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.

Week 6: Wednesday 15th October, 2025- Starting unit 2

- We talked about the long weekend we had had.
- We revised the practical English section of unit 1.

- We practised simple present and continuous with a find-the- difference activity of a museum and people doing things in it.

- We started unit 2 with a reading on losing something.

- We revised the formation of the simple past.

- We practised the grammar exercises for 2A.

- I gave you feedback on the writings and the recordings.

Homework:

- Workbook unit 1

- Reading 2B

Week 5: 6th & 8th October, 2025- Finishing unit 1

 - We revised what we were wearing: clothes and accessories.
- We revised and practised present continuous.
- We practised describing people and activities with painting remakes.

- We listened for detail.

- We practised prepositions of place.

- We met the characters in A visit from the USA.

- We practised video comprehension, calling reception and social English structures.

Homework:

- Workbook unit 1.

- Photocopies of grammar.

- Entry checker 3/4

Week4: 29th September & 1st October, 2025- Present simple revision

- We revised how to talk about physical appearance.

- We practised the pronunciation final -s.

- We listened to the story of a blind date between Jemma and Pietro.

- We saw vocabulary for character description.

- We corrected Entry checker 2

- We practised  DO/ DOES/ IS/ ARE questions with a board, dice and counters.

- We started 1C and saw vocabulary for clothes and pronounciation of long e and schwa

- We did a vocabulary exercise and completed the gaps of the song Imagine, by John Lennon. 

Homework:

- Writing of a profile of the writing bank on page 211.

- Entry checker 4.

Week 3: 22nd &24th September, 2025

- We revised questions in the present and the past forms of verb to be.
- We revised how to tell the time.
- We revised and practised the alphabet.

- We listened to understand detailed information and to identify situations.

- We did a diagnostic listening and a disgnostic reading. We corrected the test.

- Homework: workbook pages 1A

Week 2: 15th & 17th September, 2025- Starting the book and the diagnostic test

- We revised question formation with a photocopy.
- We corrected unit 1 of the Entry checker.

- We asked and answered questions about ourselves.

- We started unit 1A in the book and revised question formation and how to return a question.

- We practised returning questions.

- We revised word order in questions.

- We did the grammar and the writing part of the diagnostic test.

- We practised the past forms of ver to be and telling the time.

Homework: we have units 2 and 3 of the Entry checker to do