Write an Article about a Place and its History

History in the Streets

Click on the following link and do the wirting activity described. 

 

1st Year of ESO Activities

 

 Next posts in this blog will focus on 1st year of ESO contents. 

Hope you find them interesting!!

La aplicación de las TIC en la educación extremeña

Find your way in London

For everyone who has signed for the trip to London, find an extra challenge to complete once you are there.

Describing graphs

Now, give your opinion on why most of the students have passed the subject throughout the years.
Try to explain what you can see in the figure above.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

MR. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theater, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. I incline to Cain’s heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.

Challenge #3: Try to re-write the text using the "plain English" you know.  Make a little vocabulary with the words you do not know and we will try to discuss them in our next session.

Describing places

• Imagine you want to invite an English friend to visit your city. Take a look to the mindmap to organize your ideas and then write an e-mail inviting him/her to come to your hometown.

• Once you have written your e-mail, read it to your partner and ask him/her if he/she would like to go to your city. If so, discuss together when he/she woulg go to visit you.

Student Opinion Survey

The Lord of The Rings

Have you heard of this great trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien?
These are some quotes from it. Keep an eye on this post for new updates!

Timeline

Hey there students! Here is a timeline of the list of books Charlie reads throughout the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

• Have you ever heard about these books?
• Have you read any of them?
• Invent a timeline with the books you are going to read in the following year. Include at least six titles from Charlie's list.

Challenge #4: Try to read one of the books you have chosen before the end of the term.

Take a look at it!

Some Notes on Jack Kerouac on PhotoPeach 

  - Now, make an oral presentation in groups of four on one of his books of no more than ten minutes.

Show the rest what you know!

United States

Find all the States

How well do you know the United States of America? Try to fill all the gaps correctly!

London calling

Complete this exercise about London:

LONDON

Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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Across: 2. Where Anna Bolena died 4. Shakespeare's theatre 7. The most important bridge in London 9. Where the Beatles recorded some of their most important albums 11. The place with more screens in London 14. A district strongly associated with alternative culture 15. The most famous clock in the world 16. The name of the river that crosses London 17. "Mind the Gap" 18. The Chinese district of London 19. A square which commemorates a battle against the Spaniards

Down: 1. The meeting point of the English polititians 3. A street famous for its expensive shops. It is the name of a famous English University and city 5. The best known cathedral in London 6. The most famous shopping centre in England 8. Where the English Queen lives 10. the most famous museum in England 12. A big wheel in London facing the famous river 13. Famous district where the hpuses are colored in the outside. A film made its name famous

Travelling Abroad

“The world is a book and those 

who do not travel read only one page” 

– St. Augustine

– Have you ever travelled abroad?
– What places have you visited?
– What travel did you enjoy the most?
– What places would you like to visit?

• Discuss the questions above with your partner for 5 minutes.
• Write a composition in which you give answer to the questions above and a reflection on the quote that appears in the title of this post.

Test Ted Talk

Watch the following video and  answer the questions:

Check what you know with this test

What do you remember?

Complete these activities

Welcome to Podcasting

Hi there! Have you ever heard about podcasting?

The Oxford dictionary defines podcast as "A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically."

We think podcast are a useful tool to practice English on your own.

Challenge #2: Find some channel about a subject you are interested about and subscribe to it. We promise you won't regret it!

Here you have a twice-monthly podcast, which is a comedy show about a fiction town in the dessert.

It is called Welcome to Night Vale. It is worth having a look at it!

If you are interested, here you can also find the transcripts of each episode. Enjoy guys!

Source: http://commonplacebooks.com/

Adjectives: shopping

Do the following activity and then ask your partner questions about the products that appear in the pictures bellow. Remember to include adjectives we normally use when we go shopping (Cheap,  big, small, fashionable, exclusive...)

False friends. Extra activity

Take a look at this extra activity about false friends (Adjectives)

-Write sentences in which you include the false friends that appear in the previous exercise

Body, Piercing, and Tattoo

Read the following document and then discuss with your partner the following questions:

body, piercing and tattoos

Have you got any piercings or tattoos?

– If so...

• What?
• How many?
• Was it painful?
• Would you do it again or would you remove it/them?

– If not...

• Would you like to have a piercing or a tattoo?
• What?
• How many?
• Why?

Now watch this presentation. Could you add some extra information from the document above?

Customs: Tipping

What do you think about tipping? Give your opinion (in no more than 200 words).

You may want to use some of these expressions: Expressing Opinions. English Vocabulary.

Statistics

Blogsalaito University shows the time high school students dedicate to each subject:

Try something new for 30 days

Have you ever watched a ted talk? This is Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days. We hope you like it!

  

– Watch the video twice.
– What do you think about "trying something new for 30 days"? Would you do it? What would you try?

Challenge #1: Try something new for 30 days and tell us your experience in class during 3-5 minutes.

What if?

Matt and Brenda are having coffee

Write down in your notebook what things you would bring along with you if you went to London and why, bearing in mind what you have learnt about London in previous posts. You need, at least, five sentences. 

Valentine's Day!

– Elaborate a Valentine's Day card telling the receiver why do you love him/her.
– Include his/her most admirable personal qualities.

• Deadline: Monday, February 15th 

Love is about timing!

Watch this video: Love is about timing

– What does it suggest to you?
– How would you define the word "timing"? Write it down in your notebook.
– Do you agree with the statement "Love is about timing"? Please explain your reasons why or why not.

Predictions!

What is going to happen...?

Use be going to + infinitive to make predictions about what is going to happen next in these videos:

Pause this video at 0:20 and guess what is going to happen with the "sleeping beauty":

Pause this one at 0:43 and make a prediction about what the violinist is going to do:

Pause this one at 0:02, before it zooms out. Guess what is going to happen with the ducks:

Were you right?

Quoth the raven... nevermore

Have you ever heard about Edgar Allan Poe? This is one of his well-known poems "The Raven". We hope you like it!

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Fill in all the gaps

Complete this exercise about the poem  Annabel Lee. 

Annabel Lee

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

It was many and many a ago,
In a kingdom by the ,
That a maiden there lived whom may know
By the name of Lee;
And this maiden she lived no other thought
Than to love be loved by me.

I was child and she was a child,
this kingdom by the sea,
But loved with a love that was than love—
I and my Annabel —
With a love that the wingèd of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

this was the reason that, long ,
In this kingdom by the sea,
wind blew out of a cloud,
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that highborn kinsmen came
And bore her from me,
To shut her up a sepulchre
In this kingdom by sea.

The angels, not half so in Heaven,
Went envying her and —
Yes!—that was the reason (as all know,
In this kingdom by the )
That the wind came out of cloud by night,
Chilling and killing Annabel Lee.

But our love it stronger by far than the love
those who were older than we—
many far wiser than we—
And the angels in Heaven above
Nor demons down under the sea
Can dissever my soul from the soul
the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the never beams, without bringing me dreams
the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the never rise, but I feel the eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
so, all the night-tide, I lie by the side
Of my darling—my —my life and my bride,
In her there by the sea—
In her by the sounding sea.