Please try to upload the video you made on Saturday.
11th May
The YL bookmark competition ends 18th May. If you are interested, please download the zip archive, open it and watch the Powerpoint presentation,
then ask your parent(s) to sign the form and design your bookmark. Please keep the two sheets separate, as your artwork will probably be displayed and the
winning entries will be make into real bookmarks.
Entries must be in on 18th, so bring them to the next class.
Choose three of the silly inventions and say why you think they might be good or bad.
Complete writing from last lesson's homework.
6th April
Feedback homework questions.
Returned writing, and gave handout about report writing. Appropriate language and register for formal documents: essay, report & formal letter.
FCE speaking, all parts.
Magazine reading task.
Your local tourist office has asked you to write a report on the sports facilities in your area to give out to English-speaking visitors.
Write c150 words.
The 4th video will not rotate, so lock phone rotation then turn the phone when you watch it.
The 6th video is unviewable as it is a heic file. Whoever made that, please try to export it as jpeg or m4v and bring it next week.
9th February
Announcing a writing competition:
Title: I am an alien
150 to 190 words
First prize €50 and 2 runners up €20 per level
Closing date: Monday, 18th February
Writing:
Write 70-100 words about sugar and GMOs in food. What are the benefits and dangers, and what can individuals do to ensure a healthy diet?
Please write on a sheet of A4; this is easier than using a page in a notebook.
5th January
You are what you eat
Food vocabulary activity
Review a fad diet Part 1: Discuss:
Do you know anyone who is / has been on a special diet? Why might people do this?
What is the difference between a healthy diet and a 'fad' diet?
Have you heard of any 'fad' diets? What did they involve? What are some of the pros and cons?
Part 2: Read:
Predict – look at the section headings. Can you guess about any of the diets – what you can / can't eat, the results they promise, or anything else?
Raw Food Diet
Alkaline Diet
Blood Type Diet
Werewolf Diet
Tapeworm Diet
Cotton Ball Diet
You are going to read a text about fad diets. For questions 1-10, choose from the paragraphs A-F. The paragraphs may be chosen more than once.
Strategy – read the first two questions, look for the answers while getting a general idea of the texts. Once you think you have found an answer, check the other texts then read the next 1-2 questions and repeat. You should quickly get a good idea of the texts this way.
Which Diet:
Can have deadly consequences
Promises not to remove the nutrients from foods
Recommends different foods for different people
Probably became popular because of social media
Has shorter and longer versions
Could block your digestive system
Creates a problem with meal preparation time
Promises to achieve something that the human body can already do by itself
Includes a period of not eating anything
Attracts people who feel a great, immediate need to lose weight
Part 3: Hedging
What are the differences between these two sentences?
“Teenagers use mobile phones too much.”
“There is strong evidence to suggest that teenagers may use mobile phones too much in some situations.”
Working in groups, prepare ideas for a festival. Create a poster showing the proposal, with details of the festival plan.
This will be displayed in the centre.
On the last page of the magazine there are QR code links to two www pages:
Here are some questions to answer when you have read the
Videos showing cultural differences around the world; things you might not expect, and also things that are offensive.
Where Music Meets Travel: 17 Songs to Celebrate Equality in 2017
Listen to as many of the songs as possible and make a note of what they convey to you.
Choose two of the songs that you listened to and talked about; find the lyrics online and then write 50-100 words about why the song is special and what ideas it puts forward.
Complete notes made on the 3 musicians. Prepare to talk to different people next lesson about your ideas. For this you need clear notes you can refer to.
27th October
Answers to homework: reading 1st 2 pages of the magazine.
Reading: article about sport and prejudice; Powerpoint with vocabulary activities.
Agreeing/disagreeing with 5 controversial statements; groups formulate arguments and try to persuade a third group
to agree with them.
Note 3 words or phrases that you learnt this lesson.
Present perfect: who has done various various things, followed by activity: "Have you ever...?" practising use of Present Perfect questions and statementts "S/he has (never) done...".
Gave out magazine - quick look through.
Writing 150 wds (collaborate if possible) about the famous person you researched in groups.