How to write an email

Email writing from Ana Arias Castro

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Write an email to a friend

In this activity you are going to write an email to a friend telling him/her what people have told you since your last email. These are some of the things you have been told:

• Your mother told you: "Don't arrive so late any more."
• Your best friend said: "I want to travel to Madrid next week end."
• The school director asked: "Are you going to go on a school trip with primary students?"
• Your teacher said: "You have to study these contents this week."

Of course you can add more information in your email but include some of the ideas above.
Remember to include some of the following connectors:

• first,
• then /later (on) / next / after that
• because / so
• however / although
• in spite of / despite
• in my opinion
• finally

Modal verbs

Modal verbs from Ana Arias Castro

Modal verbs

Today's eTwinning activities

GROUP 1: Strange Foods

• Spanish members: Alba Vázquez, Antía Vázquez, José Ángel López, Patricia García
• Activities: 
• Presentation about strange foods: choose a slide and write about the most strange foods you've tried.
• Choose a place in the MAP and write a text about a strange food you've tried there
• Use the Group 1 Forum to communicate with the other students or write comments in the presentation (the comments will be deleted at the end)

GROUP 2:

• Spanish members: Javier Pajón, Francisco Martínez, 
• Activities: Presentation
• Advice from Neringa, the teacher:
• Create slides for:
• People and their appearance in the future
• Means of transport
• Houses and buildings
• Future schools
• Forms of entertainment
• You are welcome to write short descriptions, insert photos or your own drawings. Trust your imagination
• Remember using Future Simple (will/ might+V) or Future Continuous (will +be+V-ing) or even Future Perfect (will+have+V-ed/ 3 form) in your slides to express yourselves. 

• Use the Group 2 Forum to communicate with other students

GROUP 3:

• Spanish members: Álvaro Piñeiro, Álex Vázquez, Natalia Vázquez (use the tinograndio@gmail.com account to have access to the materials)
• Activities:
• Presentation: The Place I Love and Treasure
• Puzzles: Favourite Place of My Childhood
• Video: Favourite Place in My House/Flat
• Use the Group 3 Forum to communicate with the other students

GROUP 4: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood.

• Spanish members: Silvia Méndez, Xacob Yánez, Noelia Abel
• Activities:Detailed instructions in the forum.
• Online Google Presentation
• The Postcard
• Favourite Amusements
• Use the Group 4 Forum to communicate with the other students

ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:

• Revise the geography tests about Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Spain
• Write your comments about the quizzes in the forum

Passive sentences game

Boardgame passive from Ana Arias Castro

Reported Speech Boardgame

Boardgame reported speech from Ana Arias Castro

Reported Speech

Eso 4 reported speech from Ana Arias Castro

Easter traditions

Easter traditions from ncech

Easter traditions

Easter

Interview to Scott Shanahan

This is the link for you to transcribe the text of the interview. Each student should transcribe the answer to the questions they have asked.

If you only need the audio file, here it is.

Shopping for stationery

Shopping for stationery 3-4 from Ana Arias Castro

Passive sentences

WHAT IS A PASSIVE STRUCTURE?
Active sentences usually focus on who did the action:

• My sister broke the window.

Whereas passive sentences usually focus on who or what suffered the effects of the action:

• The window was broken.

On most occassions the agent (who did the action) is not mentioned but, if relevant, it can be mentioned after the preposition by.

• The window was broken by my sister.
• Don Quixote was written by Cervantes.

HOW IS IT MADE?
Passive structures have these elements:

1. the passive subject (my sister)
2. verb be in the right tense (the same tense that would be used in the corresponding active structure)
3. the past participle of the lexical verb
4. only if necessary, the agent (by + ______)

CHANGING ACTIVE SENTENCES  INTO THE PASSIVE

1. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive structure
2. verb be in the same tense as the active verb in the active structure
3. past participle of the main verb
4. the subjet of the active sentence becames the object in the passive structure (by + agent)
• Peter builds a house. -> A house is built by Peter.
• They were cooking dinner when we arrived. -> Dinner was being cooked when we arrived.
• I will finish it tomorrow. -> It will be finished tomorrow.

PASSIVE SENTENCES WITH TWO SUBJECTS (ONLY ESO-4)
Some active sentences have both a direct and an indirect object. In English both can be the subject in a passive structure. The indirect object is introduced by to in the passive sentence.

• ACTIVE: My sister asked me a question.
• PASSIVE 1: A question was asked to me.
• PASSIVE 2: I was asked a question.

• ACTIVE. The teacher explained the exercise to the students.
• PASSIVE 1: The exercise was explained to the students.
• PASSIVE 2: The studens were explained the exercise.

Eso 3 passives from Ana Arias Castro

Revision of passive sentences from Ana Arias Castro

EXERCISES

• Exercise 1 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 2 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 3 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercises 4 (www.englisch-hilfen.de)
• Exercise 5 (www.itslj.org)
• Exercise 5 (http://a4esl.org)
• Exercise 6 passives in the present simple (Perfect English)
• Exercise 7 Passives in the past simple (Perfect English)
• Exercise 8 passives in the present perfect (Perfect English)
• Exercise 9 passives in the future simple (Perfect English)
• Exercise 10 mixed passive tenses (Perfect English)
• Exercise 11 passives with two objects (Perfect English) ONLY 4ºESO STUDENTS
• Exercise 12 (English Current)
• Passives (easier exercises)
• Passives (more difficult exercises)
• Hot Potatoes ESO-3
• Hot Potatoes ESO-4
• Passives Game (1 or 2 players)
• ESL library-correct verb form 
• Digital Campus-conversion exercise 
• ESL Lounge: active to passive exercise 

eTwinning team activities

TEAM 1: STRANGE FOODS

Members: Spain Ana Arias-teacher (13):, Guste Kiriliauskyte (Lt), Alba Vázquez (Sp), Gabriela Kosmider (Pl), Jakub Kapola (Pl), Wiktoria Babiarczyk (Pl), Mantas Kobcevas (Lt), Antia Vazquez (Sp), Stanislaw Namysl (Pl), Vika Isupova (U),Indrius Zerveckas (Lt), Alex Biruk (U), José Ángel Lopez (Sp), Patricia García (Sp)

Communication: Forum 1

TASK 1: online presentation. Presentation about the strangest foods in your area (city, neighbourhood or country) Each of you may make one slide or two, one for each food or dish.

TASK 2: My maps. Complete the map sharing information about the most strange foods you know worldwide. You can add information about the foods you've written about in the presentation and about any others you have heard of or tried.

Deadline: middle of May

TEAM 2
Members: Javier Pajón (Sp), Volodia Yakymir (U), Zuzanna Kaluzna (Pl), Joanna Pietrucha (Pl), Francisco Martínez (Sp), , Laura Grzesiak (Pl), Martyna Kuberka (Pl), Monika Tamosauskite (Lt), Mazvydas Kairys (Lt), Agne Puidokaite (Lt), Wiktoria Kaminska (Pl),Skaiste Kairyte (Lt)

Communication: Forum 2

TEAM 3

Members: Alvaro Piñeiro (Sp), Natalia Kabacinska (Pl), Marianna Potapow (Pl), Álex Vázquez (Sp), Mindaugas Kazlauskis (Lt), Ruta Muskauskaite (Lt), Halya Shmahlo (U), Artur Ilyin (U),  Natalia Vazquez (Sp), Alicja Danilecka (Pl), Paulina Szmura (Pl), Zoriana Kozak (U), Dominykas Andrutis (Lt), Kacper Mokijewski (Pl)

Communication: Forum 3

TEAM 4: AMUSEMENTS IN MY HOMETOWN OR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Members: Group 4: Silvia Méndez (Sp), Julia Luczak (Pl),Martyna Czeszak (Pl), Xacob Yáñez (Sp), Toma Pronckute (Lt), Kristina Jablonskyte (Lt), Emilia Buda (Pl), Nicole Augustyniak (Pl), Joanna Klessa (Pl), Alia Al Arusi (U), Lubhyk Velykyi (U), Arturas Martinavicius (Lt),), Maksymilian Borowka (Pl), Noelia Abel (Sp)

Communication: Forum 4

Topic: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood

 TASK 1: Online Google presentation

Each student is invited to prepare one slide about different kinds of entertainment in his/her hometown or neighbourhood.

If you don’t have any in your place, please describe where you can spend free time in your hometown or neighbourhood.

Own photos welcome! Please sign you slide and put the flag of your country.

Below the link to the presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GHP2JkonasaEZHakbVyxFlkMw64n_TjVxtu8yXL1-JI/edit?usp=sharing

TASK 2: The postcard

Register yourself on https://www.canva.com/ 

Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva www.canva.com Canva makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.

Prepare the postcard with greetings from your country/city/town/village

Watch the instructive video about this application:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NKQrL2OD8

Getting Started With Canva www.youtube.com We've added a bunch of new features in Canva. To see what's new and learn how to create your own designs, join us for a quick tour. To start designing, visit http ...

Ready postard you can share, download as an image or PDF.

TASK 3: Favourite amusement(s)

Register yourself on http://slidetalk.net/

SlideTalk - Create Presentation Video Online | Online ... slidetalk.net Slidetalk is Powerpoint-to-Video with automatic voice over. Turn your eLearning content, marketing material and tutorials into engaging talking videos.Now turning a ...

Each student is invited to present his/her favourite type of entertainment. You can tell us how do you relax or spend time with your friends. Use the pictures, write the text (it will be converted into voice) and get the amazing video.

How to use the SlideTalk:

https://www.youtube.com/user/slidetalknet

SlideTalk - YouTube www.youtube.com slidetalk.net: the shortest path to publishing your PowerPoint files, business presentation, eLearning material and tutorials as engaging talking videos.

I hope you like my tasks and enjoy the collaborative activities. If you have any questions or problems, please ask me or your teacher.

The deadline for all tasks: middle of May

Reported Speech

GENERAL RULES FOR REPORTED SPEECH

• Tenses change from present to past (if we are talking about what somebody said in the past):
  • “I am 15.” ⇨ He said he was 15.
  • “We have a problem.”⇨ They said they had a problem.
  • “I can swim.” ⇨ She said that she could swim.
  • “She comes by bus.” ⇨ He said that she came by bus.
  • “Your sister doesn’t like pizza.” ⇨ She said that my sister didn’t like pizza.
  • “You are looking through the window.” ⇨ He said that I was looking through the window.
  • “They will probably fail.” ⇨ She said that they would probably fail.
  • “My mother saw a mouse.” ⇨ She said that her mother had seen a mouse.
• Personal pronouns change (if somebody is telling
  what somebody else has said before):
  
  • “I am 15.” ⇨ He said he was 15.
  • “My mother saw a mouse.” ⇨ She said that her mother had seen a mouse.
  • “We saw you at the cinema.” ⇨ They said that they had seen me at the cinema.
• Place and time complements have to be adapted to the new context:
• He came here.” ⇨ They said that he had gone there. 
• “It’s raining today” ⇨ Jake said that it was raining then / yesterday.
• “I saw you last week.” ⇨ She said that she had seen me the week before.

STATEMENTS

• Tell and say are common reporting verbs. (Tell is used before an indirect object.):
• She said that she liked pizza.
• My mother told me to go with her.
• Everyone said that the lesson was very difficult.
• He told his friends about my illness.

• Other verbs can be used: know, promise, insist, warn...
• That can be omitted after say:
• She said that she liked pizza. ⇨She said she liked pizza.
• They knew that he liked her. ⇨They knew she liked her.

QUESTIONS

• Typical reporting verbs are: ask, wonder, want to know.
• He wanted to know the opening times of the museum.
• She wondered how old my mother was.
• Subject always comes before the verb:
• She asked me how old I was.
• If the question is answered with yes or no, if should be introduced before the indirect question:
• My sister asked if you wanted to come with us.
• I wondered if she was watching the programme on TV.
• If the questions cannot be answered with yes or no, and usually begins with how / when / what / where  / who / how old... you keep this element in the reported speech and don't add if:
• He asked me "What is your name? " ⇒ He asked me what my name was.
• My mother asked me: "What time did you arrive?" ⇒ My mother asked me what time I had arrived.
• Gina asked: "When will you come tomorrow?" ⇒ Gina asked when I would come / go the following day.

• We use ask / tell + object + (not) + to + infinitive to say what people want(ed) us to do:

• “Please, open the window.” ⇨ She asked us to open the window.

• “Tidy your room.” ⇨ My father told me to tidy my room.

• “Don’t smoke here.” ⇨ My aunt asked me not to smoke in her car.

ONLINE EXERCISES

HAVE OTHER TEACHERS HELP YOU UNDERSTAND REPORTED SPEECH

Reported Speech 4 ESO from IES - Junta de Andalucia

EXERCISES:

statements

• Englisch Hilfen 1 - sentences
• Englisch Hilfen 2 - sentences
• Englisch Hilfen 3 - sentences
• Englisch Hilfen 4 - pronouns
• Englisch Hilfen 5 - time phrases
• My English pages - sentences
• British Council
• Ego4You - sentences
• Perfect English - sentences

questions

• Englisch Hilfen 1 - questions
• Englisch Hilfen 2 - questions
• Ego4Youe -  questions
• Ego4You - questions 2
• Perfect English - simple questions
• Perfect English - more difficult questions

imperatives

• Englisch Hilfen 1 - commands
• Englisch Hilfen 2 - commands