Daily Archives: 2 novembre 2008

activity 3 (desdoblaments): Dictation race and workbook

dictation

What did we do?

1. We organized two teams to play the dictation race

2. We held a competition to see which team was the fastest to dictate a whispered text from one corner to the other of the room.

3. Both teams had a reader, who saw the text, and a writer, who had to copy it on a paper sheet, and, of course, six or seven speakers, who had to send the message from one to another as clearly as possible.

4. Once the text had been written, the whole team gathered around the paper and corrected what ever mistakes they found and agreed on a definite version of the text.

5. The winner was the fastest and the most accurate text.

6. We all had the text dictated on our notebooks

7. all the time left, students had to work on their exercise book.

Halloween

jack o’lantern

el dia 31 vam parlar molt sobre què i com celebrem la nit del 31 d’octubre. Aquí és la nit de la Castanyada i als països de cultura anglosa organitzen la festa de Halloween. Per poder ajudar-te amb el resum que has de preparar, et recordem algunes de les paraules que vam sentir més sovint en aquella conferència.

Halloween vocabulary

Fruits: apple (poma), chestnuts (castanyes), sweet potatoes (moniatos), pumpkin (carbassa)

Festivities: celtic culture (cultura celta), druid (druida),beginning of autumn (inici de tardor), harvest (collita), Christianity (cultura cristiana) all souls’ day (tots sants)

Traditions and activities: trick or treat (“truco o trato”), bob the apple (agafar pomes amb la boca), jack o’lantern (carbasses decoratives amb espelma a dins), costumes (disfresses)