Friday 24th May - final grades

Hi everyone,

Just to remind you that you can see your final grades after June 21^st. by entering matrícula online on the CSIM website: www.ucm.es/info/idiomas

- You can collect certificates (including credit certificates) from the Donoso Cortes office after July 18^th. Certificates will not be sent by email.

 

Also just to say again a big thank you for all your hard work this year - it has been a real pleasure teaching you!

 

Have a lovely summer and good luck with your future plans!!!

 

All the best,

 

Durga

 

Thursday 16th May

Hi,

In today's class we did some more revision:

• vocabulary which we have studied on the course
• The conditionals  (zero, first, second and third)
• We did a speaking activity to practise the 2nd conditional
• once, when, after and as soon as.
• General revision, questions.

The exam will take place next Tuesday 21st May - 1.30 to 3.00pm in our classroom.
The oral exam will take place on Thursday 23rd during class.

Tuesday 14th May

 Hi all,

In yesterday's class we did the following:

• revision: the use of verbs in gerund - ing and verbs in the infinitive with to
• revision: the use of adjectives with ed/ing endings
• revision:  vocabulary

If you weren't in class yesterday ask me for handouts.

On Thursday we will do some more revision.  REMEMBER:  the final exam will be next Tuesday 21st - you must take this exam in order to pass the course.  The oral exam will be on the 23rd.  If you have any difficulties in attending the oral exam, please let me know before this Thursday's class 17th.

Homework
Revision  (make a note of any problems, questions you have and I will try to answer them on Thursday in class)

Thursday May 9th

Hi all,

For those of you who didn't come to class today, this is what we did:

• reviewed some common mistakes that you made in the progress check
• reviewed the use of comparatives,
• reviewed the use of narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous and past perfect) 
• We began reviewing some of the vocabulary that we have studied this year.

HOMEWORK: 

ING FORMS AND INFINITIVES WITH TO

PAGE 153 - STUDENT'S BOOK

READ THE GRAMMAR RULES AND THEN DO THE EXERCISES 1 AND 2.  WE WILL QUICKLY CHECK THE ANSWERS AND REVIEW THE GRAMMAR NEXT CLASS.

Wednesday 8th May

Hi!

For those of you who didn't come to class today, we did the following:

Reviewed the idioms that we studied on Monday (see page 153 V12.3 in the student's book)
We did a listening about ghosts
We talked about ghosts, UFO's , fate etc (see page 111 student's book)
We began reviewing unit 12 in pairs.

Homework

Finish review 12 (page 112 in the Student's book)  I will give you the answers next Monday.
Do 12C in the workbook.

Tuesday 7th May

Hi

For those of you who weren't in class today, this is what we did:

• Reviewed vocabulary connected to travel and other vocabulary in unit 13
• Reviewed the 3rd conditional and should have
• reviewed the future forms.

Homework:

• Write 4 sentences using the 3rd conditional.

Tuesday 30th April

Hi

For those of you who couldn't make class today this is what we did:

• Discussed ways of travelling and transport problems
• We did a reading about immigration and emigraton.
• We looked at the 3rd conditional and also at should have plus the past participle
• We compared the 3rd conditional with the 1st and 2nd conditional and reviewed the use of these conditionals.  (We used some of the exercises from pages 94 and 95 in the student's book and then we did one exercise on page 97 in the student's book)

HOMEWORK:

• Workbook page 76 - Do exercise number 1 only - Vocabulary.  Ways of travelling an travel problems.  A and B only!
• Workbook page 78 - Do the Grammar exercise on the 3rd conditional only

If you weren't in class today, you can take a look a grammar section on the 3rd conditionals which is on page 152 in the student's book.


JUST TO REMIND YOU:

THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE ON TUESDAY 21ST MAY.  YOU MUST TAKE THE EXAM IN ORDER TO PASS THE COURSE.

THE ORAL EXAM WILL BE ON THURSDAY 23RD  MAY.  THIS IS ALSO THE LAST DAY OF CLASS.