2º Nivel Intermedio Semipresencial 2020-2021

- Speaking: Noticing language, metaphors, ideas, things that caught your attention. Has the dream come true? Have black people reached total equality nowadays? What needs to be done yet?

4. Speaking: Dreams Questionnaire

Homework: For next week be ready to tell a dream that you have had, using narrative tenses (a monologue)

Week 14

Wednesday 13th January 2021

1. Welcoming students back after the holidays.
2. Exam dates and plan for the month
3. Reminder of the last grammar point we studied before the holidays: wait / expect/ hope / wish / look forward to
4. Difference between wish and hope: uses and structures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_KVE_0J4g

1. Dialogue about wishes and regrets

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zOOQPt65a-5NjLcrCQkIASbCdIJvGUai

1. Listening comprehension BBC news clip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r4tk

Homework: watch these two more videos about the difference between WISH and HOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlQfLc55rQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8hP3npuR4&t=2s

Week 13

Wednesday 16th December

1. Initial chat

2. Revision of 0, 1st and 2nd conditionals

3.Third conditional with song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1wEVPqFFCg&ab_channel=WCFL1000

4. Sesame street version of the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-yJqAMm2c&ab_channel=SPGOALSTV

5Difference among wish/hope/expect/wait/ look forward to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDs69GW0AO0&feature=emb_logo

6. Wishes and regrets (revision)

7. Dialogue: complaining

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vqPyF5bXZu36QaT4t6fPNMijhWGdmfH0P4KBhbNEXRI/edit

Extra videos about wish/hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_KVE_0J4g

Week 12

Wednesday 9th December

1. Initial chat

2. Revision of conditional sentences (0, 1st and 2nd) and time clauses with songs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pFoR2J4oTqW96BNDGL4uiVVzXF_X5xDmf0LqFKnefjk/edit

Homework: exercises about conditionals on handout

Week 11

Wednesday 2nd December

1. Information about the exam, tasks and how to organise the course

2. General feedback about monologues

3. Returning to Suzanne Vega’s song: analysis of vocabulary and meaning in connection with gender-based violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0

4. Revision 12 verb forms in English and uses in a conversational way

5. Revision -ed endings: rules and song

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/index.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyM3_G1veQ

Homework: An opinion essay to be handed in through the platform. Deadline: 9th December

http://agrega.juntadeandalucia.es/visualizador-1/Visualizar/Visualizar.do?identificador=es-an_2020022512_9192153&secuencia=true

Week 10

Wednesday 25th December

1.Initial chat.

2.Clarification of doubts about homework and the CREA material

3. Rules and exercises about countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers in English. Checking exercises, reading aloud and pronunication practice.

5. Songs: Bang Bang and fill in the gaps, revisions of habits in the past, irregular verbs (form and pronunciation) and pronunciation of ed endings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKDSFYvxKU

My name is Luka: Listening, reading and class discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0

Homework: Writing task on the platform

Week 9

Wednesday 18th November

1.Initial chat.

2.Books from library and encouraging students to read extensively, reminder of homework

3.Clarification of doubts about homework and the CREA material

4. Rules and exercises about articles in English and pronunciation practice

5. Listening: fun with flags: Clip from The Big Bang Theory

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYtlPgiID7Z4dgErAZZPjuqKbVMJQNqDqp3mF0-w2d4/edit

6.How to prepare a dialogue and revision of functional language

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UxRtd9nD9Sir9zXlVno7shaygv7UriKUcVyo45gdBdg/edit

7. Preparing and acting out a dialogue about single-sex schools versus mixed schools

Homework:

Crea Material, Unit 2

http://agrega.juntadeandalucia.es/visualizador-1/Visualizar/Visualizar.do?identificador=es-an_2020062212_9144629&secuencia=true

If you finish with Unit 2, you can start with Unit 3

http://agrega.juntadeandalucia.es/visualizador-1/Visualizar/Visualizar.do?identificador=es-an_2020062212_9144647&secuencia=true

Week 8

Wednesday 11th November

1.Initial chat.

2.Books from library and encouraging students to read extensively, reminder of homework

3.Clarification of doubts about homework and the CREA material

4.Pronunciation: presentation of phonemic chart

5.How to prepare a dialogue

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UxRtd9nD9Sir9zXlVno7shaygv7UriKUcVyo45gdBdg/edit

6.Preparing and delivering a dialogue

DOWLOADING MUSIC

http://agrega.juntadeandalucia.es/visualizador-1/VisualizadorCS/VisualizarDatosNavSecuenciaNodo.do?identificador=es-an_2020062212_9144612&idSeleccionado=ITEM-eXes_2021_v045720b2a225159ae246f

Homework: Monologue 13th November

Crea Material, Unit 2

http://agrega.juntadeandalucia.es/visualizador-1/Visualizar/Visualizar.do?identificador=es-an_2020062212_9144629&secuencia=true

WEEK 7:

Wednesday 4th November 2020

1. Books from library and encouraging students to read extensively

2. Revision of connectors (From English File C1)

3. Conjunctions Bingo

4. Dialogues in pairs

How to prepare my dialogue

Homework: Monologue 9th November (see instructions on Moodle platform)

Start working with Crea Material, Unit 2

WEEK 6:

Wednesday 28th October 2020

1. Initial chat.

1. Clarification of doubts about the CREA material, extra material on so/neither and informal email
2. Suzanne’s Vega “Tom’s diner”

-Listening comprehension: fill-in-the-gaps activity

-Revision of tenses with song

-Listening comprehension with introduccion to the song

Homework: finish off CREA activities Lesson 1 and start with lesson 2

Recorded: monologue

Extra exercises about

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/linking/index.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-30/session-1

https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/connectives/b2-connectives-index.htm

WEEK 5:

Wednesday 21st October 2020

1. Initial chat

2. Recommendations about CREA exercises UNIT 1.1: Music Unites:

Essential exercises: those that present new vocabulary and grammar

Do a few reading and listening exercises but don't worry if you can't finish them all

Those parts that are about speaking or writing will be done in class (or an equivalent of them)

3. Likes and dislikes at advanced level: Handout and video

4. So do I /neither am I: explanations and videos

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/support-files/so_too_neither_either.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDVclL-ZoN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOh9Fo8tH_U&t=87s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esml6XQVjEo

Monday 19th October 2020 19:00-21:15

Questions and answers session and conversation

Recommendation of websites:

For Word formation: https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/wordbank/

Interactive phonemic chart for practising the sounds of English: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart

Other websites for practising English pronunciation: https://sites.google.com/site/withflyingcoloursherrera/home/pronunciation

WEEK 4: 14th October

1. Informal chat and vocabulary learning through speaking

2. Election of student representative and substitute representative

3. Level tests back

4. Whole class error correction activity with mistakes taken from the exam. Presentation

5. Speaking about paintings from English-speaking artists Paintings

Homework: Writing an informal e-mail to a character in a picture. Instructions and handing-in through Google Classrroom

WEEK 3: Holiday

WEEK 2 30th September 2020

"Pruebas Iniciales de Evaluación"

1. Reading

2. Listening

3. Writing

4. Mediation

WEEK 1 23rd September 2020

1.-Introductions 2.-Covid 19 protocol Link to presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEImQEEZd0/__UBX37ELJjLp3cwssXZnA/view?utm_content=DAEImQEEZd0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink 3.-Icebreaker I: "Introduce your classmate" activity in pairs and as a whole group: In pairs, students interview one another asking and answering questions about their jobs, hobbies, reasons for learning English and other personal information. 4.-Some more information about the course: timetables, the B2 level, the platform, additional online resources, library, attendance and assessment. Link to teacher's blog: "With Flying Colours" https://sites.google.com/site/withflyingcoloursherrera/home 5.-Icebreaker II: questions chain: students think of one question to ask to one of their classmates, then, as a whole group, questions are asked and answered.