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29/1/15

HEIGHT

Tall

Medium-height

Short

BUILD

Skinny

Fat

Plump

Small

Overweight

Slim

well-built

Stocky

AGE

Teenager

Middle-aged

Elderly

Young

In his 20’s

FACE

With scars

Oval

Narrow

With wrinkles

With freckles

Suntanned

Pale

EYES

Big round blue

Bright

Small

HAIR

Straight

Messy

Curly

Spiky

Short

Bald

Wavy

Curly

Tidy

CLOTHES

Casual

Smart

Shabby = scruffy

tidy

22/1/15

Sometimes you have look backwards/ forwards.

1.          There

2.          Out / it out

3.          Set/ started/ were

4.          At

5.          Me

6.          Soon

7.          And

8.          Window

9.          Fine/quiet/relaxing

10. Eyes

Go to sleep = fall asleep

I missed the bus

I left my passport at home

I took the wrong turning

I got lost

… than I thought.

… than I expected

…. Isn’t as _____ as I expected

Arrived at the station/airport

Arrived in Berlin

Near Berlin

Near of Berlin

Next week / next month (when you are speaking from a ‘now’ perspective)

When we are telling a story, we will say ‘the next day’/ the next morning/ the next week

The last night…

I hadn’t any sugar

I didn’t have any sugar.

I hadn’t booked the room

I have a dream

I had a dream

I didn’t have a dream

I hadn’t a dream

In the end,

At the end of the story/ of the film/ of the process

In the end of

At the end,

I was still worried

Pack my luggage/ my suitcase

Road

Path

Track

A guided tour

Route

HOMEWORK

Revise vocabulary on holidays (in this blog)

Analyse the way information is presented in the text on p.6 (a disastrous journey)

Adverbios comparativos y superlativos ingleses La mayoridad de los adverbios comparativos y superlativos se forma con ‘more’ y ‘most’. Can you drive more carefully, please? / ¿Puedes conducir con más cuidado por favor? Los adverbios que tienen la misma forma que los adjetivos, se forman con ‘er’ y ‘est’.  Los más usados son : Fast, early, hard, long, near, high, low, soon They all play badly, but he plays worst of all / Todos juegan mal, pero él es el que peor juega. She speaks slower (Informal) than Andy. / Ella habla más despacio que Andy.(En inglés correcto se debe decir ‘more slowly’, more quickly, more easily) Nobody gets up earlier than Wally. Nadie se levanta más temprano que Wally LOS COMPARATIVOS Y SUPERLATIVOS DE SUPERIORIDAD IRREGULARES well, bien better, mejor best, lo mejor badly, mal worse, peor worst, lo peor late, tarde later, más tarde last, lo más tarde little, poco less, menos least, lo menos much, mucho more, más most, lo más far, lejos further / farther, más lejos farthest, lo más lejos

homework

HOMEWORK: GRAMMAR (P7 comparatives) Ex. a and b

Prepare the oral presentation (a nightmare journey)

oral presentation

A nightmare journey/trip

Prepare an oral presentation

Invent the story

Brainstorming:

The company lost our luggage

We were late to get on the plane

We got lost

The hotel didn’t have our reservation

We got stuck in a traffic jam and we were late to get on the train.

We forgot our passport

We were robbed/ Someone stole my wallet.

We confused the dates

The plane had delay.

The plane couldn’t take off.

The workers were on strike.

Techniques

Order is essential

Structure of information

Combine description with narration.

We were in all in our new Toyota Rav4, ready for the set-off. I was wearing a tracksuit, because it is comfortable for driving. The kids were at the back with the videoscreen ready…

DESCRIPTION:  use of adjectives, nouns/ some verbs that don’t indicate action/ you can use the past continuous.

NARRATION:

Finally, we set off and we got onto the motorway A-7 toward el Altet. We drove very fast because we thought it was late.

NARRATION: more verbs, few adjectives/ verbs of action, which usually go in past simple

CHANGE OF FORTUNE-

Everything was going fine. We were all happy to start the day when suddenly it started to rain. What a disaster!

13/1/15

See the sights/ go sightseeing

Atmosphere

Enjoy (transitive)

Enjoy the view/the food/ the landscape

Picturesque

Unique

Beautiful landscape

Orchard/ market garden

Cove

On /off duty

Get to = arrive at/in

Get to school/ work/ the station

Get into = go into (go inside)

Near a place/ near here / near of here/ near to here

Close to a place

To be honest, I’m not really into…

Well, I’m not a big fan of

HOMEWORK: P.3,4 READING + exercises

P.5 VOCABULARY

TRAVELLING - USEFUL PHRASES

TRAVELLING/ HOLIDAYS –useful phrases-

PLACES:

We went sight-seeing

We travelled round the country

There’s a great view. You can see for miles.

The hotel was great. We stayed in a very luxurious room.

The hotel had/didn’t have internet access/ satellite TV.

The hotel was really posh.

I value the peace and quiet of the place.

I appreciate the food

I’m a big fan of history so…

I’m an adventurous eater so I like trying new…

Personally, when I’m choosing a holiday I always look for…

I always hope to find …

If I can choose, I’d go to …

How long is the flight to Australia from Madrid?

What’s the cost of a return ticket?

Campsite / going camping

Backpacking

Youth hostel

WEATHER

It was boiling! – very hot-

It was a bit chilly

It was OK in the morning, but it got a bit chilly in the evening.

I didn’t need warm clothes.

8/1/15

Homework: UNIT 4 vocab. P.1 places of interest

p.2 dev. Conversations

HAVE A BINGE

ENJOYED THE SHOPPING

I GOT A BIT MERRY

I PREFER GIVING PRESENTS TO RECEIVING THEM

SQUANDER= WASTE

WORTH $2.6 m.

2.6 million (=adj) pounds

2 thousands

3 hundred

4 million

Thousands (pronoun) of people came

They have adapted brilliantly

They can relax

Quit your job ;     quit = stop, give up/ quit working, quit smoking

Wait for the school pick-up time

You begin to wonder what the point of it is.

In the long-term/ in the short-term

Ridiculous

A gold-plated yacht