Sample lesson · Clase de muestra. In class, every example is adapted to you: your name, your work, your interests. Sections marked 🔒 we do together.En clase, cada ejemplo se adapta a ti. Las secciones con 🔒 las hacemos juntos.
5 minutes
Where exactly?
Look at the street. The traffic is moving to the right →.
Decide if each sentence is true or false. If it is false, say the correct sentence out loud.
The house
🌳 🐈
🌳 🏠 ⛲ 🌳 🐕
The road →→→
🚚 🚗 🏍️ 🚌 🚑
The dog is running to the left, away from the house.
Then, in pairs
One of you describes your desk at work or home; the other draws it without looking.
Then swap. Use at least five phrases from the street above. Compare the drawing with the real thing.
8 minutes
Tokyo 2020 — the men’s 100m final
Watch and stop. The video has no commentary — you are the commentator.
Pause it at different moments and say where the athletes are.
At each pause, say where the runners are. Then make your own sentence
with a phrase from the warm-up.
ahead ofin front ofnext toin betweenclose toaway fromup toout of
At the start line: who is next to whom? Who is in between two other runners?
After the gun: who comes out of the blocks fastest?
Halfway: who is ahead of the rest, and who is close to him?
At the finish: who is in front of everyone — and who is too far away from the leaders to catch them?
Your turn: pause wherever you like and describe that moment in three sentences, each with a different phrase.
Keep this race in your head — we come back to it in stage 5 to explain why Jacobs won.
8 minutes
Place and time
Complete each sentence with one phrase from the bank. Each one is used once.
Type it in and press Check.
Pronunciation. In connected speech to and of almost disappear:
next to → /nekst tə/, out of → /aʊt əv/, on top of → /ɒn tɒp əv/.
Read three sentences aloud; your partner marks you down if you say a strong to or of.
12 minutes
Listening — Yellowstone, the world’s first national park
Listen once for the general idea: why is this park unusual?
Listen again and fill the four gaps. The speaker is slow — this is graded American English.
In pairs — think of a place you have visited.
Describe it to me in one minute so that I can draw it. You must use at least five of these:
on top ofclose toin betweennext toout ofaway fromoutside ofin front of
10 minutes · Writing
Your route
Describe how you get from your home to your work or school in 5–6 sentences. Use at least four prepositions of movement: out of, into, across, along, through, past, over, towards, away from…
Example
I walk out of my building and go along the main street. I cross over the bridge and cut through the park. Then I walk past the bakery and into the station.
In class we read it together and turn your route into a conversation.
10 minutes
Why did it happen?
Drag each phrase into the right box. On a phone, tap the phrase and then tap the box.
These phrases do not tell us where — they tell us why, despite what, or who says so.
Back to the race
Jacobs was not the favourite. Explain the result — one sentence each, using a different phrase:
He won thanks to …
In spite of … , he …
According to the results, …
Kerley got silver instead of …
Nobody expected it except for …
Quick game — the blame game
Tell your partner one good thing and one bad thing that happened to you this week.
Your partner must react using because of, due to, thanks to or in spite of.
🔒 In class · En clase
Why? Sorting
This part we do together in class, adapted to your level, your work and your interests.
Esta parte la hacemos juntos en clase, adaptada a tu nivel, tu trabajo y tus intereses.
Choose five phrases and write one true and one false sentence about
yourself with each. Read them to your partner — they guess which is which.
Make it hard to guess.
Homework. Record a voice note of 60–90 seconds: “A place I will never forget”.
Use at least six complex prepositions — three of place, three of reason or contrast.
Send it in the shared document before the next class.
🔒 In class · En clase
True or false
This part we do together in class, adapted to your level, your work and your interests.
Esta parte la hacemos juntos en clase, adaptada a tu nivel, tu trabajo y tus intereses.