DESCRIPTONS (adjective order)

Here is a nice and clear explanation of the correct order of English adejectives in the sentence.

On the last sessions we have worked on describing people. Therefore your next written assignment is to produce a description of a friend of yours, a member of your family or a celebrity that you admire including the vocabulary that you have learnt. Use 175-200 words including
-how long have you known him/her
-where did you meet
-what is special about them
-their character/personality and appearance.

Remember to use structures that you have learnt this year: passive voice, past perfect,modal verbs, conditionals, comparisons, relative clauses, etc (you don't have to use them all).
Here is a very basic video on description, however you might find some useful expressions for your homework.


You can email me the composition or hand it to me in class.

Are Computers Student's best friends?

Last week we work on vocabulary related to computers. Along the year you have many times refered to computers/PCs as one of the greatest invention of all times, and a technical device that has changed your life.
Would you then agree with this picture?

One of the many devices PCs have is a spell checker. According to the wikipedia "In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. " However, things are not as easy as they seem. Here is a poem on the topic found on Internet - author unkown. So, do you think you can beat the machine and be a better spell checker than the PC? Please post on the comment section your "spell checked" version of the poem and have fun while doing it. 

"Eye have a spelling chequer,

It came with my Pea Sea.

It plane lee marques four my revue

Miss steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am write oar wrong

It tells me straight a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It  nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error write

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I'm shore your pleased two  no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew."

Book assessment

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, will be assessed by means of a quiz. We will divide the class into 2, 3 or four groups (depending on the attendance of the 20th May). Each team will be asked a set of question and will be getting points according to their answers. There will be a team leader and a maximum of time will be stablished for each answer.

As a writing assessment, you will also have to answer to at least one of the questions on the book using 175-200 words. We will distribute the questions in class next Tuesday. The compositions will be due on Thursday 20th  May and I will collect them before we start the quizz. Have a look at the questions:

1. Why is Christopher fascinated with illustrations, diagrams and maps? How do they help us understand him?

2. List three things Chris like and three things he dislikes. Explain his reason for each like/dislike listed.
3. How does Christopher’s father show him love? Why?
4. What makes Chris feel safe? What makes him feel unsafe?
5. Why does Christopher find people confusing?
6. What causes Christopher to become violent? Give an example.
7. Why does Christopher believe he’d make a good astronaut?
8. Christopher lists his behaviour problems on chapter 73. Which of the behaviours do you consider to be “normal”? Which behaviours do you think put stress on a family? Explain.
9. What are A-levels? Explain. Do they exist in your country? Compare situations.
10. Christopher has difficulties with rhetorical questions. What is rhetorical question and why would he have trouble understanding them?
11. Explain Christopher’s colour preferences. How do colours help him deal with the world?
12. How does Christopher discover his mother is alive? What is his reaction?
13. After he arrives at his m other’s house, Christopher keeps insisting that he needs to take his A-level exams. What is his mother’s reaction to his demands? Explain.