Daily Archives: 2 November 2008

Portfolio: The story of Halloween

On 28th October you had a conference about the story of Halloween. You could understand a lot of information about the origins of this festivity celebrated on the 31st October. Remember you should write a summary of it.

Here you have some of the vocabulary you could hear and the images you could see.

Part 1 – From Celtic times:

Celtic invasion          Druids       Stonehenge

Celtic invasion                  Druids                  Stonehenge

Autumn       Harvest

Autumn                         Harvest

Chestnuts       Costumes      

Chestnuts                      Costumes

Part 2- From Christian times:

Soul’s Day       Candle

Soul’s Day or All Hallows Day

Other:

Trick or Treat       Pumpkin

Trick or Treat                Jack o’Lantern

Activity: Dictation race (desdoblament)

Whispering  Dictation      Race Race

On this third activity during desdoblament classes we had the students split into two parts. One half was with Maribel and the other half stayed with me.

The class was divided into two groups. Each group had a writer, a group of speakers and a reader. Only the reader could have the book from which he or she had to whisper step by step a specific text from our students’ book. It was called First Impressions from unit 1. The activity was about whispering the text from the reader, and whispering from ear to ear had to be traspassed through the speakers and finishing with the writer who would write the text on a piece of paper.

The winner was the one who got the better timing and had committed less mistakes.

The text was corrected by the whole group and checked by the teacher. No cheating allowed!

LEARNING ENGLISH ONLINE

 Web links

As you know, the more English you practice the better. So here you have very interesting web links you can use while studying English. Most of the times the different web links use to have a huge list of grammatical points, sections based on specific skills and so on. Just click away with your mouse and look for the needed exercise or test before an exam.

Practising English for the sake of practising also helps you to get to grips with the subject of English. No matter the level you have, it is always very positive to have food for thought ready before your eyes!

Here you have the links. If you click on comments, you will get your classmates’ favourite ones.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm

http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/esl/grammar/activities.html

Have a look at this site too. Here I introduce you a new English Teacher, Dave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzFh6fSrG6