Yesterday we had our last lesson on the topic Towns, which includes cities, villages and resorts.
In the first part of the lesson students talked about different cities and towns and each one of them wrote a paragraph on one of them.

What we have learned is that we use the verb to be to talk about characteristics of a place:
It is a small and quiet town. It's freezing cold. 
We always say the adjectives before the noun: It is a crowded tourist city.
When we talk about places or things in the town we say:
There is a lake. ( for 1 thing).
There are many tall buildings. (for 2, 3 or more things.)

We were practicing questions in  the 3rd singular person, asking about a cousin, a grandmother or a grandfather.
Where does your grandmother live?
And the answer:
She lives in Leganes.

In the second part of the class we reviewed the Past Simple of the verb to be, which is not new, we had studied it when we studied the weather. Remember: What was the weather like yesterday? 
I was
You were
He was
She was
We were
You were
They were

We listened to a conversation between two young people: one a them was in San Francisco the week before. The other one asked: What was San Francisco like?
All the students read the conversation and then role played it. It was a bit difficult, but this is a group of clever kids and they did better than they expected. We'll keep practicing.
We had time to make a word puzzle about places in the city and then play the memory game like last week.

Homework
How many brothers and sisters does your mother ( or father) have?
Example: she has 2 sisters and 1 brother. Their names are Rosa, Ana and Antonio.
Then you ask the question: Where does Rosa live? She lives in Cuenca.
Where does Ana live? ......................
Where does Antonio live?.....................

Hello again!
Some students in this group say that they cannot see the blog, so they wrote down their homework on their notebooks.

This is the 3rd lesson on the topic of cities, towns, villages, resorts... that is, the place where we live.
We started the class practicing numbers, all kinds of numbers: hundred numbers, thousand numbers, million numbers.

We learned very few words today: haircut, skyscraper, wait for the bus, get your passport, etc., balcony.

I'm sure this time everybody is going to log in the blog without any problems.

We learned a little more about describing a city, a town or a village.

We practiced There is when we are talking about 1 thing and There are when we are talking about a number of things.
It was a fun activity and I noticed everybody at the end could ask the questions comfortably:
Where do you live?
What's .....(London, San Sebastian, Chicago,Tokyo, etc.) like?
And most of you could answer quite fluently things like: It's freezing, there are many skyscrapers and there is a lake. Or There are many lights in the streets, there are many people and tall modern buildings.
In this activity students picked a photograph of a town or village and the description of it, they got together with a partner and asked each other the questions above. Then they changed partners until everybody had worked with everybody else.

We were also listening to a recording where 3 people talked about their hometown. Then they had to fill in the gaps in a written transcription of the recording.

For the Olympic Games, students had to answer questions like: What can you do in a bakery?or What can you do in a restaurant?

Homework
Remember that some of you have to do last week's homework.
New homework: 
Write 5 questions like the ones I asked you for the Olympic Games: What can you do in a night club? And the answer: You can dance and have a drink.

We started the class with 2 questions: Where do you live? and What's your address? For the last question, remember we say the number first, and then the name of the street: My address is 5 Alamo Street.

Today we continued studying about cities, towns , villages and resorts. We were learning some new adjectives: interesting, boring, exciting, dirty, clean, dangerous, safe, expensive, inexpensive.

What's a dangerous town? Is this town dangerous or safe? Is Leganes a dangerous or a safe town?
 We reviewed the places in the city and played a memory game: students had to put together a picture of a place with a word sign.

We were studying other ways to describe a town besides using adjectives: for that we reviewed  the nouns: street, building and the adjectives: wide, narrow, tall, old so we could make sentences like: There are many wide streets and tall buildings or The streets are narrow and there are beautiful old buildings.
The teacher showed some photographs of real places and students practiced describing them.

The students were practicing answering this type of question:
Where do you buy bread? Where do you buy a table?
Where do you do exercise?
Where do you watch Superman?
Where do you live?
Where do you sleep when you go on vacation?
Where do you wait for the bus?
Where do you get money?
Where do you go dancing?

Grammar INFORMATION
This is the Present Simple, we studied it last term. It is very easy. All the persons are the same, except for the 3rd singular person: I buy, you buy, he/she/it buys, we buy, you buy, they buy.
To make questions, we must put the auxiliary verb do or does for he/she/it. Examples: Do you buy bread in the bakery? Does she live in an apartment building?
As you can see: first you put the auxiliary do or does, next the person: I, you, he/she/it,we,you, they or a name, or a noun like: my brother, my sister, a man, a boy, etc. finally, you put the verb: buy, live, sleep, watch.

Homework
What's Leganes like? Describe it. Say what there is in Leganes: Example: There are many parks in Leganes

Make 5 questions like this: Do you buy ice cream in a furniture shop? Use these verbs: buy, live, dance, sleep, have dinner.

          Make 3 questions like this: Does your grandmother live in Leganes? You may use the same verbs as before.

WELCOME TO THE NEW TERM

AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

Yesterday we started a unit about towns and cities. Everybody in the group is from Leganés, so Leganés is their hometown. To make it more interesting and so everybody could say something different, students talked about the village where they usually spend their holidays. One of the students usually spend her holidays in Torrejón de Ardoz, which is not a real village, is big enough to be called a town. Another one usually goes to Daimiel , which, he says, is a small village.

Students learned some adjectives to describe towns, cities and villages: beautiful, crowded, empty, quiet, noisy, industrial, historic, modern, tourist, seaside. They had to make sentences like: Picture 1 is a modern crowded city. Remember that in English we place the adjectives before the noun. 

Students spend sometime pronouncing all the new words. 

We were also learning places in the city using flashcards. In order to practice them we play a card game. Students had to ask each other for cards to complete a group or family. And Miriam not only does very well with her English, she is also very LUCKY, she wan again.

Homework 

Find 5 pictures of towns, villages or cities in the Internet and describe them with adjectives.

Example: Vienna is a beautiful historic city.