English VI: Additional Activities: 2016

Sunday, November 27, 2016

December Activities

Merry Christmas

http://www.caymanvillas.com.au/christmas-in-port-douglas/

Dear Students,

The following activities are due on December 9th (612A, 611B & 626A), 13th (603A) and the 14th (604B, & 629B)

1. Read the simplified version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in the following webpage:

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

Make sure you read the five chapters and answer the exercises at the end of every chapter. This time you will have to write down the answers in your notebook.

2. Watch the movie A Diva's Christmas Carol in the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCmOS25wyFM

In your notebook draw a chart in which you compare the book and the movie: the similarities and differences. For example:

3. Grammar Activities

a. Click on the following link:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

Study Conditional Sentences Type 1 and do the two exercises in your notebook

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Dear Sixth Graders:

As some of you have expressed anxiety about Physics, I found a webpage which might help you. Please, feel free to ask if you have doubts related to English.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Tutorial/Newton-s-Laws

In the same page you can find a section called Physics Interactives which can also be helpful.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives

Make sure you read all the information. Good Luck to You All!

Monday, October 24, 2016

Happy Halloween!

http://plusquotes.com/images-halloween-img-photos-happy.php

All Saints' Day Activity

Dear students,

Halloween and All Saints' Day celebrations will be held next week. Consequently, I chose a simplified text you might enjoy: The Ghost of Canterville by Oscar Wilde. You can read it in the next link or print the PDF document. Please, don't forget to answer the questions included in every chapter.

https://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/literature/canterville-ghost

It is a good idea to review the grammar topics suggested for each chapter, especially passive voice, simple past, adjectives & adverbs, possessive case of nouns, and direct speech in the grammar section named "All other grammar topics" of ego4you.com:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar

These grammar activities should be finished by November 18th.

After reading the seven chapters, please write and answer the following questions in your notebook.

Chapter 1

1. Why did everybody tell the man who bought the house that he was being foolish?

2. What were the names of the family members whose father bought the house?

Chapter 2

3. Why did the man who bought the house wake up at night?

4. How did he solve "the problem"?

Chapter 3

5. What was the daughter's reaction to the green stain?

6. What gift did the ghost get from the new owner's wife?

7. Why was the ghost not able to use his armour?

8. What did the ghost see that frightened him?

Chapter 4

9. What did the ghost give up?

10. What did the ghost want to do to the youngest members of the family?

11. What happened next?

Chapter 5

12. Who killed the ghost's wife?

13. Who killed the ghost and how did he die?

14. What does the owner's daughter promise the ghost?

Chapter 6

15. What did the owner's daughter hold in her hands when she was found?

16. What happened to the ghost?

17. When the owner's daughter prays for the ghost what happened to the almond tree?

Chapter 7

18. What did the ghost tell the girl?

19. What did the girl learn from the ghost?

20. Why did Lord Canterville want the girl to keep his ancestor's gift to her?

21. What is the meaning of "He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both?”

This quiz should be ready by November 4th.

Enjoy All Saints' Day Celebration!

Some people place flowers on the graves of family or close friends on All Saints' Day.

©iStockphoto.com/FrankyDe

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

October Assignments
October 5th-31st

Dear students,

It is time to review some grammar tenses.

1. The link English Grammar Online presents an overview of all the English Tenses: a table, a diagram, and some example sentences for all the tenses. Please read the information, and make sure you review the irregular verbs list, the simple and progressive or continuous tenses for present, past, future, and present perfect. Please, read all the information and do all the exercises after the explanations. You may write some of the exercises in your notebooks, and others you may print.

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar

2. From English Grammar Online study the information about the following Parts of Speech: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Please, do the exercises following the explanations in your notebook.

3. BBC Learning English. Please click the link and do Unit 1: Pop-ups
Do the three activities in Session 1: Do you need a hyphen?
The three activities in Session 2: Present Tenses
The activity in Session 3: The Power of pop-ups
The two activities in Session 4: How to haggle
The activity in Session 5: New Drama

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

4. Read and listen to Isaac Asimov's Biography in the 5 Minute Biographies link. You may play the podcast in a new window, so you can simultaneously read and listen to the text as many times as you wish. Then answer the questions.

http://www.5minutebiograhies.com/isaac-asimov/

a. Who was Isaac Asimov?
b. What did Asimov do for a living besides writing books?
c. Where did Asimov's family migrate from?
d. Did he speak his parents' language? Why?
e. What kind of texts did Asimov write?
f. Why did he become famous?

Thursday, September 1, 2016

September Assignments

From September 1st to 23rd, you need to do the following activities:

1. Click on the link Learn English Grammar

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/

Read the information about the Indefinite, Personal, Possessive, and Reflexive Pronouns. Remember that you will need to read the explanations several times; then, take the tests.

Read about the different types of nouns: abstract, concrete,common, collective and compound. Don't forget to take the test for the last one

2. Click on the link BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/lower-intermediate

You need to do the 3 activities from Unit 1: Nice to Meet You

Session 1: Welcome. You must do the three (3) activities.

Session 2: Question Forms. Please, do the four (4) activities.

Session 3: Be a Journalist. There are two (2) activities you must do.

Session 4: 'Dear Sir' or 'Hey, Folks'. Please do the four (4 )activities included.

3. Cick on the link for 5 Minute Biographies:

http://www.5minutebiographies.com/

You have to listen and read two biographies: Alexander Fleming and Michael Faraday. Make sure you read and listen to them at least 4 times.

Print the texts and underline the words you do not know.

Choose 25 words you think will be useful or are related to your field of study.

Write 5 questions and their answers for each text. Check your grammar and spelling (Review BBC Learning: Unit 1, Session 2).

4. Time to learn new vocabulary. Today, you will learn Computer Vocabulary

from the webpage Learn English. Click on the following link:

http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/computers.html

To learn the words by heart follow the next procedure:

I. Finding Letter Combinations

a. Read all the words and identify letter combinations frequently repeated.

b. Highlight these letter combinations in the text.

c. Write on the top of a card the letter combination and below the words containing those letter combinations. Every time you find a new word with this letter combination write it on your card.

d. Every time you discover a new letter combination make a new card for each one.

II. Learning and Pronouncing

a. The teacher or a classmate will dictate the words in the list.

b. Check that you spelled the words correctly. In case, you are unsure about the spelling or pronunciation of any word, look them up in the dictionaryl and listen to it:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/

c. Write down the list of words one more time making sure you pronounce each word.

III. Listing 1

a. Read the words in the list.

b. Write the words in alphabetical order.

c. Read five (5)words aloud and repeat them three (3) times.

d. Follow the same procedure until you finish the list.

IV. Grouping 1

a. Remember or read the words you have been studying.

b. Find their similarities in spelling.

c. Group the words in five (5) different ways, always using all the words included in the list: alphabetical order, number of vowels, number of consonants, part of speech, related words (topic or semantic field), same ending, last letter, etc.

d. Highlight the similarities in each group.

Monday, August 15, 2016

Welcome to a New School Year!

This blog was created to provide activities and resources you can use at home.
There are several videos to watch and questions to answer in your notebook.