Fwd: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:64] Class summary for December 17th

Thanks, Pilar. Merry Christmas!

[1] "estas prácticas son para estudiar"... Es la utilidad de una cosa, no la intención: "for studying" ... Aunque también queda muy natural si ponemos un adjetivo de por medio.

Check the patterns we use with relevance

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From: Pilar Ramos 
Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:53 PM
Subject: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:64] Class summary for December 17th
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Hello!
We started the class by checking the homework. (p. 137 PRACTICE 1. Practices 1, 2 and 3). These practices are +good [1] to study the different uses of past tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. It´s useful to think about the drawing with arrows, to know which is the correct tense we must use:
PASTß-------------------------------X-----àFUTURE (X= PRESENT)
                                               PRESENT
Also, we can use the prepositions and adverbs to know which tense is the correct form. For example:
I had been living in my house FOR three years.
I live in my house SINCE 2010.
The teacher -remembered +reminded us +of/about the relevance of -[we have] +having a list with verbs with prepositions: explain TO, amazed AT… This list must be done by ourselves, of course!
After that we continued by working on pages 24 and 25 in the book.  The subjet was THE HAPPINES FORMULA. We made practices 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in these pages.
We learnt some words related to technology:
GADGET: aparatos, cachivaches: (Remember INSPECTOR GADGET, from our childhood, well, at least some of us we remember this cartoon)
CHORES: Tareas
DRUDGERY: Aburrido hasta el fastidio
DEVICE: Dispositivo, aparato
DISHWASHER: Lavaplatos
WASHING MACHINE: Lavadora
MICROWAVE: Microondas
VACUUM CLEANER: Aspiradora (HOOVER in US)
MIXER: Batidora
OVEN: Horno
COFFEE MACHINE: Cafetera eléctrica (Machine that you plug -IT)
KETTLE: Kettle
Then, we saw a video and then we asked and discussed about it. We talked about technology in our -lifes +lives. We talked about +the next question: Is -the technology the key to happiness? We talked about the relevance -[to have] +[of having] goals in life.
Some expressions and verbs that we learnt:
As for /from: A partir de…
To take sth/sb for granted: Dar por hecho, tenerlo como seguro.
To bring up: Criar, educar
Educate ON the risks: Mind the word ON! This verb to the list! :)
Design INTO the future: (Idem)
To free UP: liberarnos (Idem)
Besides, we learnt the adverb UP, in some verbs we can find this word to intensify +the meaning.
At the end of the class, we did practice 5 on page 25. Next day, we'll listen to the audio again.
Next day we must tell -to José Luis +to give us a few -worksheet +worksheets for holidays.
Ah, and we learnt where TOGO is. Togo is in Africa, -[in the middle of] +between Ghana and Benin. In the north is Burkina Faso, and in the South… the ocean, +the Atlantic Ocean

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