Conv. B2 Tues - Thurs/ Wed.

For Tuesday and Wednesday, please go to the post of March 7 and print and study the words in the Childhood Vocabulary and the Childhood Stories Listening in this post.

We will also discuss bullying and cyber-bullying and from there, we will talk about Facebook.

I have a very entertaining videoclip about Facebook which you should see. Hopefilly, we will see it in class as well, as it is very short, but in case there is a problem with projectors ( or with time) please see it at home and answer the questions.
It is called "Facebook Manners and You". This is the link.

Facebook and YOu: Click here

Mariam's summary of the Mar. 11 Con B2 class

The summary about  what we have done in class, the 11th of March

As last March 8 ( Friday ) Was the International Working Women's Day (IWD),  so we started the class with a debate on this controversial issue. We have addressed questions such as:

-  Do you think there is still “Battle of sexes”?

-  Have you heard any comment recently?

-  What discrimination still exist or does not?

-  Why should quotas still exist?

-  Can a woman have it all today?

-  …

Then, in order to practice the 3th conditional, we used cards and each one describes a funny story about bad luck. We had to read the story and try to tell it back to one of our partners.

After, we do a listening about the “Battle of the sexes” in which three women exposed expressed their own opinionS about the issue. Our task was to answer some questions that our teacher Kate had given us.

At the and, as homework, Kate suggested we see the link she has posted on the blog in order to comment on next Wednesday or Thursday class.

Conv. B2 Tues -Thurs.

Please don't forget to watch ( if possible) and print the exercise for the YouTube clip on the "Difference Between Men and Women's Brains.

The link is in the last B1.3 post and also in July 2012 with a Con B2 label.

María Alvarez's summary of Conv. B2

María Álvarez ha dejado un nuevo comentario en su entrada "Conv. B2": 

Hi everyone!

I’m gonna try to summarize what we have done in today´s class, the 12th of March.

First of all we remembered the listening we did in the previous class, about the doctor´s bad luck. Then we learnt how TO tell or reacting to a story or anecdote. Now we know what expressions we have to use and how we should react to show our interest in somebody’s story. 

After that we made (DID) an activity in pairs. We chose a paper where it was written a short story, and we had to tell our partner the story and she or he had to use the reaction expressions. Furthermore, we changed the papers between us and we talked to more mates, doing the same activity.

Next we worked in groups of four or three people and we told them our true stories about an encounter with the police, with an animal or an example of very bad luck. We heard very funny anecdotes.

Finally we debated about some María Dolores de Cospedal words concerning to the Day of the Working Woman and we made  DID a listening about the ‘battle of the sexes’ and answered some teacher’s questions. 

con b1 Cecilia's summary of Monday class

1 comentario:

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   let it be12 de marzo de 2013 02:35

   Hi everybody!! I'll try to make a summary of last conversation class:
   
   First of all, we were talking about some adventages or disadvantages of living in different places like city,suburbs and country. We put some aDjetives and nouns under each column.
   
   We agreed with the pollution and traffic in the city, the time consuming and noise in suburbs and fresh air and relax in country.
   
   We learnED some expressions like "NIGHT LIFE", "MULTI-CULTI", "FASHION" (talking about shops and boutiques), "FRESH AIR","FRIENDLY", "TIME CONSUMING" or "GOOD FOR FAMILIES".
   
   We understood the diferences between "fun" and "funny" and between "OF" and "FROM" * and where we've to use them:
   FUN: "te lo pasas bien"
   FUNNY: "gracioso"
   
   FROM: talking about place (physical place)
   OF: pertenece a, forma parte de..** I CORRECTED THIS
   
   Then, we listened TO a conversation between two boys talking about the city and the country,at the cassete. One of them wanted to rent a room and the other one told him about the advantages of the city to rent a room there, like good jobs, movies, museums... The other boy prefered the country because of the relax, fresh air, quiet, nature and because of the tourist of the city!
   
   Next activity we did was in pairs. We had to do our own dialog similar to the listening one, talking about the city,country or suburb.
   
   Finally, we did another dialog but this time, talking about renting a room, making ASKING questions related to that, like:
   
   -HOW MUCH ARE YOU RENTING IT FOR? or HOW MUCH IS THE ROOM?
   -HOW MANY FLATMATES WILL I HAVE?
   -WHAT FLOOR IS IT ON?
   -IS THERE AN ELEVATOR?
   -WHAT IS THE ROOM LIKE?
   -WILL I HAVE MY OWN ROOM OR DO I HAVE TO SHARE?
   -IS THERE WIFI OR INTERNET CONNECTION?
   -IS THERE A LOT OF LIGHT?
   -DOES IT FACE THE STREET OR THE PATIO?  Excellent!

Con b 1 song

domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

Con B1: Song

I forgot to do this until now.

Here is the youtube link to the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woegd15rmnA

Or just go to YouTube and put in "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Rod Stewart since this link doesn't work automatically. Start listening at 2 minutes cause the 1st 2 minutes are an interview!

And here is the exercise for the words ( lyrics)

Click here and enjoy

Con B.2 M- W 18.30 to 20.30

Don't forget to click onto the link at the bottom of my last B1.3 post. ( You can also find it last July 9 with title
"Difference Between Men and Women's Brains" Please do it for Wednesday.

And Marian, please post the summary here under "comments".

:) Kate