All the activities¨: issuu above or HERE
Make your monster - HERE
How many mythical creatures can you recognize - HERE
Pegasus - HERE
SINTEL IN SEARCH OF A DRAGON - HERE
Mythological creatures (presentation by Ana Iria García)(also in Harry Potter) - Comparison and parts of the body - HERE
First... Regular Verbs:
READ RAOUL AND EMMA’s TRUE STORY - HERE (AND LISTEN TO IT HERE, TOO)
How did their story end? Where were they? LISTEN
LISTEN and repeat the verbs - How do you pronounce the -ed suffix?
arrived - changed - showed - tried - booked - checked - looked - walked - asked - wanted - landed - waited
| -ed - /d/ | -ed - /t/ | -ed - /id/ |
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LISTEN and repeat Emma and Saoul’s story:
- They wanted to go to Australia
- They booked two tickets on the Internet
- They arrived at Heathrow airport
- They checked in
- They landed at a big airport
- They changed planes
- They looked out of the window
- They walked to the information desk
- They showed the tickets to a woman
Use the pictures in the Reading Comprehension activity to re-tell the story from memory, trying to pronounce the regular past tenses correctly.
AND NOW......Let’s revise irregular past verb forms:
GAME 1 - HERE
GAME 2 - HERE
GAME 3 - HERE
and... clicknlearn.net (MENU-3ESO-difficult-irregular pasts)
THE FIRST TIME - Work in pairs and ask each other questions about your past.
What are the Simpson’s doing? Click HERE.
Describe the picture HERE (2nd page)
Description of two photos. Click HERE (Photos) Read first how two students taking an oral test have described them and then..... DO IT YOURSELF!!!!!!!!
Kevin’s description of the first photo:
Kelvin: So, in my picture there are three men. They’re holding water guns and shooting at each other. And they are laughing and I think they’re very excited about this. I think they could be celebrating some kind of festival because you know in Thailand they celebrate their New Year by splashing water on each other, so I think the two men in the photo are tourists. They have gone to Thailand to celebrate this festival. Yes.
Melissa’s description of the second photo:
Melissa: In the picture there is a man lying in the middle of the road and there is a car and a motorbike there. I believe there is a car accident and that guy is almost dying. And people are trying to save his life and in the bottom-right of the picture there’s a reporter holding a camera. And there is a policewoman or policeman and he’s trying to tell his partner to come, I think.
In the picture I can see ...
There’s / There are ...
There isn’t a ... / There aren’t any ...
The man is ...ing
The people are ...ing
It’s raining.
At the top/bottom of the picture ...
In the middle of the picture ...
On the left/right of the picture ...
next to
in front of
behind
near
on top of
under
Click HERE. (Some activities)
HERE and HERE (1 ESO Intermediate Myday) - (Vocabulary: subjects, school supplies)
Activities - issuu above or HERE.
Above, some activities about the film Gattaca (In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. With professional advice, Vincent learns to deceive DNA and urine sample testing. Just when he is finally scheduled for a space mission, his program director is killed and the police begin an investigation, jeopardizing his secret.) and the novel Brave New World.
Click HERE to do some more listening - reading - speaking exercises about "Introducing yourself and others"
This year the ABAU will include an exercise about pronunciation. A possible question may be....FIND A WORD THAT RHYMES WITH....
So..... Let's practise!!!! Exercises on RHYMING WORDS:
Listen to the fantastic capella group Voctave singing this amazing.....
Medley of Disney Princess songs!!
Someday My Prince Will Come (Snow White)
Once Upon A Dream (Aurora)
Part of Your World (Ariel)
Reflection (Mulan)
Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)
Fill-in-the-gaps exercise HERE
Here you have PAU/ ABAU exams that students from all of the Autonomous Regions in Spain have sat.
The ABAU English test is going to change a little bit. Read the text above.
There will be a question about pronunciation and TRUE/FALSE questions about the text.
HERE , HERE , you have different exercises about pronunciation.
HERE , HERE , HERE - Homophones
HERE , HERE , HERE - Minimal Pairs - HERE Pronunciation Pairs (Book VVV)
HERE , HERE , HERE , HERE - /s/ /z/ /iz/
HERE (clicknlearn.net - 4 ESO Intermediate), HERE (Amigos ingleses), HERE, HERE - /d/ /t/ /id/
HERE Intermediate Reading Comprehension Texts with True/Flase questions.
The musical that IES Taboada Chivite students prepared and performed this year (after Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge, Mamma Mia and Hoy no me puedo levantar) was Grease (translated into Galician language). On top you have the result (Auditorio Verín - 10th June 2017)
Zach, our assistant teacher, who is now back in the USA, has written a letter to all of us, students and teachers at IES Taboada Chivite. Here it is:
"Hello Chivite students and teachers!
I hope all is well and you guys studying and working hard! Summer is just around the corner so hold on for just a few more weeks! I just wanted to say hello and give you a little update on my life.
I will start with semana santa, when I went first to Valencia for four days, then to Granada for three days. Although I loved the beach in Valencia, Granada was SO beautiful and probably my favorite city that I saw in Spain (except Verin, of course).
A quick and funny story about when I was in Valencia: it was my first day in Valencia, and I went straight to the beach. I walked down the coastline for about 30 minutes, then decided to find the closest cercanias or metro. So I found the closest station, which was about a 20minute walk away, and started heading that way. After being held up by not one but TWO parades (remember it was semana santa), some random lady said “come mierda,” to me! I believe her exact words were, “come mierda! estoy harta de esta puta gente!” We were the only people walking down the road so I know she was talking to me. So I hung my head and turned the corner….
So I got back to the USA on April 15th, and started working on the 17th. For those of you who don’t remember, I work for a food bank called Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan. Just so you understand how extensive Gleaners is, last year, we distributed over 40 million pounds (18,100,000 kg) of food to Southeastern Michigan. However, I have a different role in the organization. I run a community garden for Gleaners, and grow fresh/local produce for the community; last year, I grew about 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg). So I have been busy with that and my other responsibilities at Gleaners.
In other news, I bought a new car! So I have been spending lots of time taking back roads so I can be in my car for longer :) Other than that, I have not been doing much. I am living with my parents for one last summer, and they live in the country so it is hard to go out with friends. I have been filling my free time working out, playing basketball, hanging out with my puppies and reading the Harry Potter books.
En fin, I miss all of you and your beautiful country! Although I was only with you for about seven months, you all made me feel at home and amongst family, so thank you for that. I am sorry I did not get a chance to say goodbye to everyone, but it was a stressful and emotional week for me so I missed some people. My instagram and email are below, please add me or contact me with anything you need (I haven’t been using my spanish, so I need to practice). See you for carnaval next year ;)"
Zach
Some photos HERE.
Next Thursday Zach is going to send us more photos, which I’ll post on the blog.
If you want to contact him, ask me about his instagram and email.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ZACH. WE MISS YOU!!!! COME BACK SOON!!!!!!
Portugal have won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in the competition’s history.
Salvador Sobral, 27, won with his love ballad Amar Pelos Dois, which was written by his sister.
He said on receiving the trophy: "We live in a world of fast food music. This is a victory for music... music isn’t fireworks, music is feeling." (Click HERE, too)
Read the translation into English in the video above.... Would you have chosen the same words to translate the song from Portuguese into English? (Another translation HERE)
And this is a "free" adaptation:
UNOFFICIAL LYRICS
If I lived a dream,
I’d ask you to dance,
with time standing still just for you.
And though I forget
it’s only a dream,
I picture your face all day through.
Dance, love.
Smile, and you are glistening.
Laugh as no one’s listening,
and never let me leave.
Make me
forget about our quarrels.
In dreams, there are no sorrows.
May I spend this dream with you?
Dance, love.
Smile, and you are glistening.
Laugh as no one’s listening,
and never let me leave.
Make me
forget about our quarrels.
In dreams, there are no sorrows.
And I’m once again with you.
In dreams, there are no sorrows.
May I spend this dream with you?
Other versions of the song HERE
Playing Taboo game is a great tool to improve English speaking and thinking skills. Students have fun and try to find creative ways to tell the taboo words....
Taboo cards for A1-A2 levels. HERE (Thank you very much!!!)
Click HERE (123 Teach me) :
The Sentence Maker allows you to enter a word or phrase in the text box below and retrieve translated sentence pairs (English and Spanish) containing that word/phrase. This tool is great for seeing how words are used in a natural context.
Part of the musical Les Miserables (click here as well) will be performed by David Rguez. Rivada’s students (3rd and 4th year ESO) at Casa da Cultura - Verín next 31st May (18:00)
Susan Boyle’s audition in Britain’s got talent HERE. Exercise HERE.
On top, Beauty School Dropout, from the famous musical Grease, and under that video, our version (IES Taboada Chivite - Verín) in Galician for the musical Grease en galego, which will be performed by students and teachers at the end of May/ beginning of June 2017). Our fifth musical!!!!!