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!

 ***

 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

3ESO: Digital portfolio Unit 0

Welcome everyone! For your digital Portfolio Unit 0 (Revision) these are your tasks to be done on your PowerPoint:

SLIDES (=diapositivas)

SLIDE 1: cover for English, including your name and surnames, group (tutoría) and an image according to the subject.

SLIDE 2: a CONTENTS page

SLIDE 3: COVER My language biography: brief introduction of yourself and the languages you can speak

SLIDE 4: Graphic (round shaped) with the proportion of languages you can use (complete the spreadsheet accordingly)

SLIDES 5a, 5b, 5c 5d... (and as many as you consider for each language): a collage with the uses and contexts in wich you use those languages (and even the ones you want to learn in the future!) 

Examples by student Rafael Medeiros: (for the European Day of Languages)

Once you are done with your language biography, let's start with the very first Unit on your book. So, you can add these new slides:

UNIT 0. COMMUNICATION

SLIDE 6 Revision: COMMUNICATION (look for pictures that reflect VERBAL and NON VERBAL communication)

SLIDE 7 VOCABULARY: non-verbal communication: look for images for the words on page 4.

SLIDE 8: GRAMMAR Present simple and continuous. Copy this image on your powerpoint and study it carefully!

What are they doing? Use the Present continuous to describe at least 5 pictures (you can use the negative as well):

GLOSSARY: 

DIG: break up and move earth with a tool or machine, or with hands, paws, snout, etc.

STACK: arrange (a number of things) in a pile, typically a neat one.

SLIDE 9: Present simple and continuous. Do the activity and copy + paste your result on your slide. Try to explain the mistakes you did or doubts you had!

https://www.liveworksheets.com/rg30255ic

SLIDE 10: Comparisons. Copy and paste the image and revise the use of COMPARATIVES & SUPERLATIVES carefully!

SLIDE 11: Do the exercises and copy+paste your results on this slide. 

a) https://www.liveworksheets.com/sx191093gc

b) https://www.liveworksheets.com/do923hl

SLIDES 12a & 12b: POSTCARDS using comparisons. Copy and paste both postcards once they are corrected!

https://www.liveworksheets.com/mj85155ie

Do you know which letter used Romans to express number 10? If you want to unlock a 10 in your grades... dare doing these eXtra activities!

EXTRA X-FILES ACTIVITIES FOR THE 10!

SLIDE X1: Look for a picture of cultural greetings around the world and find a little explanation, for example: Indian nod, Maori hangi, Inuit nose rubbing... 

SLIDE X2: READING: Read this article. https://www.afar.com/magazine/beyond-the-handshake-how-people-greet-each-other-around-the-world

Then, use this map: https://www.mytravelmap.xyz/?0 to look for the countries mentioned in the article (click on "Yo lo he visitado"= I have visited it). Copy and paste your final map and mention at least 5 countries/continents +  greetings (you can find all 10!) using text boxes. You can find the flags of the countries as well.

CLASS MATERIALS

LISTENING: Remember the video on the Indian nod (or watch it if you missed it!)

2BAC. UNIT 0. FASHION.

Dear fashionistas,

Welcome to UNIT 0. Here you have the activities for the fashion week... er... I mean for this first Unit of the year.

POWERPOINT (DRIVE- SHARED FOLDER)

COVER + CONTENTS

1) MY LANGUAGE BIOGRAPHY: languages I speak and collage per language (when do I use them? what for? who with?). Let's celebrate the European Day of Languages all together and our plurilingualism (it's a   treasure!).

Add a  round / doughnut graphic showing the % of usage throughout a year.

2) PICTIONARY (vocabulary + pictures about fashion).

• Include patterns: dotted, spotted, animal print, checked, striped, plain...
• Materials: leather, silk, denim...
• Hair styles: pony tail, dreadlocks...
• Phrasal verbs of the unit and lexicon facultative.
  

3) WRITING: DESCRIBE 2 CELEBRITIES

Use 3 paragraphs: who they are, what do they look like?, what are they weraing in the picture?

4) GRAMMAR + SPEAKING: ORAL PRESENTATION OF YOUR TENSE

Select your tense and explain it thoroughly to your classmates. You can use the whiteboard or aa powerpoint.

Include: form, usage, example + key words. Be ready to ask/answer questions.

You can find ideas here (infographics) and practise your tenses! 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/verb-tenses.html

5) CREATIVITY

Include your most glamourous picture and decribe the moment and your outfit/looks!

6) LINK TO UNIT 1... FASHION + PRESS: MAKE YOUR COVER!

Produce your cover (using your glamourous picture maybe?) for when you receive your Nobel Prize or Princesa de Asturias Award (among others you can imagine). What will they give you an award for in the future? Breakthrough scientific discover? Best-selling nove, perhaps? Start visualizing! Choose the right headlines and type og magazine. Print screen and include it in your Powerpoint! 

Ideas:

http://fakeazine.com/ (tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK7T9TuuSNs)

https://magazineyourself.com/magazines

ALL: Language biography

Welcome back to school! Let's start with a reflection on the languages we use reading about linguistic biographies and writing our own.

ACTIVITIES:

1) Send an email with a little introduction about you. Model: first paragraph of your worksheet. You'll have the class email address on the whiteboard. Use your educand.ad address.

2) Create a Shared Folder on your Drive. Name it with your NAME SURNAME - ENGLISH. You can change the colout. IMPORTANT! Don't forget to share it with the class email as an Editor, so that you can get your feedback.

3) Create a "Word" document in this folder. Title: My Language Biography. Type your composition. LOOK: use different paragraphs and double check your mistakes (capital letters...).

4) Fast finishers: do this exercise and send a screen shot of your result to the email. SUBJECT: "A language biography". https://es.liveworksheets.com/lh900745kl

Collage from https://edu.glogster.com/glog/language-biography/1wjf7debwxa

5) EXTRA: Produce a collage of your language biography on your notebook/computer

ALL: Summertime 2020 edition!

Hello guys!
It's summertime! Here you have some activities for you to revise or go beyond to prepare for the next year! You will fins games, exercises to boost your skills and ideas to have fun with English!
Enjoy the summer, find opportunities to put your English in use and have fun!
Best wishes,
Humberto

REVISION: choose your subject (Grammar, Vocabulary...) and your level! http://a4esl.org/

• 3rd ESO: Easy
• 4th ESO: Medium
• 1st BACHILLERATO: Difficult

EXTRA ACTIVITIES: 6-minute English... have 6 minutes to spare a day? Try these!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english

SKILLS: reading, listening, real English... choose your device (mobile or computer) and let's go! http://www.manythings.org/daily/

GAMES: http://www.eslgamesworld.com/

DUOLINGO: And as always, you can keep playing and improving with duolingo wherever you go! How many points can you score this summer? https://www.duolingo.com/

PS. For teachers: Many many ideas to prepare for the next year! Enjoy the well deserved holidays and see you soon!
http://iteslj.org/games/

4ESO. UNITS 8+9. Robots, apps, AI: essay. Tense revision (5 June)

 1) LISTENING + SPEAKING: Watch this futuristic short video.
1a) L: Answer the questions and send your correction: https://www.liveworksheets.com/qf28477sz
1b) S: Send an audio (.mp3) with your opinion and how do you imagine the future in 2050

• Use the Future tense: In the future, there will be.../ there won't be...: habrá / no habrá). 
• The future passive: All housework will be done by robots, for example, cooking will mean activating a 3D printer of your food...
• Use vocabulary related to all topics we have dealt during the year: school, jobs, leisure, art, routines, food, transport, houses, sport, environment, technology, medicine... you name it! (min. 60 seconds; format .mp3)

2) READING + WRITING: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ur392604rz
2a) R: Complete the worksheet and send your results (don't do the writing here)
2b) W: Write a for/against essay about the use of Robots following the model.

3) GR: Tenses review: https://www.liveworksheets.com/bf1712cx

Extra! Pronunciation: https://www.liveworksheets.com/kk298qt

Extra point on Classdojo!