World's Toughest Job Ad Goes Viral

24 applicants were in for a surprise for a job that listed no breaks and unlimited hours.Inhumane conditions, no vacation and no pay: Staged job interviews show how being a mom is the toughest position in the world. The actor playing the interviewee told applicants that the open position was for a 'director of operations' job. When he went into the demanding requirements of the job they all acted incredulous, rolling their eyes, frowning and scoffing. If you want to Read more about this issue or See the video, click on these previous links.

REVISION WEBSITES

For a good revision of the structures you're going through in the next exam I've posted some interesting websites you can go to. In this webs you'll have exercises of Future with WILL & GOING TO and other sites with FIRST & SECOND CONDITIONALS, and both mixed for practicing recognition. I highly recommend practicing these exercises. GOOD LUCK!!


Future WILL & GOING TO 1
Future WILL & GOING TO 2
FIRST CONDITIONAL
FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS 1
FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS 2
FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS 3

CREATIVE WRITNG - LEAFLET

In this post you will find the activity we did in class about the environment vocabulary. Remember that you for the next session have to come up with the words you could work out in class. If you click on the link below you'll have the document downloaded in your computer.
Environment vocabulary sheet

I also leave this link for a very interesting resource about global warming and the coutries that are affected by the different effects of this continuous world-heating.
Climate hot Map

ARE YOU SUPERSTITOUS?

If you are spooked by Friday the 13th, you're in for one of your worst years in your life. Many superstitions stem from the same human trait that causes us to believe in monsters and ghosts: When our brains can't explain something, we make things up. In fact, a 2010 study found that superstitions can sometimes work, because believing in something can improve your performance on a task.

Here you can find the 10 most popular supertitions in Britain, ranked and with percentages of popularity. Good stuff for your class.

To download the activity on PDF click on the following link: The top 10 British People favourites superstitions

GLOBAL EXAM: REVISION ACTIVITIES ESO1

Here you can find the key for the voluntary activities I told you about in class. As I suggest do these exercises and check them later to see how you are doing for the exam. I also recommend you to carry on with the online activities you have done in the computers lab. Scroll down a little bit and you'll see the entry where the links are. There are lots of them so you can get good practice. Hope your performance is fine and you are ready to take the exam. GOOD LUCK!!



Activities: Workbook - Page 106 and 107; all. Page 108; 1-4. Page 109; all. Page 111; all.
Revision activities 1
Revision activities 2

PAST SIMPLE PRACTICE

In this entry you can practice Past Simple forms online. Thiese links are quite useful for revising for your exams. You can have a go to hte verb to Be in past as well as There was/were as we saw in unit 7. You can also have a look at the different activities you have of irregular verbs and past formation and spelling. All in all, a very compete website to succeed in your global exams
Click on the following links;
Past simple and irregular verbs (1)
Verb to Be + Past Simple formation
All forms (Questions, Negatives and Affirmatives)

WRITING WORKSHOP: GREEN LEAFLET

This is the leaflet I've shown you in class and an example you can use as a model for your incoming leaflets. As I said this is a real one from Rytland Council and gives some ideas of what you can do for your final project.

As I reminder: the more original and creative the better. You have to develop the ideas you have shaped in these sessions and find how you can carry them out in your little community . Furthermore, use Modal verbs and other tenses you consider appropriate for your tasks and connectors to give the text cohesion. You've also been working with useful vocabulary for this purpose.

Click on th following link to download the leaflet of Recycling in Rutland. You might also want to have a look at this other example: Protecting mother nature.

THE JOGGER AND THE WALLET

Here you havce the activity we've been working on in the Creative Writing Workshop. Juyst remind you that for next session you have to complete the story and enrich it with tools for descriptions, both adjectivas nad adverbs. We´ll go through it in next writing class. See you by then.

WORD BOARD. A great vocabulary game for revising words with your students.

This is an excellent vocabulary game created by MacMillan for revising words with your students and promoting oral expression in class. This video demonstrates how to play the vocabulary game 'Word board'. Great for revising and spelling words.

If you want to download the board for a Digital board or overhead projector, click on this link: Word Board chart

To see the video for the game explanations go to this one: Word Board Video

Xmas Festival: If you give a little love you can get a little love of your own

This is the play we've come up with for this Xmas festival for ESO 1. The short play is based on the videoclip for the song If you give a little love by Noah and the Whale. In this play students act out the chain of favours seen in the clip. If you are interested you can have a look at the video and download the scripts of the play as well.

For watching the video, click on this link: If you give a little love by Noah and the Whale

For downlaoding the scripts of the play either on PDF or on Word document:
PDF: Scripts
Word Document: Scripts

XMAS FESTIVAL: MARIAH CAREY'S SONG

All I want for Christmas is you

Here you can download the parts of lyrics we must sing in the Christmas Festival by Mariah Carey. Remember that only these two parts are performed. You can also watch the video with the lyrics and download the document with the perform.
VIDEO: All I want for Christmas is you
LYRICS in Word Document: Lyrics
LYRICS in PDF: Lyrics

WRITING MODEL ESO1

Here there is the model of the writing I told you abiut in today's class. It's very simple. What you've got to do is the describe what there is in the fridge. You must use quantifiers, not numbers and you must use prepositions to refer to the items you're writing about. The red crossed items are things you have run out of so you must use negatives. You must write 80 words minimum. Here is the example for you to have a glance and practice:


In my fridge there is some orange juice next to the milk. There's some milk too. Below there is some cheese between the yoghurt and butter and there is some butter but there aren't any tomatoes. At the door there is some keptchup but there isn't any mayonaisse. There's also somelettuce in the bottom and there are some carrots as well. Are there any sausages in your fridge?

WRITING MODEL

As I told you in class, the writing part for tomorrow's exam is an email for a friend about your last holiday. Which means the exam must be done with past simple structures. But this is ot all; you also must use what we've been working on: sequency adverbs and special care with time prepositions (remember the first writing exam). Here you have the model we worked on in class. GOOD LUCK!!

Hi Alex

How are you doing? Are you alright? What about your last weekend? Did you have a good time. I did!! I'm going to tell you all about what I did last weekend.

(This is the beginning of the writing) On Saturday morning I woke up at 10. What time did you wake up? Well, after that I didn't watch TV but I had a big breakfast. I was starving!! In the afternnon I studied a little for my Science exam and then I met some friends about 6 o'clock. I didn't stay home at all. In the evening I spoke with my brother on the phone. He lives in NY but I didn't go out becuase I was tired. And you? Did you go out?

On Sunday morning I did some sport and I walked the dog for a while. Did you do some sport last weekend? In the afternnon I studied for the exam a little bit more and I felt thisrty so I drank a big glass of OJ. I didn't meet my friends. In the evening I made a salad for dinner and I watched a film, but I fell asleep on the sofa so I went to bed early. Did you go to bed early too?

Well, that's all for now. Hope you write back soon.

Take care.

XXXX

Present Perfect Power Point

Have a look at the power point we've gone through in class and download it. Revise for your next week's exam in a entertaining way and practice all the structures bound to be in the test. There are lots of activities to practice and check your knowledge of this unit. Go ahead!! Click on the link below:
Present Perfect Power Point

Writing activity ESO3

Here you have the activity I've explained in class. You have two ways for seeing the model. Or you click on the image to get it bigger or you can download it on your computer in the links provided below. One is a word doc and the other is a PDF.

PDF
Word document

Regarding the activity, remember you must use Present Pefect tenses in combination with past simple. You sometimes must use present tenses (Simple or Continuous). Its an email for a friend so you can use this example to give salutations and start with the letter:

Hi Alex
How are you doing?  Is everything fine at school? Are you still so busy as you told me in your last email? Hope you are not. 

However, this week is getting hard for me. I haven't tidied up my room yet and my mum makes me do it every week. I tidied it up last week but I must do it this week too. (now you continue)

To download the example of the email either in word document or PDF click on the links below:

PDF
Word Document

GREAT VIDEO. IS IT CONTAGIOUS? I HOPE SO.

In this pretty video you can find why giving a hand to those who are in need is really a goal. The other choice is to stand put and do nothing at all. When choosing the first you start up a chain that goes beyond what you can see and expect. You can put a stop to those who still feel uncomfortable when they have to help their neighbours, as if somebody was watching and laughing at you because you give help and that's not the usual thing to do. Have you been asked to do so? Why are you doing it then? Can you mind your own business? Kindness always move to a person who still don't have that, and kindness always become bigger! Watch the viseo and find the answers for these three questions but with no words. The video plays the great song by Noah and the Whale, if you give a little love. Click on this link to see it: IF YOU GIVE A LITTLE LOVE YOU START UP SOMETHING

PRESENT PERFECT ONLINE ACTIVITIES

Do you want to revise the tense Present Perfect in all areas we've seen in class? In this webs you will be looking at different uses of the present perfect, and at the choice of the words FOR and SINCE which are often confused by students when using the present perfect. Or at the mislading words JUST, ALREADY AND YET, whose use might get some students crazy.
And what about its relation with the past tense? This is where often things get tricky, partly because of the potentially misleading word PRESENT in present perfect. It could be worthwhile to focus the students’ attention first on the uses of the present perfect easier.  But students don't realize just how important it is that they master it. To ensure your students will not let the present perfect slip into oblivion, it must be taught right. This entry provides several clear webs that will help you learn the Present Perfect tense properly.

Have a go and click on the different links below.
Present Perfect (positive, negative and questions)
Present Perfect (JUST / ALREADY & YET)
Present Perfect versus Past Simple
Present Perfect (SINCE AND FOR)
Present Perfect agendaweb

PRESENT SIMPLE - CONTINUOUS ONLINE ACTIVITIES

If you want to practice for the exam of this unit 2, you can go to this link, review the formation and spelling rules of the present and practice with some very good activities onlin. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll find 12 exercises and 3 tests to get ready for the exam. In thiese exercises make sure which tense you have to use and the spelling of the verbs, because both are equally important. If you need to use apostrophe, use the one on the question mark (?) key.

Click on this link: Present Simple vs. Present Continous
Or on this other for more practice: agendaweb

X factor: Emmanuel Kelly

This singer is joined by the X factor Top 12 to perform "Imagine" on The Grand Final Decider of The X Factor Australia 2011 Live Show. Emmanuel impressed the judges with his heartfelt performance of the John Lennon classic Imagine in his audition for the show."I don't think I've ever been moved as I was by that performance," Ronan Keating said, judge of this programme. His rendition even drew praise from John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono who Tweeted "John would have been proud of you".

Present Continuous Spelling rules

 

We make the present continuous tense by adding -ing to the base verb. Normally it's simple - we just add -ing. But sometimes we have to change the word a little. Perhaps we double the last letter, or we drop a letter.

Here are the rules to help you know how to spell the present continuous tense. In this entry you can see the slides of the Power Point we went through in class and see how to make present continuous with the different verb endings and patterns.

 Writing the verbs in their correct continuous form is as important as making the difference of Present tenses we're dealing with in this unit. Please have a look at both slides and take this information in mind.

If you want to see them in a bigger way place the mouse arrow and click on them. Last slide is an exercise for practicing. Click and check on it