English Department's Season's Greetings! + Xmas Games

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/Km7fJDdub1j7ERWP

Xmas games:

http://englishineso.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/some-christmas-activities/

http://primarygames.com/holidays/christmas/games.htm

ESO4: Irish music and 20th c. history

Here you have the videos of the two events we are dealing with in the English lesson about Irish History.

ZOMBIE, by The Cranberries

Another head hangs lowly,

Child is slowly taken.
When the violence causes silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taken over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

BLOODY SUNDAY, by U2

I can't believe the news today

Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away!

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long?
How long?

'Cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end streets
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts back up against the wall!

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
All right lets go!

And the battles just begun
Theres many lost but tell me who has won
The trenches dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart!

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...how long must we sing this song?
How long?
How long?

'Cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight
Tonight (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Tonight
Tonight (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Tonight
Come get some!

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
I wipe your blood shot eyes (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Here I come!

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die!

The real battle yet began (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, Bloody Sunday
on...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

Karaoke version with real footage of the Anglo-Irish conflict:

 Your turn:

1. The Cranberries' song mentions 1916: what happenned in Ireland that year?

2. U2's song, Bloody Sunday refers a violent historical event. When did it happen? What happenned?

3. There are several similarities between both songs. Mention some of them: e.g. family.

4. Where is war placed in the former song? And in the latter? (they are parts of the body=metaphor).

5. Did you like the songs? Did you know them? What is the value of music in reporting these events?

ALL: Season's Greetings!

ESO1: Xmas decorations.

Today I'm not in school-I'm with my 4th ESO students in Barcelona discovering the medieval walls and walking to the Christmas market. Yesterday, we sang a very nice carol, Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer. Congratulations!: you sing very well and it was really fun! :)

Today I propose you two activities:
1- Write a Season's Greetings postcard. Fold a DINA 4, draw a Xmas/Winter element on the cover and your name on the back (one side of the paper). Inside (on the other side of the paper) write a message, for example:  

SEASONS GREETINGS and a Happy New Year 2012!. 

(Bones festes i bon any nou 2012!)

2- Decorate our class. Here you have some ideas. Use your color-pencils, scissors and glue and... be creative!

ESO3-A Cover lesson. Simple Past. My worst day at school.

Complete the text with the right verb in the simple past (regular and irregular verbs). You will find:
a) Affirmative: Regular infinitive + -ed (worked); irregular (second column: go-went)
b) Negative: didn't + infinitive (you didn't work; I didn't go). LOOK!: *You didn't worked *I didn't went
c) Question: did + subject + infinitive (did Atif study hard? did Isabel come yesterday?)
LOOK!: *did Oriol studied hard? did Nicaury came yesterday? (These are wrong! We use the bare infinitive with the auxiliary DID)

Vocabulary: 
wet= mullat
argument= discussió (false friend!)

1.Copy in your worksheet
3rd paragraph:
After lunch we _______ (have) history. The teacher ______ (ask) me a question: 'When ____ Christopher Columbus ________ America?' (discover) I ________ (answer) '1942'. Everyone _______ (laugh). I ________ (be) really embarrassed.

4th paragraph:
When I ________ (leave) school, it _______ (start) to rain. I ____  _______ (not have) my coat with me so I _____ (get) very wet. Later in the evening I ______ (have) an argument with my mum. It ____ (be) a terrible day.

2.Answer these questions:
1. Why did John  miss the bus to school?
2. Did John do well in the maths exam?
3. Why couldn't John buy lunch?
4. Why did everyone laugh at John in the history lesson? (When did Columbus discover America?)
5. Who did John have an argument with in the evening? (amb qui va discutir el John al vespre?)


3. Look at the picture... what things people say bring bad luck? Draw it and match.

a.broken                                        1.umbrella                      

b.black                                          2. salt

c.go down                                      3. a ladder (escales)

d.spill                                             4. cat

e.an open                                       5. mirror

4.Think about your worst (or best) day at school. Make a list of bad/good things that happened. 
E.g. I lost something (vaig perdre alguna cosa...)
I got a 10 in an exam (vaig treure un 10 a un examen)

5. EXTRA-Revision: make a list of the sentences where you find this combination: adjective + name. What do they mean? 
It was a terrible day - Va ser un dia terrible!

ESO1: Me!

Introduce yourself drawing a picture of yourself and then writing about 4 aspects:

• 1-Personal information (what's your name?, how old are you?, where are you from? where do you live?)
• 2-Your family (who do you live with? have you got any brothers or sisters? have you got any pet?)
• 3-Languages! (how many/what languages can you speak? are you learning? can you understand?)
• 4-Likes and dislikes (what do you like? what do you love? is there anything you don't like? what is your favourite... (food, game, sport)?

EXTRA:
1. In the yellow bubble I tell you my age. How old am I? (as for 2012! :)
    a) 3      b) 13     c) 30     d) 33
2. There is one mistake in the blue bubble... can you spot it? This is written in the past form, but you should use the present tense: I'm 12 years old. I live with my family (...). I've got a pet.
3. In the green bubble I talk about languages... where is Maori spoken? In...
   a) Ireland  b) Australia   c) New Zealand   d) Russia
4. What are my four hobbies? What do I like the most?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas! Here you have some songs and ideas to decorate your class in order to celebrate Xmas! Imma and I would like you to sing some Christmas carols for the radio/podcast of our school's web, so... let's sing!

All-  

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
And soon will be here.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

1st ESO: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=49

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,

Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen.,

But do you recall

The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Had a very shiny nose,

And if you ever saw it,
You could even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:

Rudolph with your nose so bright,

Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
You'll go down in history."

2nd ESO: Jingle Bells

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=38

Dashing through the snow

On a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring
making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Jingle bells
jingle bells
jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side;
The horse was lean and lank;
Misfortune seemed his lot;
He got into a drifted bank
And we
we got upsot

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

A day or two ago
the story I must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh
He laughed as there
I sprawling lie
But quickly drove away
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

Now the ground is white

Go it while you're young

Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed bay
two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh



3rd ESO and 4rth ESO

Film. E.g. Love Actually.

1st  & 2nd ESO class decorations: (for more ideas and Xmas stuff-recipes, news...- check: http://xmasfun.com/Default.aspx

ESO 3 & 4: Past tense (listening)

Play the video. Read the questions and answers and play the video again. Then, take the test! Once you finish, send it to me. First, write your name, then my teacher's code: badalona.



Do the same with the second video, a song by John Lennon called "Jealous Guy". Here, the song combines Past Simple and Past Continuous.

ESO 2: The House

Let's decorate this house!
http://www.ur.se/sprk/engelska/inredning/

To revise vocabulary let's visit The Simpson's house.
http://home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/houses/simsponshouse.htm

Then we can play these other games:
http://home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/houses/houselien.htm

ESO1: Sports

Let's play! Choose sports in this JClick by Ana Martínez Clemente and Aurelio Salvador Baselga from CEIP San Miguel, Mora de Rubielos (Teruel).

clicZone - activities - English topics

ESO3: Unit 2. Highs and Lows.

Eso3 unit 2

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EXTRA vocabulary for emotions:
http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/vocabulary/moods.php
FOR VERBAL TENSES:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/index.html
For the Past Simple check: http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/past_simple.htm
You can revise the Present Simple and the Present Continuous, too.

ESO3. Unit 1. Hobbies. ENGLAND

Eso3 unit 1

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ESO4. Unit 2: URBAN LANDSCAPE [Rep. of IRELAND]. City; Past S. and Cont.

ESO4 Unit 2: Irish Urban Rock

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Exercises:
http://www.mansioningles.com/ejer_voc11.htm

ESO4. Unit 1. Powerpoint Presentation (complete)

ESO4-UNIT 1: UK-The Right Image. Powerpoint Presentation (complete).

Contents:

• VOC. Appearance
• GR. Present Simple, Present Continuous, Frequency adverbs.
• WR. Description
• L./SP. Arrangements
• R. Punks
• CULT. The UK: England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland.
• PROJECT: Urban Tribes

ESO4 UNIT 1

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ESO 3 & 4: PAST SIMPLE + IRREGULAR VERBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlalZOPrkM&feature=related

List of regular and irregular (i) verbs to learn:

Infinitive	Simple Past	Past Participle	Spanish
answer	answered	answered	responder
arrive	arrived	arrived	llegar
ask	asked	asked	preguntar
be i	was / were	been	ser
borrow	borrowed	borrowed	tomar prestado
break i	broke	broken	romper
buy i	bought	bought	comprar
catch i	caught	caught	atrapar
clean	cleaned	cleaned	limpiar
climb	climbed	climbed	escalar
collect	collected	collected	colleccionar
come i	came	come	venir
compose	composed	composed	componer
cook	cooked	cooked	cocinar
cut i	cut	cut	cortar
dance	danced	danced	bailar
describe	described	described	describir
discover	discovered	discovered	descubrir
do i	did	done	hacer
drink i	drank	drunk	beber
drive i	drove	driven	conducir
eat i	ate	eaten	comer
enjoy	enjoyed	enjoyed	disfrutar
fall i	fell	fallen	caer
feel i	felt	felt	sentir
find i	found	found	encontrar
fly i	flew	flown	volar
forget i	forgot	forgotten	olvidar
give i	gave	given	dar
go i	went	gone	ir
happen	happened	happened	suceder
have i	had	had	tener
help	helped	helped	ayudar
hurt i	hurt	hurt	herir, doler
invent	invented	invented	inventar
invite	invited	invited	invitar
kill	killed	killed	matar
know i	knew	known	saber
lend i	lent	lent	prestar
leave i	left	left	dejar
lie i	lay	lain	yacer
like	liked	liked	gustar
live	lived	lived	vivir
look	looked	looked	mirar
love	loved	loved	amar
make i	made	made	hacer
meet i	met	met	conocer, encontrar
miss	missed	missed	perder, extrañar
open	opened	opened	abrir
pack	packed	packed	empacar
pay i	paid	paid	pagar
phone	phoned	phoned	llamar por teléfono
play	played	played	jugar
prefer	preferred	preferred	preferir
prepare	prepared	prepared	preparar
push	pushed	pushed	empujar
put i	put	put	poner
rain	rained	rained	llover
read i	read	read	leer
remember	remembered	remembered	recordar
rent	rented	rented	alquilar
rescue	rescued	rescued	rescatar
return	returned	returned	volver, devolver
ring i	rang	rung	llamar por teléfono
save	saved	saved	ahorrar
say i	said	said	decir
search	searched	searched	buscar
see i	saw	seen	ver
sell i	sold	sold	vender
sit i	sat	sat	sentarse
skate	skated	skated	patinar
ski	skied	skied	esquiar
sleep i	slept	slept	dormir
smell	smelled	smelled	oler
speak i	spoke	spoken	hablar
spend i	spent	spent	gastar
start	started	started	comenzar
stay	stayed	stayed	quedarse
stop	stopped	stopped	detener
study	studied	studied	estudiar
survive	survived	survived	sobrevivir
swim i	swam	swum	nadar
take i	took	taken	tomar
talk	talked	talked	hablar
teach i	taught	taught	enseñar
tell i	told	told	decir
think i	thought	thought	pensar
throw i	threw	thrown	lanzar
touch	touched	touched	tocar
try	tried	tried	intentar
understand i	understood	understood	entender
use	used	used	usar
visit	visited	visited	visitar
wait	waited	waited	esperar
walk	walked	walked	caminar
want	wanted	wanted	querer
wash	washed	washed	lavar
watch	watched	watched	mirar
wear i	wore	worn	llevar puesto
work	worked	worked	trabajar
write i	wrote	written	escribir

IRREGULAR VERBS TESTS & QUIZZES

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/irregular-verbs.html

Below you can find more links to keep practising irregular verbs:

http://www.quia.com/cb/8111.html

http://www.esldesk.com/spelling/irregular-verbs

http://www.creartest.com/hacertests-45625-*Ingles.php

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/verbs4/index.php

ESO3 & 4: Irregular verbs I. Past tense exercises.

Here you have a list to start learning the English irregular verbs. You can also find four videos to learn the irregular verbs in a fun way: let's rap!

Test yourself! Past tense (IRREGULAR VERBS)


ESO3 STUDENTS TRY THESE TWO LINKS:
http://www.english-4u.de/iv_quiz1.htm
http://www.english-4u.de/iv_quiz2.htm

ESO4 STUDENTS TRY THE FORMER AND ALSO THESE ONES:
http://www.english-4u.de/iv_quiz3.htm
EXTRA: http://www.english-4u.de/iv_quiz4.htm

ESO4. Unit 1: The Right Image [UK]. Appearance; Present tense.

Here you have the Powerpoint presentation with the vocabulary and grammar contents of Unit 1.

Eso4 unit 2

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ESO4 WRITING: Describing a celebrity

       Sample of a composition: describing a celebrity. In red you can find important connectors you can use (to improve fluency). In blue, expressions to organize the paragraphs. In green, frequency adverbs.

MY FAVOURTIE CELEBRITY, by Humberto Burcet

            My favourite singer is Andrea Corr. She is 30 years old and she is from Ireland. She sings in a group called The Corrs.

            She has got dark hair and brown eyes and a beautiful smile. She usually dresses very casual, but in concerts she often wears trendy clothes. She does not have any piercings or tattoos. However she wears a ring and a bracelet in the picture.

•           She is extrovert and friendly. In addition, she has got a good sense of humour. On the other hand, she has a wonderful voice. However, she is very bossy sometimes. 

•          One thing she loves is singing in concerts. On the other hand, she enjoys playing the tin whistle, a traditional Irish instrument. Nevertheless, she hates long journeys: she is afraid of planes so she normally travels by car.

•          In conclusion, she is a great singer and I think that both her appearance and her personality are always beautiful! 

ESO4: Unit 1: The Right Image. Describe a celebrity!

Here you have the Powerpoint presentation for Unit 2. I'm also pasting the structure and a sample of the composition you have to write (don't forget to include a picture of the celebrity you are describing!). The assessment will be based on the following criteria:

• 25% Fluency (connectors: and, but, however, on the other hand, although, in addition, both... and...)
• 25% Accuracy (agreement, spelling, word order, etc..)
• 25% Vocabulary (rich vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, phrasal verbs, false friends)
• 25% Originality (get good ideas and go beyond the standard text; include a photo!)

Remember to hand in your composition ON TIME! Monday, November 21st.

•INTRODUCTION. (Name, age, where from, what profession).

–My favourite (artist/singer/presenter) is ____. She/he is from ___ and (sings with/stars in/...).

•BODY. 1st paragraph (Appearance)

–Andrea Corr is... (tall/short, pretty/handsome)

–He/She’s got... (hair, eyes, tattoo, ...)

–He/She wears... (trendy/scruffy clothes)

•BODY. 2nd paragraph (Personality)

–He’s/She’s a ........... Person.

–However, he/she’s ...........

–The only bad thing is .........

•BODY. 3rd paragraph (Likes and dislikes)

–One thing she loves is...

–On the other hand, one thing she hates is... (because...)

•CONCLUSION (Your opinion)

–I like him/her because I think that he/she is...

Add your own ideas and be original! :)

ESO1: What Can I Do?

Hi lads! This is one of my favourite songs, by my favourite pop group, The Corrs. They are Sharon, Caroline, Andrea and Jim. They are siblings: one brother and three sisters in the same band! They are from Ireland, so they are Irish. Their unique feature is that they mix Celtic music with pop sounds.

Let's watch their videoclip: "What can I do?". Here you have the lyrics. Complete them with the following words:

fly  -  times -  say -  days -  take 

WHAT CAN I DO? (by The Corrs)

I haven't slept at all in _______ (1)
It's been so long since we've talked 
And I have been here many ________ (2) 
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong 

What can I do to make you love me 
What can I do to make you care 
What can I say to make you feel this 
What can I do to get you there 

There's only so much I can _____ (4)
And I just got to let it go 
And who knows I might feel better 
If I don't try and I don't hope 

What can I do to make you love me 
What can I do to make you care
What can I say to make you feel this 
What can I do to get you there 

No more waiting, no more aching 
No more fighting, no more trying 

Maybe there's nothing more to _____ (4)
And in a funny way I'm calm 
Because the power is not mine 
I'm just gonna let it _____ (5)

What can I do to make you love me 
What can I do to make you care 
What can I say to make you feel this 
What can I do to get you there 

Love me


Answer these questions:

1. What musical instruments do they play? (Jim plays the...; Andrea sings and plays the...)
2. Do you like the song? (Yes, I like it/No, I don't).
3. Can you play any musical instrument? (Yes, I can play.../No, I can't.)

VOCABULARY: drums, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, piano, recorder (=flauta dolça), violin, harp, tin whistle, bodhràn, bouzouki.

NOTE: 'What Can I Do?' Sometimes you make me ask this question to myself when I want you to follow the three rules we have in class:
1-raise UP your hand when you want to talk;
2-sit DOWN propperly;
3-use the computer for the lesson (not for other purposes!).
Let's follow them! :)