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Wednesday 15 th October

What did we do last Wednesday?

We started the class speaking about languages. You had interesting opinions. But you aren’t much of debating people! Debates consist in exchanging points of view and defend your opinions. It’s not only saying “yes, I agree”. “OK”.

And of course, you don’t have to limit yourselves to read what you wrote and …that’s it! Come on! Start speaking English!

The good thing was that you did homework and found answers for the questions I made you. Well done!

We asked and answer questions to find out (discover) if you have ever been abroad (to a foreign country) and what languages you spoke there.

Apart from the languages spoken all over the world, there is a new language developing no matter which country we talk about; it is ‘the internet language’. I’m sure you don’t use proper (common) Spanish when you text your friends, do you? The same happens with English. People use abbreviations and acronyms. We talked about them in our previous class. On Wednesday we watched a couple of videos on this subject. And then, we wrote messages for our classmates to decipher.

 You can watch the videos here:

 

We did a quiz in teams. The winners were Natalia and Jorge.

The quiz was called “50 years of pop”. I know you hadn’t been born yet! Neither was I and I’m much older! But it’s history! We weren’t born in the Middle Ages and we study the kings, queens and lifestyle; don’t we?

With this quiz we learnt about questions with and without auxiliaries.

·      When did Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, die?

·      Whose husband was the film director Guy Ritchie?

·      What happened to Mick Jagger in 2004?

·      Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel?

·      Where did the Eagles stay in their 1976 song?

·         When the subject is the question word, we don’t use the auxiliary verb.

Who wrote ‘Hamlet’? Shakespeare.

(The subject is “who”)

·         In the other cases we follow the order in questions:

Question Word            Auxiliary verb   Subject            Infinitive?

Which famous play      did                 Shakespeare      write? ‘Hamlet’

We will continue with our topic “Languages” and explaining questions without auxiliary verbs. Don’t forget to do the exercise on the ‘melee’ at break time! “Who hit who?” this is homework!!!

GAME 3                 I gave you 2 points for homework,+ the points you got in the quiz game.

Player 1	6
Player 2	6
Player 3	6
Player 4	7
Player 5	7
Player 6	5
Player 7	6

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

C.U. !