New Year's Resolutions

These are my new year's resolutions. How about yours? Which resolution do you like best? Why?

Integrated Project:The Friendly Games

Go to this page to learn about the Commonwealth and answer the questions.

Walking Around My Region

We are going to work in our integrated project "Walking around my Region". To do so, you will divide into teams of three or four members. Each team will research on one of the following towns:
-Moraleda de Zafayona
-Alhama de Granada
-Montefrío
-Huétor-Tájar
-Loja

After your research, you will present the classroom a tourist brochure with information about one of these towns (Group task). 
This is the rubric we will use to evaluate your work. 
And you can have a look at this example here.
Each member of the team will research about a different aspect(individual task).We will use this rubric your mark your presentation:
Member 1: Write a restaurant review(Read some examples here).

You can use this worksheet, too.
Member 2: Talk about a typical dish from this town (starter, main dish, or dessert) Explain how to prepare it. Don't forget to include connectors of sequence in your recipe.(Have a look at this example)
- Vocabulary about food.

-Vegetable vocabulary

- Verbs used to prepare food

Member 3: Write about accommodation in the zone.Include the following information:

 Type of Accomodation. Complete the following information as much as you can. Don´t worry if you can´t find all the information. Some towns may not have that type of accommodation! 

HOTELS: three star, four star etc
YOUTH HOSTELS:
APARTMENTS:
CAMPSITES:
OTHER TYPE (if any):

Select one of the places and indicate:

Name of the hotel:
Location/ Address (near the center?):
Facilities/ Equipment:
Staff/ Service (if it says):
Price: (if it says)

• Member 4: Make an introduction to the town. Don’t forget to mention:

Location of the town
Number of inhabitants
Places to visit
Cultural events and festivities
Other relevant information

Have a look at these examples:

Saint Patrick: 17th March

March 17th is Saint Patrick's Day. Click on the image to know more about this festivity.

If you would like to know more about St. Patrick, click here

Create your own film

Create your own film here

If you would like to see other students' films, click on these examples:
-Pedro y Nerea (1ºESO A) 2016
- Leticia y Claudia (1ºESO A) 2016

Cuestionario de autoconocimiento

Descarga este cuestionario en tu ordenador y complétalo para ayudarte a decidir sobre tus opciones de futuro en consonancia con tus intereses.

Write a letter to a pen friend. First, read these tips about how to write a letter here.
You can use this template

8 marzo- día de la mujer trabajadora

 

  Mother from StephanieC on Vimeo.



Source: Anuncio desigualdad mujer by Gelurban on Rumble

-Anuncio de Pavofrío:

-Reese Witherspoon on  gender roles in cinema:

-Reese Witherspoon y su productora

-Noticia: Taller de des-princesamiento, ¿qué hacen las niñas en el taller de des-princesamiento?
- Libros escritos por mujeres
-Material de Gloria Osuna
-Vídeo sobre el origen del 8 de marzo
-Propuesta para la creación de un Día Internacional de la mujer
-Artículo de Ideal: 8 mujeres clave para la historia
-Mujeres científicas
-Annie Londonderry: Recorriendo el mundo en bicicleta

-Cortometrajes igualdad género

-Julia Gillard's speech on sexism:

More about this story
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/julia-gillard-sexism-australian-women

-Revisionist history: The Lady vanishes

-Canciones:

Independent Women (Destiny's Child)

I will survive (Gloria Gaynor)

You don't own me (Grace)

Modal verbs

Practise the modal verbs playing this game:

Modal verbs

Valentine's Day

Idioms about love with pictures
Now,train your listening skills with this love song:

Click here

Valentine's day Task:

Make a presentation of your favourite love song. It should include the following contents:

• Title of the song/ year/album/ awards/ best position in charts 

• Performer/composer( if relevant)/ other versions of the song/ is it part of a film or TV series soundtrack?

• Most important biographical information about the artist and his/her career.

• Topic of the song.What is it about?Why do you like it?what figures of speech(if any)are used to convey the message?(metaphor, simile,etc)

Check out these sites:

- The PopSong Professor

-Master of Voice

Write your grandmother's biography

To write your grandmother's biography, first:

-Have a look at the elements a biography must have here.

-Use the vocabulary related to life events( be born, die, move, study,go to Primary School, go to Secondary Schoool, go to university, fall in love,get married, have children) and appropriate connectors(after that, next, then, finally, first)
-Have a look at this example.

Download the template here

Do you need to review the vocabulary of description?

-Personality adjectives 1

-Personality adjectives 2

-Personality adjectives 3 (higher lever)

-More activities about description

-ed pronunciation

Classify these verbs acording to their pronunciation of the _ed .
More practice here

Jack the Ripper

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  ESO 2 (BURLINGTON)
VOCABULARY WORKSHEET HERE
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

Chapter 1 

1. Aunt Polly punished Tom. What was the punishment?

2. Did he do it? Who did it?

 Chapter 2 

3. Tom meets a person. Who is this?

 Chapter 3

4. Who is Tom’s best friend? 

5. What did Tom and Huck see in the cemetery? 

6. Who killed doctor Robinson? Who saw it? 

7. Did Muff Pottter see it? Why? 

Chapter 4 

8. Where do Tom and Huck go at the beginning of the chapter? 

9. How long do they stay there? 

10.What does Aunt Polly think about Tom? 

11.What did the people do when they saw them in the church? 

Chapter 5 

12.What did Mr. Smith say at the trial? 

13.What did Tom testify at the trial? 

14.What did Injun Joe do after Tom’s testimony? 

Chapter 6 

15. Where do Tom and Huck go? 

16. Who was in the house? 

17. What was  in the first box? Where did Injun Joe put it? 

18. What was  in the second box? 

19. Where did they take the treasure? 

Chapter 7 

20. What is there on Dougal’s island? 

21. What do Becky and Tom do in the cave? 

22. What happens to Tom and Becky in the cave? 

23. Who did Tom and Becky see in the cave? 

24. What else was there? 

25. How long were Tom and Becky in the cave? 

26.  Who was there at the entrance of the cave? 

27. What did they put at the entrance to the cave? 

28. What happened to Injun Joe? 

29. Who takes the treasure?