Here are some of the videos we recorded, I hope you can see them. Most of you must be at home now, away from the heat. I wish you a very good summer vacation.

Well, I hope nobody read the entry I had published before, because it was a mistake, it was meant for a group of adults.

Next Monday we can continue rehearsing the play. Unfortunately I know Nene is not coming and I am not sure about the rest of the students, so I cannot tell if we will be able to perform it.

You can bring the mobile phones, though, and the rope. 

By the way, this group has two more classes, tomorrow and next Monday. 

For HOMEWORK see the blog before and study your lines.

Hello!

I am going to copy the end of the play. It is based on some of your ideas. I hope you like it.

They start to play hide and seek. Mother is It. She starts counting.

Then Supermoney and his slaves show up in a silly way, not walking but kind of hopping like the 7 dwarfs.

Supermoney: Hello everybody! We bring wonderful news.

Father: Who are you?

Child: What news?

Catchy: We are your friends.

Ironman: We bring presents.

Supermoney: Look, this is fun. - he shows them the mobiles phones.

Catchy: Look, you can play games with this.

Ironman: You can be powerful, like me. There you go. - he gives each one a mobile phone.

Supermoney: Here is an extra one. For a friend.

Child: For my mum.

Ironman: Yes, sweety, for your mum.

Father and child start to play with the smart phone and the other ones leave with big smiles on their faces. Mother finishes counting and starts to look for them; She is surprised:

Mother: Aren´t you playing?

Child: Mum, look at this, this is much better.

Mother (looking): what is this? Where did you find it?

Father: 3 nice men gave them to us. Look, there is one for you.

The 3 of them get absorbed in their computers (or mobiles). Meanwhile Supermoney and his slaves arrive. Ironman takes the house away. Ironman makes a lot of noise but The family is busy with their artifacts and they don't look up. Catchy starts to throw his noose round Father's neck. Ironman grabs him and takes him away. Then throws the noose around Mother's neck and Ironman takes her away.

Superman: Ha, ha, ha. Now I have more slaves!

Then Catchy throws the noose to catch the Child but at that moment he stands up and says:

Child: Mum, Dad, I want to play Hide and Seek!

Catchy misses. Child starts to run and hides behind a tree.

The 3 monsters start to look for him. Meanwhile the Child runs to the truck where his parents are. Mother and Father are still playing with the mobile phones. He shakes them.

He says:

Child: Mom, can you drive?

Mother: Yes, I can drive.

Child: Dad, Can you throw the noose?

Father: Yes, I can.

He throws the noose and catches Supermoney. Then the 3 of them say:

Family: Now, you are our slave!

Bye, bye!

HOMEWORK

This time you only have to learn your lines.

Supermoney: you have 4 sentences (short ones).
Ironman: you have 3 sentences.
Catchy: you have 2 sentences. Bring a rope!
Father: you have 3 sentences. 
Mother: you have 3 sentences.
Child: You have 7 sentences, but they are very short.

Remember to bring the mobile phones!

Sorry, I thought I had written your blog.

Last week we were rehearsing our play and also deciding the end. Children had many ideas.

We were also reviewing vocabulary: actions and words to describe people.

And we reviewed  dates and months. Students listened to a number of dates and had to write them down. They did a very good job. Some students need to learn how to spell the months, though.

HOMEWORK

Remember you must study how to spell the months:

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

It´s OK if you don´t have time to do the next exercise before the class. You can do it for next week.

Put the words in order to make sentences.

1. get /I/ at/ 7/ up/ o'clock 

2. I/ a /at/ shower/ have/ o'clock/ 8

3. breakfast/ at/ He/ has/ half/ past/ 8 

4. goes/ school/ to/ She/ at/ o'clock/ 9 

5. has/ She /lunch /at/ o'clock/ 12                                                                                                                                           

Hello!

Before I forget, this is for Isma and Nene:

You have to say 4 things  Darkred usually does, saying the time.

Example:

Darkred usually gets up at ten to eight.

He has breakfast at ten past eight.

And so on.


Then you say what he is doing today (today is Sunday and Darkred doesn´t have to go to school)

Example:

Today at ten to eight Darkred is sleeping.

At ten past eight Darkred is still sleeping.

And so on.


In our last class we worked on a play. The play is part of our project. Children had decided that they want their parents to have more vacations and that's what the play is about.

Later they got together with another group of students, and did some activities with the topic Summer Holidays. 

HOMEWORK

1. This week students must study their first lines in the play:

Sergio Hello, I am a 21st C machine. I was born in the United States. My name is
SuperMoney. And these are my slaves. My slaves think they are very important, but they
aren´t.

Isma  Hello, my name is Ironman, I design machines. I am clever, I am shrewd, I am powerful.

Pablo:  Hello, my name is Catchy, I capture slaves with a rope. I am fast, I am ruthless, nobody can escape from me. 

Daniel It's such a beautiful day. It's so nice to be here on vacation. 

And listening to the birds.

Nene  Oh yes, it is. I love sitting on the grass.

Yes, we can play. When we finish lunch.

David: I like playing hide and seek. Can we play hide and seek?

Fantastic, I love playing with you!

2. To review the months go to the link and do exercises 2, 3 & 4. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2244

Have fun!

Hello!

Yesterday we spent most of the time preparing the Design for Change project. Students had to prepare their part for the presentation.

Later we recorded everone in the group presenting their parts. Everybody did it well.

HOMEWORK

We must practice a little more the Present Simple, which is the tense we use to talk about routines.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=513 Go to the link, do the 1st Exercise: listening and matching the sentence with the picture.

Then, read the text  about Ben and do the 1st Exercise after the text: Put the sentences together.

Hello!

Yesterday most students had done their homework but there was a bit of confusion about how to do it. So finally some students had drawn lost of clocks but had not written down the time in the clock.

Oh well! You are all learning how to tell the time, I have no doubt.

Besides checking homework, which took quite a while, we did some of the exercises in the book. Students had to complete some questions and answers about Molly' routine. Most students did quite well.

Remember,  we use the Present Simple to talk about routines, actions we do everyday or often. To ask questions in the Present Simple we use an auxiliary verb: do. When we talk about one person who is not part of the conversation (3rd Person Singular) we use does, not do.
To make a questions we use

First:                                                           do                 or                  does
Second: subject (or person)                    I/you             or        he/she/Name: Mary
Third:  verb                                    Ex:    get up, go, have, sleep

The question:  do you go ...?        or       does he/she go...?

That's easy, isn't it?

After completing the exercises students wrote 5 things they do everyday and the time when they do those things. Example: I get up at half past seven.
Then, they interviewed a partner: What do you do first? and wrote down the information:

get up    7: 30

When they were finished the whole group got together again and they asked other students:

What does X (Pablo, David, etc.) do first?
and the student answered:
X gets up at half past seven. (with the -s at the end of the verb)

HOMEWORK

Put these words in the correct order to form sentences;

1. get/I/at/7/up/o'clock 

2. I/a/at/shower/have/o'clock/8

3. breakfast/at/he/has/half/past/8 

4. goes/school/to/she/at/o'clock/9 

5. has/she/lunch/at/o'clock/12

6. past/half/3/home/I/go/at 

7. dinner/have/I/o'clock/5/at 

8. bed/I/to/at/go/o'clock/9 

 

Ask a question for each sentence. Examples: 1. What time do you get up?

4. What time does she go to school?