Class Materials.

Lesson 1- Introductions

Asking questions-Web of me
Warm up- Fun Questions
Grammar correction
Game - Grammar game
Review Game- game 1, game 2

  • Why do you want to learn English?
  • When did you last learn English?
  • When did you last speak English?
  • Where was the last place you visited where people spoke English?
  • What are your goals?
  • How often did you have English lessons at school?
  • What would you like to focus on during these lessons?
Lesson 2

Speaking:
Talk about the last time you ate out and what your dining experience was like.

Listening:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXYVVIYW9kSkRWeFk/edit?usp=sharing

Reading and asking questions about the above recording:
 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXWVltTnduSnZpWEE/edit?usp=sharing

Speaking:
Food expressions and discussion:
http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Food_Sayings.pdf

Preposition of place:
http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Prepositions_of_Place_2.pdf

Preposition of place, describe the pictures:
http://www.eslflow.com/Building_people.pdf

Preposition of place, quiz:
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_prep2.htm
n - on -at
in, on, at prepositions POSITION/PLACE

Lesson 3

Prepositions of time

exercise - prepositions of time

General giving directions

Giving directions


Talk about future events that are likely to happen.  There is a real possibility that the event will happen.

If
+
present simple
+
will

First Conditional

If it rains, I will stay inside.
There is a possibility that it may rain in the future.  I will stay inside is the result. 

Other conjunctions used with the first conditional:

While

While I’m at home, I willhave something to eat.While describes a period of time.  At some time during the time I am home, I will eat.

When

When I get home, I willhave something to eat.When describes a point in time.  I will get home and I will eat soon after.

As soon as

As soon as I get home, I will have something to eat.As soon as describes an immediate action.  I will get home and I will eat immediately.



First Conditional - Prisoner's Dilemma 

PRISONER’S DILEMMA

2 guys hold up a bank and they are both arrested by the police and interrogated separately.

You have to decide whether you will stay silent or betray the other prisoner. You don’t know what the other prisoner is going to say, so you have to take a risk.

There are 4 possible results sho

Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Each serves six months

Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A serves ten years
Prisoner B goes free

Prisoner A Betrays
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Prisoner A goes free
Prisoner B serves ten years

Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A Betrays
Each serves five years

Give out the sheet, read it and explain that there are 4 outcomes.

Write on the board
If prisoner A stays silent and prisoner B betrays, prisoner A will go to prison for 10 years and prisoner B will go free.

Elicit and analyse form

Get the students to write 3 sentences for the 3 other outcomes.

Students in pairs represent one prisoner and decide what they are going to do. Assign which pair is going to play against which other pair. Get them to write their decision on a paper with their names on it and then collect them and read out the verdict.
They all chose to betray........ 


Make a list of the following:

All the people mentioned in the story
All the noises that could be heard in the scene
All the evidence that the police can gather from the scene

Role play, police question the girl about what happened
Preparation time, A write the questions, B write notes about what happened.

First conditional exercise

Elicit form of 2nd conditional
If + past simple, would + infinitive
Students complete the following questionnaire in pairs

____________________________________________
Questionnaire:

What would you do if you saw a rich man drop 100 euros on the street?

1) I would give the money to him
2) I would keep the money
3) I would give the money to a poor person

What would you do if your best friend’s boy/girlfriend was cheating on them?

1) I would tell them
2) I would say nothing
3) I would talk to the person who was doing the cheating

What would you choose if you were forced to choose between being deaf or blind?

1) Deaf
2) Blind
3) Both

What would you do if your mother got a tattoo on her arm and a piercing in her mouth?

1) I would think it was cool
2) I would think she was too old but I wouldn’t say anything
3) I would leave home and never speak to her again


What would you do if you could be sent to prison for speaking Catalan?

1) I would speak it anyway and go to prison
2) I would only speak it in secret
3) I would start speaking Spanish all the time

If you had to share a prison cell with one of the following people, who would you choose:

1) Sarcozy
2) Osama Bin Laden
3) Gerard depardieu

What would you do if your doctor told you that you only had one week to live?

1) I would hold up a bank and enjoy the money
2) I would get scared and stay in bed
3) I would spend my last week with my friends and family

What would you do if you saw your neighbour standing in the street naked?

1) I would call the police
2) I would go out and ask him if he was ok
3) I would laugh

PUT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE HALVES ON THE BOARD
Students have to write the other half of the sentence


If I was a member of the opposite sex………
If I won the lottery……………
If I had to choose between going to France or to China ……
If I was with a friend in a shop and she started stealing .........

I would sell my favourite possession if........
I would leave Barcelona if...........
I would be angry with my best friend if................
I would give money to a stranger if ...........
Exercise 1: Emergency Procedures
Directions: Underline all conditional structures with either 1 (first conditional) or 2 (second conditional)
If you take a look at the handout, you’ll find all the telephone numbers, addresses and other necessary information. If Tom were here, he'd help me with this presentation. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it today. OK, let's get started: Today’s subject is helping guests with emergency situations. We'd certainly have a worse reputation if we didn't handle these situations well. That's why we like to review these procedures every year.
If a guest looses his passport, call the consulate immediately. If the consulate isn’t nearby, you’ll have to help the guest get to the appropriate consulate. It would be great if we had some more consulates here. However, there are also a few in Boston. Next, if a guest has an accident which is not so serious, you’ll find the first-aid kit under the reception desk. If the accident is serious, call an ambulance.
Sometimes guests need to return home unexpectedly. If this happens, the guest might need your help making travel arrangements, re-scheduling appointments, etc. Do everything you can to make this situation as easy to cope with as possible. If there is a problem, the guest will expect us to be able to handle any situation. It’s our responsibility to make sure ahead of time that we can.
Exercise 2: Check Your Understanding
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct missing half of the sentence
you’ll have to help the guest get to the appropriate consulate
you’ll find all the telephone numbers, addresses and other necessary information
the guest will expect us to be able to handle any situation
if we didn't handle these situations well
If Tom were here
If this happens
If a guest looses his passport
call an ambulance
If you take a look at the handout, _____. _____, he'd help me with this presentation. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it today. OK, let's get started: Today’s subject is helping guests with emergency situations. We'd certainly have a worse reputation _____. That's why we like to review these procedures every year.
_____, call the consulate immediately. If the consulate isn’t nearby, _____. It would be great if we had some more consulates here. However, there are also a few in Boston. Next, if a guest has an accident which is not so serious, you’ll find the first-aid kit under the reception desk. If the accident is serious, _____.
Sometimes guests need to return home unexpectedly. ______, the guest might need your help making travel arrangements, re-scheduling appointments, etc. Do everything you can to make this situation as easy to cope with as possible. If there is a problem, _____. It’s our responsibility to make sure ahead of time that we can.


2nd conditional exercise

Lesson 4

Before viewing: Discuss
1) Do you believe in fate? Are things pre-determined to happen? Or is it all just coincidence?
2) Do you think that we have a specific day to die?
3) Have you ever seen/been in an accident. How could the accident have been prevented?

Clip from a movie 3rd conditional and luck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZj1Yeb-tVg

"Had any of these things happened differently, the end of Daisy's afternoon would have been another one."
1. Daisy's shoelace broke.
2. The delivery truck moved moments earlier.
3. The girl broke up with her boyfriend.
4. The man forgot to set the alarm.
5. The woman didn't remember her coat.
6.  The taxi driver stopped for a cup of coffee.


Grammar  Past perfect
The past perfect refers to a particular point of time in the past.
Examples:

Alfred Hitchcock made many films.
(Past simple - he is dead and cannot make any more.)

Leonardo di Caprio has made many films.
(Present perfect - he is alive and will probably make more films.)

Marlon Brando had made many films by the time he was 40.
(Past perfect with a specific point of time as a reference)

Past and Past Perfect:

What’s the difference?

There are times when the use of past perfect is essential to avoid confusion of when something happened. Compare the following two sentences:
  • A. The bomb exploded when the police arrived.
  • B. The bomb had exploded when the police arrived.
To check students' understanding of the difference, give the following sentences and ask them which sentence it most logically follows: A or B.
  • The police looked for evidence. (B)
  • The police were too late. (B)
  • Two police officers were hurt. (A)
  • The police didn’t know there was a bomb there. (A)
You can do similar exercises with the following sentences, or invent your own.
  • The plane took off when we arrived
  • The place had taken off when we arrived.
  • She walked out when I came into the room.
  • She had walked out when I came into the room.

Regrets, I’ve had a few …

To practise the use of hypothetical past with the past perfect, a variety of exercises dealing with the function of expressing regret can be used.
Think of some regrets you’ve had in the past and prepare a list of sentences like the following:
  • I wish I had learnt how to sing.
  • I wish I had taken piano lessons.
  • I wish I hadn’t started smoking.
  • I wish I hadn’t spent so much money on CDs.
Write on the board the key words for each sentence. In this case, it would look like the following:
  • learn how to sing.
  • take piano lessons.
  • start smoking.
  • spend so much money on CDs.

Exercise 2 - past simple/past perfect

Video


Questions:

1. What happened in the 70's?
2. What happened in 1972?
3. What happened in 1992?
4. How do businesses practice corporate responsibility?
5 How do they help the environment?
6. How is the Alstom helping South Africa?


Homework: Watch this video:
video

3rd Conditional 
Purpose: practice of:
IF + HAD (N’T) PARTICIPLE, WOULD (N’T) HAVE PARTICIPLE
If+past perfect of have, would have + verb

Daisy and her friend WOULD HAVE CROSSED the street and the taxi WOULD HAVE DRIVEN by.


story:

1. Students write each problem and its corresponding result on the board

EXAMPLE: Her alarm didn't go off – she overslept.

2. Students imagine Sarah had a good morning and use the third conditional:
If her alarm had gone off, she wouldn't have overslept.

Pairs of students make third conditional sentences with the remaining examples.

STORY: 
Sarah had to be at the airport for her flight at 9am, but her alarm didn't go off and she overslept. She got dressed very quickly, threw everything into her suitcase and ran out of the house.

When she got to the airport she realised she had forgotten her passport. So she jumped in a taxi and returned home. She grabbed her passport from the coffee table, got in a taxi and went back to the airport.

One mile from the airport the taxi broke down. She tried to flag down another, but they were all taken and so she ran the rest of the way.

When she arrived at the airport, she saw that she had missed her flight. She had to pay 500 dollars for another ticket for the next flight.

While she was waiting, she went to buy a book. She was so preoccupied with her difficult morning that she walked out of the shop without paying and was arrested by the police.

The police detained her for three hours and she missed her flight again. Sarah went home and decided never to fly again!


3rd conditional: listening

3rd conditional grammar

3rd conditional text

Adverbs

listening 1

listening 2

listening 3

listening 4

13th and 14th of February

Grammar: a/ an, the no article

Same planet, different worlds! 

Same planet, different worlds 2



1. Why is the woman annoyed at her boyfriend ?
2, Why does he not immediately understand this?
3. After taking the Manslator’s advice, what does he decide to do instead?
4. What has the man forgotten in the second situation?
5. Listen to all the sentences that the Manslator translates and pick three. What is the stereotype about Men/women in each one?
6. What features does the Manslator have? (3 things)
7. What is the company’s slogan?
Reading text - Women in a man’s world
Read the text and then put the paragraph headings into the correct place.

a) Fighting fire
b) The tide is turning
c) The benefits
d) All things being equal
e) Skills gap


Women in a man’s world

1)

Women are moving away from their traditional role in the workplace – of secretary, carer, cleaner or cashier – and seeking a career in jobs usually carried out by men. But there is still a long way to go until a gender balance in the workplace is achieved.

2)

In UK schools, girls continue to be advised to pursue stereotypical careers. However, the shortage of skilled workers such as plumbers, electricians and gas fitters – due in part to a lack of investment in vocational qualifications - has meant that women are realising they have an opportunity to try something different. Lorraine Winns had been working for the National Health Service (NHS) for 12 years when she decided she needed a change so trained to be a gas fitter. ‘…I just couldn’t bear the thought of doing the same job for another 10 years. In this job, I get to use my head and my hands…’. According to Michelle, a gas fitter since the age of 16, her colleagues have been welcoming but the same cannot be said about the customers. Women in particular are finding it difficult to come to terms with female gas fitters – ‘some of them will answer the door in a negligee, expecting to get a man’, says Michelle. (source: The Independent, 1 October 2005)

3)

There are added incentives available to those who consider such a career change. Grants are available for the training, salaries are high – typically starting at around £30,000 - and there is the added benefit of the flexibility to work for yourself.

4)

Across the border in Scotland, the number of women who become fire-fighters has tripled in the past 10 years. Jill Robertson is a fire-fighter in Aberdeen. She says, ‘…the image of the fire service is a macho one but all the guys are fully supportive of us’. Anyone over 18 can join the fire service and there are no specific academic requirements. (source: The Times, 19 September 2005)

5)

The Equal Opportunities Commission wants to see this trend continue and is campaigning for girls at school to be encouraged to take up a skill not usually associated with women. Its aim is for men and women to have equal chances in life.



Writing: 
Choose a question and write a personal response

  • Are there any jobs that you’ve never seen a woman do? If so, why do you think this is?
  • Are there any jobs that you’ve never seen a man do? If so, why do you think this is?
  • Do you think there are equal opportunities in your country in the world of work? Why / why not?
  • Are the job opportunities that are open to you today the same as the job opportunities your parents / grandparents had?
  • Do you think the world of work is changing? Why / why not?
Mini Grammar:  wishes and regrets
conversation-men and women
interesting statements!


Explanation of however, whereas, on the other hand. However, whereas, on the other hand
More discourse markers

exercise 1
exercise

work place discrimination

corporate responsibility

18/02/14
What games did you play as a child?
What was your favourite food when you were a child?
What were you like as a child?

To answer these questions we can also use the phrase 'used to'
Used to do
We can use used to to talk about things:

1. we did regularly in the past that we don't do now
She used to smoke 20 a day but gave up cigarettes almost 10 years ago.
He used to eat lots of meat but now he's a vegetarian so he doesn't eat chicken, lamb or beef any more.

2. that were true in the past but which aren't true now
You and John just don't seem as close as you used to be. Have you two fallen out?
There used to be loads of shops in our village but now there are only four.

Form:


The positive, negative and question forms of 'use to' stay the same no matter what pronouns you use: 

Positive:
This is made up of used to + base verb
Tim used to work in a newsagent's but now he works in a department store.
You used to like me. Why aren't we friends anymore?

Negative:
This is made up of Didn't use to + base verb 
There didn't use to be a cinema here.
She didn't use to like wine but now she drinks a glass of it every evening.

Question:
This is made up of Did + pronoun + use to + base verb
Did you use to play sport?
Did she use to be scared of spiders?

Note it's unusual to use this form when asking questions about the past. We're much more likely to ask:
Did you play sport when you were at school?
Are you scared of spiders?/Were you scared of spiders when you were young?

Used to refers to the past. We can't use 'used to' to talk about the present or future.

To talk about your daily habits you can't say 'Every day I use to go to work by bike' you need to use the present simple - 'I go to work by bike'

To talk about future habits you can't say 'When I live in New York next year, I'll use to take the subway everywhere', you need to use will + base verb - 'I'll take the subway'
Activity

Speaking: You are going to compile a mini questionnaire to find out how your classmates have changed over the years.
Write ten questions using the expression 'used to' 
Your questions could relate to : Organised  // mischievous  // messy  // naughty  // rebellious  // 
Interview three different people in the class.
Present your findings back to the class and present one of your classmates to everyone else.

Writing: Write a paragraph about what you were like as a child

Reading:

People used to believe that the world was flat.
What else did people use to believe?
Why have we stopped believing these ideas?

Suffering for science  click here
Science vocab  click here
Speaking:  click here

19/02/14
grateful, article and vocab

20/02/14
Grammar: wishes and regrets

more exercises

Dream jobs - interviews

Dream job video

Dream job
reading
writing
vocabulary

21/02/14
GETting to know You: Find someone who...

Technology and Inventions:  Lead in, first page

Watch the video Accidental Inventions. Make notes during the video and prepare to talk about one of the inventions
Which do you think is the best / worst / most useful / most lucrative / most creative / most surprising / most ingenuous invention

Valentine's Day listening: Click here

Invent something and present your invention

Positive adjectives

Writing: write a review of your own invention using lots of positive adjectives



Idiomatic English: Similes

24/2/14

Talk on dangerous things that are good f

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