School Dinner!

Wednesday 26^th February

Hello again!

Well, homework was more or less OK. If you take it a bit more seriously, it’ll be perfect by the end of the course! You had improved a lot!

Next term we will display (show) your projects in the classroom, so you’ll have to work harder and write on a piece of paper not only on the blog.

Player 2’s homework was the best!

The rest were good, too.

English garlic doesn’t have “teeth”. They are “cloves”, a clove of garlic.

Boys, how do you write this? I? or i?

First, you told me about your dishes.

Then, we listened and role-played different dialogues about school dinner.

Don’t forget that we use “ it’s …” or “this is …” when we talk on the phone. Not “I am …”

·         Ring, ring!

·         Hey, Carlota. It’s Noelia. What are you doing?

·         I’m making pizza.

·         Are you making pizza? I love pizza.

·         Yes, I am. It’s for school dinner.

·         Oh no! I forgot school dinner! What can I make?

·         How about green salad? Everybody likes salad.

·         Good idea! Thanks! Bye!

·         Good bye!

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·         Ring, ring!

·         Hi, Carlos. This is Alejandro. What are you doing?

·         I’m making hamburgers. They are for school dinner.

·         Oh no! I forgot school dinner! I’ll make green salad.

·         No; Noelia is making green salad.

·         Why don’t you make a chocolate cake?

·         Good idea! Thank you. Goodbye!

Remember:

What are you doing?(in general)  I’m cooking.

What are you making? (food or crafts) I’m making spaghetti.

What’s Noelia doing? She’s making a cheesecake for school dinner.

We also talked about present simple and present continuous.

                                       (routines, habits)        (now, at the moment)

What does Josh do in his free time?        What’s Josh doing now?

He reads magazines.                                    He’s eating pizza.

He trades cards.                                             He’s sitting on his bed.

Does he listen to CDs?                                 Is he sitting on a chair?

He doesn’t listen to cassettes.                    He isn’t sitting on the carpet.

We did a listening about a cooking TV contest. Colin, the guest (person that was invited) told us how to make spaghetti Bolognese. Although, (but) the result was kind of “Yuk”

He used:

Some spaghetti.                       Did he use any sugar?

An onion                                   No, he didn’t.

Some carrots.                           He didn’t use any potatoes.

Some meat.

A glass of red wine.

Some tomato ketchup.

Some mushrooms.

Some cheese.

Some butter.

Remember to use some and any for plural nouns or uncountable.

Some in affirmative.

Any in negative or questions.

A /an, only for singular nouns. Only one. “An” before vowel sound.

And we finished the class with you telling me what you usually do for dinner.

·           Do you eat with your family?

·           Does your mother usually cook dinner?

·           What time do you usually have dinner?

·           Where do you sit?

·           What do you talk about?

For homework.

Don’t forget to tell me about Carnival! Are you going to a Carnival parade? Are you going to wear a fancy dress? Are you going to go to a party? Write about it and we will talk in class.

Game 7

Player 1	9
Player 2	11
Player 3	10
Player 4	9

Present simple / Present Continuous - GAME

Present Simple / Continuous

Enjoy your weekend!!

"Yuk or Yum?"

Wednesday 19^th

Hi guys!

You have done homework but not all of it. Why didn’t you continue reading and did the rest? That’s “Ordering food at the restaurant”.

Player 2 congratulations for your homework! It was excellent! A very complete menu with the descriptions of the dishes and the prices. Even the name of the restaurant!

In our class, we went on (continue) talking about food and restaurants.

We reviewed the vocabulary to describe taste and put it into practice by trying different “food”

·         The lemon was sour.

·         The red candy bar was sweet and tender. (You usually use tender for meat)

·         The black liquorice was tough! (It was impossible to eat!)

·         The snacks (“Fritos”) were crisp and spicy.

·         The water was tasteless. (With no taste. Remember “-less” means without)

But we didn’t have any examples of “soggy”. Bread and cookies are soggy when they go “soft” after three or four days. You can also use it to describe pasta and vegetables when you cooked them too much and they are “very soft” and “sticky”!

YUK or YUM?

Did you like your food? Yes, I did. Yum! / No, I didn’t. Yuk!

·         What do you think of spaghetti? Yum!

·         What do you think of vegetables? Yuk!

·         Do you like porridge? No. It’s disgusting! Yuk!

That’s what happened to Joanne. She tried porridge but she didn’t like it. She thinks porridge is awful!

AND NOW, HOMEWORK!

Write about typical food, a typical dish or a dish you like.

These questions will help you with your writing but homework is NOT ONLY answering the questions. You have to write a short paragraph.

·           What dish is it? (The name of the dish)

·           What is it made of? (Ingredients. It’s made from…)

·           How do you make it? (Fry / boil / put it in the oven, on the grill…)

·           What does it look like? (What appearance does it have?)

·           How do you serve it? (With sauce, cream, lemon…)

And finally, our games!

Game 6

Player 1	9
Player 2	9
Player 3	6
Player 4	8

Ways of Cooking

Vocabulary on food

A Game!

 BFN (Bye For Now)

At the Restaurant

Week 12^th February

Hi guys!

Yes, this week we continued talking about food.

There are usually three courses on the menu:

Starters, Main Courses and desserts. And there are also drinks.

-       What are you going to have for starter?

-       I’m going to have prawns for starter.

-       What are you going to have for the main course?

-       I’m going to have steak and chips for the main course.

(steak /steik/ meat; not /stɪck/ a hockey stick or a glue stick!)

-       What are you going to have for dessert?

-       I’m going to have strawberry flan for dessert.

(for dessert /dɪssert/ not for the Sahara desert /desert/)

-       What would you like to drink?

-       We’re going to have coke.

We role-played: “At the restaurant”

Waiter: Good evening. Have you got a reservation?

Customer 1: Yes, in the name of Higgings.

Waiter: A table for two. Is that right?

Customer 2: yes, it is.

Waiter: come this way, please. Your table. This is the menu

 (Pause)

Waiter: Are you ready to order?

Customer 1: Yes. I’m going to have _______ for starter, ________ for the main                        

                     course and ________ for dessert. What are you going to have?

Customer 2:  I’m going to have _______ for starter, ________for the main                        

                     course and _______ for dessert.

Waiter: what are you going to drink?

Customers 1 and 2: we are going to drink ________

Waiter brings the food. They eat.

Customer 1: Excuse me. Can you bring me the bill?

Waiter: Here you are. Your change, thank you.

Customers 1 and 2: Thank you. Good bye!

The girls’ performance was absolutely fantastic!!!!

(Although I think they invited me to go with them because they wanted me to pay for the meal!)

I got your letters, although Carlos forgot to bring his.

We played “Food Families” Today Carlos was luckier than last week!

THIS IS HOMEWORK

Make a menu. Include three dishes for Starters, three for Main Courses, three Desserts and Drinks

AND ALSO, ORDER FOOD IN A RESTAURANT. A WHOLE (COMPLETE) MEAL.

Include what you are going to have for starter, main course, dessert and something to drink. You can use “I” or “we”. Because you can go to the restaurant with a friend.

Talking about homework, I’m glad you did it but you must pay attention and do your homework well. You had many mistakes. Player 3 had the best homework. Congratulations!

And ,here is the result of  the games!

(This week and last week’s games)

                Game 5

Player 1	10
Player 2	9
Player 3	9
Player 4	8

                Game 6

Player 1	10
Player 2	11
Player 3	7
Player 4	11

At the restaurant

See you on Wednesday!

What do you do? What are you doing?

Week 5^th February

We talked about jobs.

·         I work in a hospital but I’m not a doctor.

·         She works in a school.

·        He sells things.

·         This person makes bridges.

·         She works in a newspaper.

Who are they?

Remember the difference between “What do you do?” And “What are you doing?”

·         What do you do? (= what’s your job?) I’m a lawyer.

·         What are you doing? I’m watching TV.

·         What does your mother do? She’s a housewife.

·         What’s she doing? She’s collecting my brother from school.

·         What does your father do? He’s a sales rep. (sells things).

·         What’s he doing? He’s listening to music in the living room.

This is your homework:

Write four sentences following this example. Don’t copy this sentence as one of them! Don’t use “play” more than once. Try to use different verbs.

He is a doctor. But today he isn’t working. He’s playing golf at the golf course.

We started talking about food in class.

We played “Food families” making questions with “a / an / any” for countable and uncountable nouns.

 Lorena beat us all!

She was also the winner playing “Hangman” for rooms in the house!

Carlos was really unlucky!

As we ran out of time (= we didn’t have time. The class was over), we are going to have two games next week. So, Carlota will be able to participate because she didn’t come to class this week.

 Remember that next week we are going to write a letter to a pen friend from Ukraine. So, you can start drafting your letter.

You start like this:

Date Dear (name of the person you are writing to),

  Say your name. Where you live. How old you are. If you have brothers

  or sisters.

  What year you are in at school. What your favourite subjects are. Which ones      

   you don’t like.

  Your hobbies.

  And don’t forget to ask them some questions about their families, brothers or     

  sisters. And what the town where they live is like.

  End the letter in this way:

   Regards,

   Your name

You can practise playing “Hangman” here:

Playing Hangman

Listening : the Best Burguers in Town

 Have a nice weekend and do homework!