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St. George – Writing Contest

If you are an ESO student, you can take part in the contest by writing a mini saga about a classic story, fairy tale, myth or legend. You can change the original plot, the setting, or include new characters.

A mini saga is a short piece of writing containing exactly 50 words, plus a maximum of 15 words for the title. You can include a picture or drawing as in the sample:

Not Cinderella anymore

Cinderella was mean and spoiled by her stepmother. Her two sisters were all the time fixing up the house. One day, the family met a handsome prince, and all three fell in love with him. The sisters grabbed a shoe and beat Cinderella, and the prince was only for them.                                                   

By Júlia Nieto     

 cinderella

All the writings must be delivered to Mar or Laura and sent to iesjblume@hotmail.com in an attached word or pdf document. You must write Creative Writing Contest and your name, surname and course in the subject line.

Deadline: April 11th 2016

If you don’t remember the title of fairy tales in English, here you are some examples. You can also find a full list on Wikipedia. 

fairy

Source: www.tes.com

 

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A biography of a star

Go to Padlet and create a wall with the biography of your favourite star (actor, actress, singer, writer…) You can add pictures and videos to illustrate your biography (remember to note down the source)

You need to write about:

1. His/her early career

2. His/her success

3. His/her recent career

Here you are an example:

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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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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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Eine Einladung

Schreibt ihr Varianten zu diesem Telefonat. Nächste Montag werdet ihr den Dialog in der Klasse spielen.

         Biggi lädt Eva ein.

  • Eva Herzog.
  • Hallo Eva. Hier ist Biggi.
  • Hallo Biggi.
  • Kommst du am Samstag zur Party?
  • Du, nee, ich muss bis 20 Uhr babysitten.
  • Dann komm doch später. Wir feiern bestimmt bis 22 Uhr. Es ist ja mein Geburtstag!
  • Super! Dann komme ich noch für zwei Stunden. Kommt Tom auch?
  • Nein, er ist krank.
  • Schade! Also dann bis heute Abend.
  • Ja, bis später!

 

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Activity ESO2D 2/2: Our Christmas holidays

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Santa_Claus_clothes.jpg

Write an essay about your Christmas holidays using some of the sentences we gathered in class. Use at least 5 sentences. You have to hand it in on January the 15th.

-I went to the parade.

-I went to see the Three Wise Men.

-On holidays I didn’t put up the manger in my house.

-I didn’t enjoy this holiday because my family was connected to the wi-fi all day and I couldn’t play online videogames.

-On holidays I didn’t play football with my team.

-On holidays I didn’t go by bike.

-On Christmas holidays I went to Murcia to visit my grandparents.

-I liked these Christmas holidays because I didn’t go to school.

– On Christmas holidays I didn’t go to skii.

– The three wise men brought me a lot of presents.

– On holidays my family gave me a lot of presents because on the 4th of January it was my birthday.

– On Christmas holidays I put up the Christmas tree.

– On holidays I didn’t play videogames.

– I didn’t go to see the Three Wise Men.

 

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