Second Term Exam - Listening Practice

Please use the following videos to practice for the listening section of the term exam. During the exam you won't watch the video, you will just listen to the audio, but watching these videos and listening to the audios will be a good training for the test.

Important:

• Make sure to understand the general idea (this should be done during the first time you listen to the audio).
• Take notes: this will help you to select the most important information and to get some details.
• Practice listening to the videos several times. Compare and complete the information you understand each time.
• During the exam: read the questions first and then listen.

Extreme Weather and Global Warming 


Global Warming Pause


Food Production: 


About NASA - Ask a Climate Scientist:

The Far Future of the Universe

Please donwload and read the following text about the future of the universe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJazRiQm5Ca005ZTg/view?usp=sharing

Please also remember to bring your own writing paper!

Due date: Friday, June 10th 2016

Also check this interesting video about what will happen in the future...

Review Week - DAY 2

Please download and print out the following pictures that we will use to work in DAY 2 science activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJRzFZdUFHODRJWWM/view?usp=sharing

The vocabulary list can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJRjRkNjZ6WnJuanM/view?usp=sharing

Please remember to bring your own materials to work!

Due date: Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Second Term Exam - Contents

Your 2nd term exam will contain:

1) A reading comprehension activity related to The Story of Earth Part 3 and Part 4.
2) A writing and vocabulary activity related to The Story of Earth Part 3 and Part 4, and the work we have done related to global warming.
3) A writing and a listening activity related to the 4 writing assignments that we have done so far.
4) Use of the simple present, present progressive, simple past and future tense.
5) Rosetta Stone related exercises.

Review Week - DAY 1 - Materials

This is what you will need for DAY 1:

1. One A3 cardboard (bring an extra one just in case!)
3. Glue
4. Scissors
5. Color markers

6. A ruler

Due date: Monday, June 6th, 2016

Review Week Plan

The Review Week Plan can already be downloaded from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJc2VJTXNDcERkaHM/view?usp=sharing

Please remember that the activities that you do during these days will be graded and that their average will be one of the 5 grades of P3, so:

• It is important to bring all the necessary materials according to the planning. Remember to bring your own pairs of scissors, glue, ruler, etc.
• You will work in pairs and the contents of your work and your partner's should be the same but each member of the pair will have to hand in your individual work.
• You shoukd carry out and finish the work within the given time. The activities that you will do during these days should be finished in the class. You cannot take them home.

The Cambrian Explosion

1) Finish the matching vocabulary activity

2) Download and print out the pictures of the creatures that appear on The Story of Earth Part 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJRUhMMHFidVVORFU/view?usp=sharing

3) Paste them on a piece of cardboard.

4) Use the information from the The Story of Earth Part 4 and the past tense to describe them (your descriptions should be as detailed as possible).

Due date: Monday, June 6th, 2016

The Cambrian Explosion - Images

Download and print out the pictures of the creatures that appear in The Story of Earth Part 4. We will use them on Monday during the class: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJRUhMMHFidVVORFU/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Monday, May 30th 2016

The Cambrian Explosion - Video

If you need to print The Story of Earth Part 4 activities again, you can download them from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJSk1VdWFNSkIwbXM/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy watching how Snowball Earth ice melts and the first forms of complex life start on Earth!

Save the Earth!

Please remember that on Monday, May 23rd you have the presentations of your Save the Earth posters. Your presentation should include:

1) The 12 actions that we should and shouldn't do to protect the environment.
2) What do you think is the most importat problem related to global warming? What can you do to solve it?
3) What is your commitment with the environment? Remember that this is a commitment you have to think about a realistic actio:  I will... and your group's #hashtag.

Agroindustrial Fair

Congratulations for such a good Agroindustrial Fair! It was a tough but great experience and your efforts paid off. Good job!

Please deliver your filled in Selfassessment form to help us improve next year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJVUEydUppQ3M4OE0/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Monday, May 23rd 2016

OMACRIS

Delicias del Páramo

Palmigrati Gourmet

Nutripimientos

Nidaga's Fruit Assoc.

Camosweets CO

Los Calabacines

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Watch the video "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" and write your 3rd writing assignment according to the following instructions.

A) Summarize the most important ideas that you see in the video. (100 words)

Take into account the following information:
1) Plastic and how human beings use it.
2) Characteristics of plastic (what makes it so harmful?)
3) What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Where is it located? Is it an important place? Why?
4) What problems are shown in the video and what are their consequences?

 

B) Your opinion (50 words)
1) Write your opinion feelings or thoughts about what you saw.
2) What can you do to help change this situation?

Words to introduce your opinion:
In my point of view,
In my opinion,
I think that...
I believe that...
For me...

Due date: Friday, May 20th 2015

Save the Earth!

What can we do to protect the Earth? What are we doing to destroy it?

Next Friday, May 20th:

• We will work in groups of 3 students to make a collage (I have the butcher paper) and prepare a short presentation.
• Each member of the group should bring 10 images that show actions we are doing to destroy the Earth (5 images) and actions we can do to protect it (5 images).
• Eah member should bring information (300-400 words) about global warming.

The wild animal and The new lead-dog

Chapters 3 and 4 activity can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJNl9QV3lLYlh1TFE/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, May 19th 2016

To the North and The Law of Club and Tooth

Chapters 1 and 2 activity can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJaTNMNS1Jb0hzTzA/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Friday, May 5th 2016

Enjoy good hamburger... Paragraphs!

The Hamburger Paragraph PPT presentation can be downloaded from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJS0JNc3hlWEpUc1E/view?usp=sharing

The Word document to finish your hamburget organizers can be downloaded from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJNmtib05EMUdIdjg/view?usp=sharing

Connecting Words:

Earth Underwater

Welcome back!

• Watch the video attentively.
• Use your previous knowledge and answer the following questions (in your notebook).

Questions:

1. Why does the answer to sea level rise can be found in Antarctica?
2. What could happen if Antarctica’s ice sheets melt?
3. Is sea level rise a reality or a myth? Explain why.
4. Think of what you already know and answer: What conclusions were drawn from ancient corals reefs that were found in Florida?
5. Why are global temperatures rising again?
6. What happens when temperatures rise?
7. Why is it difficult to predict how much and how fast the sea level is going to rise in the future?
8. What will happen in places like Florida if the sea level rises by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 feet (1,82 m)?

Due date: Monday, May 2nd 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 2 - Exercises 16

Rosetta Stone P2 - Week 2 exercises 16 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJU0FJZkFNR0V1SHM/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, March 31st 2016

Rosetta Stone Week 2 - P2

Please remember that for Sunday, March 27th, you should complete 40 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone and 100% of progress in Level 2. This means that you have to finish all units' 1, 2, 3 and 4 activities.

Please also remember that for this date you have to complete all the Adaptive Recall activities of level 2.

Rosetta Stone - Week 1 - Exercises 15

Rosetta Stone P2 - Week 1 exercises 15 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJQnROODBxZE5tbEk/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Monday, March 28th 2016

Folders Review

These are the activities that you should have in your folders and this is how you should organize them:

1st Term - P3 (3rd pocket):
1) Rosetta Stone Ex 6-9
2) Ignatius of Loyola RC (26/11)
3) Ignatius of Loyola selfassessment (30/11)
4) Book vs. Movie (07/12)
5) The Hound of the Baskervilles Pre-reading (11/12)
6) The Hound of the Baskervilles Ch 1-2-3 (14/12)
7) The Hound of the Baskervilles Ch 4-5 (17/12)
8) The Hound of the Baskervilles Ch 6-7 (11/01)
9) The Hound of the Baskervilles Ch 8-9 (18/01)
10) The Story of Earth Part 2 Main ideas (08/01)
11) Meteorites may have sparkled life on Earth - Writing (18-01)
12) Listening activity 1 (15/01)
13) Listening activity 2 (18/01)
14) Review Week DAY 1- RS Senteces (21/01)
15) Review Week DAY 3 - RC (25/01)
16) Review Week DAY 3 - Writing (25/01)

2nd Term - P1 (4th pocket):
1) Detective Handbook (missions 1, 2 and 3)
2) Rosetta Stone Ex 10-14
3) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Chapters 10-11 (18/02)
4) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Chapters 12-13 (22/02)
5) The Hound of the Baskervilles Ch13 Drawing (22-07)
6) Verbs Test 1 (10/03)
7) Verbs Test 2 (11/03)
8) Verbs Test 3 (14/03)
9) Verbs Test 4 (21/03)
10) Simple Past Worksheet (21/03)
11) The Story of Earth - Sequence of Events (07/03)
12) P1 Test Signed

Rememeber that to check your folders, I really need you to organized them this way.

Due date: Thursday, March 31st 2016

P1 Test - Contents

Remember that P1 test will be next Monday, March 21st. The contents are:

1)      A reading comprehension exercise

2)      A Summary writing exercise. Remember that a summary should have a main idea, suppoting details and a conclusion.

3)      Parts of speech: use and order of adjectives

4)      Simple past

§  Affirmative sentences

§  Negative sentences (use of  didn’t)

§  Questions (use of did)

5)      Rosetta Stone related exercises

6)      Listening exercise
7)   Verbs test 4

Remember that this test will be awarded with 3 Dojo Points depending on how the class does on the test!

The Dinosaur of The Past

Please draw a graphic organizer, conceptual map or map mind about the Simple Past. You can use the following map mind as an example:

Please also make sure to include the following information about the structure of "was" and "were":

Remember to write the date on top!

When you are finished, please paste the worksheets that I gave you today in the following order:

1) Was and Were worksheet (Unit 10)

2) Simple past - Affirmative (Unit 11)

3) Simple past - Negative and questions (Unit 12)

4) Find someone who activity

5) Listening activity 2

Due: Monday, March 21st 2016

Rosetta Stone Week 5 - P1

Please remember that for Sunday, March 13th, you should complete 35 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone, 100% of progress in Level 1 and 75% of progress in Level 2.

This means that you have to finish all units 1, 2 and 3 activities. Remember that this is the last week of this period!

Somebody that I used to Know

Enjoy this nice cover of Gotye's song Somebody that I used to Know by Walk off the Earth!

The Story of Earth Part 3 - Snowball Earth

Watch The Story of Earth Part 3 video to help you finish your sequence of events chart. Enjoy!

The Story of Earth Part 3 text can be downaloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJYnVQcG5wcFAxcXc/view?usp=sharing

Snowball Earth - Images

The Story of Earth Part 3 images can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJYmZ6UVdpYm5ldWc/view?usp=sharing

Please make sure to print and paste them in your sequence of events chart.

Due date: Thursday, March 10th 2016.

Rosetta Stone - Week 4 - Exercises 13

Rosetta Stone P1 - Week 4 exercises 13 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJZG16WDlDVkxrWkk/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, March 10th 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 4 - P1

Please remember that for Sunday, March 6th, you should complete 32,5 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone, 63% of progress in Level 2.

This means that you have to finish all the activities from U3 - Lección Principal to U3 - L3 - Vocabulario. Remember to respect the estimated time for each activity.

List of Irregular Verbs

Please donwload the list of irregular verbs containing the present progresive and past tense of the verbs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJZGQ4Ykd0eldCbmc/view?usp=sharing

The first verbs test (the first 25 verbs) will be on Thursday, March 10, 2016.

Agroindustrial Fair Schoology

From now on we will use Schoology to organize the work of the Agroindustrial Fair and to promote and facilitate the communication about the members of the group.

The access codes to the English Advanced class and the Agroindustrial Fair group are:
English Advanced: CBX75-SXFMH
Agroindustrial Fair: 5NC5H-BH8VC

Please remember that you have to join the Agroindustrial Fair group ONLY if you will be working on the project with me. The members of your group that are in the intermediate level will have to join this group too.

Join by: Monday, March 7th 2016

Describing Nouns!

1) Use 4 adjectives to write sentences and describe the following images: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJSHB6WEJpTFBXOFk/view?usp=sharing
2) Check your "Order of adjectives" puzzle list and make sure that your adjectives are of different types (color, size, age, purpose, etc) and that you write them in the correct order. Follow the example below:

3) Cut, paste and resolve the Word Search that I gave you today in class:

Due date: Monday, March 7th 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 3 - Exercises 12

Rosetta Stone P1 - Week 3 exercises 12 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJWl9HZ2pKN2ZCR0k/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, March 3rd 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 3 - P1

Please remember that for Sunday, February 28th, you should complete 30 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone, 50% of progress in Level 2.

This means that you have to finish all the activities from Units 1 and Unit 2. Remember to respect the estimated time for each activity.

What are we going to read next?

These are the books we could read during this second term!

Read the abstracts and write a comment on this post saying which book you want to read and why you want to read it. We will read the book with more votes (and good reasons).

Please remember that this is a graded activity. So please make sure that your name appears in the comment.

The Turn of the Screw

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a fearless warrior who fights for the truth. He lives in the forest with other outlaws. Robin Hood with friends rob rich people and give stolen money to poor people. He is an honest and fair man. Robin Hood is the best archer in England and he likes to be the winner.

The Call of the Wild

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.

Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

Due date: Monday, February 29th 2016

What is in the bag?

Remember to bring your mystery object to play the  what is in tha bag game!

1) Choose an object that you can bring to school and that fits in the bag.
2) Choose an object that is easy to describe using ADJECTIVES.
3) Write down lots of adjectives on your bag (at least 10) to describe your object. Remember, it has to be adjectives.
4) Close the bag to keep your object secret!

Due date: Friday, February 25th 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 2 - Exercises 11

Rosetta Stone P1 - Week 2 exercises 11 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJdkVJTk5pTVRwUXM/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, February 25th 2016

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Chapters 12 and 13

Remember to complete chapters 12 and 13 reading comprehension activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJYk5YeS03bEhJQUE/view?usp=sharing

Also, if you didn't finish in the class, remember to finish the suspects activity in your detective handbook.

Due date: Monday, February 22nd, 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 2 - P1

Please remember that for Sunday, February 21st, you should complete 27,5 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone, 38% of progress in Level 2.

This means that you have to finish all the activities from Unidad 2 - Lección Principal 1 to Unidad 2 - Lección 3 - Vocabulario. Remember to respect the estimated time for each activity.

First Term Exam - Contents

Your 1st term exam will contain:

1) A reading comprehension activity related to The Story of Earth Part 1 and Part 2.

2) A vocabulary activity related to The Story of Earth Part 1 and Part 2.
3) A summary writing activity in the simple present.
4) Use of the simple present and the present progressive:
   - Structure
   - Spelling rules
   - Time expressions
5) Rosetta Sone:
   - Possessive adjectives (my, your, our, their, his, her, its)
   - WH- questions
6) A listening exercise

It's not a matter of luck...

Review Week - DAY 2 - Materials

Please download and print out the following pictures that we will use to work in DAY 2 science activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJRnFPTlZ3UHNUVGM/view?usp=sharing

As the time to finish the activity is limited I suggest you to review The Story of Earth Part 1 and Part 2 events and vocabulary before the workshop.

Due date: Friday, Jan 21st 2016

Review Week - DAY 1 - Materials

This is what you will need for DAY 1:

1. One A3 cardboard (bring an extra one just in case!)
2. Rosetta Stone activities (pictures and instructions): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJT0oyUHJQQVllUDA/view?usp=sharing
3. Glue
4. Scissors
5. Color markers

Due date: Thursday, Jan 21 2016

Review Week Planning

The Review Week Plan can already be downloaded from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJTU5lSzVJQ3dTWjA/view?usp=sharing

Please remember that the activities that you do during these days will be graded and that their average will be one of the 5 grades of P3, so:

• It is important to bring all the necessary materials according to the planning. Remember to bring your own pairs of scissors, glue, etc.
• You will work in pairs and the contents of your work and your partner's should be the same but each member of the pair will have to hand in your individual work.
• You shoukd carry out and finish the work within the given time. The activities that you will do during these days should be finished in the class. You cannot take the home.

"It's my Life" by Jon Bon Jovi

Think about your New Year's Resolutions: It's your life, it's now or never! Enjoy!

 

Here is the song with lyrics:

Dr. Watson's First Report and The Light on the Moor

Remember that on Monday you have chapters 8 and 9 reading control! So please,

• Read The Hound of The Baskervilles chapters 8 and 9.
• Remember that you also have to underline or highlight 10 vocabulary words and write their translation or meaning as a side note.

Due date: Monday, January 18th 2016

Also, if you want to discover how Dartmoor looks like watch the following short movie:


Dartmoor (short film) from James Watson on Vimeo.

What do you think inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to choose this setting for his story?

Notebooks Review!

Next Monday I will collect your notebooks to review them.

Make sure that your notebooks are:
1. Complete: They contain everything we have done in class so far. I will review some of the activities that we have done in class and The Story of Earth Part 2 summary (hand activity).
2. Organized: You have drawn the first pages (Language and Science) and margins; you have copied the "Date"; "Topic" and "Objective" for each class.
3. Clean

Due date: Monday, January 18th 2016