FINAL TESTS

Dear Students,
I have just realized that there is a holiday on Tuesday December 8th, and perhaps you are planning on travelling home for the weekend.
For this reason, I have decided to move our

final written and listening test for next Wednesday December 9th at 3 pm.

Abour your interviews, you will receive an email on Tuesday with the time. They will begin on Wednesday from 8:30- 10:30 and continue on Thursday at 8:30 until we see all of you.

Take care and have a safe weekend.

Your teacher

PLANT A TREE

PLEASE CHECK YOUR CLASS EMAIL TO FIND THE INFORMATION ON THE PLANTING OF TREES FOR NEXT THURSDAY DECEMBER 3.
TAKE CARE
YOUR TEACHER

WAR

Vocabulary and links on the topic of war

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Kidnappings Plague Kenya's Capital Nairobi - Kenya, myVOA Video


SECURITY SYSTEMS

HOME SECURITY

WHO KILLED ANGELA SPELLING?

VOCABULARY ON CRIME

ESL VOCABULARY ON CRIME

THE ART OF CRIME DETECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Class,
Our next topic is Environmental Issues. I want you to make a ranking of 10 Global Problems and think about a solution for it.

SAVING THE EARTH

A GREENER WORLD

I LOVE TREES

WHAT´S ON THE NEWS TODAY?

Expressing Opinions

WORLD NEWS STORIES

Talking to Kids about the news



Your class assignment for this lesson is the following:
1. You must pair up and choose a piece of current events or news that you find interesting and worth discussing.

2. You will make a short power point presentation on the topic.It can be local or international news. You will explain the topic, give your opinion and write some questions for your classmates to answer.

This is to check understanding and grasp their opinion on the subject.

3. It must be sent to my email before next Friday to upload it to the blog.

For some ideas you can check:
Breaking News English
VOANews
BBC learning English

VIDEO UPLOAD

Dear Class, Take a look, This just shows you that YOU CAN DO IT!!!

READING BOOKLET

Dear Students,
Please read check your class email for your next booklet.
We will have this quiz the first week of November.
See you in class.

TRAVELLING

Travel Arrangements
Travel on Sky Airlines
New York Travel
Vacation Plans
Directions through Town
Directions through Town 2
Directions through Town 3








After you watch the video on Copenhagen, I want you to post a list of the topics the speaker describes: ex. main sites, food, etc.... ok?

I need a job!!!

Job hunting

Finding a Job1

Finding a Job2

Cool Jobs

Job Options

HOMEWORK: Writing a resume

Chile habla Ingles

Why learn English?

Watch and complete

1. The Phone Call

ON THE PHONE

Answering Machine
Phone Message
Telephone Conversations
Remembering numbers
Telephone English-Important Phrases
Telephone English-Leaving Messages
Tips for getting people to slow down

TOPICS FOR 1ST INTERVIEW TEST

COMPETENCES 2, 2009
TOPICS FOR THE ORAL TEST
UNIT # 1


• Describing illnesses, the causes, the symptoms
• Giving advices for sick people, should…, home remedies
• Asking for a doctor’s appointment
• Talking to the doctors
• Prescribing medicines (as a doctor)
• Talking about accidents people may have, how they happen, what they cause and how to avoid them
• Talking about fashion
• Shopping for clothes (fitting room, sizes, etc)
• Describing people’s personality & physical appearance
• Expressing opinions about today’s fashion & shopping habits ( I agree, I disagree, In my opinion, etc)
• Renting an apartment with friends
• Living with flatmates
• Choosing a new flatmate
• Dealing with money matters and living habits when sharing a flat
• Describing a flatmate from HELL!
• Talking about family members and the roles they play ( I look after my younger sister, my mom works, My dad is a single father, etc)
• Talking about age differences (young people like loud music, but old people cannot stand it because they are tired and nervous, maybe)
• Talking about the relationship between family members
• Talking about problems at home and how to fix them (the faucet is leaking! We should call the plumber! we ran out of hot water! (We should call Lipigas!)
• Making complaints and requests when having problems at home (can you please fix the light bulb?)
• Describing problems at home and how to solve them
• Expressing personal opinions about people, fashion, flatmates and relatives
• Apologizing when making mistakes

Lesson 5 Small Talk

Small talk is a casual form of conversation that "breaks the ice" or fills an awkward silence between people.

Work on the following links to learn how to "small talk":

Conversation Starters
Small Talk Quiz
Appropiate Subjects for Small Talk
Song for Small Talk
Introductions and Small Talk
861 Tokyo vs. New York
How to make small talk during greetings

Lesson 4 Problems

This lesson includes activities which deal with:

Making complaints & requests
Requests
Phones
Making a complaint (formal)
Making a complaint (informal)

Talking about everyday problems
Excuse me, where can I?
Everyday problems

Apologising
How to apologize
Accepting Apologies

Be sure to complete all the tasks.

Lesson 3 Family and Friends

Work on the following:

Familiy Relations (print and complete)
Talking about Families
Big Family

Lesson 2 Describing People´s Personality and Appearance

Hello Class,
Be sure to work on all of these sites:

Expressing Opinions

Party Time
Face Match
Guess the Girl
Guess the Guy
Hairstyle
Fashion and Clothing
People: Age and Build
Personality Types
Personality
Lost in a Crowd
Personal Security
What is she like?
Compound Adjectives for Describing People
How to Describe People´s Appearance
What´s your Personality Type?
Vocabulary: Personality

The Flatmates: Describing people

The following exercise you must print, complete and hand in:
Create your own Personal Advert

Going to the doctor´s

Let´s learn how to make an appointment at the doctor´s:

Medical Advice
Doctor´s Visit

Healthy Lifestyle

832 Health
Jeff talks about what he does to keep himself healthy.

Please answer the following questions. Post your answers.

1. What do you do to stay healthy?
2. How can you improve your lifestyle?

Medical Advice

Check the following links. Please remember to go through every section of the page.

Medical Advice: What´s the matter?
Washing Hands
Stop Smoking
Apples Fight Cancer

Talking about health

Dear class,
Please work on the link below and post your answer to the following questions Remember to write your name for your entry.

Soap up! The 12 germiest places in your life

1. How do you protect yourself from germs?
2. What was the most interesting thing you learned from the article read?