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Make your superhero!

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If you like reading or watching films about superheroes now you have the opportunity to create your own one!

😎 Try it! Click on the Hero Factory and choose the face, body, powers, abilities, name… of your superhero! When you finish, print your character or save it in your e-mail adress. Then, show your hero to the rest of the class and write a description explaining why is he/she special. You can follow these questions as a guide:

  • What super-powers does he/she have?
  • What adventures does he/she have?
  • What is his/her alter-ego like?
  • Does he/she have a side-kick?
  • Who is his/her arch enemy?

    • You can work all together with the rest of the class. Think about a problem in your class and design a superhero who can cope with it.

    In love with Shakespeare

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    In Love with Shakespeare is a didactic unit for Batxillerat designed by Anna Aznar and Jordi Jordan. It can be done as a whole or selecting some of the units.  The main objectives here are to develop communicative strategies, both spoken and written, and to get to know some aspects of English culture (basically history and literature), with the aid of ITC.

    😎 Try it! Click on the link and pass your mouse over the picture, the different units will appear. Click on the first one, Tudor England and start by learning about the context in which Shakespeare lived: the monarchy, the city of London and the way they dressed. Again, pass the mouse over the screen and click on the different pictures. By searching the web sites provided, you must find out about Henry VIII, his wives and how Elizabeth I accessed the throne. You must also identify the main characters in Tudor history in a number of portraits. Then, you can click on Tudor London and complete a description of the city at that time after reading a website, learn about London monuments and place them in a map.

    CNN student news

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    CNN Student News brings each day’s top news stories to middle and high school classrooms. You can watch some videos, read the transcripts, do some activities in class, take part in discussion forums and learn more about the news reading the extra information. You will practise your English as well as understand current events better.

    😎 Try it! Click on the CNN picture, watch, listen, read, practise and learn!

    We all live in a yellow submarine

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    You can listen to music, but sometimes is possible to read or even to watch music. Turn off the volume and let’s see it with Yellow Submarine,  a 1966 song by The Beatles.

    😎 Try it! Think of a song and work in pairs. Prepare a power point presentation only with the lyrics or images about the song and show it to the rest of the class. Without listening the music, will your classmates be able to guess the title or the rythm of your song?

    Describing a place

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    Writing a description is providing a picture of the scene so real and vivid that the reader feels like he has been placed in the place, observing and feeling everything.

     😎 Try it! Click on the album, you’ll see that it’s about landscapes and animals. Choose a picture, print it and try to write a description about it. If you want you can play a little game. Read your description to the rest of the class and they’ll have to guess which picture are you talking about. If you want to know how to write a description you can click on here or here.

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    Are you a digital native?

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    What’s a digital native? Do you consider yourself as a digital native? What’s the difference between a digital native and a digital immigrant? Are you in favour of new technologies? In how many ways can new technologies help education?  

    These are only some of the questions that come to your mind after watching and reading the two attachments I enclose to this post. Thanks to sergi roura  and eduard batlle who have discovered them in their web pages.

    Digital natives, digital immigrants (Read it!)

    😎 Try it! Imagine you have to write an essay for a newspaper expressing your opinion about the questions mentioned above. Read the pdf and watch the video and, with all this information and your personal point of view,  try to write it. If you want to know some rules about how to write an English essay click on here or here.