martes, 30 de septiembre de 2014

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion,

HARRY THE DIRTY DOG.

Read the story while you listen to it.  Stop the video when necessary and write down ALL the new words in you notebook.



viernes, 19 de septiembre de 2014

Scavenger2

1. Find a picture of
  • A carrot cake 112
  • Coco Chanel . There is a photo of Coco Chanel on page 48.
  • Some young people in a bowling alley81
  • Two old people who celebrated their 81stwedding anniversary51

Answer the following questions:
  • Where are Nanaimo bars from?91
  • What is Route 66?75
  • Who won the Nobel Prize in 1911?47
  • Who played Mr Spock in Star wars?63

 Write words for
  • 5 fun activities10
  • 5 items of clothing24
  • 5 cooking verbs83
  • 5 materials102

jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2014

SCAVENGER HUNT

SWITCH 2 Scavenger Hunt

We are going to go on a scavenger hunt, finding various bits of information in your new book. You will need to record the page number and answer the questions.  

1. Find a picture of
  • A carrot cake
  • Coco Chanel . There is a photo of Coco Chanel in page 48.
  • Some young people in a bowling alley
  • Two old people who celebrated their 81stwedding anniversary

2.Answer the following questions:
  • Where are Nanaimo bars from?
  • What is Route 66?
  • Who won the Nobel Prize in 1911?
  • Who played Mr Spock in Star Trek?

 3.Write words for
  • 5 fun activities
  • 5 items of clothing
  • 5 cooking verbs
  • 5 materials

viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2014

Summer Holidays

Write about your summer holidays and how you feel about coming back to school:

My most memorable moment of the summer
One thing I learned this summer      I learned how to cook cheese cake. 
The person I spent this summer with
The best meal I ate this summer
The movies I saw this summer
The places I visited this summer      I visited Porto, in Portugal

Porto Wikimedia Commons
Something educational I did this summer.
Something I bought this summer
Something I made this summer
The most memorable thing that happened this summer      Club del Mar rowing team took part in the national championship in La Concha..

The best thing that happened this summer
The worst thing that happened this summer.
A unique person I met this summer
The best word to describe this summer
What I DIDN’T DO this summer      I didn´t go rowing. 

miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2014

My Summer Collage


Make a My Summer collage and describe it.
Divide a page in half . Partners should work on their own collage on each side.
Present the collage to the class by comparing the two summers.

Material for the Collage Project

The first step to making collage is to collect materials.You have to bring the ones in red. You can choose TWO  from the green ones and ONE from the blue ones.

Poster board or cardboard for the base.
Scissors.
Magazines. 
Travel guides, brochures, fliers, catalogs, maps and newspapers.
Glue.
Photographs. 
Postcards, greeting cards, stamps, postmarks, envelopes, old maps.
Tissue paper

Optional Items:
Pieces of fabric, lace, ribbon, buttons, sequins or other sewing scraps.
Stickers
Tickets, receipts, matchbook covers, menus, sheet music, labels, any paper mementos.
Silk flowers can be taken apart and added.
Dried flowers, leaves, shells or other small natural items can be added if you wish.








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martes, 9 de septiembre de 2014

WELCOME BACK

teacher
supplies
vacation
bag
blackboard
goals
explains
scissors
friends
                September 

grade
freedom
attendance
summary
back
erasers
desk
choose
crayons
pens
strict
notebooks
year
glue
Fill in the blanks below with words from the box:


Back to School

In North America, sometime at the beginning of _________________, the summer ________________ ends and kids go ___________ to school and enter a new _____________. Although many students will miss the _____________ they had during the vacation, many of them are eager to see their ______________ again.

Getting Ready for School
To get ready for the new school _____________, students will need to buy some school __________________. They will need ____________ to write with, ________________ to write in, _________________ to color with, _________________ to cut with, ________________ to erase with, and ______________ to paste things together. Finally, they’ll need a _____________ to carry everything in.
 The New Teacher
Most students are anxious to meet their new ______________. Generally speaking, they don’t want a teacher that is too ______________. The teacher usually writes her or his name on the ________________ before introducing herself or himself. Then the teacher takes _______________ to make sure everybody is in the right room.  Some teachers assign their students a ___________.  Other teachers let the students ____________ where they want to sit.


The New School Year

Once the class is settled in, the teacher _____________ the class rules. Then to get things rolling, the teacher has the students write a ______________ of their vacation or write a list of their _______________ for the coming year.