miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2015

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

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

      3-The same as before:


4     5-What do you do where? Matching exercise 



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

9- Places in town and revision of BE


GRAMMAR

 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.


13   Again, Some or any? 


16   Can you count them or not?  


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?
    

 
 
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



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.

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


31   Compare cars:



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:





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.

martes, 8 de septiembre de 2015

UNIT 1

VOCABULARY

1. In your dossier, write and translate the words which refer ONLY to hobbies and interests from...

You will have to use an online dictionary. For example: Collins


2. Matching exercise

3.Classify hobbies and interests in your dossier after copying the table. Use a dictionary. Write 3 activities in each column.

4.Copy in your dossier ONLY the hobbies which have contact with other people and their translation

5. Listening comprehension

6. Use an online dictionary. For example, Collins. Write in your dossier what the people practising these sports must be like (only 1 personality characteristic)


7. Focus your attention on the following epigraphs:
Hobbies Related to Sports and Adventure
Hobbies Related to Computers and Technology
Outdoor Hobbies
Indoor Hobbies
CollectionHobbies.
In your dossier, write the hobbies which
YOU WOULD LOVE/ YOU WOULDN'T MIND/ YOU WOULD DISLIKE . 
Use an online dictionary when necessary.

8. Match activities and sounds

9. Match pictures and hobbies

10. Match pictures and nouns

11. Do match up 2 and match up 3 exercises.

12. You must use PLAY, GO or DO with sports. After doing the online exercise, find the rules of use and write them in your dossier with two examples for each verb.

READING
1. Read the following text

and do the following comprehension exercises

GRAMMAR. (HAVE GOT)
1. Complete the missing forms

2. Read the forms of Have Got in the Present Simple and do the exercises
Do the following exercises

3.Now, do the next activity

4. Play the game
5. Fill in the gaps online


VOCABULARY AND LISTENING

6. Complete the gaps
 
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

7. Do the exercise online. Then, copy ONLY THE QUESTIONS in your dossier and get your partner to answer them. After that, switch the screen off and report to the class.

In your dossier, write  all the interrogative pronouns which have appeared with their translation and an example in a sentence.




10-Listen to the song (have got)

11- Do you rememember the alphabet? Copy 5 words and translate them in your dossier.

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES:

1-Listen to the song  and note 5 words about Halloween in your coloured pages in the dossier.
To Understand the song better, read the lyrics as you listen. To do so, click on the symbol shown

Now, choose English subtitles:  
Now, it's easy, isn't it?





REVISION ISSUES


1-Cardinal numbers. Identify the numbers 1-100

2-Identification of numbers

3-Find the numbers

4-Ending TY or TEEN

5-Find the result

6-Identify the numbers

7-Write the numbers

8-Write the numbers in words

9-Crosswords

10-Listening comprehension.. When we say phone numbers, 0 is read "ou" and 77 is "double seven"...

11-Game. Are you a good mailman?

12-100 and above

13- Big and small numbers

14-Choose the number

15- Write big numbers.

16-Study the ordinals 1st-100th

17-Ordinals 1-12

18-Ordinals 13-31

19-Ordinals exercise

20-Match ordinals

21-What's the equivalent ordinal number?

22-Ordinals

23-Ordinal numbers

24- Game on ordinals.

25- Cardinal and ordinal numbers. Copy them in your dossier.

26- Study: how to write dates in English.

27-Dates exercise

28- Simple dates exercise

29- Years

30-Match written and pronounced dates

31-Dates in numbers.

32-When are these important dates?


WH QUESTIONS

1-Basic forms of questions

2-Do the exercises about questions that people answer with full sentences.

3-Complete the 15 questions

4-What's the right question?

5-Complete the questions

6-Finish the questions

7- Questions that you know.


THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS AND ADJECTIVES)
Remember that you have to write in the coloured pages of your dossier the vocabulary that you didn't know.

1-Which form is correect? Choose.

2-Choose the right option. If the arrow is long the object or person is far. If the arrow is short, the object or person is near.

3- This or that piece of fruit?

4- Put on your earphones and do sentence monkey.

5-Write the correct form.

6-Watch this video. If there are difficult words, look them up in the dictionary.
   Then, Do the exercises in the 3 sections named "Check your grammar"
   Now, IN YOUR DOSSIER, answer the following questions after reading the blue and grey squares:
          -We use ........... for 1 being which is near.
          -We use ........... for +1 being which are near
          -We use ...........for 1 being when it is far.
          -We use ...........for +1 being when they are far.
          -"Here" has got some relation to .............    and  ................
          -"There" has got some relation to .............. and...................
          - True or False? Demonstratives are used for beings near or far geographically but also in                      time............
          -True or false? Demonstratives can only appear before a noun ..........................
          -Underline the correct option. When you are speaking on the phone, which word do you use to             introduce yourself (THIS/THAT)?. You identify the other person you are speaking on the                         phone with   using   (THIS/THAT).
           - When you introduce two people who meet for the first time, you introduce them using                        THIS/THAT.
            e.g. This is Abigail; this is Alan OR That is Abigail; that is Alan.

7-These are the Simpsons.


BASIC CONNECTORS TO JOIN SENTENCES:

1- Find out the meaning of the connectors to choose from. Then, do the exercise

2-Another similar exercise

3-And, but, so, because.

4-When, while, before, after


REVISION OF UNIT 1. If you have got your workbook, read the grammar theory for Unit 1 and do the exercises on the opposite page. If you haven't got the workbook, copy these exercises on a piece of paper and transfer the answers to your workbook at home.





SONG

1-Listen to the song and complete the blanks.

2- Now,  copy the lyrics  in your dossier. Then, translate the lyrics into Spanish or Catalan with this online dictionary (DON'T USE A TRANSLATOR).

These are the expressions which you will not find in the dictionary:
     

I've been for a walk= he ido de paseo
I'd be safe and warm= yo estaría a salvo y abrigado
If i was in L.A= si estuviese en Los Angeles
California dreamin'= soñando con California
Well, i got down on my knees= me puse de rodillas
He knows i'm gonna stay= sabe que me voy a quedar
If i didn't tell her= Yo no le dije a ella


CORRECTION KEY FOR THE REVISION OF UNIT 1 IN THE GRAMMAR BANK (WORKBOOK)





lunes, 7 de septiembre de 2015

STARTER UNIT 1st ESO

EXERCISE 1
 


1. Write the 15 words about computers in two columns English/Catalan.

Example:  a laptop / un portàtil 

2..  Watch the part 1 and part 2 of the video.Write the dialogue of parts one and two

 Dialogue 1   A– Pleased to meet you!
B- Pleased to meet you!
Dialogue 2   A– What’s your name?
B-


 



 
3.  Write the list of objects with a simple picture.
Exercise one.
       Exercise two.




 4.  Write a text about yourself: your full name, age, family, address, hobbies etc…
Follow this example. 

5. Place prepositions. Do the following exercises online.
 5.1
5.2
5.3


 

 Only if you have finished:  Game 1. Game 2




5.  Vocabulary: classroom verbs 
WRITE THE 20 VERBS IN THE RIGHT ORDER 1 to 10, 10 to 20 with the Catalan translation.






6. Grammar: verb to be - Write the table in affirmative and negative.


7. Verb TO BE present. Do the first 6 exercises of the list online.






8 Song. Write a part of the lyrics of the song (the 14 sentences below)

Image result for music


Answer key

9. Saxon Genitive ('s) Study it. A student will come to the front  to explain it from the teacher's computer .

 10.Do exercises 1-4
        10.1
        10.2
        10.3

11. Subject pronouns

12. Possessive Adjectives.

13.Subject or Possessive Adjectives.

14. Similar:
 
15. Revise saxon genitive. Write the other possibility with possessive adjective in the dossier


E.g. The woman’s dogs= Her dogs.




18. The Alphabet.  Study this:

click on alphabet and you ll see a video of it exercises

19. Order the alphabet.

20. Identify the sounds

21. Classify the letters by their sound

22. Identify the sounds

23.Play odd man out

24 Choose level 5

25. Learn the song and sing along

26. Do the alphabet dictation

27. Alphabet and number dictation