Travelling

Activity 1: Answer the following questions about your own experience by telling what, where, when, with who and so on. Then write an essay with an experience worth to mention (50-70 words). Deadline: 15/02/2016.

• Have you ever been in an English speaking country?

• If so, where have you been?

• Did you go with your family, friends, or boyfriend/girlfriend?

• What did you like the most of it?

• Would you like to go again?

Practice your listening!

Activity 3: Answer the following questions below the audio. Play the listening twice. We will correct the exercises in class.





Listening 1: My future.

What does he want to do first in the future?
What does he like as a subject?
What does he want to be in the future?
Is he sure about what he want to be in the future?

Listening 2: My city.

Where does he live?
Which are the advantages and disadvatages does he have living there?
What does he do with two different cities?
Does he love living in Fujiu?

Parts of the body: learn and dance!

Activity 4:  Comment in the box below this post! The fastest student who answers everything right has an extra point for the final mark.

 How many parts of the body does he sing? 

 Which are the parts that he mentions?

 Could you tell more parts of the body? 

 How do we say 'barbilla', 'espalda' and 'tobillo' in English? 

 What is 'cheek' in Spanish? 

Diigo

What is Diigo?

Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) is a tool that allows us to bookmark and tag web pages for future occasions. Besides, we can highlight part of the text from the webpages and write some sticky notes for specific webpages. These can be shared with other users that are signed up in Diigo" or sent for others via link. 

My personal Diigo: https://www.diigo.com/user/soniachzh

Extra Activity: Create your own account with Diigo and make annotations in different documents or webpages. Then give the links to your own personal Diigo to see if you know how to use it.

Feel free to post the links below, in the comment section.

Wordle

What is wordle?

"Wordle" is a tool for creating clouds of words from text that we provide. These clouds give greater size to words that appear more frequently in the source text. We can modify our clouds with different layouts, color schemes and fonts. We can freely use the images created with Wordle, even print them or save them in our own computer.  

Make your own wordle with different monuments from all over the world. 

This wordle is an example: 

Which ingredients would you use to make your own menu?

First dish

Second dish

Dessert

Irregular Verbs

This video is about irregular verbs:

• It helps to get the pronunciation.
• Fun.

Homework: 

Listen and use 5 of these verbs in different sentences:
E.g.: I met my friend yesterday.

Using Voki

What is Voki?

Voki is an outstanding tool that allows us to make speaking characters and then we can use it in our own blogs and webpages. They are good since they engage students, introduce technology in the classroom and enhances the learning of a second language.

Take a look at: http://www.voki.com/

Homework: 

• Create your own Voki.

Instructions: 

• Summarise what we have seen in class today (vocabulary or grammar).
• Go through different accents and use the US accent for one Voki.
• Make another Voki with your own voice.
• Use different characters and backgrounds.

Evaluation

We will assess the Voki activity with:

• 25 %: Voki with a US accent.
• 25 %: Voki with your own voice.
• 15 %: Use of different characters.
• 15 %: Use of different backgrounds. 
• 20 %: Summarising properly the vocabulary or grammar.

You have one of my examples here:

Hope you enjoy the activity!