From country to city?

The reading in page 21 from our students' book tell us about Chang, a Chinese boy who went from the country to the city to work in a shoe factory.

Here, I'm going to show you two similar stories. Watch both videos and then choose one to do a writing task about it.

1. China Blue is a documentary about a jeans factory in China. Watch the trailer.

CHINA BLUE documentary trailer

Is the begining similar to Chang's story?

Write a short paragraph (50-60 words) describing what you see in the trailer.


2. TV3 piece of news (1-12-17) about Beijing evictions.


Back to the country

Write a short paragraph (50-60 words) about this video.
What's happening? Where? When? Who? Why?

Working in Fashion

Did you have problems with the video we watched after the exam? Was it too difficult to understand?

Or maybe you think it was interesting and want to have a look at it again...

Here you have it:

Working in Fashion

What do you think about working in fashion? Do you think it is glamorous? Hard? 

Tell us your opinion!

Before Unit 1 Exam

Hello everyone,

Remember for U-1 Exam you need to revise:

- Vocabulary:
1-Shakira's song phrasal verbs (give up/give in/keep on/mess up/get wrong)
2-Fashion: clothes, jewelery, accessories. (p. 84 from your workbook)
3- Negative prefixes for adjectives. (p. 84 from your workbook)

- Grammar:
1- Present simple vs. present continuous
2- like, love, ... + ________ing

The exam will have a listening, a reading (about fashion, shopping) and a you'll have to write 5-6 lines about your view of fashion, and describing your outfit.


Here you have the workbook answer key. Check your answers.

Revise for the exam!
And remember you must hand in your notebooks on the day of the exam.

Are you a sheerio?

These days we are listening and reading about Ed Sheeran. General information, if you're curious.
Ed Sheeran_ Wikipedia

Some of his songs.

Shape of you _(you've heard it last summer, haven't you?)
Shape of you _lyrics

The A Team _ (a sad song...)
The A team

Castle on the hill_ (love the nostalgia of it, but you're too young to feel nostalgic!)
Castle on the hill

Another hit, this one is a bit older. Love song
Thinking out loud

I really like this one, and if you watch the video, we see some of Ed's problems as a child, remember we read about them in the article?
Photograph

There are a lot of them, all great to practise your English. Have a look!
Any favourite? Comment.

1st WEEK > Tips for exams, and a motivational song

This first week we've done an activity in pairs matching and discussing the EXAM TIPS on ex. 2 in page 9 from our student's book.

Make sure you are familiar with all the vocabulary:
- carefully
-quiet /noise (noisy)
- "for too long"
- in one go
- find out
- key information
- to worry
- to share
- to "get PLENTY of something"
- confident
- to revise
- to put sth away
- highlight


Then we listened to the song theme in Zootopia movie. Where we found some interesting phrasal verbs:

- keep on
- give up
- mess up
- give in
- get wrong

Make sure you check the meaning and note it down in your notebook.


And the bottom line for us this year:

"I wanna try even though I could fail..."

Listen again, and try to complete the verse we didn't do in class:

last /enough / fast / love

Look how far you've come, you filled your heart with ________________
Baby, you've done ___________, take a deep breath
Don't beat yourself up, don't need to run so _________
Sometimes we come ________________, but we did our best


"Try Everything" Shakira

Can you get the meaning of this las verse? We'll comment in class.

If you haven't seen the film, have a look at the trailer to get an idea of what it is about.

Zootopia - Trailer

What's a "slooth"?

2017-18, let's get started!

Welcome 2017-18 4th ESO students! 

In this blog you will find:

- material we use in class to check at home (videos, songs, images...).

- instructions for homework.

- details about exams and projects (such as deadlines, requirements, and so on).

- a place to comment and give your opinion.

- answers to exercises done in class, and links to webs to practise at home.


So learn how to find the blog (High School website > Departments > English > Blogs), and look at it every week to be up-to-date. And feel free to write comments (always respectfully).

Recuperació Juny 2017

Recuperació Anglès 4t ESO

Dilluns 19 de juny a les 12.30  (Aula 4t B)

Heu de preparar-vos per aquest examen:

-         Vocabulari de les unitats 4/5

-          “Relationships”

-          “compound nouns”

-          “jobs”

-          “verbs+prepositions” i “adjectives+prepositions”).

-         El llistat de verbs irregulars (preguntaré uns quants).

-         “Past Simple”  i “Present Perfect”.                                                                       Fer-los servir per separat, i també un exercici de discriminar quan es necessita l’un o l’altre.

-         Adjectius comparatius i superlatius.

-         1r Condicional.

Hi haurà un “Listening” i un “Reading”.

Enllaços per practicar:

Irregular Verbs

Past simple grammar explanation + exercises

past simple and ago

Present Perfect grammar explanation + exercises

Past Simple vs Present Perfect

comparative and superlative adjectives - grammar explanation

comparative & superlative exercises

1st Conditional Practice

Here you have the answers for the 1st Conditional worksheet, correct it before the exam.

Put the verb into the correct first conditional form:

1. If I ______go____ (go) out tonight, I ____will go______ (go) to the cinema.

2. If you____get_____ (get) back late, I ___will be_____ (be) angry.

3. If we __don’t  see_ (not / see) each other tomorrow, we __will  see__ (see) each other next week.

4. If he __comes_____ (come), I ____’ll be____ (be) surprised.

5. If we __wait_____ (wait) here, we ___’ll be___ (be) late.

6. If we ___go_____ (go) on holiday this summer, we ____’ll go___ (go) to Spain.

7. If the weather _doesn’t improve__ (not / improve), we _won’t have__ (not / have) a picnic.

8. If I ____don’t go_____ (not / go) to bed early, I _’ll be____ (be) tired tomorrow.

9. If we ____eat_____ (eat) all this cake, we __’ll feel_____ (feel) sick.

10. If you ____don’t want___ (not / want) to go out, I ___’ll cook__ (cook) dinner at home.

11. I ____will come___ (come) early if you ___want___ (want).

12. They ____will go_____ (go)to the party if they ___are invited___ (be)invited.

13. She ____will stay_____ (stay)in London if she __gets___ (get) a job.

14. He ___won’t get__(not / get) a better job if he ___doesn’t pass__ (not /pass)that exam.

15. I__’ll buy____ (buy)a new dress if I ___have___ (have) enough money.

16. She ___’ll cook__ (cook) dinner if you __go____ (go) to the supermarket.

17. They __will go_____ (go) on holiday if they __have__ (have) time.

18. We __will be___ (be) late if we __don’t  hurry___ (not /hurry).

19. She ___’ll take_ (take) a taxi if it __rains__ (rain).

20. I __won’t go__ (not / go) if you __don’t come___ (not / come) with me.

Conditionals

Remember the last exam we'll do is:

4th ESO A _ Monday 29th May
1st & 2nd Conditional  / Vocabulary: verbs+prep, adjectives+prep

                                             
4th ESO B _ Friday 26th May
1st Conditional / Vocabulary: verbs+prep, adjectives+prep


4th ESO C _ Wednesday 24th May
1st Conditional / Vocabulary: verbs+prep, adjectives+prep

Future Simple

Remember, on of the main ways of talking about the future in English is using FUTURE SIMPLE, that is, using WILL + a BASE FORM


I will always love you.
She will go to the beach.
It won't rain tomorrow.  = It will not rain tomorrow.

Will Dad come with me?
Will you still love me tomorrow?


Some old songs to remeber it...
I will always love you - Whitney Houston
Will you still love me tomorrow? - Amy Winehouse




1st Conditional

Video explaining FIRST CONDITIONAL

Examples used in class:

If Alex passes his exams, he will be happy.

If she doesn't pass her exams, she won't go to the beach.

If you are nice and behave this last week, I'll make a cake to eat it in class.


First conditional / Workbook - page 77 answers

Second conditional / Workbook - page 79 answers

Superstitions - 1st Conditional



 

Vocabulary 

amazed	at
aware	of
fond	of
happy	with
interested	in
married	to
proud	of
worried	about
wrong	with
afraid	of

 
 

apologize	for
apply	for
belong	to
complain	about
concentrate	on
depend	on
dream	of
insist	on
opt	for