First week, Revising!

Week 12^th – 14^th January

Hi! Back to normal!

After the unusual class on Thursday because of the kids still being out of school, last week was a usual week and we started our lessons on Monday.

Before going on (continue) with the planning of the course, we stopped for a while and checked the homework you did at Christmas and sorted out (solved) your doubts.

We read and answer questions about Jonny Depp.

I didn’t know he had starred in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’. I didn’t know, either, that he had two kids with the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis.

You can read more information about recent events in Johnny Depp’s life in here.

This text helped us revise past simple, present perfect,adverbs and adjectives.

·         Past simple is used to express a complete, finished action. He was born on 9^th June, 1963. He starred in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’.

·         One of the uses of present perfect is to connect present with past. He has made very popular films. (He started making films in the past and he still makes them)

Adverbs modify adverbs, adjectives or verbs.

Very good, really quickly, run fast

Adjectives modify nouns.

Wonderful clothes

Most of adverbs of manner come from adding ‘–ly’ to the adjective.

They tell “how”. He ran quickly. How did he run? Quickly

Adjective	Adverb
quick	quickly
sad	sadly
happy	hapily
fast	fast
hard	hard
good	well

We reviewed the difference between “-ed” and “-ing” adjectives.

 Somebody feels “ed” because something or somebody is “ing”. In other words,  “-ed” is how you feel and “-ing” is the reason why you feel like that.

She is bored because the film is boring.

Then, we corrected a revision test.

We ended the week by reading another text, revising the pronunciation of certain sounds and with a listening comprehension.

The text was titled ‘Our little piece of pop history’.

It’s about a family that bought a house. They were surprised to see people taking photographs of their house all the time. They finally found out (learnt, knew) that the house was famous because there was a song called ‘59 Lyndhurst Grove’ and that was the reason why people took photos. Because they were fans of the pop group who made the song.

And the week was over… See you tomorrow!