R and W

Book report due date Nov 30th, whole class reports must be inside a folder with the group in the front cover!!!!

Oral Skills

New Year's Celebrations around the World - Poster

1/2 cardboard, by hand

Counts as 20% of the third period grade + one partial (oral presentation)

Due date: December 14

2C Asia

1-2 Armenia

3-4 Bangladesh

5-6 Bhutan

7-8 Cambodia

9-10 Hong Kong

11-12 India

13-14 Israel

15-16 Lebanon

17-18 Japan

19-20 Nepal

21-22 Palestine

23-24-25 Sri Lanka

R and W

Book Report due date nov 30
The book report has to include the following information:
Book title
SettingPlot
Characters
Beginning of the story
Middle
Ending
Opinion
Typed
with a coverStappled

Oral Skills

2-minute Oral Presentations (Places) (Nov 14-18)

First class- List numbers 16-30

16. Arc of Triumph

17. Brandenburg Gate (Berlin door)

18. Teatro alla Scala

19. Pompeii

20. Mount Everest

21. The Alamo

22. The White House

23. The Pink House

24. The Australian Outback

25. The Amazons

26. Notre Dame de Paris

27. The Great Wall of China

28. Versailles

29. Great Barrier Reef (coral Reef Australia)

30. Antarctica

31. Easter Island (Isle of Pascua - Rapa Nui)

32. Mecca

33. Pyramids of Giza

34. Dublin Castle

Second Class List numbers 1-15

1. Yellowstone National Park

2. Chichen Itzá

3. Nazca

4. Machu Pichu

5. Lost City of Petra

6. The Roman Coliseum

7. Stonehenge

8. White Cliffs of Dover

9. The Big Ben

10. The Statue of Liberty

11. Mount Rushmore

12. Abraham Lincoln Memorial

13. Sacred Family Cathedral in Barcelona

14. Niagara Falls

15. Salem, Massachusetts.

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Have you voted today?

Oral Skills

2- minute Oral presentations (animals)

First class 1-15

1. Meerkat

2. Hamster

3. Capibara/capibari

4. Hummingbird

5. Ostrich

6. Dragonfly

7. Turtle

8. Orca

9. Manatee

10. Beluga

11. Walrus

12. Camel

13. Rabbit

14. Gecko

15. Elephant

Second class 16-32

16. Spider monkey

17. Lemur

18. Red Panda

19. Praying Mantis

20. Ray/Stingray

21. Raven

22. Polar bear

23. Dingo

24. Wombat

25. Lizard

26. Snail

27. T.Rex

28. Wolf

29. Kangaroo

30. Koala

31. Wallaby

32. Ladybug

33. Roadrunner

R & W

Homework: Find an example story for each of the 3 narrator types we have on page 30; it can be a book, text, movie or tv program; you have seen or read before. Copy a small part where the narrator is evident.

Oral Skills

Please check your email and print the file I sent you (regular verbs pronunciation)

Help all your classmates have the copy for next class.

R&W

Hi guys!

This is just a reminder about the Halloween story. Due date; Monday 24th Oct, 2011(it has to be typed, please)

oral Skills

Here are the names for your 2-minute oral presentations next week.

Class 1, October 19, from number 1 to 15.

1. Steve Jobs

2. Edgar Allan Poe

3. Shel Silverstein

4. Dr. Seuss

5. Isadora Duncan

6. Stan Lee

7. Björk

8. Richard Wagner

9. George Washington

10. Leonora Carrington

11. Alfonsina Storni

12. Octavio Paz

13. Neil Gaiman

14. Malcom X

15. John F. Kennedy

Class 2, October 21, from 16 on.

16. Franz Kafka

17. Alfred Hitchcock

18. George Lucas

19. Maria Callas

20. Vincent Van Gogh

21. Remedios Varo

22. Albert Camus

23. Wassily Kandinsky

24. Bill Gates

25. Nelson Mandela

26. Winston Churchill

27. Joseph Stalin

28. Abraham Lincoln

29. Martin Luther King

30. Amelia Earhart

Oral Skills Miss Sandra

Copy this on your notebook:

Functional phrases

-Asking for clarification

Sorry, I am not sure what you mean.

Can I ask a question?

Can you say that again please?

I am not sure what I have to do.

-Correcting yourself

I do not think I explained that very well!

What I mean/meant is/was...

What I am trying to say is...

-If you do not know or remember the word for something:

Describe how it looks, smells, tastes, sounds...

Explain how it is used

Describe the activity

-Compare and contrast (expressing similarity or difference):

They both show, have, are...

They are very similar because...

The one on the left/right is more ____ than the one on the right/left.

The top one is not as _____ as the one on the bottom.