Opposite Verbs

Tuesday 26^th May

Hi! How are you?

I guess (suppose) you are tired because most of you had a lot of exams this week! Cheer up! It’s Friday today and you can rest during the weekend.

TGIF!!! (it stands for Thanks God It’s Friday)this is what Katy Perry says in her song ‘Last Friday Night’

What did we do last Tuesday in class?

We read about horoscope predictions and you made your own predictions for some of these star signs. Some of them were a bit gloomy! (Dark, sad, unhappy)

We made other predictions such as:

1.    Do you think it’ll snow?

2.    No. It isn’t cold enough. But I think it’ll rain.

3.    Come on! You’ll be late for school!

4.    We won’t finish the painting today.

5.    You’re right. It’ll get dark in a short time.

We practised opposite verbs.

1.    What time do you leave home in the morning?

2.    What time do you arrive at school?

3.    When I open a door I never know if I have to pull or push it to open it!

4.    I’m happy because we won the match but I’m sorry for the team who lost.

5.    How many emails did you send yesterday? And how many did you get?

6.    Study hard and you don’t fail your exams. You’ll pass all of them!

Then, we talked about our ‘Design for Change’ project.

We commented on the videos we had recorded and divided the work for the presentation. Lucía volunteered to piece the videos together. So, she’ll be in charge of the 4^th stage: Share. And we divided the rest of the responsibilities into the rest of you. Don’t forget to write your part because that is homework.

On this video you can see the different stages of the project.

Remember that we are :C7 – Tuesday

Project name: “No sad people in the streets”

Objective: Making people smile.

Stages: Feel: brainstorming ideas about the things we don’t like in our school, neighbourhood, academy and we wanted to change. Dividing the ideas into clouds of information. Voting for an idea. In our case: “Making people laugh”.

Imagine: giving ideas about how we could make people laugh. Where to go, what to tell them, what to do…

Do: drawing emoticons and writing sentences and/or words to cheer people up and going to the park.

Share: we took photos and recorded videos of the different stages of the project.

Review and opinion: asking the group what they think about the project. If they were satisfied with the result, what they would change, if something etc.

And we finished the class with ‘Flipped Class’

The topic of our last ‘Flipped Class’ was summer. I’m very sorry that Guille, Gonzalo and Lucía didn’t prepare anything for the kids. That wasn’t very responsible on your side!

As for the others, well done. You did a great job on summer vocabulary!

Remember

End of course test: Tuesday 9^th June

Presentation of project: 16^th June

GAME 7                                                                                                         

Player 1	2
Player 2	7
Player 3	7
Player 4	7
Player 5	2
Player 6	2

See you on Tuesday.

Your Horoscope for the Next Week Says you Will...

Tuesday 19^th May

Hello boys and girls! How are you?

I bumped into (met by chance, met unexpectedly) Sara yesterday. I’m glad to see that she’s better. I’ll see you next Tuesday.

Alicia asked me to post the photo we did when we did the third stage of our project ‘Do.’ Lucía, I hope you got my email with the photos and videos recorded for the project. We’ll work together next Tuesday.

What did we do last Tuesday?

We continued talking about the future and making predictions.

So, in the year 2025, Gonzalo will be an actor and he’ll live in New York.

Lucía will have a boyfriend and she’ll live in Ibiza.

María will be a nursery teacher.

Most of you think that cars will fly. Somebody’s friend will invent some flying trainers! There won’t be boats or ships because cars will go under water, too!

I wonder how much these cars will cost because if they can fly and go under the water…there must be very expensive!

Would you like to know about my future? In the year 2025 I’ll have won a big prize on the lottery. I won’t live in Spain. I’ll travel around the world and I’ll have big mansions in every continent!

We learnt the different uses of ‘will’ referring to the future with the video posted on the last week blog.

Here’s a summary

Will/ won’t	decisions (instant / unplanned decisions)	“We are going to the cinema.” I’ll go with you.”
	predictions (based on opinions or wishes)	It’ll rain if you have a barbecue in the garden.
	promises	“I’ll phone you tomorrow.”
	offers	“I´ll help you with your homework.”
Shall	offers (only for I, We; only in questions)	Shall I help you with your case? It looks heavy!

 Of course, you already know how to make the future tense:

FUTURE SIMPLE  WILL

Affirmative	She will be a teacher	She’ll be a teacher
	Cars will fly	They’ll fly
Negative	Ships will not exist I will not get married	Ships won’t exist I won’t get married
Question	Will you live in Spain? How many children will she have?	Yes, I will / No, I won’t. She’ll have two children.

Then, we talked about our star sign or our horoscope. We made predictions about our classmates’ star signs and we learnt how to pronounce the horoscope. You can practise again watching the video.


For homework, do the exercise 1 on page 24. Do also the reading and writing on the back of that photocopy. Write the prediction of two different zodiac signs.

Don’t forget that we have ‘Flipped class’ next Tuesday. The class where you become the teachers and we swap (change) with other groups. The topic is ‘summer’. Prepare some materials or games. NO CROSSWORDS OR WORDSEARCHES! You can explain the students what ‘Midsummer’s night’ is and how it’s celebrated in the UK. You can teach them vocabulary related to summer and holidays. You can teach them how to write a postcard to a friend from their holiday resort etc.

And that was it!!!!

GAME 6                                                                                             

Player 1	14
Player 2	6
Player 3	10
Player 4	---
Player 5	1
Player 6	8

See you on Tuesday.

Michio Kaku's Visions for the Future...

Tuesday 12^th May,

Hi! How’s everybody?

I hope you’re fine.

What did we do in our last class?

We went on (continued) talking about the future.

Remember that we use “will/won’t” for predictions.

Michio Kaku’s visions for the future are about technology and devices.

She thinks that these devices (tools, machines) will be common in the future.

·           The internet watch. You’ll talk to it in any language and it’ll talk back.

·           The intelligent clasp. It’ll have the power of a cell phone (mobile phone) and a laptop (portable computer) but it’ll be small enough to wear on your clothes.

·           The intelligent earring. It’ll have access to a satellite orbiting overhead (over our heads, above) and locate our position.

·           The intelligent eyeglass. You’ll be able to (you can) see an important meeting even if you’re on the beach!

You can consult the previous blog to revise how to make sentences in the future using ‘will’ and other expressions.

Apart from making future predictions, we also use ‘will’ for decisions we take at the moment of speaking.

For example,

I’m thirsty. I’ll get a glass of water. (I wasn’t planning to take a glass of water but I need to drink something now. This is why I say ‘I’ll (I will)’ because I decided in the moment).

I’ll give you a call (I’ll phone you) when I have some news.

I’m going into town. I’ll give you a lift (I’ll take you in my car).

Let me help you with your bags. I’ll take the big one.

And also at a restaurant or at a shop:

This dress is perfect. I’ll take it. How much is it?

“What are you going to eat?” “I’ll have a salad and a steak, please.”

For homework, you have to make a presentation talking about your predictions for the year 2025. Write a composition. These are the topics and ideas you chose to talk about. So, please, follow them.

Don’t forget to use some of these expressions:
will definitely not, is unlikely to, will certainly / is certain to, will possibly, will probably.

YOUR FAMILY
						YOURSELF (STUDIES, JOB, LIVING ABROAD ETC.)
		PREDICTIONS IN 2025…
YOUR OWN IDEA (FRIENDS, GEOGRAPHY ETC.)
					TECHNOLOGY (NEW INVENTIONS, GADGETS ETC.)
CELEBRITIES / FAMOUS PEOPLE

And that was all! No points this week because you didn’t behave in class. It was impossible to keep you quiet.

But you will probably behave better next Tuesday and I will certainly give you the points you deserve.

Enjoy the weekend.