READERS 2011-12

These are the titles of the books you will be reading with me this school year. Look at your course and level to know a little more about it.  Have fun!

1º ESO

"Vampire Killer" Ed. Oxford (Starter Level) 1ºESO. LOWER LEVEL

'I am a vampire killer . . . and now I need help,' says Professor Fletcher to Colin. Colin needs a job and he needs money - but do vampires exist or is the professor crazy?








 
"The Secret of the Stones" Ed. Vicens Vives (Green Apple-Starter) 1ºESO. HIGHER LEVEL

Twins Max and Laura spend an exciting summer in a small village near Stonehenge. A mysterious symbol, their uncle's old book of codes and secrets, strange people and much more. Read about the adventures of the two 'detectives' in this original story and maybe discover the true secret of Stonehenge.





  

3º ESO

 "K's First Case" Ed. Longman. 3ºESO. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Sir Michael Gray is the victim of a murder and he was very rich. Katrina Kirby - or K as she is called - is a detective and she wants to find out who the murderer is. But there are lots of suspects.This is K’s first case. Can you help her find the murderer?








 "A Kiss Before Dying" Ed. Burlington Books. 3ºESO. UPPER INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

 A powerful, hard-hitting adult story of murder and suspense by one of America's foremost novelists, which since its publication in 1954, has been made into several very successful feature films.

2º BTO 

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry 

 

 Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

3ºESO AB SPEAKING TEST

The school year is getting to its end and it's time to prove how much you've learnt.

As part of your speaking marks for this final term you must have a conversation with your teacher. I know!! Oral exams are always irritating and stressful for you. So to make things easier, I am sharing with you some of the questions in the exam in the following document. Remember that they refer to contents studied this year, so you are expected to produce the language learnt orally.

The oral exams will take place on June 4th and June 11th.

3ºESO WRITING PROMPTS: WHAT IF...?

Let's practise what you've learnt about conditional clauses by writing an 80-100 word essay about one of the following prompts. Do it here and don't forget to include your names. Do not copy from the Internet.

Deadline: Friday 11th

FIRST STEPS ON PRESENT PERFECT

 

 

Let's learn the basics of this important tense in English!

 

 

 

 

 

Present Perfect Tense

More PowerPoint presentations from Demet Matyar

It's time to practise to master the Present Perfect Tense.

Have or Has
Participles
Participles?
Present Perfect & Participles Hangman Game

Have + Past Participle  
Negative 

Question
What have you done?

There are some words which are typically used with Present Perfect.

Already and Yet

Just

Just, yet or Already
 

Been to or Gone to?


Listen to the song
Song with blanks



Present Perfect or Simple Past?
Present Perfect vs Simple Past Game

Who is Daniel Seddiqui? What has he done?

ENGLISH CENTRAL 2012

Happy 2012! Welcome back after the Christmas break to practise your listening and speaking skills. This term we are going to use English Central for this purpose.

English Central offers a unique speech recognition platform which allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing. This year it comes with new features which include phonetics and vocabulary study.


First of all, enroll my class (http://class.englishcentral.com/amef) by clicking here.
You need to register with your full name, email address and password. Now you are part of my group of students.


If you are already familiar with English Central, you just need to login using the nickname and password you registered with last year and go straight into videos to start adding points to your account.

I will set different goals for you to reach along the term. The goals are based on videos, words and points. Each new goal will be set weekly. 

English Central will be part of your final marks this term.

GOALS


WEEK 1: from Saturday 14th January to Friday 20th January.


3rd ESO: 2,000 POINTS

4th ESO: 3,000 POINTS


WEEK 2: from Saturday 21st to Friday 27th January.

3rd ESO: 4,000 POINTS + 5 VIDEOS MINIMUM 

4th ESO: 5,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 3: from Saturday 28th to Friday 3th February.


 3rd ESO: 5,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO: 6,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 4: from Saturday 4th to Friday 10th February.


 3rd ESO: 6,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO: 7,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 5 and LAST: from Saturday 11th to Friday 17th February.


 3rd ESO: 7,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO:  8,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

PRESENT PERFECT

It is time to revise the main uses of the Present Perfect. We need it to express important things about our lives.

• Complete the 9 activities on the site below.

Clipped from: www.english-grammar-lessons.com (share this clip)

In the following presentation you have all the uses and more practice

Pay attention to the video to understand the different uses of AGO, SINCE and FOR and try the challenge below the video

Clipped from: www.quia.com (share this clip)

Check the use of FOR and SINCE in the following activities.


1.- For / Since
2.- For / Since
3.- For / Since
 

Now have fun with the following games.

Clipped from: elt.oup.com (share this clip)

You can keep playing lots of different games here.

Finally, watch the following cartoons where Present Perfect has been used.

WHAT ARE WE LIKE?

Let's keep revising and learning more adjectives you can use to describe someone's personality.


Complete the following activities and you will learn all the vocabulary.




1.- QUIZZLET
First learn the adjectives in the following flashcards.

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Now complete all the activities below

2.- WHAT ARE THE SIMPSONS LIKE?
Read about the Simpsons characters and choose the correct adjectives

3.- DESCRIBING PEOPLE
Watch the video below and answer the questions on the left.

Clipped from: www.eslvideo.com (share this clip)

Listen to the song by Christina Aguilera and write a post with the personality adjectives she mentions in her song.




Finally in pairs create your own word cloud in worldle with as many adjectives as you remember. The more times you type a word, the bigger it will appear on your wordle. When you are done, save it to the public gallery and send me the url. Check a sample here.

PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Watch the following presentation to understand Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives in English.

A1 U1 Possessive Adje

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Now, if you are in 1ºESO you can do the activities in your Virtual Course



Look at the chart below with all the Personal Pronouns in English.

Let's revise personal pronouns by retelling "Little Red Riding Hood" tale.
Part 1 
Part 2

3ºESO: ORAL FINAL ASSIGNMENT

In the VoiceThread below you have to answer 10 questions orally. The questions are related to the topics studied in the student's book along the year.
Try to anwer the questions in correct English. Try to speak as much as possible using the structures and the vocabulary studied this year. Speak slowly and clearly. Be careful with your pronunciation and don't get nervous!!! It will be me just listening to you...!

Deadline: Friday 3rd June

3º AB FEEDBACK 

3º CD FEEDBACK

sk8r boi

Listen to the song by Avril Lavigne and try to fill in the blanks. I promise this time it's easier than the last one.
Try to understand the lyrics and tell me about the story. Write a post with the story of the song and the results you got in the cloze test. 

  

WILL AND OTHER MODALS

Try to fill the gaps in this song and pay attention to the use of will in the song

Do the following activities to learn about COULD, CAN, WILL BE ABLE TO.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3 

Now play the following games to practise the use of CAN, COULD AND WILL BE ABLE TO




Try again with this other game:




Try the following quiz

MORE REVISION FOR 3rd ESO

Do some more practice by playing these games. Start with the Revision Flashcards and then go to the other games

Click here for larger version

Now revise comparatives in this Fling The Teacher Game

Finally try to become a millionaire by answering the following fifteen questions right.

2ND TERM ORAL ASSIGNMENT

Make a 1-2 minute comment on the topic suggested in the VoiceThread below. 
Deadline for your comments: March 5th







You can see feedback on your voicethreads in the documents below. Please have a look at the mistakes and not only at the marks. Remember how important it is to learn from your mistakes to improve your English.

Marks for 3rd ESO STUDENTS

Marks for 4th ESO STUDENTS

3rd ESO REVISION

Let's start revising for the second term exam. 
First, study the flashcards below. Then, choose "learn" in the study mode and make sure you know all the words. And last, try to beat the clock and be the first to make all the words disappear.

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Show you know enough English to fling the teacher in the following game

2nd TERM ORAL ASSIGNMENT: PRONUNCIATION

You have to pronounce the verbs in the VoiceThread below, but before make sure you revise the -ed pronunciation rules in the following video.











DEADLINE 3rd AB: Friday 16th December

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

1.- Let's revise and practice compartive and superalative adjectives with the following slideshow:

  Comparative and-superlative-adjectives

3.- Do the following activities en the interactive book below:

Clipped from: chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr (share this clip)

4.- Now listen to the following interviews and answer the questions below. When you finish answering the questions, scroll down and fill in the grids with your full name, my teacher code "galileogalilei" and the class ID: "none". That way, I will be able to see your results.



5.- Now let's play Who Wants to Become a Millionaire? 

6.- How did you do? Now, let's have some more fun with this game. Good luck!  Watch out: I'll be reading your score!!!!



Finally, it is time to play plip and plop. In groups you are going to compare two things without telling the other groups what they are. You will use the words plip and plop instead. If after five clues, no group guessed the words, you will win a point.
Example: 
1.- Plip is more delicious than plop.
2.- Plip is stronger than plop.
3.- Plip is more expensive than plop.
4.- Plip is usually more colourful than plop
5.- Plip is more alcoholic than plop.
Did you guess the two words?
Plip and plops worksheet

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS AND DETERMINERS

Watch this basic presentation on Much and Many

Much or many

View more presentations from amef0011

  A Lot Much Many A Little A Few

1. Countable or Uncountable?(1)
2. A, an, some or any
3. Take the following quiz
4. A little, a few
5. More Countable or Uncountable Nouns (2)
6. More Countable or Uncountable Nouns  (3)

Too, Too Many, Too Much, Enough

1. Too, too much, too many, enough

ENGLISH CENTRAL CHALLENGE

I'm back after the Christmas break with new projects and ideas to help you improve your English. This term you are going to work on your listening and speaking skills with English Central 




English Central offers a unique speech recognition platform which allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing. This year it comes with new features which include phonetics and vocabulary study.

If you have never used English Central, first of all you'll need to register with your nickname (use your whole name as nickname),  mail account and password. Now you are part of my group of students. Go to Videos and click on Ana Mendez (Galileo Galilei) Channel. 

If you are already familiar with English Central, you just need to login using the nickname and password you registered with last year and go straight into videos to start adding points to your account.

Check the FAQ section to learn about rankings and scoreboard.

GOALS:

Week 1: from Saturday 15th January to Friday 21st January

APLE2: 6,000 points
4th ESO: 3,000 points
3rd ESO: 2,000 points

WELL DONE! MOST OF YOU REACHED THE GOAL

Week 2: from Sunday 23rd January to Saturday 29th January

APLE2: 7,000 points

4th ESO: 4,000 points

3rd ESO: 3,000 points

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO REACHED THE GOAL THIS WEEK!!!

Week 3: from Monday 31st January to Sunday 6th February

APLE2: 8,000 points

4th ESO: 5,000 points

3rd ESO: 4,000 points 

Week 4: from Tuesday 8th February to Monday 14th February

APLE2: 9,000 points

4th ESO: 6,000 points

3rd ESO: 5,000 points

                                  
                                                            

Week 5 and LAST: from Friday18th February to Friday 25th February

APLE2: 10,000 points

4th ESO: 7,000 points

3rd ESO: 6,000 points

                                                                       

NATURAL DISASTERS

Natural Disaster Hot Zones in the World

 
1.- Watch the following presentations by students in 3rd ESO, who tell us about their experiences with natural disasters.

2012-13 school year

3ºAB



3ºCD



2011-12 school year





2010-11 school year






2.- Check your vocabulary about the weather in the following test





3.- Let's revise the words for natural disasters

Clipped from: www.learningchocolate.com (share this clip)

4.- Now try the following test and see if you could survive a natural catastrophe. Good luck!!!

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WORLD?

Try the following challenge and test your knowledge on geography.

The Traveler IQ challenge ranks geographic knowledge of cities such as: Budapest, Montgomery or Palm/Eagle Beach by comparing results against 6,292,837 other travelers. Brought to you by TravelPod, a TripAdvisor Media Network member