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Not many students came to the first class of the term, probably due to bad weather conditions on Thursday,maybe because of the sales , or perhaps you were too tired of partying to cope with your classes ; anyway , those who showed up had their class, as usual, although we nearly died of frostbite ,so cold the classroom was. I have already asked for a radiator. Let´s hope it doesn´t take long to get one.
NB2A/C
- Homework: Grammar, units 37,39,40, 43,112 and 113 were checked and doubts solved.
- Video: St.b. p.36. Mark and Allie´s story, this time in a restaurant.
- Ordering a meal: role play of waiter and customer and questions to answer.
- Problems with a meal: role play and completion exercise with differences between British English and American English,eg. chips-fries; bill-check.
- Social English: A true-false exercise and very useful expressions to make your English sound and look better.
We had extensive and thorough practice of this video.
- Homework:St.b. p.40. unit 4A From Rags to Riches. A reading about Zara shops throughout the world and exercises a, b and c. Workbook, p, 30
NI2E
Only Anna and Sandra came, so it was a private class.
- Homework: Vocabulary Bank, p,149, about the parts of a car and words related to driving. Once done it, they tested each other to check how much they remembered.
-Quiz: 10 questions related to the previous activity .
-Reading: two scrambled stories about bad car journeys. We also talked about our bad experiences in cars.
-Grammar: Narrative tenses.p.36. A grid to be filled with verbs from the stories. Grammar Bank,p.134 . We saw the rules and did the exercises with the narrative tenses: simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous.
-Homework: grammar, units: 7,8 and 9
I find these acronyms clever and amusing . Have a look at them.
- APPLE - As Programmer Puts,.. Lost Everything
Average Performing Processors Lacking Everything
- BASIC - Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
- CD-ROM - Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
- DEC- Dump Everything and Close
- IBM - I Blame Microsoft
I'll Buy Macintoshes (next time) It's Better Manually
- ISDN - It Still Does Nothing
- WINDOWSNT - Well Intended Network Deccelerator, Only Works
Sometimes, Never Totally
- SCSI - System Can't See It
- WWW - World Wide Wait
- PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms
- INTEL - IN Total Errata Logic
- SUN - Such Utter Nonsense
- PCL - Pathetic Computer Logic
- HTML - How To Make Less
- JAVA - Just Another Vandalised Application
- INTERNET - It's New Technology, Every Remote Node Expects Trouble