Category: English

 

I worked in two schools in Almería for five months and I noticed some differences between the school systems in Spain and Scotland.

The first very noticeable difference is that pupils in Scotland are obliged to wear school uniform every day whereas Spanish students are allowed to wear whatever they want. High school children/teenagers will typically wear a white shirt, a tie, trousers or a skirt, a blazer and black shoes. We even had a uniform for PE (Physical Education). I liked wearing a uniform in school because it meant I didn’t have to decide what to wear to school everyday. However some students would prefer to wear whatever they wanted and we would sometimes have debates about this in English class.

Another difference I have noticed is the timetable. In Almería classes would begin at 8:15am and finish at 2:45pm but in Scotland high school begins at 8:45am and finishes at 3:35pm. I found it strange that there was no lunch break in between classes in Almería. In Scotland we have 2 classes then a break for 15 minutes. Then another 2 classes followed by the lunch break which lasted 45 minutes and then another 3 classes. However in my old high school we would finish at 2:45pm on Wednesday and Friday. On Monday,Tuesday and Thursday we would finish at 3:35pm.

In Almería students would stay in the same class for a lot of their classes. Teachers would go to their next class depending on what lesson they were teaching next. However in Scotland it is the students that have to walk to their different classes and the teacher stays in the same classroom.

 

Questions

1. Do you think Spanish school students should wear a uniform? If yes/no, why?
2. Which school timetable(Scottish or Spanish) do you prefer and why?
3. Would you like to experience school in a different country? If you could choose a country to go to school in for a month, which country would you choose?

3 ESO B

1.Realizar los siguientes ejercicios  de la unidad 6 del

workbook online ( información sobre el acceso en el

aula virtual):

Página 49: 1,2,3 (Online) y envíame al aula virtual las repuestas del 4 y  5

Página 51 1,2,3 (Online) y envíame al aula virtual las repuestas del 4 (Grammar)

Página 53: 1,2,4 (Online) y envíame al aula virtual las repuestas del 3 (Listening)

Página 54: 3,5 (Online) y envíame al aula virtual las repuestas del 4(Grammar)

Página 55: 1(Online) (Grammar)

2Ver el video de la tarea 16 del aula virtual y responde las preguntas sobre el mismo.

La tarea para el alumnado de PMAR la mando a su correo.

1 Bach B,C

Todas las actividades se detallan en el aula virtual (donde se tienen que descargar 3 archivos adjuntos)

1. Realizar dos pruebas de PevAU (una, esta semana y otra la siguiente).
2. Hacer una composición (A for and against essay) sobre las ventajas y desventajas del confinamiento.
3. Ver el video en el aula virtual.
4. Las actividades para el alumnado suspenso en el segundo trimestre aparecerán en el aula virtual en esta semana.

Listen to the lyrics of this song and try to relate it to  the situation we are living during these days.

Here are some tongue twisters (trabalenguas) in English to try at home, try to say the words quickly!

I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream!

 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?

 

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.

 

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if the woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,

And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would,

If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

 

She sells sea shells by the seashore

And the shells she sells by the seashore are sea shells for sure.

 

All I want is a proper cup of coffee,

Made in a proper copper coffee pot

I may be off my dot

But I want a cup of coffee

From a proper coffee pot.

 

Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots

They’re no use to me –

If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee

In a proper copper coffee pot

I’ll have a cup of tea.

Baking

Hello everybody I hope you are all well. Recently I have noticed the increase in home baking as people are staying at home because of the virus. Many people are keeping busy by trying new recipes and cooking/baking. I went to the supermarket and couldn’t find any flour or baking powder because a lot of people are buying items that are needed for baking. People are uploading pictures of what they have made on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. A very popular trend on TikTok is making Dalgona coffee. There are many videos online demonstrating how to create the coffee.

 

Here is a simple recipe to make cupcakes 🙂

Equipment

• A large bowl
• Weighing scales and measuring spoon
• Wooden spoon, whisk (or fork)
• Cupcake cases

 

Ingredients

• 125g caster sugar
• 125g butter
• 125g self raising flour
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence

 

Method

1. Preheat the oven
2. Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract together in a bowl
3. Add the eggs
4. Sift the flour
5. Beat everything together until the mixture is smooth
6. Use a tablespoon to half fill each case with the cupcake mixture then put them in the oven. The cupcakes should take 20 minutes to bake. Enjoy! (decorate if you want)

Questions

1. Do you enjoy baking or cooking? What do you like to bake or cook?
2. What is your favourite dessert and food?
3. Write out the words in bold and write down the meaning.

3º ESO

1. Read Top Tips for young entrepreneurs (page 63) and answer these questions (and sent them to me)
2. Tell me about your obligations at home during these days that we have to stay at home. These sentences can be affirmative or negative. Write 6 sentences like the example :” We must tidy our bedrooms to have a good place to work ”
3. SHOULD:write 5 examples of advice to somebody after this lockdown period (time spent in our houses). For example, “You should visit your grandparents after the quarentine”
4. Listening and Grammar https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-grammar/have-must-should-obligation-advice
5. PMAR students (File sent by mail)

1º Bach

1Complete the activities in this file (Unit 6 Grammar ** and send it back to me (Check the Grammar Notes we read last week)

2 Page 70 V Health

1. Look up new expressions in a dictionary
2. Complete the captions in exercise 1 (Page 70) with feel, have got or hurt and send me the answers
3. Match the bold expressions in exercise 3 to the definitions in exercise 4  (Page 70) and send me the answers

3 Adjective/ Verb and prepositions

1 Look up which prepositions go with each adjective in a dictionary

2. Complete exercise 3 page 72 and send me the answers (Adjective and Prepositions)

3.Look up which prepositions go with each verb in a dictionary

4.Choose the correct option in exercise 4 page 72 and send me the answers (Verb and Prepositions)

5 Climate Change

Click on this website

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/school-strike-4-climate

1. Watch this video about school strikes to fight against climate change
2. Do the online acivities to check your understanding and grammar.
3. Send me your opinion about this movement (Fridays for a change)

3º ESO B (20-25 April)

1 . A project about Environment  Before we started our quarantine, you were preparing (individually or in groups) projects about how to improve environment. It could be a poster, an advertisement, a board game, a roleplay, a leaflet, etc. When you finish, send it to Aula Virtual or to my mail  (if you are a group, just send one with all the names of the group). If you have any doubt, send me a mail.

2. Listening: Jamie Oliver shows you how to make the perfect omelette

Click on this site https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/how-make-perfect-omelette and watch a video about cooking an omelette. Before Easter we read about how to make an omelette and you described your own recipes. Now, you just have to listen to this explanation of how to make an omelette by the most famous cook in Britain, Jamie Oliver.

After listening (You can read the transcript if it´s too difficult for you), then, answer the “Check your understanding:multiple choice and selecting” sections and send me your answers to Aula Virtual.

 “Check your understanding:multiple choice ”

1 Why does Jamie say that omelettes are very ‘flexible’?

2 What should a perfect omelette be?

3 How can you avoid making the omelette crispy?

4 When can you bring the egg in from the sides of the pan?

5 When should you unstick the omelette from the sides of the pan?

“Check your understanding: selecting”

1 What foods does Jamie recommend serving with your omelette?

3.  Read notes about MUST and HAVE TO and do the activities in Aula Virtual Must and Have To   

And do this activity https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/have-to-dont-have-to-must-mustnt/

4. (20-25 April)Complete balloons in this  comic strip

 

1 Bach B,C (20-25 April)

1 Listening: The rise of the Youtube Vloggers

Click on this site and answer these questions in Aula Virtual

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/vlog-celebrities

1 What is a vlogger?

2 Is this a full or part-time job?

3 How do they go shopping in a supermarket?

4 Why is Charlie MacDonald so famous?

5 According to Dan Howell´s opinion, what is the difference between vloggers and celebrities  ?

2. Conditional sentences

We learnt about this grammar item last course but we can check it doing these tasks:

1. Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RYJPb_q3U
2. Read the summaries in pages 143,144 and 145 in your textbook.
3. Read these notes about the differences among Zero,First, Second and Third Conditionals and click on the online tasks.
4. Do the exercises 1, 2 and 3 (page 68 in your textbook) and send me the answers in Aula Virtual.
5. Watch this video using Third Conditional sentences  and read notes about the Third Conditional. Then do the online activities (Check your Grammar)

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-grammar/third-conditional

3. Check the rest of activities in Aula Virtual and Blog