End-of-Term Writing Test

Hi, guys

Now keep calm, relax, watch this first advert and write a short text about it. You can describe it or imagine a story related to it.

Organise your ideas before writing, be careful with the tenses, relative pronouns and word order.

I am sure I'll enjoy your texts.

Book review exam

After practicing a book review at home and revising how you could have improved them, today you're going to check you can write a book review without any help. This is your task:

Write a book review. Organise your ideas in three paragraphs:

Paragraph 1: what was the last book you read, title, author, reasons for reading it.

Paragraph 2: what is it about?

Paragraph 3: Did you enjoy it? Why (not)? Would you recommend it?

Book review

Today I'm going to give you back your book reviews. I've corrected over ten. These are the criteria followed in the correction:

• Writing plan (exercise 1 page 26): 2 points.
• Writing plan (instructions on exercise 3 page 26): 3 points.
• Word order for subject + verb + object: 1 point.
• Word order for adjectives and adverbs: 1 point.
• Past tense verbs: 1 point.
• Extra-grammar and content: 1 point.
• Presentation and creativity: 1 point.

Good effort!

Top Ten Sports Questionnaire

As you know, we are involved in the Erasmus + Project called: 'School In Movement: Enjoying Wealth Being In Good Health!' (co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme  of the European Union). The aim of this poll is to find out your top ten sports. Please, can you help us answering these questions? It will only take you two minutes.

Esquema evaluaciones educativas.

Esta es la segunda entrada sobre las evaluaciones internacionales externas. La tarea consistía en hacer un esquema de este tipo de evaluación. Buscando por internet, encontré este resumen. Me pareció tan claro, que aquí os lo dejo, por si queréis familiarizaros con ellas.

Resumen evaluaciones internacionales

Espero que os sirva de ayuda.

Evaluaciones educativas

¡Hola!

No os sorprendáis si, de repente, en medio de el blog de clase, aparecen entradas sobre evaluaciones educativas externas internacionales. Estoy haciendo un curso para familiarizarme con ellas y nos piden que utilicemos un blog para estar en contacto. Como mi conocimiento previo es muy bajo, la información, en un principio, será de un nivel muy básico.

Fin de la primera entrada dedicada a las evaluaciones.

Present Perfect Tense

Today you arevgoing to work on present perfect tense. You can read page 102 from your workbook abd enter on Isabel's site to read the explanation about the forms and uses of the present perfect.

http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/pres_perfect.htm

Now copy the form and uses on your notebooks.

You can do the exercises on Isabel's webpage.

Now you can listen to fourteen songs to practice present perfect:

Songs to practice present perfect

This is the one I've picked up to work in our lesson:

Hero

Have you watched a film called 'Hero'? If you haven't, you can watch the trailer now.

   

 What kind of film is it? Can you name the main characters and write a sentence to describe their role and actions?

 Now we are going to work in two separate groups. You must choose five important scenes to summarise the film. Think about: situation, location, time, characters and how they feel at that time.

On this stage, you must play the five mute scenes as if they were five photos. You cannot move. I will clap to change form one fixed picture to the next.

Past simple Pronunciation

Read this:

Explanation and practise

Urban Tribe Presentations

You have worked so hard! Congratulations on your products: your PowerPoint presentations and your oral exposition.

Here are some of the best works:

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'Beatnik' by Fatima and Anissa from sonpita

'Metrosexual Urban Tribes' by Carina and Andrea from sonpita

'Perroflautas' by carlos and Adrián from sonpita

'Rockabilly' by Sheila and Susana from sonpita

Past Simple and Past continuous.

After your mates have explained the uses and forms of these tenses, enter on Isabel's site to read the explanation about the forms and uses of the past simple and the past continuous.

Isabel's site

Now copy the form and uses on your notebooks.

Finally do the exercises on the webpage.



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Great escapes

Hi!
Today we are going to start our second unit.

Here is the song called 'The Great Escape' by Boys Like Girls.



Who can explain what is the topic of the song?

Now we can listen and read the lyrics:




You can read this Wikepedia tag to see what the band meant with this song:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(Boys_Like_Girls_song)

Advertising campaigns

Watch and enjoy these advertising videos and write your opinion (model on page 14).

Urban Tribes Computer Presentation.

Urban Tribes

Today we’re going to prepare computer presentations on urban tribes. In this pair activity you will have to find out information about them and create a powerpoint presentation or alike.

Deadline: Friday, October 17.

Follow these steps:

1. Research on books or internet before starting to create your presentation.

2. Organise the information.

3. Now you can start your PowerPoint Presentation or alike. If it’s the first time you do one, watch online tutorials. Here you have some examples:

How to create a PowerPoint Microsoft Presentation

4. Order of your slides (Don’t forget to save your work every so often):

First slide:

• Write the name of your urban tribe.
• Add an image.

Second slide:

• Describe its clothes and physical appearance (Use the present simple tense)

Third slide:

• Describe what they do and its lifestyle. (Use relative sentences).

Fourth slide:

• Include optional information (e.g. famous people…). Free your creativity to add whatever you think it can be interesting for us.

Fifth slide:

• Sign your work.

6. Now you have your presentation ready, save it to a memory stick and give it to your teacher. (Deadline: Friday, October 17)

7. All the pairs will show their work  to the rest of the classroom on Monday, October 20.

Don’t forget to prepare your oral presentation.

8. The whole class will choose the best work and it will be uploaded to our blog.

Enjoy your work!

Present Simple and Present Continuous

Today we're going to revise how we form and use the present simple and the present continuous.

First of all we're going to watch these videos:






Now you are going to read what it's said about this song and the present simple and continuous on these pages. In pairs you must explain how we form and use these present tenses.

Present Simple
(Explanation in Spanish)

Present simple II (Here you can do exercises online and read an explanation in English)

Present Continuous

Barbie Girl activity

Hi, guys

Now we are going to listen to this famous song:



Can you fill up the gaps? Work in pairs.

Barbie Girl by AQUA

(1) …………. Barbie 

(2) ………….. Ken 
Do you wanna go for a ride? 
Sure Ken
Jump In...

(Chorus)

I´m a barbie girl, in a barbie world 
Life in (3)…………….., it´s (4)……………... 
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere. 
Imagination, that is your creation. 
Come on Barbie, let´s go party! 

(Chorus)

I´m a blond (5) ………….. girl, in a fantasy world, 
Dress me up, make it tight, I´m your darling. 
You are my doll, rock´n´roll, feel the glamouring thing, 
Kiss me here, touch me there, (6) ……………………..
You can touch, you can play, if you say "I´m always yours" 
uu-oohuh.. 

(Chorus)

Come on Barbie, let´s go party! 
(4 times) 

Make me (7)………, make me (8) …….., do whatever you (9)……., 
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees. 
Come jump in, be my friend, let us do it again, 
hit the town, fool around, let´s go party 
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I´m always yours" 
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I´m always yours" 

Come on Barbie, let´s go party! 
(4 times) 

(2x Chorus)

Come on Barbie, let´s go party! 
(4 times) 

Oh, I´m having so much fun! 
Well Barbie, we just getting started. 
Oh, I (10)……………….. you Ken.

Outfit memory exercise.

Look at these pictures for two minutes. Later write down what you can remember about the outfits.

Pictures 3 and 4

Pictures 1 and 2

Picture 5

Fashion Victims?

Monday 22, 2014

Choose one of the pictures and write a comment or reaction to it (about 30 words), e.g. ‘I think the girl in picture A...’.

This online dictionary can be very helpful:

wordreference