CLASS 6 (1-19.DEC.08)

INTERNET INTRODUCTIONS

This year we want to find some partners in a foreign country, so you can meet people from other countries and talk to them in English. While we are looking for schools you'll have to make your own personal introductions, so your future friends can know about you. You have to tell them about you, your family and friends, school, city, hobbies... anything you want people to know about you.

But you are not going to write a composition, you are going to introduce yourselves with a slideshow that must include photographs and text in English. We are going to use BUBBLESHARE a website where you can create a free account and upload photos to share with friends and family. You have to follow these steps:

1. Go to BUBBLESHARE and sign up (right top of the page) to create your own account. Remember your email and password, bacause you will need it later if you want to go back to your account. Once you are registered you only have to log in with the same name and password.
2. Now you are ready to use bubbleshare. First you have to create a new album and write the album settings (name, privacy, theme).
3. Then choose the photos you have to add in browse for photos. You can add all the photos you want to include in your introduction. You can add or remove photos later. When you are finished click NEXT. You must add a minimum of 10 photos.
4. Your album is already done. Now it's time to edit the pictures. You can add gizmos to the pictures, rotate or delate the photos.
5. You have to write a title for each photo describing it IN ENGLISH.
6. If you click sequence album you can order the photos the way they are going to appear in the slideshow.
7. Your album is finished now, but you can edit and change it as many times as you like.
8. Once you album is finished in Blog album you can share it in you blogs, websites, myspaces... (copy and paste the HTML code). If you want to publish it in your facebook click View album and share on facebook.

Here you have my album with my introduction. I hope you'll like it
BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

HOMEWORK

I want to see your albums as well, so you'll have to sent it to cristina.itaca@gmail.com using Email album in Bubbleshare. This is your homework for the Christmas holidays. Remember you have to do it IN ENGLISH. You'll have to send your internet introduction before January 8th, 2009. If you have any problems ask me by email during the holidays, and I'll try to solve them.

CLASS 5 (17-28.NOV.08)

WRITING
COMPOSITIONS


Today we will practise with some very important things about writing compositions. We will work on the composition you have done for homework "My ideal date". Your teacher will give you a copy of this composition and you will use it to work on a new version.

Click on the picture to go WRITING COMPOSITIONS

HOMEWORK

• Rewrite your composition "My ideal date" (150 words) using the ideas we have explained in our class today. Then write an e-mail to cristina.itaca@gmail.com with the composition attached. The subject of your e-mail must be "My ideal date 2".

CLASS 4 (3-14.NOV.08)

UNIT 2 - THE PERFECT DATE
I hope you all did very well in your exams. Let's start working on the next unit. In Unit 2 - THE PERFECT DATE you are going to deal with:

• Past simple, past continuous and present perfect simple
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Common noun suffixes
• Main idea in paragraphs
• Describing a person
• Word order

First of all we are going to practice with the PAST SIMPLE, the PAST CONTINUOUS and the PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE. Remember you have to know the list of irregular verbs you have in your book (pages 138 and 139). In the following links you will find exercises to practice them:

• English Learning Website : Do the past simple, past continuous exercises and present perfect exercises.
• The Happy Verby Gang : Try with the Past Simple Boy, Lady Past Continuous and the Present Perfect Man. It has explanations in Spanish!
• English 4U : Do the past tense exercises (7),the past progressive (6) and the present perfect (3). (past progressive is the same as past continuous).
• Past simple order : Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
• Correct the mistakes :The sentences are wrong, you have to correct them!
• English Grammar Online: Simple Past : Form, use and plenty of exercises at the end of the page.
• English Grammar Online: Past Continuous : Form, use and plenty of exercises at the end of the page.
• English Grammar Online: Present Perfect : Form, use and plenty of exercises at the end of the page.

Describing a person is one of the topics of this unit. Click the pictures of this three famous people and you will find their biographies. Fill in the blanks to complete them.

HOMEWORK

• Read Teen Date Ideas: Dinner and a Movie? and 25 things to do on a first date and write a composition (150 words) explaining to your teacher you ideal date. Then write an e-mail to cristina.itaca@gmail.com with the composition attached. The subject of your e-mail must be "My ideal date".
• Continue practising with the past simple, the past continuous and the present perfect in the links you have above. If you have any problems with these verb tenses, ask your teachers for help