Skellig Literary Circles plan (3ºB,C)

Here you are the planning for the 3rd Term Literary Circles about Skellig. The Thursdays before those dates you must turn in your LC worksheets, except for the first LC (Chapters 1-9), which must be submitted on Mon April 4).

APR 12: CHAPTERS 1 TO 9

APR 19: CH.10 TO 15

APR 26: CH. 16 TO 20

MAY 3: CH. 21 TO 28

MAY 10: CH. 29 TO 34

MAY 17: CH. 35 TO 40

MAY 24: CH. 40 TO 46

"We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity , creativity and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the world , not shuttered down  inside a gloomy classroom" (Oh my!).

Passive Easter

No, I don´t want your Easter holidays to be passive so here you are a list of links to practice the Passive voice online. Start working out that fabulous third term mark right now! And of course enjoy your holidays and have fun!

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Global again!

For the third year in a row, our students of 3ºESO passed to the final round of Global Classrooms, and also for the third year, one of them will be able to attend a UN conference in the New York headquarters! Congratulations to you and to all the people who made this exciting experience possible.

Intensive preparation at school, here helped by 4º ESO students who won the competition last year

Carlos, Social Science teacher,  with 3ºB students

Working out the Opening Speeches

One for all, all for one:with Teresa, our Fulbright assistant, in the Asamblea

Shakespeare´s quiz

You must have this quiz ready for next Monday (March 7).

A. In  "60 seconds Shakespeare" (with summaries of William Shakespeare´s plays in tabloid format), you will find the answers to these questions:
-How did Macbeth discover he would be king?
-Why did Macbeth kill Banquo, his best friend?
-Which trick did Iago use to make Othello believe his wife was unfaithful to him?
-How did Hamlet find out his father, King Hamlet, had been killed by his brother Claudius?
-How did Ophelia die?
-How did Leonato punish Claudio for rejecting his daughter at their wedding?
-In which play does Touchstone appear? What is his job at the king´s court?
-How could Antonio avoid having to pay Shylock a pound of flesh?
-Why did Portia help Antonio?
-Explain what is happening and the characters involved in this scene of the 2004 film version of The Merchant of Venice:

-Now, which plays are these quotes from?

1."Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."

2. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

3. "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts". 

4. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?".

5."O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on." 

6."To be or not to be, that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"

B. Questions on The Tempest (find the answers here).
1.Why was Prospero in a haunted island? Was he alone?
2.Who were Prospero´s servants?
3. Prospero must have thought that "revenge is a dish best served cold". Why?
4. Say two ways Prospero used his magic to make fun of Antonio and Alonso.
5. What is the final message of this play in your opinion? 
6. Now watch this trailer of the 2010 film version of the play. What´s the main difference with the original play?

  C. Questions on Romeo and Juliet (answers here).
1. Why is Romeo banished from Verona? 
2.  Who marries Romeo and Juliet?
3.  How does Juliet avoid her wedding to Paris?
4.  How does Juliet die?
5. In which act and scene is the duel between Tybalt and Mercutio narrated? 

6. In this trailer of Baz Luhrmann´s version of the play, how is the Prologue presented?

 

Gymnasium Anna-Sophianeum

Gymnasium Anna-Sophianeum

Future Perfect and Continuous

The Future Perfect. Click on the links:
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The Future Continuous.
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Mixed.
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Fear, Stress, Success and the like

70% of the students of 3ºB and C are scared of spiders...

So here are some extracts from your compositions.
Let´s start with first paragraphs that I´ve liked (remember the idea here is to grab the reader´s attention with strong openings: a thought-provoking question, a direct address to the reader...).
 "Is there anyone in the whole world not afraid of something? Even though that person might exist, I´m not one of them". (Paula F.) Simple but effective!
"Everybody is scared of something, it doesn´t matter if it is snakes or darkness. If you aren´t scared of anything, you are not human". (Bea M.) Excellent beginning.
"In spite of the fact that I am going to talk about my successes and failures in life, I´m not going to say any failures because it´s never too late to try again and I am never going to give up". (Álvaro C.) Optimistic and confident, a good way to start.
"What scares me? Nothing at all. First of all, to know what you are scared of, you must understand what fear is: Some scientists define fear as a reaction to something unknown that you can´t control. Therefore, if you can control all your emotions, despite the fact that is difficult, you will be able to control your fears". (Óscar R). Interesting point (easily said than done, I´m afraid).
"Have you ever been bitten by a spider? Or have you seen some shadows while you were alone at home? Although these situations don´t seem related, they are fears. My fears". (Andrei S.) Cool start.
"Terror, what an interesting an complicated issue, don´t you think? I´ve heard of really strange fears, such as ecclesophobia (fear of going to churches)....". (Alberto S.) Curious and amazing facts just to start with, the rest can´t get worse!
"Stuff that pisses me off? Obviously when there´s this kind of situation: -"Hey, look at that fat boy, nasty" -said a girl that weighed 90 kg. Now, how do you deal with that?". (Larisa P.). Wow... but the piss off element is a bit out of the question in what is meant to be a formal composition, though. Don´t do it in the Cambridge exams (or in mine).

The body: main idea(s), supported by your own experiences, anecdotes, examples, statistics...
"These phobias started when I was younger. I was playing at home with my toys when suddenly a spider fell from the roof into my box of toys. In order to kill it I started to take out the toys from the box; as I was doing that, without knowing it [noticing it], the spider started to climb up my arm, I saw it when it was near my shoulder. Although I started to scream and hit my shoulder in order to kill it, the "friendly spider" got on my face". (George B.) Really creepy.
"I´m scared of rollercoasters because one day when I was a child I got into one and the security boy didn´t put me the protection belts, and my mother had to do it rapidly". (Marta V.) Same idea!
Connectors are key, especially at this point. Your composition should flow from sentence to sentence and connect the ideas in a clear and logical way.
"Despite the fact that many people think it isn´t true, kids in schools can get stressed. It can be due to the excess of homework or upcoming exams. Therefore schools coud offer more help for children in order to help them study or do more class work so that teachers give less homework". (Patricia A.) Great use of linkers! 


Let´s see now some final paragraphs (time to sum up, recap and establish conclusions):
"Being afraid of whatever that surrounds us is not that bad, everybody feels the same things, that means in some aspects we all have lots of things in common". (Paula F.) Good point!
 "Therefore, there are not many things that scare me, in spite of the fact that the ones which do it do it really well, so I can have a bit more fun at Haloween!" (Ignacio C.) Some sense of humor, especially with serious topics, is always welcome.
"To conclude, we all face our own problems, you aren´t alone out there, even though you may think so. I hope these tips have helped you, as this is how I deal with stressful things in life (it doesn´t always work though). Now go for it and achieve anything you want! I believe in you!" (Laurentiu C.) Again, uplifting optimism.
"Never give up, try always to give the maximum of you, so that you can grow as a person. Never I will forget that day, thanks to my long pass to a mate we won the match and now we are the leaders of the league". (Ioan S.) That´s it!

February/March planning 3ºC, 3ºB

Hi all. An exciting month awaits us...

 3ºC
 These dates are for 3ºC (Sección):
Feb. 19 (Fri): Reading+writing exam. 2 points
Feb. 26 (Fri): Grammar+Vocabulary exam (units 1-6). 2 p.+ Listening exam. 1 p.
March 2 (Wed): Singing for Mrs Pettigrew exam (up to What does it feel like? incl.) 1 p. (30% min.to pass the term)
March 3 (Thurs): Literature (Shakespeare) exam 2 p. (30% min.to pass the term: NEW!).
(The speaking mark -1 p.- will be obtained according to your participation in the Literary Circles)

 3ºB
 These dates are for 3ºB:
Feb. 19 (Fri): Reading+writing exam. 2 points
Feb. 26 (Fri): Grammar+Vocabulary exam (units 1-6). 2 p.+ Listening exam. 1 p.
March 1 (Tue): Singing for Mrs Pettigrew exam (up to What does it feel like? incl.) 1 p. (30% min.to pass the term)
March 3 (Thurs): Literature (Shakespeare) exam 2 p. (30% min.to pass the term: NEW!).
(The speaking mark -1 p.- will be obtained according to your participation in the Literary Circles)

Linkers

Do these online drills, click on the links:

Contrast linkers:
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Purpose linkers
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#5  (scroll down to find the exercises)

So vs Such
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Mixed:
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My One and Only Great Escape (now with the pages)

So you think you have prepared the story by Michael Morpurgo well? Test yourself by finding the words in the text that mean what you can see in the pictures:

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#2 (p.80)

#3 (p.82)

#4 (p.93)

#5 (p.80)

#6 (p.81)

#7 (p.80)

#8 (p.84)

Good luck!

The Globe

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” (W. Shakespeare)

2nd term Literary Circles planning (3ºC, 3ºB) NEW DATES

Literary circles dates. Remember  all these stories will be included in an exam at the end of the term where you must get at least a 30% correct to pass the subject, just like in the first term. Next Wed 27 you must hand in the LC worksheet for My One and Only Escape.
             

JAN 12: MEETING CEZANNE + I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS

JAN 19 26: THE GIANT´S NECKLACE

JAN 26 FEB 2: MY ONE AND ONLY GREAT ESCAPE

FEB 2 9: MY FATHER IS A POLAR BEAR + THE SILVER SWAN

FEB 9 16: THE MOZART QUESTION 

FEB 16 23: WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?

FEB 23 MAR 1: HALF A MAN + FOR CARLOS, A LETTER FROM YOUR FATHER

MAR 1 MAR 8: SINGING FOR MRS PETTIGREW 

Comparative and superlative online practice

Click on the links:
-Comparative and Superlative mix (easy warm-up).
-More like the previous one (multiple choice)
-Still another dead easy one.
-Comparative gap-filling exercise 
-Comparative matching exercise  
-A crossword  now
 -Let´s focus now on Comparatives  of Equality (as...as) 
-Only Superlatives here. 
-A Superlative quiz
-A Comparative/Superlative mix 
-Correlative comparatives
-A bit more difficult mix now (including Correlative Comparatives).
 -Irregular comparative and superlative forms.

What do women want most of all? (3ºB,C)

That´s the million-dollar question. And it´s also the question Queen Guinevere told the lecherous knight to find the right answer for if he wanted to save his life in The Wife of Bath Tale from The Canterbury Tales. An ugly old woman was ready to tell him the difficult answer on condition that he promised to do whatever she asked him to. The knight, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, accepted the deal.You had to continue the story at that thorny turning-point, let´s see what you have come up with (just a few have grasped the nettle though...).

" Eventually the knight offered the hag his rough hand. When she got it, she decided to do a surprising thing: she cast a spell on it, and converted it into a smooth, sensitive hand typical of a handsome prince. After doing that, the woman disappeared. Confused and puzzled, the young knight tried to discover what that meant. He was thinking about it when he met a beautiful maiden. Her name was Clara, and the knight asked her for help. She also didn´t know what that meant, but she liked his hand a lot.
Therefore, after three hours thinking about that mysterious riddle, he reached a conclusion: women prefer sensitive men (a metaphor of how his new hand was) rather than ferocious and barbaric men (how his hand was previously). As a consequence, he ran quickly to tell that answer to the queen. She said that it was right, and from then on, he lived in peace and harmony". (Alberto S.)


"The woman told him that the knight had to steal the queen´s crown. He said: "But that violates many laws, I´ll lose my life!" The woman said that he had promised to do whatever she asked him to do. The knight, furious and scared, stole the queen´s crown and put it on the old woman´s head. She transformed into a beautiful lady and said: "What a woman wants is beauty", and she disappeared (...)". (Alexandra D.)

"Finally the old ugly woman told the young knight what a woman liked most. The young knight told King Arthur the answer the old woman had told him. The king couldn´t believe it, then he ordered his servants to call all the ladies that were in his castle, then the young man whispered the answer to each one of them. The king saw that when the young man told them, the women gasped in admiration. The ladies told the king that he knew the answer. the king saved the knight´s life. Then after a long time he reached the highest rank in his army. One day in battle the young man died and he took the answer to The Underworld. The ladies couldn´t tell the king the answer because if they told anyone they would suffer a spell that would take their lives away". (Cristian F. A very poetic way of dodging the issue, Cristian.)

"(...) On the way home, the knight met a beautiful woman that was crying in the middle of the road, (...) she was alone in the world. (...) The warrior fell in love with her and a few months later they got married, the knight forgot about the queen´s question. Then, a week before the day he had to answer that question he was calmed because he had found the true love. The day of "the answer" he went to the palace with his wife, and answered: "Love, your majesty, we all need love, men and women".  When he turned back, he realized that the beautiful young woman was reality the old ugly woman, she was a witch. The queen ordered the detention of both of them and accused them of witchcraft". (George B.)

"(...) Nobody told him the answer, so he was sure he was going to die. However he was still trying to get it. He travelled all over the kingdom trying to find someone who knew the answer, until he found a girl who told him that the answer was "love". 
He was confused. All the time looking for the answer and it was love?! He went to the queen´s palace and told her the answer. When she heard it, she started laughing. It was the most stupid answer she had heard in all her life. Finally, the knight died. Nobody ever discovered the right answer". (Irene M.)

"(...) The day after, they both went to the royal palace and answered the queen´s question correctly. [but what was it??] In exchange, the old and ugly woman asked to marry the young knight. He, sadly, remembered his promise and ended up marrying her. She said she could become a very beautiful woman, but he had to tell her to care for him. But the knight didn´t trust her, so he ignored her words. One day he got a high feve, which at that time could be mortal. Even so, he refused his wife´s help. (...) She decided to disobey his husband and prepared a magic potion and gave it to the knight. At the very moment that he had the potion  as his last chance to survive, the old and ugly woman transformed into a gorgeous blonde young girl who later explained it was a spell a witch had cast on her because she was jealous of her beauty. The knight survived and they both lived happily". (Óscar R.)

"'If you want to know the answer to that question, you´ll have to live a day like a woman!`, so she threw some magic dust at him. All turned grey, he, or maybe I should say she, wanted to vomit, she felt very strange and when the dust vanished the 24 women appeared again.
They treated him as one more of them, and learned that being a woman was not easy. He had to stand discrimination and do all the chores. After one day, the old woman appeared again. he was transformed into a knight and he returned to see the queen. When he saw her, he answered:
"What a woman wants most? One thing men have had for a long time. Respect". (Álvaro C.)

Great work!