...Guille and Alice listen a noisy, they walk slowly, enter in their class and they met with Sara and Marcos!! They said that the Magic Force had taken them there. Sara, Marcos, Guille and Alice were in the academy two days, until they decide to leave. It's very strange because there aren't any zombies in the street. Where are they? Academy suddenly brightened and they reentered and there is the Magic book!! It isn't posible because they give it to the museum. They opened and...

A New Classmate! Talking About my Best Friend.

Tuesday 25^th November, 2014

Hello everybody!

Well done! You have worked a lot. Congratulations to Guille for writing the following episode of the story and posting it on the blog!

Today we had a new classmate. Welcome Gonzalo.

We told him about the story we are writing and read the four parts we have so far. Alicia is writing the following episode.

We also told him about our news project. He will be the presenter together with Alex.

Then, we talked about our best friend, answering the questions I made you last week.

Sara prepared a song this week. 
Thanks everybody for widening (making bigger) my musical knowledge!

Sara’s song

‘All about that bass’

What is this song about? It says that appearance isn’t important and you don’t have to be skinny (anorexic) to feel happy with yourself.

We played a quiz game in teams. It was a ‘Festivals Quiz’. The winners were Marcos and Alex. (Their team’s name was ‘The Dumb ones’). Sorry, ‘Sinajo’ you weren’t very good at this. Next time! (You, all of you can make a comment if you feel like it)

This quiz showed me that you must revise 
ordinal numbers and dates. As well as prepositions 
of time.So, don’t forget to do the exercises 
on prepositions that I gave you. That’s homework!

In our next class we are going to rehearse our news programme. Finish your pieces of news!!!

      GAME 9

Player 1	5
Player 2	7
Player 3	6
Player 4	6
Player 5	8
Player 6	10
Player 7	9
Player 8	4

See you next Tuesday!

Cheers!

Have a nice week!!!

Me and Alice walked in the forest to see our friends but we are alone in this strage place. We stayed in the forest all the day and in the night we prepared an improvise bed to sleep. But it wasn't important beacause a magical door apeared in front of us. We decides to paased and 10 seconds after apeared in Leganes, our town. But it's amazing... not amazing, VERY SCARY!. We have in the midnight and there aren't anyone in the streets... only thousands and thousands of zombies. They shout and run to catch us. We are very scary and went to our English Academy and close the door with keys (locked the door)but....

Alice and I .... strange place  improvised bed  because  appeared  decided to go through it passed after that appeared    It's midnight  there isn't  were very scared  closed the door with the key is lock (in English. Only one word)

Very well done! GFY!(Good For You)

"Friends And Friendship"

Tuesday 18^th November, 2014

Hello! How are you? How’s the week going?

Well, it’s nearly the weekend. Let’s go back to last Tuesday and remember what we did in class!

First, we corrected and started organizing our news programme.

 We have made some changes. Marcos isn’t going to talk about ‘Economy’. That’s an important section but we have to admit that it’s also veeery boring! He’ll be in charge of ‘Leisure’ which sounds much funnier. He’s going to tell us about films and other ways of spending the weekend. So, Marcos, what’s coming on the cinemas?

    Our presenter is a bit distracted and he has to prepare his part better. He also should write the script (the things he’s going to say).

The sections of ‘Current Affairs’, ‘Society’, ‘Sports’ and ‘Weather’ seem to be more or less ready. We just have to improve them and rehearse.(practise)

On this link, you can have ideas for your news programme. They are in English and they are easy to understand.

Easy News in English

Then, we talked and listened about ‘Best friends’.

 We answered to some questions in pairs and then we listened to Donna talking about her best friend, Carla.

For homework, write about your best friend following this pattern; in the same way that Donna did.

My best friend is _____. We live ___________ each other and we go to ___________. (Name)_____ is ___________ and _____________. (Describe him/her) When _______________ leaves school, he/she wants to be _____________ because ______________. We like (things you like doing together)__________ together.

At the weekend, we (activities together)_________with (friends, family etc.)_____. I think we are best friends because _______________. I like _____________ because __________. My friend _________ is one of the most important people in my life because __________.

We read the story that we are writing together. We read the three parts that we have, so far. Alicia wrote her part but she has to post it on the blog.

And Guille worked very hard and brought us a song for us to listen and fill in the gapped lyrics. Thank you Guille! Well done!

The song is so romantic! “All of me” by John Legend

  GAME 8

Player 1	4
Player 2	6
Player 3	7
Player 4	10
Player 5	4
Player 6	7
Player 7	6

(Player 1 left earlier that’s why she only got 4 points)

Bye! See you next Tuesday!

Have a nice week!!!

Let's Finish Talking about Fireworks!

Tuesday 11^th November, 2014

Hi everybody! How are things? Is it Ok?

What did we do on Tuesday?

We finished   listening to the song by Katie Perry. ‘Fireworks’

We matched two columns of words and later we filled in the gaps (completed the spaces) with the words we had matched before. After that, we listened to the song again and read it aloud so as to practice pronunciation. You could have sung instead of read but it seems you didn’t feel like that! I I don’t sing very well either!

And finally, we tried to understand the meaning of the song. It says that sometimes you feel sad or a little unhappy (paper thin, buried deep) but there is always a solution for problems and you can be happy again. (Brighter than the moon). The song is about our moods; sometimes happy, sometimes, sad.

We told the story of Guy Fawkes following the pictures.

We also asked and answered questions about it.

We talked about fireworks.

·         When do you have fireworks in your country?

·         What are you celebrating?

·         What happens?

·         What other festivals do you celebrate?

We have fireworks on New Year’s Eve (31^st December), on Saint John’s Night (24^th June) and on the fiestas of the different towns and cities.

We celebrate the beginning of the year, the longest day of the year and the patron saints of villages, towns and cities.

Remember that it would be a good idea that you wrote these things on the blog. Remember to answer with whole sentences!

We have decided to prepare an exercise with different songs every week.

Guillermo is bringing the lyrics of a song he likes. Delete some words from the lyrics and we’ll listen to it and try to fill in the gaps in class. The song has to be in English, of course!!!

We missed one chapter of our story! Alicia is going to write the following chapter this week.

1 comentario:Thank you Sara, well done! You get 2 points for next day for writing the story on the blog.

1.                  SARA CR11 de noviembre de 2014, 11:37

At night they started to hear strange noises outside the house, and began to feel very nervous.The noises said "um, um, um, grum, grom, grum", and suddenly the door opened. There wasn't anyone at the door!!!!!!, so they went out and started to run to the forest. In the forest a magical force caught Guille and Alice, and they started to shout at the other guys...

We watched the video that Sara and Alicia’s school recorded last year for the graduation party. It was “Lip dub” It was great. But as everything in life, it needs a lot of planning and preparation.

We started talking about our best friends.

We worked in pairs and interview each other trying to find out the following:

·         What’s your best friend’s name?

·         Where did you meet?

·         Why are you best friends?

·         How old is your best friend?

·         How often do you see each other?

·         What is your favourite activity together?

We explained what Pantomime is. We have the opportunity to see a pantomime performance in Madrid. We gave you a piece of paper with the information about dates and prices, in case you would like to go to the show.

Pantomime

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Pantomime (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with mime.

The Christmas Pantomime colourlithograph bookcover, 1890, showing the harlequinade characters

Pantomime (informally panto), is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is generally performed during the Christmas and New Year season. Modern pantomime includes songs, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humour with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale.^[1] It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.

Pantomime has a long theatrical history in Western culture dating back to classical theatre, and it developed partly from the 16th-centurycommedia dell'arte tradition of Italy, as well as other European and British stage traditions, such as 17th-century masques.^[1] An important part of the pantomime, until the late 19th century, was the harlequinade. The pantomime is performed today throughout Britain and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries.

For homework: you have two look for (search) or make up (invent) two pieces of news for our News Programme. We have to start correcting and rehearsing.

Write the information and look up the words you don’t know in the dictionary or on the web! Please don’t bring a paragraph with three or four words missing in each line…

This week we changed our system for getting points. Instead of adding points, I subtracted them for speaking in class or not paying attention. This is the result

GAME 7

Player 1	9
Player 2	6
Player 3	7
Player 4	9
Player 5	6
Player 6	6
Player 7	6

Bye! See you next Tuesday!

Have a nice week!!!

Remember, remeber, the 5th November!!!

Tuesday 4^th November, 2014

Hello! How are you?

We started the class with a “Talk Show” program.

It was a different way of correcting homework.

One of you was the presenter and another one was the guest. (Invited person)

We started like this:

Good afternoon and welcome to our program. This afternoon we are going to talk about last weekend, Halloween. Our guest is George. Welcome to our program.

So, tell us, George, how did you celebrate Halloween? Did you wear Halloween costumes? What did you do? What time did you get back home? Etc.

It was surprising to know that some of you were little hooligans! You mustn’t throw eggs! That’s not funny! And as you told me, somebody can be hurt.

We started listening to a song by Kate Perry, “Firework” and we talked about Guy Fawkes.

This is the story of “Bonfire Night” or “Guy Fawkes Night” .

Remember, remember, 5^th of November.

Then, María continued the story.

…in the chest, there was a magic book. Nobody knew what to do with the book. After a while they decided to take it to the village and tell the other inhabitants. Together, they decided to take the things to the museum of the old village.

When it started to get dark, Lucía, Sara, Marcos, Alex, Alicia, Guille and María went home and had dinner all together. At night they started to hear strange noises outside the house and began to feel very nervous…

TO BE CONTINUED …by Guille.

Guille will write next week. Try to do it on the blog.

After that we decided on our end of term project. We agreed on making a news programme. This is going to be our group of journalists and reporters.

Presenter	Alex
Current affairs	Sara
Economy	Marcos
Society	María
Sports	Guille
Weathergirl	Lucía
Live reporter	Alicia

Remember to start searching for information related to your news section.

Finally, I asked you your opinion about “Flipped Class”. Everybody seems to have enjoyed the experience. It was quite interesting.

For homework, do the exercises on the photocopy I gave you. Match the sentences to the pictures, page 15 and answer the questions under the heading ‘General Conversation’

Points for homework and your work in class.

GAME 6

Player 1	6
Player 2	5
Player 3	6
Player 4	5
Player 5	5
Player 6	7
Player 7	6

Bye! See you next Tuesday!

Have a nice week!!!