APLE HOMEWORK 8 & 9 /10. Deadline February 13th (2 weeks this time)

Dear Students
This time your assignment is a bit longer, more complex and more personal. It will also have a numeric mark. One mark for the appearance and another mark for your English.
Following the famous song by One Direction "The story of my life", I want you to write and tell me the story of your life.

You can do it with Eduglogster, Brainshark or Glossi.
I need photographs, text and, of course, audio from you.
We can talk about it on Tuesday in our class, since Monday it is Rhona's Day.
You can see some examples on this incredible blog: http://www.uptodate-amef.blogspot.com.es/

Have a nice, long weekend.
Javier

NUMBER THE STARS 3º ESO

I hope you enjoy the book assigned to you this year. The simple fact of reading an unabridged book in English will be quite a feat for most of you and surely I will know how to acknowledge it.
In class we will comment on the book every week and you are going to think of some questions for each of the chapters of  "Number the stars" which we will discuss in class on Wednesdays or Fridays. You must read 4 Chapters every week.
In order to help you collaborate and make this task more interesting, I have created a document where you will type out your questions and you will share them. In this way, all of you will know the questions your classmates have asked. Don't forget to include your name when you make your contribution (at the end in brackets). The final test will be based on some of these questions. So take good notice!

You can also contribute to the document by answering some of the questions your classmates have asked.

If you click on the image below you will be taken straight to the document with the questions. I have typed a couple of them as an example. 

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In this second document, you will write down a glossary of new words in their context. You must write at least two words per chapter, with the translation into Spanish, the context, the page number and your name. I have also typed a couple of them as an example.

I think if we work together on this, everybody will benefit from the experience.

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Javier

APLE COMPUTER ROOM. January 27th and February 3rd

Hello students,

20 minutes: First of all, I want you to practise a little bit of listening to see what your level is at this stage of the year. You can do it here:

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 Read the instructions for the test. You should try to do the test in less than 20 minutes. That means listening to each clip no more than twice.  Once you have finished, you have the chance to email the result. Write your name and then my email address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com. Then, raise your hand and tell me you're done.

10 minutes: You are going to play this game: Wordshake . It looks stupid, but it is rather captivating. I got 30 points on my third attempt. You can't try more than three times.

20 minutes: Geography quiz.
Try this geography quiz and see how many levels you manage to complete. It is very good practise for  your Geography class next year.

The Traveler IQ Challenge ranks your geographic knowledge. What's your TIQ?

Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 7/10. Deadline February 30th.

After you have finished voting, the film chosen in 12 years a slave.
You might think that slavery is something that happened in the United States in the 19th. century, but I want  you to listen to this news from November 2013. It is very short, so you can listen to it many times. If you prefer to listen to it with an American accent, you can do it here.

Once you have listened to the story, at least once, listen again and answe these questions about it.

1.	In which part of London were the women held captive?
2.	How old are the suspected captors?
3.	Who did one of the captive women alert?
4.	What are the captives' nationalities?
5.	Who is thought to have been born a captive?
6.	In what mental state did police describe the women as being?
7.	What did the women have no real exposure to for 30 years?
8.	What did the police say would take some time to do?
9.	Whom did the charity say we often do not know?
10.	How did the charity describe the London street?

A) You must READ the question aloud and then ANSWER it ORALLY and then send it to me in a voice file.

B) Read this article about it in The Guardian and send me an audio file with any other relevant information about the news.

If you have any questions about it, you can ask me on Monday at school.

Javier

3 ESO LESSON WITH ALEX. January 22nd

Major agglomerations in the world 

United States cities by crime rate 

Largest cities in Spain

If it were my home. Compare Spain with any other country in the world.

Homework. edu.glogster.com

Your educator code: 1E7923

Tutorials to use glogster.

youtube

glogster (several videos)

Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 6/10. Deadline: January 23rd.

Hello students,
I guess if you like films and the cinema you will love your homework. As you might know yesterday January 16th the nominations for the Oscars 2014 were announced. I can announce that we will watch one of these films before the Academy Awards Ceremony in March.

You must watch the announcement of the nominees (optional) and the 9 trailers in this link.


Once you have watched the trailers for the nine nominees for The Best Picture (around 2 minutes each trailer) I want you to:
A)Fill in this questionnaire once you have watched all the trailers.


B)Send me a voice message telling me your opinion about the films, which one of them you would like to watch in our class and why.

APLE HOMEWORK 5/10. Deadline: January 16th.

Welcome back, students and happy New Year.

This week I think your homework is much easier technically.
You have to go to this web, and do these listenings:

medium (nivel intermedio):

#02 - Trying to Understand Food Labels
#09 - Physical Education Aims for Active Lives, Fewer Painful Memories

difficult (nivel avanzado):

#05 - Apple's iPhone Makes Quiet Entry in India
#10 - Park in the Sky Opens in New York
#17 - Experts Divided Over Internet Changes to Language

Each listening is about 4-5 minutes long. You must click on "Listen!", listen to it as many times as you need and fill in the blanks in the text. Once you finish each listening, click on "corregir" and then on "enviar el resultado a tu profesor". There, you write your name, your email address and my email address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com

You don't need to have them perfect, but make an effort to make the most out of the activity.

Regards

Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 3 and 4/10 FOR CHRISTMAS. Deadline Thursday January 9th.

Hi students.
I hope you are having a good time with no lessons and exams to worry about.
Here's your homework for Christmas. You have about 3 weeks to work on it, but try not to leave everything for the last moment as usual.

Homework 3/10 is Internet based.

During the second term, we are going to work with English Central. It is a site where you can watch small videos, with or without the script and then you can listen and repeat what the video says and get a certain amount of points. First, I want you to register. You can do it here.

Write your real name, an email and a password. As usual, WRITE THE INFORMATION DOWN somewhere or REMEMBER IT so as not to forget it next time you have to work with it.
Once registered, try to get at least 3000 points (the more, the better)

If you can...

Try to listen to at least 30 minutes of English every day. You can watch videos, films, series, student news, listen to music, watch TV, etc., but try to listen to as much as you can.


Homework 4/10

New Year's Resolutions. This homework has three small parts.
Part 1. You must watch this small video about New Year Resolution and do the seven questions of this test . When you finish, print your screen with your result.

Part 2. You must listen to this audio and then fill in this chart with the information from the audio and send it to me (javiprofeingles@hotmail.com).


Part 3. You must record your voice telling me your New Year Resolutions and how you plan to put them in practice. You must talk between one and three minutes. You can use any of the systems you know to send me audio.

The last part is just for some of you.

If you haven't worked during the first term, January 1st is a good time to take the resolution to start working and doing your homework.

3º ESO computer lesson. December 16th

First of all, we are going to install the program for Going Places into our computers. Just follow my instructions. This is something we will only have to do today. If you didn't bring your CD, raise your hand and tell me.
Now that the program is in your computer, this is what you have to do:

module 1:

vocabulary 2
Grammar 2
Communication 2
Skills 1

module 2:

vocabulary 2
Grammar 1
skills 1
test 2

module 3

grammar 2

When you finish, you can start playing with our friend akinator. You think of a famous person or character and must answer his questions to see if he finds out who your character is. When you finish, raise your hand and let me know.

Finally, we are going to practise some listenings. Go to this page and do one easy, one medium and one difficult.
Hope you enjoyed the lesson.
Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 2/10. Deadline Thursday 19th. Recommended deadline Monday 16th.

I think all of you, except for Paula, were in the class the other way when we started watching the video. In more than one and no more than three minutes make a summary of the story so far and then tell me  how you think the story ends (there is only one more minute of footage).
You can do it with speakpipe or with any other system you might use.

Javier