Category Archives: ESO2

Mad World

MAD WORLD: THE HISTORY OF A SONG

Exercise 1. Read the information and answer the questions:

  • 1982 Roland Orzabal of the British band Tears for Fears wrote Mad World. The Tears for Fears recording reached number three in the UK charts and became the band’s most successful international hit.
  • 2001 The American musician Gary Jules made a version of the song for a film soundtrack. This time, there weren’t any synthesisers or percussion – there was just a piano and a cello. In the UK chart, this version was more successful than the original song.
  • 2006 the song became popular again because of a computer game advert. It reached number one in the download chart.
  1. When did Tears for Fears write Mad World?
  2. Did the original song reach number 1?
  3. Why did Gary Jules make a version?
  4. Which instruments were there in Gary Jules’s version?
  5. Why did the song become popular again in 2006?
  6. Was it successful in the download chart?

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The Inuit People

Read the following text and do the quiz below: 

The Inuit people live in the far northern areas of Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Greenland. They originally made their home along the Alaskan coast, but migrated to other areas. Everything about the lives of the Inuit is influenced by the cold tundra climate in which they live.

An Inuit family outside their home
An Inuit family

What kind of homes did they live in?

The typical materials for making homes such as wood and mud are hard to find in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. The Inuit learned to make warm homes out of snow and ice for the winter. During the summer they would make homes from animal skin stretched over a frame made from driftwood or whalebones. The Inuit word for home is “igloo”.

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St. George’s legend

Saint George is also the saint patron of England. Let’s check the differences between the English legend and the Catalan one.

Click here and watch the video. Then do the exercises on the same page.

What are the differences between the two legends?

Material from Macmillan to use in class: Individual task (Puzzle), Collaborative task (What happened next?), Life skills (collaborative writing)

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The mystery of Tutankhamun’s death

Watch the following video about the mystery of Tut’s death and do the exercises:

Write true or false:

(until 1:42)
T/F
  1. Tut was an icon of the Egyptian power.
 2. Until the discovery of his tomb Tut was well known in Egypt.
 3. The walls of his tomb were full of information about his life.
 4. Nobody knows why he died.
 5. There are two possible reasons to explain his death.
 6. One reason can be that he was hurt during a combat.
 7. He fractured his leg while doing some sport.
 8. He was murdered with a gun shot.

Choose the correct option:

(from 1:42 til the end)
1. The scanner generates more than________ images.
  1. 500
  2. 1.500
  3. 50.000
2. The hole in the head means that maybe he was ________.
  1. killed
  2. ill when he was little
  3. hit on the head accidentally
3. The Egyptians think that the hole in the head was made by __________
  1. his family
  2. the embalmers
  3. the gravedigger
4. When they keep on analysing Tut’s body they see a fracture in __________
  1. his foot
  2. his leg
  3. his knee
5. The mystery of Tut’s death is solved after __________.
  1. 13.000 years
  2. 3.000 years
  3. 1.000 years

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Activity ESO2: WRITING NEWS

We are going to create a piece of news in pairs. To do it you have to follow these steps:

STEP 1. Choose a natural phenomena (tsunami, earthquake, landslide, storm, hailstones, avalanche, hurricane, volcano, flood, thunder and lightning, wildfire or tornado)

STEP2. Go to Padlet to create your piece of news and

  • Add a title to your news.
  • Write your piece of news. You must include this information: What happened?When? Where? To what people?  What were the people doing when it happened?
  • Add photos or videos. You have to add photos and videos to illustrate your piece of news. You can find a lot of pictures in Google Images. Make sure your image is Creative Commons by checking it in “Eines de cerca –> Drets d’ús”. You can also find videos on Youtube.
  • Sign it with your name, surname and group.

STEP 3. Click on the “SHARE” button and send me the link by mail or as a comment in this post.

Here you are an example of what you have to do:

 

 

ASSESSMENT

We are going to use this rubric to correct your presentations. You will be given from 0 to 3 points. The maximum mark is 6:

0 1 2 3
Aspect (photos and multimedia) The presentation has no photos or multimedia The presentation is poor and has only one picture. The presentation is average and has several photos. The presentation is very attractive with pictures and video.
Writing (use of Past Simple and continuous,connectors,vocabulary) The writing is very poor. It is difficult to understand it The writing is short, the sentences are simple and the vocabulary is not very rich The writing is good, past tenses and connectors are used appropriately. The writing is perfect. It uses verbal tenses and connectors and a richness of vocabulary
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