April 2026
From our Course Book:
Ask yourself and/or your classmates the following questions:
Unit 3A:
- Can you say what's in the "TopGear challenge" article (James, Richard, Jeremy)? Can you tell the story of the challenge?
- Do you remember the different means of transport in the UK and London? (Check page 155)
- How can you get around in London (private and public transport)?
- Have you studied page 28 and how to compare things? (comparative - superlative) Have you studied page 136 and done the exercises on that page?
Unit 3B:
5. Can you say what's in the "Common stereotypes about men and women" article? Do you remember the various examples? Can you talk about them, and add your opinion?
6. Can you pronounce the plural of "woman" = "women" correctly?
7. Have you listened to the various audio exercises? One of those audio files might be included in the upcoming class test.
8. The PINK and BLUE Project: Can you talk about it? Do you remember the details? can you add your opinion? Have you listened to the audio exercises?
VOCABULARY BANK / GRAMMAR:
9. Have you studied the prepositions on page 156 (yes, the whole page)? Have you listened to the audio files?
March 2026
British vs American English
... and some irregular verbs (revision)
Worksheet with the words taken from the chalkboard, plus some more (pdf)
Interesting websites:
1937: Let's call the whole thing off (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
1956: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Let's call the whole thing off
50 Differences Between 🇬🇧 British English Vs American English 🇺🇸 Vocabulary Words | Boost Word Power
10 February 2026
Vanessa's story: correct all verbs in the past tense version.
29 January
p.24 GRAMMAR
P. 24 VOCABULARY a, b, c, d, e; PRONUNCIATION d, p. 25 whole page
22 January 2026
You are going to hear the text which is on page 17 in your book, read by an LLM.
Then you will close your books, and you will hear the same text with 20 changes.
Take notes. Let's see how many changes you can spot. That's the challenge.
In spoken English, when prompted, correct the modifications by making the false statement negative and saying the correct statement.
20 January 2026
DO THIS EXERCISE: Henry's and Corula's bikes
What you need to know next Tuesday, 27 January 2026 (ENGLISH CLASS TEST)
- MONEY (words, phrases)
- Short summary of your 2nd library book
- The Cardiff Market – words and phrases
- The Present Perfect with since/for versus Past Tense
- The Adelante Project (Unit 2B)
- Audio files of Unit 2A and 2B
Explanations:
Ich habe gesehen = das Perfekt, oder die Vergangenheit
Ich sah = Präteritum oder Imperfekt oder Mitvergangenheit
13 January 2026
2. English File (course book): pages 20 and 21; The Adelante Project
8 January 2026
Finish the job of 9 and 11 December 2025:
The photos of the market are HERE
24 December 2025
11 December 2025
Continue the same assignment: Answer as many questions as possible listed HERE
The photos of the market are HERE
9 December 2025
What is the aim of this activity?
You should know what „lb“ means, what „GBP“, „p“, „pence“, „penny“ mean, what an exchange rate is, and a currency.
You should know where Cardiff is, what Wales is, or England, or Scotland, the UK, GB, Ireland, EIRE, Northern Ireland…
AND you should learn AS MANY FOOD ITEMS as possible from the Cardiff market photos.
You should understand the prices and the currencies WITHOUT google or chatgpt.
Special excursion into mathematics
4 November 2025
You will be tested: irregular verbs or LIBRARY BOOK summary
During the tests, please do all exercises on the pages 8, 9, 10, 133, 152 in your English book.
The students who hget back the basic English grammar written tests are to correct them.
21 October 2025
Some students will repeat the basic English grammar test.
During and after that test, these are your tasks (see below). Some students will also be orally tested about their library book and the irregular verbs.
- Do these online exercises on englishpage.com: (Some of the listed verbs you don't have to know)
You may want to consider studying the irregular verbs with this song (but not while some students are writing the Basic English Test):
YouTube: 100 IRREGULAR VERBS RAP
2. Your LIBRARY BOOK: Go to wordart.com and create a word cloud with the most interesting and relevant new words you have learnt when reading your book.
Save the jpg file of your word cloud and print it.
If you like, you can create a free account and save the word cloud on wordart.com , so you can edit it at a later stage.
3. Access the online version of your English book with your account details and check if you have done all exercises on the pages 6, 7, 8, 9, and 152.
If so, proceed to Unit 1B on page 10 and 153.
If not, do the exercises that you still need to do.
6 October 2025
You are going to register your personal account for your English book "Digital Gold". Follow the instructions.
https://www.oxfordlearnersbookshelf.com/
30 September 2025
CORRECT THESE MISTAKES TAKEN FROM YOUR TESTS
Tigers eat carrots - make negative and ask questions (pdf)
REVISION
Please do the following quizzes:
Making statements negative Choose the correct negation of the given statement (only!). Do not change the tense of the statement. Both the grammar and the spelling must be correct. If more than one answer is correct, all correct answers must be found, or else the score will be zero.
Logical Follow-Up Questions Choose the correct question in the same tense as the statement. If there are two correct answers both must be found, or else the score will be zero.
Asking questions: sentence core only Turn the given statement into a question. Do not change the tense. Do not change the subject. Do not forget the capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and the question mark at the end of it.
Making negative: sentence core only Make the sentence core negative. Please do not contract the word 'not'. Do not write isn't, write is not. Do not write doesn't, write does not, etc... Always write the full word not.
Do not forget the capital letter at the beginning of your sentence, and the full stop at the end of it.
Questions and negative statements Are the following questions or statements correct? This quiz has a 10 minutes time limit
"Entry Checker" and the quizzes: What is this all about?
It is all about being able to make statements negative and to ask proper questions.
The sun is shining.
No, the sun don't shining WRONG
No, the sun not shining. WRONG
No, the sun doesn't shining. WRONG
The sun is shining
The sun is shining
Forms of the verb "be": I am, you are, she/he/it is
All sentences with the verb be are made negative like in German, just by adding a "not", and the questions are asked by changing the word order, like in German.
I am. No, I am not (I'm not I+apostrophe+m) . Am I?
There is no DO, no DOES, no DID
The only difficult thing here is to understand that it's easy.
Also in past tense:
I was in a church.
No, I wasn't in a church
- Where were you?
Present Continuous:
The teacher says, "I am singing!"
- No, you are not (aren't) singing!
- What is the teacher doing?
He's explaining something.
Ok. This was easy.
Let's see how this works with full verbs:
I play the keyboard.
You play the keyboard
We play the keyboard
They play the keyboard
He she it, das s geht mit!
She does not (doesn't) play the keyboard.
Oh really? So, which instrument does she play?
She plays the piano.
Tigers eat salad.
No, tigers do not eat salad.
What do they eat?
They eat meat.
So far, so good.
What about the past simple?
Yesterday I played (play+ed) with my friends.
dance + ed = danced
sign + ed = signed
listen + ed = listened
These verbs follow the rule (verb + ed). The are regular.
More verbs do not follow this rule.
The are irregular
We all love the irregular verbs.
Examples:
go - went
"went" is past tense of "go".
We are going to learn the irregular verbs like this:
go - went - gone
"gone" is the past participle
What do we do with it?
We need it for the present perfect.
I have gone to the beach.
More irregular verbs:
have had had
dig dug dug
How many irregular verbs are there?
Here you can find the answer:
COMPLETE LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS
5.3 Irregular verbs used in sentences - Quiz 1
5.4 irregular verbs used in sentences - Quiz 2
VOCABULARY BANK QUIZ and CLASS TEST
