среда, 1 декабря 2010 г.

Grade 5, group 2

Speech Practice and Listening

December, 3

Today you told me about sports in your life. We also listened to the text about British Museum, translated it and answered the questions. And more than that, we sang a song.

Good job!

Your homework for Monday:
- Ex. 1 p. 45 (SB)
- Выписать и перевести слова из Ex. 2 p. 46, Ex. 3 p. 46
- Do Ex. 3 p. 46

December, 13

Today we talked about travellings and important places in the airport. Thank you for good job!

Homework for the next lesson:
- Ex. 20, 21, 22 pp. 56 - 59 (SB)

December, 17

Today we read the text, listened to the dialogue and sang 2 songs.

For the next class, please, make a topic "Travelling". Ex. 24 p. 59 will help you.

Grade 6, group 4

Speech Practice and Listening

December, 7

Today we started the new topic and talked about the house and the flat.

Your Homework:
-Ex. 10, 11 pp. 98-99 (SB)
- Ex. 3 p. 100 (SB)
- Ex. 6 p. 101 (SB)

December, 13

Today we talked about the prepositions ofplace. Now we are discssing the topic "My room"

At home, please, do
- Ex. 8 - 10 p. 102 (or)
- Learn the words Ex. 6 p. 101
- Describe the picture of the room using the prpositions

December, 14

Today we described the rooms and practised the prepositions of place.

For Monday, please, do
- Ex. 5, 6, 7 pp. 106 - 108 (SB)


For Tuesday get ready for an oral test on the folowing topics:
- About myself
- Sport in my life
- About my family
- My hobbies
- My typical day (My school day)
- My flat/ My room

Grade 7, group 1

Speech Practice and Listening

December, 1

Today you were the medical examination, and were going back and forth. So we watched the movie and had some fun playing the games.

Your Home task for the next class is the same!

December, 7

Today we discussed the English language competition and read the text.

For tomorrow, please, do
- Ex. 15 p. 67
- Ex. 16 p. 68 (retell the text)

Decemer, 8

Today we worked with the text and discussed the strategy of the work in your group. We also learned the useful phrases for the conversation.

At home, please, do
- Ex. 28 p. 78 (learn)
- Ex. 30 p. 79
- Phrasal verbs pp 79-80 (read and learn)

December, 14

Today we practised usage of conversational phrases and worked with the phrasal verb turn.

For tomorrow, please,
- write out and translate the active vocabulary Ex. 33, 34 pp. 81 - 84
- Do ex. 32 p. 81 (wr)

December, 15

Today we worked a bit with grammar and studied new vocabulary. Good job!

Hometask for Tuesday:
- Learn the words from Ex. 33, 34 pp. 81 - 84 (or)
- Do Ex. 35 - 38 (or)


For Wednesday get ready for an oral test on the following topics:

- A visit to Moscow
- My favourite holiday
- Learning foreign languages
- How I learn foreign languages
- Traditions of GB

Grade 9, group 1

Speech Practice
Listening Comprehension

December, 7

Thank you very much for your presentations about the politicians. That was very exciting!

For tomorrow, please, do
- Ex. 3 (prepare the info about the philosophers)
- Ex. 2 pp. 61-62
- Ex. 7 pp. 65-67

December, 8

Today we talked about the famous philosophers and listened to the text about them.

Your homework:
- Ex. 9, 10, 11 pp. 68 - 71 (SB)

December, 14

Today we talked about famous politicians and Peace Noble Prize winners.

For tomorrow, please, do
- Ex. 19 p. 78
- tasks after the text pp. 70 - 71.

December, 15

Unfortunately, today there were only 3 of you. We finished working with the text about Utopia.


For Tuesday get ready for an oral test and bring Ex. 19 p. 78.


Topics for the test:
- Famous philosophers
- Famous politicians and Peace Noble Prize winners
- The creations of mankind
- The creations an inventions
- The main historic events of the world

Grade 5, group 1

Grammar

December, 1

Today we continued working with Past Simple and revised the irregular verbs with Grammar Cat!

Your homework is:
- Ex. 6 p. 16 (Workbook)
- Revise the irregular verbs!
- Get ready for the test!!!

December, 8

Today we wrote a dictation on Past Simple.

Your homework:
- Repeat the rule "Present Perfect" p. 47
- Ex. 2, 3 pp. 21-22 (WB)

December, 15

Today we wrote another small dictation on irregular vers and worked with Present Perfect.

At home, please, do:
- Learn the rule on p. 47
- Ex. 9 p. 49 in your SB (wr)
- Ex. 13 p. 50 in your SB (wr)

Grade 6, group 2

Grammar

December, 1

Today we checked your home tasks and wrote a test on Passive Voice!
Please, don't forget to do and to bring your exercises.
For the next class, please be ready with
- The rule p. 37
- Ex. 15 p. 38

December, 8

Today we talked about Future simple Passive and practised this tense.

Your Homework:
- Learn the rule p. 49
- Ex. 1 p. 19 (WB)
- Ex. 2 p. 19 (WB)
- Ex. 5 p. 21 (WB)

December, 15

Today your group made me very sad. Most of you were not ready for the class and you got a lot of bad marks!

Please, work harder next time!!!

Your homework:
- Ex. 1, 2 p. 19 (WB), 
- Ex. 5 p. 21 (WB), 
- Ex. 5, 6 p. 50 (SB)

And get ready for the test!!!Repeat the following topics:

1. Present Perfect
2. Present Perfect continuous
3. Passive Voice
4. If/ when clauses

Home Reading

December, 3

Today we did the tasks for the text 4 and read small texts. 

For the nexy class, please, read the text 5 "Mr. Wonka and the Indian prince". 

December, 17

Today we read and translatd the text  "Mr. Wonka and the Indian prince"

At home, please, do the tasks after Text 5.

Grade 7, group 3

Grammar

December, 3

Today we continued working with the rule "Few/ a few; little/ a little". But most of the class we worked in writing, as you were tool loud and noisy.

Your hometask for Friday:
- Ex. 9B p. 48 (SB)
- Ex. 11 pp. 49-50 (SB)
- Read and learn the rule on p. 56
- Ex. 11 p. 58 (SB)
- Ex. 2 p. 59 (SB)

December, 17

Today we wrote a final tst.


For the next class, please, do
- Ex. 4, 5 pp. 61-62

Grade 8, group 2

Grammar

December, 13
Today we continued working with Subjunctive mood, but the results were rather poor again.

At home, please, do
- Ex. 9, 10, 12, 13 pp. 23 - 25
 

Home Reading

December, 3

Today we read and translated the Text "The spy". For the next class, please, be ready with the tasks for the text.

December, 17

Please, get better for the class! Try to understand the questions and search for the answers for them!


For the next class, please, read Text 5 "Too Many Eggs", translate it and do the tasks after the text.

Grade 9, group 4

Grammar

December, 3

Today we worked with Present Perfect Passive.
For the next class learn the rule p. 37 and do Ex. 5, 6, 7 pp. 37 - 40.

December, 17

Today we wrote a final test on Passive Voice. 


At home, please, do 
- Ex. 12, 13 p. 42-43 (SB) - write

вторник, 9 ноября 2010 г.

Grade 5, group 2

Speech Practice and Listening

November, 15

Today we read the texts and answered the questions about English and Americn writers! Please, be more attentive and hardworking when you do the homework!

For the next class, please, do Ex. 10 abc (Перевести и выписать слова в словарик, прочитать и перевести текст).


November, 19


Most of the group went to Shabbaton! We read, translated the words and the text. During the second lesson we watched Winnie the Pooh cartoon.


At home, please, learn the words from Ex. 11 p. 37.

November, 22

Today we worked with the active vocabulary, learned the new rule (play the piano/ play football) and did the listening task.

At home, please, do
- Ex. 11 p. 37 (Learn the words)
- Learn the rule on p. 38!
- Ex. 25 p. 43 (or)

November, 26

Today there were onle 2 of you - Polina and Varya! We did a lot and had a lot of fun =)

For the next class be ready with the words Ex. 11 p. 37 (dictation) and Ex. 25 p. 43.

November, 29

Today we listened to the stories about your visits to the museum and wrote a dictation.

On Friday we be ready with:
- Ex. 27 p. 43 (or)
- Ex. 28 p. 44 (wr)

Grade 6, group 4

Speech Practice and Listening

November, 9

Today we started Unit 3 and worked with Question words.

For the next class, please, do Ex. 3-7 pp. 62-64 (SB)

November, 15

Today we continued working with the textbook and talked about the typical day.

For tomorrow, please, do Ex. 2 - 6 pp. 67-70 (SB)

November, 16

Today we had guests from the other group. We watched the movie together and learned how to tell the time in English. Please revise it once again at home, because Lilya and Sofiya had some mistakes in the test ;((

Your homework for Monday:
Ex. 1 - 5 pp. 74 - 78 (SB)

November, 22

Thank you Masha, my assistant teacher!!! Today we practised the rule (How much.../ How many...)

Your Hometask for tomorrow:
- Ex. 9 p. 80


November, 23

Today we did a lot of listening tasks and practised saying the time in English. We also played the "Meeting game".

For Monday, please, do
- Ex. 12, 13, 14 pp. 56-57 (Act. book)
- Ex. 16, 17 pp. 59-60 (Act. book)
- Finish the clock game - tell about the meetings and the info that you've learned.

November, 29

Today we evised the material of unit 3 and were getting ready for the Test.

For tomorrow, please, do:
- Ex. 22 - 26 p. 63 - 66 (Act. book)
- Ex. 10 p. 86 (SB) - learn the words for the dictation

November, 30

Today we finished doing the exercises of unit 3 and wrote the final test.

There is no homework for the next class! Have a rest! And be ready to start the new Unit on Monday.

Grade 7, group 1

Speech Practice and Listening

November, 9

Today we revisedthe words for the dictation. We also had the listening comprehension tasks and read the text.

At home do Ex. 48 p. 50 (or), learn the words of Ex. 39-40 pp. 44-46 for the dictation!

November, 10

Today we discussed the strategies of learning English and the aspects of the language.

At home, please, prepare the topic "Language learning". Ex. in your student's book on pp. 53 - 56.

Use the following plan:
- The importance of learning foreign languages, especially English
- How we learn english at school
- What I do/ want to do to learn English better

Good luck!

November, 16

Today we listened to Marina, Alina and Kirill's presentations, corrected their mistakes and discussed their topics. Well done!

For tomorrow
- Be ready with the topic (all the rest)
- Be ready to act out your dialogues (Ex. 59 p. 56 - SB)
- Do Ex. 65 p. 67 (wr)

November, 17

Today we listened to your topics about foreign languages. Thanks. We also read interesting facts about the english language.

At home, please, do
- Ex. 67 p. 58 (wr!)
- Ex. 23 p. 26 (Act. book)
- Ex. 27 p. 27 (Act. book)
- Learn the prepositions from Ex. 66
Den and Antonio! Prepare the topic!

November, 23

Den and Antonio, please, be ready with the topic tomorrow!

Today we checked all your home assignments summed everything up and finally finished Unit 2. We started discussing the topics from Unit 3 today.

For tomorrow, please, do Ex. 3, 4, 5 pp. 63-64 (or)

Novmber, 24

Today we discussed the questions, talked about your likes and dislikes. Moreover, we played the Interviewer game.

At home, please,
- Finish doing your crosswords
- Read and translate the dialogue Ex. 11 p. 66, Ex. 12 ABC p. 66-67 (or)

November, 29

Today we discussed the hobbies and your favourite leisure activities. We did the Listening and Speaking tasks.

For tomorrow, please, do Ex. 16 p. 68 (read and translate the text) Ex. 17 p. 71.

Grade 9, group 1

Speech Practice

November, 9

Today we continued working with the texts and  the topic from Unit 1 and practised the active vocabulary.

For the next class, please be ready with the words from Ex. 29, 30 (for dictation) and do Ex. 45, 46 pp. 44-45, read and learn the Topical Vocabulary pp. 45-46.

November, 16

Today we talked about the importance of inventions. We had the discussion and the brainstorming on this topic. We also tried to understand the difference between historic and historical and talked about the plurals of Greek and Latin borrowings.

At home, please, prepare the oral topic "The Importance of inventions". Say:
- What motivates people to invent things. The importance of inventions.
- The most important inventions.
- How did the inventions change our life.
- Describe our digital era today and say how you see the future.

Learn the difference between the words historic and historical (print-out)
Do Ex. 18, 20, 23, 24 (print-outs)

Read the information on pp. 53-54 (The tips for your self-study)

November, 23

Thank you very much for your interesting and serious topics! It's a great pleasure to listen to you.

Tomorrow, please, be ready to check the exercises on your print-outs. Those of you who haven't answered the topic yet, please be ready with the presentation.

November, 30

Today we listened to your speeches and started the new Unit and talked about the famous politicians. For the next clas, please, prepare a brief information about a famous politician and publish it in our Wiki-dictionary. Try to find interesting names and facts!

Listening

November, 17

Today we listened to the text about J.K. Rowling and other famous people. Thanks for your work and interest.

November, 23

Today we listened to the monologues and the radio program about the Universe. Thank you for your work!

Grade 5, group 1

Grammar

November, 17

Today we wrote a small test on Present Simple vs Present Continuous. After that we got revised the Past Simple Tense.

At home, please, revise (learn) the 3 forms of irregular verbs (неправильные глаголы)
Do Ex. 3, 4, 5 pp. 14 - 16 (WB)

November, 24

Today we practised Past Simple and got acquainted with Grammar Cat.

Your Homework for the next class is:
- p. 327 - learn the irregular verbs!!!
- Ex. 3, 4 (on your print-outs)

Grade 6, group 2

Grammar

November, 10

Today we revised the material of the first term and started the new important topic - Passive Voice!

At home, please, learn the rule p. 34 and do Ex. 8 p. 35 (SB), Ex. 4 p. 15 (Act. book)

November, 17

Today we continued practising the Passive voice. Special thanks to Vasya, good job!

At home, please, learn the rule and the table in your exercise books.

Do Ex. 7, 8 pp. 16-17 (Act. book)
Ex. 9 p. 35 (SB)

November, 24

Today we worked with Passive Voice in all the tenses. Please, try harder!

At the next class we are going to write a test. You have a week to get ready for it.

Your home task is:
Ex. 12, 13, 14 (on your print-outs)

Home Reading


November, 19

Toady we read the short texts from Lesson 3 and started reading and retelling the books for individual reading. Good job!

At home, please, read and translate the Text from lesson 4 "How long will you live?"

November, 26

Thank you for the lesson. The text was read and translated by you very nicely!!!

For the next class, please, do the tasks for Text 4 pp. 28-30
Read the small texts on pp. 30-31

Grade 7, group 3

Grammar


November, 19


Most of the group went to Shabbaton, so we worked individually with the laptops.

At home, please, learn the rule THE VERB HAVE GOT on p. 39 (SB)

Grade 8, group 2

Grammar

November, 15

Toady we practised the usage of construction to have smth. done. Unfortunately, the results were not very high.  For the next class be ready with your home assignment!!!

1. Repeat the rule on p. 26 (SB)
2. Ex. 22 pp. 13-14 (AB)
3. Ex. 28 pp. 15-16 (AB)
4. Ex. 6 AB pp. 5-6 (AB)

November, 22

The only thing I can do is to keep asking you to work harder!!! Today we checked 2 exercises and your results were poor again.

Yor Hometask for the next class:
- Learn the rule on p. 56,
- Ex. 22 and 24 p. 57-58 (SB)

November, 29

Today we worked with the new type of Subjunctive.

At home do
Ex. 25 p. 58 (SB) - write 4 sentences
Ex. 6, 7 pp. 22-23 (Act. book)

Home Reading


November, 19

Today most of the group was not ready for the class, that's sad :(
For the next class, please, do tasks for Text 3.


November, 26

Thank you for your translations. It would be great if all the tasks would have been prepared in such a way.

For the next class be ready with Text 4 "The Spy" pp. 18 - 22.

 



Grade 9, group 4

Grammar


November, 19


Today we continued working with the Passive voice. Please, try to work harder!

At home, please, Learn the rule and the table in your notebooks.
Do Ex. 4, 5 pp. 25-26 (SB),
Ex. 25-26 pp. 28-29 (WB/ print-outs).

November, 26

It's not an unusual idea, I want toll it to you, though. THE SOONER YOU START DOING YOUR HOME TASKS, THE SOONER YOUR LANGUGE WILL DEVELOP!

For the next class, please do
- Ex. 6 p. 27 (SB)
- Ex. 12, 13 pp. 33-34 (SB)

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Grade 6, group 4

Speech Practice and Listening Comprehension

October, 4

Today we talked about your likes and dislikes, read and listened to the stories about John Barker and wrote a small individual test.

Your Homework for tomorrow:
- Ex. 11 + wordbox - learn the words for the dictation
- Ex. 12, 13 p. 12 (Act. book)
- Ex. 20 p. 18 (Act. book)
- Get ready for the test and dictation!!!

October, 5

Today we revised all the material from unit 1 and wrote Test 1.

At home, please, make a comics "My likes and dislikes". Be creative and have fun! :)

October, 11

Thank you for your comics. That was great!

Your Homework for tomorrow is:
Ex. 6 p. 30 (Read the text and answer the questions - True/ False)
Ex. 1, 2 p. 32
Read and revise the rule on p. 33

October, 12

Today we had only one class as I had to leave the school earlier to take part in the conference. We revised the possessive case and possessive pronouns.

Your Homework for Monday: Ex. 7 AB, Ex. 8, 9, 10 (wr) pp. 35-37 in your SB.

October, 18

Today we talked about the royal family and practised Possessive case!

For tomorrow, please, do:
- Ex. 6 p. 42
- Ex. 8 p. 42
- Ex. 3 p. 44

October, 19

Today we read the text, asked and answered the questions and practised the rhyming "Yes, yes, yes"! )))

At home, please,
- Make a story about yourself (based upon Ex. 7 p.53)
- Learn the words from Ex 9 p 53 + word-box on p. 54 for dictation

October, 25

Thanks for the topics about yourself. It was a pleasure to listen to you.
For tomorrow, please, do
- Ex. 10 p. 31 (Act. book)
- Ex. 13 p. 33 (Act. book)
- Ex. 14 p. 36 (Act. book)
- Get ready for the Test 2 + dictation!!!

Grade 5, group 2

Speech Practice and Listening Comprehension

October, 4

Welcome to our class! It was a great pleasure to meet you. Today we got acquainted with each other, listened to the dialogue and acted it out. Well done!

Your Homework for Friday:
- Be ready with the dialogues about yourselves
- Ex. 19 pp. 15-16 (read and translate the text)

October, 8

Thank you for the lesson. Today we read, translated and discussed the text "A Friendly family". We also played the "Professions" game.

Your Homework for the next class is:
Ex. 27 p. 17 (SB - in writing)
Ex. 24 p.16 (SB - Tell about afamous person, describe him/her, bring his/her photo)
Good luck!

October, 11

Vicka, Varya and Ann, thank you for your stories about famous people. Al the others, please, be ready on Friday!

Your Homework for Friday is:
- Prepare a story about a famous person;
- Learn the words on p. 17 (Ex. 31)
- Write out and translate the words on p. 18 (Ex. 3)

October, 15

Thank you for the lesson! There were too many of you, but still we managed to do a lot of things)) And even wrote a dictation!

For Monday, please, do
- Ex. 9 p. 23 (SB) - learn the words!
- Ex. 10 p. 24 (SB) - write down the prepositions

October, 17

Today we listened to the dialogue and talked about the houses! Semyon, thanks for your ideas about about the museums!

At home, learn the phrases "I think", "I suppose", etc.
and Do Ex. 16 p. 27 (read and translate the text)

October, 22

Thank you for the lesson! Today we read the text, listened to the story about Cats and Dog, answered the questions, revised grammar and, of course, sang and dramatized the song!!! That was fun!

Your homework:
- Ex. 27 p. 30 (Learn the words!)
- Make a speech About my school day

October, 25

Thank your for your very good stories and time-tables! Well done!!! Today we listened to everybody and even to our guests from the other group.

Your homework:
- Ex. 27 p. 30 (learn the words for dictation)
- Ex. 1 p. 30 (read and translate)
- Ex. 3, 4 p. 32 (or). Tell about your, your friends' and relatives' hobbies.

Grade 7, group 1

Speech Practice and Listening Comprehension

October, 5

Today we talked about the traditions and lifestyle of Russians. Some of you were not ready with the hometask again. That's sad :((

Don't forget to shoe it to me tomorrow.

For tomorrow class read and translate Ex. 31 p. 22 (SB) and revise everything for the TEST!

October, 6

Today we learned a lot of interesting facts about Russia and wrote the Test on Unit 1. Moreover we started Unit 2 and talked about the importance of learning foreign languages.

Your Homework for Tuesday is: Ex. 2 - 4 pp. 24-26 (SB)

October, 12

Today we had guests from the other group and so we didn't work as fast as we could. We talked about the English-speaking countries and discussed the importance of the foreign languages.

Homework for tomorrow: Ex. 4 p. 26, Ex. 7 p. 27, Ex. 14 p. 30 (SB).

October, 13

Today we had a very funny interview with a scientist and an astrologist and tried to predict the future! Thank you for the work.

We also read the text about the English-speaking world.

Your Homework for the next class is:
- Learn the Phrasal verbs (p. 34 in SB)
- Ex. 24 p. 36 - answer the questions (SB)
- Ex. 12 p. 22 (Act. book) - write it, I'll definitely check it for a mark!

October, 19

Today we wrote 2 tests - the Listeing Comprehension test and the test on phrasal verbs.

At home, please, get ready to answer the questions of Ex. 24 p. 36
- Learn phrasal verbs on p. 42 (SB)
- Do Ex. 37 p. 43 (SB)


October, 20


Today we discussed the questions about the English language and its history. After that we worked with the active vocabulary and did different vocabulary tasks.

Your Homework for Tuesday:
Ex. 39, 40 pp. 44-46 (learn the words orally)
Ex. 44 p. 46
Ex. 45 p. 47 (WR!)

October, 26

Today we worked with the new words and did vocabulary exercises.

There is no Home assignment for tomorrow, as we are going to have the Language competition tomorrow (Olympiada) .

Grade 9, group 1

Speech Practice

October, 5

Natasha, Dasha and Ksenya, thank you for the fantastic wiki-presentations! We are waiting for the continuation!

At home read and translate the rest of the words (Ex. 29, 30) and do Ex. 31, 32 p. 33 (SB).

Boys, I haven't seen you for ages!!! Come back asap!

October, 12

Today we thank Kirill, Fedya and Anya for their presentations! That was great. And personally I like the dictionary a lot :)

For the next class, please, learn the active vocabulary finish Ex. 32 p. 33 and do Ex. 35 p. 34 (or) and Ex. 37 p. 36 (wr)

October, 20

Today we worked with active vocabulary and practised the usage of the words.

At home do exercises on pages 36-37 (SB)
- Ex. 37 p. 36 (wr)
- Ex. 38 p. 37
- Focus on Synonymy

Don't forget to start working on the story!!!

October, 26

Today we worked with the languagy competition. That was not an easy task for you, thanks for your try, though!

Tomorrow I'll give you some time to finish the task. And afterwards we are going to work with the textbook. Thus be ready for the class!  


Listening Comprehension

October, 12

Today we discussed the Mysteries and listened to a couple of dialogues about unusual and mysterious things. At home, please, listen to the track and do Task D (print-outs): CD1 4.mp3

And prepare a speesh "Bermuda triangle: What I think about it". (Task E)

October, 19

Today we had 2 lessons of Listening Comprehension. We listened to the texts about crimes and their  witnesses. Thanks for your work. At home do Task E and prepare a description of a crime thet you saw or read about.                                                                                                           

Grade 6, group 2

Grammar

October, 6

Today we finished writing the test and sterted working with the new tense - Present Perfect Tense.

Your Homework for the next class is: Ex. 35-37 (print outs), learn the rule on p. 20!

October, 13

Today we got acquainted with the Present Perfect Continuous tense.

For the next lesson:
- Learn the rule on p. 20 (SB)
- Do Ex. 8, 9 pp. 20-21 (SB)
- Revise the State verbs (глаголы, не употребляющиеся во временах группы Continuous)

October, 20

Today we worked with the state verbs (verbs that are not used in Continuous tenses). We did exercises on Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous as well.

Your Homework for the next class is:
- Learn the rule on p. 21 (SB)
- Ex. 10 pp. 21-22 (SB)
- Ex. 24, 25 p. 28 (SB)
Homereading

October, 8

You need to prepare harder for your homereading classes! Please, read the text once again and at home
- Do Ex. 3, 4, 5 pp. 9-10 (Reader)
- Read and translate the Text "Let Us Widen Our Scope" on p. 11

October, 15

Today we finished discussing Text 1 and learned a lot of interesting facts about the temperature systems.

For the next Friday, please, read Text 2 pp. 12 - 14 (The Reader)

October, 22

Today we read and translated the first part of the story "Thi Ski Race".
At home, please. do Ex. 2 - 5 p. 15 (Reader)
and read the second part of the story - Text 3 pp. 18 - 21 (Reader)

Grade 5, group 1

Grammar

October, 6

Today we revised the Tenses of the English verb and learned the difference between have and have got.

At home do Ex. 7, 8, 9 pp. 7-8 (Workbook).

October, 13

Today we revised and compared Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses. Not bad, but repeat (learn) the rule on pp. 19-20.

For the next class
- Learn the rule on pp. 22-23 (Правило о глаголах, которые не употребляются во врeменах группы Continuous)
- Do Ex. 8 p. 23 (SB)
- Do Ex. 7 p. 22 (Make your time-table and be ready to talk about it)

October, 20

Thank you for the time-tables! Well-done!
Today we practised using the state verbs (the verbs that are not used in the Continuous tenses).

Your Homework for the next lesson:
Ex. 6, 7, 8 pp. 11-12 (Act. book)

Grade 7, group 3

Grammar

October, 8

Today we worked with Past Simple Tense and practised the General questions and short answers. Be more attentive!

Your Homework is:
- Ex. 6, 9, 10 pp. 21-22 (SB)
- Repeat 3 forms of irregular verbs.

October, 15

Today we continued practising Past simple and wrote a test. Unfortunately, you still have problems with irregular verbs.

Please, do learn them!!!!

For the next class do Ex. 2, 3 p. 24 (SB)

October, 22

Work harder!!!

Today we learned 2 rules - the usage of the article with Geographical names and special questions in Past Simple.

Your Homework for Friday:
- Learn the rule on p. 32 (SB)
- Ex. 11 p. 35 (SB)
- Ex. 24 p. 19 (Workbook)
- Ex. 28 p. 22(Workbook)- Ex. 30 p. 23 (Workbook)

Grade 8, group 2

Grammar

October, 4

Today we practised the use of Subjunctive Mood Past. Please, be more attentive!

Your Homework for the next class:
- Learn the rules pp. 13, 14, 15, 16.
- Do Ex. 29 p. 17 (wr) - SB

October, 11

My dear students! If you don't start working hard, we'll have serious problems with the Subjunctive mood!

Do Ex. 31 p. 18 (Student's Book) and Ex. 12, 13 pp. 9-10 (Activity book)
And get ready for the TEST!!!

October, 18

Today we wrote the test on Subjunctive Mood! Hope the results will be good!!!

For the next lesson, please,
- Repeat the rule on p. 26
- Do Ex. 21, 22 p. 13 (Activity book)

October, 25

Today we wrote one more test on Subjunctive mood. Hope the results will be much better!

For the next class, please, do
- Ex. 6 AB pp. 5-6 (Act. book)
- Ex. 27, 28 p. 15 (Act. book)

Homereading

October, 8

Today we had the Homereading lesson, which showed that you have to work on your reading skills. Try harder next time. At home work with Text 1 Bruce:
1. Translate your passages (wr)
2. Do Tasks I - IV pp. 9-10 (Reader)
3. Be ready to retell the story!

October, 15

Today I can really say THANK YOU foryour translations and an interesting discussion.

For the next class, please, read Text 2 "The Immortal Bard"and translate the unknown words.

October, 22

Today we read the text "The Immortal Bard". Luckily after the translation you managed to understand the message and the irony of the text.

At home work with exercises to the text: Ex. I - V pp. 13-14 (Reader)

Grade 9, group 4

Grammar

October, 8

Today we continued working with the Passive Voice. And got acquainted with Present Progressive Passive and Past Progressive Passive.

For the next class learn the rule on p. 8 and do Ex. 6, 7 pp. 8-9 (SB).

October, 15

Today we continued practising Passive voice. Your results were not bad when we were working oraly all together, but the results of the test are very sad! Work harder, please!

At home do Ex. 16, 17 (pp. 18-19 from the WB) - у Вас есть распечатки!

October, 22

It's very sad that you don't get ready for the lesson and systemetically get bad marks. It's predictable that your marks in the first term will be low too.

At home do Ex. 21-22 pp. 24 - 26 (Workbook/ print-outs)

среда, 8 сентября 2010 г.

Happy New Year! Happy Rosh Hashana!

How lucky we are!!! We have one more New year and one more reason to wish each other happiness, fun and health :)

Be happy in the coming 5771 year!!!



понедельник, 6 сентября 2010 г.

9 Grade, group 4

About your books!!!


This year we will work with the book by Afanasyeva, Mikheeva for the 9 grade. You'll also need an Activity book.


Для занятий в этом году Вам необходимо приобрести учебник и рабочую тетрадь:


Афанасьева, Михеева. Английский язык. 9 класс. 5-й год обучения: 

Учебник часть № 1 и 2; Рабочая тетрадь .




Grammar


September, 17


Hello and welcome! Today we finally met with your group :)


And started working with the new topic - The Passive Voice.


At home learn the rule, do Ex. 275 and 279 and Revise the 3 forms of irregular verbs!!! (you have the print-outs)


Home Reading


September, 17


This year we are going to work with Reading+ section from your Activity Book. Today we worked with Texts 6 and 7. 


At home, please, translate Text 7 into Russian (wr) and make a film review (wr).

8 Grade, group 2

About your books!!!


This year we will work with the Textbook by Afanasyeva, Mikheeva for the VIII grade. You'll also need an Activity book and the Reader.


Для занятий в этом году Вам необходимо приобрести учебник, рабочую тетрадь и книгу для чтения:


Афанасьева О.В., Михеева И.В. - English. Student`s Book VIII / Английский язык. Учебник для VIII класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка
+ Activity Book VIII (Рабочая тетрадь)
+ Reader VIII (Книга для чтения)




Grammar
September, 3


Today we got acquainted with Subjunctive Mood.
At home, please, make your own examples for 3 Grammar models (Ex. 11 p. 8):
I. If only it were...
II. If it were ..., it would... 
III. I wish it were...
Also do Ex. 13, 14 pp. 10-11.


September, 8


At our today class we continued practising the Subjunctive Mood Present. Thank you for the examples. The results of your tests are good and excellent! 


Your home assignment is: Ex. 10-11 pp. 8-9 (Activity Book)
Finish Ex. 6 (you have the print-out).


September, 16


Today we got acquainted we Subjunctive Mood Past. It's not the easiest rule, I do agree, so be attentive and do the hometask properly!


For the next lesson, please, learn the rules at pp. 13, 14, 15 and do Ex. 25, 26 (wr) from your Student's Books.


September, 21


Today we continued talking about Subjunctive Mood Past. Please, read and learn the rule more attentively! (pp. 14, 15, 16 - SB).


Do Ex. 28 p. 16 (or), Ex. 29 p. 17 (wr) - SB.

September, 28

We have some newcomers in our group, thus we had to repeat Subjunctive Mood Present once again. But the say: "Practice makes perfect ". For the next class be ready with the same assignment and prepare a short speech (in writing) "If I won a million..."
Home Reading


September, 19


Today we read the text about the Lifeguards. For the next lesson, please learn the active vocabulary from the article and do Ex. after the text.

7 Grade, group 3

About your books!!!


This year we will work with the book by Afanasyeva, Mikheeva for the 7 grade. You'll also need an Activity book and the reader.


Для занятий в этом году Вам необходимо приобрести учебник, рабочую тетрадь и книгу для чтения:


Афанасьева, Михеева. Английский язык. 7 класс. 3-й год обучения: 

Учебник; Рабочая тетрадь № 1 и №2; Книга для чтения.



Grammar

September, 15

Today we revised the tenses: Present Simple and Past Simple.

At home do Ex. 9 (or), 10 (wr) p. 10 (Student's book), repeat 3 forms of irregular verbs pp. 254-255


September, 22


Today we practised using the verb could/ couldn't and Past Simple vs Present Simple tenses. 


At home do Ex. 11 p. 16 (SB), Ex. 25, 27 (Act. book)
Home Reading


September, 17


Today we read the first 2 texts from the Reader.


At home, please, 
- do task B p. 5 (about OutKast); 
- read text 3 A, B;
-  make a table about your and your friend's differences (like the table about Big Boy and Andre). 

6 Grade, group 2

About your books!!!


This year we will work with the Textbook by Afanasyeva, Mikheeva for the VI grade. You'll also need an Activity book and the Reader.


Для занятий в этом году Вам необходимо приобрести учебник, рабочую тетрадь и книгу для чтения:








Афанасьева О.В., Михеева И.В. - English. Student`s Book VI / Английский язык. Учебник для VI класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка.

+Книга для чтения VI (Reader VI)
+Рабочая тетрадь VI (Activity book VI)









September, 16

Grammar




Hello again and thank you for today's lesson. Your examples were good, Vasya's alians were great :))

Your homework for the next class is:
Ex. 4 and 7 in your Activity books.

See you tomorrow!


September, 22


Today we compared the Past Simple and Past Progressive tenses. Please, revise the rule at home!


Do Ex. 5 pp. 5-6 (Act. book)
      Ex. 26 (II) p. 16 (SB). Make a story "What was the weather like yeasterday?" and get ready for a test "Past Simple vs Past Progressive".

September, 29

Today we checked the Home assignment and after that wrote a test on Past Simple vs Past Progressive.

At home:
- Prepare a speech "My Day" (What you did and were doing yesterday)
- Revise everything you know about Present Perfect
- Learn the rules pp. 18, 20.

Home Reading


September, 17


Today we read a very interesting text and found out that rain can be a real disaster.


At home learn the underlined words from Text 1 and do Ex. 1 - 6 pp. 9-11 (in your Reader)