Listening: The Secret of Everyday items

Watch the following video to know more about everyday items

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1: A TOUR AROUND TOWN

PROJECT 1. A TOUR AROUND MY TOWN

FASE INICIAL INITIAL PHASE

1. Presentation of the video idea, a tour around the city with a environmental perspective
2. Presentation of previous year examples
3. Make groups

FASE DE DESARROLLO DEVELOPMENT PHASE

1. Written speech model
2. Choose your place
3. Make a Written guideline including

1. Group Presentation
2. Place presentation
3. ¿Why did you choose that place?
4. Create your video
5. Upload to youtube, then copypaste the link to the proper padlet board provided by your teacher

PRESENTATION PHASE

1. Present your video in class
2. Assess partners

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Use of IT     NO USE            LACK          GOOD P      PROFICIENT AND CREATIVE

Oral Present NO USE          LACK          GOOD P     PROFICIENT INDEPENDENT

Listening Task: A Person I Admire

OBJECTIVE

To perform a task in pairs about a person you admire

DEVELOPMENT

Student A

Tell your partner the following information about the person you admire

- Name of the person
- How he/ she got started
- How became famous
- Achievements
- Admired for

Student B

Ask your partners the following questions and copy the answers

-What is the name of the person?
- How he/ she got started
- How did he/she become famous?
- What did he/she achieved?
- Why do you admire him/ her?

ASSESSMENT

CLASS PROJECT: FAMOUS CELEBRITIES IN HISTORY

OBJECTIVES

The objective of this project is to create the biography of a relevant personality or  personalities; this person should be important in the areas of Language, Literature, Music, Science or Arts.

CONTENTS AND PROCEDURE

1. Choose a relevant personality. You can either choose your own (please talk to your teacher) or choose one for the following list

 A. Language and Literature:
      Willian Shakespeare, William Defoe, The Brönte Sisters, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  John Tolkien, CS Lewis, JK Rowling, Beatrix Potter, Herman Melville, Edgard Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler.


B. Science
     Archimedes of Syracuse, Pithagoras, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Jane Goodall, Florence Nightingale, the Wright Brothers, Nikola Tesla

C. Music
    The Supremes, The Beatles, Queen, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Billie Holliday, Michael Jackson, Amy Whinehouse, Madonna

2. Create a written biography of the character. Your biography must include the following elements
  a. Birth Information?
  b. Why is this person important?
  c. What are his accomplishments?
  d. Personal Information
  e. Important events in his/her life
  f. A quote

3. Presentation
 Make a brief presentation of your character. You should include any audiovisual element or props to make your presentation more interesting.

4. The Great personality Quizz Game
Make your contribution to the great quiz in learning apps. Please ask your teacher to get your access code

ASSESSMENT
The assessment chart is individual for each student. You must comply with the following elements

DUE DATE
All the information must be handed to your teacher the next 30th of November.

Mixed Conditional Resource compilation

here you can find a list of resources to review the conditional types on your own:

- The four types of conditional sentences


- Four conditionals additional reference


- I wish drill exercises


- I wish /If only clauses

Passive Voice Reminder

Hi guys!

There is an interesting presentation about the use of the passive voice in different tenses

Passive voice powerpoint from Joan Cartanya

Connectors

Here I post some interesting ideas to work on textual coherence.
Enjoy!

English Connectors from KatieEnglishTutoring

The Awesome Verb Wheel

Hi guys!

Check out the awesome verb wheel to know the meaning of all different verbs!

Bye!

madmagz game jam

OBJECTIVE
Create a game to review the contents of unit 1  using classtools.net

CONTENTS
The contents of the game will be based on the grammar and vocabulary of the unit, but you can also use examples from movies

ASSESSMENT
In the following rubric you can see the assessment criteria for this task

How to write a cover letter

In this interesting presentation, we learn a lot of useful tips to write a cover letter. Check it out!

How to write a cover letter from Bayarmaa GBayarmaa

Writing a Newspaper Article

Watch the different resources for our second task in Curriculum Integrado. Creating a Newspaper Article. For this we count on two model resources; creating a newspaper article and creating a newspaper report

CLASS PROJECT: LOVE NETWORK PROFILE

Objectives

Create a simple profile for a fake dating site

Contents

Your profile must include the following information:

- A fake picture (or cartoon) of the person

- Name

- Age

- Job

-Body Type (Athletic, slim, fat, skinny, average)

- Hair Colour

- Nationality

- Searching in: (city you are searching a date in)

- Smoking (Yes or No)

- About me: Here you include information about your hobbies, things you like to do, hobbies and interests

- What I'm looking for: Here you include information about the type of person that you want for you, and what do you expect from a relationship

Assessment

Here I include the class rubric we use to assess projects

Working Model

If you want to see the activity model click this LINK

CLIL Advertisement Project

Here we post a summary of our next CLIL Project; Advertisement and Bullying.

OBJECTIVES

-Create an advertiement in groups against Bullying in Secondary School
-Use the English Language as a vehicle for communication in an audiovisual media

TASK SEQUENCE
- 1st  Organize groups to create your filming crew. You should work in groups of four. All of you must cooperate and take a part on the video
- 2nd Create a simple script of your project
- 2nd Create a Storyboard. A storyboard is a draft of your video where you mix script and image. In this way, we can get an idea about how your video will be.
- 3rd Think of an interesting slogan for your video
- 4thThen, record your video, you can use  Windows Movie Maker for this
- 5th Summit your video to the teacher

IMPORTANT RULES
- You can use any format you like, but all of you have to speak in English, whether if you appear on camera or you don't. You have to take a role.

ASSESSMENT
Assessment of the task will be processed through the following rubric. Here you will take an individual and group mark

EXAMPLE VIDEOS

Here are some example videos that you can use to get inspiration

Music Videos:

Flashcards:

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Animation:

Music videos

DATES TO REMEMBER

-November the 28th: Slogan and Storyboard
-December the 5th: Final Date to handle your video presentation

Rhyme Dictionary. Rhyme Zone

Rhyme Zone is an interesting resource to make your own rhymes and to look for synonyms. Just click on the image to access the site

Merriam Webster. Monolingual Dictionary

Here you can access the Monolingual Dictionary Merriam-Webster. It's interesting to listen to the pronunciation of the different words. Just click on the image to go to the site

Bilingual Dictionary: Word Reference

Hello Students! In case you don't know, I let you here a direct link to Wordreference, the best bilingual dictionary on the web. make sure to check it whenever you have a problem with a word you don't know.

Enjoy!