dilluns, 11 d’abril del 2011

Vinyl Cafe - Stories from Canadian Radio

The Vinyl Cafe is a CBC Radio programme that comes on on Sunday at noon. It is hosted by the author Stuart McLean, who each weeks reads a new short story about a typical Canadian family. The father's name is Dave, the mother is Morley. They have two children, a sixteen year old daughter named Stephanie and an eleven year old son named Sam.

The stories are always very funny, and often very heart-warming too. Hopefully you will be able to understand some of it, give it a try. Stuart McLean reads fairly slowly and clearly, and you can always go back and rewind.

Here is just a couple to get you started. Don't forget to tell me what you think!


Morley’s Birthday Bash




Emil




Arthur the Dog

dilluns, 21 de març del 2011

Let´s Make a TV Programme!!!

4th ESO:

We encourage you to make a video in groups based on a television programme you like. The script and dialogue should be composed by you and your group, and the performance should be recorded with each group member taking part equally. The format can be copied from the real TV program, including credits and bloopers! We will be sharing these in class and posting them on the blog for everyone to see, so be funny and creative!

Cheer up, it won´t be so hard, and we´re sure we will have a good laugh!

dimarts, 15 de febrer del 2011

Some Songs in English.

Barenaked Ladies with their feature song, ¨If I Had a Million Dollars¨. If some of the lyrics don´t make sense, remember that a lot of the song is a joke. They are naming all the silly things you could waste a $1,000,000 on! (Wikipedia has a pretty nice explaination of what each thing is - for instance a `Chesterfield´is an old Canadian word for a couch.)



The second is a song by Michael Buble. It is called ¨Just Haven´t Met You Yet¨. It is a love song for single people who are waiting to meet the person they will fall in love with. Try to sing along!!!



NOTE!!! I have fixed the Michael Buble link! The new clip also contains the original music video along with the lyrics. Enjoy!!!

dijous, 10 de febrer del 2011

Hello from Canada

Hello everyone!

I wanted to thank you all for your warm and kindly welcome to me over the past few weeks. I look forward every week to seeing you all in class, and I am excited to learn more about all the fantastic things you have told me to do and try while here in Spain.

In the meantime, I thought I would post the powerpoint on Canada I made the first week I was here. (In case you wanted to have another look at it!)

See you in class! Krista

divendres, 16 d’abril del 2010

ORAL TASK ASSESSMENT

'The annoying customer'

Name: ______________________________ Teacher: ____________________

Date: _______________________________ Modality: ___________________


 


 

CRITERIA

Score

 

3 marks

2 marks

1 mark

0 marks

 

Pronunciation

The student pronounces all or most words correctly.

The student makes an effort to pronounce most words correctly, but sometimes fails to.

The student pays little attention to how words are pronounced. Frequent pronounciation mistakes.

The students makes no effort to pronounce words correctly. All the sounds belong to his/her mother tongue.


 


 


 

______

Fluency

The student speaks without interruptions and uses the correct pitch for each type of question.

The student sometimes stumbles when speaking. The pitch may not always be the right one.

The student stumbles when speaking and makes pitch mistakes.

The student stumbles too often, making it difficult to follow the conversation. There are pitch mistakes.


 


 


 

______

Performance

The student performs his/her role as if in an authentic situation. Body language plays an important part.

The student performs his/her role, but is not convincing enough. Some body language.

The student does not perform his/her role. Little body language accompanying the dialogue.

The student does not perform his/her role. No body language. The text is delivered in a monotone voice.


 


 


 

______


 

Improvisation

The student reacts quickly to new information without any kind of help from anyone.

The student reacts to new information, but it takes some time. He/she may need to ask the teacher or other students for help, but in English.

The student needs a lot of time to react to new information. He/she may ask the teacher or other students for help in his/her own language.

The student does not react to new information.


 


 


 


 

______

Vocabulary and expressions

The student uses the appropriate vocabulary and expressions thoroughly or most of the times.

The student uses the appropriate vocabulary and expressions most of the time. There may be interferences form his/her mother tongue.

The students shows poor control of the appropriate vocabulary and expressions. There are interferences from his /her mother tongue and may use one word in his/her mother tongue.

The student shows no effort to use the appropriate vocabulary nor expressions. He/she uses his/her mother tongue.


 


 


 


 


 

______

Grammar

The students makes few or no grammatical mistakes.

The student makes some grammatical mistakes.

The student makes many grammatical mistakes, but not affecting the basics of the language (wrong past participle, wrong past tense, no –s in the present…).

The student makes many basic grammatical mistakes (no subjects, no auxiliaries, no tenses…)


 


 


 

______

    

TOTAL

__/18

dilluns, 12 d’abril del 2010

Remember the basics?

Here are some podcasts that you can listen to in order to revise some basic grammar points on the English language.







At the restaurant

This is a video in American English that teaches you some useful expressions when eating out. Why don't you have a listen and tell us what you think?