APLE HOMEWORK 9/10. Deadline February 24th.

Hello students,

A few days ago, we were watching "The Help". I think most of you like it. Since next week we have the Oscard Awards Ceremony and Viola Davis is nominated for her role in this film, I thought it would be a good idea for you to watch this interview on the David Letterman Show. David Letterman is very similar to Spanish Andreu Buenafuente.

I suggest you should watch the entire video, but if you have a limited amount of free time, the interview runs from 19:00 to 29:00.
Once you watch the interview, you must answer ORALLY these ten questions about it. Once you have recorded them, send them to me to my usual email address.

1.- Is the first Oscar nomination for Viola Davis?
2.- What does Viola Davis say about Meryl Streep?
3.- Where did Viola Davis spend her honeymoon?
4.- How did Viola and her husband know that the food was ready?
5.- What did they do since George Clooney wasn't in?
6.- What was the agreement between George Clooney and Viola Davis is they were both nominated?
7.- Why do you have to put a pad on if you jump off a plane?
8.- What is her daughter's name? How old is she and how long has she had her?
9.- What happened to Viola Davis and the dairy section of the supermarket?
10.- How much weight did Viola Davis have to gain for her role in the film?

APLE HOMEWORK 8/10. Deadline February 17th.

WHITNEY HOUSTON. A TRIBUTE

As you may already know if you live on this planet, Whitney Houston has been found dead in a hotel in Los Angeles this morning. She was one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, but her life was not easy at all. Watch this video and answer these questions about it. As usual, send your answers to my account. Try to be original and send your own responses.

Ver todo videoclips Whitney Houston

1.- How many Grammies and Emmies does Whitney Houston have?
2.- Where is Whitney Houston living at the moment?
3.- Is Whitney Houston sick according to herself?
4.- What options does Diane suggest for how thin she ws in the photo?
5.- What does Whitney Houston say about crack?
6.- Where was Whitney Houston born?
7.- What was her mother's name and job?
8.- Where did Whitney Houston start singing?
9.- How old was Whitney Houston when she won her first Grammy?
10.- How does Whitney Houston feel now? Why?

APLE HOMEWORK 7/10. Deadline February 10th

Dear students,
I hope you have enjoyed "The help". Your homework this week has got two parts. The first part is written and the second part is oral.
Part one: Send me an email answering these 10 questions about the film.

1.- What is Skitter’s  job?

2.- Why is Miss Celia so sad?

3.- How many maids does Skitter need to write her book?

4.- What is Stuart’s problem on this first date with Skitter?

5.- Why does Hilly hate Miss Celia?

6.- What is so special about Minni’s cake?

7.- What happened to Aibileen’s son?

8.- Why was Constantine (Skitter’s servant) fired?

9.- Why can’t black people use white people’s toilets?

10.- Whatis Skitter’s mother main concern in life?

Part 2:

Record a voicethread here with a summary of the film, how you think the film ends and your opinion about it. It MUST BE over one minute long.

3º ESO COMPUTER ROOM LESSON JANUARY 31ST

Hi students,
This is your schedule for today's lesson.

20 minutes: Go to "Going Places". Choose Module 3 and do the following activities:
-Vocabulary 3 & 4.
-Grammar 1 & 2
-Communication 2
-Skills 1
-Test 1 & 3

25 minutes: Glog

It is the time to go to edu.glogster.com and visit the "What is Glogster EDU" Section that you will find at the top of the page. Once you have finished and understand everything, there comes the final stage, "to create a glog". This option is in pink at the top right hand corner of the screen.

Now it comes the time to play with your new glog adding a wall, text, sound, images or even video. Just see how it works.
If you have any problems, just raise your hand and I will try to help you.

Good luck.
Javier

APLE COMPUTER ROOM LESSON JANUARY 30TH

It's show time!!!

We have the nominees for this year Academy Awards. Have you seen any of the nominees for Best Picture? Have you got any favourites? Here are seven of the nine nominees. Read the synopsis of the plot, watch the trailer and then decide which one you would like to watch and which do you think could be the winner this year. Give reasons for both your replies. Would you like to watch any of those films in your English class? Try to convince your teacher.

NOMINEES:

As the era of silent films draws to a close, two actors find their careers and their relationship influenced by the coming of talking pictures. While popular screen star Valentin resists the transition to sound, young Miller embodies a modern age that is leaving Valentin behind.

The complexities of life, death and family relations challenge a man faced with losing his wife. When Elizabeth King is left comatose following an accident, her husband Matt finds himself thrust into the unfamiliar role of caregiver to their two daughters, while at the same time facing a difficult financial decision that may put him at odds with other family members.

In the racially charged climate of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963, a young white Southerner convinces a group of African-American maids to relate their experiences working in white households. The stories they share reflect the devastating social inequality governing every aspect of life in Jackson, and place the women at risk of reprisals from their employers.

Hugo Cabret is a young Parisian orphan who lives hidden away in a  train station. When he is not eluding the station’s watchful inspector, secretly keeping its many clocks running, or tinkering with a mechanical figure that belonged to his father, Hugo observes the lives of the people who work in the station…including an irascible toy shop owner named Georges Méliès

Following a devastating loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 playoffs, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his assistant, Peter Brand, devise a statistics-based formula for choosing potential players. Uncertain of his chances of success and following a plan that flouts conventional baseball wisdom, Beane sets out to rebuild his team

A middle-aged man’s contemplation of the pattern and meaning of his life is interwoven with moments from his childhood in a small Texas town. As Jack O’Brien and his two younger brothers grow up, they are shaped by both the nurturing love of their mother and their demanding father’s strict discipline and unyielding expectations.

The horrors of war are seen through the eyes of a valiant horse whose young owner must relinquish him to the army at the start of World War I. Separated from the farmer’s son who has raised and trained him, Joey enters the war as a cavalry horse and is soon plunged into the nightmarish heart of the conflict.

APLE HOMEWORK 6/10. Deadline February 2nd

Hi again students,

This week's homework is quite simple, but I think you should do it along the week. If you try to do it in just one day, it will become a boring task.
You know English Central already. The objective for this week is to get 5000 + 6 videos. You can watch the videos you prefer, but I recommend some new videos there are about Steve Jobs.

Have a great weekend.
Javier

APLE COMPUTER CLASS January 23rd

Last Monday it was a holiday in the US. It was Martin Luther King's Day. Before starting a project called "a class divided". I want you to look for information on the Internet (in English, of course) and try to find the answers to these questions:

1 When was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
2 What were the names of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family members?
3 When was Martin Luther King, Jr. married, and did he have any children?
4 What did Martin Luther King, Jr. study?
5 When did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous speech "I have a dream ..."?
6 What sort of discrimination did he fight against?
7 What were his dreams?
8 Why was Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize?
9 When did Martin Luther King, Jr. die and where is he buried?

You have to work in pairs and then tell the answer of your question to the other groups. Each pair only has to look for the answer to one question. Numbers 1 & 2 look for question 1, numbers 3 & 4 look for question 2 and so on

APLE HOMEWORK 5/10. Deadline January 26th.

Hi students,

Next week we are going to have a debate in our class about the death penalty. To start with, I think you could try to make these two activities as homework:
1.- Go to this blog (thank you, Olga), listen to the actor Jeremy Irons talking about the death penalty and then send me a word document with the blanks of the test. Don't do it in the blog, just write the blanks on a Word document and send them to me.

Then, make a recording with your opinion about the death penalty and send it to me as well. You can send me both files in the same message or in different ones.

Good luck.
Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 4/10. Deadline January 19th

What would you like to do with your life in 10 years time? Here you can listen to 18 high school seniors predicting their future. Your task is to listen to them and then write a word document with their names and one sentence you understood from each one of them (different from the one  you can read).

Then you have to make a similar recording about you and your future. Say which of these 18 students do you feel more attracted to and why (not only appearance!). Send both files (the Word file and the audio file) to my usual email address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com
As usual, please don't leave it for the very last moment.
Javier

APLE Computer Room Lesson January 16th

Welcome back, students,

Happy New Year to you all. This year we come back with new ideas and sites to improve your oral English.

15 minutes: Go to esl-lab and do one medium and one difficult activity. Try to do the first one y ou find that you haven't done (I think the last ones started with letter C).
15 minutes: We are also going to continue practising our phonetics. For that purpose, you have to click here and do all the activities related to /u/ and /u:/.

15 minutes: Finally, we are going to watch a video about Ted Williams and answer some questions about it. If the video doesn't work in there, I will play it on the overhead projector, just let me know.
When you finished answering que questions, scroll down and fill in the grids with your full name, my teacher code "jarroyo" and the class ID: "none". That way, I will be able to see your results.
Here is the video and the questions:



to watch the video now, click here.

Fast finishers. If you have already finished and have 3 minutes to spare, you can have a good laugh with this Scottish video about a lift.