ORACLE NIGHT

A few activities for my "ACI" students to learn numbers and colours..... and more basic vocabulary:

NUMBERS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE. You can also visit the page clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - Numbers)

COLOURS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE. You can also visit the page clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - Colours)

BODY PARTS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the page clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - My body)

CLOTHES:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the page clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - My clothes)

FAMILY:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the page clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - My family)

SEASONS, DAYS AND MONTHS:

Click HERE and HERE. 

FOOD:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicklearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - Food)

JOBS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - Professions)

SCHOOL OBJECTS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net ( 1 ESO - Lexicon - My things)

THE HOUSE:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net ( 1 ESO - Intermediate - My house)

GREETINGS:

Click HERE,HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Easy - Hello)

ANIMALS /PETS:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net (1 ESO -Lexicon - My pets)

MEANS OF TRANSPORT:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - Transport)

 COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES:

Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also visit the webpage clicknlearn.net (1 ESO - Lexicon - My country)

"ACI" tests HERE.

British Council press release:

"The Genki approach to learning English works by engaging all of the learners’ senses and appealing to a wide range of learning styles. Children are engaged visually through the simple but striking graphics, aurally/orally through the simple chants and songs and limited amounts of graded vocabulary input and kinaesthetically through the actions and games. Because all of the learning tasks are organised as game-like activities, children are immediately motivated to take part.”

Click HERE to go to GENKI ENGLISH, an excellent webpage.

My 2nd Bac students have asked me to revise with them the following gammar points:

- Subject / Object Personal Pronouns: Click HERE

- Possessive adjectives and pronouns: Click HERE

Exercises HERE

You can also go to the following webpage:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/personal-pronouns-and-possessives

ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning and teaching English as a Second Language. Their learning games are mostly suitable for teaching ESL Kids and Teenagers. There are activities for teaching and practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills. 

Click HERE to go to their webpage.

• You will hear a song by the famous group “The Black Eyed Peas”. Read the title. What do you think it’s going to be about?

• Now, you’re going to have to complete the song in different ways. Take a minute to see if you understand what you are asked to do in each part of the song.

Where’s the Love?

Complete with the missing words

What's................ with the world, mama
People livin' like they .........................
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you ......................... 
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got........................here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The............................. and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to ....................................
And to discriminate only generates ...........................
And when you hate then you're bound to get .............................yeah
......................................is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how ...................................works and operates
Nigga, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and ........................................
Let your soul...................................  to the love, y'all, y'all

Rearrange the lines and put them in the correct order
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
People killin', people dyin'
Father, Father, Father help us
And would you turn the other cheek
Can you practice what you preach
Send us some guidance from above
Where is the love (Love)
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (The love)

Put these words in the blank spaces

unchanged sufferin’ insane lovin’ strong dividends bombs undercover chemical gasses

It just ain't the same, always .............................
New days are strange, is the world .............................
If love and peace is so .............................
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' .................................
..................................fillin' lungs of little ones
With the ongoin'...............................  as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the .....................................really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them.................................
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's .........................................
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all

Put the lines in order
killin' people dyin' people
hurt and children hear you cryin’ them
preach you can what practice you
cheek would and you turn other the
Father help Father us Father

above send from guidance us some
questionin’ 'cause got people me got me q
love (love) is the where

Choose the right option
I feel the weight of the world / work on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder / cooler
Most of us only care about money breakin’ / makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our own direction / director
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images / imagine is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster / quicker than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality / equanimity
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding / comprehending , leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder / wander why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith / fate alive till love is found

Now sing along!
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)

Learning English for Spanish speakers can seem quite simple at first because as much as 40% of English words have cognates in Spanish. Cognates are words that sound similar, have similar spelling and have the same meaning in the two languages. Examples of cognates are: teléfono-telephone; persona- person; invitar-invite.  However, there are many words called FALSE COGNATES or FALSE FRIENDS. In the case of False Friends, the English word sounds like a word in Spanish but the two words do NOT have the same meaning

El exito educativo de Finlandia Michael Moore from ateo666666 on Vimeo.

Here’s a puzzle. Finnish children spend comparatively little time at school, don’t get homework and yet receive one of the best educations in the world. Curious? Watch how the Finns did it in this clip from Michael Moore’s compelling documentary film ’Where To Invade Next?’

Click HERE, HERE and HERE.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO HERE

Click HERE.

Click HERE.

Other TED Lessons HERE.

UNIT 1 - HERE or HERE

UNIT 2 - HERE or HERE

The next musical to be performed at IES Xesús Taboada Chivite will be Grease (in Galician language).

We are going to listen to two famous songs from the film and do some exercises:

- SUMMER NIGHTS

- YOU ARE THE ONE THAT I WANT

Translation of those songs (and other songs from the musical) into Galician HERE.

Other musicals performed at IES Taboada Chivite:

Los Miserables ( 2012-2013)

Moulin Rouge (2013-2014)

Mamma Mia (2014-2015)

Hoy no me puedo levantar (2015-2016)

Click HERE.

PET (B1) sample test.

FIRST CERTIFICATE (B2) sample test.

EEOOII (B1 and B2) sample tests HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE.

Revision activities for our 1 ESO and 2 ESO students to do during the summer. From the web of IES P. Sarasate:

HERE - 1 ESO

HERE - 2 ESO

An excellent reading comprehension web with short stories by masterful writers. It includes reading comprehension activities, glossaries, and  you can listen to the text while reading it.

Click HERE, HERE (Ray Bradbury), HERE (Farenheit 451), HERE (McCartyism)

LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a homogenous, ……………………, war-obsessed America, where books are…………………, intellectualism scorned and the entire population exists in a state of dull …………………and sensory overload. Ring any bells?

Guy Montag, the……………………………., is an impressionable fireman. His job is to burn books, which have been denounced as emotionally upsetting and…………………………………………...

Montag starts to question his actions after meeting an …………………………young woman, even going so far as to steal a book from a house as he burns it down. Montag becomes steadily more ……………………….of his miserable life, and resolves to take action against the ……………………….ruling society. With the help of a former English professor, Montag learns that books allow for self-examination and …………………thought.

Montag is then caught with the stolen books and must become a………………….. After a harrowing chase, Montag escapes and joins up with a group of roving ………………………..in the countryside. They watch as enemy planes bomb the city, and the group resolves to construct a new, better…………………………..

 Major Characters

“Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.”

 Montag: Guy Montag is a firefighter, and the book plots his movement from mindless drone to ……………………….. book-lover. He struggles with independent thought, and is often swayed by people’s rhetoric, making him something of an archetypal citizen in Bradbury’s ……………..future.

 Beatty: The fire chief, Beatty is brilliant, and very…………………………….. He is well-read, and can …………………..famous literary works at will, but he finds the written word dangerous and upsetting. He represents the more …………………..side of censorship.

 Faber: Faber is a former English professor who is Montag’s intellectual mentor. Faber teaches Montag that ………………….and reason are the true paths to a more …………………..life.

 Themes, Motifs and Symbols

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”

 Fire: Fire destroys contraband, but it also entertains and delights people—Montag notices that almost all fires are at night, when they will look……………. Eventually, Montag comes to view fire as a ……………..not just for destruction or entertainment, but for sustenance as well.

 Mirrors: Clarisse, the young woman, is described as a mirror, and one of Montag’s eventual friends in the countryside claims the new world needs a mirror………………….. Mirrors represent inquiry and………………...

Censorship: Bradbury argues that the population censors itself by ignoring ……………..or positions that make it………………………….. Reading books, he says, encourages beneficial…………………………….., while ……………………..only deludes people into being superficially happy.

 Analysis

“Everyone must leave something in the room or left behind when he dies.”

 Farenheit 451 is a bleak ……………….of a world that’s too ……………….being…………………. By wiping out the written word, the world is supposedly free from …………………and upsetting information, but the only thing this brings is more…………………. The suppression of books is the suppression of……………………………………, which will slowly destroy any society.

For more information, click HERE

Click HERE and HERE (activities designed by Isabel Pérez) to do some activities about the film The Sixth Sense.

FULL FILM with Spanish subtitles HERE.

One of the songs performed by the magnificent choir from IES Val do Tea (Ponteareas), which visited us last week was Tomorrow, from the musical Annie.

Fill-in-the-gaps exercise HERE.

A fantastic site (HERE and HERE, too)to learn idiomatic expressions in English.

TAKE (took, TAKEN). You SHAKE (shook, SHAKEN). 
WAKE (woke, WOKEN) to the style I’m creating. 
THINK (thought, THOUGHT). SEEK (sought, SOUGHT).
Listen to the lesson that I TEACH (taught, TAUGHT).

Don’t SLEEP (slept, SLEPT). I CREEP (crept, CREPT). 
I SNEAK (snuck, SNUCK UP). You LEAP (leapt, LEAPT).
I KEEP (kept, KEPT) having fun. 
I’m never BEAT (beat, BEATEN); I WIN (won, WON).
DO (did, DONE); BEGIN (began, BEGUN);
SHOOT (shot, SHOT)—no, I don’t own a gun. 
I LEAD (led, LED) so I can FEED (fed, FED). 
the knowledge you need, straight to your head. 
When I BRING (brought, BROUGHT) it, you CATCH (caught, CAUGHT) it.
Sit back relax. Don’t FIGHT (fought, FOUGHT) it.

Please don’t 

FREEZE (froze, FROZEN) when I SPEAK (spoke, SPOKEN). 
It’s real. You can feel I don’t STEAL (stole, STOLEN). 
I CHOOSE (chose, CHOSEN) the very best rhymes and
WRITE (wrote, WRITTEN) them into my lines and
into your mind. When we MEET (met, MET)
I’ll BET (bet, BET) I wont let you FORGET 
(forgot, FORGOTTEN). I GET (got, GOTTEN)
every head nodding. Don’t think about stopping,
just COME (came, COME). 
This is hip hop. I don’t SING (sang, SUNG).
I STING (stung, STUNG). You CLING (clung, CLUNG)
on each and every word, you HANG (hung, HUNG).

Its not enough to

DREAM (dreamt, DREAMT); you’ve got to SPEND (spent, SPENT)
time on your goals. Please LEND (lent, LENT) me your
ear. Come near and I’ll LAY (laid, LAID)
down this new soud that I MAKE (made, MADE). 
I hope you don’t say that you think it’s junk.
I hope you don’t think that I STINK (stank, STUNK).
If you’re thirsty for English, come DRINK (drank, DRUNK).
because I SINK (sank, SUNK) all competition when they 
HEAR (heard, HEARD) that I GIVE (gave, GIVEN)
encouragement when I SPIT (spat, SPAT).
Never QUIT (quit, QUIT); don’t SIT (sat, SAT).
Yeah, I like it like that. I’ll even KNEEL (knelt, KNELT).
and beg you to express what you FEEL (felt, FELT).

I RISE (rose, RISEN) when I DRIVE (drove, DRIVEN) through 
the beat; tap your feet as you RIDE (rode, RIDDEN). 
Those that HIDE (hid, HIDDEN) I FIND (found, FOUND).
If you FLEE (fled, FLED) then I’ll track you down.

Now you SEE (saw, SEEN) that I MEAN (meant, MEANT) 
every word of the message that I SEND (sent, SENT). 
I SHOW (showed, SHOWN) I can FLY (flew, FLOWN).
Now you KNOW (knew, KNOWN) I SHINE (shone, SHONE).
I’ll THROW (threw, THROWN) you the ball. It’s your turn 
to GROW (grew, GROWN) with the verbs that you’ve learned. 
Grammar through lyrics I DRAW (drew, DRAWN). 
Peace to ELLs, now I GO (went, GONE)!

Thank you for sending me this rap, Cris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!