Steps to your next task : A short film

Last friday you watched the short film Paperman in class. It was produced by Walt Disney Animated Studios and directed by John Kahrs. Here you are the Oscar winner 2012 again.

Activity 1

Answer the following questions:

• What's your opinion of the story?
• Do you think it is possible to fall in love at first sight?
• Are these meetings a question of chance or destiny?
• What would you do to get to know a person you've met and was appealing to you?
• Other comments.

Activity 2
Now, watch the three videos below where John Kahrs, the director of the film talks about: 
 the origins of the film, the first idea. 

Here he talks about the drawings.

Watch the last short vide where he talks about the looks.

Activity 3

Write some questions relevant to each of the videos. You're going to work orally in small groups where each of you is going to make the questions and the rest is going to give an appropriate answer. Then, we're going to have some general conclusions.

Oliver Twist

After watching the trailer of the film by Roman Polanski, answer the questions below:

1) What does Oliver Twist ask for?
2) What does the Dodger steal at the market?
3) What does Fagin look like?

Some videos to learn grammar: Conditionals, Will future

You can watch the video below from an animation film Hercules to practise the If clauses we are studying.

The American singer Ingrid Michaelson uses Will future sentences in her song Maybe. Follow the lyrics and practise. Later you can sing along here or at home. You know is a good exercise for pronunciation practice.

Unit 5: SPORTS. FUTURE tenses.

Here you are links from British Council website to revise some vocabulary 

• football
• at a gym. Here you can watch the video and revise the use of "going to" we are studying now.

The future of sport. This is a web activity from your textbook that you can work at home and will be checked in the classroom next tuesday 17th. You have to read the texts below by clicking on the picture.

Then, answer the following questions.

1.    When was modern football born? ……………………

2.    What did referees start using in football games from 1970? ..................................................

3.    How many people watched the final match of the FIFA World Cup in 1998? ........................... 

Unit 4 Past Simple and Progressive

• Activity 1 Watch the video to notice the continuous forms with interrupted actions.

• Activity 2  Practice with the video to learn more about the use of past progressive.

• Activity 3  Practise new words (past simple) and connectors with this video. Listen and repeat.

• Activity 4 Write a short narrative about a past story. Follow the instructions below. 

Back to school again...New Year's resolutions?

Here we are again and after holidays most people have good resolutions for the new year.

• Activity 1    Writing  Have you got any? I invite you to fill in the document above and sign it. This way your good purposes may be fulfilled.

• Activity 2   Reading

How did you celebrate the coming of 2015? Did you eat the twelve grapes while the clock was striking from 1 to 12? Read here about UK's way. After that it's time for us to work on our resolutions. Let's discuss it in class.

• Activity 3   Watch and listen

Watch the Alfie's video about his experience with Christmas and then we'll check your understanding with some worksheets in class.

• Activity 4   Speaking     Now let's work in pairs on your new year's resolutions for school matters and then share it with the class.

Christmas time

• Activity 1 Click on the image to revise vocabulary about our next celebration: Christmas.

• Activity 2 Here you can practise with games and songs about these holidays.

• Activity 3 Now watch the video about the preparation of a Christmas dinner in the following link and do the tasks.

• Activity 4 Click on the image to know what to do and enjoy the greetings from all of you.

Rules for teens on streets: Family and police

Click on the image above to read about a regulation stated in a town in Cornwall in the southwest of England. Then answer the questions below in your notebook:

1.    Complete the sentence.

       According to the curfew in Redruth, children under the age of ¹…………………… must be home
by ²…………………… and teenagers under the age of ³…………………… must be home by ⁴…………………… .

2.    Choose the correct answer.

       Parents must / can follow the curfew in Redruth.

3.    Look at some of the readers’ comments and copy one positive comment about the curfew and one negative comment about the curfew.

                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                             

Unit 3: Family Matters

In unit 3 you're learning the vocabulary of the family. Follow the links to revise:

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3 
• Exercise 4 Click on the image below

Clik on the image, play the three games on the grammar point to revise new words and grammar.

Progressive form and Stative verbs

Here you can lean more about Stative Verbs. You can also revise the  Present Progressive we have studied in class. Click on the pictures to learn more and play games to check your knowledge.

• Activity 1:

• Activity 2: Watch the video and then click on the Play it! button. You can also click on the other buttons to practise more.

• Activity 3: grammar about stative verbs.