1 ESO UNIT 5 IS IT REAL?

Objectives:

- Learn adjectives and types of films: amazing, boring / action, adventure...
- Practise the comparison of adjectives
- Read a TV guide review and a book excerpt
- Listen to and understand descriptions of a TV programme and conversations about making plans
- give opinions and make suggestions
- write a film review


Now go to the links area and start having fun ; )!

Before you leave leave a comment with your favourite adjective ... I cannot wait to read it!

FPB1 UNIT 6 What are you doing?

Unit objectives:

Vocabulary: Clothes and colours
Grammar: Present Continuous, can - ability
Reading : a chat
Listening : a job advert
Speaking: making arrangements
Writing : a social network status update

Now go to the new list of links for Unit 6

3º E 9/02/17 ORAL TEST UNIT 4/ LINKS FOR UNIT 5 BLUE PLANET + KIND REMINDER COMPULSORY READING

In this unit we will learn...
- vocabulary related to rubbish, recycling and the environment. Other concepts such as carbon footprint, global warming, the work of WWF
- the first and second conditional, will, might
- reading strategy for checking meaning
- Phrases for reacting to and discussing the news

and hopefully have some fun ...!

Remember we need to read the tales by EAPoe... so Keep it up!

FPB 2 February, 9, 2017

Dear Students
Please check all the new links that I have added to your list, please focus on those related to Unit 6.

Telephone Conversation
Past Continuous
Writing formal and informal email

See you on Friday!
Raquel

3 E Important information for those who are not coming to the theatre February 9, 2017

GENTLE REMINDER

ORAL TEST UNIT 4 

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

ICT CLASSROOM

If you are not coming to the theatre to see the play "Canterbury Tales" please answer the following questions, you need to do some research and answer the questions, please do not forget to write your name and give it to me on Friday. Thanks ; )

The Canterbury Tales

About

At the end of the 14^th century a guy named Geoffrey Chaucer wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’. They are a collection of stories (tales) that were told by the people who went to the Canterbury Cathedral together. Because it was a long journey, one of the men organized a story-competition. Everyone had to tell two stories on their trip and the person telling the best stories would get a free meal at the Inn when they got back.

à please check the blog to watch a couple of  Canterbury Tales videos

No: we’re not going to read the book... But you need to do some research to answer the following questions!

Question 1

In what language are the tales written?

Question 2

The Canterbury Tales starts with a prologue. What does ‘prologue’ mean?

Question 3

How many stories does The Canterbury Tales have?

Question 4

What is so special about the Canterbury Cathedral?

Question 5

Canterbury is (still) a place of pilgrimage. What does this mean?

 Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales

http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/

SUPER BOWL Do You Watch for the Game or the Ads?

Out of the eight most-watched programs in U.S. television history, only one was not the Super Bowl football game.

Can you guess which television program that was?

We’ll give you the answer at the end of this story.

Back to the Super Bowl, which will be played Sunday, February 7. The number of people who watched the football game on television was larger than 100 million every year since 2010.

In the United States, watching the game with friends has become like a holiday. People gather at the home of someone with a big-screen television. Lots of food is prepared. Lots of beverages are served. People often wear shirts and hats that make them look like they are players on their favorite team.

People who watch the game are not only interested in what happens on the field. The commercials and the halftime show are big draws. This year, the halftime performers are the British band Coldplay and singer Beyonce.

One poll conducted in 2013 found that only 28 percent of the respondents said they watch to enjoy the game. More people -- 39 percent -- of 500 people surveyed said they watched to see the commercials.

The Super Bowl is a major spectacle in the U.S. It is played in a huge sports arena where almost 70,000 fans cheer and make noise. They watch the players on the field move a ball down a grassy field, and smash into each other to stop the advance.

Media and advertising companies measure how viewers react to the advertising during the game.

Alan Siegel is a writer for USA Today. He said he thinks fans turned their attention to the ads, or commercials, 20 years ago. Some of the games in the 1990s were not very competitive, and the winner seemed to be decided early in the game.

As a result, people started paying more attention to the commercials.

USA Today measures the most popular commercials every year. Viewers can go to USA Today’s website and vote for their favorites.

This year is the 50^th Super Bowl game. Siegel put together a “tournament” among the 32 most-popular ads in Super Bowl history to honor the occasion.

His goal? To find out the best Super Bowl commercial ever.

Of the 32 finalists, one of USA Today’s favorites featured football player “Mean” Joe Greene in 1979. He got the nickname “Mean” Joe because he was a strong player who could tackle players on the opposing teams. But in the commercial, Greene shows his soft side when he trades his football shirt, or jersey, for a bottle of Coca-Cola.

"The “Mean” Joe Greene Coke ad is widely considered the first real blockbuster, kind of famous Super Bowl ad. … It really kind of captured the hearts of a lot of people and that sort of was the birth of Super Bowl advertising as we know it.”

Apple Computer created an ad for the Macintosh in 1984 about oppression and mind control. Ridley Scott, who directed the movies “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” made the commercial.

"The crazy thing about that ad, is that it only aired nationally once, and people still remember it."

Another memorable ad shows a child dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader. It is for the car company, Volkswagen. The boy is surprised when he uses “The Force” and his father’s car starts. He does not know that his father used a remote control starter from inside his home.

"A: People love Star Wars. And B: It was cute. And C: It was clever. So, I think that ad was one of the most shared YouTube clips or shared ads of all time."

Those commercials, along with 29 others, competed in a vote. And four semifinalists emerged.

Three Budweiser commercials and the Coca-Cola commercial with Greene made it into the “Final Four.” The two finalists were Budweiser commercials that featured the brand’s famous Clydesdale horses. One also featured a puppy.

The champion turned out to be the ad featuring the horses and the puppy, called “Puppy Love.”

Siegel explains why it won.

“A startling amount of memorable ads are Budweiser ads, and they’ve sort of mastered the art of really getting people to pay attention to what they’re doing. One thing to note about those two ads is they both have animals. Especially puppies. And so people love cute animals. That ... that never fails.”

Some of this year’s Super Bowl commercials have been released on YouTube. One is for the food company, Heinz. It features a group of dogs called dachshunds. Dachshunds have long bodies but short legs, and are also known as wiener dogs.

Wiener is another word for hot dog, which is a popular food item at sporting events. It is a small serving of ground meat stuffed into a tube of skin served with bread.

In this year’s ad, the wiener dogs are running towards people dressed in costumes to look like ketchup and mustard. The dogs are wearing hot-dog costumes to complete the joke.

Another, more serious advertisement features British actress Helen Mirren. It turns out to be another Budweiser ad. But it is not funny.

Mirren is sitting at a restaurant about to eat a cheeseburger with French fries. She has a bottle of Budweiser, too. She looks at the camera and warns people against drunken driving. She calls drunken drivers “selfish cowards.”

“I do think people will remember it in a few years,” Siegel says.

And now the answer to our trivia question we promised at the beginning of this story. The only television show that had more viewers than the Super Bowl?

The last episode of the war comedy "M*A*S*H" in 1983.

I’m Dan Friedell.

And I’m Marsha James.

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Words in This Story

ad, advertisement – n. something (such as a short film or a written notice) that is shown or presented to the public to help sell a product or to make an announcement

blockbuster – n. something that is very large, expensive, or successful

commercial – n. an advertisement on radio or television

condiment – n. something (such as salt, mustard, or ketchup) that is added to food to give it more flavor

crazy – adj. very strange or unusual

cute – adj. having a pleasing and usually youthful appearance

puppy – n. a baby dog

quarterback – n. the player in a football game who handles the ball and is in charge of the offense

running back – n. one of the players in a football game responsible for moving the ball forward and scoring points

startle – v. to surprise

trivia – n. facts about people or events that are not well-known

respondent – n. a person who gives an answer to a question

BACHILLERATO Never Have I Ever - Questions and Game Rules

1st part of the session : Never have I ever

2nd part : Inversion and future in the past exercises (links on the left for U3 Bachillerato)

Never have I ever 

Never Have I Ever is also known as Ten Fingers, because of the following variation:

Players sitting in a circle hold up ten fingers. Anyone who has done the activity mentioned in the “Never have I ever . . .” statement, puts one finger down. As players put down all their fingers, they are eliminated from the game. The winner of the game is the last remaining player with a finger raised. 

• You must be honest.
• The more creative you are with your, “Never have I ever . . .” statements, the better.
• Try to make your questions funny.
• Keep the questions relatively simple.

Never have I ever . . .:

• Dyed my hair
• Baked a cake from scratch
• Fallen down in public
• Broken a bone
• Had braces
• Built something out of wood
• Been to Disney World
• Eaten a Krispy Kreme donut
• Screamed during a scary movie
• Been to a professional sporting event
• Slept till noon
• Opened Christmas presents early
• Played Scrabble
• Rolled down a hill
• Toilet papered someone’s house
• Laughed so hard I cried
• Burned myself with a curling iron
• Gotten seasick
• Eaten food that fell on the floor
• Shared a sucker with my dog
• Been in an accident
• Had chickenpox
• Shopped at Home Depot
• Spied on my neighbors
• Plucked my eyebrows
• Ridden in a limo
• Had a pet fish
• Lied about my age
• Bought something at a yard sale
• Fired a gun
• Been ice skating
• Hid on Halloween because I had no candy for trick-or-treaters
• Been in the hospital
• Made a prank call
• Been sick on my birthday
• Gotten a tattoo
• Had food come out my nose
• Had a massage
• Locked my keys in the car
• Ridden a horse
• Been lost
• Been to Europe
• Built a fire
• Been skydiving
• Played golf
• Had a manicure
• Made mashed potatoes from scratch
• Been to the circus
• Made all A’s in school
• Eaten a bug