Class Thursday, June 9th

1. UOE Wordbuilding
2. Handed back exams, etc.
3. FCE games (UOE story, The Perfect Report, Phrasal vbs)

GOOD LUCK ON THE EXAM!!!!!!!!!

Class Tuesday, June 7th

1. UOE - Climbing
2. Wordbuilding
3. Corrected exams
4. Game - Sentence transformations

HOMEWORK: whatever you haven't finished

Class Thursday, June 2nd

1. UOE - Wordbuilding "Road Maps" & "Snow White"
2. Vocabulary - compound adjectives (book p. 149)
3. Writing an article (book pp. 150-51)
4. Phrasal verbs with UP Activity 3
5. UOE (book p. 148) ALL

HOMEWORK: Finish exam, (2nd writing, listenings) & Writing from book pp. 150-51

Class Tuesday, May 31st

1. UOE - Charles Dickens
2. Handout - set text wordsearch
3. Handout - phrasal verbs with UP
4. Handed back exams
5. Wordbuilding practice

HOMEWORK: Listening Parts 1 & 2 from exam packet

Class Thursday, March 26th

1. Speaking practice
2. Speaking exams
3. (class worked on UOE section of exam)

HOMEWORK: Writing 1 from exam packet

Class Tuesday, May 24th

1. Speaking practice, change of partners
2. UOE Part 2 - Problems for Actors
3. Book p. 145

HOMEWORK: New exam - Reading Parts 1, 2 & 3 at the same time - 1 hour

Class Thursday, May 19th

1. Exams - UOE & Listening
2. Speaking practice

HOMEWORK: Exam Listening ALL (Parts 1-4)

Class Tuesday, May 17th

1. UOE practice: "Hollywood"
2. Book p. 144 Vocabulary
3. Book p. 142-43 Reading ALL

HOMEWORK: Writing 2

Class Thursday, May 12th

1. Speaking (Book p. 147)
2. Extra Speaking Practice Parts 2-4
3. Grammar (Book p. 144-45 exc. 1-4)

HOMEWORK: Exam: Writing 1; UOE Parts 3 & 4

Class Tuesday, April 10th

1. Unit 11 Vocabulary exam
2. UOE "Saving the Tiger"
3. Writing matching game
4. Listening pp. 146 1-3

HOMEWORK: UOE Parts 3 & 4

Class: Thursday, May 5th

1. Writing packet numbers 12, 13, 15 & 16
2. Corrected homework from review p. 140
3. Taboo for vocabulary exam
4. Book p. 141 all

HOMEWORK: Reading Parts 2 & 3; UOE Parts 1 & 2
AND Study for the Unit 11 Vocabulary exam [pp. 129, 132-140 (writing terms included)]

Class Thursday, May 3rd

1. READING/WRITING 2 Exams
2. UOE practice: "The Inferno Ski Race"

HOMEWORK: (Next exam) Reading Part 1

Class Thursday, April 28th

1. Speaking practice
2. Writing pp.138-139
3. UOE gap fill (Sonic Youth)

HOMEWORK: Writing-Letter of complaint p.139 Exc.5; Review p. 140 Exc.2-5

Class Tuesday, April 26th

1. UOE Practice - The London Marathon
2. Corrected homework FCE exam
3. Speaking - holiday
4. Song - superstar

NO HOMEWORK

Class Tuesday, April 12th

1. UOE Practice "Unidentified Flying Objects"
2. Corrected homework
3. Book p. 132 "Mini-music" advertisement
4. Listening p. 134

HOMEWORK: First Certificate Exam ALL--due 26 April

Thursday = pica-pica :-)

Class Thursday, April 7th

1. UOE & Listening exams
2. Corrected homework (book p. 137)
3. Review p. 140 Exercise 1

HOMEWORK: Workbook pp. 72 & 75

Class Tuesday, April 5th

1. UOE practice
2. Corrected homework
3. Speaking practice (parts 1 & 2: handout & pp. 111 & 123 of book)
4. Use of English p. 136

HOMEWORK: Book p. 137 ALL

**UOE & Listening Exams on Thursday, April 7th**
The vocabulary exam has been postponed until further notice.

Also, REMEMBER: Next Thursday, April 12th, is the LAST DAY to sign up for the First Certificate Exam for 11 June. If you are planning on taking the exam, please bring the money to the school by or before then.

Class Thursday, March 31st

1. Exams: Reading & Writing 1
2. Song: Superstar

HOMEWORK: Conditionals extra handout

Class Tuesday, March 29th

1. UOE Practice
2. Corrected Listenings parts 3 & 4 from exams
3. Handed back 1st writings
4. Word Building handout
5. Finished stories from Thursday

No homework, but the first Reading/Writing exams will be on Thursday, so I recommend studying formal and informal letters for part 1 of the writing.

Class Thursday, March 24th

1. Corrected FCE Exam
2. Writing practice
3. Writing activity - add some description

HOMEWORK: FCE Exam: Listening Parts 3 & 4; Writing Part 2

Class Tuesday, March 22nd

1. Moods, States, Feelings handout
2. UOE practice
3. Animal Insights activities

HOMEWORK: Listening Parts 1 & 2

Class Thursday March 17th

1. UOE Practice
2. Correct UOE Parts 1 & 2
3. Handout - Take away two letters
4. Writing Practice (from packet)

HOMEWORK: UOE Parts 3 & 4; Writing 1

Class Tuesday, March 15th

1. Exams: Vocabulary, Grammar & Speaking
2. Corrected FCE readings parts 2 & 3
3. Worksheet

HOMEWORK: UOE Parts 1 & 2 - please time yourself. Also, please bring your letters if you haven't already.

Class: Thursday, March 10th

1. Corrected Reading 1

2. Grammar Auction

3. Taboo (vocabulary review unit 10)

4. Conditionals h.o. activity 1

5. Book p. 135 Speaking

HOMEWORK: Conditionals h.o. exercises 2,3 & 4; FCE exam-Reading parts 2 & 3

**Remember** Grammar (Units 9-11) & Vocabulary (Unit 10) exams are on Tuesday (15/3) and we will do Speaking Parts 3 & 4 as well (recommended: study phrases on p. 135 of book).

Class: Tuesday, March 8th

1. UOE practice

2. UOE p. 124 (corrected exercises 2 & 3)

3. Conditionals p. 133 a) corrected homework b) did activities 2 & 7

4. Grammar for FCE - conditionals listening

HOMEWORK: Practice Exam Reading PART 1 (about 20 minutes)

Class: Thursday, March 3rd

1. Memory activity (past tenses review)

2. Writing packet activities 4-6

3. Book p. 129 Lead In

4. Conditionals review (on board)

HOMEWORK: Book p. 133 Exercises 1, 4, 5 & 6 **Please read Grammar Reference on pp. 174-175 in book, especially on mixed conditionals**

Class: Tuesday, March 1st

1. UOE Practice H: Songwriting

2. Corrected UOE Parts 1 & 2 from exam

3. Corrected book review, p. 128

4. Handout: adjectives: synonyms & correct the sentences

5. Corrected UOE Act. 1 p. 124

6. Started Writing practice packet

HOMEWORK: UOE parts 3 & 4 from exam practice

Class: Thursday, February 24th

1. Listening from workbook

2. Speaking: book p. 123

3. Speaking Exams (parts 1 & 2)

4. Corrected Tuesday's homework (book p. 125)

Homework: 1st writing (time yourself: 40 minutes); UOE parts 1 & 2 (time yourself: 22 minutes total); book p. 128 Review ALL

Class: Tuesday, February 22nd

1. UOE practice: Top of the World

2. Corrected homework (back side only--sorry about the repeat!)

3. Book: Listening p. 122

4. Song: Take That - The Flood

**Exam update: We will do the speaking exam on Thursday (Feb. 24), and the Vocabulary exam is postponed until further notice**

Class: Tuesday, February 15th

1. UOE Practice

2. Corrected HW

3. Other book activities pp. 118-19

4. Book p. 120 Vocabulary & Grammar Exc. 1 & 2

HOMEWORK: Finish Grammar Exc. 2, if you haven't, and start FCE Exam--READING & LISTENING are due next Tuesday, 22 February.

Class: Thursday, February 10th

1. Correct Homework

2. Comparatives/Superlatives extra activities

3. Book p. 117 intro 1 & 2

HOMEWORK: H.O. Comparatives/Superlatives and book pp. 118-119 Exercises 2 & 3

Class: Tuesday, February 8th

1. Exams - Listening & Reading 2

2. Song: Always Like This (Bombay Bicycle Club)

3. Corrected HW from Book p.116

HOMEWORK: Handout "Time Challenge" (on the back of "Fun in the Sun" handout)

Class: Thursday, Feburary 3rd

1. Fun in the sun handout

2. Speaking practice (based on phrases studied from last class)

3. Game: -ing vs. -ed

4. Handout: -ing vs. -ed

5. Book p. 116 Exc. 3

Homework: Workbook pp. 66 & 69

Reminder: 2nd Listening & Reading on Tuesday, Feb. 8th

Class: Tuesday, February 1st

1. Use of English practice #4

2. Corrected Homework

3. Handed back exams

4. Grammar pp. 108-109

5. Speaking p. 111

6. UOE p. 112

HOMEWORK: Study Speaking vocabulary (p. 111). On Thursday, we'll do a speaking practice using the new terms.

Class: Thursday, January 27th

1. Exams: UOE/Vocabulary & Writing

2. Song

HOMEWORK: wkbk reading pp. 64-65

Class Tuesday, January 25th

Happy New Year! Sorry for the long absence, but we're up and running again. Today's class went something like this:

1. UOE gap fill practice #3

2. 1st Listening Exam

3. Book p. 113

Homework: Book p. 116 Exc. 1 & 2, and study for vocabulary exam (on Thursday) The pages for vocabulary are:

p. 105 #2 (a-e)

p. 106 #3 (a-h)

p. 113 1 & 2

p. 115 Polite requests box

Handout with body parts & body idioms (both sides, all)

Workbook handout, p. 61 #1