APLE HOMEWORK 2/10. Desperate Housewives. Deadline October 3rd

Hi students,
This is your homework for this week

Say your opinions and your first feelings about the new series we started watching yesterday (Desperate Housewives). Here are some questions that can  help you speak? They are just suggestions, so you can talk about whatever you want.
Say why you think Mary Alice killed herself.
Give your opinion about the other characters. Which one is your favourite?
Will Carlos find out that Gabriele is having an affair with the gardener? What will happen?
Will Susan finally manage to date Mike Delfino or will Eddie do it first?
Will Lynette find a solution to her problems with her four children?
Will Bree finally divorce her husband? Will he die because of his allergy to onión?

Remember this is an oral activity, so you must send an audio file (as last week) and not text. Don't forget to say who you are.
2 or 3 minutes is more than enough. Good luck.
I hope you don't have too many technical problems.
Javier

APLE HOMEWORK 5/10. Deadline April 19th.

This week I think the subject may be quite interesting for you. Notice this assignment has two different parts. Good luck and enjoy it!

Please watch the full video and then send me a voicemail (SpeakPipe) with your thoughts and answers to the questions below:




1.- What is coding about?

2.- What qualities do you need to be able to code?

3.- Why is learning to code so important and exciting? When should you start learning?

4.- Famous programmers tell us about their experience. Comment on three of them.

7.- What is their job like? What about those cool working spaces?

8.- What are the benefits of learning to code?

9.- What is coding compared to?

10.-  Would you be interested in learning to code if a class were offered in school?


Now listen to the following extract and fill in the blanks. Send me a screenshot with your results.

Many thanks to Ana Mendez for all her ideas.

SITUATIONS FOR THE APLE ORAL EXAM

Hello again, students.

These are the possible topics you may have to role play in the oral exam next week. I will start at the end of the list to compensate for the first term.

1- Two friends discussing about something, expressing their opinions and agreeing or disagreeing with the other person.
2- Waiter and customer at a restaurant.
3- Dealing with problems at the restaurant. One of you will be a customer and the other one the waiter or the manager of the restaurant. (waiting for too long, bad food, allergies, wrong bill, etc).
4- Showing a house (one of you will be the possible buyer and the other one will be the owner or the estate agent.
5-Returning an item in a shop (one of you will be the customer and the other one the shop assistant or even the manager).
6- You have just come out of the cinema, but you have very different opinions about it. Say why  you love it or why you hated it.
Javier

APLE LESSON OUTLINE JANUARY 28th

This week it is time to practise about flats, houses, renting, buying, etc.

15 minutes: Go to this site, listening to the conversation hiding the video one or twice until you get to understand it. Then, do the multimedia quiz game on the right.

20 minutes: We are going to practise listening about all the steps of the process, from meeting the realtor (agente inmobiliario) to actually moving in. Make at least one listening in each of the 12 categories. Make a list in Word of all the new vocabulary you have found, look for the translation and copy and paste it here as a comment. Don't forget to write your name at the beginning or at the end so that I can know who you are!!!!

10 minutes: Let's finish practising. More apartments for rent. Do at least sections II and III.

5 minutes: Watch this video about the Winchester Mistery House and answer this questions about it.

1.- Who was the house built by?
2.- When was it started?
3.- How many rooms are there in the house?
4.- How long did it take her to build the house?
5.- According to Sarah, who was haunting her?
6.- What two things did she like?
7.- How much do you have to pay to visit the gift shop?

APLE LESSON OUTLINE JANUARY 21st

Hi, students,
These are your tasks for this week.
10 minutes: watch episode 11 and 12 of The Flatmates: and do the language point and the quiz (in theory you have already done the previous ones).
25 minutes: watch at least twice this video from Stephanie Meyers, the famous authoress of the Twilight Series. Take notes of all the information she gives on a piece of paper. Your homework for the weekend will be to answer orally some questions about the video on a voicethread, but this time only with your notes, not being able to watch the video again. The voicethread with the questions will be ready on Friday evening and the deadline for your task is Thursday 28th.

15 minutes: Practise short listenings here and do the activities. For each minute listening, there is a different one.

Fill in the blanks:
I ____________ how many accidents I’ve had in my life. I’ve had a few serious ones where I’ve ended up in ____________ . Traffic accidents are the worst. They’re always painful. I ____________ had too many work-related accidents. I suppose that’s because I do ____________ work and that’s not so dangerous. Most of my accidents are those around the house. I’ve lost count of the ____________ of times I’ve hit my thumb with a hammer. I’m also really good at standing up and ____________ my head on something. I’m not as bad as my friend ____________ . He’s a real accident looking for somewhere to happen. Almost every time we meet, he has some story to tell about his ____________ accident. He’s ____________ unbelievable. I think I’d be very ____________ if I were his mother.
Correct the spelling:
Being an actor must be treag. I really wish I could act. I’d love to have the confidence to act in tnfor of people. Being a member of the audience at the theatre is great, but acting on tsage is better. I wonder what it’s like to be a movie actor. I think you need to be beautiful or anshomed to be a successful Hollywood or Bollywood actor. They all look great. Actors are very cuylk. They get paid huge mtauosn of money to do what they love doing. My favourite actors are all dead now. I lrlaye like the actors in the old lkbac and white movies. They all looked so cool. Actors in the old days seedme to be more masogluro than today’s actors. The best thing about being an actor is that all of your friends are famous too.

advertising
Unjumble the words:
What is advertising? Is truth is it the or it telling making things look better than they really are? Or is it lying? Companies pay lot money adverts a of for. Some of the ads you see in glossy magazines look like art. The commercials movies mini like look TV on. Do they really change our behaviour? Do adverts make you buy things? I think advertising a of some is form lying. Is BMW really “The ultimate driving machine” their in say they like ads? British Airways used to say they were “The world’s favourite airline,” stop to had but it saying because it wasn’t true. Personally, get of ads I tired watching on television. They always interrupt a good programme. I like ads in magazines. usually They’re interesting quite.

APLE lesson December 3rd

15 minutes > go to this address:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/archiveepisode.shtml
and listen and do the language point and the quiz for episodes 5 & 6 of the flatmates (in theory you have already done the previous ones).

15 minutes > go to burlington speech trainer, select your name and do the second unit of the first book. If your name doesn't appear in there, find the computer with your name.

15 minutes > go to www.esl-lab.com

and listen to one easy and two difficult ones starting with letter "f".

Good luck on your oral exam. Remember that Spanish is forbidden.
Javier

APLE LESSON November 26th

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

15 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 > go to this address,
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/fhinojosac-137783-listening-questions-mr-bean-restaurant-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/
watch the video of Mr. Bean at the restaurant, enjoy it and then try to answer the questions about it.

10 minutes > go to this address:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/archiveepisode.shtml
and listen and do the activities for episodes 3 & 4 of the flatmates (in theory you did 1 & 2 last week).

Enjoy your lesson.
Javier