HOW DID YOUR CAMP EXPERIENCE GO?

Now that the week at Pueyo de Jaca's camp is about to finish, we would like to know your opinion about the experience you have lived through the following questionnaire:

2ºESO: GALILEO GALILEI'S GREEN TEAM

 

As you all know, 25 students have been selected to take part in the inmersion project organized by the Ministry of Education. As a result, you will be spending a week in Jaca, the town where this programme will be carried out. There you will be tutored by two of your English teachers and by several Canadian and English-speaking instructors, who will develop different activities regarding the environment, all of them in English. Remember your goal is to improve your English, so you have to use English at all times.

As part of this inmersion project, you will also be doing some activities designed by your teachers everyday.

DAY 1

Warming up

Watch the following playlist with ads about enviormental issues.

In groups, discuss which one you like best and why and then cast your vote below:



Now listen to the song and try to fill in the blanks

Now take the following Can it be recycled? challenge

Can it be_recycled_challenge

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Your task for the next days is do some research on the topic and in groups you must create an awareness campaing we can take to our school by doing some posters on Glogster, designing some ads and and performing a play.

DAYS 2, 4 & 5

You will be working in groups to create the material mentioned above.
The videos and sites below may be useful if you need inspiration.

• Learn how to make your school greener in the following website.

Clipped from: www.epa.gov (share this clip)

• Watch this video to learn how to save energy:

• Click on the image below to download the script for your play.

• Fancy a game?

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

READING BOOKS 2010-2011

These are the titles of the books you will be reading along this school year. Look at your course and level to know a little more about it. Ask your teacher about the book you must read according to your level.  Have fun!

1º ESO

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

'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?









"Kidnap" Ed. Oxford (Starter Level) 1ºESO. ALL LEVELS

One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road...

A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure.







"Tales of the Alhambra" Ed. Burlington  1ºESO. HIGHER LEVELS (VOLUNTARY)

Travel back in time to the Alhambra, a place of magic and mystery. Peregil, a water carrier, discovers an ancient spell to recover hidden treasure, but he isn't the only one looking for it. Don Vincent, a poor student, finds a magic ring that leads him to the treasure of the Alhambra. Ibrahim, an Arabian astrologer, helps King Aben Habuz conquer his enemies, but the king must pay the price. Washington Irving will captivate you with this collection of popular tales. 




 2º ESO

"The Curse of the Mummy" Ed. Oxford (Dominoes One) 2º ESO ALL LEVELS

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.

But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?




"Tales from the Thousand and One Nights" Ed. VicensVivens (Black Cat Step 1) 2º ESO ADVANCED LEVELS (VOLUNTARY)

A selection from the famous collection of Oriental stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, including the classic favourites Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sindbad the Sailor.
Travel through the streets of old Baghdad, around luxurious palaces and fragrant gardens in India, to desert islands in the China seas… all in the company of kings, sultans, princesses, merchants, enchanted horses, sailors and thieves.






 3º ESO

"K's First Case" Ed. Longman. 3ºESO. HIGHER LEVELS 
                            

                                                                                                                                                                                   
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?










4º ESO 

"Slam" 4º ESO. ADVANCED LEVEL

Fifteen-year-old Sam is an ordinary, nice kid. He gets along pretty well with his single mom, who had him when she was 16. He does OK in school, and has a few not-very-close friends. He likes to skateboard, and idolizes Tony Hawk, whose poster he talks to about his troubles. He meets a pretty girl, Alicia, and they start a passionate relationship. After a while the passion cools, and they split up. But then Alicia discovers she is pregnant, and she is determined to have and keep the baby. So begins a journey for which neither of them is ready.







 

"The Short Cut" Ed. Stanley. (Level 1) 4º ESO. LOWER LEVELS

In this thrilling story set in an African country devastated by war, a youn girl fights for her father's life taking a [shortcut = atajo] to maturity. Topics for reflection and discussion: family arguments, generational gap, therealization of what really matters in life. 










 1º BTO

"A Kiss Before Dying" Ed. Macmillan. ALL GROUPS.

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.

WEBSITE ACTIVITIES FOR ESO

Click on your school book if you want some fun while you revise your English.

PRESENTATIONS ON TENSES

Here you have a few presentations about basic verbal tenses in English. I hope they will help you understand their formation and use better.

English Tenses 2 on Prezi

Present Continuous and present simple

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Try these games: Snakes & Ladders , The Hangman , Adverbs of Frequency

Past Simple Vs Past Continuous

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Try the following quiz to test yourself on these tenses and get ready for the grammar test



Game on Past Simple and Past Continuous

Present Perfect Tense

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Present Perfect Tense II

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Present Perfect & Participles Hangman Game

Present Perfect vs Simple Past Game

Present Perfect Simple And Present Perfect Continuous

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Present Perfect or Past Simple
Present Perfect vs Past Simple Game


How Long + Present Perfect Continuous



Try this challenging game about the Present Perfect

Mastering the Present Perfect

Past Perfect

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past perfect continuous from loopito

Future Tenses

WILL OR BE GOING TO: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3,
Exercise 4

Be going to/ Will Test

Future Continuous and Future Perfect

FUTURE CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT: Exercise 1   
Exercise 2, Exercise 3,

In the link below you'll find lots of exercises to practise the different verb tenses and their uses:
Practice on English Verb Tenses
Quiz1 on tenses 
Grammar Aquarium

BOOK REVIEWS

Those of you who decided to read a voluntary book during this first term have to present a paper job. The due dates can be checked in the calendar. I'm going to make things easier for you and you will have to fill in the following worksheet for your paper job.

When you complete all the sections, save your work and upload it to the correspondent course of the workingwithenglish wiki together with a picture of the cover of your book before the due date. Ask me if you need a user name and a password to upload your worksheet.

2º ESO: GRAMMAR PRESENTATIONS

Watch the following presentations. They will help you revise the contents studied so far.

Prepositions of place

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Daily Routines

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The Present Continuous