Unit 4. Progress

- Vocabulary (p. 47)
Check on the following expressions: network, cell, crash a system, organ, hacker, skin tissue, gene, test tube, software, strain, microchip, mission, firewall, orbit, shuttle, launch, up-to-date, computer nerd, technophobe.

- Future probability (structures) p. 50
Sure to happen: it almost definitely will.../ he will presumably.../ they are bound to...
Likely to happen: the chances are that... / I will probably... / there's a strong possibility that.../ he may / might well...
Unlikely to happen: I doubt whether.../ there's a slight possibility that.../ it probably won't... / the odds are against
Impossible: you haven't a hope of.../ it's inconceivable that... / he stands no chance of.../ you don't a chance of...

Check activities 6 & 7

- Listening p. 50

- Will for predictions & assumptions: verb patterns
. will + inf.: The developments of computers will continue until they are more intelligent than humans.
. will + continuous: In a hundred years' time we will be producing babies outside the womb.
. will + perfect: By the end of the century, we will have landed a spaceship on Mars.
. will + simple passive: Genetic engineering on humans won't be banned this century.
. will + perfect passive: By the end of the millenium, techniques will have been developed to redesign human DNA.

Homework - Unit 10.3

- Composition: Describe a childhood memory (Deadline 25th February)
Check some useful expressions in... p.140
- Review and Check (Unit 10, p. 144)
- Cloze: Food
- Worksheet: phrasal verb particles and prepositions

10.3. Looking back

- Modal verbs: revision / oral activity

- Listening: Childhood memories (p. 138)

- Discussion: which situations do you remember from your childhood?
moving house / changing school / making friends / spending time alone / doing exams / arguing with friends / summer holidays / birth of a brother or sister

- Grammar revision: uses of would (p. 139)
. as a polite request: Would you shut the window, please?
. a recurrent situation in the past: My grandmother would always give us chocolate for breakfast.
. past purpose or reason after so that: We packed all the books in wooden boxes so that they wouldn't get damaged.
. imagined situation (2nd or 3rd conditional): We'd have moved to a different area if we'd been able to afford it.
. strong wish: I wish they wouldn't make so much noise at night.
. past intention/expectation (reported): They always told us that one day we would move into a real house.
. refusal: The landlord wouldn't fix them.

- Vocabulary: phrasal verbs & particles (p. 141)
Useful vocabulary: write down, slow down, come back, lounge around, clam up, soldier on, hang around, drive around, pack up your possessions, cut down on something.

- Communication (p. 142)
to moan / to take a stand / to rave: listening & discussion

Homework - 10.2

- Reading p. 136 "So what does it feel like...?"

10.2. What does it feel like?

- Listening & discussion (p. 135)
How did they feel...? the first person to discover Machu Pitcchu; the first person to flight an aeroplane; the first person to travel to the moon.

- Grammar: modals of deduction (revision) (p. 135)
to express deduction in the present = modal + infinitive
to express deduction in the past = modal + have + past partaciple

. must = certainty (John must be at home; I've seen his car)
. might/may/could = possibility (John may be at home or he may be at the library)
. can't / couldn't = impossibility (John can't be at home; his car would be in the garage)

remember that 'will' can also be used to make a guess about the present (will+infinitive); to make a guess about the past (will+have been)

- Vocabulary: strong feelings (p.137) (quite useful!!)

- Video Listening: Soho (in London)

Unit 10. Feelings

- Vocabulary and discussion on 'feelings' (p. 131)
Useful expressions: at one's wits end, down in the dumps, to kick oneself, to be pleased with oneself, to be buzzing with energy, to be wound up, to be in two minds, to be over the moon

- Listening and discussion: 'Feeling lucky' (p. 132)
Do you agree with the following statements...
. lucky and unlucky people have a different psychology
. lucky people have positive expectations which are often unrealistic
. extroverts use body language to get people to respond to them
. children who receive praise regularly do better at school

- Grammar: modal verbs (revision)
What modal verb do we use to express...
. will: predictions / willigness
. might/may: possibility / suggestions
. must /can't: obligation / deduction
. don't have to: lack of obligation
. should / ought to: advice / recommendation
. can: permission / ability / possibility
. could: permission / possibility
. be supposed to: obligation
. be bound to: prediction of certainty
. be likely to: probability

- Questionnaire: "How lucky are you?" (p. 133/ solutions p. 151)
Useful vocabulary: have a tendency to, be open to new experiences, have gut feelings or hunches, to boost one's intuition, when chances of success seem slim, inthe look run, look on the bright side, dwell on things.

- Listening: "Feelin' so good" (P. 134)

Homework - Unit 2

- Describe a stunning place you have visited - Deadline 9th February

- Reading task: read the opinion articles on the learning of languages and facebook from Catalonia Today - Deadline 11 th February

2.3. Destination paradise

- Reading & class discussion (p. 26-27)
What do you know about Cali, Corsica or Cape Town? Where would you go on holidays if you could choose? Why?

- Vocabulary: adjectives to describe places (p. 28)
Useful expressions: stunning views, off the beaten track, in the heart of the town, tranquil, bustling, unspoilt, to stroll around

Remember the word order when you are using more than one adjective!!

opinion + size + shape + colour + material

Check the following description as an example:
"One of the men was tall and thin with short blond hair, pale skin, and bright blue eyes. He was wearing a smart grey suit with a thin blue cashmere jumper undereath, and he had an expensive-looking gold ring".

- Collocations (worksheet): easy and useful collocations to enrichen your vocabulary

peace and quite, black and white, stocks and shares, life and death, supply and demand, trial and error, profit and loss, thunder and lighting, pros and cons, up and down, ladies and gentlemen

- Phrasal verbs (useful!) p. 29

turn up, fit in, get by, catch on, fill in, hold up, carry out, a get through, see to, keep up with...

- Listening: Old boys' club & Ball room dancing club (p. 30)

- Review and practice (p. 32)