English

Holidays at last!!!!!!!!

__HOW THE WHALE BECAME __ __(summer activities) __  (Click on this file and answer the questions in a separate piece of paper, you'll have to give this work back to the teacher at the end of the summer)

And, here you have some fun links if you don't want to become a **//coach potato//** this summer!



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[|101 things todo this summer]

50 Fun Things To Do This Summer! By Jillian Bietz During the summer it is so easy to say, "I have nothing to do!"  __No more excuses__- here is a list of 50 things to do the next time you are bored!

1. Gather up a few friends, and have a picnic in your back. 2. Go on a walk and take pictures of trees, flowers, dogs, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Buy some fashion magazines, pick out a couple of really cute outfits, and try to recreate them for less! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Bead some bracelets and sell them for charity. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Volunteer at the local animal or homeless shelter. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Clean your room! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. Bake some cupcakes and deliver them to friends and family. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. Play some childhood games like "Sorry", "Candyland", or "Pretty Pretty Princess". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9. Take your dog for a walk. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">10. E-mail a friend you haven't spoken to in awhile. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">11. Do 25 jumping jacks! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">12. Look through old family scrapbooks, photo books, and yearbooks. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">13. Make a root beer float. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">14. Go to the movies with your siblings. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">15. Go window-shopping with a friend. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">16. Write a poem. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">17. Make fresh, homemade fruit juice. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">18. Give your dog a bath. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">19. Make dinner for your family. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">20. Baby-sit for a neighbor. 21. Have a sleepover party and watch scary movies. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">22. Plan a vacation you want to take next summer. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">23. Plant flowers in your yard. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">24. Sign up for a class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">25. Have a bubble bath. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">26. Make a mixed CD of your favorite songs and title it "The soundtrack of my life". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">27. Order a pizza. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">28. Splash around in a plastic kiddy pool. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">29. Buy some crayons and a coloring book. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30. Read a book based on a movie you have seen. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">31. Make a scrapbook of your baby pictures. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">32. Get a job or an internship. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">33. Start a diary and write in it everyday. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">34. Spend the day at the library. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">35. Draw a self-portrait. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">36. Make a collage out of old magazines. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">37. Run around in the sprinklers. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">38. Go to a museum. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">39. Go out for lunch with one of your parents. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">40. Jump in the pool with your clothes on. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">41. Eat last night's leftovers for breakfast. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">42. Learn to sew or knit. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">43. Invite friends over and have a tea party. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">44. Swing on the swings at the park. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">45. Tie-Dye a t-shirt or bed sheets with Kool-Aid! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">46. Make a smoothie. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">47. Learn how to define and spell 5 new words from the dictionary. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">48. Make popsicles in your freezer. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">49. Put on the radio and dance. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">50. Go camping in your backyard!

__<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">1st BACH: Reviewing Exercises __ __<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">[|ENGLISH-4U WEBSITE] __ <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|reported speech practice] [|ENGLISCH-HILFEN WEBSITE] __<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">LEARN THROUGH VIDEOS __ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">[|www.ello.com]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">[|www.lyricstraining.com] __<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">MYTHOLOGY THROUGH ART __ __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Explore London National Gallery's Website and Watch some Videos related to Myths and Legends. __ [|NATIONAL GALLERY'S WEBSITE]

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">WRITING FORMAL LETTERS __ WATCH THIS PRESENTATION TO KNOW THE BASICS OF LETTER WRITING:



YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF WITH THE PHRASES IN THESE FILES:





NOW, YOU NEED A TOPIC FOR YOUR LETTER AND IMAGINE A REAL SITUATION. WATCH THIS CLIP ON ANIMAL TESTING: media type="youtube" key="l0QXUHeGeOc" height="315" width="420" align="center"

= = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: justify;">In looking at research and examples, is seems as though animal testing for the common good of mankind should be socially accepted by those lobbying for the protection of animals because one day they, themselves, could be in need of the technology that was derived from the testing of animals. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: justify;">On the flipside just for a moment, the only logical alternative to animal testing would be human testing. However, research using humans as the test subjects would be immoral as humans cannot be confined to a controlled environment such as those in which test animals dwell.<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: justify;">However, animal testing for cosmetics and the pure vanity of the population should be considered cruel and immoral. In the past, animal testing has helped us cure certain diseases. If the benefit of testing new medication on animals is so great, is animal testing in this respect wrong? Surely the greater good must be considered. The medical advancements that have been made through animal testing and research greatly outweigh the loses. In other words: “animal testing can cause death, and physical harm to the animals, but the cause behind animal testing is to ensure a better quality of life for people in our society " So the question that may arise would be:  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">" Can pain inflicted to animals overweigh the benefits? = = = = =<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1st program: [|GIVING DIRECTIONS: MAP] =

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">PHRASAL VERBS <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Probably phrasal verbs is the worst part of learning English, you have to learn them by heart and you can make no predictions on what they might mean because they are idiomatic expressions, that is, the meaning is not the result of the sum of the meanings of the words that compound the verb: <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Ex: look after IS NOT look (mirar)+after (después)

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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Do you know the story of Sisyphus? He offended God and was punished. He had to push a rock to the top of a hill ... then watch it roll all the way down. He had to start pushing up hill again - forever!

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Life is like that. English is like that. The struggle never ends.

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Here is a dictation about Sisyphus to practice your spelling.

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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #9e5205; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">[|Listen, watch and read some other Greek myths on YouTube (click here)]

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Now think, can you learn English without a teacher?

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Which one can you learn on your own? Which one can't you learn on your own? ...

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">LISTENING

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">SPEAKING

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">READING

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">WRITING

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">GRAMMAR

<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">PRONUNCIATION

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;">__HOW THE WHALE BECAME__ New reading for this third term! You can have a look to the first pages of the book shown below before buying it, enjoy it! <span style="background-color: #cff3a9; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">//<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Why are foxes sneaky? How did the polar bear get her glamorous white coat? Why does the bee collect nectar, and why did the hare fall in love with the moon? In this wonderfully original collection of tales, Ted Hughes explores all these questions and more, and, of course, **How the Whale Became** so huge. //

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<span style="color: #0a75b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.25em;">__Biography of Ted Hughes__
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Ted Hughes is consistently described as one of the twentieth century’s greatest English poets. Born August 17th, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, his family moved to Mexborough when he was seven to run a newspaper and tobacco shop. He attended Mexborough grammar school, and wrote his first poems from the age of fifteen, some of which made their way into the school magazine. Before beginning English studies at Cambridge University (having won a scholarship in 1948), he spent much of his National service time reading and rereading all of Shakespeare. According to report, he could recite it all by heart. At Cambridge, he he 'spent most..time reading folklore and Yeat's poems,' and switched from English to Archaeology and Anthropology in his third year.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">His first published poem appeared in 1954, the year he graduated from Cambridge. He used two pseudonyms for the early publications, Daniel Hearing and Peter Crew. From 1955 to 1956, he worked as a rose gardener, night-watchman, zoo attendant, schoolteacher, and reader for J. Arthur Rank, and planned to teach in Spain then emigrate to Australia. February 26 saw the launch of the literary magazine, the St Botolph's Review, for which Hughes was one of six co-producers. It was also the day he met Sylvia Plath; they were married in four months.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Hughe's first book of poems, Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 to immediate acclaim, winning the Harper publication contest. Over the next 41 years, he would write upwards of 90 books, and win numerous prizes and fellowships including the following (in that order):

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Harper publication contest, Guiness Poetry Award, Guggenheim fellowship, Somerset Maughan award, city of Florence International Poetry Prize, Premio Internazionale Taormina Prize, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, OBE, vote for the best writing in English in the New Poetry Poll, Whitbread Book of the Year, W.H. Smith Literature award, Forward Prize for Poetry, Queen’s Order of Merit, T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, South Bank Award for Literature, Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and the Whitbread Book of the Year again.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">In 1984, he was appointed England’s poet laureate.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Hughes is what some have called a nature poet. A keen countryman and hunter from a young age, he viewed writing poems as a continuation of his earlier passion. ‘This is hunting and the poem is a new species of creature, a new specimen of the life outside your own.’ (Poetry in the Making, 1967)

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Hughes and Plath ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">A strong indirect source of interest in the person of Hughes (aside from his poetry) is his seven-year marriage to the well-known American Poet, Sylvia Plath. Birthday Letters is a sequence of lyrics written by Hughes in the first year of their marriage, cast as a continued conversation with Plath.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">When Plath committed suicide in 1963 (they had separated in 1962), many held Hughes responsible for her death as a consequence of his adulterous relationship with Assia Wevill; recent biographies such as Elaine Feinstein’s Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet have attempted to ‘set the record straight and clear the air of rancor and recrimination’ (Brooke Allen, The New York Times ).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Though deeply marked by the loss, Hughes was publicly silent on the subject for more than 30 years out of his sense of responsibility to protect the couple's two young children, whose perceptions of their mother would have otherwise been impossibly spoiled by external interference. The publication of Birthday Letters has been seen as a 'retaking' of the histories that had been stolen from the family through the cracks in the armour.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">__**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px;">Quotes **__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">‘Each image denotates another, so that the whole poem throbs’ – Edward Lucie Smith on Hughes’ poetry, British Poetry since 1945

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">‘Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it.’ –Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">‘You write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.. in writing, you have to be able to distinguish between those things about which you are merely curious –things you heard about last week or read about yesterday- and things which are a deep part of your life… So you say, ‘What part of my life would I die to be separated from?’ –Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">‘It is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions in the head and express something – perhaps not much, just something – of the crush of information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago. Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are.’-Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making

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Practice Games!
Relative Pronouns: [|Cattle Collector] [|Quiz] [|Quiz] Phonetics: The sounds of American English

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 * Homework 29/11**

Today in class we read a story about a murder at the following website: []

Some things to remember:
 * Part One:** Imagine there was a better resolution to the story, that the murder did not take place. Maybe because there was a way to prevent it or because something else changed in the man's life. Take the information you know about the background of the people in the news story and rewrite the story so that it has a happier ending!
 * Do not start sentences with "Because...."
 * Every sentence starts with a capital letter
 * Strong punctuation and grammar.


 * Part Two:** You learned several new words and ideas today. Choose a bubble map (from the Thinking Maps that you learned in social sciences or tutorial) and create a bubble map with these new ideas you have learned.

__<span style="background-color: #f5c7c7; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TASK 2: Charlotte's web Project __<span style="background-color: #f5c7c7; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hi everybody ! As you already know we have decided to use one of the most relevant excerpts from Charlotte's web in order to make our own interpretation in a film record format or any other that could be attractive. Apart from that, Ms. Wiens asked you to prepare a representation of that scene and act it out in the first five minutes of each lesson this week. I hope you have already worked on it. The more you practice, the better the result will be. This is an example of what you could do:

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<span style="background-color: #f5c7c7; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">[|Charlotte's web Website] <span style="background-color: #f5c7c7; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">[|Wilbur's Bale Out] <span style="background-color: #f5c7c7; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">[|Games] =TASK 3: TEST YOUR PRESENT PERFECT=

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS AND DO THE EXERCISES:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: blue; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">[][][][] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: blue; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST ZOOS:[|DOCUMENT ON ZOOS][|watch this video][|arguments for and against]