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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Schüler Vorstellungen

Wir fangen unseren Austausch mit der Schüler von Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Gütersloh.

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Wir werden ein Email schreiben um uns zu vorstellen, aber es wird kein normales E-mail sein, wir werden Padlet benutzen, damit wir auch Fotos und Videos mit der Deutscher Schüler teilen können.

Beispiel:

Ihr müsst diese Informationen schreiben:

1. Wie heisst du?

2. Wie alt bist du?

3. Woher kommst du? Wo wohnst du? Woher kommt deine Familie?

4. Welche Hobbys hast du? 

5. Hast du ein Lieblingsbuch, eine Lieblingsband…

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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 They originally made their home along the Alaskan coast, but migrated to other areas.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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Jobs

[Activity designed by Mercedes Ariza]

THREE QUESTIONS TO UNLOCK YOUR AUTHENTIC CAREER

1. Listen to the talk and answer the questions below (10′):

  1. What was Ashley’s dream job?
  2. How did she discover it wasn´t a good job for her?
  3. What did she do after realizing that what she loves and what she is are so different?
  4. What are the 3 questions she thinks people should ask themselves when they look for a job?
  5. What percentage or the US population is hiding some part of their identity at work?
  6. What is Ashley’s profession now?
  7. Do you agree with her advice? Why? Why not?

10 WEIRD JOBS THAT PAY SUPER WELL

2. You are going to listen to a dialogue about unusual jobs that are well paid. Can you write down the 10 jobs mentioned?

Teacher’s keys

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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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Writing notes for PAU (Batxillerat 2)

by djking (Flickr)

by djking (Flickr)

Here you’ll find the structure of the texts, useful expressions and linkers, as well as some examples of the type of texts you may face at Selectivitat.

A FORMAL LETTER y Andrea Velasco and Laura Mate,

A narrative essay by Adrià Junyent and Toni Torres

ARTICLE AND DESCRIPTION by Tamara Luchena and Marina Zamora

INFORMAL LETTER BY LIDIA RUIZ AND MIREIA SINTES

Opinion Essay by Albert Granados Carla Godoy and Alejandro Guerra

A discussion essay by Kevin Hornero Lucía Lacarta and Sergi Moreira

Dialogue by Pol Galé, Carlos Gallardo and Rubén Sanabria

 

[Thanks to Mireia Xortó and her students at Francesc Macià Highschool for sharing it]  https://englishmireiaxorto.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/writing-notes-for-pau-batxillerat2-2/

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