MEN AND WOMEN STEREOTYPES (LISTENING)

Click on this link for further practice on this topic.

HOW TO WRITE A HAIKU POEM IN ENGLISH

If you want to participate in this year´s competition here´s a tutorial on how to write a Haiku poem in English. Even if you don´t want to compete it´s a nice way to practice English writing.
Here´s an example:

An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

ADVENT CALENDAR

Click on this calendar and enjoy the different activities from this Advent Calendar

SHORT FILMS : OXFAM VIDEO WORKSHEET Answer key

1   birthplace
2 1940s
3 1942
4 food, clothing, 2nd World War
5  raise, suffering
6 17, 1947
7 second hand clothes, books, music, low cost
8 the number of Oxfam shops all over the world
   the number of Oxfam shops in the UK
9 15 years
10 clothes household goods
11 a donkey
12 headquarters
13 92
14 volunteers, bargains.

BLACK FRIDAY ANSWER KEY

QUESTIONS
1: Black Friday refers to the day just after Thanksgiving in the US.
2: Many people begin their Christmas shopping on this day.
3: The word "black" to describe the Friday likely began in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s.
4: t's their best opportunity to improve earnings for the year, and take the business out of the red (loss) and
into the black (profit).
5: If sales were slow in the spring, summer, and fall, then the store must attract many customers and make
many sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
6: They have created a day called "Buy Nothing Day."Each branch first selects nominees in a respective
category. In a second round of voting, all members vote on the best of the best in all categories.
7: They think that people should consume less and reuse resources more.

BLACK FRIDAY LISTENING EXERCISE

Listen to this recording and answer the following questions.

1: What is the day just after Thanksgiving called in the US?
2: What happens on that day?
3: Where did the term begin?
4: Why do retailers like Black Friday?
5: The article calls Black Friday a last chance shopping season? What does this mean?
6: The article comments about people who oppose Black Friday. What did they do?
7: Why do they oppose shopping?

present perfect vs. present perfect continuous

More presentations from Beth Bogage

HAVEN´T MET YOU YET (LYRICS)

HAVEN´T MET YOU YET SONG ANSWER KEY EXERCISES

2 Phrasal verbs:
  1 work up  2 give up   3 come out   4 work ut   5 come up with   6 turn out   7 let down

3. 1 turned out  2 given up   3 work.....out   4 came out   5 come up with   6  letting .....down   7  work ...up

IRREGULAR VERBS WHEEL

Enjoy yourselves revising your irregular verbs on this webpage. It´s addictive!!

2A GRAMMAR WORKSHEET ANSWERS

 a  2 I´ve been   3 did you go   4 finished   5 I´ve been   6 did you go   7 went
 b  1  2 had   3 did yu meet 4 was   5 went   6 ´ve known  7 got   8 were you  9 ´ve just met.

      2  1 Have you taught   2 taught   3 have just come   4 have you been   5 was   6 started   7 haven´t finished

NEW LINK TO DOWNLOAD BOOKS IN ENGLISH

Here´s a link to download books in English. I hope it´s useful.

COMPOSITION TEMPLATE

Click on this link and you´ll get into a composition template that you will have to download every time you are assigned a writing piece of work ( a composition).
The document is also on the noticeboard section so that you can have  access to it easily.
 If possible don´t use Google as your serarch engine, it might give you trouble. Use Mozilla or any orther.

WRITING TIPS

1.     MAKE SURE YOUR HANDWRITING IS READABLE

2.    DISTRIBUTE YOUR TIME: TAKE TIME TO THINK AND WRITE IDEAS.

3.    READ THE TASK CAREFULLY. WHAT´S THE TOPIC? WHAT INFORMATION   DO YOU HAVE TO INCLUDE?. WHAT FOR?

4.  IS THERE TOO MUCH INFORMATION?. TOO MANY WORDS OR NOT ENOUGH?

5.    HAVE YOU USED PARAGRAPHS?

6.    REGISTER:  FORMAL, INFORMAL, COMPLAINT ? ,  WHICH TONE…?

7.    DON´T WRITE AS YOU TALK UNLESS  IT IS A VERY INFORMAL  SITUATION.

8.    DON´T FORGET TO DEVELOP AND EXPLAIN THE IDEAS YOU INCLUDE:    

Ex:  ..We need computers to be able to do a lot of activities.  Which    activities???

     7  ALLOW AT LEAST 10 MINUTES TO WRITE YOUR FINAL COPY AND 5 MINUTES  FOR PROOFREADING.

    8   USE CONNECTORS AND DISCOURSE MARKERS BUT DON´T USE THEM UNNATURALLY.

    9   DON´T INCLUDE  IRRELEVANT INFORMATION.

LISTENING PRACTICE

Watch this video and do the quiz for further practice on the family topic.

WRITING STANDARDS

I provide this post to show you what we take into account as marking standards on your compositions .



EFICACIA COMUNICATIVA:  si se comprende bien o no, si cumple las funciones comunicativas, si el mensaje está bien formulado en cuanto al destinatario, propósito y situación. Adecuación sociolingüística.

Se entiende/se puede leer lo que has escrito?  ¿Se atiene a la pregunta?  ¿El lenguaje que has utilizado responde a la situación/interlocutor de la pregunta?  ¿Es el formato correcto? ¿Respetas el número de palabras: es tu texto excesivamente largo o corto?

CAPACIDAD DISCURSIVA: la coherencia y organización de las ideas respetando estructura y formato.También si se aporta información apropiada y suficiente con ejemplos si es necesario.

¿Es tu escrito coherente, tiene un desarrollo lógico que permite la comprensión? ¿Tiene información suficiente, has cubierto todos los puntos que se piden?


ALCANCE EN EL USO DE LA LENGUA: si el vocabulario es preciso, si utiliza recursos gramaticales de nivel. Si el texto está cohesionado con conectores, etc y el uso de los tiempos verbales es coherente con los propósitos comunicativos.

¿Utilizas expresiones, estructuras gramaticales conocidas, variadas, acordes con el texto y la situación? ¿Es tu texto coherente: has utilizado conectores, has repetido la misma palabra muchas veces, las referencias de los pronombres/adverbios esta clara? ¿Se entiende tu texto o hay que releer porque no es fluido?

CORRECIÓN FORMAL:  en vocabulario, gramática, estructuras complejas, ortografía y puntuación.

¿Utilizas bien las estructuras gramaticales conocidas? ¿Sabes utilizar en su contexto el vocabulario aprendido? ¿Sabes utilizar bien los conectores? ¿Es correcta la ortografía (spelling)?

GUY FAWKES

Click on this link for a listening exercise, including video on this important Festival.

THIS IS HALLOWEEN SONG ANSWER KEY

Here´s the link to the song worksheet.

HALLOWEEN CLOZE TEST ANSWERS

COSTUMES:

costumes, mask  make-up   pirate

TRICK OR TREAT:
trick or treat,  candy,   pillowcase   jack-o´-lantern, candle

MONSTERS:
 vampire  mummy   werewolf

WITCHES:

witch , pointy,   black cat   brooms,  spell,  frog  cauldrons

HAUNTED HOUSES:

haunted,  ghost,  boo, cobwebs, bats

GRADED READERS

1ST READER: DUE ON  20TH JANUARY  (I1B)
                         DUE ON 21ST JANUARY   (I1I)

                         WRITING ABOUT THE BOOK IN CLASS. 
                         

2ND READER:  Starting  21st APRIL  (I1B),
                          Starting   22nd APRIL   (I1I)

                         ORAL PRESENTATION (3-5 MINUTES): 
                          Example tasks:
                         
                         1)  Choose a character and talk about him/her.
                         2)  Compare several characters and talk about them..
                         3)  Tell the plot of the story using pictures or any other imaginative way (Power point?)                          
                         4) Talk about the book you have read and your opinion about it.
 
                          In the oral presentation you are only allowed to keep an outline with some notes!!!

                  Don´t hesitate to ask the teacher for further information about the tasks.

British Food (answer key)

British Food

B   1 parsnips   2 custard    3 bacon rashers   4 cauliflower   5 chop   6 pickle   7 mustard   8 sausages   9 gravy   10  batter   11 Yorkshire pudding   12 trifle   13  Brussels sprouts   14  pancake   15  crumble   
Cheddar

D  Bangers and mash   Chilli con carne   Cream tea   Chicken tikka   Full English breakfast
    Baked potato    Ploughman´s platter/lunch    Prawn cocktail   Shepherd´s / Cottage pie
    Steak and kidney pie.

E  1 Chilli con carne  2 Cream tea   3 Shepherd´s / Cottage pie   4 Steak and kidney pie
    5 Chicken tikka  6 Full English breakfast    7 Baked potato   8 prawn cocktail   9 Ploughman´s platter/lunch   10  Bangers and mash

BRITISH FOOD

Click on this page to learn a bit more about British food. Exercises B, D, E. I´ll post the answers in a few days. This page will help you as well.

And for pictures and more on British food:

British food from Anabel Montoya Sánchez

LYRICS TRAINING

Learn English through songs with this webpage!

Be the top of the pops in `lyrics spotting´.

HEY SOUL SISTER, ANSWER KEY

Vocabulary box

1. stain,  2.ain´t   3 to have a one track mind   4 a thug   5.- to blow my mind   6  chest    7  gonna  8 wanna

Exercise 4:

rug, drug  gansgster myself  nothing  see

HEY SOUL SISTER, TRAIN

PATETICA FONETICA