Week 3: 21st& 23rd September, 2026- Negatives and questions with to be and diagnostic

- Revision to be positive sentences.

- 1B: Countries and nationalities

- Negative and question forms of to be.

- Diagnostic test.

- Practice of negative and questions

- Revision to be

Homework: 

- Workbook 1B second page and grammar 1B

Week 2: 14th & 16th September, 2026- Unit 1: Salsa class!

- Verb be.

- Saying hello, meeting people.

- Subject pronouns

- Vowels and word stress

- Days of the week and numbers 1 to 20.

- Listening practice

- Practice of Days of the week with The Cure: Friday, I'm in love

Homework: 

- Workbook 1A

- Two photocopies: vocabulary and grammar

Week 1: Wednesday 9th September, 2026- Welcome to the school and welcome to the year

 Dear students, welcome to the year and enjoy your time at the school!

- Organización de la escuela: school organisation.

- Calendario y horario de clases: calendar and class timetable.

- Web y blog de clase.

- Libro para el curso.

- Entrega de hoja perfil: profile sheet

- Spoken exercise with personal information: ejercicio de hablar con información personal.

Week 32: Monday 18th, May Results

 

- Today we had a look at last week's exam and all the course's results. They are here.

- We also had a look at the certificate exam, for those of you who are thinking about sitting the exam. Remember old exams are here on the web and the days of the exam are here. 

Thank you very much for your work and attendance this year and I hope you go on learning in the future. Take care!

Week 31: 6th & 8th May, 2026

 - This week we revised:
Present perfect and past simple.

Something, anything, nothing...

Quantifiers

Question formation

Speaking cards

Week 30: 27th & 29th April, 2026- Passive voice and revisions

- We corrected our photocopies of possessive pronouns, first conditional sentences, vocabulary of opposite verbs and get.
- We did the grammar and vocabulary revision of units 7&8.

- We revised some nationalities and how to use present and past passive voice in 10C.

- We practised how to talk about inventions.

Homework:

- Workbook up to unit 8 complete and 10C.

- Photocopy of superlatives and verbs followed by to infinitive.

- Revise and ask questions next day!

This is a document with the contents that we have covered.

Week 29: 20th & 22nd April, 2026- Murphy's law and O'Henry's story

 - We practised giving advice for students with problems in cards.

- We read about Murphy's law and how to say it in English with first conditional sentences.

- We saw some of the different meanings of get.

- We practised the different meanings of verbs we tend to confuse in 8B.

- We read and listened to the beginning of Girl, a story by O´Henry to practise possessive pronouns: You must be mine!

- We read sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and understood its meaning: Shall I compare thee...

Homework: 

- Workbook unit 8.

- Photocopy

Week 28: 13th &15th April, 2026- Getting deep in modal verbs!!

-  We practised the use of gerunds after other verbs coming up with ideas about Happiness is...
- We also practised the oral speaking exercise 4 on page 107.

- We saw how paragraphs are organised starting with topic sentences.

- We read about how a journalist learnt Spanish and read about how to use have to, don't have to, must, mustn't.

- We saw the rules to use these modals.

- We corrected a photocopy on rules in the UK.

- We started unit 8 reading about professional advice on relationships.

- We saw how to use modal verb should.

- We practised the pronunciation of long and short u.

- We did a listening exercise on giving advice to some parents.

Homework:

- Workbook of unit 7, if you haven't done ir, and 8A.

This is the provisional schedule of the oral exam in May.

Week 27: 8th April, 2026- Resuming lessons after Easter

- We revised the use of to-infinitive after another verb with cards in a photocopy.
- We saw how to pronounce unstressed to and linking words with the same sound when finishing and starting.

- We did a dictation to complete some questions using the structure to-infinitive.

- We talked in pairs asking and answering those questions.

- We saw how to write an article giving tips.

- We saw verbs followed by gerund and did the grammar part of 7B.

Homework:

- Photocopy of to-infinitive.

- Workbook of part 7B.

- Write an article giving tips.

Week 26: 23rd & 25th March, 2026-

- We practised using will for showing optimism.

- We did a revision of units 5 & 6.

- We saw how to write social media posts.

- We did a gap-filling exercise on Aretha Franklin's I Say a Little Prayer. And we tried to sing.
- We checked the answers of the little test I gave you on Monday.
- We corrected the photocopy of mixed verb forms.
- We started 7A and gave advice to people moving to study in the UK.

- We saw and practised verbs that are followed by to+infinitive.

- We saw a video about tips when moving to the UK.

Homework:

- Writing of unit 6: social media post.

- Photocopy of practice of using to+infinitive

- Workbook unit 7A

We'll be back on Wednesday 8th April. Have a very good Easter and holiday!!!

Week 25: 16th & 18th March, 2026- The end of the story

- We did Practical English 5 and 6: Pictures of you. The end of Izzy and Ben's love story.
-  In 5, we saw how to follow directions and practised it and in 6 we practised phoning and leaving a message.

- We started 6C with a listening of a patient with his psychiatrist, telling his dream.

- We revised verb tenses.

- We practised modifiers for adjectives and adverbs.

- We practised how to pronounce letters ea and ear.

- We saw a video about the meanings of dreams.

Homework: workbook 6C and page 94 and the reading on page 95.