miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2008

Unit 5 Simple Present (do, does)

Objetivos

Deberás ser capaz de:
  • Describir tus actividades diarias y rutinas utilizando el presente simple
  • Formular preguntas utilizando "do / does",
  • Formular ideas en negativo utilizando don´t / doesn´t
  • Utilizar palabras de frecuencia (sometimes, never, always,)
Activities
Game. review sentences in present
Style a hero and print your design

Daily activities
Song (jobs). Listen and learn the song
Practise making questions (1)
Practise making questions (2)
Practise completing negative answers
Bill Gates and I (antonyms , present tense)

Read about the daily life of a cactus picker. Find the activity in the wiki, print it , answer it and take it to class.

Listening and reading
A. Daily activities (Randal ESL lab).
B. A day at school (randal ESL lab)
B. Watch the flinstone episode, be ready to answer the following comprehension questions.
1. Why is Fred nervous?
2. How does he help Vilma? (mention 3 things he does)
3. Find and copy 5 sentences that use ¨do/ does/ don´t/or doesn´t
4. Find and copy on a piece of paper 5 sentences in Simple present.
Take your answers to class.

domingo, 12 de octubre de 2008

Unit 4 Getting around, describing (there is/are), and instructions

Objetivos

Deberás ser capaz de:
  • Hablar sobre como te transladas ( medios de transporte) y cuanto tiempo utilizas en tus translados.
  • Describir los servicios de un lugar utilizando there is/are"
  • Seguir y dar instrucciones (imperativo)


Activities
Useful phrases with pictures for Asking for and giving directions.
Phrases for asking directions. Make a list and make sure you know their meaning.
El imperativo explicación y un ejercicio
Imperatives Explanation and exercises
Springfield . The Sympsons(There is/are)
How to Give directions (BBC)
Listen to the mp3 file, there are two exercises. (A and B)

There is /there are. Activity one
Activity two
Activiy Three (There here is/are not)
Activity Four
Activity Five (there, their, there)
Activity Six
Activity seven Flash There is/There are
Activity eight. Song Good night moon and lyrics. Listen to the song 3 or 4 times while reading the lyrics or until you remember some of the ideas related to "there is/are".
Then complete the following worksheet . Print it





Listening
A. Video clip form English bites "How do you get to uni"
Duration: 6:11, Filesize: 22mb
In this episode we'll talk to students from Adelaide University. We ask them about travelling between their homes and the university.
Listen and read the script fom the clip . Make sure you understand the how to talk about transportation. Be ready to take a video dictation. remember to bring your videoclip in your cell phone for the listening quizz.

B. Listening and reading
1. Practice following instructions with Computer tutor 1
This is a long tutorial so make sure you have 2 hours to conclude it as you can not continue it on a different session. On the first page, select your type of connection (broadband or dial-up) and the box "subtitles". This will help you understand what you are asked to do.
Visit Cobweb castle
Jet Setter, Find my match, etc.

C. Writing instructions.
Make a wish list for Santa, write ten orders and check if Santa can do them.
First select "English " as a language. Then in the box "enter your command" write the order and click on "start".
Write two of the orders you enjoyed the most in the wiki, look for the page selected for this activity.