11 February 2011

7th to 11th February (Summary & Homework)

- check homework

- Tests Units 1, 2, 3 - correction and comment

- Vocabulary on education: p.150

- Grammar: First conditional & future time clauses (p. 136) - theory and activities
1st conditional (still possible): If (or unless) + present simple, will/won't + infinitive

Future time clauses: remember that we don't use 'will' after as soon as / when / until / before / after
As soon as I get home, I'll call you.
After I finish university, I'll probably take a year off and travel.

- Getting personal... (p. 56): Oral practise in pairs
What would you choose... speaking and class discussion:
. if you could live in another period of time for its fashion, when would you choose and why?
. if you could come back in another life, who (or what) would you like to be?
. if you could change one part of your body, what would it be?

- Grammar: "If I won the lottery, I would get a new house" (p. 136) - theory and activities
Second conditional: if + past simple, would + infinitive
. for hypothetical situations: if I had more time, I would learn French.
. to give advice: if I were you, I would take the job.

- Video Listening activity: Going Green and Durham School

To watch the documentary on Durham School go to the following link:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnosJoldcOU

HOMEWORK:
- Reading p. 53 - "So school these days is easy?"
- Worksheet on first conditional