Con B2 Mon- Wed.

Excellent summary of last week's classes by María THANKS, MARÍA!!

SUMMARY  28/10/2013

We arrived to class as each day, and we started talking about the last day’s
absences while we were waiting people to arrive.

We remembered the videos that Kate ordered us to watch and we checked the vocabulary. We have learned from that videos words like “mislead”, “disclosure”, “withdraw” and expressions like “to second guess” or “to rubber stamp” … which is interesting and useful to be able to talk in English about these last cases of tracking between countries.

After that, we reviewed some phrases that Kate gave us to discover what they mean… and I think we all did that almost perfect.

Then, we started the spEAking part, talking each other about  stunning* experiences we have had, like playing with the Ouija board, voodoo and stuff. We really enjoyED this part because, in my opinion, we are very talkative.

In the last part of the two hours of class, we listened to a cassette tape about a SOME curious experiments abut telepathy, but we spent quite amount of time in discover what the recordING meant, because we didn’t know about the relationSHIP between  the photographs and I think that we started the exercise a bit confused.

* stunning is more like “striking” in an attractive way. Better to use here strange, weird, surprising, even striking.

SUMMARY  30/10/2013

We started the class at 15.30. Firstly, in groups of four, we talked about the different texts Kate had given us on Monday, and we compared the vocabulary of each text. Then, we all together spoke about the different origins of the Halloween party and we realized that, after all, there are more similarities than differences, so we are more similar than we thought. With these exercise we had learned interesting words like “goblings”, “mischief”, “merger”, “lawn”, “stingy”, etc.

In the second part of the class, after solving some problems with (searchlight?) the projector??, we were watching two scenes of  from the film “Ghost” and after that, we had to answered questions about these two scenes.

I think it was an interesting activity because in dialogues they use quite colloquial expressions, and this is very useful to face any normal conversation. There were expressions like “blur it out”, “get yanked”, “churning”, etc. We have done it in groups of three.

For Monday, we have to answer the film questions (which are uploaded in the blog I suppose) and watch the Jon Steward video and all the videos we have mentioned in class during these week.