Friday, June 6, 2014

Movie Worksheet

Gulliver's Travels
ACHIEVEMENT MARKERS:
 LISTENING: Identifies main and specific ideas in oral texts about travel, explorers and life experiences.
SPEAKING: States information about travels, explorers and life experiences using the grammar and vocabulary studied.
READING: Skims for specific information from written texts on travel, explorers and life experiences.
WRITING: Makes a summary about travel, explorers and life experiences texts, using elements of selection and omission.
Introduction: Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on a mysterious island, where he towers over its tiny citizens. Upon arrival in Bermuda, Gulliver rents a boat and travels into the triangle. After falling asleep at the helm of his ship, he's caught in a freak storm and the boat is overwhelmed by a waterspout. He washes up unconscious on the shore of Lilliput.

ACTIVITIES:

BEFORE WATCHING:

1. Have you ever seen this movie before? ___________________________________________________
2. How does it feel to be a Giant in a land of small people? ______________________________________  _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. The movie shows a society which has strict rules to live together in peace and harmony.  What rules do you have at home and school? ____________________________________________________________
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WHILE WATCHING:
Answer the following questions:

1.      Where did Gulliver work, and what was his job? ____________________________________
2.      What happened to Gulliver when the new guy started work in his department? ___________________________________________________________________________
3.      Why did Gulliver go to Darcy Silverman’s room even though he had no post for her? ___________________________________________________________________________
4.      How does Gulliver end up going to the Bermuda Triangle? ___________________________________________________________________________
5.      How does Gulliver end up in Lilliput?_____________________________________________
6.      When Gulliver wakes up in Liliput, what has happened to him? ________________________
7.      What was Gulliver’s nickname, given to him by General Edward? ______________________
8.      Where is Gulliver first taken by General Edward? ___________________________________
9.      How does Gulliver first meet Horatio? ____________________________________________
10.  When Gulliver is made General, What does (former) General Edward do as revenge? ___________________________________________________________________________
11.  When the Armada attacks, how does Gulliver save Lilliput? ________________________________
12.  What does General Edward build? _______________________________________________
13.  When Gulliver is defeated, what does he admit to the Lilliputlians? ____________________
14.   Where do they send Gulliver? To the _______ they______   _______ about.
15.  When Gulliver first ends up there, what does he notice? _____________________________
16.  Who turns up to help Gulliver escape? ___________________________________________
17.  How does he escape from this place? _____________________________________________
18.  When he gets back to Lilliput, who is in the dungeon? _______________________________
19.  When Gulliver re-duals the Edward the Robot, what new weapon does it have? __________
20.  How does Gulliver win the fight? _______________________________________________

AFTER WATCHING:
1)    FIND 4 JOBS AND 5 CHARACTERS FROM THE FILM IN THE CROSSWORD.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Progress test May 29th 2014

Hello, everybody,

Remember tomorrow's progress test.  

Topics. 

Past simple vs. Present Perfect

Past particples

adjectives of emotion

Reading Comprehension: scrambled paragraphs, True and False.

Writing. paragraph about the families: remember to use the grammar studied and parts of the paragraph.

Good luck!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Lab April 24th

ACHIEVEMENT MARKERS:
LISTENING: Identifies main and specific ideas in oral texts about travel, explorers and life experiences.
READING: Skims for specific information from written texts on travel, explorers and life experiences. WRITING: Makes a summary about travel, explorers and life experiences texts, using elements of selection and omission.
ATTITUDE: Shares personal and family experiences.

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE (Go to the link and take notes about the form and exceptions)


PREPSITIONS OF MOVEMENT

PET PRACTICE
Reading

Writing


Saturday, April 5, 2014

IMPORTANT IFORMATION FOR THE TERM

TERM GOAL
To compare ideas about a given context in oral and written texts, sharing different life experiences.

SKILLS: LISTENING
               SPEAKING
               READING
               WRITING
               ATTITUDE

ACHIEVEMENT MARKERS:
1. LISTENING:: Identifies main and specific ideas in oral texts about travel, explorers and life experiences.
2. SPEAKING: States information about travels, explorers and life experiences using the grammar and vocabulary studied.
3. READING: Skims for specific information from written texts on travel, explorers and life experiences.
4. WRITING: Makes a summary about travel, explorers and life experiences texts, using elements of selection and omission.
5. ATTITUDE:  Shares personal and family experiences.

CONTENTS:
Context:
·       Travel and explorers
·       Family and schoolexperiences
·      PET practice

Structure:
Presentperfect (pastparticiple).
Past simple vs. Present perfect.
·      Determiners/phonics and phonetics

- Emotions Adjectives and nouns.
Use of comparatives : (not) as…as)
Adverbial clauses: ever and never, just, already, yet, since, for, ago.
-Prepositions of movement: across, along, from, through, past, into, over, under, up, down.
Tongue twister.

Writing process:
Paragraphs in compositions.

The summary.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Latest labs

Go to the following links and perform the activities.
Relative Clauses
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses  Read the theory very carefully and take notes.
Tag Questions
Echo Questions
Will or Going to?
Syllables and Stress
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/word-stress-rules.htm  Read the theory very carefully and take notes.
http://www.eslcommando.com/2012/06/esl-online-games-syllable-stress-game-2.html

(video)


Thursday, March 20, 2014

Some labs from the past not so long ago, may be useful

Lab February 20th
Go to the following links and perform the activities.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses  Read the theory very carefully and take notes.

Syllables and Stress
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/word-stress-rules.htm  Read the theory very carefully and take notes.


8th lab March 6th
It’s lab time, so you’re supposed to get ready to learn and have fun. Remember to always carry your notebook and take notes on everything it is important for your comprehension.
Activities:
Negative Prefixes:

So, Because


Prepositions of time



Vocabulary Games




Some practice for the progress test March 21st

Hi, everybody

We-re posting some links that may be really helpful for your test tomorrow

http://www.kubbu.com/student/?i=1&a=55_negative_prefixes_1
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com/2012/09/negative-prefixes-with-adjectives.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/negprefix.html
http://www.sporcle.com/games/thebigbigcheese/how_to_make_an_opposite
http://www.engames.eu/negative_prefixes/negpref_halfamin_game.html

Song: listen to the song, do you find any relative pronouns¨

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Natalie%20Imbruglia%20Torn