UNIT 2

THANKSGIVING
Yesterday wass Thanksgiving Day. Learn about the history of this celebration.
Copy the following sentences in your dossier and write TRUE or FALSE next to them.
    1-The Pilgrims hated all religions.
    2-The travel was very nice.
    3-The travel was long
    4-It was the beginning of winter.
    5-In spring they opened the first restaurant in America.
    6-The native Americans helped the Pilgrims.
    7-Squanto was intelligent for agriculture.
    8-The Pilgrims and the natives celebrated the good vegetables for a week.
    9-Today, Americans say thank you to God for good health.

    TRANSLATE THESE WORDS IN YOUR COLOURED PAGES
    CHURCH                                                        FAR AWAY
    WINTER                                          WIND                                            SNOW
    WHEAT                            BEANS                              SPINACH
    HUNT (verb)                                    FISH (verb)
    CORN                              PUMPINKS                                                SQUASH
     BARN                               GROW (verb) VEGETABLES

REVISION OF EXPRESSION OF AGES AND PRICES


    -prices: How much is a dictionary?    It is     £ 17.50   (It is seventeen pounds and fifty pence)
                 How much is a Chewing gum? It is     20 p (It is twenty pence)
                 How much is rubber?      It is 1.10 €  (It is one euro ten cents)
                 How much is a bar oc chocolate? It is 0.90 €  ( It is ninety cents)

     Ask and answer the prices of 8 groceries (in numbers and words) IN YOUR DOSSIER

     -Ages:  How old are you? I am 11 years old. (eleven)
                 How old is Sagrada Familia in Barcelona? It is 133 years (one hundred and thirty-three)
                 IN YOUR DOSSIER, Write question and answer following the previous example about these                      people and objects. You must find the answer out on the internet.
                - How old is the telephone?
                 -How old is the chewing gum?
                 -How old is Coca Cola?
                 - How old is the Eiffel Tour?
                 -How old is Shakira?
                 -How old is Pep Guardiola?
                 -How old is the atomic bomb?
                 -How old is Obama?
                 -How is Donald Duck?

VOCABULARY

1     1- Get familiar with these words and write down in your dossier the ones you didn’t know.

2     2-Do exercises 1,2,3,4 about places in a city

      3-The same as before:

3     4-Choose the correct option  

4     5-What do you do where? Matching exercise 

5     6-Do the exercise and copy the difficult words in your dossier:

7   Pair up the cards 

8   Where can you buy these products? Copy the difficult vocabulary in your dossier.

9- Places in town and revision of BE

GRAMMAR

10   Choose either A or AN

 11   Note in your dossier when we use A and when AN and choose 3 examples for each from the previous exercise

How many different pronunciations are there for A, The? What does it depend on?  Write your conclusions in your dossier.

12   Some or Any?

13   Again, Some or any? 

14   Watch this video

15   There is or there are?

16   Can you count them or not?  

17   Revision: There is, there are, some, any, a, an

18   Summarizing.  Do the exercise and then copy and complete the table below in your dossier. When you have finished, show it to your teacher.

    How do you ask "Cuánto dinero hay sobre la mesa?
    How do you ask "Cuántos libros hay en la biblioteca?
    When do we use HOW MANY?
    When do we use HOW MUCH?
    

19   Take this game

 

20   Practise with this exercise

 

21  Oral. With your partner, tell him/her the differences in your picture (Student A)and he/she will  tell you the differences in his/her picture. E.g. St A: There is a woman teacher on the left of the blackboard.

22   In the dossier, both students  write at least 5 of the differences they saw in the previous exercise.

READING

23   Read and do the comprehension exercises online

24-Read and do the multiple choice exercise  and finally, the true or false exercise

GRAMMAR: 

25   Is there, are there, how many…are there. Look at the pictures and write 2 questions with IS THERE?, 2 questions with ARE THERE  and 2 questions with HOW MANY...ARE THERE and answer all these questions. Example: IS THERE A NOISY AEROPLANE AT THE AIRPORT? TES, THERE IS.

26   Make question and answer for 7 of the pictures about what there is and there isn’t in your town. If the answer is “yes”, you must ask the quantity (how many) and answer. Do the exercise in your dossier.

E.g. –Is there an aquarium in Cerdanyola      -No, there isn’t

          -Are there any libraries in Cerdanyola?    -Yes, there are

           How many libraries are there? There is only one library.
27 Watch the video.

28 Do the exercise

BASIC ADJECTIVES VOCABULARY
29 Note the vocabulary to describe a city or town and its Catalan or Spanish translation. Use an online dictionary like "wordreference.com" and add an example of each according to your experience.
For example: ANCIENT............ANTIGUA................For example: TOLEDO.
Do it in your dossier.

30 Do the "Learn" section and the "Practice section" Note the new vocabulary in your dossier.

31 Do the "Practice" activity

32 Make the right choice.

33

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

27   Listen to the orders in a restaurant and do  the multiple choice exercise.

On the second listening, do the reordering exercise

Finally, on the third listening, follow the dialogue with the “Transcript”.

GRAMMAR : COMPARATIVES AND INITIATION TO SUPERLATIVES
28 Revise the comparatives of superiority

29  Comparatives of superiority. Follow the instructions

Theory and practice of the comparatives of superiority

30 Fill in the gaps:

31   Compare cars:

  32  Watch the video and summarize in your dossier what you have learnt in a table expressing the different boxes to fill in with comparatives and superlative forms.

	ONE SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES OR WITH TWO SYLLABLES ENDING IN Y			TWO OR MORE SYLLABLES	IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES
COMPARATIVES	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	List: Example:
SUPERLATIVES	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	Rule: Example:	List: Example:

33  Wordsearch:

34  Good and bad points about living in a town and in the countryside. Write 3 adjectives for good and bad characteristics of town and 3 adjectives for good and bad characteristics of  the countryside in your dossier. 

35  Then, make sentences comparing them like this in your dossier:

e.g. A city is MORE EXPENSIVE THAN the countryside.

You will have 12 sentences when you have finished.

36 Choose the correct form 1

37 Choose the correct form 2

38Choose the correct form 3

39 Do this exercise about comparatives.

40 Copy the comparatives in your dossier. COMPARISON OF COUNTRIES

41Do this online listening comprehension exercise.

42 Do all these comparative exercises  in your dossier.



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