Today's class

1. Choose your favourite project for this year. Vote for three projects at the very most.

2. Tenses: will / going to / present simple / present continuous for the future.

These are some interesting websites to revise future tenses in English at lower intermediate level:

• Isabel Pérez: tenses website

GOING TO:

• Isabel Pérez: Going to boy
• Englisch Hilfen exercise

WILL:

• Isabel Pérez: Mister Will
• Englisch Hilfen exercise

MIXED TENSES:

• Exercise 1_ My English Pages
• Exercise 2: Grammar Bank
• Exercise 3: Ego4u
• Exercise 4: English Exercises
• Exercise 5: Englisch Hilfen
• Exercise 6: Better English
• Exercise 7: Using English 
• Exercise 8 : English Page

3. Tenses: present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous.

PRESENT SIMPLE

GRAMMAR:

• Isabel Pérez
• Englisch Hilfen

EXERCISES

• Isabel Pérez-affirmative1
• Isabel Pérez-affirmative2-word order
• Englisch Hilfen-affirmatives1
• Englisxh Hilfen-affirmatives2
• Ego4you affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives2
• Really Learn English-affirmatives3
• Really Learn English-affirmatives4
• Really LEarn English-affirmatives5

READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

• Tim's day text & questions
• My name is Ben
• Simple present stories from The ESL Times

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES

• affirmative sentences (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmative sentences2 (Englisch HIlfen)
• negatives (Englisch Hilfen)
• questions (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmatives-negatives-questions (Englisch Hilfen)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Eso 3-present simple and present continuous (1) from Ana Arias Castro

• EXERCISES
  • exercise 1 (Englisch Hilfen)
  • exercise 2 (Perfect English)
  • exercise 3 (Englisch Hilfen)
  • exercise 4 (English page)
  • exercise 5 (English Grammar)
  • exercise 6 (ESL Lounge)
  • exercise 7 (Ego4U-1)
  • exercise 8 (Ego4U-2)
  • exercise 9 (Ego4U-3)
  • exercise 10 (Ego4U-4)
  • exercise 11 (Ego4U-5)
  • exercise 12 (Ego4U-6)
  • exercise 13 (Ego4U-7)
  • exercise 14 (Ego4U-8)
  • exercise 15 (Ego4U-9)
  • exercise 16 (Ego4U-10)
  • exercise 17 (Ego4U-11)
  • exercise 18 (Ego4U-12)

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

Past simple is often used for past events in a past time. Most stories are told using this tense and it is often used together with past continuous.

Past continuous or past progressive is one of the tenses we are going to study this year.

The following chart summarises the most important aspects you'll have to learn about both of them:


USES:

• Past simple is used to tell about past event or stories:
• We went to Ireland and there we met your sister.
• My parents spent a weekend in Coruña but they didn't go to the port.
• When did they release the film? Last Friday?
• Past continuous is often used to talk about what was happening at a specific time in the past (talking about memories...)
• We were watching the film at lunch time.
• Two past continuous tenses can be used to talk about long, simultaneous actions in the past:
• We were studying while the dogs were barking in the yard.
• Both tenses are used to talk about something that happened at one point (in the past simple) while a longer action was taking place (in the past continuous). In this use, the clause referring to the longer action, is often introduced by while or as; or, alternatively, the shorter action clauses is introduced by when:
• We weren't watching the film when my sister rang.
• They found the lost key as they were having a walk along the river.
• Myrtle broke here leg while she was exercising in the park.

EXERCISES:
past simple

• Revision of regular verbs -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs1 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs2 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs3 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs4 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Past simple Boy -www.isabelperez.es 
• Questions in the past simple
• Past continuous and past simple exercise -British Council
• Complete with the right affirmative form of past tense-My English Pages
• Write affirmative sentences in past simple (Don't forget punctuation)
• Write these sentences in the negative
• Fill the gaps with past simple forms- Learn English Today
• Fill the gaps with past simple forms - To Learn English
• Present simple or past simple - To Learn English
• Sentences and questions in the past simple1-Englisch Hilfen
• Sentences and questions in the past simple2-Englisch Hilfen

past continuous

• Past continuous 1
• Past contunuous 2 - statements
• Past continuous 3 - statements
• Past continuous 4 - negative
• Past continuous 5 - questions
• Past continuous 6 questions
• Past continuous use

contrast:

• Past simple versus past continuous 1
• Past simple versus past continuous 2
• Past simple versus past continuous 3
• Past simple versus past continuous 4
• Past simple versus past continuous 5
• Past simple boy (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Lady past continuous (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Choose the right tense exercise (perfect-english-grammar.com)
• Revision exercise for unit 2 (past simple)

Today's eTwinning class

1. This afternoon we are going to write our Pedometer  experience in this Padlet. Ast the teacher for your results.
2. Write comments (be positive, please) about other's people's results.
3. Next week we'll probable have a chat session with our Ukrainan and Lithuanian partners.
4. Try Canva to write about Castro Culture.

Classroom material

marker
whiteout
scissors
rubber / (eraser US)
pencil
flash memory / USB memory
propelling pencil (mechanical pencil - US)
leads
pencil sharpener
crayon
highlighter
colour pencils (color pencils - US)
cello tape (Scotch tape - US)
paper
glue stick
cardboard
notebook = binder

• ring binder
• spiral binder

diary
desk
folder

Halloween classroom activities

Halloween trivia from Ana Arias Castro

Basic halloween trivia from Ana Arias Castro

Classroom material

Classroom language

eTwinning session

TODAY:

1. We'll write our replies to the messages in the forum.
2. We'll prepare the logos: you can use the pictures in the Images folder or your own or others with no copyright limitations.
1. You can use editing software or other applications (PhotoFunia...)
2. Send the resulting image to your teacher.
3. We might make a short introduction video. Decide what you would say (about you, the project, your expectations, etc.)

English language classes

This year in our classes:

You will need:

• The textbook
• Something to write with
• Some paper / notebook / folder / binder
• (advisable) a USB memory
• (advisable) to have an email account

You will:

• cover the syllabus
• do one oral class per week: role plays, simulations, debates, conversations, etc.
• read AT LEAST one book per term
• have one exam per term
• be responsible of your work and homework
• calculate your own mark in your exams
• (optional) send your book reports and some classroom activities to your teacher by email
• do many digital activities
• have many extra digital activities at your disposal
• often work in pairs and groups

You won't:

• have to show or hand your notebook in to the teacher
• have any "recuperaciones"
• have any repeated exams = each exam will be a new one

You mustn't

• cheat in your exams
• lie to your teacher 
• spoil the class material (wether yours or the school's)

Goodbye to our 2016 students

We wish the best to our 4th year ESO students this year. We'll certainly miss them next year:

Orla eso 2016 from Tino Grandio

Today's eTwinning class

This is our last eTwinning class this year.

I want you to finish the tasks in your group and check all the work has been done. Last minute for modifications and changes.

So:

• Check the work in your group and see that everything has been done. You can write something in the blog page that corresponds to your group.
• Group 3 students. Last week the link to the Voki did not arrive. Please send it to your teacher again, or paste it at the blog and Twinspace.
• Fill in the survey with the final assessment of the project: this is the link.
• Write your opinion about the project: try to show what you liked and didn't like and your ideas for a project next year. Write it here, at the Forum opened for this final comments.

eTwinning activities for today's class

GROUP 1: SMS language

• (led by Barbara N'Sir/Spanish students Carla Fernández, Sandra Núñez/Xacob Yáñez)
• Message from Barbara: Thank you for the work on the sms-language task. Now I’d like to summarize our job in an unusual way and to create some visual materials using some free internet applications like Popplet or Text2Mind Map.
• You or your teachers can use a very simple application Text2MindMap https://www.text2mindmap.com/ - it doesn’t require registration – it’s very easy to use, you have to only copy the words, paste them into the window on the left and click: Draw mind map.
• The second tool I’d like you will try is the Popplet: http://popplet.com/ - it requires registration and 5 popplets are free. It’s a very simple tool. I’ll send you the link to the instruction in English: https://youtu.be/CxLDsWHsQ1g
• You can see examples on a Page (SMS language ) and subpages (Gathering information- Popplet and Text2MindMap).
• When you finish your avatar, send the link to your teacher (anaariascastro@gmail.com) so that she can upload it at the Twinspace. You can also upload it at the blog.

GROUP 2: Survey on mobile phones

• (led by Ana Arias/Spanish students Francisco Martínez/Javier Pajón)
• Check the data in the form and then complete the presentation with graphs and comments about the information given. Try one graph per slide and one comment summarizing the results. They can be global (including people from all four countries), specific to a country, comparing the same aspect in all four countries, or comparing teachers to students.
• Summary of data
• Data in the spreadsheet

GROUP 3 : History of Mobile phones

• (led by Neringa Lemeziene/Spanish students Josefina Feito/Jennifer Vázquez)
• Message from Neringa: I appreciate your work on the slides about the history of mobile phones. Some of you have also shared some information and a photo of your first mobile phone. 
• Now, a new challenge is waiting for you. Why don't we create avatars? Go to www.voki.com and create a speaking creature which will say everything you write about your first mobile phone. When you do this, send the address of your avatar to your teacher. 
• Here is my avatar. Have a look and you will understand what I mean.  http://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=12646038&width=575&height=323&chsm=38ff2517dbc3a782b88b8b215c1efdcb 
• Then you should place the link at the Twinspace and at the blog: http://futurephonesetwinning.blogspot.com.es/

GROUP 4: Phones of the future

• (led by Halyna Mohylyak/Spanish students Antía Cabanas/Daniel Rodríguez/Lucía Villar)
• Teacher Halyna said she would like to start a blog for the project. Why don't you start it and then make her administrator of the blog? Be creative and start a good blog where we might upload all our materials and results.
• Lucía, make Antía and Daniel administrators of the blog and then improve it, make changes and give information about whatever you think is relevant.
• Send an invitation to be authors to all the other students in the project.

TODAY'S ETWINNING ACTIVITY

1. CHATROOM

1. At 13:45 go to the chatroom and communicate with the students from Ukraine and, maybe, Poland. The Lithuanian students cannot participate today. Speak about the project, what you have done, what you liked, what you didn't like, etc.
2. Use your eTwinning user and password.
2. AFTERNOON CLASS
1. Let's take some photos with Reid
2. let's continue with our eTwinning activities as last week:

GROUP 1: SMS Language

• (led by Barbara N'Sir/Spanish students Carla Fernández, Sandra Núñez/Xacob Yáñez)
• Message from Barbara: Thank you for the work on the sms-language task. Now I’d like to summarize our job in an unusual way and to create some visual materials using some free internet applications like Popplet or Text2Mind Map.
• You or your teachers can use a very simple application Text2MindMap https://www.text2mindmap.com/ - it doesn’t require registration – it’s very easy to use, you have to only copy the words, paste them into the window on the left and click: Draw mind map.
• The second tool I’d like you will try is the Popplet: http://popplet.com/ - it requires registration and 5 popplets are free. It’s a very simple tool. I’ll send you the link to the instruction in English: https://youtu.be/CxLDsWHsQ1g
• You can see examples on a Page (SMS language ) and subpages (Gathering information- Popplet and Text2MindMap).

GROUP 2: Survey on mobile phones

• (led by Ana Arias/Spanish students Francisco Martínez/Javier Pajón)
• Check the data in the form and then complete the presentation with graphs and comments about the information given. Try one graph per slide and one comment summarizing the results. They can be global (including people from all four countries), specific to a country, comparing the same aspect in all four countries, or comparing teachers to students.
• Summary of data
• Data in the spreadsheet

GROUP 3 : History of Mobile phones

• (led by Neringa Lemeziene/Spanish students Josefina Feito/Jennifer Vázquez)
• Message from Neringa: I appreciate your work on the slides about the history of mobile phones. Some of you have also shared some information and a photo of your first mobile phone. 
• Now, a new challenge is waiting for you. Why don't we create avatars? Go to www.voki.com and create a speaking creature which will say everything you write about your first mobile phone. When you do this, send the address of your avatar to your teacher. 
• Here is my avatar. Have a look and you will understand what I mean.  http://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=12646038&width=575&height=323&chsm=38ff2517dbc3a782b88b8b215c1efdcb 

GROUP 4: Phones of the future

• (led by Halyna Mohylyak/Spanish students Antía Cabanas/Daniel Rodríguez/Lucía Villar)
• Teacher Halyna said she would like to start a blog for the project. Why don't you start it and then make her administrator of the blog? Be creative and start a good blog where we might upload all our materials and results.
• Lucía, make Antía and Daniel administrators of the blog and then improve it, make changes and give information about whatever you think is relevant.

First class in ESO-4

These are the first resources for 4ºESO:

Graded readers sheet 2015-2016 from Ana Arias Castro

Pp4 unit 1 from Ana Arias Castro

First unit ESO-3

These are the first resources for 3ºESO:

Graded readers sheet 2015-2016 from Ana Arias Castro

Eu3 unit 1 from Ana Arias Castro