Weeks 11 and 12

Hello everyone!!

Well, apparently the first term is coming to an end!

On our last days we continued with Unit 4, and we talked about films. Remember the four basic questions to answer when you talk about a film:

• What kind of film is it? - a love story, a comedy, a musical, a horror film...
• Who's in it? - the actors (the cast)
• What's it about? - the plot
• What's it like? - your personal opinion

Some of you prepared a short presentation about your favourite film and you told the rest of your classmates. These days I will send you an e-mail with my feedback on how you did!! :)

Now I leave you with a listening about two people who want to rent a film. Click here for a multiple choice exercise, or here if you prefer to complete gaps in a text. After you do the listening, revise some of the new vocabulary doing these exercises. Finally, here you have the script.

We also continued revising the Present Perfect (remember, we use it to talk about experiences in our lives, without saying or asking when they happened), and we saw some specific words that are typically used with it: just, already, yet.
Remember:

• We use just for something that has very recently happened (acabar de). We place it in the middle of the sentence:

I've just been to the supermarket.

• We use already in affirmative sentences to mean 'sooner than expected'. We also place it in the middle of the sentence:

I've already finished reading Dracula.

• We use yet in negative and interrogative sentences. We place it at the end:

I haven't started Sherlock Holmes yet
Have you been to England yet?

• BUT remember: we can also use already in questions when we expect a positive answer

Have you already started revising for the exam?

Here you have a text about Loch Ness that you have to complete using the present perfect. Check it out!

And, finally, here you have three tests where you can revise the present perfect:

Test 1
Test 2
Test 3

Apart from films, we also talked about music! We listened to two people who had different musical tastes, but sometimes they agreed! To ask about their experiences with music, they always used the beginning: Have you ever...?


Finally, on our last day of class we talked a little bit about education and we listened to a current affairs programme where they talked about who should pay for university education.

To finish today's entry, here you have two websites to practise some of the grammar we saw in the previous units:

• Click here to revise the present simple and continuous.
• Do exercises 1 and 2 here to revise the past simple and continuous.