Week 21: 16th & 18th January, 2026- Starting unit 5

 - We warmed up by revising our resolutions for our English studying strategies for the rest of the year, after reflecting on our results.

- We also had a look at the results of the anonymous online questionnaire, both regarding the students' and the teacher's results.

- We read about speed in our lives on 5A.

- We saw grammar for comparing adjectives and adverbs and practised.

- We revised the pronunciation of shwa.

- We did a listening on speed lives in different generations.

- We did a speaking comparing our lives today and 3 years ago.

- We read and saw videos about the best cities to live.

- We saw vocabulary on towns and cities and how to describe them.

- We saw how to use superlatives.

- We practised superlatives with a video.

- We practised sentences stress

Homework:

- Handout on present continuous for future plans.

- Workbook parts of 5A.

- Handout on goint to +inf.

- Workbook part 5B

- Reading on Random Acts of Kindness.  This is a very interesting link and here we have a calendar with random acts of kindness for every day. 

Week 20: 9th & 11th February: resuming lessons after the tests

- We warmed up revising present perfect structures.

- We revised -ing/ed adjectives.

- We saw how to write an opinion essay.

- We saw how to compare adjectives in entry checker 9.

- We saw our exams, the results, the correction of the grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening parts.

- We got individual feedback on the productive skills.

- We commented on class feedback on speaking and writing and the most common mistakes.

- We discussed evaluation of the year and the certificate exam.

- We did the questionnaire on Speed on 5A.

Homework:

- Write an opinion essay as instructed in the book.

- Page 208 from Teacher's book on comparatives.

 

Week 19: 4th February, 2026- Written parts of the exam

- We did the reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary test, together with the listening comprehension and writing test.

Good luck to you all!! 

Week 18: 26th & 28th January, 2026- Oral test and snow

 - We did our oral test on Monday but we could't do the written part because of snowy weather this Wednesday.
- We had the class online and we fisnished 4C with a video on the weekends.
- We revised units 3 & 4 on pages 62 and 63.

- We did the listening test practice on page 71.

Remember we don't have class on Monday 2nd February.

Work for Monday 2nd February: 

- Practice of grammar: Present continuos for future arrangements, present perfect or past simple and somethig, anything, nothing.

- Practice of vocabulary: Prepositions at, in, on, Right or wrong prepositions, Make or do and Shopping

- KEY TO THE EXERCISES ABOVE.

- Reading exercises page 70.

- Entry checker 9 page 300, only 9C part: comparative adjectives.

Week 17: January 19th & 21st, 2026- Preparaing for the test next week

 - We corrected the photocopies of relatives and present perfect.

- We saw a video about chain stores.

- We saw vocabulary on buying.

- We practised the pronunciation of letters c and ch.

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

- We did a present perfect handout to match questions and answers.

- We saw the meanings of adjectives ending in -ed and -ing and practised.

- We saw the use of somebody, any/nobody...

- We practised the sounds /e/, /əʊ/, /ʌ/ and also /j/ /dʒ/

Homework: 

- Revise everything for next week's test.

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