Sunday 30 October 2011

APLE HOMEWORK 6/10. Deadline November 4th

Dear Students,

I hope you are having a good time and celebrating Halloween.
Here is your task for this. You have to go to this page and play the game

I didn't dare to go on the full experience, so I think the lite experience is more than enough, especially if you are an easily frightened person.

Once you have finished the 5 chapters, send me an email to my usual address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com, tell me a little bit about the story and also if you liked and how you reacted to everything. Remember it must be oral.

Will see you on Wednesday and then on Thursday Kimberley will be coming back with info and activities about restaurants.

Javier

Monday 24 October 2011

3º ESO COMPUTER ROOM OCTOBER 25TH

Hello, students from 3º ESO, welcome to our blog

20 minutes:



First of all, we are going to work with the CD-ROM from your book. If you don't have it, raise your hand and talk to your teacher. We are mainly going to revise module 1. For that purpose, you are going to do:

-Vocabulary 3
-Grammar 1 & 2
-Communication 2
-Skills 4

10 minutes:
Do you believe in magic? Let's see if Akinator can guess the name of the famous person you have thought of. Think of a famous person, answer the questions and that's it.

20 minutes:
You are going to visit this page, then choose 3º ESO > Difficult and practise with Present Continuous and Present Simple. I hope you like it.

Fast finishers:

You can continue practising here, here and here.
Write an annonymous comment saying your opinion about this computer lesson. Don't forget to write who you are.

Javier

Friday 21 October 2011

APLE HOMEWORK 5/10. Deadline October 27th.

Hello students,
Here is the task you have to do for the long weekend.
You have to go to this site, choose one of the stories and listen to it at least a couple of times WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE SCRIPT. Then, you can listen to it again with the script to understand it better. Your task is to record a summary of the story IN YOUR OWN WORDS and in less than two minutes. You can also say if you liked the story and if you found it easy or difficult to understand.

I really hope this second voicethread is easier for you than the first one. If you can't manage with voicethread, you can also record your voice with "audacity" or "grabadora de sonido de Windows" and sent it to me to javiprofeingles@hotmail.com, mentioning who you are on the mail.

Try to change your icon/avatar in voicethread and use a picture or something more personal and original.



Good luck and enjoy your weekend.

APLE COMPUTER ROOM LESSON OCTOBER 24TH

20 minutes: One of your students will carry out his oral presentation.

10 minutes: Do you believe in magic? Let's see if Akinator can guess the name of the famous person you have thought of. Think of a famous person, answer the questions and that's it.

20 minutes: Some people in the class love music (and love telling us all about it every single day!!). Let's see how good you are at lyrics.



We are going to listen to songs and fill in the blanks of the lyrics. Go here, create a new account (on the right, above the picture and under sign in), choose a song (easy or medium level to start with), choose a mode (you can start with elementary and then try something more challenging). Then, listen to the song and try to fill in the blanks.
Write your comments here about the activity. Say which songs you worked on and what was your score. Was it too easy/difficult? Don't forget to include your name in the comment.

A very funny, interesting lesson. I hope you enjoy it.
Javier

Saturday 15 October 2011

APLE COMPUTER ROOM OCTOBER 17TH

As unit 2 in our textbook is about restaurants, let's work on that.




15 minutes > go to this page http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omquestion/contenidotematico.htm and do as many intermediate questions as you can (at least 15 questions). Don't forget to check for the answers after you do it. Add the address to your delicious account.


20 minutes > practise listening about restaurants (unit 2 in the text book). Go to these pages for that:

http://esl.about.com/library/listening/blrestorder.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/pie1/pierd1.htm

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B7/listening.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/fastfood/fastfoodrd1.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/0501/512-Akane-Restaurant.html (Hide the text and then do the multimedia Quiz Game)



10 minutes > watch this video and answer the following questions about it as a comment to this post


1.- What did he write? Why?
2.- What kind of restaurant is it?
3.- What happened with the wine?
4.- Did he like the food?
5.- What did he do with the food?
6.- What happened at the end?



Enjoy your lesson.

Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 4/10. Deadline October 21st.

We are going to play a game of Trivial one of these days, so I think it would be interesting if you wrote some questions and answers for the game. Apart from English, there are 4 other categories:




1.- History and Geography


2.- Cinema and Sports


3.- Art and literature


4.- Science


I want you to send me an email to my usual address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com with AT LEAST 16 QUESTIONS, (4 for each category). Don't forget to write the answer (or the possible options with the correct one) and to include your name.
Hope you enjoy playing.
Javier

Saturday 8 October 2011

APLE HOMEWORK 3/10. Deadline October 13th

Dear Students,

As you know for sure, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Aple, died last week. We are going to talk about him and watch some videos on Monday in the computer room, but for the moment this is a bit about him.
Here is the first "Think Different" Apple commercial that never aired, narrated by Steve Jobs: "Here's to the Crazy Ones". What makes great people great?



I want you to try to do three things:
a)identify the 17 famous people who appear in the video.
b)write the script of the commercial (you will have to watch it several times).
c)choose the character who matches your number in the class (if you are not sure about your number, ask me on Monday) and prepare a speech for Tuesday saying why you think that person was crazy and thought in a different way.
You have to send me a message to javiprofeingles@hotmail.com (as usual) with three files: one with the people who apppear, another one with the script and an audio file with a summary of what you are going to say about your character on Tuesday.