5 November 09 - NI2 E

• Vocabulary Revision (tip, approach, misjudge, charge, such as, etc.).
• Reading - Danger! Sense of humour failure - Adapted from Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson.
• Grammar - Position of adverbs

1. manner: specifically, innocently
2. frequency: never, always
3. time: recently, at once
4. degree: very much, almost
5. sentence adverbs: luckily, actually

• Vocabulary Bank

1. Adverbs which are often confused

1. lately / late
2. At the moment / actually
3. hard /hardly
4. near / nearly
5. specially /especially
6. In the end / at the end

2. Common sentence adverbs

1. basically
2. eventually
3. apparently
4. in fact
5. obviously
6. anyway
7. ideally
8. gradually

3. Adverbs of degree

1. A little: a bit, slightly
2. Quite: fairly, rather
3. Very: extremely, incredibly, really

• Noughts and crosses...with adverbs!
  
• Gillian - Humour, jokes, and some more...
  

http://www.englishclub.com/esl-jokes/3~index.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen/jokes.html
http://iteslj.org/c/jokes.html

Homework -

1. Grammar Bank, p. 131. 1C.
2. Practical English - pp. 16, 17.
3. Revise and check - p. 19.

Oral presentations - Calendar

1. 10/11/09 - Gustavo Ginés
2. 12/11 - Jesús Fernández del Pino
3. 17/11 - Alfonso Moraleda
4. 19/11 - Zulema Ruiz
5. 24/11 - Álvaro Pozo
6. 26/11 - Francisco Márquez
7. 03/12 - Marcos Álvarez
8. 11/12 - Virginia González
9. 15/12 - Amalia García
10. 17/12 -
11. 12/01 - Daniela Martínez
12. 14/01 - Marisa Cancela
13. 19/01 - Alberto Bravo
14. 21/01 - Flora Pulido
15. 26/01 - Fran Velázquez
16. 28/01 - Moisés Alvarado
17. 02/02 - Roberto Martín Molero
18. 04/02 - Jorge Ortega

If you need to change the day of your presentation, please let me know beforehand so that I can organize my lesson plan, and maybe find another student to do the presentation. I will let you know if we need to change any of your presentations.