APRIL FOOLS' DAY (QUARANTINE: DAY 17)

I know it is no time to play any tricks on anybody, but we can at least get a good laugh.

 

 Breaking news   >>>>   These are no fake news!!!   The Official Language School has cancelled the period of registration for the freelance students for the B1 and B2 exams!!!! I'll let you know when the registration time is open.

 

APRIL FOOLS' DAY  Be careful today!

Read about April Fool's Day and write about any tricks you played on someone.

 

April Fools' Day 2019: the best jokes and pranks in one place  (The Guardian)

 

What's The Story Behind April Fools' Day?

 

 

Some other videos to watch:

• April Fools' Day for Kids   

• The History of April Fools Day   

 

When and what is April Fool’s Day? (LearnEnglish Teens, British Council)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  14

Students participating:  about 65 out of 110 (60%)

Comments written and corrected: 300

Emails exchanged: more than 700

PASEN announcements & messages: almost 1000

Things handed in and corrected: around 350

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: more than 4,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Wednesday, 1^st April

Solutions to exercises on page 150.

Exercises on page 150 (Unit 5)

4. badly , hard , beautifully , fast , slowly ,  nicely , happily , high , terribly
5  1. well  2. beautifully   3. high   4. easily     5. quickly
6  Kate and James can swim far  //   Paul and Sandra can't swim far  //  Kate  can't kick hard  //  Kate can walk quickly.   //  Kate and James can't dance nicely.   //   Paul can't kick hard.     //  Paul can walk quickly.    //  Sandra can kick hard.     //    Sandra can't walk quickly.    //  James can kick hard.   //   James can't walk quickly.
7. 1. must  2. mustn't   3. must  4. must  5. mustn't
8  1. can    2. must    3. mustn't    4. can't    5. can
9  1. should    2. shouldn't    3. should    4. should    5. shouldn't
10  1. Should people wear shoes in a swimming pool?    2. Should students do sport during the week?
   3. Should a school have a computer room?       4. Should parents help their children do homework?
   5. Should you study before a test?      6. Should teenagers meet their friends every night?

  

Tasks for today:

• Revising GIVING DIRECTIONS. Watch these episodes again from the OLD THAT'S ENGLISH ( Here's the page in my site OLD THAT'S ENGLISH COURSE  and some Notes):  Unit 4   >>   Programmes   1    010   2   011   3   012     (MODULE 1)

• Do exercises on page 70 (Unit 5) and then write a similar dialogue giving directions (Exercise 4)

Wr11: Diálogo basado en lo visto en la página 70 y en los episodios del OLD THAT'S ENGLISH ( He aquí la página en mi site OLD THAT'S ENGLISH COURSE  y los correspondientes apuntes: Notes):  Unit 4   >>   Programmes   1    010   2   011   3   012     (MODULE 1) :  GIVING DIRECTIONS TO A TOURIST IN YOUR HOMETOWN/VILLAGE.

 

 

Smart Planet Digital books

These are the tasks for today: 

• Watch this video about the difference between TOO & ENOUGH:

How To Use TOO & ENOUGH | English Grammar Lesson   (mmmEnglish)

• Unit 7 (Smart Planet 4)    >>>   page 79

• Writing exercise for you to do    >>>>>  

Wr12: Diálogo basado en las funciones vistas para la expresión de las POLITE OFFERS & REQUESTS, aparte de lo visto en la página 78, sobre el tema: "Organising an activity".

 

 

English with Lucy  >>>  WE MOVED TO THE FARM - spend the day with me!

 

 

 

No homework for today as we have no classes on Wednesdays.

Some recommendations by the British Council: Covid-19 learning support   

Don't be a pain in the neck!!! This is just the first hurdle.

The school year is coming to an end and it is obviously full of hurdles (What does this word mean? In the school context it would be our final exams). Have a look at these two interesting phrases to learn:

• To fall at the first hurdle (BBC Learning English) 

• A pain in the neck (BBC Learning English)  >>> Note that they use this phrase to refer to some students. Which ones?

 

Going forward (another expression to learn), it would be interesting for you to keep all these phrases in a document so that you could learn them easily.

 

 

 

 

Have you noticed the use of 'ENOUGH'? Remember:

• ENOUGH + nouns (both countable and uncountable nouns) >>>  I've got enough time to study for my exams. There are enough chairs for everybody.

• Adjectives/Adverbs + ENOUGH   >>>>  The exercise was easy enough for me to do it. Fernando Alonso didn't drive fast enough to win the race.

 

 

And also remember the uses of TOO (which are identycal to the uses of SO):

• 

  TOO + adj/adv   >>>>   The book is too long for me to read it in one week. He walks too slowly.

• TOO + much/many + nouns  >>>  Messi has got too much money. There are too many chairs.