Class Diary 2º NA C1 (2019-20)

Face-to-face lessons interrupted and remote learning starts due to the Covid-19 outbreak

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WEEK 22

11th March

1. Hawthorns and rag trees in Ireland (cultural note)

2. Class discussion about article and videos

3. Video about plastic waste

4. Idioms page 83 of your textbook: cheching of exercises and communicative activity

10th March

0. Initial chat

1. State flowers in the US (cultural information, vocabulary)

2. Class discussion, mediation with graph: the environmental impact of our food choices

3. Listening task for assessment from PTEC

4. British vs American pronunciation: Video

WEEK 21

5th March

0. Initial chat

1. Whoever was using this bed (speaking in groups)

2. Cultural note: New Zealand silver ferns

3. Listening: New Zealand silver ferns

4. Dialogue: Drinking like a fish

Homework: Written mediation task

3rd March

0. Information about exams, homework, tasks for assessment, etc.

1. Speaking in pairs: What is the most pressing environmental problem for you?

2. Mediation activity with infographic about climate change.

WEEK 20

27th February

1. Mediation activity: food hygiene

2. Listening task for assessment: "The mysteries of crying"

25th February

1. Sherlock Holmes' text on the use of drugs

2. Class debate: for and against the use of drugs

3. Dialogues: Sherlock vs Dr Watson

4. Game: Explain yourself!

WEEK 19

20th February

1. Proposal of mediation activity (I'll send and email with the details and sources)

2. Listening Task for assessment: Australia anti-smoking policy

3. Talk in Spanish: "How to avoid food poisoning"

Homework: Reading "Whoever was using this bed"

18th February

Visit to the oil mill

WEEK 18

13th February

1. Initial chat

2. Sherlock Holmes: speaking, listening and reading: comparison between text from novel and series

3. Speaking: mingling dialogue: looking for a flatmate

4. Song: "All I want is you"

5. Writing messages for Friendship Day

Homework: Reading "Whoever was using this bed"

11th February

1. Initial chat

2. Oral mediation: dialogue: how to explain to a child what addiction is

3. Addictions: verbs plus preposition, listening and vocabulary in context and speaking.

4. How to prepare my dialogue: expressions for giving advice

5. Dialogue: obsession with diet

WEEK 17

6th February

1. Initial chat

2. Mediation with a listening text. The Listening Project BBC. Jenny and Eliza: Chocolate or books? (these real dialogues can be models for your own dialogues)

3. Working with the "How to prepare my dialogue" handout: Functional language for giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

4. Dialogues about alternative medicine (in pairs and acting out for the rest of the class).

Homework: Tuesday: reading comprehension: "What doctors won't do"

Thursday: Texts from Sherlock Holmes (handout)

4th February

1. Initial chat

2. Introduction to (oral) mediation with infographics: Alternative medicine

3. Listening: Alternative medicine: Listening from English File Advanced

4. How to prepare my dialogue (handout)

5. Alternative medicine: dialogue in groups of three

WEEK 16

30th January

1. Initial chat

2. Speaking: William Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street

3. Listening: The Gin Craze (first four minutes)

4. Dialogue: Stomach reduction surgery

Homework: write a discussion essay adapting the same topic of the last monologue you prepared for class. You have a model text and instructions on pages 169 -171 of your textbook. You can also check out another model and tips here.

28th January

1. Initial chat

2. Cultural information about Burns' Night. Video: How to make haggis

3. Students summarise the articles they've read on the topic of health. Class discussion is generated.

4. Verónica says her monologue and class discussion is generated.

5. Jumbled story: Yulunggul and the Wawalag sisters. Clipped paragraphs are put in the right order and the story is read aloud.

6. Video: Aboriginal Art

WEEK 15

23rd January

1. Initial chat

2. Rest of monologues, class discussion and feedback

3. Watching and speaking: What if the World Went Vegetarian?

4. Listening and shadowing: The Complete Equality of the Sexes

Homework: Go to a newspaper in the English language (for example, The Guardian) read an article on the topic of health and be ready to summarise it to your classmates.

Revise vocabulary on pages 94 and 95 of your book (health).

To learn more vocabulary about health: Health A to Z (The NHS)

21st January

1. Initial chat

2. Monologues and class discussion

3. Listening: Are you Part of the Vampire Economy?

WEEK 14

16th January

1. Initial chat

2. Telling and acting out second and third parts of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3. Communicative practice of vocabulary about finance and money through questions asked to classmates

4. Class debate: for vs against cosmetic surgery

Homework: prepare a monologue on the topics of fashion/money /volunteering/ sport

14th January

1. Initial chat

2. Speaking in groups of three with photo prompts

3. Whole class discussion

4. Listening comprehension and vocabulary learning: "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion"

5. London street scenes: watching and speaking

Homework: create questions with vocabulary about money from textbook

9th January 2020

1. Initial chat

2. Reading and vocabulary: excerpt from "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole": New Year Resolutions

3. Mingling speaking activity: New Year resolutions

4. Dramatic story-telling: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

5. Speculation about how the story will end

6. Story-telling game

WEEK 13

17th December

1. Oral exam for distance learning students /Francisco's written exam / Satisfaction survey

2. Exams back and feedback

3. Dream survey (in pairs and as a whole class)

WEEK 12

11th December

End of Term exam: Reading, Writing and Listening

10th December

1. Initial chat

2. Grammar with "get" (handout drive folder)

3. Vocabulary with "get" (handout drive folder) and speaking

4. Song "Cause" by Sixto Rodríguez

WEEK 11

5th December

1. Initial chat

2. Shadowing with fragment of "how I met your mother"

3. Simone de Beauvoir: quote about housework (speaking)

4. Questionnaire about housework (speaking)

5. Get questionnaire (speaking)

Homework: study for the exam

3rd December

1. Initial chat

2. Song: 16 tones: identification of homophones, speaking about the topic of the song

3. Speaking: dialogues: job interviews

Homework: Reading: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/feb/17/doesnt-notice-five-couples-how-split-housework

WEEK 10

28th November

1. Langston Hughes' poem: "I too, am America": pronunciation and speaking

2. Listening and speaking: "The best way to secure a job as a woman over 50": speaking and listening

Homework: vocabulary about work (in drive folder)

Reading: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/feb/17/doesnt-notice-five-couples-how-split-housework

26th November

1. Initial chat

2. Stress, rhythm and intonation: explanation and video.

3. Eveline: discussion in pairs and as a whole class

4. Conjunctions bingo

Homework: read the text about violence against women (in Drive folder) and see how many different types of it you can find in "Eveline"

Thursday: write an opinion essay based on your monologue about education or any other topic from the worksheet topics on "education and child upbringing" (in drive folder). You can find instructions and models on how to write an opinion essay on pages 101-103 of your textbook. 250-300 words. You have another model and tips here

WEEK 9

21st November (only 3 students attended the lesson)

1. Information about assessment and exams

2. Timed and recorded monologue about education, teacher and peer feedback

3. Students listen to their own recorded monologues and self-evaluate themselves

4. Instructions on how to write an opinion essay

5. Speculation about images on the topic of work

6. Advantages and disadvantages of your own job

7. Questions circle

Homework: Tuesday: read James Joyce's short story Eveline. (Also in the Drive folder) You can also listen to the audiobook version

19th November

1. Essays back and feedback

2. Ignacio's "Show and tell presentation"

3. Video and brochure (in the Drive folder): education in Finland: reading, listening and speaking

4. Monologue about education

Homework: have the monologue you prepared in class ready to be delivered and time (you shouldn't speak more than 4 minutes)

WEEK 8

12th November

1. Introductory chat

2. Show and tell presentations

3. Listening: Do children in the UK spend enough time outdoors?

14th November

1. What are you good at (speaking)

2. Listening: Do children in the UK spend enough time outdoors? (Checking of answers and close listening)

3. The Landlady: "reading circles"

Homework: revision of unit 2, pages 20, 21, 22 and 23

WEEK 7

7th November

1. Initial chat about the cold and ways to keep warm

2. Speaking about your experience in education using vocabulary from pages 10 and 11

3. The education systems in the UK and the US

4. Demonstration of a show and tell presentation

5. Listening comprehension with the trailer of the film Kes

Homework: Tuesday 12th November: MONOLOGUE: a show and tell presentation: choose an object that has a personal significance for you and that is connected to a story. Tell the story using a variety of narrative tenses (including "future in the past " forms) and other grammar structures as well as a wide range of vocabulary appropriate for the level (take the chance of using recently learned words). You must speak between 3 and 4 minutes.

Thursday 14th November: Read "The Landlady by Roald Dahl" and listen to it's audiobook version (in "Drive folder, Unit 1 subfolder)

5th November

1. Initial chat

2. Cultural information about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night, Halloween and Crossroads

3. Checking of vocabulary exercises page 43

4. Speaking mingling activity, putting vocabulary into practice

5. Visit to the library

Homework: revise vocabulary about education, pages 10 and 11. If you have time, read about the education systems in the UK and the US.

WEEK 6

31st October

1. Initial chat

2. Nursery rhyme to practise pronunciation and rhythm: "Eeeny, meeny miney mo"

3. Quiz: what kind of traveller are you? reading, speaking and vocabulary.

4. Advice on how to do well in dialogues (expressions for reacting to what people say)

5. Dialogues between parent and child (rehearsal and acting out in front of the class)

6. Ballad: Lord Randall: Listening comprehension

Homework: write a letter to your sixteen-year-old self (using future verb forms). Then write the autobiographical / memoir version using future in the past verb forms. For Thursday 7th November.

Vocabulary page 43.

29th October

1. Initial chat (about weekend)

2. Revision of sibilants with tonguetwister "she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore"

3. Future in the past: PowerPoint Presentation + examples from the students

4. Practice with Stephen King's "A Letter to my Sixteen-Year-Old Self"

5. Listening page 42

Homework: write a letter to your sixteen-year-old self (using future verb forms). Then write the autobiographical, memoir version using future in the past verb forms.

WEEK 5

24th October

1. Initial chat: first memories

2. English-speaking countries song. Pronunciation of sibilants

3. Revision of past tenses and introduction to future in the past.

4. Checking of exercises pages 40 and 41

5. Recommedation of Flo-joe's word bank: Advanced (C1) and Proficiency (C2) (You might also want to revise vocabulary for B2)

Spotlight paper 1

Homework: write sentences about how did you see yourself as an adult when you were a child or teenager (using "future in past forms")

22nd October

1. Initial chat

2. Assessment criteria

3. Collaborative listening: Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra

4. Rules for the use of Past Simple / used to / would (for habits in the past)

5. The Cruel Sister: jumbled up story, reading and vocabulary and listening to song (plus vocabulary clarification in the song)

6. Speaking: childhood memories:used to/ would

Homework: find in "The Cruel Sister" story one example of each different Past form.

WEEK 4

17th October

1. Introductory chat

2. Revision of vowel sounds, introduction to diphthongs with Bob Dylan's song " Girl of the North county"

3. Practice of vowel sounds with the tongue twister "Betty Botter".

4. Dialogues: role plays based on the song " Scarborough Fair"

Homework: Grammar: page 40 and read grammar reference p.179-180

15th October

1. Introductory chat

2. Checking of vocabulary exercises page 39: 3a and b, 4a and b.

3. Handout (ways of looking)

4. Scarborough Fair: characterisation of characters using vocabulary and structures we've studied up to now (adjectives of personality, idioms, likes and dislikes, modal verbs of speculation)

5. Scarborogh Fair: Role play 1 (to be continued)

Homework: Grammar: page 40 and read grammar reference p.179-180 (if you have the time)

WEEK 3

10th October

1. Pre-teaching of the words "parsley", "rosemary", "thyme" and "peppercorn" with realia (the real objects

2. Page 38. Vocabulary and speaking.

3. Song: Scarborough Fair: vocabulary/ reading/listening and speaking

4. Song: Girl of the North Country: Speaking

Homework: Vocabulary page 39

Find words for each of the English vowels in the "Girl of the North Country" song

If you have time, create a characterisation for each of the characters in the song "Scarborough Fair"

8th October

1. Chat about the weekend

2. Feeback on writing test: how to write an informal letter/email (revision of pages 17-19 from book)

-Some common grammar issues (articles, grammar of advise, recommend and suggest)

3. Reading pages 36-37

-Speaking: speculation about a photo and it's connection with one of the three texts in the section

-Reading aloud of text A

-Multiple choice comprehension questions and vocabulary work

4. Pronunciation

-Introduction to vowels with Adrian Underhill's phonemic chart and methodology

-Phone numbers pronunciation game

Homework, vocabulary pages 38 (and 39 if you have the time)

WEEK 2

3rd October

1-Initial chat

2. Correction of Reading and Listening Tasks from the Diagnogstic test

3. Speaking "test" (questions about Travelling and Tourism, The Environment and Brexit)

4. The difference between a swamp, a marsh and a bog. Video about the conservation of Irish bogs.

1st October 2019

1- Chat about the weekend

2- Diagnostic test (reading, listening and writing)

3. Information about speaking official certificate exams

WEEK 1

26th September 2019

0- Initial chat

1-Communal error correction: place your bets! game

2- Revision of comparative idioms and vocabulary about personality (from Traveller, Unit 11)

3- Revision of language for speculation (present and past modals)

4. Speculation and revision of vocabulary with portraits by English-speaking artists.

24th September 2019

0. The teacher introduces herself. The students make a label with their name and a picture of something that's representative of their lives.

1-Icebreaker activity: Find someone who: practice of language for likes and dislikes at advanced level.

2-Information about the course (PowerPoint presentation)

3-Students fill in the student's file with their details and the questionnaire on "Attention to diversity". Some of the information is shared with the whole group.

4. Mingling matching activity: comparative idioms about personality: E.g.: "as stubborn as a mule"