B 1.3 Friday class

Hope you are having a good holiday, resting, with your family, enjoying the spirit, feeling the religious or the general spirit (or not) eating and drinking -- in other words, whatever is most important for you!

Below is the progress test for Unit 1 for you to print and give to me printed and completed ( since I can't correct online) .Also, to begin Unit 2, please do p. 16 #1 and p. 17 3 to 7 ( whole page except for #8) . Pablo V. and others will have a lot to say on this topic I think!

Con B1: Both groups

Hope you're having a good vacation. I'm publishing Marisa's very good summary of the next to the last class ( which I didn't see until nowand was the same for both groups) and Betsa's wonderful recipe for Tiramisú.

maria molina17 de diciembre de 2012 03:05

Hello! I’m going to tell you what we did on Wednesday. Some partners read love histories of famous people. We had to guess who was this famous person. After this we made a survey about food and restaurants. Then we talked about food and learnt new words. It’s helpful if we go to a restaurant in England for example. You have to know what you’re going to eat.

And Betsa's recipe:

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   B24 de diciembre de 2012 03:50

   Hi Kate and everyone!!
   
   Here comes my recipe: Tiramisú for 4
   
   Ingredients: 2 eggs, a packAGE of mascarpone cheese, finger biscuits (bizcochos), sugar, vanilla eXtract, coffe and some liquor (rum, coñac or wiskey as you prefer), NesQuik or other powdered cocoa.
   
   You will need: 3 bowls, presentation plate, whisk, collander, spoons, and coffEe pot.
   
   FIRST: take THe eggs and separate the yolks from the whites, put each one in a diFferent bowl. Beat very good the yolks VERY WELL with 2 spoons of sugar (one for each yolk)and mix with the mascarpone cheese, mix slowly until you have a homogenic HOMOGENOUS soft cream, add some vanilla eXtract. Taste it and add some sugar if you want.
   
   Meanwhile: make the coffeE, put in on a bowl and mix with the liquor (normally half little COFFEE cup) and some sugar, taste it and add liquor or sugar if you prefer it stronger).
   
   Leave cream and the coffEe out waiting for a while.
   
   NOW: take the whites and beat very fast and strong until they stiffEN like a soft snow.
   Finally mix the stiffenED whites with the cream, and Important!! very slowly trYing to retain the foamy texture. Better if you don't add sugar in this moment cause we can lose the texture (taste the sweet before, with the cream).
   
   FINALLY: make layers!
   Take the biscuits and give them a bath in the bowl with the coffeE -only a moment, you can see if they smash  BREAK OR MELT  but the coffe must get in the bisquits- make a layer of bisquits on the plate.
   Take the cream and make a layer with cream (be generous) and cover with the powdered cocoa. Do it again making anothRe layer of bisquits and another layer of cream and cover with powdered cocoa.
   
   Put on the freeze and wait 8-12 hours and enjoy!! (you can eat before but you will see, the texture is not the same if you wait).
   
   SECRETS of the recipe: mix slowly the cream, in the same direction, mix slowly with the stiffen whites. A layer can have 8-9 bisquits (depends on the size). The tub of mascarpone: better if it is 250gr.
   
   Kisses and Merry Christmas for everyone!!!! enjoy!!!!
   
   Betza
   
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   ON THE FIRST DAY, WE´LL DO THINGS ABOUT FAMILIES AND MEMORIES FOR WHICH I HAVE THE MATERIAL.
   
   PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME ABOUT YOUR PRESENTATIONS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'D LIKE TO DO A THEATRE SCENE SO THAT i CAN SEND IT TO YOU.
   
   HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

CON B 1 : last class b4 Xmas

Don't forget to bring in a recipe!

Also download the Christmas Survey and Xmas songs from last post for Con B2

Con B 2 for last class b4 Xmas

If you can PLEASE see the Simpson video clip and print exercise. Link to see episode with subtitles in English is on an earlier post (date 10/12) and the exercise questions themselves are on an even earlier post (date 14/11) We can correct the whole exercise in class but especially do the conversation questions as they are interesting and funny.

Then we will do a survey to talk about your ideas about Xmas:

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Finally if there is any time, we'll listen to a Xmas Carol or 2 in English. I'VE CHANGED ONE!!

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Con B1

Hi!  Here are the listening and vocabulary for recipes, even though we will finish with the restaurant listening and roleplay first.  Please print both if you can.  See you tomorrow.

Click here for recipe vocabulary

For Friday B1.3

First, we now have a link to see The Simpson's episode with subtitles in English.

It's on a previous blog, but I'll try to copy the link here.



Here is the link -  http://www.putlocker.com/file/2AADBE2D48F04C21#

Click on continue as a free user and then play. Ads might pop up, just close them if they do.

Next, after we do 1 E and correct and discuss The Simpsons questions (please bring), after the break, we will discuss the Xmas holidays using this Xmas survey.

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For Con B2 Thursday

Sorry to get this up so late!  We will continue with advertising and TV commercials and hopefully do this song and the questions.

Con B1 Going out to Eat

This is the material for talking about restaurants : menu and role-play. First we'll tell the stories using Monday's vocabulary, then go on to this:  (Please print if you can)

  And yesterday's Vocabulary: 

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FOR ALL GROUPS: Link to Simpsons Episode with subtitles.

My son just sent this.  Hope it works! :)



Here is the link -Click here

Click on continue as a free user and then play. Ads might pop up, just close them if they do.

 

For Con B1: Vocabulary connected with love and relationships

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER:  VOCABULARY FOR LOVE STORIES:

LOVE STORY VOCABULARY:

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This is Irene's really good summary. It's valid for both classes. After we talk about these questions, we'll do a related listening and then do a conversation game talking about the past.  C u 2morrow. :)

Irene Sanz Corbalán6 de diciembre de 2012 07:43

Dear classmates,
I write here about the class of wendsday from B.1 conversation.
Firstly we were talking about the vocabulary for rent a house or a flat, the differents names of the areas of Madrid, convenient, picturesque or lively area for example.
Also, Sergio and me practice a funny dialogue that it was made for Sergio and Marisa. The conversation was about the wish of Cristiano Ronaldo to rent a big house, it was very entertaining;)
For the other hand, we saw a Simpsons episode where Milhouse falls in love and the friendship between Bart and Milhouse was broken. We were talking about the story of the episode and answered the comprehension questions.
For the next monday class, we should write the answers of the discussion questions from the same Simpsons archive. I paste here;

1.Did you have sex education classes in primary school or high school? If so, what was the attitude of the class? Of the teacher? Do you think this kind of class has a valid place in the primary or high school curriculum? Why or why not? What age should it begin?

2.What do you think of Bart’s behavior? Have you ever done something for revenge and then felt guilty? Have you ever felt jealous because a good firend had a girlfriend or boyfriend and suddenly had less time for you? If so, how did you deal with this problem?

3.In English, we call first love between teenagers (or even younger children) “puppy love”. Do you think that puppy love can ever be serious? What’s the most typical age?

4. Do you think that “hypnosis” courses ever work for changing behavior? Tell about your own experience or that of someone you know.

For Con B2

Sorry about the cold last class.  People who didn't see the video about Henry Kravis, please do so on your own.  I want to listen to the roleplays and related conversation questions.

After I think the topic of advertising fits well, between the topic of greed and that of Xmas! Here is one of 2 things we'll be listening to!