How I Live Now reading plan (4ºA)

Here you are the planning for the Literary Circles about How I Live Now. As usual, you must bring the LC worksheet  about the assigned chapters those days to be able to participate. 

December 10: chapters 1-6 (Literary workshop: you don´t have to bring the LC worksheet done but you are supposed to bring the summary if you want to take part).
December 17: chapters 7-11
January 7 8: ch.12-16
Jan. 14: ch. 17-20
Jan 21: ch. 21-24
Jan 28: ch. 25-28
Feb. 4: ch. 29 to the end. 

The exam (10% of the total term mark, 30% min. to pass the term ) will be taken in the second week of February.

FCE Speaking exam (part 2)

Singing for Mrs Pettigrew reading plan (3ºA/B,C)

Below you can find a list with the Literary circles dates (on Wednesdays 3ºC, Fridays 3ºA/B that is, the days we have been working with Global Classrooms). That day you have to hand in the Literary Circle worksheet of the story/stories whose LC is scheduled for that day (except for the first LC) if you want to participate in it. The Literary Circle worksheet this year is a bit different from 2º ESO, have a look HERE at some instructions on how to do it. I recommend reading the introduction by the author to each story, but the LC (and the LC worksheet) will only deal with the story itself. 

December 13 (3ºA/B) / December 11 (3ºC): MEETING CEZANNE+I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS (you don't have to prepare a LC worksheet, but bring the PQE worksheets we have worked with in class).

December 18 (3ºA/B) / December 18 (3ºC):  THE GIANT´S NECKLACE (you must bring your LC worksheet about this story that day).

After Christmas holidays (all of them with your LC worksheets ready!):

January 8 (3ºC) / Jan. 10 (3ºA/B): MY ONE AND ONLY GREAT ESCAPE

Jan. 15 (3ºC) / Jan. 17 (3ºA/B): MY FATHER IS A POLAR BEAR
Jan. 22 (3ºC) / Jan 24 (3ºA/B):  THE MOZART QUESTION

January 29 (3ºC) /Jan. 31 (3ºA/B): WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?

February 5 (3ºC) / Feb. 7 (3ºA/B): SINGING FOR MRS PETTIGREW

The stories  HALF A MAN, FOR CARLOS, A LETTER FROM YOUR FATHER and THE SILVER SWAN won't be worked in a Literary Circle since they are very short, you must read them on you own. 

We'll do the exam on all the stories in the second week of February.

Grammar review (3º ESO Sección 1st term)

Click on the links for extra online grammar practice.

Tenses practice:
-Past Simple/Past Continuous.
-Simple Past vs Present Perfect 
-Simple Past vs Present Perfect(2)
-Present Perfect Continuous
-Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous
-Past Simple vs Past Perfect 
 -Past Perfect Simple 
-Will/going to
-The Future Perfect. Click on these links: #1, #2 
-The Future Continuous (or "Progressive"): #3 , #4 

Irregular verb practice (are you sure you know them well?)
-Irregular verb forms 
-More irregular verbs 
-A crossword now. 

Conditionals: 
-Type 1 
-Type 2
-Mixed 

-Another exercise with mixed 1st/2nd type Conditionals

-Comparatives and Superlatives:
-Comparative and Superlative mix (easy warm-up).
-Comparative gap-filling exercise 
-Only Superlatives here. 
-A Comparative/Superlative mix 
-Correlative comparatives 
-Irregular comparative and superlative forms.

-Relative clauses:
-Relative pronouns.
-More practice on relative pronouns
-Can these relative pronous be omitted?
-More practice on this.
-Who or whose?
-Non-defining relative clauses.
-Defining or Non-defining? 
-More practice on defining and non-defining relative clauses.

-Verb patterns:
-Exercise 1
-Exercise 2 (with remember, try, stop, go on). Scroll down to find the online exercises.
-Exercise 3 (with the same verbs, ignore the sentences with other verbs).

Don´t forget to review your vocabulary too (Solutions Units 1, 2 and 3) for the exam. 

Questions on The Graveyard Book for next LC (ch.7 and 8)

-We discover more clues about Silas´ true self in these last chapters. Write a compilation of all the clues that are scattered in the book and make a final guess about what he really is.

Now choose one of these two questions (80 words min.):
-In chapter 8 Silas admits having done terrible things in the past (even worse than the Man Jack´s), "I was the monster then", he says. Why do you think he changed and became a member of the Honour Guard?

-Mrs Owens sings a song to Bod when he´s leaving the graveyard. Comment on the last lines:

“FACE YOUR LIFE

ITS PAIN, ITS PLEASURE,

LEAVE NO PATH UNTAKEN”