TAG QUESTIONS

Something to review the topic:
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omgrammar/tagquestions.htm
http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/questions/questions-tags.php

Let's practice:
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/233.html
http://kidseslgames.com/grammar%20games/Tag%20Questions/tagquestions1.html

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

Before reading the book take a look of the following video to have an idea about the story.

Print and read the book "The Canterville Ghost" for next June 5th, remember to write a glossary for every chapter with the unknown words.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/wilde-canterville-ghost.pdf

Librivox recording of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde: 

https://archive.org/details/canterville_ghost_librivox

You can visit these websites to find the meaning of the unknown words:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-espanol/
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/

NOTA: LAS NIÑAS QUE QUIERAN SACAR COPIA DEL LIBRO, LO VOY A DEJAR EL LUNES EN LA FOTOCOPIADORA, CON UN TALLER PARA DESARROLLAR. LAS COPIAS CUESTAN $2200.

Syllabus "Second term"

SYLLABUS

LOGRO GENERAL DEL ÁREA:
La estudiante Liceísta al finalizar la educación básica y media estará en capacidad de expresarse en forma oral y escrita teniendo en cuenta la comprensión auditiva y lectora en contextos reales de acuerdo a su entorno y nivel.



ESTÁNDARES
Interactuó con mis compañeras y profesora tomando decisiones sobre los temas personales y de la vida cotidiana.

Organizo párrafos coherentes teniendo en cuenta elementos formales del lenguaje.

Soy capaz de leer y comprender textos breves y sencillos. Se encontrar información especifica y predecible en escritos sencillos y cotidianos como anuncios publicitarios, menús, horarios y cartas personales.

NIVEL DE LOGRO:
Tiene la capacidad de expresar en forma oral y escrita hechos y acontecimientos sobre temas de la vida cotidiana.

TOPICS:

- First conditional

-Second conditional

- New vocabulary (English is fun with television)

-Readings (The Canterville Ghost)

-Compositions (My favorite TV program)

-Tag questions 

-Songs

-Time clauses (before, while, after)

FUTURE TENSES

Future tenses (present continuous, will & going to)

http://eseducativo.blogspot.com/2014/02/future-tenses.html

HOMEWORK: Design your own mind map about future tenses using the following example.

Who You Are: A Message To All Women

HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edited by Treasure Chest Products, Jack Herrick, Brett, Sondra C and 104 others

What's your story? Every human being has something fascinating to share with the world. The trick to writing an autobiography is to treat it like any good story: it should have a protagonist (you), a central conflict, and a cast of fascinating characters to keep people engaged. Read on to learn how to craft the story of your life and polish your writing to make it sing.

METHOD 1: Mapping Out Your Life

Write out your life timeline. Start writing your autobiography by conducting research on your own life. CREATING A TIMELINE of your life is a good way to make sure you include all the most important dates and events, and it gives you a structure to build upon. You can consider this the "BRAINSTORMING" PHASE, so don't hesitate to write down everything you can remember.

• Your autobiography doesn't have to begin with your birth. You may want to include some family history as well. Write down information about your ancestry, your grandparents' lives, your parents' lives, and so on. Having information about your family history will help readers get a sense of how you became the person you are.

Identify the main characters. Every good story has interesting characters, relatives and friends who help move the plot along. Who are the characters in your life? It's a given that your parents will play a role, along with your friends and other close family members. Think beyond your immediate family to others who have affected your life and should play a role in your autobiography.

 Teachers, coaches, and mentors are extremely influential in people's lives. Decide whether someone who has been a role model (or the opposite) for you will figure into your story.

 Offbeat characters such as animals, celebrities you've met, and even cities are often points of interest in an autobiography.

Pull out the best stories.  The story of your entire life would start to get pretty long-winded, so you'll have to make some decisions about what anecdotes you're going to include. Begin drafting your manuscript by writing out the main stories that will be woven together to create a picture of your life.[2] There are a few main topics that most autobiographies cover since readers find them fascinating :

The childhood story: Whether your childhood was happy or traumatic, you should include a few anecdotes that give a picture of who you were and what you experienced at the time. You can tell the story of your childhood by breaking it down into smaller anecdotes that illustrate your personality - your parents' reaction when you brought home a stray dog, the time you climbed out the window at school and ran away for 3 days, your friendly relationship with a homeless person living in the woods . . . get creative.

Write in your own voice. People read autobiographies to gain insight on what it’s like to be someone else. Being authentically you is a sure way to keep people engaged. If your writing is formal and stiff, or if it reads like a college essay instead of an expose on your life, people will have trouble getting through it.

 Write as though you're opening your heart to a trusted friend, in prose that's clear, strong and not too cluttered with vocabulary words you rarely use.

 Write so that your personality is revealed. Are you funny? Intense? Spiritual? Dramatic? Don't hold back; your personality should come through in the way you tell your story.

METHOD 2: Outlining

This stage of pre-writing blurs with method 1; while you are brainstorming, you are beginning to plan your writing. The first step in planning is to choose a position, a thesis or point to support (it is not necessary to fully support either point of view) - The topic sentence! The second step is to find ways to support your point. Look at the notes you took while brainstorming. Then, write a simple outline; just a simple plan for the number of paragraphs you will write. The outline is like the skeleton, then you fill it with the flesh it needs. 

Example 

Introduction

How your life began

The first things you do when writing an autobiography is start off with a lot of facts about your life; for example, your name and your parents name, where they came from including their family history, when and where you were born, where you lived, where you spent your childhood, where you went to school. You have to give a lot of information so your reader can clearly understand your beginning. Once you have written this introduction, you are ready to start your second Chapter of your autobiography.

Body paragraph 1

What life means to you?

In this chapter you should state how you see life--what does life mean to you. Are you happy or sad? Do you have a lot of friends or just a few? How do you make your days go by? Do you have a relationship? What are your favorite places to go on?

Body paragraph 2

Your life experience and where you are in life?

When you are writing this part of the autobiography, you usually explain the type of person you are; use facts about yourself such as: have you won any awards? Did you achieve anything? State any changes throughout your life! Remembering any events in your life! Your personal and family experiences!

Conclusion

The conclusion is the last chapter of your autobiography and an important one, too. In the conclusion you usually try to re-word the introduction and add some type of closure to bring the whole autobiography together, and how you would like to be remembered?

Happy birthday Laura Milena and Juanita..

Punctuation marks exercise.

ACTIVITY: Punctuation marks exercise.

This exercise will test your understanding of all kinds of different punctuation marks, particularly commas, colons, semi-colons and apostrophes.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_55.htm

Let's practice!

PRESENT  AND PAST SIMPLE TENSES

Street Cats is a high-energy game for children and adults that practices the present simple and modal verbs. You can download Street Cats and share it with your friends or play it online!
You can accumulate lots of points, but you lose points for using help and for losing a life.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/games/free-games/street-cats/

Dominoes game:
http://www.kubbu.com/student/?i=1&a=39918_irregular_verb

English Grammar:http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/frage.htm

SONG!  Sk8er Boy - Avril Lavigne
I found an interesting video that can help you to understand the lyrics.
Have a good weekend!

PRESENT SIMPLE

PRACTICE

Practice the auxiliary ‘to be’ in the present simple tense, using this ESL Grammar Interactive Monkey Fun Game for elementary:
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/verb-to-be-auxiliary-verb-am-is-are-esl-grammar-activity/

Question Words – What, where, Who, why, when, which, how, Grammar Activity:

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/question-words-what-where-who-why-when-which-how-grammar-activity/

Daily routine

Greeting: 

Good morning my friend, How are you?

Fine, thanks!

It is a greeting of friendship,

-That's well.

We will do the possible to do as more friends.

Good morning my friend, How are you?

-Very well.

Song: 

We start the day with a smile

This is the way we start the day,

Start the day, start the day.

This the way we start the day,

So early in the morning.

First we smile and shake a hand,

Shake a hand, shake a hand.

First we smile and shake a hand,

So early in the morning.

Then we sit down quietly,

Quietly, Quietly

Then we sit down quietly,

So early in the morning.

We listen very Carefully,

Carefully, Carefully.

We listen very carefully,

So early in the morning.

Prayer:

Dear Lord, thank you so much for another day of life. 

Thank you for ways in which you provide all for us. 

For Your protection and love we thank you. 

Help us to focus our hearts and minds now 

on what we are about to learn. 

Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we listen and talk. 

Guide us by your eternal light 

as we discover more about the world around us. 

You are a wonderful God, full of grace and mercy. 

I praise you for allowing me another day to spend with my family, 

my friends and my teachers. 

I love you Father! 

I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, 

my Lord and Savior. Amen. 

SYLLABUS

http://liceonacional.edu.co/

LOGRO GENERAL DEL ÁREA:

La estudiante Liceísta al finalizar la educación básica y media estará en capacidad de expresarse en forma oral y escrita teniendo en cuenta la comprensión auditiva y lectora en contextos reales de acuerdo a su entorno y nivel.

ESTÁNDARES

• Identifica y comprende la información extraída de la vida real.

• Escribe narraciones apoyándose en conocimientos generales

• Produce textos orales y escritos atendiendo a la interdisciplinariedad.

• Demuestra que reconoce elementos de la cultura extranjera y lo relaciona con su cultura.

• Escucha la información clave en conversaciones breves tomadas de la vida real, si están acompañadas de imágenes.

NIVEL DE LOGRO: 

Tiene la capacidad de comprender y producir textos cortos y sencillos en forma oral y escrita.

TEMAS:

-Talk about rules (Feb. 13th)
-Diagnostic test (Feb 14th)

-Present simple (Feb 20th/21st)
*Mind map -->(Feb.21st)

*Composition on the blog (Feb.23rd)

-Past simple (Feb. 27th)

* Ppt presentation (March 6th)

*Quiz present and past simple (March 7th)

-Future will/ going to (review) (March 13th)

*Biography (March 14th)

-Relative pronouns- who, that-which-whose (March 20th)

  Relative pronouns with prepositions (to-at-with) (March 21st)

*Quiz (March 21st)

-New vocabulary (compositions, songs and readings)

*Portfolio (March 27th and 28th)

*Self-monitoring class (April 3rd)

CLASS RULES

ENGLISH CLASS RULES

LISTEN carefully to your teacher and classmates. 
Don’t use your cellphone. TURN IT OFF! 
Raise your hand to participate. 
Be RESPECTFUL and RESPONSIBLE. 
Bring your materials every class:  

(notebook, markers, pencil case, portfolio, usb and $100)
CARRY your ENGLISH DICTIONARY.´

WAYS TO BE QUIET DURING THE CLASSES

http://k6educators.about.com/u/ua/classroommanagement/get-student-attention.htm

“Check” We listen with our eyes, ears, mouth, hands and body. If I am talking, all those things need to be listening. If a student is not doing that while I am talking, I just say, “check” which means she has to check her body as something is not doing the right thing.

Easy as 1, 2, 3: When I say, “1 2 3 Eyes on Me”, then you have to respond “1 2 Eyes on you” from where I expect silence.

Clap and Count: “If you can hear my voice, clap once. (Girls clap)                  If you can hear my voice, clap twice (clap-clap). 

If you can hear my voice, clap three times (clap-clap-clap).”    
                  
 1-2-3- clap method. As soon as you hear me say 1, you’ll put both hands on your head, 2 – you’ll raise both hands in the air ready to clap and 3 – you all clap together 3 times and the next speaker is ready to talk.

INTRODUCING MYSELF

This mind map
collects some of the vocabulary that is
needed to talk about
ourselves or
introduce ourselves.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsPYF0OOZ0dbnDRiTKsDCLiVfkTjkvHQ36hSkA3_AkAjbQQCOSgGS3yNSXewCmC70JGbWdZhLM_PudrYbdgkS-9_LYvx5PQzV5vbxEHw8TKwFgsmJMrm6Veb1gCqG6qdbGmlJiraJMUlao/s1600/ESL_talking_about_myself_in_English.png

Hello everyone!
My name is Yirley Yurany Mora Contreras, I am a B.A in English student at the University of Tolima. Besides, I am a teacher and in this moment I'm working as a pre-service teacher at Liceo Nacional School; it is a very interesting job because it lets me learn from my students and help other teachers.
 In my free time, I enjoy reading books about God, working to help children and poor people through "Organización Juvenil Red" and I also love sharing time with my friends.
As you know I am colombian; I was born on Valparaiso-Caquetá on March 9th, 1992. However, I consider Ibagué as my home because I live here since I was 11 years old.
Regarding my family, it is a little complicated, I used to live with my older brother, but he is working in Cali right now. So, I can say I live alone because I do not live with my parents. They are living too far: My mother lives in Italy with my little brother and my stepfather, in regard  my father, he is living at Nariño with my three sisters and one of my brothers. For that reason, I consider my friends, my students and my teachers as the only family that my dear Lord have given me in this city.

I hope this short description of my life can help you to know who I am. Now, I want to invite you to introduce yourself.

ASSIGNMENT: Taking into account the vocabulary given in the mind map, write a composition about the most important aspects of your life.

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

Welcome! I am glad to be your pre-service teacher during this semester and hope to learn from you as much as you will do from me and your classmates.
This blog will be used as a tool for being in contact. It is neccesary to clarify that IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to get in the habit of checking the blog frequently, due to it will be pretty useful for your own learning process and to look for the resources I am going to share with you.