MERRY CHRISTMAS

Dear all,
This is a wonderful occasion to wish you the best. The warmest thoughts for you and your families for Christmas and Happy New Year 2010.
In the meantime, watch this video and sing along all together. This is the twelve days of Christmas.

See you soon.
Your teacher,

Montse

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Hi,
This message is for my students in 1st ESO, look at the difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses, watching the following videos. I think they will be very useful for you to understand both tenses.
Let me know your experience.
See you in class.

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Hello,
Well, September has come and we'll see again very soon. This message is for 4th ESO students, I hope you already have the reader of this year, "The boy in the striped pyjamas". It's very interesting and here is a small clip of the beginning of the film, based on the novel by J. Byrne.

Watch it carefully, because we'll talk about it in a few weeks' time.
See you kids,

Your teacher

http://www.filmeducation.org/theboyinthestripedpyjamas/clips/striped_pyjamas_opening_clip1.html

CORALINE

Hello,
As the next year 2nd Eso are reading the story of CORALINE, I show you this trailer, just to draw your attention in the story, I suppose some of you have already seen the film, but it's just to motivate your curiosity. Watch them and try to understand what they say. Just for fun.

Have a nice summer
Your teacher

The story of stuff

Hello,

Watch the video on the site below. I found it surfing the net, it exposes the connection between a huge number of environmental issues. It'll teach you something and it may make you change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
We'll talk about it in September and we will learn a lot together.

See you soon


http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html

More activities about Thanksgiving Day

Hi Kids,
The following is a good revision of what we did about Thanksgiving

Introduction.

When we study a language we are studying about the people who speak it and their culture, society, history…

Festivities are important to understand cultural features. For this reason we are going to learn a bit more about Thanksgiving Day.

Questions.

1. Where is it celebrated?

2. When is it celebrated?

3. How do they celebrate the Thanksgiving Day?

4. Which are the Thanksgiving Day symbols?

5. What do they eat in this festivity?

6. Who does The President pardon in this celebration?

7. What do they express with this celebration?

Process

First of all read all the questions. Then, you should work in groups of four. Then answer the questions. And finally prepare an oral exposition to answer the big question. Be careful with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency.

Resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

http://www.thanksgiving-day.org/thanksgiving-day-celebration.html

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/ednkc002.html

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Thanksgiving-traditions

http://www.photodc.com/screensaver/Turkey/default.asp

Big question:

Can you explain to the rest of the classroom a popular celebration of your country? When, why and how do you celebrate it?

WEBQUEST activity

Hi kids,
Fun times are soon here for you through this webquest. You will be able to surf the Web and discover the author ROALD DAHL as a summer homework.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/webquests/roald_dahl/main.html or click here

Follow the different steps and tasks and discover all you can about this famous writer, his life and his books.

Have a nice summer.

Your teacher

USEFUL LISTENINGS (phonetics)

Hello students,
I've been thinking it's time to review your pronunciation, so I include two useful videos for you to practise at home. The first one is an introduction to phonetics and the second one is about the pronunciation of the sound "schwa".
Give me your comments after your practice.
Have a nice day
1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF6QVxJoiKo&NR=1
2.

ESLPod164.mp3 (Objecte audio/mpeg )

ESLPod164.mp3 (Objecte audio/mpeg

Hello kids,
I want you to listen this podcast, called SEEING THE SPECIALIST, it is about a man who goes to the doctor. Listen carefully, pay attention to his American accent and after the listening, prepare an oral presentation about it. All the new vocabulary is presented to you by the speaker.

We'll comment it in class.
See you soon

Your teacher

HIPERTEXT - Daily life (Thanksgiving)

The Pilgrims arrived in the New World during the winter, making it very difficult for them to find food and build shelter.

Already weakened by their two-month voyage, most of the passengers failed to survive the first few months in their new home.

Fortunately, native people called Wampanoag, or "eastern peoples," already lived in the Massachusetts Bay area. They shared their knowledge of local crops and navigation with the "coat-men," as they called the English, and helped the colonists survive.

ACTIVITAT CURS TIC: Unitat didàctica

Avui hem de preparar una unitat didàctica pensant en les noves tecnologies aplicades a les llengües estrangeres, en el meu cas.
Cal explicar les competències bàsiques que aplicaré, quines són? quines faré servir?, etc. A partir d'aquest problema desenvolupar-ho tot.

En primer lloc he hagut de buscar la pàgina de l'XTEC per consultar les competències bàsiques de llengua en el curriculum d'ESO. http://phobos.xtec.cat/edubib/intranet/file.php?file=docs/ESO/llengues_eso.pdf .

Treballant les festes i tradicions amb els meus alumnes a l'escola ens van plantejar si podiem crear alguna activitat començant a utilitzar les TIC, llavors he pensat que la unitat didàctica serà, precisament THANKSGIVING DAY.

COMPETÈNCIES BÀSIQUES

Objectius

1.Els alumnes hauran de participar en tasques orals, escrites o audiovisuals.

2.Comprendran missatges orals o escrits.

3.Hauran d'expressar-se.


UNITAT DIDÀCTICA

Comencem per fer un brainstorming de vocabulari relacionat amb Thanksgiving (pilgrims, turkey, native Indians,harvest, Mayflower, etc..)
Treballarem el vocabulari a partir de worksheets i crosswords, els donaré aquest enllaç i hauran de completar en parelles l'encreuat, seguint les definicions:

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/holiday/thanksgiving.pdf

Un cop han solucionat l'encreuat al seu ordinador per parelles, es corregirà a la pantalla gran tots junts (aula informàtica).
Acabada aquesta activitat anirem a l'aula on tenim la pissarra digital i buscarem aquest enllaç, per poder veure un video informatiu en anglès dels origens d'aquesta tradició quan van arribar els primers colonitzadors i van celebrar la festa del Thanksgiving.



http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=61038&display_order=2&mini_id=1083&bcpid=1902518783&bclid=1672079702&bctid=1586348651

Hi haurà tasques "pre-mid i after watching"

PRE-WATCHING TASK : Preguntar què saben sobre Thanksgiving, on es celebra, per què?
Han sentit a parlar del Mayflower? Busqueu a Internet informació sobre el Mayflower i prepareu una presentació en Powerpoint per parelles per la propera classe.
MID-WATCHING TASK : Anar parant el video i preguntant què va passar, perquè, qui va ser Sarah Hale, quin dia es celebra aquesta festa,etc? (Repàs del passat simple, present).
AFTER-WATCHING TASK: Preparar un resum per escrit i enviar-lo al professor mitjançant el blog.

Per coneixer millor el viatge del vaixell Mayflower, els alumnes haurien de consultar la següent pàgina web: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/journey.htm
Seguir el tour i d'altres informacions escoltant el listening a l'aula d'informàtica, desprès seguirem l'activitat preparant-se preguntes en equips, perque els altres contestin. L'equip que contesta més preguntes correctament guanyarà algún premi que el professor decideixi.


Es podrien afegir algunes receptes típiques d'aquesta festivitat, veient un o dos videos més, però això requeriria una o dues classes més.

AVALUACIÓ:
Pel que fa a l'avaluació, fonamentalment serà comunicativa per regular els processos d'aprenetatge i l'ús de la llengua. Podrà ser com activitat conjunta (interactiva) o individual. Els instruments poden ser pautes diferents donades pel professor o questionaris. El professor monitoritzarà les activitats individuals o els grups de treball.

Listening practice

Hi everybody,
As I know that you are planning to travel by plane this Easter, I propose you to do the following listening tasks in this website: http://www.esl-lab.com/airport/airportrd1.htm
Add 5 new words when you write an article about your experience at the airport ( check-in, arrivals, departure, delay, gate...)Do the pre-listening and listening quizzes.

If you have any question, just ask me.

See you soon.

LEARNING ENGLISH

Hi,
I was surfing the net looking for a good site to practise grammar with exercises online or useful explanations and I came across this one : http://www.autoenglish.org/generalgrammar.htm.

Have a look at it and tell me if it's of any help for you.

Welcome everybody !

Hi kids,
As you know a blog is a personal diary. A collaborative space. So, I thought: wouldn't it be good to get a webpage to improve our English? I had the idea to write comments, news, include our favourite songs, videos and even delicious recipes.

Do you like the idea? I hope so.

This is my first video clip. I thought that would be a great idea to start very happy. For example, this song VIVA LA VIDA by Coldplay is a good way. What do you think?

Write your comments soon!