2BAC: Stand-up tips for journalist students

Have a look to these examples and tips when you prepare your final assignment: a stand-up video reporting a piece of news from your parish in Andorra (or abroad!).

Overview:

https://newslab.org/tips-for-better-stand-ups/

LISTENING: Technical issues: (Digital competence)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SznY8sU8BH4

READING:

https://www.wbanewsroom.org/newsroom-tips/tips-for-stand-up-and-live-reporting/

You can write notes but you need to sound fluent and natural explaining your report.

WRITING

Let's write a decalogue with our own tips for an excellent stand-up, e.g.

1. Be in an informative setting, therefore, choose a significant background for your piece.

We can elaborate our own rubric to assess it! (LEARNING TO LEARN: L2L)

SPEAKING

Time to speak up and do your best!

ESO2: Irregular verbs show

Learning irregular verbs by heart can be hard but... We have some tricks!

We have already cattered for multiple intelligences:

Musical intelligence: RAP with irregular verbs

Artistic intelligence: DIAGRAM + COLOURING groups

Social intelligence: ACTING OUT different scenes with the verbs following the same patterns

Let's practise then!

Each group will be assigned a group from the following list and they have to invent a scene. The rest of the group need to identify the group and say a sentences with as many verbs as possible from the group using the past tense!

Example:  LEVEL !: SUPER EASY all verb forms are the same!

bet, burst, cast, cost, cut, fit,* hit, hurt, let, put, quit, set, shut, split, spread

Yesterday...

Last week...

One year ago...

...I bet I could burst a ballon without my hands. I set the scene: I put the balloon on a chair, a hit it with my bottom, but I hurt my leg because I cut my knee... and I split the chair too! So I quit the game; however, my friends spread the word around the school! It was so embarrassing!

More info: 

https://www.espressoenglish.net/tips-for-learning-irregular-verbs-in-english/

Write / memorize: (traitional way)

VISUAL:

RAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkHpxJ60b0

2BAC. Murder Mystery Game

Complete the following itinerary.

You will revise vocabulary and modal verbs.

Cultural note: you will follow the traces of Sherlock Holmes in London!

Guess: who is the murderer?

Can you guess who the murderer is?

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street/murder-mystery

Extra: 

1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/murder/

2) https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/can-you-catch-a-killer

3) https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/murder-mystery-game-murder-menu

2BAC: Modals

Source: Pinterest

(Source) At a glance:
http://englishteachermargarita.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-should-have-known-better.html?m=1

Explanation and exercises (British Council)
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/modal-verbs

20 online exercises:
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/modals-exercises.html

2BAC: MEDIA - news review

Vocabulary: jot down these usefol words to describe the elements you can find on a newspaper cover!

Have a look! Objectiveness is the ideal but media groups are subjected to editorial conditions. Where would you place broadsheets and tabloids? Could you do a similar diagram for Spanish media? And for Andorran media? Let's work our analytical and critical thinking skills!

*This is somebody's personal opinion, just remember it!

Listening practice. Challenge 1: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/social-media/social-media-scene-2-language-focus


Now. listen to the video and, then, do challenge 2! You have a vocabulary and grammar reference (click on the tabs).

The story

India's film censors have ruled that long kissing scenes in the new James Bond film Spectre are not suitable for the country's audiences. The Mumbai-based Central Board of Film Certification has made cuts to two scenes from the movie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-1/session-2

ESO2: Thanksgiving day

Thanksgiving day
Let's watch the video about the first Thanksgiving Day:

Let's watch the video about vocabulary related to this topic:

 

2BAC: Different meanings with inf/-ing

Verbs like stop, remember, forget have different meanings: To stop + gerund means to cease, to stop + infinitive means not to move . To remember / to forget + gerund mean to remember/forget something already done. To remember + infinitive means to remember to do something in the future .

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-verbs-4.html


Exercise:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-4.HTML

Summary:

Source: aliciateacher2.wordpress.com

ESO3: Smart cities. Examples: Santander, Barcelona, Andorra

What is a smart city? Make groups and consider one illustration each. How can technology improve our cities? What will cities look like in the future? Can you compare your actual town to the way it looked like 50 years ago?

Listen to this example in Santander, Spain. Then, do the quizz.

https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=27681

Now have a look to these graphics (one per team) and explain them to the rest of the class; Barcelona is given as an example of smart city: why?:

Now you have to put in common what are the features of a smart city, classify them and produce your own poster. How can we improve our towns? We can write our representatives and make proposals to improve our lives! Have a look: https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/how-tiny-andorra-became-a-major-hub-in-smart-cities-movement

Ideas: Brainstorm > Mind map.

TIL: Frankenstein Rap (plurilingual project). 3rd ESO

http://sesbadalona.blogspot.com.es/

Here you have our plurilingual project for Sant Jordi: the challenge was to produce a RAP song in all languages currently present in our school... and sing it! The topic is about Mary Shelley's figure of Frankenstein's creature and his search for a father... Who is not there. In a way, the 'monster' is metaphor of our creation process: not only joining different limbs (i.e. students' poems, songs, verses, calligrams) but also working together to find a common rhythm and rhymes across languages. Hope you enjoy the result!
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Aquí tenéis nuestro proyecto plurilingüe para Sant Jordi: el reto era producir una canción RAP en todos los idiomas que actualmente están presentes en nuestro instituto... ¡y cantarla! El tema, en honor al aniversario de la publicación del  Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, es la búsqueda de la criatura de la figura de un padre...que no está. De alguna manera, el "monstruo" es la metáfora de nuestro proceso de creación: no sólo unir diferentes miembros (es decir, poemas de los estudiantes, canciones, versos, caligramas), sino también trabajar juntos para encontrar un ritmo común y rimas entre los idiomas. ¡Espero que disfrutéis del resultado!
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Llengües presents al projecte: català, castellà, anglès, francès, àrab, rus, igbo, fula, punjabi, urdú, bengalí, xinès, rromanò, romanès, polonès, suec, kichwa, guaraní i llengua de signes en la performance d'avui. El portuguès surt al text però el dia de l'enregistrament no vam poder grabar. Mesmo assim, eu gosto do fato de que esteja presente.

Project recycle batteries

Battery recycling is a recycling activity that aims to reduce the number of batteries being disposed as municipal solid waste. Batteries contain a number of heavy metals and toxic chemicals and disposing them by the same process as regular trash has raised concerns over soil contamination and water pollution.(Wikipedia)


At school we can recycle here, near the teachers' room, and he have made a video and a poster to promote it:

Project Re-clothing

https://we.tl/s-xgXzU0ceFI

This is our video for the campaign: BE TRENDY, REUSE CLOTHES!

Here you can find where to find your orange containers! Can you find the closest to the school?
http://www.robaamiga.cat/ca/

The orange container

The orange container is the key element for the collection of textile waste.

The objective of Cooperativa Roba Amiga is to continue to expand the number of containers in Catalonia and to become an element of the landscape of our municipalities. To date, there are more than 1,700 containers distributed throughout the Catalan territory in more than 450 municipalities and private locations that comply with their actions of corporate social responsibility.

The Roba Amiga Cloth  is easily recognizable thanks to its orange color.

http://blabberize.com/view/id/1717914

Project Sound Pollution

Our video presentation showing the experiment. We had some technical problems but we tried to solve them.

Project by The Gardeners.

We have researched noise pollution in our school. We have downloaded an app to measure the dB in different places and the same time: the canteen, the tWC corridor, the gym,  the yard and our class. We consider it is too noisy. We try to help reduce sound, because noise produce stress, headache and we can't concentrate.

Quantitative research

Researcher	When? What time	where?	How many dB?
Juanjo	13:45 Wed 13/03	Toilet	60 dB
Paula	13:45	Gym	53 dB
Pedro	13:45	Canteen	76 dB
Nilda	13:45	Yard	68 dB
Kevin	13:45	Class 4B	74 dB

We have also asked people what they do to reduce noise and how can we help.

We selected two areas: the canteen and our class for an experiment.

At the canteen we have noticed a strategy to keep students quieter: they swith off the lights. Notice the difference in the video:

TRACK A (normal)
TRACK B (with lights off)

We propose to do something similar in class, and we give more ideas. We will try to see if the work!


Source: http://www.protectear.com/us/blog/2017/04/12/noise-pollution-yes-bad-health/Visit our video: http://bit.ly/2DKgHqW