Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hello my dear students,

I hope you trimmed the Christmas tree and wrapped the presents, I hope you are healthy and warm and, wherever you are, I wish you a lovely Christmas with your family and dear friends!

All the best for 2015!
S

Homework for the Christmas holidays! :)

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a great time at home with your family and friends!

Here is a nice video I want you to watch and work on the tasks related, so that you don't forget all your English during the two weeks off. On the right side of the page, under Christmas, you will find other videos (Christmas scene 1&2 + Language Focus). You can watch them as well and do the tasks below.
Also please revise all the units we have studied together from the book.

Happy New Year and have a great beginning of 2015!
See you in January!
S

Homework for December 18

Hello class,

Next time will be our last lesson for this year, soon holidays are knocking at our doors... Yeepeee!

Today we worked on phrasal verbs, we did some practice on Speaking Part 2 and we watched two Youtube videos of candidates doing the exam.
For next time please do the Writing Part 1 p. 33 (exercises 1-5).

As Christmas is getting near here's a nice text an English girl Emma who lives in France wrote about the English Christmas traditions. Choose 6 new words, look up for them in the dictionary and write about 100 words, comparing the Italian Christmas traditions with Emma's text. Use the new 6 words in your writing.
For example: We don't eat minced pies in Sicily, but we cook scacciata or lasagna for Christmas! :)

PS: for all the students who missed the lesson today, please do Phrasal verbs ex. 1-4 pages 30-31.

That's all for now!
Byeee
S

Homework for December 14

Hello everyone,

In our last lesson we revised irregular verbs in past tense and we looked at verb+ -ing/to and spoke about hobbies.
For Monday please go to the Workbook and do the Reading Part 4 and Grammar exercise 1, pages 12-13.

That's all for now,
See you!
S

Homework for December 11

Hello class,

I was happy to meet you parents today and learn new things about you! ;) You are lucky to have such wonderful parents! :)

For next time, which is next Thursday (Monday 8th is holiday, hurray!!), please write 5-6 sentences about the time capsule. For Enrico, who missed the lesson, follow the example below, choose six objects in the box and write the sentences.

 Now I'd like to propose you something new: I made a class account and password for a website where you can read ebooks online.

Go to Oxford Owl and click on My Class Login  and type PET TEENS for username and GIGACATANIA for password. Then in the Book Search type Mythical Beasts and click on the book that appears. It's a story inspired by a traditional Viking myth. Read 5 or more pages every week, look up for words in the dictionary, but don't stop too often.

Enjoy your long weekend and see you next week!
Bye,
Silvia

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Homework for December 4

Hello class,

I'm meeting your parents on Thursday, so remind them to come to Giga IH! :)

Your homework for Thursday is: exercises 1,2 3 pages 27-28 and a 50-words writing about your opinion on the teeanager who crossed the ocean, from the text on page 28-29.

For the people who missed the class on Monday, please read the text at page 28-29 and do exercises 1-5.
Then check this activity about Adventure Travel and do the tasks below the text.

That's all for now,
Bye!
S

Homework for December 1

Important: The meeting with your parents will be on Thursday December 4, so that all parents can come!

Today we worked on Writing part 2 of the PET exam abd we started speaking about free/leisure time.
Your homework for Monday is:

- read and do the exercises from the Writing reference, pages 134-137

- watch this video and learn about heritage tourism in the UK. Then do the tasks under the video.

Have a great weekend, take rest, go out, but don't forget to study for the English lesson as well ;)

Bye for now,
Silvia

Homework for November 27

Hello guys,

Next lesson we'll move on to a new unit, so in this post I am giving you some nice things you can work on to improve you vocabulary or skills.

For example:

- learn more vocab about rooms, restaurants, school and weather.

- read a short article about Italian shoes and wellies (as rain is coming back to Catania). What are wellies? choose 5 new words in each text and make sentemces with them. Don't foget to bring them to class on a separate sheet of paper.

- watch this funny video about jokes :)

That's all for now!
S

Homework for November 24

Hello everyone,

As most of you already know, the "great" news is that on Modndy we're going to have a ... progress test! Don't worry, it will cover only things we studied in class, that is Unit 1 and 2.
So be good and revise Unit 1 and 2, the vocab, grammar and the exam tasks and you will probably get something similar.

You can practice the quantifiers here and here.

You can practice Listening Part 1 here.

Try to work on the collocations here and here. About collocations, there isn't an easy solution: you must learn them, make sentences with them and try to use them as much as possible in speaking.

That's all for now! Study but don't over-stress :)
Have a nice weekend!

S

Homework for November 20

Hello everyone!

Today we had a lovely inspected lesson :) and it went great! You did an awesome job! xxx
We did some Speaking Part 4 practice, which we will continue next time as well, and we looked at "used to".

Your homework for next time is:

•  write 3 sentences about what 3 classmates used to do/like/watch/listen to when they were 6 years old.

• write 5 sentences about life in the 1920's-1950's in the English villages compared to now. You can refer to people's clothes, streets, the houses, people's jobs/occupations, children, anything that is different compared to now :)

       e.g. In the 1920's people used to work the land, but now most people work in offices.

•  Reading part 1, page 21-22 from your book.

See you on Thursday, guys!
Bye bye

S

Homework for November 17

Hello everyone,

yesterday it was great to see all your amazing photos since when your were babies! I loved them all!! You also did a great job describing them and using past continuous!
The same for the dreams you created in class :)

Your homework for next time is:

- revise past simple and past continuous from the book

- practice more Listening Part 1

- practice Reading Part 3

- practice Vocabulary related to school

Please be responsible and do your homework! ;)

Bye-bye,
Silvia

Homework for November 13

Hello my lovely students,

Today we read a text about sweatshops and we studied past continuous. For next time please do exercises 8-9-10-11 from page 62 and, on a separate sheet of paper, write a story about an unusual day at school. Use past continuous. Here's an example:

Last Tuesday was a really strange day. All the people on the street were looking at me! I was walking to school when an old me stopped me and...

Please remember to bring a photo of you when you were very young (like 5-6-7 years old or younger). Ask your parents who took the photo, when it was taken and think about what you were doing in it. Be ready to present it in class.

Have a nice week, lads!
Bye,
S :)

Homework for November 9

Hi everyone,

I can see that the weather forecast scared you off today, so most of you didn't show up to the lesson. Enrico was courageous and came to class! Hurrah! :)

Your homework for Monday is from the book page 142 and for the boys who still didn't receive the books, go to this page. Please read the explanations about Speaking Part 1 and do exercises 1 (page 142), exercises 2 and 4 (page 143).

 Now something related to our current news, watch a video about British weather. You will find out how weather forecast is produced. Watch the video and do the tasks below.

Enjoy the rainy weekend and study hard! :)
Bye!
 S

Homework for November 6

Hello guys,

In our last lesson we looked at the daily routine of a Chinese school student, we did some reading and speaking practice.
For homework please do exercise 1 and 2 page 18 (from the book) and the Reading (page 9) and the Vocabulary activity (page 10) from your Workbook.

Did you know that on November 5th people in England celebrate Bonfire Day? What is Bonfire Day? Learn about it by clicking here. Watch the video and do the tasks. If you don't understand the text, as usual, read the Transcript. Choose 5 new words, make sentences with them and bring them to class on a separate sheet of paper.

That's all for now!
Byeeee
S

Homework for November 3

Hello guys,

I hope you had a lovely week! Last time we watched and analysed a PET Speaking Part 1 video and we did some writing practice PET writing Part 1.

We also talked about Halloween, but, because of the internet connection, we couldn't watch the video. As I promised you, here it is: Bet You Didn't Know: Halloween 
I gave you the text in class, so please watch the video and aswer the following questions:

1. When did Halloween begin?

2. What happened the night of Samhain?

3. What people do to keep ghosts away?

4. What does the word Halloween mean?

5. In your words, what was "souling"?

6. In your words, what was "guising"?

7. Who brought the Halloween traditions to America?

8. How much do the Americans spend on Halloween in a year?

Write full sentences (Subject + Verb +Object) on a separate sheet of paper. Please also check with a dictionary the meaning of the words: doorsteps, relatives, roaming, soul, pastries, revive, custom.

As homework do also pages 4, 5 and 6 (senza Listening) from this page.

Happy Halloween or just have a nice weekend! :)

Silvia

Homework for October 30

Hello my fantastic PET teens,

How are you? Today we did lots of things: state verbs, uncountable words and quantifiers (many, much, a lot of ...) and Speaking Part 1! Wow!

Your homework for next time is:

- page 14-15, Speaking Part 1 exercises 1,2 and 4 . You can find pages 14-15 here.

- watch this video about the Speaking Part 1 exam, write and answer the questions and spot the errors in the candidates answers!

- since most of you like reading books and all of you love watching films, here's one for you: The Fault in Our Star. Watch the video and do the tasks below. Then check it out on the web and watch it at home!

PS: If the video is difficult, click on Transcript below the video and read the text.

Bye for now! :)

Silvia

Homework for October 27

Hello class,

I was happy to have everybody today in class, plus a new classmate! :)

You homework for next time is:

- study page 118 about the State verbs.

- with the help of page 118, do exercises 3 (page 12) and exercises 4, 5 and 6 (page 13).

Exercise 3 - choose the state verbs.
Exercise 4 - imagine you speak to a classmate - make questions using state verbs and answer them.
Exercise 5 - make questions in present simple or present continuous.
  ! Remember to use the auxiliary verb "do" - present simple questions - "Do you like swimming?"
  ! Remember to invert subject and verb "be" in present continuous questions - "Are you swimming now?"
Exercise 6 - think of your best friend. Write some things about him/her, using present simple/continuous. Follow the examples in the book!

- Then watch this video , read the explanations about present continuous and do the tasks under the explanations. The video refers to temporary situations which are in progress.

Enjoy your week and weekend :)

PS: Remember about the Houses of the Future from last homework, do it if you haven't done it!
PS2: I was right! pages 10 and 11 were in the link I gave you ;)

See you next time!
Silvia

Homework for October 23

Hello guys,

I hope your week is going well! :)

Your homework for Thursday is:

- choose 5 new words from the text about the windmill, page 11, and make sentences with them

- choose new 5 words from the text about the cave home, page 11, and again make sentences with them

- research on the internet about another kind of innovative houses and report next time in class.

- watch this video about Houses of the future and do the tasks below the video! It's cool!

For the ones who missed the class, click this link and you can find page 10 and 11 there.

Take care,

Silvia

Homework for October 20

Hello my tango dancers! :)

Today we spoke about daily routines and habits around the world and we revised time prepositions.

Your homework for Monday is:

- read page 117 and revise prepositions of time.

- from page 9 (the photocopy I gave you in class) do exercises 1 and 2 (Grammar. Frequency adverbs)

- Listen to this audio about Magda and do Preparation, Task 1 and Task 2. You can see the text if you click on Transcript.

- watch the video below and choose one child, then imagine and write about one day in his/her life (e.g. I usually get up at 6 am, I go/don't go to school...). Use your imagination and write about 100 words on a separate sheet of paper. Use full, complex sentences.

That's all folks!
Have a great weekend!

Silvia

Up 1 level: now you're PET!

Welcome to our PET Teens class blog!

As some of you know, you can find your homework here, plus interesting videos, texts and other activities!

If you miss a lesson, please get in contact with your classmates and see if there are any worksheets I gave in class. This way you will not miss anything from the lesson :)

Your homework for Thursday is the following:

- read this text about Social media (click here)
- write a list of advantages and disadvantages of social media websites (Facebook, Twitter etc.)
- choose 5 words you don't know and make a sentence with each word

Please write all this on a separate sheet of paper (so I can take & correct it).

See youuuu! :)

Bye
Silvia

Don't forget your English during the holidays!

Hello again my dears,

So that you don't forget your English during the summer months, don't be afraid to discover fun videos, texts and audios on http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org

Don't forget to use the podcasts at http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-podcasts

It's also a good idea to make English/foreign friends on Facebook and chat with them in English. If you can, it's even better to skype them and speak face-to-face. But be careful and stay safe when chatting/skyping! It's always a good idea that your parents supervise you and definitely tell your parents if something strange happens!

It was so nice to have you as students! :)

Have great holidays and hope to see you all in September!

I'm getting ready for my cloudy English summer.


Silvia

Homework for June 9

Hello my dear students,

In our lesson today we did listening, writing and speaking practice dor the upcoming KET exam.
For homework, here is a link of many podcasts that you can listen to improve your listening skills. Start with Series 1 episode 1 and do the tasks below each audio.

Read some tips about the Speaking test.

Next week we're going to read about famous people, so here I found a text about a famous English teenage blogger Charlie! Do the tasks below the text.
 Here you can find his video about how to make the perfect English teaaaaa!

Bye for now and enjoy the weekend!

Silvia

Homework for May 29

Hello class,

In our last lesson we finished Unit 19.1 by working on time prepositions like in/on/at.
For those who missed the lesson, please do all exercises at page 119 ex. 5,6,7 and exercise 19 page 147.

Please don't miss any more lessons, because this can affect your result in the exam. 
With a score between 70-75% in the mock test and by missing lessons, I cannot guarantee you will pass the exam.

Extra listening practice
Have you ever been to Paris? Here are two videos that revise the use of infinitives and expressions with "make" and "do"! Video 1 and Video 2.

See you,
Silvia

Homework for May 26

Hello my dear KET Teens,

In our last lesson on Thursday we did some more Listening practice, we spoke about ways of communicating (Unit 19.1) amd we focused a lot on the pronunciation, especially on the sound /i:/.

Your homework for Monday is exercises 3 and 5 from the worksheet given in class and Writing Part 9 (worksheets from class).


Here there's a review of a music website, where you can sing and learn the text of your favourite songs! Do the tasks below the text and check the website! It's GREAT fun! I tried it and had so much fun!
Check Bruno Mars' song: Just the way you are.

Have a great weekend!
S

Homework for May 22

Hi class,

Today we finished the exercises from Unit 18.2 by practising some speaking and writing skills. We also did some listening practice.

For Thursday please do Exam Folder 10, pages 114-117 and watch this video about Seaside Entertainment in Britain. As usual, do the tasks below the video, check your answers and if it's necessary, look at the transcript.


Have a good week,

PS for Andrea:  this is called Treadmill.

Bye for now,

S

Homework for May 19 and exam date

Hello everyone,

Our lesson today was about how to have a healthy lifestyle and live long. We did a quiz and we discovered the surprising body age of some of you! :) We also looked at first conditional.
For those who missed the lesson, please study pages 112 and 113.

For everybody, please go to page 147 and do exercise 18 and from the photocopy I gave you last time or before do exercise 4 (Grammar), p. 39. From the worksheet I gave you today do exercises 1, 2 and the grammar exercises 8B.

Also, check this text about Vegetarian UK and do the tasks below.



The exam will be on 28 June and the speaking can be between 21-29 June. You must subscribe to the exam until 13 June. Oriana and Marta, please wait until the second mock result.

See you Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Silvia

Homework for May 8

Hi everyone,

In our last lesson we continued talking about technology in Unit 17.2 (Oriana please study it on your own).

For next time please finish your homework from the photocopy I gave you last week (Unit 17 Science and technology) and write a For Sale notice for a computer game, mobile or other item (object) that you own (have). Include :

• how much it originally cost
• the sale price
• details of the product (e.g. how old it is, colour, how it works...)

Write between 25-35 words.

I found a very interesting video for you, you can watch it here  and we'll discuss its message in class.

Bye for now,

Silvia

Homework for May 5

Hello class,

In this post I'm going to give you some extra-homework to what I gave you in class. Our last lesson topic was technology so here a text about Facebook. It gives you the secret of using Facebook for hours!
Just set up your page on English, find foreign friends and chat in English! Your parents will never say NO! :)

For Monday write a short paragraph answering the question at the bottom of the page: Are you a Facebook fan? Why/ Why not?

Have a great weekend!
See you on Monday,

Silvia

Homework for April 28

Hello everyone,

and welcome to our weekly meeting on the blog! :-p

Today we worked on relative clauses with who, which and where and we did some reading, we listened to a game, similar to "Tabou" and we also did some speaking.

For next time, your homework is the two worksheets I gave you in class and also a  podcast : Elementary Podcasts Series 01 Episode 1. Listen to the podcast and do the tasks below.
These are some nice audios (podcasts) that you can even listen on your smartphones! There's an application that you can find here:

Have a grrrreat weekend!

See ya!

S

Homework for April 24

Hello bunnies,

What can this be?

Click on the photo to check! Were you right? :-)

I hope you are doing well. Many of you didn't come to class today... Please do not miss any of our next classes, because we already miss 2 lessons during the Easter Holiday.

Today we learnt expressions for giving directions, we finished with the Speaking Mock, we did some pronunciation practice and we also did a funny Easter Quiz! Yeah!

Your homework for next time is:

- make sentences with the following words/expressions for the listening today:

• plenty of time (another way to say a lot of time)
• Oh dear! (when you are worried about something)
• water all around
• I'm afraid that... (a polite way to announce that something bad happened)
• motorway

If you don't know their meaning, go to a dictionary.

- learn how to give directions here (do Preparation first). It's a very important part of the exam and you will also need it when you'll travel on your own in the future.

- do all the tasks on the page below, including the Writing at the bottom of the page. This helps you in the Speaking and Writing part of the exam.

Have a grrrreat Easter holiday!

Silvia

Homework for April 10

Hi class,


On Monday I gave you feedback on the Mock tests. Congratulations to all of you! You got good marks and you showed you worked very hard until now!  Some of you must still work harder to get higher marks at the exam.

We also did Writing folder 4, pages 96-97 and we started Unit 16.1. Your homework is :

- exercise 8 and 9, page 99

- exercise 16, page 146

- revise the trasport vocabulary

- work on this writing exercise. Do the Preparation task first!

Bye for now,

Silvia

Homework for April 4

Hello class,

In our lesson on Monday we did the Mock test Reading and Writing paper and Listening paper.
In our next lesson we'll do the Speaking part. As promised, here are some links for you to revise the Speaking test:

- general tips http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams

- phrases that show interest in what the other candidate or the examiner are saying: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/showing-interest

- when you don't know an exact word http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/when-you-dont-know-exact-word

- a video of a Speaking session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycc2G4Ryn3Y

Regarding the video, please read the examiner's comments to have an idea of what they evaluate: http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/149448-ket-for-schools-examiner-s-comments.pdf

Homework for March 31

Hello my favourite teens,



In our lesson on Thursday we did a lot of speaking practice in using Wh questions and present perfect. We also read some advertisements for part-time jobs for teenagers and we studied present perfect with just and yet.

For next time please finish the worksheet with yet/just and do all exercises from Unit 15.

As on Monday we'll do the Mock test, please revise all Exam Folders in the books (the blue-green pages in between the Units). A good way of improving your reading/listening/writing skills is to do exercises from this page here.

Have a great weekend!
Bye,
S

Homework for March 27

Hello class,



On Monday we looked at different jobs, especially at being a cook (just like the British star Jamie Oliver) and at present perfect in two situations: situations which started in the past but true in the present and recent situations (without a time mentioned).
We covered all exercises from pages 92 and 93.

For homework I gave you two worksheets related to present perfect tense and please also do exercise 15, p. 145.

See you,
Silvia

Homework for March 24

Hi class,

Last time we looked at the differences between I prefer and I'd like (Grammar Extra p. 89).
We talked about how your school is at the moment and how you'd like to change it (Activity p. 89).

We also did some exam practice for Reading Part 3 - p. 90-91 and we played a boardgame using the expressions from everyday conversations. For homework I gave you two worksheets with practice on Reading Part 3.

So we talked a lot about school, subjects and teachers, but can you eat at school? In some English schools, there are dining halls. Have a look what English students have for lunch! Please do the tasks below the text.



Have a grrrreat weekend!

See you on Monday!

S

Homework for March 20

Hello class,

Today we worked on the Speaking paper - "Talk about yourself", we also did a listening and we matched answers to questions.

For Thursday please do exercise 6 p. 89, write 45 words about your attitude towards e-readers and write answers to the questions given to each of you in class.

See you next time.
Bye for now,

Silvia

Homework for March 17

Hello guys,

Last lesson we began Unit 14.1 by talking about your favourite kind of books.
We read an article here and we discussed it.
We continued with talking about adjectives and their order in the sentence (in case there are more than one).

For homework you had to:

- do the exercises from the worksheet (scheda) I gave you in class

- make 5 sentences with some expressions from the text we read in class, such as: unpopular, I firmly disagree with, a mixture of, I suppose, it's filled with. Go back to the text to understand their meaning.

See you in class

Silvia

Learn by movies, back to Catania!

From March 31 films in English at Alfieri Cinema in Catania!

You can find the program of films by reading this CT Zen article.  
Most of the films received awards at festivals such as Cannes, Oscar or Palme D'Or.

Hurray!

Homework for March 13

Hello everyone,

In our last lesson on Monday we did quite a lot of practice for Part 2 of the Listening Paper.

Your homework for tomorrow is:

- two worksheets with TOO and ENOUGH that I gave you in class

- a short writing about your favourite season, just like at page 83 Activity - write why you like this season and why you don't like the other seasons - use too and enough and also weather words.

- read this phone chat and practice you reading skills by doing the taks below the text.

See you tomorrow!

Bye-bye,

Silvia

Homework for March 6

Hello to you all,

Today we moved on to the next lesson, the weather! This is the English favourite speaking topic!
We looked at some weather vocabulary and some other ways of comparing: (not) as... as, the same as.

For Thursday you homework is at pages 78-79, the Revision Unit and please go on to this webpage, do the preparation task and then listen and do the tasks below.

See you all on Thursday!
S

Homework for March 3

Hey everyone,

Today we talked about Mrs. Serrano's "abnormal" (strange) family and then we read about a nine-member family! We studied new vocabulary and different types of pronouns: subject, object and reflexive.

For Monday do also exercise 12 page 144 and the two worksheets (schede) with pronouns (60 & 62).

Please finish writing the text about how Naomi (the youngest child of the family) sees her family. 
Use pronouns and some of the new vocabulary such as: to be into (something), don't mind, to get on well with (somebody), to bug (someone), messy, by yourself/myself.

Don't forget to finishing work on Practice for Key Writing Part 6, from the book page 154 (Units 1-12)

PS: for the students who didn't come to the lesson, please call your classmates and ask for the homework.

Thank you.
Bye,
S

Homework for February 24

Hello everyone,

For Monday your homework is:
- exercises 3, 4 and 5 from pages 24-25 for Unit 11 Sports.

- exercises 10 and the Exam Practice, page 33 from the worksheet (scheda) I gave you in class.

- read Beyonce's short biography and choose 5 new words and make five sentences. The text is full of irregular verbs in past simple. This is a good oppportunity for you to learn them better!

Have all a good weekend!

See you,
Silvia

Homework for February 20

Hello class,

Last time we talked about sports and taking exercise and I was surprised to find out you are a quite active class! Keep it up! :)

For tomorrow I'm reminding you about the homework I gave you in class, that is:

- exercises 3-7 page 73 + correct your last writing (about the unusual object)

and

- exercise 9 page 71
- do a listening exercise here

See you,
Silvia

Homework for February 17th

Hello class,

One more day and it's weekend! Yahoooooo :)
But no weekend goes by without the English homework ;) So for Monday you have exercise 9 page 69 (book) and exercises 1 and 2 from the photocopy I gave you in class.

For next time, on a separate sheet of paper, I'd also like you to write 7 sentences about your favourite sportsman/sportswoman (if you don't have a one, choose any famous sportsperson).

• write 3 facts about him/her (use present simple)
• write 2 sentences about what he/she likes doing 
• write 2 information about his/her past (use past simple)

Please  write complex sentences (e.g. When Nadal was 12, he won the Spanish and European tennis championship for his age).

Click here to improve your reading - do the tasks below the poster.

Have a great weekend,

S

Homework for Thursday 13 February

Hello my favourite teens!

In our last lesson we used the passive in a communicative activity, we also did some exam practise (Reading Part 4) and we played the Hangman! :)

For tomorrow please do the Exam Folder p. 66-67 from the book.
Don't forget to write a message to your friend telling him/her about an unusual object you found.
Tell your friend:

•  where you found it
• what it looked like
• what you did with it.

Write 25-35 words.

Do you know what day is on Friday? It's Valentine's Day!

How do you celebrate this special day? Read here how people in England celebrate it. Please do the tasks below, too.

We'll speak about it in class!

Bye for now,

Silvia

Homework for February 10

Hello everybody,

Last time we planned our ideal bedroom (girls and boys version) and we learnt the passive form (in present and past simple).

For next time you have exercises 4, 5 and 6 from page 65 and finish exercise 10 from page 143.

February 11 is Safer Internet Day in the UK. Do you know what bullying is? What about cyberbullying? Has it ever happended to you to be cyberbullied?

Watch this video and find out! Do the preparation task and check your understanding.
Learn the new words in the video, as I will ask you on Monday.

Enjoy the weekend!

See you,
Silvia

Listen to music and learn English

Hi class, 

If you liked my lesson when we listened to Bruno Mars's song "It will rain", then here's a great link for you: http://www.lyricsgaps.com.

You can listen to your favourite songs, learn the words and practice English at the same time, any time, anywhere.

Just choose the song and then choose your level (beginner, intermediate and advanced). You can challenge your friends with a quiz or just have fun with karaoke. Why not?

Have fun!

Speaking practice lesson

Hi class,

It was great to finally have all 6 of you together in the lesson! Today we learnt about the Speaking paper in the KET exam. You found that there are two parts. Part 1 and Part 2.
Unfortunately the internet didn't work well, so I couldn't show you the videos. You can watch Rex and Nathan here :)   KET Speakin Part 1 and KET Speakin Part 2.

For Thursday please do exercises 2, 3 and 4 from Test 2 Training and from the book at page 61, do exercises 4 and 5 (make questions and write the answers).

PS: for Oriana - please get the "Units 5-8 Revision" page from Nicoletta and do the exercises for next time.

That's all folks,

See ya!
S

"Going to" lesson

Hi everyone,

And welcome to class to Oriana and Enrico! :)
In our last lesson we talked about holiday plans and we used going to! Next summer some of you are going to travel to Spain or you are going to visit relatives in Australia.

We also use going to for making a future prediction and we watch a video with South-American students of English.
At the end we did some pronunciation practice.

For next time do exercise 8 (Reading) from the book and from pages 54-55 from the book, please do all the exercises from the Revision Unit. For exercise 1 (Speaking) answer the questions in written.

And the last thing, go the the video we watched in class and write 10 sentences with "going to".

See you all in class,
Silvia

First lesson of the year 2014

Hi class,

Happy New Year and welcome to ourbrand new Giga School! For those of you who saw it, I hope you like it!
In our first lesson we spoke about the holidays and our New Year's resolutions for 2014! What are "resolutions"?! Check here how people spent New Year in the UK and what resolutions they have for the year ahead. Please do the tasks below (this is for Miriam and Nicoletta).
We also started Unit 8.1 from the book and we talked about films. We did exercises 1,2 and 8.
For next time Miriam and Nicoletta choose your favourite film and talk about it by answering the questions from exercise 2, page 50.
Please also learn the vocabulary from exercise 1.

And this is something for you to think about: Gues what this is!   Check here!

Have a good weekend!