Debate 1ºA

Instructions for the debate:
-You must gather in groups of 2. There will be a group with 3 people.

-In groups of students with different levels the stronger student will be rewarded.

-In each group, one member will be for the statement and the other will be against. If you have the same opinion on the topic, one will have to pretend.

-The script with the debate must be handed in to the teacher on next Friday , I´ll give them back to you, with my corrections, next Monday.

-The debates will begin the next Tuesday.

-Each member in the group must speak at least 5 minutes.

-Participation of the rest of the students in the debate will be rewarded.

-Topics of the debate. Choose one of these statements:
1.All politicians are corrupted. I don´t believe in Democracy.
2.Parents should let teenagers do whatever they want. they are old enough now.
3.A computer with internet connection. I don´t need anything else in my life.
4.I agree with free abortion at the age of 16.
5.I would disconnect a dying but conscious person from the machines that keep him/her alive if he/she asked me to.
6.Spanish educational system doesn´t work.
7.The real crisis is the starving people in the Third World. No more money for banks!
8.Armies should disappear.
9.I believe in death penalty.
10.Sportsmen salaries should be controlled by the state. Nobody should earn more than 50,000 Euros a year.
11.I would manipulate the genetics of my future son to "design" him/her as I like (tall, blonde,intelligent...).
12.All drugs should be legalised.

-Each group must choose a different topic. Choose the topic fast! The first to tell me their choice will get it; if you are too late you´ll have to choose another one.

-Evaluation:2 points. 1 point will be a common mark, the other will be individual.

ADVERTISING

Watch these TV commercials (click on the link below) and do the following:
-Explain what is going on there, what´s the story in the ad.
-Say what product, concept, etc they are advertising in them.
-Is the commercial effective in your opinion? Why? Did you like it? Why?

*COMMERCIAL #1
*COMMERCIAL #2
*COMMERCIAL #3
*COMMERCIAL #4

ENVIRONMENTAL CYBERGYMKHANA

A.Click on this link and answer the questions below:

CLIMATE CHANGE:

1.How many degrees has the earth warmed over the last century?

2.What is the greenhouse effect?

3.What can be the consequences of global warming?

4.What is the difference between weather and climate?

5.How does ice regulate climate?

B. Go to this website and answer the questions:

TIGERS IN CRISIS

1.Where do tigers live?

2.Which country has the largest number of tigres ?

3.What do they eat ?

4.What are the enemies of the tiger ?

5.What s the weight of a female tiger ?

C. Go to this website and answer the questions:

ANIMAL STORIES BY STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD

1.What´s the meaning of TENAN?.

2.Which is TENAN´S website?.

3.What´s the meaning of TESAN?-

4.What can you do to join the TESAN project?

D.Go to this website, watch the video and answer the questions:

LEONARDO DICAPRIO´S VIDEO QUESTIONS

1.What keeps the balance between the temperature of air and water?

2.Who has put our planet in danger?

3.How did fuel originate?

4.Why is fuel important for us?

5.What has been the warmest decade ever?

6.Give examples of climate change

7.What kind of energy should we support?

8.Who should we vote?

9.Who must we save the planet for?

E. Answer the questions below. Check the link first:

LEONARDO DICAPRIO: THE BEACH

1.Who directed The Beach?

2.The film was based on a famous novel. Who is the author?

3.Where was this film shot?

F.Answer the questions about the text in this link:

1.What do the new German rules try to break?

2.Which way will the companies take care of the problem?

This cyberghymkana was designed by the Departamento de Inglés of the IES Luis García Berlanga

Moby Dick chapters 7-12 (4ºB)

Answer the questions in English:

CHAPTER 7

1.Who is captain Boomer? Describe him.

2.When did captain Boomer last see Moby Dick?

3.What do Ahab and Boomer have in common?

4.How did Boomer lose his arm?

CHAPTER 8

5.What favour did Kwee-Kweg ask Ishmael to do him when he felt sick?

6.Why didn´t Kwee-Kweg die in the end?

7.What did he use his box for?

CHAPTER 9

8.How long ago did the sailors in the Rachel see Moby Dick?

9.Who was in the harpoon boat that followed Moby Dick?

10.Did Ahab help the captain of the Rachel? Why?

11.Why didn´t Ahab want to sleep at night?

12.Who could finally see Moby Dick?

CHAPTER 10

13.How many harpoon boats were set to catch Moby Dick?

14.Who was in the first boat?

15.What could they see in the back of the whale?

16.Why did Ahab fall into the sea?

CHAPTER 11

14.How far was Moby Dick from the ship when he jumped for a second time?

15.What did Moby Dick do with the boat where Ismael was?

16.What did captain Ahab lose in Moby Dick´s attack?

17.Who died in the attack?

CHAPTER 12

18. What did Starbuck ask Ahab not to do?

19.What did Moby Dick attack?

20.Who was the only sailor who survived Moby Dick´s last attack?

21.What did he hold while he was at sea?

21.How was he able to survive?



-Now think of 5 questions more about these chapters and write them together with their answers.

-Deadline: next Thursday. Good hunt!!

Moby Dick activities for 4ºB

-Answer these questions about the book in English:

CHAPTER 1
1.Why did Ishmael become a sailor?
2.Describe the picture he saw in the depressing hotel in New Bedford.
3.What was Kwee-Kweg trying to sell?
4.What did the harpooner take from his pocket?

CHAPTER 2
5.What is the Pequod? Describe it.
6.What happened to captain Ahab on his last voyage?
7.What is the objective of the next voyage of the Pequod?
8.How long will the voyage last?
9.Say the names of the first and second officers in the ship.

-True or False? If False, correct the sentence:

CHAPTER 3
10.Starbuck wasn´t married.( )
11.Starbuck´s son was killed by a whale.( )
12.Stubb was a confident sailor.( )
13.Islanders weren´t good at fishing whales.( )
14.Ahab´s artificial leg was made of wood.( )

CHAPTER 4
15.Ahab offered the sailors a Spanish gold coin if they were the first to kill the whale.( )
16.Little Pip saw a whale.( )

-Answer these questions in English:
CHAPTER 5
17.Who were Ahab´s "special sailors"?
18.What happened while the sailors were rowing to the Pequod with the dead whale?
19.What is the superstition Kwee-Kweg tells Ishmael?
20.What did captain Mayhew tell Ahab?

CHAPTER 6
21.What musical instrument did Little Pip use to play?
22. What did he do while they other sailors were hunting the whales?
23. Why did the sailors get very angry with Little Pip?
24.What did Ahab do when Little Pip began to behave strangely?

Design a trip (Ampliación 1ºA)

Hi, more info about the project you have to do over Christmas:

-The deadline is January 25.

-Evaluation: 2 points. One point will go for the brochure or powerpoint presentation, so that mark will be shared by the three members of the group, and another point for the oral presentation of each member of the group, that mark will be individual. For the brochure or powerpoint presentation I´ll take into account the design, pictures used and the elaboration of the information. The powerpoint presentations will get extra marks (if they are good enough, of course!).

-The brochure or powerpoint presentation must have a minimum of 6 pages plus a cover page. Include a map of the country/city with the route you have chosen drawn on it so that we can follow your presentation. You can´t copy and paste texts from the internet (and I´ll notice that!), elaborate the information using your own words. Remember to make four copies of the brochure to hand out in the class.

-Good pictures are very important. Search the internet for them, you can begin in Google images.


Good luck and Merry Xmas to you all!

Comparative and superlative

Now, people of 2ºC+D, you are going to practice with the comparative and superlative forms!

Click on this link to practice with comparative forms.
Next, click here.
Now, click here.
More practice here and here!
Check also this link.

Jobs

1.Click here to practice on line vocabulary exercises about jobs.

2.More exercises about jobs: now a multiple choice exercise, find it here.

3.Now you are going to work with a list of jobs. See the list here. Ready now? Do these activities:
-Word drop game. Great fun. Click here to play.
-Find the missing letters. Click here to play.
-Find the missing letters (you only have now the first and last letter). Click here.
-Linked letters game. Click here.

4.Unscramble the letters to find the word: click here. You must choose the topic Occupations, then choose the level you prefer.

-Click now here to do a hangman on professions.

The Present Simple & Continuous

Time to revise the Present tenses!! Do the following activities online. Click on the link to go to the website:
1. Present Simple (affirmative): click HERE and HERE
2. Present Simple (negative): click HERE and HERE
3. Present Simple (questions): click HERE
4. Present Simple Mix: click HERE
5. Relax now. Do this online hangman.
6. Present Continuous (affirmative): click HERE
7. Present Continuous (negative): click HERE
8. Present Continuous (questions): click HERE
9.Present Continuous Mix: click HERE.
10.Good work! Try another hangman now, about Halloween!

Online crosswords.

Try these crosswords. Click HERE to go to the website.

H.G.Wells´ Quiz (Ampliación)

Remember that, in groups of 3, you must answer a series of questions about H.G.Wells in a quiz on Monday October 26. Find the info on the internet. The winner group will get extra marks. These are the questions in the quiz:

1.When was H.G.Wells born?
2. What was his first job?
3.When did he begin to enjoy reading?
4. Explain briefly the plot of The War of The Worlds, a novel by H.G.Wells.
5.Say two novels by him that have been taken to the cinema recently.
6.Watch this trailer of a film based on one of his novels. Who stars in the film? Who directed it? This is the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV5NbdpZZYo
7. Describe what you can see in the trailer.
8.What were his political ideas?
9.What job did he get in 1889 after studying at the university?
10.Who directed The Time Machine 2002 film? What is his relation with H.G. Wells?
11.Where did Wells die?
12.When did he write The Invisible Man?
13.Who are the Morlocks? In which year do they live?
14.Who do the Morlocks hunt for eating?
15.Which book did H.G.Wells write in 1930?
16.How old was Wells when he died?
17.H.G.Wells is considered, together with Jules Verne, as....
18.What happened on the night of Halloween of 1938 in relation with H.G.Wells´novel The War of the Worlds?

Good luck!

"The world in 2050"

This was one of the topics you had to write about in the writing exercise of the last exam. This is what Carlos S. (3ºB) wrote:

"Today I was bored in Biology and I started to think how the world will be in forty-one years. It will be beautiful, a lot of technology... There won´t be anything manual, all things will be automatic, digital and eco-friendly. There will be robots which will help at home, there won´t be any wars, maybe there will be a law: Peace and Love. In school, we will have electronic chairs and tables. If you have glasses, maybe you you will see the TV [through them]. You will go to the moon on holidays. Our playstations will be portable, and you will play anytime. There will be digital books...maybe cars will fly and I hope there´ll be teletransporters, there will be funny activities, and everything will be fantastic. The world will be better than now".

Gattaca

Remember next Tuesday May 17 we´ll do the quiz about the film. These are some of the questions I´ll make (the other questions are secret, but they all are about the plot):

-Would you like to live in a world like the one the film shows? Why/why not?
-What is Vincent´s key to success?
-Why hasn´t Vincent´s brother reached as far as Vincent having better genes?
-Why does Jerome commit suicide at the end of the film?
-Why does Vincent leave hair at his desk every day? Whose hair is that?
-What is special about the pianist in the film?
-What does Jerome have round his neck when he dies? Why?
-What is a "borrowed ladder"?
-What is a "God-child"?
-According to the trailer of the film, which you can watch HERE (go to "CLIPS" and then "TRAILER"), how many cells do we shed every day?
-What do we discover about the doctor at the end of the film?
-Who murdered the man in Gattaca? Why did he do it?
-Watch the alternative ending of the film HERE and explain it.
-Which moment makes Vincent think he can achieve anything if he fights for it?
-Who is a "Valid"? and an "In-Valid"?
-What is the difference between Vincent and his brother Anton?
-Why was Vincent operated on his legs?
-Search for this information in the internet: Who is the director of this film? Say two other films he has directed. When was this film released?

We´ll do the quiz in groups (I´ll organize them), the two groups which get the most points will get extra marks.

Remember also that on Thursday May 19 we´ll do the exam (I´ll play some extracts of the film and you´ll have to comment on them, like we did with Blade Runner).

"There is no gene for the human spirit"

Time for revision! (3ºESO)

The end of the course is getting near now, what about some on-line revision exercises? Click on the links to go to the websites and do the exercises there!

-Present Perfect practice and Present Perfect/Past Simple contrast: click HERE, in this page you can find the theory about this tense and several links to exercises.

-Since and for are so tricky! Do an exercise about them HERE.

-Past Continuous practice: click HERE. (Theory and links to several exercises). For the contrast Past Simple/Past Continuous: click HERE and HERE.

-Conditionals (1st type): click HERE and HERE.

-Comparative and Superlative exercises: click HERE.

-Practice with irregular verb forms: click HERE.

-Time for relax now after so much hard work. Why don´t you play a hangman? Click HERE and have a good time! Once you have finished, you can try a new game (scroll down and click on the link for a new word below: you can keep the same topic or change it).

Shakespeare on love: Sonnet 116

For this very special optional activity you have to memorize the sonnet 116 I gave you and recite it to your classmates. It´s essential to know what you are saying, so have a go and translate it! In the internet you have lots of translations that can help you, have a look at this one for example. The pronunciation is of course very important too: listen to this recitation here. Deadline: June 1st.

Shakespeare is waiting for you!