2BAC. Breaking stereotypes: the media, superstitions, cultural clashes.

WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT STEREOTYPES BETWEEN EU AND THE USA

How exaggerated are these comparisons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixqPuML9i9k

VOCABULARY

If you scracth the surface... /  Chit-chat...  / Catch up with  / Fence

READING: LEXICAL PRECISION: 

Worried vs preoccupied

Worried means you are anxious or stressed about something. For example- I was worried about my test results.

Preoccupied means being thoughtful about something/someone or wrapped in your own thoughts. For example- I was preoccupied in preparing for my exams that I forgot about my brother's birthday.

Cultural clash vs cultural shock: which is milder?

Culture clash is what happens when there is tension between people because one or both people feel threatened by what the other believes, values and practices. This can be based on a person’s ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, age and/or gender.

Culture shock more accurately describes what an immigrant might feel when he or she first arrives in a new country, submersed in a culture with customs so different than their own. A more mild example on the culture shock spectrum would be what a person who did not properly prepare for his or her first camping trip might feel. You might also feel culture shock in another neighborhood of your own city or in a country on the other side of the world.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmk_SS4u_M

LISTENING. CULTURAL SHOCK. Listen to the video. Choose the right alternative and answer the questions.

At the beginning he's worried/preoccupied because he's treating/dealing with a sensitive/sensible topic/theme: cultural differences.

1.     Where do bars/pubs open earlier?

2.     What are the typical times for a traditional pub in England?

3.     Which is more comfortable, a Spanish bar or an English pub?

4.     Which is the biggest shock for the speaker? Mention the different situations. Everything happens...

5.     What is the myth about siesta?

6.     Proxemics is the science that studies the personal space and distance we keep with one another. What is shocking for him?

7.     Rules and regulations: who is better following them, according to him?  How does he illustrate this point?

8.     cup of tea / fried egg: if you have a problem in the UK they put the ________ on and offer you a _____; in Spain, they offer you ______(‽)= ? + ! (unconventional symbol called interrobang)

9.     He makes _____ videos...

10. ... an hour  /  a day  / a week / a forthnight  /  a month / a year

SPEAKING

Thomas, our language conversation uxiliary, come from Brighton, and used to live in Spain and now he's living in Andorra. 

Humberto, from Tarragona, lived in the UK for 2 years, and also in Brasil, Russia, Belgium and New Zealand. He's been living in Andorra since 2018. Do you think he'll notice a cultual contrast coming from Catalonia?

Have you ever experienced a cultural shock or clash?

SUPERSTITIONS

How many superstitions can you spot?

Lexical precision

Black cats, walk under a ladder, Tuesday or Friday 13th... Are you superstitious? Did you know about the different bad luck numbers around the world?

Do you use any amulet for exams or important moments? Can this develop in a OTC*? 

*Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Which superstitions can we find in Andorra/Spain/the UK/ your country/arouond the world?

ADJECTIVE PREMODIFICATION

Kahoot! HALLOWEEN 

https://create.kahoot.it/details/halloween-adjectives-ordering-adjectives-quiz/19e6ad09-899f-4369-bff1-be63199373c7?_ga=2.140359985.343218237.1603346529-138073358.1603346529&deviceId=d0637da6-cd92-423d-b1b9-2d7cbc26e639R&sessionId=1603361415842

3ESO: Halloween time & Unit 1 TECHNOLOGY.

POWERPOINT

1) VOCABULARY:

Look for pictures of the vocabulary on technology (SB p12)

Exercise-do these 3 activities: 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/beginner-vocabulary/technology

2) LISTENING: PAST SIMPLE/CONT. This is Halloween

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/s-halloween-past-simple-continuous

Screenshot of your result!

3) GRAMMAR: PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html

4) Screenshot of your results or copy and paste your texts on your Powerpoints.

READING & WRITING: 

4.1. A complait email (formal). Use this padlet: https://padlet.com/3esoand20/8dgv17h8v36tjacl

INSTRUCTIONS:
1- Add a note in this column (+)
2- Write your title and name
3- Write your email following the example (change the green parts)
From/To/Subject
a) Salutation
b) What/where/when you bought
c) The problem
d) The solution
e) Farewell + PS (optional)
4- Look for a picture and attach it to your note (up-arrow)
5- Change the color of the background into red.

FORMAL EMAIL EXAMPLE.
From: myemail@educand.ad
To: inventaweb@youlike.com
Subject: Chromecast faulty

To whom it may concern,

Last week I bought a Chromecast via your website alaexpress.com.
The problem is that I cannot start the gadget and it restarts constantly.

I would like a solution, please. I would be happy with an exchange for a new one, a refund or at least having it repaired.

Thank you very much for your attention. I am looking forward to your answer.

Yours faithfully,

Name Surnames

PS. Please, find attached a copy of my receipt and a picture of the product.

4.2. A gadget review.

Follow the model of your SB page 18 and review a gadget you have...  or you'd like to have! Post the picture and text on this padlet (write your name in the title!). You have many examples here: https://www.techradar.com/

https://padlet.com/3esoand20/8dgv17h8v36tjacl

5) GRAMMAR

Organize irregular verbs into groups according to their similarities. Choose a group of irregular verbs and invent a scary story. Use the narrative connectors.

Then, after that, suddelny, at the end...

EXAMPLE: hit, cut, put

Yesterday I cut the eyes and mouth of a pumpkin. Then, I put it in my frontyard. Finally, I hit the top of it with candy.

CRACK THE CODE! ESCAPE ROOM IN HALLOWEEN TIME.

1BAC. UNIT 2. Some short Horror Stories

Halloween is approaching, and here you have 30 short horror stories. Your teacher will assign you a number, and you will have to read the story with that number. Instructions:

SLIDE 1: READING

1- Read a story of your choice and copy-paste it on your Powerpoint with the image. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/short-scary-stories-reddit/

2- Look up the words you don't know and make a glossary.

SLIDE 2: WRITING

3- On your own, or with a classmate, write your own short horror story. You can use these dice to get inspired: https://davebirss.com/storydice-creative-story-ideas/

4-Look for an image that goes with your story and highlight a passage. Use this: https://pablo.buffer.com/

SLIDE 3: SPEAKING/LISTENING.

5. Storytellers have use a special intonation and cadence to engage their audiences, like you can imagine for the 1001 Nights. PADLET: TITLE & your name(s): text + image + audio.

a) Write the fairy tale summary you told us in class using narrative connectors such as Once upon a time, then, after that, next, suddenly, at the end... 

b) Look for an image and produce a new post in this padlet. 

https://padlet.com/1bacand20/Bookmarks

c) Add the recording! Upload your audio file here: https://vocaroo.com/

GAME: KAHOOT!

https://kahoot.com/blog/2018/10/15/spooky-halloween-kahoots/

BACK FROM ALL SAINTS MID-TERM HOLIDAYS

SLIDE 4: WRITING. Boo... Book Review! Read the model on your Students Book, page 26. Look for the cover of your favourite book/the last book your have read and write your book review. SOURCE: https://www.vowelor.com/how-to-write-book-review/

REMEMBER: NO SPOILERS!

SLIDE 5. GRAMMAR. Past tenses. Revision of past tenses (theory + practise). Copy and paste your results!

https://www.liveworksheets.com/tb6594qa

SLIDE 6: LISTENING/SPEAKING

Choose one Booktuber and listen to their recommendations. Notice the intonation and pronunciation and the topics they cover as well as the structure they follow. Then, it's your turn to review your book i that fashion!

https://bookriot.com/youtube-book-reviews/

Alternative: are you feeling creative? What about a book trailer? Team up and surpirse us all!

• Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1emxcttgKE
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• Turtorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYYp-4esQI
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• Template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNIBnx-40sA

1BAC. UNIT 1. Present simple, continuous and perfect (simple and continuous). Vocabulary: Free time!

Did you know that El Teide is the hightest mountain in Spain? In fact, it's an active volcaIts most recent eruption occurred in 1909

Notice these structures:

Double comparative: the more/-er... the more/-er... 

The more relaxed we feel, the happier we are 

(cuanto más relajados estamos, más felices somos)

Much + comparative

I'm much happier now (soy mucho más feliz ahora).

Provide 5 sentences of each structrure in your presentation (Drive). Include pictures.

Revise for the exam!  GRAMMAR

1. Comparative: https://www.liveworksheets.com/zy1326sp
2. Present simple and continuous: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ag628375hm
3. Present perfect (simple and cont.) https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-1.html
4. State verbs: https://www.liveworksheets.com/nh1037175ms
5. READING: About hobbies: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ig92202qf
6. LISTENING: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/students-hobbies-and-interests

Revision of irreglar verbs: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/unit-12/session-1 

 Sessions for HOBBIES: 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/topics/hobbies-leisure/term

 

4ESO: E-Portfolio. Unit 0 Describing Places

Dear students

Welcome to this academic year. Let's start by creating our LANGUAGE BIOGRAPHY to celebrate the EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES. Instructions:

1. Create a Shared folder in your Drive (educand.ad or your gmail account until you have it)

2. Name it like this: NAME SURNAME ENGLISH

3. Change the colour

4. Share it with 4eso.and20@gmail.com

5. Create a new PRESENTATION (yellow). This will be your ePortfolio, i.e. your digital notebook. When you do some exercises, print screen and paste it here. You will also create presnetations and projects in English. It will be a record of your evolution. Mind the design and the accuracy. This will count for our % of Procedures / Classwork in your final grade.

LANGUAGE BIOGRAPHY

1. Cover (title name, group)

2. Contents

3. Languages you speak and level

4. Collages for each language (where? who with? when? ... you use these languages)

5. Graphic with the % of use during a year.

Prepare for an oral presentation! Let's celebrate our plurilingualism. You can also include languages you'd like to speak!

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 UNIT 0. DESCRIBING PLACES

 Let's continue with our Powerpoint with Unit 0 (STARTER UNIT).

SLIDE 1- COVER: DESCRIBING PLACES. UNIT 0.

SLIDE 2a + 2b-VOCABULARY: describing places x 12 pictures and 12 sentences using the words on page 4 (Students book).

SLIDE 3: GRAMMAR: Present Simple + Present Continuous

a) https://es.liveworksheets.com/bv1700jq

b) https://es.liveworksheets.com/kd1117924ls

SLIDE 4: Past Simple + Past Continous

a) https://es.liveworksheets.com/kf42188zm

b) https://es.liveworksheets.com/ex1340933be

c) MYSTERY HOUSE: https://es.liveworksheets.com/yz284410bp

SLIDE 5: GRAMMAR: Infinitive or gerund 

a) https://www.liveworksheets.com/cp580515mc 

SLIDE 6: GRAMMAR: Used to 

a) https://es.liveworksheets.com/qs10276tj

b) WRITING

Compare a city some decades ago and now. Use 2 photographs and describe it in the present (try to use Present Simple + present continuous) and the past simple + continuous + USED TO/DIDN'T USE TO. Example:  

NOW & THEN: In the past, Tarragona used to have a big port and there didn't use to be a railroad.

In the present, there is a beautiful building 

SLIDE 7: Project. Holiday snaps- Presentation of your holidays. Use the guide in your book presenting at least 3 pictures from your summer (or past holidays). Try to use holidays noun collocations (go sightseeing, take pictures, swim in the sea, lie on the beach...) and the adjectives of the unit. SPEAKING-WRITING