Oral presentation on a trip

Publicat el 15 d'octubre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

By Sandrine Z (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

In teams of 4, you will prepare a presentation on a trip. Decide on a perfect weekend or holiday away and drescribe it to the rest of the class.

Think about:

  • how you travel
  • where you go
  • where you stay
  • how you get around while you are there

Remember to include bibliography, webgraphy and to use images labeled for reuse.

Do not copy paste from the Internet. Use your own words.

Do not fill your slides with too much text, just facts and figures and key words. You can use index cards to remember what you want to explain. 

When delivering the presentation, feel confident, make eye contact with your audience and smile at them, be sure to have inflection in your voice so that you engage listeners, use hand motions and beware of your body language.

Don’t forget to include a table of contents at the beginning.

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Sant Boi and the CNN

Publicat el 3 d'octubre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

The CNN has portrayed our city.  Can you guess why? What’s happened recently?

Watch this video and find out.

What does the artistic director say they were asked to do?

Read the text and answer the following:

  1. How old is the mental health hospital?
  2. How can you say “el poble dels bojos” in English?
  3. How many artists participating in the creation of the mural?
  4. What is Torrent d’Art?
  5. What is the local legend around Antoni Gaudí and Sant Boi? Did you know that?
  6. What is the metaphor behind the rug theme?

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Hyperloop UPV – The transportation of the Future.

Publicat el 28 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

Watch this video with no subtitles (don’t lie to yourself).

  1. According to the video, transport does not just help people get around? What else does transport do? Add two more ideas of your own.
  2. What is the hyperloop according to the video? Which are its advantages?
  3. Write a short paragraph based on the following prompts:
    1. How do you get to class?
    2. How long does it take you?
    3. What would make your journey more comfortable?
    4. When was the last time you went on a long journey?
    5. How comfortable was it?
    6. How could your experience have been improved?
    7. What is the most interesting form of transport you have used?
    8. Would you travel by hyperloop?
    9. What other inventions might have revolutionized people’s lives by the year 2050
    10. Do you think we are heading towards a brighter and cleaner future?

Submit your answers in a comment here to be published on Friday, October 5. You can check the subtitles later for good spelling.

[Thanks to www.onestopenglish.com for the link and questions H-I-J]

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Historical role models

Publicat el 28 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

I. Discuss the following in pairs:

  1. Which virtues are good for us?
  2. Are there any virtues which are always considered to be positive?
  3. Do you know who is Sybil Ludington?
  4. Do you know who is Beriah Green?
  5. Do you know who is Abraham Lincoln?
  6. Do you think history can teach us more than just facts?
  7. What can bravery and wisdom help you do? Write a list of 5 real-life achievements thanks to these virtues.

II. Now watch this video and complete your answers to the questions above with the information on the animation.

III. You just heard about some history figures that were able to accomplish great deeds because of their “virtues.” Describe a historical figure not mentioned in the video who you feel possessed a positive virtue and explain how that virtue helped him/her accomplish a “good deed.” Send your short paragraph as a comment (to be published by Friday October, 5).

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What’s going on?

Publicat el 24 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

You can choose an instagram photo of your most favourite influencer or you can describe one of these pictures here. What is going on?

Resultat d'imatges de describe the picture present continuous

Sample: In this picture we can see a family in their living room. Evan is reading a book, Cindy is…

Resultat d'imatges de describe the picture present continuous

Resultat d'imatges de describe the picture present continuous

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Chess player Judit Polgar speaks about pressure on players

Publicat el 20 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

What really matters as far as players are concerned?

What is her last tip?

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Diver Tom Sietas breaks his own world record for holding breath

Publicat el 20 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

What is he worried about at the beginning?

What safety measures were taken?

 

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How the world’s first metro system was built

Publicat el 20 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

I. Most of you went to London in ESO3. Did you ride the Tube?

II. Now let’s find out about the origins of the London underground by watching this video. Answer these questions:

  1. In what year was the world’s first subway line completed?
  2. How long was the first line?
  3. On the first day, how many people traveled on the line?
  4. The first line was built using what method?
  5. After 30 years, London’s subway system had extended to _______.
  6. What factors led to London becoming the site of the first subway?
  7. Why are two different methods used to build subways?
  8. Who was Charles Pearson?

III. Explain the meaning of the underlined words:

  1. It was the dawn of 1863.
  2. Pub drinkers scoffed at the idea.
  3. London, at the time the world’s largest and most prosperous city, was in a permanent state of gridlock, with carts, costermongers, cows, and commuters jamming the roads.
  4. On one occasion, a heavy rainstorm flooded the nearby sewers and burst through the excavation, delaying the project by several months.
  5. Additional lines were soon built, and new suburbs grew around the stations.
  6. Big department stores opened next to the railroad, and the railway company even created attractions, like a 30-story Ferris wheel in Earls Court to bring in tourists by train.

IV. In what ways does a subway system help a city and its population?

[Thanks to TEDEd]

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ESO2 STARTER UNIT

Publicat el 18 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

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Questions to Ask Students on The First Day of School

Publicat el 17 de setembre de 2018 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

1. What do you love? What are you most proud of?

2. When are you at your best as a person? Student? Friend? Brother/sister?

3. How do you respond–emotionally, practically, etc.–when you’re challenged?

4. What do you need from me to be successful this year?

5. What does it mean to ‘understand’ something?

6. What should school ‘do’ for you?

7. What should you do with the things you know?

8. Are you a picky reader? What are your strengths as a reader?

9. Who are your heroes and why?

10. What do you want to learn about this year? What are you curious about? What can a person do with curiosity?

11. When are you most creative? Why do you think that might be?

12. What do you want me to know about you?

13. Do you think you’re a good student? A good learner? Is there a difference?

14. What should I be asking you but I’m not?

[Thanks to Teach Thought]

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