Tuesday, morning intermediate

Hi again,

This morning there were only seven students in class, I thought there were some scaredy cats - some people afraid of asking some simple questions on the street! But Rayoung and Amador made it in just after the break so eventually there were nine students, not so bad!

We started this morning by focussing on questions. We played "The Yes/No Gameshow" - a fast-paced question game where the respondents cannot answer with yes or no, they may not hesitate and they may not repeat their answers. 

Then I asked you all to think of some good questions to ask me. But I didn't answer, instead, Naima became me for a few minutes and answered on my behalf - and was correct almost every time! But Naima, I love Guinness!!

After that we moved back to our talk from yesterday about being green. This time we talked about eco-friendly methods of transport. 

Here is our list of pros and cons about electric cars. For now we all agree that there are more cons. But hope that will change.

And then we moved along to second conditional to talk about imaginary or unreal situations or events that are not very likely.

If I won the lottery, I would quit my job at Delfin.

If + past, modal (would, could, might) + inf.

However, this is unlikely in two ways - I don't play the lottery and I love my job too much to quit!

We also talked about using if only and I wish to express unfulfilled desires or to emphasise a lack of something rather than the result.

Then, the moment we all dreaded just a little bit - survey time! I gave each of you a set of ten questions and sent you out to the streets for 15minutes. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and there was a brass band playing Christmas songs on O'Connell St - what a perfect time to be outside!

Brass band outside Cleary's Department Store

Francesco, Elainy & Rayoung talking to a man who is celebrating his 51st wedding anniversary with his beautiful wife in the Canaries this Christmas. Lovely!

Bernardo and Amador at the GPO

We got some lovely answers and some answers that were impossible to understand but that's just how it goes! It was fun and interesting all the same.

Homework:

• Second conditional grammar exercises
• Prepositions exercises.

See you all tomorrow - if you make it home from Dicey's!
Éadaoin