HAPPY HOLIDAYS¡

You did very well in the play. Too bad Sara didn´t came, because she is such a good reader I would have been really proud of her in front of our audience. 

Anyway, I´ll see you next year in 2014. I hope you get everything you asked Santa for Christmas.

See you in January,

Your teacher Begoña.

This is a summary of the things we have been studying in the 1st term.

Topic: The Weather

Vocabulary

Nouns: Teacher, student, temperature, season, winter, spring, summer and autumn,date, month, year. Country, city, capital city. Names of countries in Europe: Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Russia.

Adjectives: Cold, cool, hot, warm, boiling, freezing, cloudy, sunny, raining, snowing, foggy, stormy.

Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, etc.

Adverbs: Absolutely, quite, very.

Grammar: Present Simple (to) be: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we/you/they are;  Past Simple (to) be: I was, you were, he/she/it was, we/you/they were.

What's the weather like? What was the weather like yesterday? What  + (verb to be)  +subject + like (preposition)? What's Mary like? She is tall and pretty.

Question words: when, who, what

Types of sentences they should be able to say:

What' s the weather like? What's the weather like in Norway? It's sunny and cold, it's absolutely freezing, it's quite warm, it's very hot.

What's was the weather like yesterday? It was foggy and cool.

What's the date? It's January 1^st, 2014.

Where are you? I am in Germany.

Was it cold in Germany? Yes it was. No, it wasn't.

Is it cloudy in Madrid? Yes, it is. No, it isn't.

Topic: What do you study?

Vocabulary

Nouns: Subjects: maths, social sciences, natural sciences, Spanish, art, P.E., music, English, IT. Mountains, rivers, town, cities, biology, chemistry, painting, drawing, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, nouns, verbs.

Adverbs: First, then next, finally. 

Verbs:  Have. Daily actions: Wake up, get up, have breakfast, have a shower, get dressed, brush your teeth, wash your face and your hands, walk, study, play in the playground, cook, have lunch, take out the trash, take out the dog for a walk.

Grammar: Irregular plurals: child-children, man-men, woman-women, knife-knives. Watch –watches.

Present Simple: questions . Short answers: Yes, I do; No, I don't. Yes, he/she does; No, he/she doesn't.

Types of sentences they should be able to say:

What do you study on Monday?

Do you study countries and cities in Social sciences?

What do you study in Art? I study drawing and painting in Art.  What do you do in PE. I run and do exercise in PE. What do you study in Maths? I study multiplication and division in Matchs.

The time: What time is it? It is 3 o'clock; it is a quarter past 3; it is half past 3; it is a quarter to 3; it is 5 to 3; it is 5 past 3.

What time do you start school? What time do you get up?

What do you do first thing in the morning? What do you do then? First I have breakfast, then I brush my teeth; after I brush my teeth I get dressed..

Topic: Free Time and Daily routines.

Vocabulary

Nouns: Dinner, magazine, shopping. Street, roof, wall, bench, chimney, window, curtains, hills. 

Verbs: Go, get, go out, play, listen, ride, spend timeGet up, get dressed, brush your hair, brush your teeth, wash your… have breakfast, walk, do exercise…

Adverbs: first, next, then, after

Numbers: from 1 to 1000. One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, etc.

 Grammar: Present Simple questions.Short answers: Yes, I do, No, I don´t.

Present Simple: statements, questions and negative answers.

Links: when, then, next, after.

Types of sentences they should be able to understand or say:

What do you do after school? First I do my homework, then I go out with my friends. Next I have dinner with my family. After dinner I go to bed.

What do you do after dinner?

What does your friend do when she gets home after school? First she watches TV, then she does her homework.

Yesterday we prepared the stage set for our play. Well, we only finished it, the other group had done the house and part of the forest, students in this group made the grass, finished the hill, and drew some rocks, some flowers and leaves for the trees. It looks quite good.

It is The Little House in the Forest where the family of bears live. We learned some words related to the house and the landscape.

Roof, wall, window, bench, chimney, curtains, hills, bushes.

During the second half of the class we were rehearsing Goldilocks. All the actresses know their lines quite well and Sara and Mario do a good job reading the story. But it is important that everybody pays attention so they know exactly when they have to enter the scene and speak and the audience doesn´t have to wait. OK?

After rehearsing students were working with a partner and asking each other the exam questions for Unit 3.
Those questions were:
What do you do when you get home from school?
Do you watch TV in the evening?
How do you spend your free time?

Then the teacher asked them about their classmate´s answer. They all gave the correct answer.

In the Olympic Games - our last day this term - students got the following scores:

Player 1   10
Player 2     9
Player 3     9.5
Player 4     8
Player 5     7
Player 6     4.5

Today Jennifer told us about her daily routine. We found out a few things about her and her family, for instance, that her parents drink coffee in the morning but Jennifer and Amy, her sister, drink hot milk.

Students wrote some questions for her and then asked her. Some of the students asked: Do you live in Alamo Street? or What does Amy do after breakfast? or even Does Amy have breakfast with you? or What does Amy do after breakfast? Jennifer could not answer this last question, she said she didn´t know.

Today, again, we rehearsed the play:  Angela was missing and Sara had to leave early. We missed them when we were rehearsing the play. Mario had to do Mummy Bear´s lines. He did it quite well.

For the Olympic Games students had to write:

2 things they do in the kitchen,
2 things they do in the bedroom
2 things they do in the school
2 things they do in the bathroom
1 thing they do in the street
1 thing they do in the living-room.

Only 4 students had the chance to compete, here are the scores:

Player 1    9

Player 2    7

Player 3  

Player 4     8.5

Player 5

Player 6     4