CHOICES+-+Intermediate+-+Pearson

=**__ WELCOME BACK TO 2015-16 __**=

**EXAM DATES:** 1ºB ESO Unit 1 - 15th October 2015 Projects about Identity - check drafts on 5th November 2015 Unit 2 - end of November 2015 Unit 3 - from 1st to 5th February 2016 Unit 4 - 29th Febreruary, 2016

MODULES IN #|TEXT BOOK - it includes activities about the four skillsand links to listenings for extra activities and links and images from the web useful for each topic and/or project.


 * =Module 1= || =Grammar: Present tenses- revision= || =Listening and Reading= ||
 * IDENTITY |||| Extra material - Project SCOTTISH IDENTITY / COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES / #|STATES IN THE U.S.A. / COUNTIES IN THE U.K.

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 * =Module 2= || =Grammar: Past tenses - revision=



|| =Listening and Reading= ||
 * EVENTS |||| Extra material - NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORICAL EVENTS

CHECK THE ABOVE TABLE OF GROUPS AND TOPICS. There will be an exhibition in January: Newspapers and History ||
 * =Module 3= || =Grammar - Passive voice=

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|| =Listening and Reading=

Check [|how Cooking can change your lives]

or Learn about British Cuisine or recipes in general or famous chefs all over the world. (There are no links by now)

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 * TASTE |||| Extra material - MY FAVOURITE RESTAURANT / COOK / CUISINE

Use the following MIND MAP as a model for the vocabulary you need, adding sections and including in each one the words you have to use and study.



Use the Passive Voice to write about processes: to write your own "family tree", "muffins", "cross-stitching" or... it's up to you to decide about your abilities.

|| =have something done (Causative Passiv)=
 * **Module 4** || **Grammar -** =Present Perfect Continuous &=

[[file:Comparatives and superlatives - intermediate grammar.doc]]
|| || 1. Describing HOUSES and HOTELS 2. Talking about the different rooms and pieces of furniture 3. Environmentally friendly houses 4. Preferences about environment and/or within the city or out of it. 5. Housing round the World
 * HOUSES || The topic will be subdivided into different sections:

By the moment, Check Unit 3 in 2º ESO - WIKIPAGE http://mjsaizdomingoteacher.wikispaces.com/2%C2%BA+ESO ||  ||
 * IMAGE || Modals for speculation (must / can't / may / could / might)

She MUST HAVE flu / She CAN'T GO to work She MAY FEEL quite ill /She COULD PHONE her friend for help She MIGHT RECOVER soon

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|| Must have / can't have / may have / could hae / might have + pple) ||  || =**__READING BOOK FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR__**=
 * HEROES || Perfect Modals for speculation

"ROOM 13" is a book about an adventure when a group of #|students and their teachers visit WHITBY. Mistery, terror, a room which disappears, ... YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!


ALL STUDENTS MUST HAVE A, including information about the different chapters (who the characters are, where and what happen, ...) and the new vocabulary that they should study.

The reading log can be according to the model offered in the class or your own system. It can be used to revise for the exams and to check your progress when reading.

LITERACY SECTION
 * 1st term - POETRY || 1º ESO

Nursery Rhymes ([|Jack Horner], [|Humpty Dumpty] and [|Little Miss Muffet]) are a very basic way to begin with poetry. Try to read them in a musical way.

Use the following [|TEMPLATES] to create your own poem.

Topics can be as many as you like and [|history] is an example.

We can continue with a very nice famous American poet for children, Shel Silverstein...



Next step, we'll read Edgar Allan Poe's ""Annabel Lee". Radio Futura's Spanish version is another nice option. Some songs are like poetry and some poems can be nice songs (Leonard Cohen's "Take that Waltz", from García Lorca's "Pequeño Vals Vienés).



To finish the term you can use the following TEMPLATES to write your own poem. The topic can be a "nursery rhyme", or a poem about your "pet" or about a "friend". ||
 * 2nd term - NARRATIVE || =__1º ESO__=

We are going to write a short story, a kind of FABLE, similar to the Maori Legend. It will be personal and it has to include a MORAL at the end.

The second activity will deal with description of PEOPLE AND PLACES. It HAS TO BE original and the use of vocabulary is the main task: choose one BUILDING OR PART OF A BUILDING and a CHARACTER (real person, cartoon, ...). The mark of this second activity may be included in the third term because of lack of time now.

=__ EXTRA ACTIVITY __=

1º ESO - There will be an #|activity prepared for the Day of the Book: Famous writers (photo - main biographical facts - main titles - an excerpt in English and Spanish ) ||
 * 3rd term - THEATRE || 1º ESO

We'll read the text "The Honeys", written by Araceli Godino and Rosa Cascón, teachers of the IES BLAS DE OTERO and played by the school theatre group. || = PROJECTS: = MODULE 1 - SCOTTISH IDENTITY (the flag, the anthem, the results of the polls for the Independence from the U.K., important politicians,...)

MODULE 2 - NEWSPAPERS ABOUT PAST EVENTS

WRITERS IN ENGLISH WITH THE NOBEL PRIZE OF LITERATURE Alice Munro, Canadian Doris Lessin, British Harold Pinter, British Coetzee, Southafrican Naipaul, British (born in Trinidad & Tobago) Seamus Heaney, Irish ... Tony Morrison, North American Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucía Nadine Gordimer, Southafrican Joseph Brodsky, North American (born in the Soviet Union) William Golding, British Isaas Bashevis Singer, North American (born in Poland) Saul, North American (born in Canada) Patrick White, Australian (born in North America) Samuel Beckett, Irish John Steinbeck, North American Ernest Hemingway, North American Bertrand Russell, British William Faulkner, North American T.S.Eliot, British (born in North America) Pearl S. Buck, North American Eugene O'Nell, North American John Galsworthy, British Sinclair Lewis, North American Rabindranath Tagore, Indian (1913-India was part of the British Empire) Rudyard Kipling, British

APRIL: Theatre, important writers and plays