viernes, 24 de julio de 2009

LOS ESPERAMOS!!

Los esperamos a partir del sàbado 1ero de Agosto,
cuando reiniciaremos nuevamente con las clases presenciales.

Happy Winter Holidays!
Network Institute



viernes, 17 de julio de 2009

FINAL EXAMS! EXAMENES FINALES

EXAMEN ESCRITO: SÁBADO 1RO DE AGOSTO DE 9 A 10:30.... Luego del examen escrito, permanecerán en clase hasta el horario normal de salida, practicando para el examen oral.

EXAMEN ORAL: SÁBADO 8 DE AGOSTODE 9 A 10:45.
El 8 de agosto, además, los esperamos DESPUÉS del examen oral, en el Club de Conversación con Erica de 10:45 a 11:45 para seguir practicando inglès oral!

Los esperamos!

jueves, 16 de julio de 2009

CLASS FOR SATURDAY 18TH, JULY

SONG: ‘I want to hold your hand’

Booklet page 17. Look up these words in your dictionary:

HIDE –

LOVE –

TOUCH

Then, do the activities on page 17.
Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHFUKZ-IXE

READER : ‘Photofinish’

Read pages 44 and 45. Please, look up all the new words in your dictionary or on the online dictionary
htpp://www.dictionary.cambridge.org

(English – English) or

htpp: //www.spanishdict.com

(Spanish – English).
You will need to understand these words in order understand the chapter:

Hide: esconderse Safe: a salvo
Watch: mirar Happen: ocurrir
See: ver
Catch: atrapar

Do the questions on page 48 and 49 (send by e-mail)


1) 3. VOCABULARY

ü Booklet page 13: Association: places and features
Write words from the box for each place. Some words can be used more than once (algunas palabras pueden usarse más de una vez)

ü Booklet page 14:
Personalization: furniture and appliances
Write the furniture and appliances you have in each room in your home (send by e-mail)
Example: living room
A large bookcase
A red sofa
Association: occupations and places
Match the occupations with the workplaces. Some words have more than one answer (algunas palabras pueden ser unidas com más de una occupation)

KEY
Teacher àschool Studentàschool
Bankeràbank Flight attendantàairport
Athleteàstadium Manageràbank/office building
Chefàrestaurant Doctorà hospital
Nurseàhospital Pilotàairport


Practice: write examples of objects and activities associated with the words in each box below.

2) MORE PRACTICE

ü Booklet page 34
1) Complete this conversation. Choose the correct words (para hacer este ejercicio deben tener presente la teoría del SIMPLE PRESENT)

KEY
Has – walk – don’t – take – walk – have – drive – work – works – goes

2) Answer these questions with your information. Use short answers (recuerden que este tipo de preguntas, las YES/NO QUESTIONS, se responden con un AUXILIAR)

3) Look at the answers. Write questions.
Tengan en cuenta que se trata de un ejercicio de elaboración de YES/NO QUESTIONS. Recuerden también, que en el SIMPLE PRESENT tenemos 2 auxiliares DO y DOES. Antes de empezar a escribir, recuerden:

DO à I – YOU – WE – THEY
DOESà HE – SHE – IT

Form the questions like this:
AUXILIAR + PERSON + INFINITIVE VERB
Example: Do you live in a house?


KEY
2. Do you get up late on Sundays?
3. Does your sister drive to work?
4. Do you and your family watch television in the evening?
5. Does your mother have a job?
6. Does your mother use public transportation?
7. Does your father work on Saturdays?
8. Do you have a big dinner on Sundays?

4) Write one thing you do and one thing you don’t do on each day. Use the phrases in the box or your own information (pueden utilizar las frases que están en el booklet o bien utilizar su propia información) (send by e-mail)

En este ejercicio, tienen que escribir sus rutinas diarias usando los días de la semana. Acá les escribo el significado de algunos verbos nuevos:

Drive: conducir
Get up: levantarse (get up early: levantarse temprano)
Go to the movies: ir al cine

3) REVISION (AL FINAL DE CADA EJERCICIO ENCONTRARÁN LAS RESPUESTAS PARA QUE PUEDAN AUTOCORREGIRSE)

Revision for the final exam

1. Complete the sentences with the correct Word(s) in the parentheses:


Example: His name ____is______ Peter. ( are /is/ does)


1. It’s _____________ ten ( twenty to /a twenty to/ a twenty after)

2. There ____________ a TV in my house ( aren’t / isn’t/ hasn’t)

3. Mary ___________that dress ( likes/ doesn’t likes / like)

4. They ___________ from Japan (are/ isn’t / does )

KEYS

1. TWENTY TO TEN
2. ISN’T
3. LIKES
4. ARE


2. Complete the text with verbs from the box. There’s one extra word.

has live is am work
works have need is


My name ______ Susan. I________ in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I_______ in a

bank. I________ a cashier. Every day, I ________ lunch with my best friend,

Karen. Karen ________ in a restaurant. She _________ a waiter. She _________

one son and one daughter.

KEYS
IS – LIVE – WORK – AM – HAVE – WORKS – IS - HAS



3. What’s the time:

1. 4:00: It’s__________________________________________

2. 9:30: _____________________________________________

3. 7:20: _____________________________________________

4. 10:15: ____________________________________________

5. 1:50: _____________________________________________

6. 2:45: _____________________________________________


KEYS
1. IT’S FOUR O’CLOCK
2. IT’S NINE THIRTY/IT’S HALF PAST NINE
3. IT’S TWENTY PAST SEVEN/IT’S SEVEN TWENTY
4. IT’S FIFTEEN PAST TEN/IT’S TEN FIFTEEN
5. IT’S TEN TO TWO/IT’S ONE FIFTY
6. IT’S FIFTEEN TO THREE/IT’S TWO FIFTEEN

4. Put the words in the correct column:



waiter grandson husband dress red play

blue mother writer black speech daughter

concert pants match tie t-shirt

yellow white sister pilot party journalist





JOBS
FAMILY
COLOURS
CLOTHES
EVENTS



























KEY
JOBS : waiter – writer – pilot – journalist
FAMILY: grandson – husband – mother – daughter – sister
COLOURS: blue – yellow – white – black - red
CLOTHES: pants – tie – t-shirt- dress
EVENTS: concert - match – party – play - speech

4. 4. HOMEWORK (AL FINAL DE CADA EJERCICIO ENCONTRARAN LAS KEYS PARA QUE PUEDAN AUTOCORREGIRSE)

Booklet page 35

ü Complete this conversation. Choose the correct words

KEY
Live – do – live – live – don’t – have – do – have – don’t – lives – is – cooks – live – cook

ü Complete the conversation with questions

KEY
2. What do they do?
Where do they work?
3. Where does your son work?
What does he do?
4. Where do you work?
What do you do?

Booblet page 36

ü Complete these conversation
do – do – do – am – do – work – work – do – like – do – do – start – finish
has – does – work- works- does – do – is – does – like – does – likes – does – start – starts – finishes

Booklet page 37

ü What’s wrong? (correct the mistakes). Please, don’t do numbers 6) and 8)

KEY
1) My parents are bankers
2) What do butterflies (mariposas) eat?
3) Paul is my brother. His telephone number is 33567854
4) Are Jane and Patrick pilots?
5) What do you do? I’m a dentist
7) I have fifteen students in my English class
9) Is English difficult?
10) My classmate is from France
11) My teacher goes to school by bike because he doesn’t have a car
12) Is Jack a sound engineer? No, he isn’t
13) They don’t like football
14) My husband studies medicine at UBA University
15) Do you like pop music? Yes, I do



Por favor, envienme las actividades de la clase pasada, o bien acérquenlas al instuto para su correción.
Thanks!

viernes, 10 de julio de 2009

miércoles, 8 de julio de 2009

LISTENING PRACTICE

"THE WELL"

LISTENING AND READING PRACTICE


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LISTEN TO THE STORY



ACTIVITIES:
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LISTEN AS MANY TIMIES AS YOU NEED TO DO THE ACTIVITIES

NOW CHECK WITH THE KEYS:

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martes, 7 de julio de 2009

Class for Saturday 11th

TEACHER: MICAELA
EMAIL CONTACT FOR THE TEACHER: micaelafp@hotmail.com

PLEASE EMAIL OR BRING YOUR HOMEWORK TO THE INSTITUTE BEFORE (ANTES DEL) SATURDAY 18TH, JULY.

PUEDEN ACERCAR LOS BOOKLETS AL INSTITUTO PARA LA CORRECCION DE EJERCICIOS ANTES DEL EXAMEN

Dear student,

Thank you for taking part in our online classes. I am sending you a list of activities you should be doing for the next few classes. Please get in touch with me by writing to micaelafp@hotmail.com or call to the institute if you have any problem.

Best wishes

Micaela


1) READING: ‘PHOTOFINISH’ (send by e-mail)

Read pages 42 and 43.

GLOSSARY

Muder: asesino
Ring: anillo
Wear: usar (solo ropa o accesorios)
Know: saber/conocer
Smile: sonreir
Hide: ocultarse/esconderse
Afraid: asustado
Pleased: contento/satisfecho

Then, do activities 3 and 4 from the booklet page 46 from part B While reading.

3. Read to the end o page 6 (page 40 in your booklets). Who says these words? (¿Quien dice estas palabras?)

4. Read to the end of page 9 (pages 41 and 42 from the booklet). Put these sentences in the correct order. Write a number in each box.


2) Booklet page 11

ü Descriptions Quiz: Join the picture to the correct description ( unir cada persona con su correspondiente descripción)



Remember:

She’s got (she has)-ella tiene
She’s wearing --ella está usando


ü Vocabulary Activities: What clothes do you have in these colours? Complete the chart with YOUR clothes. ( ¿Que prendas tienes en estos colores? Completa el cuadro con tu ropa)

Example: RED
Two shirts
Three ties

ü Personalization: adjectives to describe clothes. Write a sentence about YOUR clothes for each adjective. (send by e-mail)

Example: My shoes are new / I have new shoes


Booklet page 13
ü What’s in the suitcase? (¿Qué hay en la maleta?). Look at the suitcase. Use the words in the box. Write sentences with THERE IS / THERE ARE . (send by e-mail)

Example: There’s a shirt, there are two pairs of shoes, there are some magazines…

Glossary
Trousers (British English) = Pants (American English)
Towel: toalla
Comb: peine
Toothbrush: cepillo de dientes
Sunglasses: lentes de sol
Handkerchief: pañuelo
brush: cepillo


3) BOOK PAGE 58 – TOP NOTCH ACTIVITIES

A. READING. Read. Who lives in a house? Who lives in an apartment?

B. Check the descriptions that match each person’s home (chequea que descripción corresponde con cada persona)

D. WRITING. Compare your home with the homes in the reading (compara tu casa con las casas del artículo del punto A). Write five complete sentences. (send by e-mail)
Example: Mr. Korcan lives in an apartment. I live in an apartment, too. (this is a sentence)


4) SONG: ‘HOOKED ON A FEELING’ –

Complete the activities in the Booklet page 18




Listen to the song and use your dictionary (de ser necesario). Then, circle the correct option.


5) REVISION

BOOKLET PAGE 31

2. Put in my/our/your/his/her/their/its.

3. Write questions and answer like the examples. (send by e-mail)

Eg: Is the telephone under the desk? No, it isn’t. The phone is on the desk.
Are the pens in the cup? Yes, they are. The pens are in the cup.

BOOKLET PAGE 32
4. Questions and answers. Match a question in A with an answer in B.
5. Ask questions about the statements. (send by e-mail)

Example: Sarah is a doctor. What does she do?

6. Write questions in the PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE. Use DO or DOES and a verb from the box. (send by e-mail)

Example: Bob/sport? DOES BOB PLAY A SPORT?

Verbs
Write: escribir Help: ayudar
Play: jugar (used in the example) Go: ir
Fly: volar Do: hacer
Eat: comer Start: comenzar

To do this exercise, you can revise the Simple Present theory on Book page 46

REMEMBER

To form questions: auxiliar + person + infinitive verb

Example: Do you read a book? Yes, I do / No, I don’t


6)

Booklet page 33

7. Correct the sentences. (send by e-mail the correct version)

Example: There is three restaurants in the street
There are three restaurants in the street.

8. Write a paragraph including this information (send by-email)

Recuerden que deben incluir toda la información detallada en el booklet (nacionalidad, estado civil, edad, etc).Tengan en cuenta que pasa con el verbo en este caso, cuando el sujeto de las oraciones es Katherine (she). Revisen la teoria de Simple Present en la página 46 del libro.




Por favor, enviar todas estas actividades por mail antes del horario de comienzo de la clase del sábado a las 9.10. Con respecto a las actividades del booklet, solo envien aquellas que digan send by e-mail. Para el resto de las actividades del booklet, acerquen sus booklets al instituto para su corrección.
Regards, Micaela
micaelafp@hotmail.com