", so after the break, students got together with a group of older children which were teaching them things about the summer holidays through some fun activities, like drawing a picture and searching for words.

HOMEWORK
Go to the link:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6696

Irene and Raul can do everything.
Alejandro can do Exercises 2 & 3. Write 8 sentences in your notebook.

Well, I thought I had already written the blog.

Last week we reviewed hobbies and free time activities and then we started to learn about another topic: Nature.

We studied these words:

sea
ocean
beach
moon 
sky
river,\
lake
pond
mountains
hills
plant
tree
leave
grass
field
forest

Most of these words were not new for most of the students, so it was not difficult, but we'll continue today.

HOMEWORK

Go over the words.
Go to this link:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6329
Do the exercises. Here they use the word woods (We learned the word forest).

Then, make a picture of the countryside. Put a mountain, a field, a tree with leaves in the field, a river, some plants along the river, a lake, some ducks in the lake and a boy or a girl climbing a tree.

Last Friday everybody behaved better. I am quite glad.

We studied the names of hobbies:

dancing
cycling
playing computer games
reading
playing cards
playing chess
playing volleyball
doing gardening
fish keeping
making scrapbooks
collecting things
playing an instrument
drawing pictures
singing
watching TV
playing football
running
fishing
swimming
taking photos

There were a few more but I can't remember and I haven't got the flashcards with me.

Students practiced asking each other questions such as: Do you like fishing? or Does Alvaro like collecting things?
Students also wrote the names of the hobbies on cards and then we played the memory game.

Last they wrote sentences about a friend, saying what that friend likes and doesn't like. For example:

Ana likes playing volleyball but she doesn't like drawing pictures.

HOMEWORK

Ask everybody in your family what they like doing as a hobby and also what they don't like doing.

Then, write it down. Example: My mother likes dancing but she doesn't like singing.

Write 2 sentences like that for each member of your family.

I hope you are all well rested after the long weekend.

This a new month. It's spring and the flowers are blooming. Roses look very pretty.

Here is some work for you so you get ready for tomorrow:

HOMEWORK

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6696

Read the text and do the exercises.



Exercise 1  Do   Tick T(true) or F(false).
Choose the correct word.

Exercise 2

If you have time write the sentences in Exercise 1 in your notebook.

Hello children!

Last Friday we practiced first saying what we like doing:

I like playing football.

I like dancing.

I like playing hide and seek.

I like drawing pictures. 

I like going to the cinema.

Some children liked doing a lot of things, other children liked doing only one or two things or that is what they said.

Then we talked about things we wanted to do at that moment instead of studying or things we didn't really want to do.

We put a list of things on the board and children chose the ones they wanted to do:

I want to eat an ice-cream.

I want to buy a toy.

I want to draw a picture.

I want to watch TV.

I want to go to the zoo.

Children usually want to do those things.
We played a game. Children were given 3 cards, each one  showed an activity - the activities they wanted to do - The other students had to ask: Do you want to play the guitar? or Do you want to run? They got points when the guessed.

Later, we read about Stella's family and answer some questions. Children in this group are excellent readers for their age.

HOMEWORK

Go to this link and do the exercise. http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=6315

When you see and X you have to say that he or she doesn't like doing something.
Example: He doesn't like skateboarding.

Or, when there are 2 or more people: they don't like doing something. 
Example: They don't like cooking.

When you have a  then you have to write:
1 Person
Example: He likes taking photos.

2 or more people
Example:  They like playing volleyball.

Write the sentences in your notebook.