Hello boys and girls!

Last week we did several activities related to eating and food. We listened to a conversation Stella's family had when eating dinner. Then students role played the conversation. They asked questions like:

Can I have some juice please?

Can I have some brown bread?

Later students had to decide what Stella and her friends were eating and drinking and also ask a partner some questions to find out what the other student had written:

They repeated the questions: What's Simon eating? and What's Simon drinking? and gave answers to their partner's questions: Ex: Simon is eating chicken and rice and he is drinking milk.

HOMEWORK

Imagine you are having dinner with your family.

1. Decide what there is for dinner:

Starter: soup, salad, spaghetti, beans, rice, vegetables?

Main course: steak with fries, fish, fried eggs, pizza, meat balls, chicken with fries, etc.?

Dessert: fruit, yogurt, cake, ice-cream, etc.?

Example:
Starter: Vegetable soup
Main Course: Chicken with fries.
Dessert: fruit or yogurt.

Then write a conversation:

Example

Brother: Can I have some soup, please?
Mother: Sure, here you are.
Sister: Can I have some bread, Dad?
Father: Here you are. Danni, are you drinking water or milk?
Brother: Milk, please.
Father: What about you, Liza?
Sister: Water for me, please.
Mother: Here is your chicken, Danni.
Brother: Thank you, Mom, I don't want fries.
Sister: Can I have Danni's fries?
Father: Ok,
Mom: what are you eating for dessert?
Brother: An apple.
Sister: Can I have a banana and yogurt?

Welcome back Alejandro!

In out last lesson we concentrated on spelling. We reviewed the places in the city and things we can do in those places. 

We can buy a table in a furniture store.

We can see animals at the zoo.

We can wait for the bus at the bus stop.

We can play in the park. 

We can get a haircut at the hairdresser's.

We can buy bread in a bakery.

We can do exercise at the gym.

We can eat in a restaurant.

We can have a drink in a cafe.

We can do lots of things in the city.

Last year we spend a month learning about food and eating. Now we are taking some time to look it over, as I noticed students had forgotten some of the things they had studied.

Remember:

Breakfast is the meal we eat in the morning, just after we get up.

Lunch is a light meal. People eat a sandwich, some fruit, yogurt. 

Dinner is the main meal.

For dessert we eat things like: fruit, yogurt, sweets, ice-cream, etc.

What can we put in a salad?

Students said: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, egg, carrots, and they are right, those are things we put in a salad. And more.

Students also made groups of foods: vegetables and fruits, cereals, dairy products ( made from milk), foods that have proteins (fish, meat, eggs) and sweets or foods with a lot of sugar.

HOMEWORK

Say what you eat 3 days this week. Example:

On Monday I have a glass of milk and cereal for breakfast.

For dinner (midday in Spain) I have a salad, fish and and apple for dessert.

Hello boys and girls!

In our last lessons students have been trying to work with a partner. That's proved quite difficult and so far our great achievement has been sharing a notebook to prepare work. But I'm sure we'll learn to help each other little by little.

Anyway, we are still learning about the city, its places and what we can do there.

Only Irene and Raul did their homework last week, but they did a Great Job. 

Last Friday students picked 4 cards of places in the city and put them in the order they wanted to visit those places.

Then they had to make sentences like this one:

First I am going to the park to play.

Then I am going to the supermarket to buy apples.

Later they worked in two teams and each team had to ask the other team:

Where are you going first?


We worked on the spelling of all the places in the city. Children had to match pictures and word signs.

We watched a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMfJaeJ50SY  Then, each students decided what places they would like to have in their neighborhood and drew a picture of it. Favorite places with children are bakeries, cinemas or movie theaters, pizza restaurants and pet shops.

Homework
A. Watch this video and answer the questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-upMdKywE

1. Where do you borrow books?

2. Where do you watch movies?

3  Where do you swim?

4. Where do you learn a lot?

5. Where do you see animals?


B Now, you ask 3 more questions like the question in exercise A, about places you can see in the video.

Welcome back and Happy New Year 2015

I'm glad to say that it was a good beginning. It's amazing, some of the students still remember new words we had studied last December.

We are studying places in the city and what we can do in those places

Places in the city are: 

Shops: furniture shop, ice cream shop, pet shop, bakery, market, supermarket, book shop, pharmacy.

Other places: church, park, post office, bus station, bus stop, fire station, gas station, hotel, restaurant, cafe, library, hospital, night club, gym, sports center, school, cinema, concert hall.

We are also learning to ask questions as:

What can you buy in a bakery? 

And answer:

You can buy bread in a bakery.

Or:

What can you do in a cinema?

You can watch a film in a cinema.

So this is the trick:

First you say: What can you

Then you say a verb: buy (for shops) or do (for other places) Ex: What can you buy

Then you say in + a place. Ex: What can you buy in a pet shop? Or What can you do in a hotel?

HOMEWORK

Answer the questions:

1.What can you do in a park?

2.What can you do in a restaurant?

3.What can you buy in a bakery?

4.What can you do in a concert hall?

5.What can you buy in a pet shop.

Then, watch this video and say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZiSFMe9DbE

What places in the city do you see in the video?

See you on Friday!

Hello boys and girls!

We are rehearsing the play Goldilocks. Luna is Goldilocks and she has to learn more lines. I think the rest of the students can learn their lines in class, but they can check this link at home if they want. The difference is that in this video they eat porridge and in our play we say soup. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/short-stories/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears

Apart from that we are studying feelings and emotions. In our lesson last Friday students had to take a flashcard and mime the feeling represented on the card. They did a good job.

We also went over the prepositions. Students were given instructions for a drawing. They had to draw several objects and animals in a given position on the paper. I think they enjoyed this activity and did very nice drawings.

HOMEWORK

Here is a list of feelings:

1.Excited

2.Hungry

3.Angry

4.Surprised 

Read what these children say.

Harry says: Look at that hamburger!

Jenny says: Tomorrow is my birthday and I have a birthday party!

Beth opens a present and says: Oh! It 's a red dress!

Keith says: Brian is stupid. He doesn't want to play with me.

Who is hungry?
Who is excited?
Who is surprised?
Who is angry?

Last Friday we started working on a new topic. It´s Feelings and Emotions. Some of the students already knew many of the words we studied. Because of that they paid little attention to the words they did not know and when it came time to play Olympic Games, none of them remember the wordsÑ

excited, sick, miserable, shocked, confused, fine

the other words we are studying and that most of the students already know areÑ

happy, sad, angry, scared, nervous, tired, bored, surprised

To practice all of them we used flashcards and students played teacher and show them to other students.

We also watched a video and practiced the song. Students did very well with the song and each one of them sang a part and got points for it. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WNrvVjiTw


HOMEWORK

Read the story and answer the questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqXX3yyvGI0

1.When does the girl in the book feel hungry?

2.When do the children in the book feel happy?

3.When does the boy in the book feel scared?

4.When does the boy in the book feel sorry?

Now, make a picture of yourself feeling sick.

Alvaro brought some very nice pictures of him, his brother and Beautiful. It seems they had a very good time together.

Last Friday we started rehearsing our play: Goldilocks. We could only do it once because the actors and actresses have not learned yet how to listen to the director of the play and keep moving around changing the furniture and making far too much noise.

These are their roles: Goldilocks is Luna, Baby Bear is Alvaro, Raúl is Father Bear, Irene, Mather Bear and Alejandro is Grandpa Bear.

We also did some more exercises on the topic of house and furniture. Each students was given a picture of a room, but they had to hide it from their classmates. We wrote 3 lists of words on the board: things in the kitchen, things in the living room and things in the bedroom. Students had to guess the things that were in their classmates' pictures and ask questions: Is there a washing machine in your kitchen? or Is there an armchair in your living room? or Is there a desk in your bedroom?
We also did a listening: students had to listen to instructions and color a living room in their worksheet. This way we went over the prepositions of place too. Instructions were sentences as: the table next to the sofa is yellow. 

HOMEWORK

Here is a fun memory game for you:http://www.eslgamesplus.com/furniture-vocabulary-memory-game-for-esl-practice/

Later, make the pictures of the things you remember and write the word under the picture.