Nightmare Journeys

Write a composition, describing: Nightmare journey you've had or invent one.(100-150 words) Guided questions: When was the journey? Where were you going? Who with? Why? (Paragraph 1) What went wrong? What happened? (Paragraph 2) What happened in the end? (Paragraph 3) The composition will be graded in the following way: 2pts grammar, 2pts spelling, 2pts organization, 2pts content, 2pts usage of vocabulary (pps.33 and 148). Deadline October 11th

Describing people

ACTIVITY 1 (DEADLINE October 2nd) Check page 17 in your book (useful language: describing a person), Describe a famous person following these format: Paragraph 1 age, family, work/study Paragraph 2 personality Paragraph 3 hobbies and interests Paragraph 4 any negative things? Don´t forget to write your name and group. RUBRIC: Your composition will be graded in the following way: GRAMMAR: 2POINTS PUNCTUTATION: 2 POINTS SPELLING: 2 POINTS VOCABULARY (PERSONALITY) : 2 POINTS NUMBER OF WORDS FROM 100 – 150: 2 POINTS

Cognates "Friends or false friends"

A) Check the following sites and make up a power presentation with the information read.
Your presentation has to have a definition of a cognate, a suffix, a prefix and examples, do it in English (from 5 to 6 slides no more).

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curious/falsefriends.html
http://www.lcchsspanishclasses.com/cognates.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate
http://www.southampton.liu.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm


B) Look up in a dictionary 10 cognates and 10 false cognates in English. Write the name of the dictionary or the website where you found the information.


C) Check the following site and do three of the activities given and report your results and write a reflection about this activity.

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/prefixsuffix.html

D) Check your classmates’ activities and make two comments about their work.

ASSESSMENT POWER POINT RUBRIC
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/pdf/rubic.pdf

Germany

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technology

REFLECTION

A).- Read the following questions and discuss your answers in groups of four

1.- Do you use technology?

2.- What do you think about technology?

3.- Will it be necessary in your future studies? Why?

4.- What kind of devices do you use in your dialy life?

5.- Does technology support language as communication?

6.- How will technology affect the classrooms in the future?

7.- How will it benefit the teachers?

8.- Is technology our present and future?

B).- Listen and watch the video,

C).- After watching the video, re- think your answers,

D).- Finally, share your ideas with your groups.

BIENVENIDA

Hola a todos!

Me da mucho gusto poder presentarles este curso a través de esta herramienta que va a ser nuestro punto de trabajo a lo largo de este ciclo escolar. Es muy importante que entren al sitio, lo exploren y tengan la confianza de decirme, si hay algo que no está claro o que quieran que se revise detalladamente. Es importante que estemos en comunicación y no olviden que todas las actividades y proyectos a desarrollar en clase se van a publicar a través de este medio.

Bienvenidos a este ciclo escolar y suerte!