Man in the mirror

"If You Wanna Make The World

A Better Place

Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change "

As our Alejandro Lerner says : "para cambiar el mundo, empieza por tí "

Michael Jackson said the same in 1988, in his song : Man in the mirror.

Listen to Sarah, a beautiful teacher from New Zealand, explaining the song's meaning and then write a short report about it (60 words). What things you think must be changed, what we can do from our place, what things we complain about, what things are improving and what are getting worse.

Use clauses and linkers of contrast : although, however, in spite of/despite + gerund.(-ing).

You can use the Writing skills 5 : discursive compositions, on page 69 in your student's book.

Leave your writing in comments.

Listen to the song and watch the video.

Sarah goes on with another topics to complete her class. So, give more examples using "PRETEND".

Read the joke and enjoy her class.

Thanks Sarah !!!

Past continuous and simple past

A lot of exercises to practice both tenses. It's for my students in 3rd secondary and 1st polimodal

Story

Lady Diana's accident

Why my wife shouted

I was driving my car

What were you doing when...?

I will use similar texts to our next test.

Good luck

Animals

To 3rd secondary. You have to click on the title.

Then choose a habitat.

You can register or choose MAYBE LATER (on your right)

Drag the animals into the scene , when you finish you get a card. If you click on it , you get complete information about that animal. You have to print it , make a small poster and bring it to class to explain it to your mates.

To avoid repetitions, make a comment giving your name -habitat and animal.

Good luck

Treasure hunt

3rd secondary and 1st Polimodal...a new and funny way to practice verbs.

Click on the title as usual. Let me tell you about my experience. When I tried to write the sentences changing the tense, it was always wrong...My fault: I forgot the full stop !!!! (the point).

The Cell

To 2nd secondary EAS. You can study Biology and learn English !!!

That is killing two birds with one shot .

1-Click on the title and play the game.

You can name the parts on three different cells and then check it. It's a DRAG and DROP game, you choose one name on your right and then drag it to the right place on the picture.

2- Click HERE to find out what a cell is . And look for three parts of the cell and explain what they are.

3- Print one of the cells with the right names.

Add the definition of a cell

Write a glossary of about 12 words

Draw and explain the three parts of the cell you chose.

Very simple. Plain English. Bring your project to our next class on August.

Leave a comment

The sound of silence

Let's work with a song, we deserve a break!!!

Would you like?

Hi.!!! This is a great tool to practice a dialogue.

Click on the title or on the picture and then do the exercises from left to right.

Listen carefully.

In CONVERSATION STUDY there are four icons:

Click only on WORDS and SIMILAR

Copy the list of words and look for the meaning in the dictionary

In "Similar", copy the two versions.

Don't be afraid, your teacher doesn't know the other language either...

You can print it to bring it to our next class

Pizza is my favourite food

This is for 2nd secondary A EAS

Click on the title or on the image.

Listen to a Canadian man speaking about his favourite dish , click on the `picture on your right to get the new words.

Then scroll down and do the comprehension exercise. And practice the dialogue at the end.

It's just great !!!

Tell me how you did it. You can prepare an acting out for our next class. Have fun

Snapshot Starter Unit 7

Hi !!! This activity is to practice your wordlist from Snapshot Starter Unit 7.

Click on the title and have fun. If you make many mistakes your duck will die !!!

Tell me how you did.

The time

It's for my students of 1st secondary and 2nd secondary B , from the EAS .

Click on the title or on the picture and play the Time game. By the way...do you know this famous Dali's painting? . Look for it and tell me

Most of you know the Time, it's an excellent way to practice it.

Here is a song about time. Very funny !!!

Listen and learn. The translation is in the comment, as you're working on your own.

Finally, take this test and send me the results.

Good luck and Enjoy !!!

Any questions ?? write a comment, you can use Spanish.

"You're great" campaign

We saw this great video in class. We started thinking about the power of our words. Why don't we give a compliment instead of waiting for one??

In several situations we are aware of the possitive qualities of people around us, but we don't usually say it.

Making compliments is going to be our aim !!!

1- Enter this page to know why it is so important

2- You've got a mate drawing to make him/her a compliment

3- Read the instructions and choose the words and phrases you need .

Decide what you like about the mate you're going to compliment. Check the list for ideas.

4-Prepare a draft to check

5- Enter to this Voicethread , register and leave your COMPLIMENT !!!

Dictation

Click on the title

Choose your English dictation . You'll hear it read four times :

• first, the whole passage is read at normal speed for you to listen for gist;
• second, each phrase is read slowly twice, with punctuation, as you write;
• then the whole passage is read again for you to check your work;
• finally, the written text is shown - count your mistakes.

In comments , leave your name and the title of the dictation you practiced and get extra points !!!

2nd Poli WIKI

This is the wiki made by my students in 2nd Polimodal EAS.



They're uploading interesting stuff , they find in the web connected with our English classes. This is a more challenging way of learning !!!!
Dont' you think??

Click on the title, to see it

Leave comments of any ideas encouraging them ,'cause they're working hard.

Hangman : The family

For my students of 1st secondary.

Click on the title.

Practice Family vocabulary and have fun. If you like it, you can play with more vocabulary.

Leave me a comment

1st Polimodal Wiki

If you click on the title or on the image, you'll be in our wiki. You're going to take the adventure to learn in a collaborative environment.

You can have fun and get an intensive practice. I think this experience will be great for another subjects or activities of your interests.

Internet is much more than Facebook.

Lol, your teacher

What nationality are you ?

Argentinian people love football as much as dulce de leche...What do you think? 

To my students from 2nd secondary A EAS. Write a comment about the things we do and make us different from people living in another countries.

Tell us what an Argentinian does...

You've worked a lot in class so you can enjoy a game at home. Let's play. If you click on the title you can take a test to "know" what nationality you are .

It's just a game. Don't take it seriously but print or copy your result to share in class.

A hug.

Your teacher, Susana

People's appearance

"Don't judge a book by its cover", somebody said. Click on the title or on the picture to see Susan singing.This is the most seen video in the whole history of YouTube.

Listen carefully her introduction before singing. Watch people's faces while she's speaking.

What was she asked? What did the judges say at the end?

Leave a comment with your opinion about what you saw or heard, something you want to share.

You can also read the comments on YouTube. There are a lot of different opinions, awful expressions and wonderful ones. If you take some from there use inverted commas , because it isn't YOUR opinion, and name the author or source.

See you in class.

Susana

Thomas visits Del Valle

Thomas Stacey (sent by British Council and Dirección de Capacitación de la Provincia de BA)visited our classrooms. He was at Escuela de Educación Media Nº3 and at EAS (Escuela Agrotécnica Salesiana) in Del Valle. All of us enjoyed listening to a native speaker of English. He made us feel comfortable. My students could use "their" English to communicate with him !!!. One of them even showed him how a flogger dances and some of them showed him the school around. He was always very polite, encouraging students to speak, making his best to understand and he kept a charming smile all the time. Tom used plain English and exchanged funny expressions . He taught : "y'alright " and learnt : " juega un montón"...

Thanks Thomas !!!!!

Now to my students, you have to leave a comment here: maybe the question he answered to you or your mates, something interesting you heard, anything you want to share with other students from another classrooms.

This blog is for you to communicate, remember that.

Click on the title or on the picture to see more photos.

Earth hour

Just remember to turn the lights off.

We made a lot of activities in class. Enjoy the video.

If you click on the title you can explore a fantastic page full of games.

Back to school on Monday you have to tell me what you did to save the planet. If you want to leave a comment, do it.

Rhymes

To my students in 1st and 2nd secondary. You have to choose a rhyme and learn it by heart. If you like, write the first words of the rhyme you chose , so our class show is original.

And the winner is...

The best video is : On my shoulders by Lea Malfiatre from France.

The second one was : Dear Mr President by Nazareno Montes.

But the results show us a clear winner. Lea did it FANTASTIC !!! She didn't only make our festival international, she gave us the BEST VIDEO !!!

To read the results of votes, click on the title.

If you want to download the videos or watch them more easily, go to :
http://www.youtube.com/delvallefilmfestival

Enjoy them.

Have a great 2009.
See you.
Susana

Your pet goes international

Dear Kids. Welcome to our International project. We're working with Fernanda Rodrigues, from Portugal.

She invited you , 7th Course EAS 2008 to write about your pets and share it with her students.

All of you are going to show your pets and write about them.

Welcome kids from Portugal!!! I hope this can be the start of a great friendship.

Click on the title to get into Fernanda's blog.

A hug

Susana

Del Valle Film Festival

Welcome to our Del Valle film festival.

Most of you have worked with songs in class. We´ve done listening comprehension exercises and we've recycled expressions from many songs.

The most successful activity? Picture our song !!! Our classrooms look great with all that art you've got. You made pictures to each line of a song, so the wall "sings".

You're great artists and you can manage many computer tools like Power Point oor Movie Maker .

So click on the title and go to the wiki so you can take part on the Festival.

Enjoy, have fun and learn English.

Everybody visiting the blog is invited. You don't need to be my pupil.

Deadline for registration: November 30 th

Deadline for uploading videos: December 1st

Susana

Del Valle gets the power

Have fun , and tell me what they're saying !!!

Click on the title as usual and write anything you can understand. Listen carefully, think twice and feel happy with each word you "catch". Don't worry about what don't.

And last but not least, have a good laugh.
Susana

If you do it, I'll be amazed

Two birds with one stone. My 1st Polimodal course, you've got to click on the image or on the title to go to an easy exercise. I know it's a piece of cake for you.

Another exercise,here

Then, in COMMENTS...write two sentences of your own. Be creative, you can use romance, science, philosophy , advices, medicine, etc.

Shrek

Chat with a robot

Here is another funny activity.
Have you ever chatted with a robot?

Well, let's try. If you click on the image, you'll go to a programme where a smart lady answers you with audio and written words !!!
To my students from 1º and 2º secundaria. You have to ask her : her name, nationality,where she is from, job, favourite colour, age, where she lives. Then add it to comments with your name.
To my students from 9th : Ask her if she voted for Obama, any experience with "have you ever" ? And answer any questions she asked you. Write a report and add it to comments.
Good luck and get extra points for you second term's marks.

2nd Polimodal:

You're also invited to have fun. Ask the lady what you want and report questions and answers. Write your report in the comments' window. You can work by pairs if you want to.

A hug.
Susana

NOTE : this tool is broken by the moment. Profesor Howard Chen from Taiwan and his team are working to fix it. Thanks

Another alternative is:

No sound, but funny

Sorry. I'm not going to delete this post, just because I want to keep the experiences.

Our planet

To 1st Polimodal.
We're starting to work with environmental problems. You brought this subject to our classroom. We shared the video: A beautiful lie. Great comments and a really good beginning for our topic.

These are the first pages we're going to explore. The activities are included in the webslides. Good luck

Text to Speech

You want to improve your pronunciation.

Why don't you try this?

It's a text-to-speech programme on line.

You can choose the voice.

You just copy and paste the text you want to listen.

Then, click on : SAY IT ,on the right top .

Be careful, it can't read % (per cent) as an example,but most of words are OK.

I want to listen to you more fluent and confident.

Good luck.

Susana

Free Poverty

How much do you know about Geography??? I won't tell your teacher but I'd like you to play and comment about it.

Give me your name and give me your score. I did it quite well, don't you think so?

You can donate water like that game about rice. I don't know if it's true or not. I hope they are really helping , by the way you're practicing Geography

Earth Lab

Dear 3rd Poli EAS.

Consume less, live more, reduce your impact. That's the idea of Earth Lab

You're invited to explore it.

Enter the site.

Register.

Calculate your impact and then try to reduce your score.

Go to : CHANGE A HABIT. You have to choose three pledges from different topics (from Home to lifestyle), and find out the reason .

Come back to the blog and Paste your score and your 3 pledges. Sign and send.

Susana

Dreamers

Our students from 2nd Polimodal are making their own blog. They're working with second conditional with questions such as:

What would you do if you were a president?

What would you do if you could travel in time?

Read the question on your right and try to answer. You're all invited to visit their blog by clicking on the title or on the photo , and leave your comments there.

A hug

Susana

The alphabet

Dear 1st Secondary,

welcome to our blog.

Let's start playing.

Click on the letter bubble that matches the letter Larry Lobster tells you to find.

Make a list with the words you understand. Don't worry, do what you can.

A hug.

Your teacher

Susana

Blogging to know about other cultures

2nd Polimodal, you're going to have your own blog !!!

The first part of our activity is to explore and make comments on blogs written by people like you. Intermediate English students wanting to produce their own texts.

If you click on the title, you'll find the blog of Ronaldo's students in Brazil. Let's start sharing.

Good luck and good job.

Subservient Chicken

To my students of 2nd secondary B EAS and 2nd secondary Media 3 . Practice commands and have fun


Click on the image and give commands to the chicken. It will perform them for you !!!
As an example: Kneel, dance, turn the lights off, leave the room. Try another ideas and tell us.

Have a great laugh , enjoy learning English !!! A hug.
Susana

Decoration

To 9th A EAS.
It's a game.
1.Enter and play .Use the key : PRINT SCREEN that copies what you see on your screen and paste it on a Word document. Describe it using the new words .Then send it to me to show the result.
If you prefer, you can leave it as a comment.

2. Optional. Design your own room and describe it. Use the same technique and send it to me.
You're going to have fun and get extra points.

3. I discovered another thing. If you play the game till the end, I receive your score in my e-mail !!! Fantastic. Agustina Bartolomé did it in 5.2 minutes. A good record. How long did you take?

A hug.
Your teacher

Talking Photo

What's Agustín saying?? Tell me. If you enter to Talking Photo, you can upload any photo you have in your PC and make it say a lot of different and funny things.
You can make her or him happy, sad or angry by changing faces expresions. The program does it in fact !!!
Enjoy it and share with all of us.

Write down what Agustin said.

Use reported speech to tell me

How did you celebrate New Year's day?

Here you can see how English people celebrated. What did you do ?
It's again an activity designed by Renée Maufroid . Thanks Renée and Happy New Year for you !!!

Poetry

Your teacher hasn't taken much poetry to the classroom, but songs are poems, you know.
Talking with Pablo Garcia, another teacher,the idea came to me. In fact he showed me a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah. I looked for him in Google and found a treasure!!!

Enjoy this example and go for more poems by him on the title.

Who's Who

I used to think nurses Were women,
I used to think policeWere men,
I used to think poetsWere boring,
Until I became one of them.

Watch the use of capital letters.

On this site, you can also find hundred of poems by many fantastic authors. Just have fun.

MirArte

Dear kids:

On holidays at last !!!! I wanted to share with you some beautiful things to see.

I made this blog with an art show we held in Del Valle's school. It's a public one.

We worked hard in Culturas y Estéticas Contemporaneas preparing this exhibition or art and visual perception.

It's in Spanish, of course. Enjoy it. It's a party for your eyes. And if you are bored you can play games or make models.

You can leave comments here or there

Do you think you can't do it?

Sometimes you think there's a cloud over your head. Your exams are too difficult. Your life is full of problems.

Well ,think twice. Watch this fantastic video and tell us what you think

Topics for discussion

It's for those of you that are preparing tests and are looking for topics.

Very interesting, with activities and suggestions.

Use it and tell me.

Play with words and feed the world

You can practice your vocabulary and play.

Sometimes you want to say something and you can't find the words. There are several ways to feed your brain with new words. Why don't you try this site?

More words you've got right, more rice they donate.

Great idea.!!!!

You don't need registration, just PRACTICE. It's a multiple choice exercise.

Pronunciation

When I asked some of you to leave a comment by recording on Voicethread...you were terrified.

The idea is to get confidence in oral production.

Write a short text, copy it and paste it here:

http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

and check how to say it.

Believe it or not, this software speaks your text

Mom's speech

A mom (Anita Renfroe) has condensed everything a mom might say to her kids in 24 hours into less than 3 minutes - to the tune of the William Tell Overture

It's got subtitles (I don't know what the other language is). It's really funny.
You have to choose one thing your Mum says and add it as a comment.
What don't you mind? What gets on your nerves?
By the way, the full transcription is on the first comment.
Have fun
Your teacher

Don't forget Tobas

As you know 9th course have got a project to help Tobas.
They need all our help.

You can bring some food or clothes. They have NOTHING so you can add plates or forks and knives or spoons , glasses and everything we use in our houses.

Don't forget. Bring your collaboration to school. Remember how lucky you are and share part of your "fortune".
Thanks.

300

To 1st Polimodal.
We saw 300. What a film!!!
You had to identify the situation in each quote.
(Done in class)
Then choose the best phrase to share with your mates (mini-posters for the classroom).
Remember the blackboard with arrows blotting out the sun.

Finally,as you've got a looooong weekend, make a click on the picture. This way you're going to enter a page : http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ where you can find different comments about the film.
You have to find a positive and a negative one.

Your options are: you can leave it here as a comment. You can hand it to me in class or you can record a message here in the voicethread.

http://voicethread.com/share/11029/

I'm fascinated. You can add your favourite image and record a comment, you can draw and write. Maybe you need to register but it isn't a problem for you digital-natives!!!

Video in our class

Woman

I want to share with you this fantastic video. Listen to John Lennon and read the lyrics.
How would Yoko have felt ? I mean , being loved so much.
I want your opinions in class.

For the other half of the sky)

Woman I can hardly express
My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness
After all I'm forever in your debt
And woman I will try to express
My inner feelings and thankfulness
For showing me the meaning of success

Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

Woman I know you understand
The little child inside of the man
Please remember my life is in your hands
And woman hold me close to your heart
However distant don't keep us apart
After all it is written in the stars

Woman please let me explain
I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain
So let me tell you again and again and again

I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever

Do or Make ????

To 2nd Polimodal.

Today we were working with this topic. Why don't you try this Quiz??

Very easy.

Your next test will include it.

Good luck