Week 16: January 12th & 14th, 2026- Resuming classes

- We have revised the use of simple past and present perfect talking about the Christmas break.
- We revised the vocabulary of housework and how to use it with do/make.

- We revised the use of yet, already and just with present perfect.

- We talked about having the oral exam on 26 January and the written parts on 28th January and revised how evaluation works for us.

- We did a short exercise and sang The Man Who Sold the World, by Nirvana.

- We practised present perfect questions and answers in a speaking handout taht folded.

- We did a listening on how to be tidy when you're lazy.

- We did a grammar and vocabulary test and a listening one, for practice.

Homework:

- Exercise 5 page 59 (4B)

- Photocopy with revision for relatives and present perfect

REMEMBER!!!

- Oral exam: Monday 26th January 2026, following this timetable.

- Written parts (reading, grammar, vocabulary, liatening and writing): Wednesday 28th January 2026- 17.30 in our class

Contents from the book for this exam.

Happy New Year to all of you

Week 15: 15th & 17th December, 2025

- We revised present continuous with future meaning.
-  We did Practical English 3, Pictures of you. We saw how to order, what menus look like, problems at a restaurant and the difficulties of the couple of Ben and Izzy.

- We saw interactive structures.

- We saw a short film on generosity, how to help others and how others help you. Pay it forward, watch from minute 4'39''.

-We did Entry checker 12, present perfect.

- We started unit 4, we saw vocabulary on housework and present perfect using yet, already and just. We did exercises 1 and 2 from 4A.

- We sang Happy Xtmas (War is Over) by John Lennon and Fairytale of New York, by the Pogues.

- We had something to eat and wished each other a wonderful time and new year.

Homework:

-You can do most of the workbook of 4A

Week 14: 10th December, 2025- Present continuous with future sense and defining relative clauses

 - We revised the present continuous to speak about future arrangements.
- We saw how to use relative pronouns with a reading on a TV quizz show.

- We practised the use of Who, Where, Which.

- We guessed and wrote definitions of different words.

- We practised the pronunciation of silent /e/

- We gave definitions for the words in a crossword.

Homework:

- Remember the writing of an informal e-mail on page 43

- Workbook pages of 3C

Week 13: 1st & 3rd December, 2025

 - We practised going to for plans and predictions.

- We arranged plans for friends.

- We did a quiz on how organised we are.

- We saw the use of some prepositions and their verbs.

- We practised linking.

- We did a couple of listenings with the use of present continuous for future arrangements.

- We practised the structure.

- We saw how to write an informal email.

- We practised a bit of connectors.

Homework:

- Workbook 3B

- Alien summary.

- Informal email

- Entry checker 10B and 10C

Week 12: 24th & 26th November, 2025- Unit 3 and second part of our Film Festival!

- We practised past forms telling our weekends.
- We started unit 3A with airport vocabulary.
- We saw both pronunciations of letter /g/ as in baggage.
- We read the text on spending time at airports and completed the exercise.
- We did pre-watching activities of Lifted, a Pixar short film, saw the film and talked about it.

- We talked about different activities to pass time at long delays at airports.

- We did a listening on an airport delay.

- We saw how to use going to for plans and predictions.
Homework: 
- Write a summary of the story of the film on the photocopy you have.

- Workbook 3A

Week 11: 17th & 19th November 2025- Film Festival!

- We did the Revise and Check of units 1 &2 with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the understanding of a text and some people.

- We did the entry checkers 8 and 9a and b with the structures there is/are, there was/were and countable and uncountable nouns.

- We saw a short film belonging to this year's Film Festival Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times and did a handout about it.

Week 10: 10th & 12th November, 2025- One dark October evening

-  We revised past continuous with the communicative activity Who did it? to discover that Alejandra was the thief!

- We saw the beginning of the relationship between Hanna and Jamie in 2C.

- We saw time sequencers and connectors to organise the stories and to express reason, consequence and contrast.

- We saw verb phrases belonging to the story.

- We got to know the sad and the happy endings of their story.

- We got to know about the story of The Troubles in Ireland and the inspiration for the U2 song Where the Streets Have No Name.

- We did and exercise and sang the song.

- We revised both endings of the love story and completed the questions.

- We completed sentences in writing practising time sequencers and connectors.

- We practised pronunciation stress of two-syllable words.

- We did the exam skills of Reading and Listening on pages 38 and 39.

Homework:

- Entry checker 5 and 6.

- Revision of Grammar and Vocabulary

Week 9: 5th November, 2025- Describing photos

- We remembered how to describe the photo of the volcano and the text from the book.

- We described how and what kind of photos we post or not.

- We talked in pair about photos from our phones and our childhoods.

- We practised how to describe in writing.

- We told each other about the Irish groups and singers we read about.

Homework:

- Entry checker 4 and 5.

- Workbook 2A and 2B

Week 8: 27th & 29th October, 2025- Unit 2B and Halloween!!

- We read about a very special photo and used it to:

- See prepositions at, in, on

- To see examples of past continuous.

- We saw how to use past continous.

On Monday we went to see Ana and Turlogh telling us about Irish myths and legends ans singing Molly Malone, and Whisky in the Jar.

- We practised grammar exercises and video promps.

- We saw how to pronounce was/were

- We saw some Halloween vocabulary and revised spelling and the alphabet. 

- We saw a Halloween video about a wicked magic plant.  And about a very disturbing replacement. 

Homework:
- Tell us a story: choose your favourite photo and write what's teh mystery behind the photo.

- Read about the card on Irish music I gave you, to tell the rest of the class a little bit.

Week 7: 20th & 22nd October 2025- Revision of past forms

- We revised past forms telling about our weekends.
- We revised the pronunciation for -ed forms.

- We saw vocabulary on holidays.

- We practised structures to show interest.

- We told our classmates about our last holiday.

- We told our classmates about the Irish things we read about.

- We saw a video about Ireland and completed the gaps in teh sentences about it.

- We corrected Entry checker 3.

- We told each other a true and a false story with cards.

Homework:

- Workbook 2A and entry checker 4.