B1 class 30/11/2015

We have started the lesson with the idiom of the day; in the last few classes we've seen different ways of giving advice so this idiom is related to that: A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Then we checked the homework on page 21. In pairs we acted out the conversations between Tim and Bob, and between Mia and Liz. I explained an activity that will appear in the december exam, Rewriting. Students are given a sentence and a word in brackets they must use in order to write another sentence with the same meaning:

Maybe you should send her some flowers.

(sending)

Have you tried sending her some flowers?

I will post more activities on the blog to practise rewriting.

Then we did the listening activity on page 22; I had modified the activity and turned the exercise into a multiple choice one. If you want to do it again, you can listen to the audio on the cd-rom and here are the items:

Listen to Megan and Clive talking about their jobs. Choose the correct answer.

MEGAN

1. Megan has lived in Canada…

a) all her life.

b) for a few years.

c) since she got her 1^st job.

2. Most of Megan’s clients…

a) go hiking for the first time.

b) get into dangerous situations.

c) really enjoy the experience.

3. The guy who got lost…

a) spent three days alone in the mountains.

b) didn’t have a GPS to find his way back.

c) has left the hospital very recently.

CLIVE

4. Clive admits that…

a) he is not very happy with his job.

b) he has little experience with hotels.

c) their hotel in the Lake District is quite old.

5. Clive complains that…

a) summers are difficult for the business.

b) there are lots of cars during the high season.

c) customers leave their rooms very dirty.

6. Clive explains that…

a) it’s hard to find time to go on holiday.

b) they close their hotel every December.

c) they’ve never been on holiday since they opened.

After the listening activity we checked the exercises 3d and 6 on page 23. I explained again the difference between present perfect and past simple, and the past participle of the verb go - gone/been.

To finish the lesson we had a look at the reading activity on page 24, exercises 3 and 4.

For homework students must do exercises 1 and 2 from page 24.