BIOGRAPHIES BY 1st BTO STUDENTS

Listen to one of the following celebrities' biographies retold by students in 1st BTO and make an oral comment in the famous person you prefer. You can make a summary of what you have understood, comment on any interesting details you learnt about the person after listening to his/her biography and say the reason why you like him/her.


Due Date: Wednesday 17th March

LISTEN TO YOU!!!

You need to improve your pronunciation of English and I hope this activity will help you to. In this oral activity you must listen to one of the listenings in http://www.listenaminute.com/ and then read the script into this voicethread. Make sure your listening hasn't been chosen by anybody before recording your voice. Listen to the script several times and record a perfect reading of it.



Due Date: Wednesday 17th March

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Pay attention to the following presentation on relative clauses and do the exercises below.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

View more presentations from nataliaeoi.

Basic Activities on Relative Clauses

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Rewriting Sentences

Now listen to the song, find the relative pronouns and identify the ones that have been omitted.









Now let's play JEOPARDY!!

CNN NEWS

Your next task has to do with news. Luckily for students of English, nowadays there are thousands of websites where you can listen to real English. The one I am presenting today, CNN StudentNews, is especially interesting because it contains real updated news for students. And the good thing is that if there's something you can't understand you can always read the script.
Each one of you will listen to one piece of news for one particular day twice and will comment about it on the following VoiceThread so that the rest of us will also know about it. Record a one-two minute summary of your news and give your personal point of view about it. Use your own words.
Click on the following link for the news distribution.

I can't wait to hear about your news in the VoiceThread below:



Due date for all your news: Tuesday 23rd February

ROYAL CARIBBEAN DOCKS AFTER HAITI'S EARTHQUAKE

Sixty miles from Haiti's devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jetski rides, parasailing and rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks. Oasis of the Seas, the world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship ever built docked as normal at Labadee beach in northern Haiti despite the deadly earthquake a week ago that devastated the Caribbean nation. 

Do you agree with Royal Caribbean's decision to dock in Haiti despite nearby devastation?

We will discuss the issue in class. Half of you will be in favour of the decision and the other half will be against it. Think of arguments to sustain your point.
The following articles might give you some ideas for the discussion:
The Guardian    Daily News    Sphere     Yahoo News    Cruise Forum
A couple of videos for and against

STEPHANIE MEYER

I'm pretty sure you have heard of Stephanie Meyer, authoress of the Twilight Saga and some of you will have read some of her books, if not all. In the video below you can listen to her talking about her three books: Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. You will also have the chance to know a little bit more about her life. Watch the video and take notes of what you think is relevant about her interview. Further on I will ask you to answer some questions orally about what she says in the interview.

Don't despair if you don't get to understand every single word in the interview. A general idea of what she says should be enough to do your task later on.

Now it's time to take out your notes and answer the questions about the interview on the Voicethread below.





Questions and Answers Key

Feedback on Stephanie Meyer's Voicthread

MODAL VERBS

  Now that we've been studying modal verbs for a while, it's time for you to revise and make sure you have grasped them. Watch the following presentation and do the activities below.

Modal verbs-

View more presentations from amef0011. Watch the following video and use modal verbs to speculate about the trick

Do the some of the modal activities on the following websites for some practice English Grammar Lessons
Grammar Practice on Modal Verbs  Now take the following challenge and tell me how well you know Modal Verbs:

PERFECT MODALS
Modals for the Past 1 Modals for the Past 2What could have happened?

Are you good at Modal Verbs now? What about basketball? Are you also good at basket? Prove it here.Try the Snakes & Ladders Game on Mixed Modals.


Finally, let's take the following competition game. Divide into two groups and try to get the highest number of points by answering the most difficult questions.

MODAL VERBS CHALLENGE  Modal Verbs Final Quiz