SPLIT XI (reported speech, irregular verbs)

REPORTED SPEECH:

I'm sorry! I haven't found many exercises to practise only past and present reported speech. But I know you are excellent students so pay attention to the indications and do the following activities online or on your notebooks. We will correct them in class.


a) Only past and present: (online)
1  2
b) Mixed tenses:(notebook)
1  
c) Now try to change these reported sentences into direct speech: (notebook)

1. She said that they worked in a bank.

2. She said that she was coming.

3. She told me that she hadn't gone to the party.

4. She said that Lucy would come later.

5. She said that she could help me the following day.

6. She told me that she didn't like chocolate.

IRREGULAR VERBS:
1  2   3   4   5

SPLIT XI (passives)

PASSIVES:
If you click on this link, you will find a very clear explanation of the passive transformation: THEORY
a) Recognise passives in this text: exercise
b) Past and present: 1  2
c) Other tenses: 1  2
d) More difficult: 1


REVISION:
Irregular verbs: 1  2  3

REVISION (Verbal tenses)

Revise your notes and do the following exercises to prepare the final exam:

Present simple/continuous: 1   2
Past simple/past continuous:  1  2
Past simple/present perfect: 1   2
Future:  1   2

SPLIT X (2nd conditional, should, relative clauses)

2nd CONDITIONAL: 1   2   3   
SHOULD: 1   2     3   
RELATIVE CLAUSES: 1   2  


And for our champion Ruth: 1   2   3 
or any other adventurous one!

Vocabulary revision and unit 7

UNIT 1: Click and play the detective game to revise people descriptions: GAME
UNIT 2: Parts of the city + listening
UNIT 3: Look, see and watch. Explanation + Exercise
               Other verbs exercise
UNIT 4: Love: Watch the video, take note of the seven words she explains and translate them into catalan.

UNIT 5: Jobs exercise + listening
UNIT 6: Global Issues: Click on the image to browse the page and give an example of the 11 global issues we have seen in class (page 53)

UNIT 7: Money: exercise

RECYCLING TREASURE HUNT

Today you are going to start a treasure hunt on RECYCLING. Follow the instructions:

1. Choose a partner to work together.


2. Copy the following questions on an open office document. 


3. Click on the picture. You will see a map of a city and if  you click on, there is a lot of information to answer the questions. Use the blog's dictionary!


4. Save the document with your names and surnames in the folder you have in "alumnat".


You have two sessions to finish the activity.

QUESTIONS:

1. Name ways that each of these items can be reused, instead of throwing them away.

Cardboard box
Plastic milk carton
Glass jar
Newspaper

2. Where in Recycle City where you can get information on what to do with leftover cleaning products. Why is it important that we not throw chemicals into the regular trash?

3. Visit some houses in Recycle City. Make a list of 4 hazardous wastes that can be found in those houses.

4. Cruise around Recycle City and write down 2 tips you can use to reduce pollution and waste that come from cars.

5. Gas stations aren't just places to fill up the tank. Can you find 2 things that Shaq at the Recycle City gas station does to help the environment?

6. Identify 2 recycling activities that Recycle City students use to help raise money for class projects.

7. Name 4 car parts that can be re-used rather than thrown away.

8. Find at 3 places in Recycle City where books are resold or reused.
9. Harlin Hazzard of the Recycle City Hazardous Waste Center wants to hire you as his assistant manager. Before you can accept, you must name the 4 characteristics that make hazardous waste hazardous.

10. You've been hired to build a landfill for a neighboring community. Use Recycle City's landfill to help you. What are the 5 layers that a landfill needs to be safe?

11. How can your family could cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive at home?
12. Name 3 places in Recycle City can you find used tires. Look carefully.

13. Look at some businesses in Recycle city. List 2 things businesses can do to reduce the amount of waste.

14. What are compost bins?
Name two places in recycle city where you can find a compost bin?


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This activity has been taken from the web page http://www.biologycorner.com

Split VIII (future tenses, first conditional)

 Today we are working on the grammar points you have in unit 6: future tenses and the 1st conditional.

Will: 1  2  3   

Be going to: 1   2   3   4  

Contrast will / be going to: 1   2   3   4  5  

1st Conditional: 1   2   3  

And a song from Moulin Rouge:


Lyrics | Nicole Kidman - Sparkling Diamonds [Original Film Version] lyrics

Split VII (Jobs, comparatives and superlatives)

Jobs: 1  2   3  
Comparatives : 1   2   
Superlatives:   1   
Comparatives and superlatives: 1  2  3   4  
Comparative structures: 1 

Listen and watch, then answer the questions.

INTERNET PROJECT I

Today you are going to learn a bit more about the ANTARCTICA. Follow the steps:

1. Open a Write document and copy the questions and activities below.
2. Click on the image Cool Antarctica and do the activities.
3. Create a folder with your name and surname and save your work  in "el meu ordinador"......."alumnat en biesmarratxi"......"llengües estrangeres"......."anglès"......"4tEso"......"4c".
If you have any problem with the user's session send your work to glorina.alonso@gmail.com

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the one important difference between the Antarctica and the Artic?
2. How long has the Antarctic been covered with ice?
3. What was the Antarctic like 100 million years ago?
4. Choose one of the following subjects and read about them. Write a few lines (6-10) about it:
a) The race to the South Pole: Amundsen and Scott.
b) Life in the Antarctica.
c) The most outstanding facts about the Antarctica.
d) Tourism in the Antarctica.

 

 How much do you know about the Antarctica? Try the QUIZ

Split VI (ago, already, yet, just, past simple vs present perfect)

Hi everybody,
Here you have some exercises to practice grammar points in unit 4

a) PAST SIMPLE WITH AGO: 1  2 

b) ALREADY, YET AND JUST: 1  2  

c) PAST SIMPLE / PRESENT PERFECT: 1  2  3  4 

And a song so you can listen to a lot of past simple and present perfect sentences:


Lyrics | Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah lyrics

Split V (relationships, past simple form, present perfect form, for / since)

Hi everybody!
Today we are going to start unit 4.

ACTIVITIES:

Vocabulary: 1  
Past simple: 1  2  
Present perfect: 1  

Remember: We use for with a period of time and since with a point of time to express how long an action/event is.

examples: I've been in the classroom for 55 minutes

                I've been in the classroom since five to nine.

                We've been in this school for four years

                We've been in this school since 2006

For and since: 1

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hi everybody! Welcome back to school. 

Today we are going to work on a text about New Year's celebrations in England and Scotland. Follow the instructions and bring your notes to the class, we will correct the exercises on Wednesday.

1. Click on the link and read the text and try to fill in the blanks: HAPPY NEW YEAR

2. Listen to the text and check your answers. Look at the end of the post if you have any doubt.

3. When you have the correct version of the text, watch the video again and do the following activities on your notebooks.

a) Vocabulary:

Find a synomim of these words or phrases in the text:
typical Scotish musical instrument (2nd paragraph)
very big (3rd paragraph)
bright and colourful explosions used in celebrations (3rd paragraph)
people from your family (4th paragraph)
presents (4th paragraph)
a heavy congestion of traffic (4th paragraph)
lines of people awaiting their turns (4th paragraph)

products at reduced prices (5th paragraph)

finished (6th paragraph)

stop a habit (6th paragraph)

b) Comprehension questions:
Answer the following questions on your notebooks:
1. When is New Year's Eve?
2. What do people watch in London on New Year's Eve?
3. What do people normally do when they don't go to a party?
4. Why is it difficult to travel during the holidays?
5. Which typical New Year's resolutions do the text mention?


c) Writing:
1. Write a few lines about your New Year's celebration. Who was with you? What did you do? Where did you go? When did you go to bed? What did you do the following day?

2. Write sentences with used to about the following topics that appear in the text:

In Scotland on New Year's Eve 

British people's celebrations

The sales

d) Oral:
We will do this part in class and we will talk about our holidays.

Good work!
How about some music about ... New Year?
Look at the lyrics here:
Abba - Happy new year lyrics







Answers: celebrate, winter, kilts, bagpipes,, watched, went, Edinburgh, London, a party, visit, go for a swim, read, football, write, traffic jams, railway system, big stores, winter clothes, special offers, on the internet, weather, lose, give up, pay