3rdESO

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Dear all,
This year we are going to communicate using this blog.

Download this Verb Tenses portfolio where you'll be filling in info as we study them.
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LEVEL TEST
In order to find out your current level of English click here, go to Englishjet and take the level test A2. Once finished, write down your score and report it to your teacher.

READER DIAGRAM SAMPLE


STARTER UNIT
Go to you end-of-book Irregular verbs appendix. Divide it into blocks of 10. Study 1 block a day (3 forms, spelling, translation and pronunciation). We'll set an exam date. This exam has to be perfect.

As many of you don't have the book yet, we'll start with Grammar, but I promise it won't be that way habitually.
Click on the links below and fill in the info on your  Verb Tenses portfolio.
ONLY FORM/USE/ADVERBS/SPELLING
DO NOT COPY EVERYTHING, JUST NOTES ON THOSE FOUR ASPECTS!!!!!
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Past Simple
Click on the links on the ppts or go to Engcyberia  for more practice.

We're also going to compare things. Here you have the ppt, but you don't have to do anything about it. We'll do it in the class.
Watch Jamie Oliver talking in an interview about his version of paella. Watch it carefully and we'll work on it in the class. Remember as much as you can.
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UNIT 1. Time for a change.
Modals theory 
Where am I? A game on modals.
UNIT 2. STORYTELLING. On movies.
VOCABULARY
Watch this ppt on movies. There're 10 of them. Watch the pictures carefully and write a minimum of three adjectives to describe how you imagine that movie. 
GRAMMAR
Quantifiers (too/too much/too many/ (not) enough). We'll work with songs....
Past Continuous
LISTENING
Listen to this clip 4 times
1st-->no script
2nd-->no script and answer the questions
3rd-->script
4th-->remember a new word (write it and translate it)

UNIT 3. Choices, choices (on sales, shopping for clothes, holiday activities, exotic food and agreeing on suggestions).
GRAMMAR
 Present Perfect. Take notes on your Verb Tenses Portfolio.
Watch this segment and do the activity in the page given to you.
LISTENING 
You are going to work on this listening on Shopping for the day. Do ALL the activities suggested, take some notes on a piece of paper and write your comment on Randall's blog.

UNIT 4. Communication (on emotions).
GRAMMAR
PrPerf/SP,  Copy Slide 5
PrPerf with EVER/NEVER. Watch this movie segment of Unbreakable and do the activity suggested.
Subject/Object questions Online practice
VOCABULARY
ED/ING adjectives 
LISTENING
Do this listening on Smart phones and all the activities suggested on section 2 and 3. Take notes to show them to your teacher. 

UNIT 5. A life of crime.
GRAMMAR
Past Perfect practice. Check this ppt slides 5 and 6 and practice in number 7.
Relative pronouns. Watch this prezi. You can practice in Engcyberia num. 50.
Watch this Where's Wally worksheet and do as it is told.
VOCABULARY
Negative prefixes
LISTENING
Do this listening online and the activities suggested. Take notes to show to your teacher.
WRITING/SPEAKING
Describing a picture following the instructions.

UNIT 6. Creativity (on recycling)
GRAMMAR
Passive voice verb forms (present and past)
Building compound nouns on sports (football pitch...)
 GAME
In groups we'll play this Memory Game, trying to match a weird invention to its description and its name. Here we have the key. 
Now it's your turn to invent something really useful. Watch this model, but describe it using a relative pronoun.

UNIT 7. A big improvement (on sport...)
GRAMMAR
Will/Going to/SPr/SF/PrC/FC here
Indefinite pronouns diagram and links to exercises.
Indefinite pronouns (something...). This is a story of 4 people.
Gerund as subject.
VOCABULARY
Homes of the future

UNIT 8. Living together.
GRAMMAR
Conditionals type 1 and 2. Go to slides 2, 4 and 6 and copy the diagrams corresponding to types 0, 1 and 2.

UNIT 9. Coming together.
GRAMMAR
Reported speech for statements (Present-->Past and some changes more)