Dear students, I would really appreciate you giving your opinion on the English class. We have spent a whole academic year together. There must be things you like and things you don't and I am sure you may have some suggestions to improve the Englisg class. Below you have a list of the various aspects you can comment about.
Thanks for your contribution. Have a happy Summer holidays.
Class Work: Group work, individual work, pair work
Notebook
Blog work
Teaching material: Textbook, E-book, Photocopies Videos, others.
Feel-well factor
Sitting arrangement
Language activities: Listening, speaking, reading and writing
Homework
Concentration on tasks
Class discipline
Dual communication: Teacher ------ Students
Students' work evaluation
English Room
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TASK given on 29/05/14
WORK in pairs
FIND textual information about one of the following ice age extinct animals.
WRITE a 120 summary of the content in words that you understand.
Cave Lion - Short-faced Bear – Wooly Rhino – Clyptodon – Elasmotherium – Mastodon – Woolly Mammoth – Megatherium – Saber-toothed Tiger - Irish Elk – Cave bear – Auroch – Dwarf Elephant.
FIND a video about the same animal (in English) and put the link in your blog.
WRITE 10 true/false statements about the content in the written text
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1. Access DRIVE.
2. Create a folder entitled SOUND FILE
3. If you are using an Android smart phone:
a. Download an app called EASY VOICE RECORDER.
it's easy to use.
b. To record your voice,you touch the red button and talk
When you are finished you touch DONE.
c. Then,you touch PLAYER at the top and you'l be able to
see the sound file you have created.
d. Next you click in the little square on the left.
You'll see the google drive icon ast the top. Click it. You will access it.You will see your SOUND FILES.
e. Click accept and the file will upload.
f. Click the "compartir' button. You'll get three options.
Choose option 1 to make your sound file open to anybody.
g. Copy the address h. Go to your blog. Open it. Edit and paste the address o f . the sound file on the main page.
i. Never forget to click 'Actualizar'. From now on, me or any of your mates can click the link and hear your recording.
CONGRATULATIONS!! 4. If you use a computer (with in-built mic or external) a. Download a programme called AUDACITY. Learn how to use it. It's not difficult.
b. When you record your voice you have to go to a window below the fast forward button and choose the option
WINDOW DIRECTSOUND. hat will turn the sound file to a.WAV file. This is extremely important because other
wise we wont be able to hear it.
c. Go to DRIVE and upload the file to your sound file.
d. Then you share it publicly as explained in points f,g,h, i
above.
And CONGRATS again!
16/12/13
TASK 1
Read the summary of 'A Christmas Carol' and put the missing words in the right gap. Continue reading before finishing watching the film.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL :
A mean old man named Ebenezer sits in his office on a freezing Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit , shivers in the next room because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating.
Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. Two gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness and venom, spitting out an angry "Bah! Humbug!" in response to his nephew's "Merry Christmas!"
Later that evening, after returning to his dark, cold apartment, Scrooge receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley relates his unfortunate story. As punishment for his greedy life his spirit has been condemned to wander the Earth loaded with heavy chains. Marley hopes to save Scrooge from sharing the same fate. Marley informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during each of the next three nights.
After the ghost disappears, Scrooge collapses into a deep sleep. He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past , a strange childlike phantom with a brightly glowing head. The spirit takes Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from his earlier years. Invisible to those he watches, Scrooge revisits his childhood school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his engagement to Belle , a woman who leaves Scrooge because his lust for money eclipses his ability to love another. Scrooge, deeply moved, sheds tears of regret before the phantom returns him to his bed.
The Ghost of Christmas Present , a majestic giant wearing a green fur robe, takes Scrooge through London to unveil Christmas as it will happen that year. Scrooge watches the large Cratchit family prepare a miniature feast in its poor home. He discovers Bob Cratchit's crippled son, Tiny Tim, a courageous boy whose kindness and humility warms Scrooge's heart. The specter then takes Scrooge to his nephew's to witness the Christmas party. Scrooge finds the happy gathering delightful and asks the spirit to stay until the very end of the festivities.
As the day passes, the spirit ages, becoming much older. Toward the end of the day, he shows Scrooge two starved children, Ignorance and Want, living under his coat.
He vanishes instantly as Scrooge notices a dark, hooded figure coming toward him. leads Scrooge through a sequence of mysterious scenes relating to an unnamed man's recent death. Scrooge sees businessmen discussing the dead man's riches, some vagabonds trading his personal effects for cash, and a poor couple expressing relief at the death of their creditor. Scrooge, anxious to learn the lesson of his latest visitor, begs to know the name of the dead man. After asking the ghost, Scrooge finds himself in a cemetery, the spirit pointing to a grave. Scrooge looks at the headstone and is shocked to read his own name. He desperately implores the spirit to alter his fate, promising to renounce his insensitive, avaricious ways and to honor Christmas with all his heart.
Whoosh! He suddenly finds himself safely tucked in his bed. Scrooge is really happy to have the chance to redeem himself and grateful that he has been returned to Christmas Day. He runs onto the street hoping to share his new Christmas spirit. He sends a giant Christmas turkey to the Cratchit house and attends Fred's party, to the surprise of the other guests. As the years go by, he holds true to his promise and honors Christmas with all his heart: he treats Tiny Tim as if he were his own child, provides gifts for the poor, and treats his fellow human beings with kindness, generosity, and warmth.
gentlemen - Fezziwig - Ebenezer - Scrooge - Fred - Jacob Marley - spirits the Ghost of Christmas Past - Belle - The Ghost of Christmas Present -Bob Cratchit
Below you'll find 4 stories that may well have happened during Christmas, any Christmas. They need to be finished. Please, read them and choose the one you like best. Finish it. Do it in English most preferably. Upload the story on your blog.
CHRISTMAS STORY 2 :
Ana and David are a middleaged couple with two grown up children. They are sitting in their kitchen on Christmas Eve. They have just had another bitter argument. David has just told Ana that maybe they should separate since their relationship seems to be deteriorating so badly. Ana starts crying.
After a while she opens an envelope sent by her doctor. It says she is pregnant. Ana looks at David. …... She doesnt know what to say.
David was very frustated, but at the same time he was happy, he always like to have children.
They want to separate, but now they don't now what to do. When they arrive home they didn't talk, he want to sleep, so he go to the bedroom, she was crying.
The days were happening and the relationship was worse every day. Christmas was coming and David was better with Ana, and she was fatter every day...
David sometimes look after she. This Christmas will be strange...
(Dialogue between Ana and David)
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