Inventions

Tuesday 20^th January, 2015

Hello everybody!

Here we are again.

What did we do last Tuesday?

First, you told me about your bikes.

What they are like. What colour they are. How often you ride them. Why you like them and some other details.

Then we watched the videos that I had posted on the blog. I would like you to upload videos or other material you think is interesting or related to our topics. (In English, of course)

 The first video ‘How to mount a Penny-farthing’ was interesting. We wondered how the rider was going to get off it, but we couldn’t find out because it didn’t appear on the video…

The second video was about ‘Stephenson’s Rocket’, not the original one. The very first one is in a museum. We learnt that when Stephenson invented the ‘Rocket’, nobody had invented the brakes (pedals or handles you use to stop a vehicle) yet. So, how did the train brake? Going into reverse (backwards!) Amazing, (surprising) isn’t it?

You worked in teams and prepared quiz questions for the other teams. The game was very competitive!

Ten, we revised comparatives with a game. You had to complete some sentences. One team had to guess the comparative the other teams had written.

We learnt how to make a passive sentence.

This is how we make passive sentences:

Farmers	grow	bananas	in the Canary Islands.
Subject	V	Object
Bananas	Are grown	In the Canary Islands
Subject	Passive V
Shakespeare	wrote	Hamlet.
Subject	V	Object
Hamlet	Was written	by Shakespeare.
Subject	Passive V	Agent

The object becomes the subject of the passive sentence. The subject becomes the agent. When the agent isn’t important or it’s a pronoun, it isn’t necessary to write it.

The verb changes into passive voice by writing the verb “to be” in the same tense as in the active sentence + the participle of the verb used in the active sentence.

Like this:

Present simple	produce		Present simple of “to be”	Am / is/are	+	participle	Is produced
They produce coffee in Brazil.			Coffee is produced in Brazil
Past simple	invented		Past simple of “to be”	Was/were	+	participle	Was invented
Stephenson invented ‘The Rocket’			‘The Rocket was invented by Stephenson.

What do you think of these inventions?

We finished the class playing ‘movies’. Next week we’re going to talk about films. So, this is your homework, write a film review.

·            First paragraph: title, main actor and actress. When and where the action takes place (happens).

·            Second paragraph: a short summary of the story.

·            Third paragraph: opinion.

Alicia is going to tell us about ‘Maleficent’; Sara, ‘Divergent’; Lucía, ‘The club of the misunderstood’; Gonzalo, ‘The Hobbit’; Marcos, ‘Avatar’ and Guille, ‘Eight Basque Surnames’. Alex, if you have a look at the blog prepare a film to talk about, OK?

MARCOS, COULD YOU PLEASE WRITE THE END OF OUR STORY? WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU! …WITING FOR ONE MONTH!!!!!!

GAME 2

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

See you next Tuesday!

Have a nice week!!!