ENGLISH AND GEOGRAPHY PROJECT

GUIDELINES:

• Make pairs.
• Choose one city of an English-speaking country and write a comment on your      teacher´s blog saying the city you have chosen and the student's name you are going to work with.
• Title the project.
• Create a PREZI or a POWER POINT presentation (a video about some aspects of the city can be included) with the following sections:

1. A short historical introduction of the city and the historical transformation: monuments, highlights...
2. Country and continent where the city is located.
3. Hemisphere and relation to the equator, prime meridian and tropic lines.
4. Distance from your home town.
5. Time zone.
6. Population (social groups, important people, main features, problems, main activities...) and area city (habitats, types of cities...)
7. Current season and what seasons are like.
8. Ecosystem and climate.
9. Environmental issues.
10. Bibliography.    

REMEMBER:

• AVOID LONG AND BORING PARAGRAPHS.
• ADD HELPFUL WEBSITES AT THE END OF THE PROJECT.
• POST YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR OWN BLOG/PORTFOLIO.
• SEND THE PROJECT TO YOUR GEOGRAPHY AND ENGLISH TEACHERS.
• YOUR PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN THE GEOGRAPHY AND ENGLISH CLASSES.
• WE WILL ASSESS YOUR ORAL SKILLS, INTERACTION, FLUENCY, ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY, THE USE OF SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY, WRITING SKILLS, DIGITAL COMPETENCE, YOUR MANNER OF PRESENTATION AND OF COURSE,THE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY CONTENTS.

DEADLINE: 23rd. FEBRUARY.

2nd. TERM

UNITS 3/4: THE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

TO PRACTISE  THIS TENSE CLICK HERE

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018!

FIRST TERM BLOG TASKS

The First Term is almost over and there are some tasks you should have done:

• A wordcloud.
• A post about some rules.
• Glossaries of new vocabulary of units 0/1/2.
• Storytelling: a post about the story you chose, a comment about the project and  an audio.
• A post about Ireland and an image or a video related to Ireland.
• If you haven't done these tasks, UPDATE YOUR BLOG-PORTFOLIOS.
• Finally, write a paragraph in your blog-portfolios including your SELF-ASSESSMENT.

• What can I do that I couldn't do before?
• What did I like most?
• What did I do well?
• What did I do in English outside the class?
• What do I need to improve?
• What did I learn about culture?

DEADLINE : 15TH. DECEMBER.

GRAMMAR

ADJECTIVES ENDING IN -ED and -ING

• Adjectives that end in "-ed" describe emotions.They tell us how people feel about something.
• Adjectives that end in "ing" describe the thing that causes the emotion.

              example: A boring lesson makes you feel bored.

REVISING NUMBERS

          

25th. NOVEMBER

UNITE for International Day to end violence against women.

                                                                          

"SLAP HER": children's reaction. 

Watch this video, we'll comment it in class.

   

CULTURE

THANKSGIVING

In the United States "Thanksgiving Day" is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. It precedes Black Friday.It is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.

BLACK FRIDAY
Black Friday is an informal name for the day following "Thanksgiving Day" in the USA which has been regarded as the beginning of the country's Christmas shopping season since 1952.

CULTURE

               IRELAND                               

It is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean to the west of Great Britain. It has two parts: Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, and Northen Ireland, which is part of the U.K. It is often called "The Emerald Isle" because it has a temperate climate which produces very green countryside.

• Capital cities: Dublin (Ireland) and Belfast (Northern Ireland).
• Population: 6.4 million, of which 4.6 million live in Ireland and 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
• Ireland has many world-famous sites, including The Giant's Causeway and the Titanic shipyard, the cliffs of Moher and Trinity College library in Dublin.
• Some famous Irish people are: Oscar Wilde, James Joice and Samuel Beckett (writers), Pierce Brosnan and Collin Farrell (actors), Sinead O'Connor and Bono (singers)....