TIME FOR FAREWELLS

Time is coming to say good-bye to students in APLE2 since the school year will soon be over for you and you will be starting a much more exciting and real period in your lives. You will step into the world to forge your own paths in life, which I am sure you will find, however difficult you might find it now. 
I wouldn't like to see you off without letting you know you've been a special group of students who I've really enjoyed teaching. Unlike the ordinary English subject, not being subjected to a text book has given me the chance to deal with a wide variety of topics and current affairs which I hope you found interesting. Your suggestions and initiative have undoubtedly made the task easier. I would also like to acknowledge your willingness to take part in all the activities, although some of them were quite embarrassing for some of you - I'm thinking of last year's sketches. I hope that you feel your English has improved after these two years in APLE. 
However, I won't let you go without setting your last assignment. This time I would like you to WRITE, something I haven't asked you to do in these two years, except for some commentaries in the blog. I would like you to write farewell letters leaving your testimony about what the years spent at Galileo Galilei have meant to you. You could think of how you felt when you were the new freshmen at the school and how you feel now that you are about to leave. You could write about any anecdotes or memories you have of all these years and give advice to the newcomers who will read your letters. Write them in the wiki and I will post them in the blog later on. Show them how good you really are!

ENGLISH ATTACK! GIVE IT A GO!

English Attack is a new online resource for helping students of English improve their competence in the language. It provides an online entertainment platform which offers interesting video clips on a wide variety of topics. All the videos come with interactive activities and vocabulary games. You just need to sign in and choose a video according to your interests or level of English. Watch the video and do the exercises that follow. They are called video boosters and are based on music videos and short clips from movies, hit TV series and news channels. Don't miss the vocabulary games.

The video below presents this innovating site to learn English. I hope that you will continue improving your English when you finish your BTO, and I wish all the tools I've been presenting you with prove to be useful in your future individual learning. This site will definetely be one of them.

YOUR IDEAL JOB

As preparation for your job interview I would like you to make your comments about the suggested topic in the Voicethread below .
Needless to say, all these final assignments are really important for your final marks, so try to do your best.
Deadline: May 4th










Check the feedback here.

These are most of the questions you will be asked at the interview. You can think about the answers while waiting to be interviewed.

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR APLE 2

Since you're about to take the first of the last two listening tests in the year, today you'll be doing some listening practice in the following sites:

1. - Take the following test after listening to a conversation between a customer and a shop assistant.


2.- Try one first certificate listening test here.

3.- Select the level you feel more at ease and choose one dictation.


4.- Finally you're going to choose at least three senior students who were asked about their 10-year plans and write a comment with the details.

EARTH HOUR DAY

Earth Hour Day was celebrated last Saturday 26th March all around the world. Did you know about it? Did you take part?
 
Go to Qwiki  and learn a bit more about the origins of the event.

Then watch the following video about Earth Hour 2011



Listen to the following piece of news from Breaking News English and fill in the gaps below:

  
Have a look at some pictures from different sites in the world before and after the event

A JOB INTERVIEW

You are going to learn how to prepare for and have a successful job interview.
Being prepared promotes confidence!
Most interviewers make their decision within the first three minutes, so make a terrific first impression.

TASK 1:
Let's start by listening to a job interview and answer the question that follow.


Watch the following video giving you some advice about what it is expected from you at a job interview:






TASK 2:
In teams you will find out information about one of the questions asked in the wiki webquest. Then, you will present it to the other class members in a 5-10-minute PowerPoint presentation or role play.

TASK 3:
You will make up your own interview questions and then interview each other. Click here to dowload the questionnaire. Here you have more information on interview questions. Have a look at more sample questions here. You can read about some suggested answer to those questions here, too.

TASK 4: 

Step 1: Now, individually, you are going to download a job application and fill it in, you can get it by clicking here

 

Step 2: You will hand in your application form to your teacher; and later you will have an interview with her. You should dress as if you were going to apply for a real job interview. The way you are dressed will add up to your final grades; your teacher will set up the date for your interview.

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