Hello!

I just realized that the clock was changed last night. So now it's 1 hour earlier than I thought.

But you don't know how to tell the time yet in English.

You know quite a bit about jobs, though.

And you remember that if you want to know about somebody's job you may ask 3 different questions:

What do you do?

What's your job? 

What's your profession?

Remember also that when you answer that question you have to put the article before the job as in:

I am a nurse 

or

I am an architect.

In our lesson students read a conversation several times and then role played it.


HOMEWORK

Check this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibpkMMRpkg

Answer this questions:

What's Nicola's job?

What's Harry's job?

What's Stu's job?

Notice that the 1st 's is the contraction of the verb is  while the 2nd 's is the possessive.

You also have to write some questions ( I don't remember how many) using the possessive: Ex:

What's Nicola's job? or Is this Marta's house?

See you Tuesday!

Hello again!

The question Where are you from? is a bit strange for Spanish people because it has got the preposition at the end and not at the beginning, so we had to practice it a lot to get used to it.

We studied the names of countries: Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Greece, Australia, China, the US, Canada, etc.

And nationalities and languages (sometimes they do not coincide): Spanish, French, Swiss (nationality), German, British (nationality), Irish (Irish is a language too, although they speak mostly English), Italian, Russian, Greek, Australian (nationality), Chinese, American (nationality), Canadian (nationality), etc.

We can ask: Where are you from? and get 2 different answers: I am from Spain or I am Spanish.

We can also say: Where is this flag from? It's  from Greece.

If somebody asks me Where is Dublin? I 'll answer: it's in Ireland. Or, Where is the Alhambra? I'll say: It's in Granada, Spain.


Homework

Here is the link to the video about dates. http://www.real-english.com/reo/8-d/unit8d.asp

After listening 2 or 3 times, write down 5 dates you heard.

Also, if you have the time answer these questions:

1. Where is the Prado Museum?

2. Where is Paris?

3. Where is the Big Ben?

4. Where are the Alps? (Alpes)

5. Where are the Pyramids?

See you Tuesday.

Hi! How are you doing? (another informal way to say "how are you?)

Last week we finished Unit 2 and started Unit 3.

Now you able to give a lot of information about yourself: your name: Michelle, your surname: Barnard your age: I am 20 years old and where you are from: I am from France. You can also spell your surname: B-A-R-N-A-R-D, introduce your friends to another person: Jenni, this is my friend Marie and ask questions to get all that information: What's your name? What's your surname? How do you spell it? or Can you spell it? How old are you? Where are you from?

Last week we  studied some of the possessive pronouns: my, your, his, her, our.
Ex. Our country is Spain. 
We have learned some names of countries and their matching adjective, which we use for the language (not always) and nationality. France/French, Italy/ Italian, Germany/ German, Spain/Spanish, Russian/Russian, etc.

Notice that the adjective or name for a nationality or language is written with a CAPITAL letter: it is Spanish, not spanish. This is important for English speakers.

Last week students practiced plenty of dialogues using the questions mentioned above. They are doing quite well with spelling and with numbers.

Pronunciation: we've contrasted some sounds: /v/ and /b/, /v/ and /w/.

We've practiced pronouncing the sound/ð/ in words such as this, these, there. Students practiced recognizing the difference

 between the words this and these and they were quite successful. We used the classroom

 vocabulary to practice those sounds: we asked question like: What is this? It's a sharpener
and What are these? They are chairs. 

I am sorry, I don't know what's happening with the format of this entry, it has just gone 
crazy.

Homework

Besides what I told you in class, doing the exercises from the book, Unit 3, go to this

link and listen to the interviews. http://www.real-english.com/reo/2/unit2.asp

Then write: 5 countries mentioned in the video (Ex: Canada), and 3 cities mentioned in the video (Ex.
New York).

The Unit we have been working on this week is called  What's your surname? And that is what we have been practicing more than anything else.

Everybody understands that question already: What's your surname? And everybody is able to answer.the question. 

We have also studied the alphabet and have started spelling words, particularly our surnames. 

Important question

How do spell... (your surname, her name)?

We have practiced possessive adjectives:

my    This is my book.

your     What's your name?

his        His name is Jim.

her        Her name is Amy.

We started learning numbers. We counted from 1 to 40.

We used the questions words: how, who. We practiced the pronunciation of these words.

We tried to pronounce the sound of the consonants th in words such as  this, that, and there.

There are some verbs that are convenient to know: read, write, listen, say.

Homework

Go to the link:http://www.englishnumber.com/english-numbers/two-figure-numbers/english-number-2-figures.html and listen to the numbers.

You can also check the ordinal numbers here: http://www.englishnumber.com/ordinal-numbers/how-to-pronounce-ordinal-numbers-in-english.html We need the ordinal numbers for dates.

Practice spelling the following words:

Wednesday, evening, twenty, thirteen, there, again,