Class Diary 8-April-2020

Dear All,

Easter is upon us and like me, I am sure some of you did not realise it was here so soon!!

Our school has just published a message on the school website wishing you all a happy Easter break (9-19 April) and thanking you for your understanding and effort to complete the tasks.

Well, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very Happy Easter to the best of our ability under these circumstances. I also wish you well. Please stay safe.

Best wishes to you all,

Tomeu Aloy

- Today's tasks:

1. Speaking 

Empower p 53. Historical Characters. Extra Oral Mediation

Record a 2' minute message and email it to me.

An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on  "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME Historical Characters (Example: Tomeu Historical Characters)
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.

2. Listening

p 83 Ex 1 

Listening 3.31

KEY Unit 7 

3. Grammar
p 83 Ex 2

Listening 3.32
Listening 3.33
Listening 3.34
Listening 3.35

KEY Unit 7 



4. Reading

p 84 Ex 3

KEY Unit 7

5. Vocabulary

p 85 Ex 4
Listening 3.36

KEY Unit 7

6. Speaking

p 85 Ex 5
KEY Unit 7 

7. Listening

p 86 Ex 1

Listening 3.37
KEY Unit 7 

8. Pronunciation
p 86 Ex 2
Listening 3.38
Listening 3.39
Listening 3.40

KEY Unit 7

9. Listening

p 87 Ex 3

Listening 3.41
KEY Unit 7  

10. Useful language
p 87 Ex 4
Listening 3.42

KEY Unit 7 

11. Listening
p 88. Ex 1
Listening 3.43
KEY Unit 7  

12. Reading
p 89 Ex 2
KEY Unit 7 

13. Writing skills
p 89 Ex 3
KEY Unit 7  

14. Writing

p 89 Ex 4

Write your proposal and email it to me for feedback.

15. Review and extension

p 90
Listening 3.44

KEY Unit 7  



16 Exam practice

Making Use of Human Ability. Extra Cloze 

Celebrity Culture. Extra Cloze

The Man Who Wrote Sherlock Holmes: an Inspiration. Extra Cloze

Holding Back the Years. Extra Word Formation Cloze

The Common Cold. Extra Cloze

How We Produce Food. Extra Word Formation 

Rewarding Children. Extra Word Formation 

Kids and Freedom. Extra Word Formation

Florence Nightingale. Extra Word Formation Cloze

Learning the Tango. Extra Word Formation

 

- HW:

2nd term:
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4. Mediation: Write a review comparing two adverts. Useful vocabulary here:

Empower p 125. Adverts. Mediation

(180 words). Deadline 18 Dec

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- 7.

Empower p 41. Commenting on a Story. Written Mediation

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6. Empower p 41. Write a review of a place you have been to

(150 words). Deadline  17 Feb

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-Write a scrapbook after Christmas with the activities you did together with family and friends.

Empower p33. Writing: Christmas Scrapbook.

(180 words). Deadline 20 Jan

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- Book Fair:  (16 Dec) Speak for 5 minutes about the books or articles you are reading this year.
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- Presentation (Feb) Speak for 5 minutes about a topic (mediation).
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- Read an article/short story (weekly) (mediation). 
 __________________________________________________________

3rd term:

WB Unit 4 
WB Unit 5 
WB Unit 6 
WB Unit 7
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8. Empower p 53. Write a profile article about someone you know
Deadline: 11 March
180 words
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9.  Empower p 57. Punishment or Rehabilitation. Oral Mediation

Deadline: 23 March
Speak for 2 minutes
An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on  "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME Empower p 57 Punishment or rehabilitation (Example: Tomeu Empower p 57 Punishment or rehabilitation )
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.

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10. Write a review comparing the two books you will have read this academic year. Deadline 23 Apr.
In your review you can include your favourite quotes from the books and add some explanations. In the final paragraph try to compare the two books you have read. You can also try to convince the reader that the books you have chosen should (not) be on the Reading List next year. .  Useful language .

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- Announcements:

­- SPEAKING sessions:
http://eoicalvia.com/idiomes/angles/recursos/
- What's on

- Exchange English- Spanish

- Sentences to discuss in our next session:

Empower p 88. Personality. Extra Spoken Mediation