"Murder in a Country House"

Week 18^th – 20^th March

Here we are again!

Now that we know the names of the rooms in a house and the furniture, let’s play “Cluedo”.

“Murder in a country house”

Mr Jeremy Travers, a famous and rich businessman was murdered on June 22^nd 1938. On that day the family and Gordon, his business partner were at Jeremy’s country house celebrating Jeremy’s 60^th birthday. They had dinner and went to bed. Next morning, when his wife Amanda went to wake up Jeremy, she found him in his bed…dead!

We suspected of Amanda, his wife. Her motive could be that she knew her husband was having an affair with his secretary, Claudia. We also suspected of Claudia. She was angry because Jeremy promised her to leave his wife, but, he didn’t.

Gordon and Barbara, Jeremy’s daughter, had an alibi. They played cards together after dinner. So, who did it?

Eugene thought it was Gordon… and he was right!

Gordon was in love with Jeremy’s daughter. Jeremy didn’t want Gordon to marry his daughter because he thought that Gordon only wanted the money. He said, “If you marry my daughter, all my money will be for my secretary.” So, Gordon got angry and murdered him!

How did Eugene know? He said it’s because he read a lot of books by Agatha Christie. He also said that business partners, women and money aren’t a good combination…

In my opinion, he had read the story before!

See you on Tuesday!

No more crimes. I promise.

Houses and Furniture

Week 11^th – 13^th March

Hello again!

Yes, we continued talking about appearance and descriptions.

She is an actress. She’s got medium – length straight blonde hair. She is tall and slim. She’s got green eyes. She isn’t Spanish. She’s beautiful. Who is she?

He’s a Spanish sportsman. He has short wavy brown hair and brown eyes. He’s not very tall. He doesn’t look very friendly because he is very serious. He doesn’t have a beard or a moustache. He wears red overalls when he works.

Who is he?

And we continued talking about going out.

·         Where did you go last night?

·         I went to a new jazz club in town.

·         Was it good?

·         Yes, it was great!

·         Who did you go with?

·         I went with my boyfriend and some friends.

·         What did you wear?

·         I wore my long denim skirt and a new top I bought last week.

·         What time did you get home?

·         We got home at about three.

·         Did you get a taxi home?

·         No, my boyfriend has a car.

And we started learning vocabulary about houses and furniture.

·         Do you live in a house or in a flat?

·         Is there a garden?

·         How many floors are there in your house?

·         How many rooms are there downstairs?

·         Is there a bath upstairs?

·         How many bedrooms are there?

·         Is there a garage?

Check the vocabulary because tomorrow we’re going to talk about houses.

See you tomorrow!!!

Listening comprehension- Craig's house

Rooms in the house

Physical Description

Week 4^th – 6^th March

What’s new? Not much.

Last week we continued talking about “Go, get,have”. We asked and answered questions about ourselves using these verbs

We read a funny story about a Japanese businessman who had a meeting in London but took the wrong bus. He didn’t get to the airport, he went to a birthday party. He drank, he danced and had a fantastic time. But, he missed the plane and when we got to the meeting it was too late!

We worked a little on pronunciation.

And we started with vocabulary to describe people’s appearance.

For homework you had to describe somebody, either in your family or a celebrity.

This afternoon we’re going to focus on descriptions. Remember that we also learnt vocabulary about personality. So, you can talk about people’s appearance and also about their personality.

See you in this afternoon.

Useful links from the last lessons.

Irregular Verbs

Appearance
http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.html

Girls' Night Out

Week 25^th -27^th

Hi again!

Well, Sabina lives in Moscow and Sharon lives in Beijing.

And what about their “Girls’ Night Out”?

·         Did Sabina wear a dress? No; she wore a black sweater and trousers.

·         Did Sabina go to a bar? Yes; she went to “Piramida”, a bar and a restaurant.

·         Did she drink alcohol? Yes; she drank some wine.

·         Did they talk about men? Yes; they talked about men and fashion.

·         Did Sharon get home after 1.30? No; she got home at about 12.30.

·         Did they have a good time? Yes; they had a great time!

And now, can you think about a night out and tell me…?

·         Who did you go with?

·         What did you wear?

·         Where did you go?

·         What did you do?

·         What did you have to eat and drink?

·         Did you meet anyone?

·         How did you get home?

·         What time did you get home?

·         Did you have a good time?

Remember:

There are two types of verbs: regular and irregular.

Regular verbs make the past simple adding “-ed” to the infinitive. Irregular verbs  have a complete different form that we have to study. We usually study the three forms of the verb. The first one is the infinitive, the second is the past simple and the third one is the past participle.

Infinitive     Past simple      Past Participle

To wear       wore                  worn

What did you wear?            I wore a long dress.       I didn’t wear trousers.

What did you study?           I studied maths.              I didn’t study English.

We studied different meanings of “Go, Have and Get”.

GO

·         Go out: leave a room or leave home. I go out with my friends.

·         Go away: to travel.                          Did you go away last weekend?

·         Go by: with transport.                       He goes to work by bus.

·         Go for a walk.                                    I like going for walks in my free time.

HAVE

·      Have breakfast, lunch, supper.

·      (eat)                                                      I have coffee and orange juice for

·      breakfast.

·      Have a bath, a shower. (wash)     I have a shower in the evening.

·      Have a good time. (enjoy)              They went out and had a good time.

·      Have a coffee. (drink)                      She has three cups of coffee a day.

GET

Get a newspaper. (buy)                       Wait for me! I’m going to get a

                                                                  newspaper.

Get a taxi, a bus. (take)                        What bus did you get?

Get an email, a letter.(receive)           How many emails do you usually get?

Get home. (arrive)                                 What time do you get home after work?

Get up. (rise from bed)                          Do you get up late at the weekend?

                       

If you want to practise a little more, here you have a list of  irregular verbs with their pronunciation.

Irregular Verbs

CD - ROM with vocabulary and grammar exercises

"When did...?"

Week 18^th -20^th

So, this week we continued talking about the past of regular verbs.

·           Did you study English yesterday?

·           Did you watch TV last night?

·           Did you travel by plane last year?

·           Did you cook dinner yesterday?

·           Did you start learning English a year ago?

Do you remember when…?

·           When did the Wall Street Crash happen?

·           When did the Second World War finish?    

·           When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?

·           When did mobile phones first appear?

·           When did George Harrison die?

We also learnt that…

·         Yesterday Sam walked to work, but he didn’t walk home.

·         I study French at school, but I didn’t study German and Spanish.

·         The teacher helped me with the exercise, but she didn’t help my friend.

·         We painted the living room, but we didn’t paint the bedroom.

And we started reading about three women journalists in Rio, Beijing and Moscow that went on a “Girls’ Night Out” and had to write a report for their magazine.

Where do you think Sabina lives? And Sharon?

Wait and we’ll find out later!

Practise the past with this exercise - video