Wed Apr 15

Objectives:

- Revision and feedback

- Introduction to vocabulary of getting together and future expressions: present simple and continuous/will/going to

The journal writing topic was "What do you think you will be doing ... This weekend? This time next year? In three years from now?" I consider these time frames to be easier for sts to handle than "ten years from now/ fifty years etc."

After revision of LC/RC exams, we went to p. 106 in the books with a vocabulary matching/collocations activity. There are some words that are used a lot with "have" and not so many with "go on". It would be good to check this list and create my own with more common collocations for next year. Sts also discussed a memorable "get-together" they've been to. Unfortunately this seemed, and in some cases was, the same activity they'd done a few months ago on a memorable event. It seems a bit useless and should also be changed. Some sts commented that they'd already done this. So I cut it a little shorter than normal.

We did some study on p. 108-9 of future forms. Two sts read out the dialogue and tried to solve the multiple choice as they went along. They did fairly well but after finishing we listened to the dialogue from the CD and corrected the mistakes. We only got as far as the analysis after this and left the language summaries for next class.