HAPPY HOLIDAYS¡

You did very well in the play. Too bad Dario didn´t came, he was a very good Baby Bear. Silvia did quite well, she already knew Baby Bear´s lines from listening to them so often.

Anyway, I´ll see you next year in 2014. I hope you get everything you asked Santa for Christmas.

See you in January,

Your teacher Begoña.

This is a summary of the things we have been studying in the 1st term.

Topic: The Weather

Vocabulary

Nouns: Teacher, student, temperature, season, winter, spring, summer and autumn,date, month, year. Country, city, capital city. Names of countries in Europe: Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Russia.

Adjectives: Cold, cool, hot, warm, boiling, freezing, cloudy, sunny, raining, snowing, foggy, stormy.

Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, etc.

Adverbs: Absolutely, quite, very.

Grammar: Present Simple (to) be: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we/you/they are;  Past Simple (to) be: I was, you were, he/she/it was, we/you/they were.

What's the weather like? What was the weather like yesterday? What  + (verb to be)  +subject + like (preposition)? What's Mary like? She is tall and pretty.

Question words: when, who, what

Types of sentences they should be able to say:

What' s the weather like? What's the weather like in Norway? It's sunny and cold, it's absolutely freezing, it's quite warm, it's very hot.

What's was the weather like yesterday? It was foggy and cool.

What's the date? It's January 1^st, 2014.

Where are you? I am in Germany.

Was it cold in Germany? Yes it was. No, it wasn't.

Is it cloudy in Madrid? Yes, it is. No, it isn't.

Topic: What do you study?

Vocabulary

Nouns: Subjects: maths, social sciences, natural sciences, Spanish, art, P.E., music, English, IT. Mountains, rivers, town, cities, biology, chemistry, painting, drawing, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, nouns, verbs.

Adverbs: First, then next, finally. 

Verbs:  Have. Daily actions: Wake up, get up, have breakfast, have a shower, get dressed, brush your teeth, wash your face and your hands, walk, study, play in the playground, cook, have lunch, take out the trash, take out the dog for a walk.

Grammar: Irregular plurals: child-children, man-men, woman-women, knife-knives. Watch –watches.

Present Simple: questions . Short answers: Yes, I do; No, I don't. Yes, he/she does; No, he/she doesn't.

Types of sentences they should be able to say:

What do you study on Monday?

Do you study countries and cities in Social sciences?

What do you study in Art? I study drawing and painting in Art.  What do you do in PE. I run and do exercise in PE. What do you study in Maths? I study multiplication and division in Matchs.

The time: What time is it? It is 3 o'clock; it is a quarter past 3; it is half past 3; it is a quarter to 3; it is 5 to 3; it is 5 past 3.

What time do you start school? What time do you get up?

What do you do first thing in the morning? What do you do then? First I have breakfast, then I brush my teeth; after I brush my teeth I get dressed..

Topic: Free Time and Daily routines.

Vocabulary

Nouns: Dinner, magazine, shopping. Street, roof, wall, bench, chimney, window, curtains, hills. 

Verbs: Go, get, go out, play, listen, ride, spend timeGet up, get dressed, brush your hair, brush your teeth, wash your… have breakfast, walk, do exercise…

Adverbs: first, next, then, after

Numbers: from 1 to 1000. One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, etc.

 Grammar: Present Simple questions.Short answers: Yes, I do, No, I don´t.

Present Simple: statements, questions and negative answers.

Links: when, then, next, after.

Types of sentences they should be able to understand or say:

What do you do after school? First I do my homework, then I go out with my friends. Next I have dinner with my family. After dinner I go to bed.

What do you do after dinner?

What does your friend do when she gets home after school? First she watches TV, then she does her homework.

Yesterday we prepared the stage set for our play. Well, we did not finish it, the other group will have to complete it.

We made The Little House in the Forest where the family of bears live. We learned some words related to the house and the landscape.

Roof, wall, window, bench, chimney, curtains, hills, bushes.

During the second half of the class we were rehearsing Goldilocks. Laura and Marta were missing, so Silvia had to play Laura´s lines and the teacher had to read the part of the story that Marta usually does. I hope everybody comes next week.

Come on Laura! Where were you yesterday? And you, Marta, are you not coming back?

Most of the actors know their lines already, so now they are trying to perfect their acting and their pronunciation. 

The last 5 minutes students answered 5 questions for the Olympic Games. Here are the scores:

Player 2   3.5
Player 4   5
Player 5   4
Player 6   4
Player 7   2

The maximum number of points they could get this time was 5.

Today Jennifer told us about her daily routine. We found out a few things about her and her family, for instance, that her parents drink coffee in the morning but Jennifer and Amy, her sister, drink hot milk.

Students wrote some questions for her and then asked her. Some of the students asked: Do you live in Alamo Street? or What do you do after breakfast? or even Does Amy have breakfast with you? or What does Amy do after breakfast? Jennifer could not answer this last question, she said she didn´t know.

Today, again, we rehearsed the play: today Silvia and Laura were here, but Marta was missing, so the teacher always has to play somebody´s role.

The bears were practising the pronunciation of their lines, now they do it much better. Goldilocks did it without looking at the paper. That´s GREAT¡