Leisure Time and Entertaining

Week 8^th- 10^th June

Hello Mónica and Dani!

First of all, lots of good luck for your test tomorrow, Mónica. I’m sure you’ll pass!!!

We started the week talking.

We talked about football, of course! Barҫa won the Champions league this year and it deserved some comments …

Then, we talked about the weekend and Dani told me that he had been to the Warner Bros. Theme park with his family. So, we talked about the zoo, theme parks and amusement parks. We also talked about aquatic parks now that the summer is arriving.We learnt vocabulary related to this way of spending our leisure time (free time).

We corrected the exercises about passive sentences with two objects.

In Spanish, you can only make passive sentences using the direct object.

But in English you can make passive sentences using either the direct or the indirect object. For Spanish people, the passive with the indirect object sounds weird (strange); however, in English this sounds much more natural that the passive made with the direct object, although both of them are correct.

ACTIVE	The travel agency has given me a 10% discount on my holidays.
PASSIVE with D.Object	I’ve been given a 10% discount on my holidays.
PASSIVE with I.Object	A 10% discount on my holidays has been given to me by the travel agency.

We revised passive sentences, the structure ‘used to’ and expressions of time.

And we finished the week describing pictures that make up a story. But …

we will tell and listen to the story - which by the way is called ‘The story of Grace’ -  next week.

Enjoy your weekend as well as the rest of the week.

See you!