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

Writing Assessment

These are the symbols that I will use to assess your writing from now on. Have them in mind to understand and correct your mistakes!

Writing Summaries - Hand Activity

Use the main ideas that you extracted about The Story of Earth Part 2 and your hand to write a summary about the text. Remember that a summary should contain the following:

Due date: Friday, January 15th 2016

Rosetta Stone - Week 6 - Exercises 9

Rosetta Stone P3 - Week 6 exercises 9 can be be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwW_x9KouNuJdHJmdV9Vb0tJa0U/view?usp=sharing

Due date: Thursday, January 14th 2016

Rosetta Stone Week 5 - P3

Please remember that for Sunday, January10th, you should complete 22,5 hours of work (total) in Rosetta Stone, 100% of progress in Level 1 and 13% of progress in Level 2.

This means that you have to finish all Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4 activities and all the Adaptive Recalls of Level 1 and all the activities from Unit 1 - Lección Principal until Lección 3 - Vocabulario of Level 2.

Remember that this is the last week of this period!

New Year's Resolutions

Be very honest to your self and think about important things you want for 2016!

1) Cover page drawing.

2) Write about something special that happened to you in 2015.

3) Something bad / sad / negative that you have in your hands and that you would like to change about 2015.

4) Something that you would really want for 2016.

5) Write an important / special commitment for 2016.

6) Rest of the pages: decorate the rest of your book with more resolutions or wishes for 2016. You can add drawings or pictures.

Due date: Thursday, January 7th 2016

Happy New Year!