Class Diary for C1.1- year 2019/20 by Eva Gutiérrez https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5 Here you'll find a detailed description of what we have been doing in class in case you miss a lesson and want to catch up. This will be our travel journal. Hope you enjoy the trip. en-us 2019-10-18 10:02:28 UTC 2025-10-07 17:45:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1Y2XPQXXXXXXBapXXq6xXFXXXt/1-PC-2017-Viajantes-Retro-Papel-Kraft-Notebook-Jornal-Di-rio-Planner-Livro-Grain-Completa-Couro.jpg_640x640.jpg FIRST DAYS emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450043 Getting-to-know-you & bonding sessions
- 'All that we share'---> talking about communities and creating bonds
- Conversation practice
- Reading & Writing: 'a pair of embarrasing trousers'
- Listening practice: 'the history of the T-shirt' + audio file
- Lateral thinking puzzles and 'the parable of the stone' (extra copy)

]]> 2019-10-18 10:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450043 7-10 October 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450865 - Diagnostic test (initial assessment)

We start working with the textbook 'Straghtforward Advanced Second Edition'
* Lesson 1A All change (pages 6-7)
                   -Speaking + vocab + jigsaw reading (pages 6-7)
* Lesson 1B First day (pages 8-9)
                   - Speaking + Extra listening practice + audio file
                   - Approximation

]]> 2019-10-18 10:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450865 14-18 October 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450913 * Lesson 1C Age (pages 10 & 11 from Straightforward Advanced Second Edition)
                       - Speaking & Reading
                       - Video watching 'how to live to 101' + comprehension exercises
                      -  Extra listening practice from La Rioja
                                                   B2 level! (part 2: The secrets of long life in Okinawa)                                   - Video discussion 'A single Life' and the different stages in life
* Lesson 1D The quaterlife crisis (pages 12 & 13)
                       - Speaking & Listening
                 ]]> 2019-10-18 10:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/399450913 21-24 October 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/402479441 * Lesson 1C Growing up
        - Warm up: discussing advantages and disadvantages of being different ages
        - Reading 'Growing up on TV' + reading comprehension exercise 3 (page 10)
        - Grammar 'reference & substitution'

* Lesson 1D The Quaterlife crisis
        - Speaking and Listening (page 12)
        - Role plays (page 139)
        - Extra lesson plan 'leaving home'

To round off the first unit:

- Grammar pending: Simple & Continuous tenses (pag. 9) + word formation (p. 13)
- Oral cards for the unit
- Extra listening exercise on raising money for charities.]]> 2019-10-25 10:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/402479441 28-31 October 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/405638956  * Lesson 3A  'Enoughness'
            - Discussing questions
            - Learning vocabulary and 'money expressions'
- Video watching + handout (ask your teacher)
            - Gap reading (page 27)
            - Vocabulary and grammar (page 26)
]]> 2019-11-01 20:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/405638956 4-7 November 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/408566283 * Lesson 3B 'Rubbish!'
                - Vocabulary + listening on page 28
                - Extra listening task
                - Conversation practice 'shrink your waste'
                - 'Plastax', a debate (page 29)
                - Vocabulary related to 'excess' (page 30) + oral card on excessive consumerism (plz, check out oral cards for the unit here)
                - Reading for homework (page 31) + exercises 2 and 3 in the reading comprehension section (page 30)
]]> 2019-11-08 10:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/408566283 11-14 November 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/411728672 * Lesson 3C 'Competitive Eating'
                        - Reading + comprehension exercise 2 (page 30)
                        - Vocabulary 'in excess' (prefix 'over-')

* Lesson 3D 'A cautionary tale'
                       - Speaking (lead-in + extra copy) + Listening (page 32)
                       - Grammar of Cleft Sentences (+ extra copy with further practice)
                       - Vocabulary 'adjective affixes' (page 33)

BONUS: extra lesson plan on Pixar's film 'UP']]> 2019-11-15 12:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/411728672 18-21 November 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/415693423 * Lesson 4A 'Voicing complaints'
                           - Reading + vocabulary
                           - Writing a letter of complaint (pages (134-135)
   BONUS: EXTRA listening practice from Andalucía (September 2016) and Madrid
* Lesson 4B ' Voice complaints'
                           - Listening (page 38)]]> 2019-11-23 18:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/415693423 25- 29 November 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/417520695 * Lesson 4D Speech!
                        - Listening & Speaking (page 42)
* Lesson 4C A speech problem
                       - Reading (page 41 + comprehension execise 3) + speaking + vocab]]> 2019-11-28 15:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/417520695 2-5 December 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/421538222 * Grammar from unit 4 (Reported Speech and Modal Verbs, page 44)
* Lesson 5A 'Entrepreneurs'
                  - Reading and Conversation (oral card here)]]> 2019-12-09 11:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/421538222 10-12 December 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/423726494 * Lesson 5B 'Setting up in business'
                      - Warm up: video watching 'Trunki on Dragons' Den'
                      - Vocabulary + extensive listening (pages 48-49)
                      - Extra video watching and lesson plan on 'The Elevator Pitch'
                      - Speaking (pitching their ideas or products in groups) (page 49)
                      -  Game (Pitching my Fantasy Invention)
                           ]]> 2019-12-13 10:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/423726494 16- 19 December 2019 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/426209249 * Lesson 5C Women's work?
                   - Speaking and Reading (pages 50-51)
                   - Grammar: question tags + intensifying adverbs (extra copy)
                   - Listening on sexual discrimination (pages 52-53)
                   - Practising oral mediation related to the topic (cards here)

                   - Christmas activities in the classroom]]> 2019-12-20 11:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/426209249 8-9 January 2020 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/430505767 - Extra video watching & discussion: Why gender equality is good for everyone
- Grammar: Hypothetical past situations
- Conversation practice with Emma, our language assisstant.]]> 2020-01-12 18:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/430505767 13-16 January 2020 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/432880603 - Extra copy on Working Conditions (including speaking, vocabulary and listening)
- Writing a work email (page 130-131 in your textboook)]]> 2020-01-17 12:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/432880603 20-23 January 2020 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/435554409 * Lesson 6A Body care
                       - Speaking + video watching from Cutting Edge Advanced to introduce the unit
                      - Reading (page 57 + comprehension exercise 2)
                      - How to write an article pages (128-129 + extra model provided) ]]> 2020-01-24 11:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/435554409 10-13 February 2020 emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/445194708 * Lesson 6B Medical Care
                    - Vocabulary, speaking and listening (page 58)
                    - Cultural Talk about The Australian Healthcare System by Emma Hilton, our language assistant.
                   
Extra copy on alternative medicine (reading, listening + discussion) ]]> 2020-02-13 18:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/445194708 17-20 February 2020 Group B (Mondays-Weds) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/448539721 * Lesson 6B Medical care
                              - Extensive listening practice by means of
                                             a) listening on page 58
                                             b) extra listening on alternative medicine (extra copy)
* Lesson 7A Behaving badly
                       -Warm-up: speaking card "your school days" + vocabulary activation
                      - Conversation practice: role play
                      - Gap- reading and further discussion (pages 66-67)
                      ]]> 2020-02-21 11:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/448539721 17-20 February 2020 Group C (Tuesdays- Thursdays) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/448541926 * Lesson 7A Behaving badly
                       -Warm-up: speaking card "your school days" + vocabulary activation
                      - Conversation practice: role play
                      - Gap- reading and further discussion (pages 66-67)
                      - Grammar: ellipsis (page 67)
                     
BONUS: Extra listening practice from Asturias community.]]> 2020-02-21 12:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/448541926 24 February -5 March 2020 Group B (Mondays-Weds) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/456027960 * Lesson 7B Rudeness
                                    - Speaking & Listening   
                                    - Grammar: ellipsis (page 67 and 69)
                                    - Practising Writing Interaction (further copy)
- Word Building (copy on nouns from phrasal verbs)
                                    - Group conversation (page 69)
                   
BONUS: Extra listening practice from Asturias community.]]> 2020-03-06 20:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/456027960 24 February -5 March 2020 Group C (Tuesdays- Thursdays) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/456033743 * Lesson 7B Rudeness
                                    - Speaking & Listening   
                                    - Grammar: ellipsis (page 67 and 69)
                                    - Practising Writing Interaction (further copy)
                                    - Word Building (copy on nouns from phrasal verbs)
                                    - Group conversation (page 69)
* Lesson 7C Whodunnit?
                                    - Speaking about reading habits + Vocabulary to describe books
                                     - Discussing: ebooks or paperbooks?
                                    - Writing a narrative

]]> 2020-03-06 20:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/456033743 9-12 March 2020 Group B (Mondays-Weds) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/459883982 * Lesson 7C Whodunnit?
                               - Speaking about reading habits + Vocabulary to describe books
                               - Discussing: ebooks or paperbooks?
                               - Writing a narrative

* Cultural Talk about Australia's Education System by our language assisstant, Emma HIlton

* Lesson 7D Crime Reports 
                          - Listening (page 72)]]> 2020-03-13 12:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/459883982 9-12 March 2020 Group C (Tuesdays- Thursdays) emagumo https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/459886311
* Lesson 7D Crime Reports
                          - Listening + Speaking (page 72-73) + oral cards here
                          - Extra listening "The Millenium Dome Robbery" (track here)
                          - Vocabulary on legal matters (prepositions + word formation)
                          - Checking answers to extra copy (word building: nouns from phrasal verbs)]]> 2020-03-13 12:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emagumo/yva12kqc7ri5/wish/459886311