Happy Holidays!

Activities from November 30th to December 11th

1. Click on the English Grammar Online link:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/literature/christmas-carol

There you will find A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Read the five chapters. After reading each part, don't forget to answer the questions. As proof you did the activity, write down the questions and answers in your notebook or print them.

2. Click on the New Technology Science link and choose one of the following articles to read.

http://www.popsci.com/100-years-general-relativity-why-einstein-still-stands

http://www.popsci.com/over-half-all-amazonian-tree-species-are-globally-threatened

http://www.popsci.com/why-dont-we-just-throw-all-our-garbage-into-volcanos

When you find one you like, print it. Then underline all the words related to the topic. Highlight the words that refer to people, places, or things. When you finish doing that, read the text again and try to understand what is said. You may need to read the text more than once. Finally, identify the main ideas and draw arrows → to show their location in the text.

3. Click on the Helen Fisher ‘Romantic Love’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEl7Lo-WNA

The talk is long, but answer these questions:

What is romantic love?

What happens when you fall in love?

What information seemed to you interesting or important? Write them down in your notebook.

Additional Activities from November 9th-27th

1. Click on the Learn English link 

http://www.learnenglish.de/

a. On the upper part of the web page click on the icon GRAMMAR. Then check the information on Present Perfect Simple. After studying the information, click on the back key  to return to the previous page, do the two activities for present perfect by clicking on the √. You may print the activities or write them down in your notebook.

b. On the same page read the information about the coordinating conjunctions and the subordinating ones. After that, find at least three examples for each connector from newspaper articles . Write down the examples and the references in your notebook .


2. Click on BBC Learning English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/

Find the 6 MINUTE ENGLISH and read "Should we all pay for supermarket plastic bags?" Listen to the podcast and read along the tapescript. Study the vocabulary provided.


3. Watch the You Tube video: Angela Lee Duckworth "Key to Succes: Grit" at least three times.

Then answer the questions:
a. What do people need to achieve their goals?
b. According to Mrs. Duckworth, what is grit?
c. What is growth mindset?

Choose five expressionsor words from the video you would like to learn.