Don't forget: Today we have a class. It's our last lesson for the course!

It's the summer and we are ready for a vacation. You all did a very good job with the play. Congratulations!

Today we'll be watching stories and playing games.

What's your favorite fairy tale?  My favorite fairy tale is Pinocchio.  What's Pinocchio about?

It's about a wooden puppet.
There is an old man in the story.
The wooden puppet has many adventures.

Those are clues: they tell you a little bit about the story so you can guess the story.


HOMEWORK

Choose your own story and write 3 clues. 

There are many stories you can choose from: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the 7 dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, The Three Little Pigs, The Beauty and the Beast, and so on.

Here is a link to a video with fragments of fairy tales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPc05lcrkdQ

Last Tuesday students had a test, which was hard work.

Next week we´ll be doing the play. So here I want to remind everybody what they need to bring.

First, everybody needs to wear a costume:

For the girls it is eady because they can look just like regular girls. But we need a basket for the picnic.

Rubén and Gonzalo,the Alien Vampires need to brink some face crayons (colors to paint their faces). For clothes bring anything you think is good for an alien vampire. Do you have any other costumes: A cape? Something shiny? And you need to bring a weapon: a gun or something.
Same thing for Sergio, the Police Officer, see if you can find a hat and something that can be similar to a uniform: black trousers, leather jacket? And, of course, a gun.


HOMEWORK

Listen to the song. Then, write 5 professions and say what they do. Example: A dentist keeps your teeth clean and white. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/songs/people-work

Hi!

Yesterday re were going over vocabulary, Here is a list of words you must learn  and know how to spell:

Verbs:

brush
cook
do
have
make
paint
read
tidy
watch

Adjectives
big
curly
friendly
naughty 
smart
straight
strong
tall
short

House tasks or chores
make the bed
wash up the dishes
do the laundry
take out the rubbish
vacuum the floor

At the end of the lesson we were playing a board game. We have played many times. And yet, some students cannot distinguish between Present Simple and Present continuous. I know it is a bit difficult but you are young and clever and only have to pay a little attention.

Present Simple ( it is simple, it is only 1 word) We use it for actions we repeat in time: we do them usually, always, never, everyday, etc.
Example:

I make my bed everyday

or

My mother doesn't cook at the weekends

Present Continuous: (2 words: am, are or is + verb+ing) We use it for actions we are doing now, today, at this moment, this morning, tonight, etc.)

Example

Now, I am writing the blog for C5.

Today, the C5 children are not coming to the English School  because it is Wednesday.

HOMEWORK

1. Study the words.

2. Go to the link and do the exercises. By the way, this is the Present Simple, we use for routines.http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6234

Yesterday we spent the first part of the class preparing activities for the younger children. The activities were about summer holidays. A good opportunity for everybody to learn vocabulary that we can use to talk about the summer. Here are some of the words we learned:

beach
sand
sand castles
sea
waves
swimsuit
sunglasses
ice cream
juice
beach umbrella
beach chair

Students in my group did a good job as teachers and the little ones had a good time.

We also started, very roughly, a new unit about jobs. So for your homework you are going to start studying some jobs and professions and that way you'll be ready for next week.

HOMEWORK
Watch the video and write 10 jobs mentioned in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6RBvUmayA

2. To review the Present Continuous.

Answer the question: when do we use the verb in the Present Continuous?

Now complete the questions. Remember: the Pr. Continuous has 2 parts: the present of to be: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you are, they are    +      the verb  -ing.

Example: I am writing

For questions we change the order of the words: Am I writing? Are you reading? Is Maria listening?

Use the verb at the end of the question, in the -ing form, of course.

1.__  she _____________ a  good time? (have)

2. ________ they______________  that stupid song again? (sing)

3._______  I __________ a good job? (do)

4. _______ we ________  to the cinema tonight? (go)

5. _______ John and Jake ______________ television? (watch)

6. Or______  they_________________  to the radio? (listen)

7. _____ Mario ________________  a video game? (play)

8. ________ Joanna and Kayleigh_______________  the dog? (walk)

9._______  Mister Sebel____________  Mike with his homework? (help)

10.______  you______________  a book? (read)

Hello guys!

You have to make sure you understand the blog and the homework. If you can't get any help from an older person who knows more than you and can explain something when you have a doubt you can use the translator,

I think, though, that your homework is usually very clear and all you have to do is read it carefully and pay attention. I always give you very clear examples. The examples come after the word Examples  which is underlined, that is, with a line under the word: ___________. OK?

Yesterday, besides completing and repeating your homework we reviewed the vocabulary we use to describe people.

We rehearsed our play. Most students already know all their lines. We must start thinking and planning costumes and props.
Costumes: clothes you wear to look like your character. Example: clothes you wear to look like an alien (maybe green clothes, a mask, etc.)
Props: things we use in the play, such as a spaceship, a gun, a basket for the girls' picnic.

Later we practiced asking each other question. First using the second person, Have you got short dark hair?, then, asking about a classmate: Has Nuria got blond curly hair?

I repeat:
When we talk about hair, eyes, nose, ears, etc. we use the verb have got/has got. When we use adjectives about the whole person, like tall, short, strong, slow, etc. we use are/is.
Example: Gonzalo has got short curly hair.
                 Sergio is tall and thin.

HOMEWORK

Talk about a best friend. Answer the questions:

1.What's his/her name?
2.How old is he/she?
3.What does he look like? (tall, blond hair, brown eyes?)
4.What is he/she like as a person? (friendly, clever, fast?)
5.What things does he like? ( sports, music, painting?)
6.Where does he/she live? ( town, near you or far from you, on your street or neighborhood?)
7.What do you do with your best friend?

Example:  1.My best friend's name is Erika. 2. She is 8 years old. 3. She is medium height and thin. She has got long wavy brown hair and brown eyes. 4. Erika is very friendly and playful. 5. She likes roller skating and reading stories. She also likes writing stories. 6. She lives near me, in the same neighborhood.7. We always play together in the afternoon. Some times we roller skate and sometimes we ride our bikes. And we invent stories.   

Hello!

Yesterday we continued practicing describing people. Everybody had done their homework and it was pretty well done. Only a couple of reminders. When we use more than one adjective for something, as we usually do to describe hair, we put them one after the other before the noun.

Example:  My brother has got short curly blond hair. We don't say: my brother has got short hair, he has got curly hair, he has got blond hair.

We don't use the article a before the word hair or the word eyes. Remember, we have 2 eyes and lots of hair.

We say: I have got blond hair and blue eyes. We don't say I have got a blond hair and a blue eyes.

Later students asked each other questions about the characters on the book:

Is the woman tall? 

And they answered:

No, she isn't. She is medium height.

Or

Has the young man got red hair?

Answer:

Ne, he hasn't. He's got blond hair.

We listened to a recording and students had to pick the right choice on their worksheet to show their comprehension. They had to know who they were talking about and some information about their look.

We rehearsed our play. Most students already know their lines. And the interpretation is getting better all the time.

Finally, we listened to our song again and completed and exercise filling in the words that were missing from the song.

HOMEWORK

Do the exercises in this page. They are easy.  You need to click on the sentence before to get to the link.

Then, looking at the pictures; Ask 2 questions for each character:
Example: Has John got curly hair? Answer: No, he hasn't. He's got straight hair.

John	Bill	Ann	Sue
10 years old	11 years old	10 years old	12 years old

Hello Tuesday kids!


Last Tuesday we studied vocabulary to describe people. Here are the words we were studying:

tall
short
thin
fat or heavy
old
young
fast
slow
strong
week

We use these words with the verb to be: is or are when we describe a person or some people that are not here.

 Some people are tall and some people are short.


We also study words to describe people's hair: color, size, shape for hair on our head. And other types of hair, or having no hair. Or how we comb our hair.

blond hair
brown hair
red hair
black hair
gray hair
long hair
short hair
curly hair
wavy hair
straight hair
bold
pony tail
pig tails
beard
mustache

To talk about somebody's hair we use the verb have got:
My sister has got long straight hair.

We watched a video and practiced the song. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhWV4fzchq4
You can listen and practice at home.

HOMEWORK

Describe 4 people in your family. Example:

My sister is short and a little heavy. She has got short brown hair and brown eyes. She is young and strong.