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 In Lesson 1 we have practised the four skills:

- We have read several articles and texts about descriptions of people, family trees, and Heritage Open Days. You have also read about Dunlace Castle and its legend, and about Howth head.

- The Listening activities in the lesson included different types of conversations such as interviews about the advantages of taking a gap year; people's opinions about their partners' character and appearance, a monologue about a typical day in the life of Victoria Fontana and you have listened to the song Tom's Diner and extracts from different songs.

- In order to improve your Speaking, you have practised talking about yourself and your habits.

- In the Writing section you have written an email to Tom's mother explaining how he feels after seeing his aunt and a letter of apology to all the turkeys in the world.
 

In order to improve those skills, we have studied:

- vocabulary: adjectives to describe people, family members, habits.

- grammar: the use of adverbs of frequency for habitual actions and routines, times of the day and the difference between stative and dynamic verbs. We have also reviewed the form and uses of both present simple and present continuous tenses and the spelling rules for the final -(e)s of the third person singular.

- pronunciation: we have practised the different ways in which the final -(e)s of the third person singular can be pronounced.

- communicative functions: how to describe oneself and others taking into account physical appearance and character. We have also talked about routines by means of present simple and present continuous tenses. You have expressed your opinion and put into practise the communicative function of guessing.

- culture: we have learnt about Thanksgiving, expressions related to it and the concept of Irish Heritage.