News, news, news!

Go to EL PAIS in English, choose five headlines and explain them using your own words.

Mock exam

Slogans

Imperatives:  "Put a Tiger in your Tank"  (Esso)

Statements beyond doubt:  "Guinness is good for you" 

Adjectives: "Great ideas for small rooms" (Ikea)

Superlatives and comparatives:  "Its better to travel in groups" "Probably the best beer in the world"

Puns: ‘Be Cointreauversial’ – a campaign for the liqueur Cointreau


slogans

more slogans


Choose five interesting slogans and explain them

1984

Winston Smith lives in a world where everyone is watched every second of the day. It is a world where Big Brother and The Thought Police control the past as well as the present. They decide what you must do and, even more frighteningly, what you must think.

Whe Winston fights this world of hate, hunger and pain, he fights with love. His love for Julia, and her love for him, is vrave and beautiful. it is also dangerous because love can be punished by death.

Level 4 (intermediate)

ISBN 0-582-77731-3

1984

Read the Introduction, write a summary (one or two paragraphs) and send it to the blog.

Analysing adverts

 1. What is being advertised and what is specifically highlighted about the product?
2. Who is the ad aimed at? (audience)
3. Slogan (the language of advertising)
4. Images (description and technical effects)
5. Lines of appeal and attention-getting hooks (happy families, rich lifestyles, successful love, famous people, beautiful men and women, sex, humor...)

Choose three adverts from the link "Advertising" and write a paragraph for each of them, analysing the adverts following these guidelines. 

Advertising

Bob Dylan, Nobel prize in Literature

Simple Twist of Fate by Bob Dylan with lyrics from StjepkoRS on Vimeo.

Find another Bob Dylan song, tell us the title and send us two or three sentences of the lyrics that you have particularly liked.

Spain

Presentation: European countries (groups of four students)

1) Choose an European country
2) Find information about:

Geography
Demography
Ethnic groups
Religions
Languages
History
Politics
Economy
Agriculture
Energy
Tourism
Transport
Health
Education
Culture
Sports
Media
...

3) Prepare a presentation where you use graphs, charts, tables, maps and statistics

Send me the members of the group, the country you have chosen and why.

Presentations with graphs, charts, tables, maps and statistics

Useful vocabulary

More useful language

Other expressions 

Describing graphs

Graph maker

Welcome to 4º ESO!

Let's start with a little bit of Geography!

Europe: countries quiz

Europe: capital cities quiz

Europe: languages quiz

Imagine you get a grant to study and live in an European country for a year. Choose a country and write a paragraph explaining why.

Future

Future tenses

Will + infinitive   --->  He will do it

Be going to + infinitive   --->  He is going to do it

Present continuous (progressive)   --->  He is doing it

Future perfect   --->  He will have done it

 Future continuous (progressive)    --->  He will be doing it


Practice these tenses using the grammar links

Dublin

Extra book: My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

Present Perfect

Present Perfect 1

Present Perfect 2

Irregular verbs wheel game

Personal Description

Write a description of you and your best friend.

Write about:

- if you are similar or different
- your appearance (height, build, hair length, hair colour)
- your personality
- your interests (sports, leisure activities)
- the clothes you usually wear (including accesories and styles)

Easter and other British festivals

In pairs, do this Festivals Webquest.

Write the answers on a piece of paper and give it to the teacher.

When you finish, read about Easter, Easter, Easter!

Tell me three interesting things you have learnt about this festival (send a comment to the blog).

Romeo and Juliet's adaptations

In groups of four, choose one of your adaptations of Romeo and Juliet (the ones you wrote individually two weeks ago).

Copy the summary of the final version.

Start writing the draft of the dialogue of the first scene and send it to the blog.

Remember that you should include a telephone conversation.

The deadline for the final draft is April 1st.

The deadline for the video version is Aptil 8th.

Shakespeare in Love

Write a review of the film and send it to the blog.

Telephone conversations

Telephone conversations
Telephone conversations 2
Your adaptation of Romeo and Juliet should include a telephone conversation. Send this scene to the blog.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet----

 Romeo and Juliet scenes


 The Globe Theatre----

Write an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to modern times using the summary of the first link and send it to the blog.

Planning a trip using travellers' reviews

 











When you go on holidays, it is very useful to read the reviews of other travellers, who give their opinions and recommendations about hotels, restaurants and things to do.


In pairs, 

1) go to Tripadvisor United Kingdom webpage,

2) choose a destination,

3) read reviews about hotels, restaurants and things to do,

4) once you have read the reviews, choose a hotel, a resturant and a thing to do, 

5) send a comment to the blog, telling your choices and copying the reviews (hotel, restuarant an thing to do) that made you make your decisions.

Good trip!

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (2) 

Renaissance 

Explore these three pages and tell me three things you have learnt about the Renaissance and three about Shakespeare.

A scandal in Bohemia (page 7)

Who was the German gentleman? 

Sherlock Holmes received a note from Bohemia written by a German gentleman. This man was going to visit him to ask for his services.
This is what happened on page 6 of the short story "A scandal in Bohemia".

Now you have to read page 7 and send a summary of this page to the blog.

Film reviews

Reviews of The Walk

Adjectives


A film review should have a number of purposes:

• To inform. The review needs to tell people who is in the film, who it is by and where or when readers can see it.
• To describe. The review should describe the story, characters and some of the action - without spoiling the plot or giving too much away!
• To analyse. A good review gives an opinion on whether the film is good or not and why.
• To advise. Finally, the review should tell the reader whether or not to go and see the film.

STRUCTURE

We can divide a review into four parts:

1. Introduction: this gives an overview of the genre, who is in the film and what it's about. It also sums up the reviewer's conclusion about the film (so readers can form an opinion without reading the whole of the review)
2. Paragraph 2: the reviewer then describes the plot and the action, while informing the reader which actor plays which role.
3. Paragraph 3: the reviewer then analyses the film, talking about the director and then the actors, looking at good things as well as bad things.
4. Finally: the review gives a final opinion and recommendation and informs the reader when the film is out (and sometimes, in a local review, where it can be seen).

(from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/creativewriting/movingimagesrev2.shtml)


Choose a film you have seen and write a review of it.
Send you review and a trailer link to the blog.

Sherlock Holmes

We are going to read an original short story, A Scandal in Bohemia.

It is not an adapted story, so it is very difficult. Will you able to understand the most important parts of the story? You will have to skip the words you don't know and concentrate on the ones you understand.

Read pages 1 and 2 and send a summary of what you have understood to the blog.  This could be the beginning:  

"Sherlock Holes is very intelligent but very cold, like ice. 
His friend, Dr Watson is married. He visits Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street..."

Book reviews

Teenreads

TeenInk reviews

David Bowie: Space Oddity

Tutorials and Recipes

How to...

Recipes 1

Recipes 2



Write a tutorial ("How to...") about something you are good at and send it to the blog. Use the imperative, must and have to.

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