Colombia is passion

This week we will be working on how to describe places...

1. Click on the link below and practice vocabulary to describe places:

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I13/vocabulary.htm

2. Let’s practice:

COMPARATIVES
http://inglesmundial.com/I13/grammar.htm

SUPERLATIVES
http://inglesmundial.com/I14/grammar.htm

3. Watch "Colombia is passion" video and describe Colombia.

WRITE ON YOUR NOTEBOOK: State positives and negative features about Colombia. For Example, Colombia is the most beautiful country in the world.




Have fun!!!

Movie "A beautiful mind"

A brilliant mathematician is forced to deal with schizophrenia

ACTIVITY

1. Watch the movie.

2. Next class we will have a discussion on this movie. To be prepared:

- Choose your favorite character and describe his/her physical appearance.

- Choose a scene and describe it. (Use simple past and past continuous)

- Give your opinion about this movie.

Adjectives Order

The basic types of adjectives

Opinion An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples:
silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult

Size A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples:
large, tiny, enormous, little

Age An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples:
ancient, new, young, old

Shape A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples:
square, round, flat, rectangular

Colour A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples:
blue, pink, reddish, grey

Origin An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples:
French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek

Material A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples:
wooden, metal, cotton, paper

Purpose A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". Examples:
sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")


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Some examples of adjective order
a silly young English man
a huge round metal bowl
a small red sleeping bag

EXERCISE
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord1.htm

Taken from:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Let's practice some vocabulary

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B3/vocabularyB3.htm

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B3/grammarB3.htm

LISTENING

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B3/listeningB3.htm

TALK SHOW

Hi dear students,

Today we're going to practice all structures we have learn so far by preparing a talk show. On talk show, there are different roles:

HOST: a person who acts at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech, introduces speakers, and asks questions)

AUDIENCE: an audience is a group of people who participate in a show (ask questions)

GUEST: a person who is invited to an event (answers questions)

Our objective is to create a dialogue where the host interacts with the guest by doing questions about his/her life.

1. click on the link below and choose a character to impersonate o create a new celebrity. (You could choose a different one if you want)

http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people.asp

2. prepare a dialogue to present to the rest of your classmates.

Good luck and enjoy this practice

HAVE THEY EVER...?

1. Watch the video and answer some questions



Questions

What did Robin do yesterday?
Before coming to new york, where did they live?
When did she live in Paris?
Has anything strange happened to them?
How long have they known each other?

2. Grammar related to this topic:

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I10/grammar.htm

Homework - Anecdote

Dear students,

Retell and write an anecdote using simple and continuous time. Choose from the topics listed below:

- A FUNNY THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG

- AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT

- YOUR BEST DAY EVER

- YOUR BIGGEST CELEBRATION

- THE FIRST TIME YOU GOT DRUNK

GRAMMAR - PAST PROGRESSIVE

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I11/grammar.htm

This homework is due on Monday Feb 14th.

PAST TIME

Hi dear students,

On this lesson you're going to learn basic structures for using past time in English.

Remember when you speak in past time you have to different kinds of verbs:

Regular verbs, which form the past adding a final ED (Play- Played)

Irregulars, which form the past in an irregular form (Be - Was/Were).

Simple Past on line Lesson

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I5/grammar.htm

When you finish this lesson, try to do an advance exercise on this web site:

http://www.english-4u.de/past_tense_ex2.htm