End-of-year review!

Dear students,
It's the end of the year and we are all ready to enjoy long family afternoons after a huge meal and great evenings with friends. But don't forget the end of the course is very near too! Please check if you are ready:

1. Do Unit 7 revision pages (86-87).
2. Do Files 1 to 7 revision pages (104-105).
3. Make sure you did your workbook after every unit.
   
4. Do exam exercises in pack 2 (last I gave you, with corrections).
5. Make sure you have sent me all your compositions (last is "a postcard from Tarragona", see page 73 for reference).
6. Review grammar and vocabulary at the end of the book and from our lessons.

And when you have finished all this...

Relax, enjoy yourself and have the best Christmas holidays in your life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas dinner!

You're all welcome to join us tomorrow 18th December for the course dinner that is going to take place at... Surprise! We're meeting at 9.00 p.m. at the school entrance. We're going to have so much fun!

To see the pictures, click here!

Composition #2

Remember we're doing the second class composition on Wednesday 10th December, and the test on the reader on Thursday 11th.

Mock exam practice

Remember to do your mock exam practice for Monday. We will correct it in class and get ready for our mock exam on Tuesday!

Gosforth Hall Hotel

Is the Gosforth Hall Hotel real? If so, how much does a double room cost per day?
And the story of the Catholic priest in Room 11?
Would you like to spend a night in this hotel? Why (not)?
Leave a comment with your name and your answers!

The Teacher’s Secret and Other Folk Tales

The date for the test on the compulsary reader has been set for 11th December. It's a quick test where you have to show you understood what your read. So please do your reading!

Mock exams -DATES

The speaking oral mock exam will take place on Friday 28th November, please remember to find a partner and write your names on the class list as soon as possible. The listening mock exam and the other written parts will take place on Tuesday 2nd December. Please practise as much as you can with the photocapies I gave you!

Mamma Mia!

Watch the movie and practise your past tenses! Download worksheet here.

Do Aussies eat crocodile pizza?

Have a look at the well-known Australian Hotel and see what you can find on their menu!

Update

Please remember we're now on file 5A (pages 52-53) and that we have started studying the past simple tense in English. Please do the activities on your workbooks! Your homework for Monday is pages 50-51 on your coursebooks.
What can you remember about Mt. Rushmore?

Love, like, hate...

Do you want to watch a video by ef podenglish on likes and dislikes? You'll learn loads!

Work on Friday

Please remember to have a look at the composition on page 49 that we did on Friday, together with the practical English section on page 48.

Class composition #1

Please remember that the first composition that we will do in class will take place on Tuesday, 11th November, not this Friday as originally scheduled.

Happy Halloween!!

Enjoy yourself but remember to do your homework! Please do pages 38-39 for Tuesday. On Monday there is a lab session in the laboratory on the 3rd floor. See you there!

Keep up to date!

We're now working on file 3b, so remember to keep your workbook (and multi-rom, website, etc.) up to date.

Have a nice weekend!

P.S. Remember we start in a new classroom on Monday: 306.

Update

We're now finishing Unit 2 on the coursebook, so please remember that you should do all the extra activities on your Workbook and on your Multi-rom by next week. You also have extra activities on the class website.
Homework for Monday: pages 26 and 27 (What do you remember?/ What can you understand?/ Can you say this in English?).
Homework for next week: Composition 2 ("an informal e-mail/letter", page 25).

Have a nice weekend and see you on Monday!

Have a nice weekend!

But remember to do your homework!

• Pages 14 and 15 (What do you remember?/What can you do?)
• Writing (page 13).
• Workbook, MultiROM and web activities if you want!

Class work

Please remember we're starting File 1c this week. Recommended homework:

• Grammar activities on page 123, with help on page 122.
• Workbook, sections 1a and 1b.
• Extra materials: go to the New English File Website and practise online!
  

Introductions

Watch this videocast on presentations by ef.com and go ahead!