воскресенье, 3 октября 2010 г.

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)