Planning a Trip. Have you Done it yet?

25^th – 27^th November, 2014

Hello everybody! How is it going?

Do you remember that expression? We said it’s the same as ‘How are you?’ but more informal.

Introducing each other.

Formal	How do you do?	How do you do?
Informal	Nice to meet you.	Pleased to meet you.

Greeting people.

Formal	How are you?
Informal	How are you doing?	How are things?

Colloquial / slang What’s up?

Last week we did a listening comprehension. It was a phone call between two friends.

One of the friends, Mel is going to work in Cairo and her friend called her to ask about the preparations for the journey.

Mel has already sold the car and she’s already transferred the money to her bank.

She has already renewed her passport but she hasn't got the visa yet.

She’s already booked the hotel room for the first week but she hasn’t packed her suitcase yet. She’s going to pack the cases on the same day of her departure.

We decided to organize our trip. Each one of us had a list of four things to do. We ticked (ü) two (things we had already done) and crossed (û) the other two (things we hadn’t done yet) and then we had to phone each other asking about the arrangements of our trip.

It seems that Juan’s already booked the ferry ticket for him and the car but …what about the rest of us? We were supposed to travel together! Where are our tickets?

On Thursday, as it was Thanksgiving Day in the USA, we watched a video about this celebration. Here it is.

We have to do the reading comprehension for homework, OK?

And we finish the week talking about our end of term project.

It’s going to be on Tuesday 16^th December. Because all of you will attend to class on that date.

The title of the project is “Christmas celebrations around the World”. Find information about your choice country, write a composition and talk about it on 16^th.

And if you can, bring some typical Christmas products of that country, or cook something typical if you feel like it!

Luis is going to speak about Christmas celebrations in Finland.

Laura is going to speak about Christmas celebrations in Germany.

Nuria is going to speak about Christmas celebrations in the USA.

I’m going to speak about Christmas celebrations in the UK. And we’ll ask Juan when he comes on Tuesday.
So, that was our week of class last week.