ANIMOTO

Hi everybody,

So many places, so little time. I´ve tried to compile some images about English speaking places, for students to get familiar with the countries.

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FINGAL TRIP

How are you doing today? Is the rest of the country as hot as Montserrat is? No wind, 41 degreess yesterday.....

I suggest a trip somewhere colder. Ireland, for example? Herebelow you will find a geomap showing Fingal, the county with which we organized a students´exchange last course with all places we visited.


Mostra FINGAL TOUR en un mapa més gran

Feeling colder now?

A Twilight treasure hunt

THE TWILIGHT SAGA

Remember we watched the first film in class? Do you want to know more about the most successful saga and its characters? Then hold your breath the movie is about to start...

Answer each of the following questions in a page of a PPT presentation accompanied by a nice photograph We will start watching your presentations in class next monday. At the bottom of the page you´ll find useful webpages to help you follow the treasure hunt...

1. Does the village of Forks really exist? Locate it in a map showing the name of the state it belongs to.

2. What is La Push (apart from the beach shown in the film)?

3. Who are the quileutes? How are they also called?

4. What are the quileutes´ main resources for living?

5. Can you name at least 3 other indian tribes from the United States?

6. What is a reservation? Can it be true that children go to reservation schools like Jakob? Who governs the reservation?

7. Who was the first writer to include the character of a vampire in his books? In which novel?

8. When was it written? Which literary movement did it belong to?

9. Name 3 other adaptations of the novel from oldest to newest.

10. Who was Vlad Tepes? Where did he live? What characteristic of his character was he famous for?

THE BIG QUESTION: Make a list with all the characteristics that have been attributed to Edward in the film (cold skin, speed) and select which ones you think have been traditionally associated with vampires, and which ones haven´t.

Web resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forks,_Washington

http://www.quileutenation.org/

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/early_indian_west.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%C3%A1cula

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler

UNIT 4. MY LESSON PLAN

NAME OF THE LESSON PLAN: "ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES"

ADDRESSED TO: 4th of E.S.O. students
TIMING: 1 or 2 60´classes
MATERIALS NEEDED: A computer with Internet connection
OBJECTIVES OF THE TASK: To help students create their own contents in English, to work with ICT tools, to get involved in the world´s multilingual reality.
BASIC COMPETENCES WORKED IN THE PROJECT:
* Linguistic and audio-visual competence
*Social and civic competence
* Knowledge and interaction with the world.
*Information processing and digital competence
*Artistic and cultural competence
*Learning-to-learn competence
*Autonomy competence

ACTIVITIES:

1. A warm-up video called "What do they have in common?" in which the students have to try and guess the country shown and what is the common feature to all of them.
Teacher´s solution key: India, Australia, Ireland, Kenya, Seychelles, England.

2. A treasure hunt about "English speaking countries"

3. A wallwisher with their opinions about the great variety of languages there are in the world.


1. VIDEO: "WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?"



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2. TREASURE HUNT "ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES"

Have you ever asked yourself why do we have to learn English or any other foreign language?

Have a look at this short documentary, it may help you to have an opinion on the matter.

Now answer the following questions herebelow in order and copy them in a PPT presentation. You will find useful web resources at the end of the post.

*Which are the most spoken languages in the world?

*Does the number of speakers alone make a language important?

*What does sole official language mean?

*Who is considered a bilingual person? And a polyglote?

*What´s Spanglish?

* What are the main reasons for the spreading of a language to other countries?

*What is colonialism?

*Which countries have English as official or dominant language?

*Do all English-speaking countries have the same standard of living? Examples.

* What is a "lingua franca"?

THE BIG QUESTION: In your opinion, what has made English become so popular in the world? Mention at least 5 factors that may have influenced this change.

WEB RESOURCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English_is_an_official_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

http://www.tcnj.edu/~fisk2/page%205.htm

http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

Evaluation criteria:
Your PPT presentation will be seen in class and evaluated as follows:

* No grammar or spelling mistakes. Revise it before releasing.
* It has to include the answer to all the questions (including the BIG QUESTION)
* The PPT presentation may be accompanied by music and photos and it has to last around 1 or 2 minutes.
* It has to include your personal opinion about the topic in the BIG QUESTION.
* It has to include examples when requested.


3. WALLWISHER "OVER 6,000 LANGUAGES, ONE ONLY WORLD"

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/qS2LnJLAat

Post your comments in this wall explaining how do you live the world´s multilingual reality.

The Hobbit: An unexpected party

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This is the release of chapter I of the book "The Hobbit".

Chapter I is named "An unexpected party". Click on the link below to listen to it.



THE HOBBIT. CHAPTER i

UNIT 4: DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Hi,
Today I´ve created a video presentation about St. George´s legend. It´s for primary school.
 You´ll see that inthe last second of every picture the voice fades a little. Next time I´ll include two second more of silence at the end of each recording.
Hope you enjoy it.

UNIT 3: TEACHERTUBE

Unit 3: A teachertube video

Hi again,

In this resource for teachers, I´ve found this video with the song "We didn´t stop the fire" in which they summarize the history of the U.S. in the 20th Century. The video includes the lyrics of the song, and I think it is great to introduce students to history from a more ludic point of view. We can use the video to make them look further information about the historical events mentioned.

UNIT 1: Writing an article embedding a video

I have inserted a Tv commercial from You Tube to work the different types of TV programmes. After a short activity refreshing the names of Tv programmes, students can listen to the ad and try to guess what categories appear in it.

PICASA PRESENTATION

UNIT 3: Picasa presentation

Hi,
I´m including a Picasa presentation about Catalonia to show to the students as an example for their webquest presentation for the Fingal students

UNIT 3: A SLIDESHARE

UNIT 3: a slideshare presentationOur students are preparing an exchange with Fingal, Ireland and I have selected some photographs to show them, so that they have an idea about the place they are going to visit.

Welcome To Fingal

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