LOS ESPERAMOS!!

Los esperamos a partir del sàbado 1ero de Agosto,
cuando reiniciaremos nuevamente con las clases presenciales.

Happy Winter Holidays!

Network Institute

Class Wednesday 22nd

Hi People! How are you?
We need to finish reading the story.

(Como esta es la última clase antes de las vacaciones, no tienen que mandarme esta tarea por mail para corregir. La corregiremos el lunes 3 de agosto, a la vuelta de las vacaciones)

Please, read pages 44 and 45 from Photofinish. (Lean las páginas 44 y 45 de Photofinish)

Here you have some new vocabulary (aquí tienen vocabulario de esas páginas):

Page 44:
is walking: esta caminando
towards: hacia
are hiding: estan escondidos
are watching: estan mirando
are waiting: estan esperando
is standing: esta parado
by: al lado
is holding: tiene/sostiene

Page 45:
catch: atrapar
pleased: contento
safe: a salvo/segura
well done: bien hecho
frightening: aterrador
it will be fun: esto será divertido
perhaps: quizás
will happen: sucederá

After reading the story, answer the questions on page 49 and we will correct them in class on Monday 3rd.

EXAMENES FINALES

ESCRITO: SÁBADO 1RO DE AGOSTO: 9HS

CLASE DEL LUNES 3 DE AGOSTO HORARIO HABITUAL: PRACTICAREMOS PARA EL EXAMEN ORAL

EXAMEN ORAL: MIERCOLES 5 DE AGOSTO: 19 HS

Los esperamos!

Class Monday 20th

Hi People! How are you?

This is extra practice for the test. We work with this material yesterady in coaching.
Send me the answers by mail before Wednesday 22nd.

1. Complete with a verb
1. Mary _________________ (is / likes / need) that red dress.
2. I ___________________(are / am / is) 15 years old.
3. Helen ______________________ (not like / doesn’t like / doesn’t likes) the red dress.
4. _______________________(There is / There are / They are ) seven combs and one towel.
5. _____________________ (do / does / are ) you Paul?
6. ___________________ (are / do / does) you need a pair of trousers?
7. When ______________________ (are / does / is) the party? It’s _________________ (at / in / on) Monday.
8. Who ___________________ (is / are / needs) a pencil?
9. What ______________________ (do / does / are) your brother’s girlfriend need? She _________________ (needs / doesn’t needs / need) a new pair of shoes.
10. __________________(who / when / where ) is the newsstand? I ________________ (needs/ don’t needs / need) the newspaper.
11. Helen’s husband ___________________ (aren’t / don’t / isn’t) tall.

2. Complete the text with these words. There are extra words:

lives is need goes live finishes is finish work start have needs doesn’t have live stop don’t like am have has go

My name _____________ Sandra. I ___________ 25 years old and I ______________ in Mar del Plata, Argentina. I ________________ a sister: Ana She ___________ 18 years old. I _____________ in an office. I ______________ work at 8.00 a.m. I __________________ to work by car and I ______________ work at 6.00 p.m. My sister Ana _________________ to university at 9.00 a.m. She __________________ university at 12.00 p.m. I _____________ a beautiful house. I _________________ with my parents and my sister. I __________________ my bedroom; it’s so small! I ___________ a big room!

3. Write the time
1. 10:20: It’s _________________________________________________________________
2. 3:45: _____________________________________________________________________
3. 8.00: _____________________________________________________________________
4. 9.15: _____________________________________________________________________
5. 1.50: _____________________________________________________________________
6. 7.23: _____________________________________________________________________

FECHAS DE EXAMENES

Hello people! These are the dates of the exams:

Written exam: August 1st (primero de agosto) at 9:00 o'clock a.m.
Oral exam: August 5th (5 de agosto) at 7.40 p.m. (Este examen es en el horario de clases habituales)

El lunes 3 de agosto se reanudan las clases normalmente, y ese día practicamos para el examen oral.

Any doubts, please aske me (si tienen alguna duda preguntenme)

Regards,
Liliana.

SIMPLE PRESENT REVISION

Watch it to revise the SIMPLE PRESENT:



NOW DO SOME ONLINE EXERCISES:

http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Tenses/SimplePres.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_present2.htm

Class Wednesday 15th

A) Writing:
Write a pragraph about yourself by answering these questions (escriban un párrafo sobre USTEDES respondiendo estas preguntas):
Name?
Address?
Job? Where is your job?
Live? (apartment building, house)
Describe your house: how many (cuantos) bedrooms, bathrooms?
Do you have garden, garage?
Married?
Brothers, sisters, children?

• Use all the adjectives you can (usen todos los adjetivos que puedan. clean, large, small, new, etc)
• Include vocabulary from book page 56. (incluyan vocabulario de la página 56 del libro)

"I am...






b) Continue with the booklet page 34 exercise 1 ("Complete this conversation.Choose the correct word")
Answers:
has-walk-don't-take-walk-have-drive-work-works-goes

Exericse 3 ("Look at the answers. Write the questions")
Answers:
2.Do you get up late on Sundays? (get up: levantarse, late : tarde)
3. Does your sister drive to work? (drive: manejar)
4. Do you and your family watch television in the evening?
5. Does your mother have a job?
6. Does your mother use public transporatation?
7. Does your father work on Saturdays?
8.Do you have a big dinner on Sundays?


That's all for now!

Liliana.

Class Monday 13th

Hello people!
There is a revision for the final exam. You have the answers below (Las respuestas estan al final, no me lo manden por mail ya que lo corrijen solos) Please, try to do the exericses without looking at the keys!! (por favor traten de hacer los ejercicios sin mirar a las respuestas)
Please let me know how you got on (Comentenme como les fue con los ejercicios)
Después de las respuestas de la revisión, van a ver las respuestas del Descrption Quiz (booklet page 11) y 2 tareas más.

A) Revision for the final exam

1. Complete the sentences with the correct Word(s) in the parentheses:


Example: His name ____is______ Peter. ( are /is/ does)

• It’s _____________ ten ( twenty to /a twenty to/ a twenty after)
• There ____________ a TV in my house ( aren’t / isn’t/ hasn’t)
• Mary ___________that dress (don’t like/ doesn’t like / like)
• They ___________ from Japan (are/ isn’t / does )
• _______________ are 5 girls in my family (they / their / there)
• Where______________(do / has / does) she ____________? (lives / live / has)
• My sister and my cousin _______________ this dress. (desn’t like / don’t like / doesn’t likes)
• I ________________ at Peter’s Restaurant. (works / doesn’t work / work)
• She _________________ an apartment. ( don’t have / doesn’t have / doesn’t has)
• Are they _____________ parents? No, they aren’t my parents. (their / my / your)
• Who _________________ the girl in the photo? (are / does / is)
• Helen’s birthday is _______________ May 26th ( at / in / on)
• Ana: _________________ this store have nice shoues? (has / do / does )
Bob:Yes, it ___________ (do /is / does)

2. Complete the text with verbs from the box. There’s one extra word.

has live is am work
works have need is


My name ______ Susan. I________ in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I_______ in a

bank. I________ a cashier. Every day, I ________ lunch with my best friend,

Karen. Karen ________ in a restaurant. She _________ a waiter. She _________

one son and one daughter.

3. What’s the time? Write the time (escribir la hora):

 4:00: It’s__________________________________________

 9:30: _____________________________________________

 7:20: _____________________________________________

 10:10: ____________________________________________

 1:50: _____________________________________________

 2:45: _____________________________________________


4. Put the words in the correct column:

waiter grandson husband dress red play

blue mother writer black speech daughter

concert pants match tie t-shirt

yellow white sister pilot party journalist


JOBS FAMILY COLOURS CLOTHES EVENTS













KEY:

1)
• twenty to
• isn’
• doesn’t like
• are
• there
• does / live
• don’t like
• work
• doesn’t have
• your
• is
• on
• does
does

2)
Is
Live
Work
Am
Have
Works
Is
has

3)
It’s four o’ clock
It’s half past nine /It’s nine thirty
It’s twenty past seven /It’s seven twenty
It’s ten past ten
It’s ten to two /It’s one fifty
It’s a qaurter to three/It’s two fourty-five

B) DESCRIPTIONS QUIZ (bboklet page 11): (ANSWERS)
1 A
2 B
3 D
4 E
5 K
6 L

C) Continue with the book page 56. Just try to remember the vocabulary. (Solo traten de recordar el vocabualrio por si aparece en el test)
D) Continue with the booklet page 34 exercise 2 (Answer these questions with your....)
Answers:
2. Yes, I do./No, I don't.
3. Yes, we do./No, we don't.
4. Yes, it does./No, it doesn't.
5.Yes, she does/No, she doesn't
6.Yes, we do/No, we don't
7.Yes, it does./No, it doesn't.
8. Yes, it does./No, it doesn't.

Please, let me know how you felt with the exercises (Por favor, diganme como les fue con los ejercicios)

That's all for now!

Regards,
Liliana.

LISTENING PRACTICE

"THE WELL"

LISTENING AND READING PRACTICE




well = aljibe


LISTEN TO THE STORY



ACTIVITIES:


LISTEN AS MANY TIMIES AS YOU NEED TO DO THE ACTIVITIES

NOW CHECK WITH THE KEYS:







SCRIPT

Class Wednesday 8th

ANTE CUALQUIER DUDA, ESCRIBIR A LA PROFESORA O LLAMAR AL INSTITUTO

Como les resultaron las preguntas sobre la historia?? No se preocupen en hacer respuestas largas. Es mejor que la respuesta sea corta y bien, que larga y muy mal.
Les doy una ayuda con las preguntas:
1) In Black and Sons. In the Accounts Departmen. No, it sin't.
2) It's next week. Greece/To Greece. With Alice.


1) Page 11 from the booklet
DESCRIPTION QUIZ: read the descriptions and match them with the people in the pictures (Lean las descripciones y las unen con la gente de las fotos)









2) Make sentences with these words:
window-dirty-shoes-third floor-balcony
1)

2)

3)

4)

5)


3) Now, go to the book (class book) page 54. Look at exercise A the VOCABULARY.H

How do you say these words in Spanish?

Example: 1. Upstairs: arriba/en el piso de arriba

2. Downstairs:

3. Bathroom:

4. Living room:


4) Look at exercise C. There is/There are/ A lot of:
THERES IS-----> Singular
Example: There is a/one bedroom (es lo mismo usar a o one
THERE ARE -------> Plural
Example: There are two bedrooms.

Questions about quantity (Preguntas para preguntar cantidad: "Cuantas/Cuantos")
How many bathrooms are there? Cuantos baños hay? (HOW MANY + NOUN +ARE THERE)
There are 3 bathrooms.

A LOT OF: ----->Plural and with big numbers: (se usa en plural y para hablar de una cantidad muy grande)

Example: There are a lot of chairs! Hay muchas sillas. A lot of, da la connotaciòn de que hay muchas.

There are a lot of chair (incorrect, because chair is in singular-es incorrecto porque chair esta en singular)

Now continue with page 55 and do exercise D.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Continue with exercise E. Describe your ideal house. (Aqui tienen que describir como serìa su casa ideal-Usen todo el vocabulario que puedan. Lo que tienen despuès del ejercicio es un ejemplo, please, hagan algo diferente)













Now, go to the booklet, page 13 and do the activity "WHAT'S IN THE SUITCASE?" (¿QUÈ HAY EN LA VALIJA?")

Look at the example, "There's a shirt, there are two pairs of shoes,...."

Completen como indica el ejemplo.

Some new words (palabras nuevas que aparecen en este ejercicio):
Comb: peine
Towel: toalla
Brush: cepillo del pelo
Toothbrush: cepillo de dientes
Sunglasses: anteojos (in English this is Plural-en inglès esta palabra es plural, cuidado!!)
Magazine: revista
Handkerchief: pañuelo.













Homework:
Read Photofinish page 43.
Words you need to know (palabras que necesitan saber:)
come back to: regresar a (algun lugar)
I'm in danger: Yo estoy en peligro
They are telling: Ellas le estan contando
Story: historia
Interested: interesado
I know the man: Yo conozco al hombre
Is dead: està muerto
We can catch his murderer: nosotros podemos atrapar a su asesino
Go back: regresar = come back
Find: encontrar
Look for: buscar
You can help us: Vos podes ayudarnos

After you read, do the questions 7 to 11. (Despuès de leer la pàgina, hagan las preguntas de la pàgina 7 a la 11)

Book page 60 exercise B: complete with the names (completar con el nombre de los lugares)
page 64 exercise I: complete with the verb to be (completar con is, am o are)
page 64 exercise J: complete with take, don't walk, etc (Esto esta en el libro de clases)

Write Portfolio number 3. (This is on the bookm page VI-Està en el booklet page VI, casi al comienzo del libro)
Look at page 49 in your book, exercise 1. Imaginense que se encuentran en un negocio de ropa y estan con un amigo/a. Inventan un dialogo similar al del ejercicio 1 (PERO NO IGUAL!!) entre ustedes 2 y deciden que comprar. Cuanto mas vocabulario y expresiones usen, mejor. Intenten hacerlo, no tengan miedo de equivocarse.



All the activities for Monday, before the class. (Todas las actividades para el lunes antes de la clase)
That's all for now. (Eso es todo por ahora)

Keep in touch (nos mantenemos en contacto)

CLASS FOR JULY 6TH, 2009

COURSE: ADULTS ELEMENTARY 1

TEACHER: LILIANA

EMAIL CONTACT FOR THE TEACHER: lilusgra_08@yahoo.com.ar

Dear student,

Thank you for taking part in our online classes. I am sending you a list of activities you should be doing for the next few classes. Please get in touch with me by writing to lilusgra_08@yahoo.com.ar

Best wishes

Liliana.

ANTE CUALQUIER DUDA, ESCRIBIR A LA PROFESORA O LLAMAR AL INSTITUTO.
ACTIVITIES FOR WEDNESDAY 8TH

1) READING: PHOTFINISH
Please read page 42. These words are important from page 42:

a) Show: muestran

b) Murder: delito, asesinato

c) Large: big

d) He is wearing a black coat and a red scarf: Él está usando una campera negra y una bujanda roja

e) Sitting : sit down (sentado)

f) Smiling: sonriendo

g) smile: sonrisa

h) Cruel: maligna, cruel

i) Afraid: frightened

j) Holding: sosteniendo

k) Hands: manos

l) Ring: anillo

m) Strange: extraño, raro

n) Snake: serpiente

o) Bird: pajaro.

p) murderer: asesino, criminal

Do the questions on page 48 from the booklet. The questions are about the story. Do questions 1 to 7. (Hagan las preguntas de la 1 a la 7 de la página 48 del booklet sobre la historia)

Send me the answers by mail before Wednesday 8th (Envíenme las respuestas por mail antes de la hora de clase del miércoles 8)

2) VOCABULARY: book page 52 Unit 7 lesson 1 ex.aWORKPLACES AND HOMES
Look at the new vocabulary . Choose seven wors and write examples. ( elijan 7 palabras y escriban oraciones) send them by e-mail.



3) GRAMMAR: book page 52. ex b

a) Compete ex. c on page 53 and send them by e-mail.

b) Read the conversation ex1. page 53 and then complete the conversation in ex. 3 send it to me by e-mail

HOMEWORK: Workbook page W38 exercise 3. Book page 67 exercises R and T. We will worrect this in class

ALL THE ACTIVITIES BEFORE FOR WEDNESDAY 8TH
(TODAS LAS ACTIVIDADES SON PARA EL MIERCOLES 8, ANTES DEL HORARIO DE CLASE)