CLASSROOM NOTICEBOARD-5th year5TH YEAR OSL SAN FERNANDO. Welcome!
ON THIS PAGE YOU WILL FIND HOMEWORK, COMPOSITION DEADLINES, EXTRA ACTIVITIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT NEWS AND SUGGESTIONS
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Sequence of Contents of your textbook (Approximate)
Units 7-12. 1st term: 7&8. 2nd term: 9&10. 3rd term: 11&12.
CONTENTS OF YOUR TEXTBOOK
UNIT 7: At the airport, business and trade, history of the internet. State verbs, simple and continuous aspects. Present perfect simple and continuous. Volition verbs+object+full infinitive. Word building: Prefixes. Problems on the phone.
UNIT 8: Dealing with money. Wishes. Travel. Tipping. Apologising
UNIT 9: Entertainment. Passive Voice, such as, like so, as. Making and Responding to suggestions.
UNIT 10: Household jobs. Have/Get something done. Quantifiers. Cmpound nouns and adjectives for views and behaviour. Discussion about gender roles. Adding emphasis
UNIT 11: Work collocations, business. Future perfect. Reported Speech. Reporting verbs. Advertising. Discussion language.
UNIT 12: Colloquial language.Modal verbs of deduction: Present and past. Vague language expressions. Idioms
UNIT 8: Dealing with money. Wishes. Travel. Tipping. Apologising
UNIT 9: Entertainment. Passive Voice, such as, like so, as. Making and Responding to suggestions.
UNIT 10: Household jobs. Have/Get something done. Quantifiers. Cmpound nouns and adjectives for views and behaviour. Discussion about gender roles. Adding emphasis
UNIT 11: Work collocations, business. Future perfect. Reported Speech. Reporting verbs. Advertising. Discussion language.
UNIT 12: Colloquial language.Modal verbs of deduction: Present and past. Vague language expressions. Idioms
HOMEWORK
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9D Page 78. Activity 3.Check the Real World section on page 148.
10A Page 80. 1. Vocabulary. Activity a. Check on 10.1 Page 149. 4. Grammar. Do all the activities. Check on p.150. 10B Page 82. 1. Vocabulary, activity a. Check on page 149. 2. Reading, activities a and b. 3 Grammar. All the activities. Check on page 151. 10C Pages 84-85. Reading. Activities a, b, and c. 2. Vocabulary. Activities a, b and c. 10D Page 86. Activity 3a, check on page 151. Page 87. Activity 5 |
Summary of activities 2nd term
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VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, AND SKILLS CONSOLIDATION
These are some extra activities with their answers that you can print after every unit to consolidate your learning. Find them on Downloads |
EXTRA LISTENING HOMEWORK: Remember to do your extra listening activities from your workbook after every unit.
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TIPS! Remember to do the activities in your Workbook or Self-study book after finishing every lesson. The keys are included in your workbook. There is also a Language Reference section in your student's book that you should revise after every lesson.
COMPOSITIONS
Activity in the classroom. Bring your CV or resume in English.
A week after you hand the letter of application in, 20th (5th A) and 21st February (5th B), you are expected to bring your CV in English, just one page, to the class and tell your partner/s about your qualifications and experience. Find an example here (American) or here (British. At the bottom of the page). Also, get translations into English for your qualifications typing on google or Linguee.es and visit The Top 25 Words To Use on Your CV or What words should I use on my CV to boost it.
Composition 6. Coming soon. This is a composition for Unit 11. In the meantime, we will do a couple of activities involving some writing at home and speaking in the classroom as well. The first one is an activity related to personality tests. Please, see the Extra Activities section below for more information.
FYI: Remember to make a copy of the composition to keep it at home. Once the composition is corrected and I hand it out to you, it is your responsibility to check your copy of the composition and correct it, hand the original in and try to improve next time.
And from now on, what? Compare your compositions with a partner, check and try to avoid the mistakes you made. Revise the layout of every type of composition and the related vocabulary to try to use it in the future. And above all, exchange some compositions with your classmates to correct mistakes and compare.
A week after you hand the letter of application in, 20th (5th A) and 21st February (5th B), you are expected to bring your CV in English, just one page, to the class and tell your partner/s about your qualifications and experience. Find an example here (American) or here (British. At the bottom of the page). Also, get translations into English for your qualifications typing on google or Linguee.es and visit The Top 25 Words To Use on Your CV or What words should I use on my CV to boost it.
Composition 6. Coming soon. This is a composition for Unit 11. In the meantime, we will do a couple of activities involving some writing at home and speaking in the classroom as well. The first one is an activity related to personality tests. Please, see the Extra Activities section below for more information.
FYI: Remember to make a copy of the composition to keep it at home. Once the composition is corrected and I hand it out to you, it is your responsibility to check your copy of the composition and correct it, hand the original in and try to improve next time.
And from now on, what? Compare your compositions with a partner, check and try to avoid the mistakes you made. Revise the layout of every type of composition and the related vocabulary to try to use it in the future. And above all, exchange some compositions with your classmates to correct mistakes and compare.
COMPOSITIONS PROCEDURE
Please, do not ask me if I can correct your composition after the deadline. The answer will always be "NO" under any circumstances!
You can always write down the next composition.
I do not double-check compositions either. Once the composition is corrected, it is your responsibility to check the copy of your composition, give me the original corrected and try to improve next time. However, you can compare your composition with your classmates.
Remember that I prefer your compositions handwritten for your own interest.
After every composition I will make some comments in the classroom that you can download from the downloads section of your level.
VERY IMPORTANT: I will not mark any compositions which were partially or completely copied from the internet, articles , magazines, etc.
Please, do not ask me if I can correct your composition after the deadline. The answer will always be "NO" under any circumstances!
You can always write down the next composition.
I do not double-check compositions either. Once the composition is corrected, it is your responsibility to check the copy of your composition, give me the original corrected and try to improve next time. However, you can compare your composition with your classmates.
Remember that I prefer your compositions handwritten for your own interest.
After every composition I will make some comments in the classroom that you can download from the downloads section of your level.
VERY IMPORTANT: I will not mark any compositions which were partially or completely copied from the internet, articles , magazines, etc.
EXTRA ACTIVITIES
Classroom Library Loan in the 2nd term: Documentary Report.
DEADLINE to send your documentary report: 21st March
Instead of reading an audiobook and writing a book report afterwards, as you have been doing during the first term, in the second term I would like you to watch a documentary (or a selection of short documentaries) and send a 3-minute presentation via email to me. You can also send it to your Whatsapp group if you want to. Explain what the documentary was about and tell me, and possibly your partners too, the vocabulary you have learnt. I will send my comments to your presentations as soon as I can. Send one presentation before we do the exams in March.
As we might not have enough documentaries for all the students, alternatively you could download an app from Google Play called Woodpecker learning, Most documentaries on the app are quite short, so you will need to choose 2 or 3 documentaries lasting from 30 to 40 minutes from a range of topics, "health", "entertainment", "art", "books", "education", "science" and "how to" documentaries which are available on the app. In addition, if you have a documentary with English subtitles and prefer to give the speech of the documentary review about that one, you are welcome to do it. Find more options on Downloads/listening
There will be hand-outs of an outline to help you prepare the speech in the cupboard as well or download it from downloads/speaking. Please, take one copy after you watched the documentary, before writing the speech.
As we might not have enough documentaries for all the students, alternatively you could download an app from Google Play called Woodpecker learning, Most documentaries on the app are quite short, so you will need to choose 2 or 3 documentaries lasting from 30 to 40 minutes from a range of topics, "health", "entertainment", "art", "books", "education", "science" and "how to" documentaries which are available on the app. In addition, if you have a documentary with English subtitles and prefer to give the speech of the documentary review about that one, you are welcome to do it. Find more options on Downloads/listening
There will be hand-outs of an outline to help you prepare the speech in the cupboard as well or download it from downloads/speaking. Please, take one copy after you watched the documentary, before writing the speech.
Personality Tests
Head over to one of the websites below and do the online test (alternatively you can ask somebody to do it for you and share their results with you):
123 Tests: https://www.123test.com/personality-test/ 120 closed questions
The big 5 personality tests: www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ 60 closed questions+optional open questions.
Do you believe in personality Tests? Do you feel identified with your results? Share the results of the test and your opinion about them with a partner in the classroom. 13th/14th March
123 Tests: https://www.123test.com/personality-test/ 120 closed questions
The big 5 personality tests: www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ 60 closed questions+optional open questions.
Do you believe in personality Tests? Do you feel identified with your results? Share the results of the test and your opinion about them with a partner in the classroom. 13th/14th March
Luke´s Podcasts with transcript
Get all the information about this activitiy on CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES B2. Find the audio and the provisional groups on 5th year DOWNLOADS and the links to the transcripts on Classroom Activities B2. This activity will be performed in groups in the second term, February or March. Consequently, this activity has been postponed until February for you to have time to prepare it at Christmas.
1st session: 27th February 5th A, 26th February 5th B. We will dedicate 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum to this activity in the class.
2nd session: 6th (5th A) and 7th (5th B) March. We will dedicate 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum to this activity in the class.
1st session: 27th February 5th A, 26th February 5th B. We will dedicate 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum to this activity in the class.
2nd session: 6th (5th A) and 7th (5th B) March. We will dedicate 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum to this activity in the class.
What else can I do?
Help with the oral exam. I recommend viewing some videos on Youtube by Marek Connel who explains to B2 students from the Official School of Languages how to speak about different topics. Get the link on Joepinetreebush/oral-assessment and on 4th year downloads. I recommend checking both, B1 and B2 level topics.
Facebook is a very good tool to get material to improve your English as well. It is difficult to divide Facebook pages into the 4 skills as their posts are normally about any of them. I did my best to collect some of them for you but consider that these pages are in general about anything concerning English learning at any level. Here are some examples taken from Facebook...
4 skills: British Council, BBC Learning English, Grammarly, English Language Teaching, English Learn Sites, English Online Resources
Listening: Multimedia English
Speaking: How to practise speaking outside the classroom
Grammar/Vocabulary: Daily English Grammar, Learn English Grammar, Learn English Through Pictures
Writing/Speaking: English Fluency
Reading: The Guardian, Graded Reading British Council, Story Planet
Do you think you don't have time to study English? Visit Pick the brain to get suggestions of websites to learn languages even if you are too busy.
Live TV and Radio in English (No subtitles):
From Google Play: UK radio. Using Google Search: Mobdro.to (Series and Films), brittv.co.uk
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
The 7 Best Apps to learn English by Tofluency
Free English Toolkits. British Council, Suscribe to EnglishwithKristine on englishwithkristine.com and get pdf file with more free English Toolkits.
Facebook is a very good tool to get material to improve your English as well. It is difficult to divide Facebook pages into the 4 skills as their posts are normally about any of them. I did my best to collect some of them for you but consider that these pages are in general about anything concerning English learning at any level. Here are some examples taken from Facebook...
4 skills: British Council, BBC Learning English, Grammarly, English Language Teaching, English Learn Sites, English Online Resources
Listening: Multimedia English
Speaking: How to practise speaking outside the classroom
Grammar/Vocabulary: Daily English Grammar, Learn English Grammar, Learn English Through Pictures
Writing/Speaking: English Fluency
Reading: The Guardian, Graded Reading British Council, Story Planet
Do you think you don't have time to study English? Visit Pick the brain to get suggestions of websites to learn languages even if you are too busy.
Live TV and Radio in English (No subtitles):
From Google Play: UK radio. Using Google Search: Mobdro.to (Series and Films), brittv.co.uk
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
The 7 Best Apps to learn English by Tofluency
Free English Toolkits. British Council, Suscribe to EnglishwithKristine on englishwithkristine.com and get pdf file with more free English Toolkits.
