Adverbs of Degree (unit 1)

Hi, class.
Please, watch this Adverbs of Degree Presentation

How mothers deliver a baby

Hi,

This is the first entry for our class this year. I would like you to watch this really funny video from the Bill Cosby show, season 6. After you watch it, I would like you to answer a few questions:

1. What is the grandfather's job?
2. What is he trying to explain the little girl?
3. What is a stork? and a bassinet?
4. According to the girl,  why do mothers get so big?
5. And why doesn't the stork take the babies directly to the mothers' homes?
6. Who do you think is the most stubborn of the two? why?
7. Why is Bill Cosby getting more and more upset as the conversation goes on?
8.  Who "makes a point" at the end of the argument? What is the grandfather's reaction?

9. FOR HOMEWORK, find out some facts about the Bill Cosby show:
- Date of show
- main characters
- number of seasons
- years on air
- popularity

Settle Down by Kimbra

Write to me

• Tell me about your future plans for work or study.
• What important event do you think will happen soon?
• Your friend needs some help with some homework. What do you say?
• Tell me about your plans for this coming summer.
• Complete these sentence: If I don't understand this exercise ...
• What do you think future English lessons will be about?

My dream come true

Welcome back!
You have just arrived from a wonderful cruise trip and I am sure you have great memories you'd like to share with me.

Please write 200 words describing your experience in the cruise ship and the cities you have visited and choose one in particular to explain in detail what you saw and what you did there. Do not forget to provide information about the transfer from and to Barcelona, the weather, your friends, the chaperon teachers, etc.

I am eager to know!

Family matters

Please Help me and My Family

My family don't get along. It's like we all hate each other. It's my mom, me, my two brothers and a sister. I am the oldest. We all have certain problems: My mom wants to quit smoking so she is really stressed out. I am really selfish (I just can't help it). One of my brothers is too bossy. He thinks he is better than the rest of us and that he is the only one who helps my mom. My other brother is kind of abusive and depressed. He always starts fights and he's really spoiled (my mom doesn't yell at him for doing things wrong and when she does, he laughs at her); My sister (who's 7) makes messes and doesn't clean them up. I really want to help because I don't like being upset all of the time and having everyone hate everyone else. Even when we start to get along, someone will say something to upset someone else. Please help me and my family.

Female, 15

Read the situation and then answer the following questions:

• What might the relationship be between the person and his / her parents?
• How must he / she feel?
• What can't have happened?
• Where might he / she live?
• Why might he / she have this problem?
• What should he / she do? (Give at least 5 suggestions)

Melbourne city

Look at this short video about the city of Melbourne, Australia. Pay attention and then write to me a long paragraph about this city. Describe what you see, what you can do there and use the unit vocabulary (cycle paths, pedestrian streets, pollution, people-friendly, green areas, skyline, etc).