How are you? I hope you had a great weekend at home and you are ready for the last week of the second term. This Thursday is the last day before the Easter holidays.
Bruno will choose a song for this week. Which one do you want?
Let´s start!
ENGLISH
1. Read a book in Travelers.
2. Follow these steps to complete the next task.
AIM FOR THIS WEEK: TO WRITE AN ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE ESSAY COMPARING LIFE IN THE COUNTRY TO LIFE IN THE CITY
DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, 1ST APRIL 2020
GUIDE FOR WRITING
ORGANIZE YOUR IDEAS. Copy the chart from the activity 2 on page 66 in your notebook and classify the ideas. Then add your ideas to the chart.
CHOOSE THE IDEAS YOU WILL WRITE ABOUT. Choose 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages about life in the country and 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages about life in the city. Write them on a separate piece of paper.
FOCUS ON THE STRUCTURE.
Paragraph 1: Introduction. You can copy it from the activity 3 on page 66.
Paragraph 2: Life in the city (advantages and disadvantages)
Paragraph 3: Life in the country (advantages and disadvantages)
Paragraph 4: Conclusion (your opinion)
4. USE GREAT EXPRESSIONS. Choose which expressions from the following list you will use in each paragrpah. These expressions will make your text nicer. Write the expressions you will use on a separate piece of paper.
- Phrases to express advantages:
The main advantage is…
Another advantage is..
One/Another/A further/An additional (major) advantage of … is …
The main/greatest/first advantage of … is …
One point of view in favour of…
Some/Many people suggest/feel/ argue that…
- Phrases to express disadvantages:
On the other hand,
Another disadvantage is…
One/Another/A further/An additional (major) disadvantage/ drawback of …
The main/greatest/most serious/first disadvantage/drawback of …
Another negative aspect of … is ....
Some/Many people are against… beacuse...
- Phrases to introduce a conclusion with your own opinion:
In conclusion
To sum up
In conclusion, it seems that …
On balance,———– it may be concluded/said that …
Taking everything into account, it is clear that...
Finally, it is true to say that …,
It is my opinion that …
5. WRITE YOUR ESSAY AND SEND IT TO MY E-MAIL. If you write it on the computer, it will be easier for me to correct it.
NOTE: This task will last for the whole week. Think when you want to do each step. Take into account that you must have finished it on Wednesday.
SCIENCE
1. Today is the last day to finish or correct the activity you chose.
Good morning!! It´s Friday! Let´s start! ENGLISH 1. Answers to the activity 2 on page 62. 1. False. In population, Mexico City isn´t as large as Beijing. = In population, Mexico City is less large than Beijing. 2. True 3. True 4. True 5. False. Beijing covers a smaller area than Mexico City = Mexico City covers a larger area than Beijing 6. False. In the winter, Beijing is colder than Reykjavik. 7. True 8. True 9. False. Reykjavik is older than Mexico City. 10. False. In the winter, Reykjavik has the most hours of darkness.
2. Go to Travelers. You have been assigned 3 activities to practice the comparatives and superlatives. You will find them where you can see in the picture.
3. Read a book in Travelers.
SCIENCE
Work a little bit on the activity you have chosen from the list of possible activities of Tuesday 24th
Can you sing it?
Have a nice weekened! Take a rest! Enjoy the time with your family! And... "see" you on Monday!
There are many ways to compare things. We can say:
I´m not as tall as you = You are taller than me = I´m less tall than you.
4. Having this into account, do activity 2 on page 62 on your notebook. If you find a false sentece, rewrite it so that it becomes true.
SCIENCE
As you know, you have to continue working on your chosen activity. Have you all already decided what to do?
MÚSICA
La actividad de música que os propongo, es trabajar el bloque de Audición Activa a través de la canción ‘’VIVIR’’ interpretada por el dúo Estopa y la cantante Rozalén.
Esta canción transmite un mensaje sobre la actitud positiva que debemos de tomar cuando nos ocurre algo.
Tal y como nos está pasando en estos momentos, creo que es la canción más adecuada para todos nosotros.
Como ya os he comentado durante las clases, la música es un lenguaje, una forma de expresión de emociones y sentimientos. Tenemos muchas maneras de expresar nuestros sentimientos y emociones como por ejemplo a través de la pintura.
La actividad consiste en que tenéis que hacer un dibujo que exprese esa actitud de positivismo frente a la situación que estamos viviendo, tal y como nos quiere transmitir la canción.
La fecha de entrega sería entre el 30 y el 1 de abril. Os pido por favor que lo entreguéis en las fechas que os comento, porque tengo la intención de realizar una actividad conjunta con todos los dibujos que me entreguéis.
Aprovecho para deciros que estoy segura que todos vosotros y vosotras estáis haciendo un trabajo excelente en vuestras casas y os mando todo mi ánimo.
Good morning, everybody! How are you? I wish you are all great! let´s start with some music!
ENGLISH
today, we are going to start to review and study the comparatives and superlatives.
1. Click on this link: COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES. Read the grammar rule carefully and then, play the games to practice.
2. On your notebook, activity 2 on page 61. You don´t have to send me a photo of your answers. Tomorrow, I will show them here.
3. Read a book in Travelers.
SCIENCE
1. Today, you just have to go on with the activity you chose yesterday. That activity is like a mini-project. You will need many days to finish it. Here, you can find the list of possible activities: LIST OF POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES
If you finished a whole activity yesterday, send it to my e-mail.
And, you can start with a new one if you want!
2. It´d be great if you write a comment saying which activity you chose and if you´d recommend it to youe classmates.
¡Buenos días, familias! Hoy os voy a plantear una nueva dinámica para seguir trabajando los ecosistemas. El objetivo de esta nueva dinámica es que cada familia decidáis qué actividad o actividades va a ir haciendo vuestro/a hijo/a según vuestra disponibilidad, recursos digitales, situación familiar e intereses.
La idea es que cada día vuestro/a hijo/a le dedique unos 45 minutos a la actividad que hayáis elegido y que cuando esté acabada me hagáis llegar el resultado final al correo electrónico. También me podéis ir haciendo todas las consultas que necesitéis, por supuesto. angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org
La fecha de entrega para que yo les pueda dar feedback sería el martes 31 de marzo. Si alguien se retrasa, no pasa nada. Vamos a ser comprensivos.
Si en algún caso os viene bien la siguiente propuesta de actividades para que los niños estén entretenidos en casa y queréis que hagan más de una, también es posible. ¡Claro que sí!
Recordad que el objetivo es que cada niño/a siga trabajando el tema y conseguir que no supongan los deberes un estrés añadido a estos días. ¡A ver si conseguimos este equilibrio!
Gracias a todos por vuestra colaboración.
Espero que estéis todos bien y vuestros familiares también.
TASK: Choose one of the following activities and do it carefully.
I WILL VALUE:
That you use all the things you have learnt about this topic.
Creativity.
Effort.
TIME: Spend 45 minutes every day doing these activities. You can rest during the weekend.
DEADLINE: Around the 31st March 2020
LIST OF POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES:
Write a story that takes place in a particular ecosystem. Show in the story the fauna and flora of that ecosystem and the relationships between the living things and the physical environment. It can be a comic, a tale, ...
Create a presentation, a poster or a brochure about different adaptations of animals to survive in different ecosystem (page 47).
Make a experiment to reflect about the adaptation of a polar bolar to cold temperatures.
Watch one of the following documentaries: Home or Earth. Make a list with the name of every ecosystem that appears and the names of the animals that live in it.
Draw a visual-thinking strategy on your notebook about beneficial and harmful relationships in an ecosystem (page 50-51).
Watch one of the following movies: Finding Nemo, The Lion King or Brother Bear, and make a list with the animals that appear in each film (name of the character, species it belongs to) and then, draw a food web among them. Who eats who in that ecosystem?
Invent a game about ecosystems. It can be a simple game like memory or dominoe; or a more complex one, like a board game.
Create a presentation, a poster or a brochure about the effects of human activity on the environment (page 58-59).
Record a puppet show about an ecosystem and the different interrelationships you can find in it. Write the script, make the puppets, practice and... record it!
ENGLISH
1. Read a book in Travelers. And... Vadim chose Seven Nations Army.
Good morning, everybody! Let´s start this week! This week Vadim has to choose the song. Which song do you choose, Vadim? ENGLISH I can see you are working a lot. For this reason, today you only have to read 2 books in Travelers. That´s all! Have fun! SCIENCE And today, you have a QUIZ about the ecosystems. Remember:
- You only have 20 minutes to complete it. - Put a clock next to you to be aware of the time. - Sumbit your quiz before the 20 minutes finish. - Once you open it, you have to finish it.
Good morning, everybody! How are you? I hope you are all great!
ENGLISH 1. Read a book in Travelers. Today, I´m going to show you the answers to the activities you´ve been doing during this week. Correct them from your notebook as we usually do in the classroom. 2. Answers to the activity 1 on page 58. 1 - e 2 - c 3 - a 4 - b 5 - g 6 - f 7 - d 3. Answers to the activity 2 on page 59. a) Not many! Queen Elizabeth wanted to set a good example for her subjects. So she had one bath a month! She thought one bath was enough! b) When women wanted to improve their skin, they put a little dog´s urine on it. How disgusting! c) Because people often only had a few teeth!Bad teeth were very common because of poor diets. d) Many people went to the theatre. They also played tennis and a violent kind of football using a pig´s bladder for a ball. e) By boat! They were like today´s taxis, and there were many boats on the River Thames. The roads were terrible because there was a lot of mud in the streets. They were often blocked by animals, too. f) No, they didn´t drink much water at all! It was too dirty. Most of the time, people drank weak beer! g) Yes, there was a lot of rubbish! The streets smelt terrible, too! That´s because there weren´t any toilets or bathrooms. People had to use a chamber pot. They emptied these pots out of their windows. 4. Answers to activity 1 on page 59. 1 - d. There is too much graffiti. (Graffiti is an uncountable noun) 2 - b. There aren´t enough things for teenagers to do. 3 - c. There are too many cars and lorries. 4 - a. There isn´t enough clean air. 5. Answers to the activity 3 on page 59. 1. There aren´t enough parks. 2. There is too much noise. 3. There are too many people. 4. There isn´t enough water.
6. Answers to Father´s Day activity. Check them! 1 - b 2 - b 3 - a 4 - c 5 - d 6 - b 7 - a 8 - c 9 - d 10 - c 11 - a 12 - a SCIENCE It´s QUIZ time! Read carefully these instructions:
The quiz has got three sections.
When you pass to the next section, you can´t come back to previous one.
You have 30 minutes to complete it.
Write your name. (THIS IS IMPORTANT)
When you finish, you have to click SUBMIT. (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. IF NOT, I WON´T RECEIVE YOUR ANSWERS)
If the time is finishing, go to the end and click SUBMIT. Otherwise you will lose every answer.
¡CUIDADO!Una vez que abres el enlace, tienes que acabar el QUIZ. Si lo abres y lo cierras, no se te volverá a abrir.
Good morning! I hope you are all great. I remind you that today is Father´s Day! It´s a great opportunity to say thank you to your father for all the things he does for you. Let´s start! ENGLISH 1. Put the correct words from the table below into the article.
Father's Day is celebrated all around the world to say thank you (1) ____ dads. An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: “A father is (2) ____ than a hundred schoolmasters.” Many of us perhaps think our father is even more important. There is no (3) ____ limit for the person saying thank you, nor for the dad. There is no universal date when every country celebrates Father’s Day. In many countries it is (4) ____ the third Sunday in June. Most fathers receive presents and cards and perhaps even a special (5) ____. The day has a special punctuation point. The apostrophe is placed before the ‘s’. This means we all think about our own father. Of course, if the apostrophe was placed (6) ____ the ‘s’, we would be honouring all the fathers in the world. Father’s Day (7) ____ believe the day started in Washington state in the USA. A lady called Sonora Dodd was sitting in church (8) ____ Sunday in 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day. She decided it was only fair to also have a day for fathers. In 1910, she (9) ____ a special church service to say thank you for own father. The idea took off very slowly. U.S. Presidents. from Calvin Coolidge in 1926 to Richard Nixon in 1972, supported the idea. Nixon started the permanent (10) ____ Father's Day in June, 1972. Today it is a major holiday. It has become (11) ____ commercialized, which is good and bad. The shops are so full of Father’s Day (12) ____, it is almost impossible to forget when the day is.
1.
(a)
for
(b)
to
(c)
so
(d)
with
2.
(a)
most
(b)
more
(c)
many
(d)
much
3.
(a)
age
(b)
old
(c)
young
(d)
youth
4.
(a)
in
(b)
at
(c)
on
(d)
to
5.
(a)
diner
(b)
dining
(c)
dinners
(d)
dinner
6.
(a)
on
(b)
after
(c)
below
(d)
before
7.
(a)
historians
(b)
historical
(c)
history
(d)
hysterical
8.
(a)
on
(b)
a
(c)
one
(d)
in
9.
(a)
arrangement
(b)
arranges
(c)
arranging
(d)
arranged
10.
(a)
officially
(b)
officialdom
(c)
official
(d)
officials
11.
(a)
extremely
(b)
extremity
(c)
extreme
(d)
extremes
12.
(a)
stuff
(b)
stiff
(c)
staffs
(d)
staff
2. How do you celebrate Father´s Day? Write a comment. 3. Read a book in Travelers. SCIENCE Tomorrow, I will send you a QUIZ about the Modern Ages. You have to show that you know everything about the Modern Ages. These are the contents you have to remember:
The discovery of America. How did it take place? Which important consequences did it have for Europe?
Los Austrias. Who were they? What are the most important events they lived? Which were their territories?
Los Borbones.Who were they? What are the most important events they lived? Which were their territories?
Come on! Open your notebook and... STUDY! :)
On Monday, you will have another QUIZ about the ecosystems. These are the contents you have to remember:
Definition of an ecosystem.
Elements of the physical environment.
Definition of fauna and flora.
Definition of population and community.
How does the climate affect to an ecosystem?
To understand a climate graph.
Food chains.
Producers, consumers, scavengers and decomposers.
Food webs.
If you finish studying History, you can start with Natural Science. Or you can leave Natural Science for the weekend. It´s up to you!
Good morning, everybody! Happy Wednesday to all of you! I hope you are all ok and you are enjoying these lessons and activities. Let´s start! ENGLISH 1. Have you already learnt Wonderwall?
How are you today? I guess you are missing your classmates and teachers. For this reason, your teachers have created a video to encourage you to stay at home. I´m sure we will see each other very soon.
ENGLISH 1. Read a book in Travelers. 2. On your notebook, activities 1 and 3 on page 59. NOTE: Too much is used with uncountable nouns. Too many is used with countable nouns. 3. On the comments area, write problems about where we live using a few, enough, too much and too many. Then, reply to a classmate´s problem, writing a solution. For example: Student A: Problem - There´s too much rubbish in our neighbourhood. Student B: Solution - There should be more rubbish bins in the streets. SCIENCE We have already learnt about the physical environment and the living things in an ecosystem. Today, we are going to learn about one of the ways that the living things are interrelated in an ecosystem. All living things need food to survive and living things eat each other. This concept is shown in food chains. Food chains show how living things feed on other living things in the ecosystem. 1. TASK: Use visual thinking to show the following concepts on your notebook (use a double page): - Food chain. - Producers. - Primary consumers. - Secondary consumers. - Tertiary consumers. - Scaverngers. - Decomposers. - Food web. You can learn about this: - Reading your Natural Science book (pages 48-49). - Watching these videos.
- Singing and dancing this song :) I´m sure it will make your day!
If you finsish your visual thinking strategy and you are really proud of it, you can send it to me to angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org.
Good morning, everybody! How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed it and you could make the most of this time with your family.
WARNING: It´s very important that you use the comments at the end of the post. It´s the way I have to know if you are doing the activities and you are undestanding everything. You must participate with your comments. Let´s start with today´s activities! ENGLISH 1. Julia chose for this week "Wonderwall" by Oasis
2. Check the activities 1 and 2 from page 56. These are the answers:
Activity 1, page 56:
1 -theatre
2 - tunnel
3 - tower
4 -graffiti
5 -rubbish
6 - vessel
7 -market
Activity 2, page 56:
1 - graffiti
2 - rubbish
3 - tower
4 - vessel
5 - tunnel
6 - theatre
7 - market
2. Read a book in Travelers.
3. Activites 1 and 2 on page 58. On your notebook. SCIENCE Today, you still have time to send me the presentation about the fauna and flora of your ecosystem and a photograph of the model you have done. Many of you have already done it. If you have finished, you can review the contents we have learnt about History.
