This week we started explaining how we can speak about our future plans and arrangements in English, or how we can make predictions based on present evidence about the future, as covered in Unit 3 A.

We did exercises 1 and 2 on page 28, and then we read the rules for 'going to' and 'present continuous' on page 130.

The solutions for 1 b are: 2 H, 3 A, 4 F, 5 G, 6 B, 7 I, 8 D and 9 E, and for 1 c are 2 R, 3 J, 4 M, 5 J, 6 R.

On Wednesday, I handed out a worksheet and we reviewed the issue. Then we practiced some listening (pages 27 - unit 2 revision - and 29). We explained how some verbs can have different meanings according to the 'particle' (mainly a preposition) following them (phrasal verbs). We practiced 'look for': try to find something, 'look forward to': wait with pleasure for something which is going to happen, and 'look after': be responsible for or take care of somebody or something.

For the last 30 minutes students wrote their first reading comprehension test this year. I hope to be able to give you the results on Monday.

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