CLASS 3 (20-31.OCT.08) - HALLOWEEN

1. Let’s start with some vocabulary for Halloween. Go to Halloween Vocabulary and read the definitions you have there. They will be helpful to play the Halloween Hangman.


2. Now you are ready to go to It's Halloween Time. You have to enter all the sections, read the information and do the exercises you have there. When you finish you will be ready for THE HORROR HOUSE.


3. The next stage is reading A Horror Story for Halloween and do the multiple choice exercise.
4. Watch the “Dancing Pumpkin” video. While you are watching it, answer the questions. Don’t forget to click on “See how you did” at the end of the activity.

If you want to know about Halloween you have lots of things at the Bristish Council: magazine articles, word games, a spelloween, stories, cartoons, trivia, links…

Do you want to celebrate Halloween with some games? In Halloween Online Games you have plenty of games. Have a look at them! And if you likeword searchs, try to solve the Wilstar Halloween Word Search

Happy Halloween!

HOMEWORK

• Send a Halloween card to your teacher. You can find some at The Holiday Spot, Billy Bear 4 Kids or Blackdog.
• Do lots of practice with the links in CLASS 2 to practise for the unit 1 exam you will have very soon.
• You can also practise for the exam repeating the exercises in "Top Marks 1 - Student's Activity Multirom" you have already done.

CLASS 2 (6-17.OCT.08)

Lets start working again! This week we are going to practice the contents in UNIT 1 – THE WAY WE LEARN.

First of all we are going to practice with the PRESENT SIMPLE and the PRESENT CONTINUOUS in the following links:

• English 4U : do the present simple exercises (3), the present simple negation (4), the present tense questions (6) and the present progressive ones (7) (present progressive is the same as present continuous).
• English Learning Website : Do the present simple and present continuous exercises.
• English Grammar Online: Simple Present :
  Form, use and plenty of exercises at the end of the page.
• English Grammar Online: Present Progressive : Form, use and plenty of exercises at the end of the page.
• ESL Lounge: Simple Present : Do all the simple present exercises in this website. You also have explanations about the simple present tense use and structure.
• ESL Lounge: Present Continuous : Do all the present continuous exercises in this website. You also have explanations about the present continuous use and structure.
• The Happy Verby Gang :try with the Present Simple Girl and Present Continuous Guy. It has explanations in Spanish!

Lots of verbs!!! Now It's time for some fun. Listen to I Want to Break Free by Queen while you fill in the gaps of the lyrics.

HOMEWORK

• Listen to Here is the news , and do the gapfill exercise. Open the mp3 player in a new window if you want to look at the questions while you are listening. You may need to listen to it more than once. Then send your scores to cristina.itaca@gmail.com.
• You have to do more practice of UNIT 1 - THE WAY WE LEARN. You need to download this document with exercises, copy and paste it in a word document, and then complete them and send it back to cristina.itaca@gmail.com.
• If you haven't finidsed all the exercises in the class today, or if you think you can do them better, try to do them again. If you need more practice, there's a new link Agenda Web with lots of free exercises to practice your English!

You have to do all this homework before your next class in the computer room.