domingo, 18 de octubre de 2009

Six sounds contest

For those of you who want to work further and participate in a contest,  Juan Ignacio Castro, the teacher administrator of the blog "Learning English at Brunete" (you can click on the link we have placed on the right hand column to visit it) has suggested a strory-telling activity incorporating six given sounds. You can read more about this clicking here

You may become a winner. Good luck!

Survival Kit / Diccionario bilingüe de supervivencia

Here are the first survival kits. You can click on the links to see them

What time is it?   verbs of motion    greetings     going out    sports    getting to know each other   cinema    being polite     going shopping     Nature     On holidays     clothes and accesories    Fruits     At the airport
Expressing basic needs     important places      clothes and shopping     communicating        colours     food
Sports 2

Congratulations for the nice work you have done!
More will be coming shortly

Please think of the next step: What can we do with all these nice presentations? How can we organise them so that we can turn them into a useful survival kit for you and for other young people travelling abroad or going for an exchange?

Please write your comments and suggestions below. Remember that you need to have a gmail account before you can write your comment. Ask your teacher if you need any help.


Keep up with the good work!

Tasks for the first evaluation period

Hi again!
You have received a summary of the "programación" for this year. Among other things, you can read there the evaluation and the marking criteria. Please make sure you understand and know them very well.

We remind you here of the tasks you have to carry on before December:
  • Introduce yourself : say your name and age. Give a short description of your appearence and your character. Talk about your likes and dislikes. Talk about the personal project you have chosen for this term and how you are going to do it.  You can record this task here . Follow the instructions on the page to join in so that you have access to the discussion line.
  • Survival Kit: You have to make a Power Point presentation with ten basic words or phrases in English and in Spanish you have previosly agreed with your teacher. We'll show your PPPs (powerPoint Presentations) in this blog. Then, you'll decide how we can organise them so as to make a "survival kit / Diccionario de supervivencia" you can use when you travel abroad or have to communicate with somebody in English
  • Project work: Choose one topic you like and prepare a 3 minute presentation of it. You can use Power Point to illustrate your presentation. Your PPPs (powerPoint Presentations) will be published in this blog so that everybody can enjoy and share the work you have done. Also use the handout and instructions your teacher has given you in class to prepare the presentation of your project (click here for a copy). Be ready to evaluate your own project and that of your classmates with the help of the grid your teacher will give you.
  • Situational dialogue: Prepare a dialogue with one or two more classmates in a situation of your choice. Make sure to include expressions of : greetings; opinions; agreement/disagreement and  suggestions (making them and accepting /refusing them). Each person should have between ten and fifteen lines in the dialogue.
Remember that there will also be a vocabulary exam, a listening exam and a dictation.

We are sure you are all going to do your best and pass. Remember to ask your teacher for help any time you need it.

Good luck!

Materials to revise and work further

Hello!
If you missed a class or you did not quite follow everything we did that day, here is your opportunity to revise.

Click on the links to go to the different videos we have been working with in class.
If you want to watch Mr Duncan's video 1 click here and video 2  "Saying hello and goodbye" is here . In this one, Mr Duncan speaks about accents
Click here to watch the video "Iceland, a country to discover" and here to get at the worksheet we used in class. If you want to watch more videos on Iceland, you can click here. You can also use the worksheets for that

If you want to revise the videos on phonetics you can click on vo vowels  ;   dipthongs  or consonants;  consonants 2