Welcome back! School year 2016-2017

Welcome back! Are you ready? We start a new school year and here you´ll find some useful information and tips to success in English.

Evaluation criteria:
- Linguistic aspects: exams, projects, presentations --> 60%
- Work in class, work at home, notebook, attitude --> 30%
- Oral tasks --> 10%

Resources:
- Burlington Interative
- Online Dictionary 

Tips:
- Do not write in the student´s book
- Write the date in English
- Speak in English
- Study at least once a week
- Pay attention
- When learning vocabulary, learn the pronunciation and the spelling
- Watch movies in English with subtitles
- Read any book

The Importance of being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Passive Voice - 3º ESO

The Passive Voice (Present)

Activities
- Form
- Active to passive
- Descriptions
- Snap
- Processes
- Be (form)
- Complete (Oxford)
- Worksheet (MacMillan)
- Worksheet (Englishwsheets)

BBC Drama- Gulliver's Travels part 10

part 10

BBC Drama - Gulliver's Travels part 9

part 9

Song: Get Lucky

1. Do you know Daft Punk? Do you know Pharrell Williams?

2. Synonym (s) or antonym (a)

a) Deal/pact: _______

b) Withhold/give: _______

c) Conscious/live: ______

d) Feel/sensation: ______

e) Leave/continue: ______

f) Beginning/conclusion: ______

g) Bill/coin: ______

h) Godsend/luck: ______

i) Spin/ steady: ______

j) Prevail/win: ______

3.  Idioms

1. To raise the bar 2. To go too far 3. To get funky

a) To do more than is acceptable. b) To dance in a wild, crazy way. c) To make a task a little more difficult.

4. Listen to the song:

5. Lyrics in Spanish

6. Play Kahoot!

BBC Drama- Gulliver's Travels part 8

part 8

BBC Drama- Gulliver's Travels part 7

part 7

Future and First Conditional

Future tense: "will" Vs. "going to" from Vicente Juan Bautista

Zero And First Conditionals from guest029b86c

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- First conditional activities
- Future will activities
- Translation

BBC Drama- Gulliver's Travels Part 6

Part 6

Giving directions

- Vocabulary: shops
- Board Games
- Exercises: British Council (pdf)
- Reading game: directions
- Game (swf)
- Final Task: choose a place in your town and write the directions to get there. Then write some information about that place.

BBC Drama - Gulliver's Travels part 5

part 5

BBC Drama- Gulliver's travels part 4

part 4

April Fools´ Day

BBC DRAMA- Gulliver's Travels- part 3

PART 3

Present Perfect

Present Perfect

1) USES:
- Past actions at an unspecified time---> Peter has gone to the cinema

- Past actions with present result---> Susan has caught a cold so she is in bed.

- Duration from past until now ---> We have been friends for years

- Actions just finished --->  Paul has just finished the exam

2) FORM:
- Affirmative: have/has + past participle*
- Negative: haven't/hasn't + past participle
- Interrogative: have/has + subject + past participle

* Past Participle formation: Regular verbs add -ed to form the past participle and irregular verbs have different forms so you must study your list of irregular verbs.
Examples: 
regular verb: I work - I have worked ;
irregular verb: I go - I have gone

3) TIME EXPRESSIONS:
- Already: Peter has already finished the exam
- Ever: Have you ever been to London?
- Never: I have never been to Italy.
- Just: They have just made the cake.
- Yet: I haven't finished the exam yet.
- For: I have studied for 2 hours.
- Since: I have studied here since 2004.
- How long...?: How long have you studied here?

Present perfect from Carolina Roa

4) ACTIVITIES:
- Grammar and exercises (ego4u)
- Games: The Euro, Uses, Past Simple or Present Perfect
- Statements, Negation, Questions, Since or For, Review, Test (englishhilfen)
- Video
- Karaoke (We are the Champions by Queen)

St. Patrick's Day

 - Games
- Resources

Phonemic chart

phonemic chart

Equals

U2

- U2, Wikipedia

- Sunday Bloody Sunday  worksheet   video

- Beautiful Day worksheet   video