Sunday, 14 August 2011

Vocabulary unit 8 sentences

Thank you for leaving your sentences. 
I hope you all have a nice week :-)

Friday, 12 August 2011

Post quiz exercise

Write a dialogue 


> Imagine that you are going to give an interview to a famous singer or musician. 


> Prepare 10 interview questions using a mixture of Present Perfect and Past Simple. Write these questions using the SMRT website, press 'documents' > 'create new" > 'document'.


> You will then work with a partner. You will ask the interview questions to your partner and then your partner has to respond, you must take notes of their answers in the document that you created. 


> Using your partner's answers, you will write an article for a magazine. You must compile all of the information into an interesting, grammatically correct article.  You can write this article in a new document. 


> Once you have finished you will 'share' the document with the rest of your classmates and me. 


> Open each email that you receive from a classmate, open the document, press 'File' then 'make a copy" and make any corrections to grammar, spelling, punctuation and context, then share the file back to that classmate. 

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Unit 7 quiz

It's that time again...
Here is the list of topics that will appear on the quiz:


1. Present Perfect - Simple and Continuous (Duration and Experience)
2. Put and Take.
3. Vocabulary from Unit 7. 
4. Countable and non-countable nouns
5. Noun quantifiers 


Tip when studying: 
Only study for 20 minutes at a time, and then take a 10 minute break and eat something nice or have a coffee, go for a walk or take a nap! Then continue studying for another 20 minutes. After 20 minutes our concentration is 0. 

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Pablo Picasso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUnPJHif8U

Really interesting Youtube documentary on Pablo Picasso.






Questions to answer:


1. When and where was he born?


2. What was his father's profession?


3. Was his father a good or bad artist?


4. Did Picasso stay at Madrid's prestigious art school?


5. Why did he move to Paris?


6. Who was his best friend? 

Thursday, 4 August 2011

David Beckham

Hello everyone, 


Here is the link to the David Beckham video that we watched today >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VsUmu7L1Gk




Listen to the video again, I know it is sometimes hard to understand but it's great practice for your listening skills. You can also find some information from the internet, although in your review, I hope to find some information from the youtube video. 
Please send me your review by Sunday at 3pm 
Thank you :-)

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Famous athletes

1 - Muhammad Ali





2 - David Beckham













3. Michael Jordan




4. Tiger Woods


5. Rafael Nadal


6. Michael Phelps








Gerunds and infinitives August 3rd 2011

Hello! So today we are looking at the use of gerunds and infinitives.

1) Please click on this link > http://www.englishforjapanese.com/exercises/verb%20forms/31%20gerund%20inf.html
and complete.

2) And now this one! > http://academic.cuesta.edu/ahalderma/gerinfinq.htm

May 13th

 Funny First Day