domingo, 13 de abril de 2014

Two British Stars & an Auction Game

Thursday 10th

Hi everybody!

It was nice to see all of you in class.
Easter holidays at last! After such a long term, all of us need a break; so do I (me, too)

We spent our class communicating through games.

First, we practised making questions and answers so as to fill in the missing information we had on our pieces of paper.
We had to find out (discover) details about Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.

·         When was Keira born?
·         Who really was Orlando’s father?
·         How many films has Keira made since 2001?
·         Why did Orlando have a lot of problems at school?
·         How long has Keira lived in London?

We found out that both of them live in London. Both of them had problems because they’re dyslexic. Keira was born in Teddington and Orlando was born in Canterbury, (beautiful town, by the way); so, both of them are British. Both left school when they were teenagers and concentrated on acting.

We defined words related to geography and we revised defining words through a crossword, in which we had different words and had to find out the rest of them so as to complete our crosswords.

It’s an action you do when you eat; before chewing. Animals also do this. Dogs b_ _ _.
You do this when you hit somebody or something using your foot. K _ _ _ _
It’s a person who only works at home, usually a woman. H_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It’s the opposite of ‘mean’. G_ _ _ _ _ _ _
It’s a person who usually tells lies. P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It’s a place where there’s usually an oven. K _ _ _ _ _ _

Remember how to define words

·                It’s a person who makes pictures.
·                It’s something you do when you feel tired.
·                It’s a place where you can buy aspirins.
·                It’s a striped yellow and black insect which makes honey.
·                It’s a kind of fruit. It’s bigger than an orange. It’s round and yellow and it tastes bitter.
·                It’s something you use for opening bottles of wine.
·                It’s the opposite of talkative.
·                It’s made of metal and glass and you can look at yourself in it.

And  we finished the lesson with an auction!

·         Auction: the action of selling any kind of objects without a fixed price. People offer money for them (bid / make a bid) and the person who offers the most money, gets the thing.
·         Auctioneer: is the person who leads the auction.
·         Auction house: is the venue (place) where auctions take place. (happen)
·         Budget: is the amount of money you can spend.
·         Bids start at… first offers start at …
·         To bid- bade-bidden: offer money to buy something.
·         Bidder: the person who offers the money.

   Our auctioneer was Óscar. Bids started at £50, second bid £100, third £150 and so on.
We auctioned ‘grammar sentences’ and you had to bid for the ones you thought were correct. The group who bought the larger number of correct sentences was the winner.
Players 1 & 2 and also players 3 & 7 were penalized with -1 points for embezzlement (to convert money or property entrusted to one, fraudulently to one's own use)

Games results:
Definition of geographical features Girls vs. Boys. Girls 7 / Boys 5
Crossword, Boys won +1 point
Auction, penalty -1

   GAME 2                                              
Player 1
8
Player 2
8
Player 3
7
Player 4
11
Player 5
9
Player 6
11
Player 7
7

Read about Orlando Bloom's hometown
Canterbury - Coast, city & countryside





 This is what you learnt in 2nd term:

VOCABULARY
Money
Skills
Entrepreneur / young millionaire
Rules & Regulations
afford, budget, mortgage, to be worth, spend on, waste, borrow, loan lend, credit card
Organized, good, at music, typing, successful, speak languages, writing computer programmes
Maintain, give work, employ, maintain, look after, set up, create, fix, repair, private aeroplane,
Crash helmet, badly injured, UV protection, get sunburnt, junk food, after-show party, overweight, get the sack, top row
Environment
Recycling
Health

Pollution, waste, dumping, global warming, ecological footprint
Can, container, tin, paper container, jar glass, rubbish, reuse, bottle bank, light bulb, batteries
Healthy diet, relax, healthy food, be more careful, vegetables, couch potato, exercise


GRAMMAR
FIRST CONDITIONAL
If + present simple                  will /won’t + infinitive

If I’m successful, I’ll be rich
If you become rich, how will you spend your money?
Good at
Want to
He’s very good at playing the guitar.
They’re good at using computers.
I want to travel around the world.
She wants to become a top model.
MODAL VERBS
Ability
Can, could, be able to
He can fly planes.
She could play the piano when she was seven.
He was able to join a rock band
Rules- Obligation / Prohibition
Must / have to/ don’t have to/ doesn’t have to / didn’t have to / mustn’t / can’t
You must recycle waste.
You mustn’t park under a no parking signal.
You can’t use pencil for writing on the test paper.
You have to wear a helmet if you ride a motorbike.
You don’t have to have a passport if you are under 18.
I didn’t have to go to school last Friday.
Advice / recommendation
Should / shouldn’t /ought to
You shouldn’t et too much fast food.
You shouldn’t sit in front of the TV all day.
You ought to do more exercise.
Possibility
May / might /could / may not / might not
If you eat a lot, you may become overweigh.
If you don’t wear a helmet, you might get badly injured.
She could go with you. Phone her and tell he.
SECOND CONDITIONAL
If + past simple                        would /wouldn’t + infinitive

What would you do if you won the lottery?
If I won the lottery, I would buy a house in London.
QUANTIFIERS
Too + adjective / too much / too many / noun+ enough / enough + adjective / less /more
Do you worry about being too fat?
I don’t eat too much fast food.
She doesn’t eat too many vegetables.
Does he worry about taking enough exercise?
Are you relaxed enough?
You need to be less lazy.


SPEAKING
Talking about ability and skills
Expressing probability
Talking about obligation and necessity.
Giving opinions / giving reasons
Expressing necessity


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