Speaking (B1A/B)

-Remember next February 14 you have to give an individual presentation for 2/3 minutes about a free topic. You can use notes and have a look at them but you
can´t read your presentation. 

-Next Monday you can bring your essay (opinion or for/against format) for me to check. 

-No idea what you would want to speak about? Try this website with lots of possible topics (if you click on the topic you´ll find suggestions on how to approach it). Remember it must be something you are really interested in. 

-Still clueless? Check these other ones:
-The best thing that has ever happened to me

-The worst thing that has ever happened to me

-Something funny that has happened to me

-What I really hate!

-What I really like!

-A surprise I had

-An exciting place you have visited

-A memory from childhood I´ll always remember

-My best friend

-What is friendship?

-A problem I have

-My favorite TV show

-Bilingual education: pros and cons

-Strange experiences you´ve had

-Your most embarrassing moment.

-What have you always wanted to do?

-What would you like to change and why?

-Things I can't understand.

-Your most curious dream.

-Great places to go in the world.

-High school is the best time in your life. Or not…

-Things you would change in our high-school

-Your favourite book.

-What is your favourite musical band or singer? Why?

-Your dream job

-Tell me about a film you have really liked

-Will robots replace humans?  Will robots take our jobs?

-Would you want to live on another planet?

-What will future houses look like?

These are the basic guidelines you have to follow for your presentation:

1.CONTENT AND ORGANIZATION: The topic must be clear and follow a logical order. You must use examples to prove your points.

2.COMPREHENSION: Speak slowly and loudly enough. Your audience must understand what you say!

3.PREPARATION: The more you prepare the more confident you´ll feel.

4.INTERACTION WITH THE AUDIENCE. Remember you must sell your topic! Use your body language, try to capture the attention of the audience (ask them if they understand, try to make them participate with questions).
 
5. BE ENTHUSIASTIC!  The more excited you are about your topic the better your presentation will be. You must convince us!

Check also this 2 min. video with do´s and don´ts.

(Assessment: 15% of your total term mark)

Writing (4ºA)

How I Live Now questions (ch. 25-28)

Choose two:

-In Gateshead Farm, lots of birds were "circling around for a reason" : what is the reason? (ch.26)

-"What heart I had left no longer felt like flesh and blood. Lead, maybe. Or stone": Daisy has had to do two extremely harsh things in Gateshead. Explain them. (ch.26)

-What new subject does Daisy think should be included in the curriculum of her school? (ch.28)

-"Every war has its silver lining": what does Daisy mean? (p.159)

CAE writing tips

Follow the links for tips on how to write the 2 parts of the Advanced writing exam (1 hour 30 min.):

Part 1: Essay (compulsory). 220-260 words.

Part 2: You have to choose one of these writings (220-260 words):

         _Review

         _Report
   
         _Informal letter/email

         _Formal letter/email

         _Proposal

       

TED talks: ideas worth sharing (What´s yours?) (4ºA)

Remember Chimamanda´s talk? It was a TED Talk. Now you have to prepare one on your own (free topic, the only condition is that you have to be controversial and speak for 4-5 minutes). Pick one topic you feel strongly about! Check unit 5H in the Solutions handbook, with tips on how to write an opinion essay and a sample (your presentation must be based on an opinion or for/against essay).  Below there are links with more help:

-8 useful tips with a brief introduction about what TED talks are.

-Some TED talks with good advice on precisely how to make good presentations.

-No idea what you would want to speak about? Try this website with lots of possible topics (if you click on the topic you´ll find suggestions on how to approach it). Remember it must be something you are really interested in. 

(Assessment: 10% of your total term mark. Presentation day: 17 February)

How I live Now (ch.21-24) LC questions

Choose two:

-Why did Daisy feel like a "grave robber" when se took the Major´s compass? What does she need it for? (Ch.21)

-Explain what Baz feels for Piper. (Ch.22)

-Explain this quote: "I couldn´t help wondering why life in a windowless barn thousands of miles from America surrounded by soldiers felt more real than most of the real life I´d ever lived through".(p.117)

-"Then we did a little dance and whooped and laughed and hugged each other...", why are Piper and Daisy so happy? (Ch.24)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s TED talk (4ºA)

Here you are Adichie´s talk, remember it´s exactly the same as the text ("We should all be feminists") in the literacy booklet. Remember  you have to prepare the 2 first sets of questions about the speech for this Friday.

How I live now (ch. 12-16) LC questions

Happy New Year first of all! My questions for next Literary Circle (on Wednesday):

-What do you think the outing to the river represents?

-Explain this quote: “Every war has turning points and every person too” (ch.15). What is the turning point Daisy means? How is it going to change her situation and her attitude towards life?

Food waste is the world's dumbest problem (B1A/B)

1.What´s the food cam?

2. When was it invented?

3. How much of the food produced in the US is never eaten?

4. How do food production and food waste affect the environment?

5. Is reducing food waste a difficult goal to achieve?

6. Where is food specially wasted in the US?

7. Why are fridges responsible for food waste?

8. And why are plates also responsable for that?

9. What is Copia?

10. How many people were the Copia organizers able to feed in 2 days with food that wasn´t going to be consumed?

Writing (4ºA)

For this Thursday!

My questions on How I Live Now for the next LC (ch. 7-11)

Choose 3 questions to answer. Some questions refer to chapters 1-6 as well:
-Explain this quote (p. 19) :"Starting your first day as a murderer". Who says it? Why?
-Would you have left your four children alone to go to Oslo to work like Aunt Penn did? Would we be asking this question if the one who went away was their father?
-What is The Calm before the Storm? Why do you think it is mentioned? (ch.6)
-What problem did Melissa Banner and Lyle Hershberg have as a couple? (ch.7)
-What are Edmond´s and Isaac´s weird gifts? (ch. 8)
-Why doesn´t Daisy care about the alarming news about war (actually, she´s enjoying the situation)? (ch.9, 10, 11)


Don´t forget to include your own question and quote in your worksheet.

Emma Watson´s UN speech (4ºA)

1.According to Emma Watson, who are the inadvertent feminists?

2. How does Emma Watson´s speech make a difference in relation to other similar speeches on this issue?

3. Explain Edmund Burke´s quote.

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.