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Holidays are Nearly Here! Let's Travel around the World!

Tuesday 2nd June

Hi guys!
How’s everybody? Busy? Yeah, I can imagine.
There’s so little for the course to finish and there are so many things to do…
…exams, shows, theatre plays…
It seems that the reason why Gonzalo didn’t come to class was exams. On the other hand, Alicia was acting in a play…and that’s why Sara left earlier. Because she wanted to attend the play. Yes, these first days of June are a bit of a mess!
First of all, I want to congratulate Lucía on making the video for our project. IT’S GREAT! THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN THE NAME OF ALL THE CLASS.
And talking about the rest of the class, what about your work on the project? If you have a look on the previous blog, and as I told you in class, we distributed the roles. Everybody had to explain a different stage of the project!
We started the class with a communication activity to review prepositions of movement.
We worked in pairs. You had to draw the itinerary of a cross country race on a map. Then you had to describe the route to your classmate and s/he had to draw your route on the map. After that, you swapped (changed).
We continued revising present perfect to talk about general experiences.
We use “Have you ever…?” because they are general experiences and we don’t ask or say “when” we had them.
·           Have you ever found any money in the street?
·           Have you ever won a prize?
·           Have you ever asked anybody famous for their autograph?
·           Have you ever forgotten an important date?
We found out (discovered) that Lucía won a gold medal in a gymnastics competition.

Remember the use of already, just, yet with present perfect.
Already and yet have the same meaning, but their position in the sentence is different. Yet, goes at the end of the sentence whilst already has a mid-position, that is, it goes before the main verb – the same position as adverbs of frequency.
Study these sentences:
·         ?   Have you finished the exercise yet?
·          -    I haven’t finished yet.
·         +    I’ve already finished.
·         The structure, to have + just + participle refers to an action that has been completed a short time ago.
 I’ve just arrived home. (Right now. A short time ago) 
Try this exercise Still/ Already/ Yet/Just

Don’t forget to revise comparative and superlative adjectives and will / won’t to talk about the future, for the test.

Test contents:
Listening – grammar exercises (present perfect, already, yet – comparatives – will / won’t) – reading – writing – speaking.
Vocabulary related to celebrations and festivities.
For practice reread the compositions and readings we have done in class.

And to finish the class, We played a board game called “Around the world in 100 days!” no, not this.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The game consisted in throwing the dice and following the instructions we had on the square we had landed. Sometimes we had to make decisions, sometimes we didn’t. For example, you land in Berlin: “You’ve forgotten your traveller’s cheques! Go back to London and get them! So, you had to go back until the ‘London square’. Delhi: “you’ve started to feel ill, what do you do? a) Go straight to the doctor. b) Stay in your hotel room and wait. c) Push on with your journey.
One of the answers made you lose no time, another one meant to add four days to your journey time and another one made you add seven days.
Did you make the right choice? Did you consider the advantages and disadvantages of going to a doctor in India, keeping travelling despite your illness, going to an Indian hospital…?
The winner was the team who got to the end of the journey, that is, who got to the finish square making the journey in the fewer days. Lucía and Guille  won although none of you were able to finish in 100 days! They made the journey in 111 days!

I hope Alicia’s play was a success! (very good) I also hope that Gonzalo passes his exams. And please, revise a little for our assessment test.
See you next Tuesday!
GAME 8                                                                                                         
Player 1
10
Player 2
3         
Player 3
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Player 4
3
Player 5
3
Player 6
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 See you on Tuesday!




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