Practice 16th. (28th, April, 2017).

Topic: Passive Voice and Used to (Continuation).

1. Click on  https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint3/grammar/file10/?cc=mx&selLanguage=en

a) Click on FILE 10, LESSON A (Passive Voice, exercises 1 +2)

Do the exercises, check them and write the score in your notebook.

b) Click LESSON B (Used to, exercises 1 + 2).

Do the exercises, check them and write the score in your notebook.

2. Click on https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint3/g_ef_pre_builder?cc=mx&selLanguage=en

a) Choose FILE 10 (Too much choice) + NEXT.

b) Read the text, take out 50% out of the words, complete the text, check and copy it in your notebook.

GOOD LUCK!

Practice 15, 24th. April, 2017.

Topic: Used to. 

1. Click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9InqDdHe3co

a) Watch the video and take notes in your notebook about "USED TO".
    - Formulation (affirmative form, negative and question form)
    - Usages
    - Examples

2. Click on http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1230

Do the exercise, choose 5 sentences and copy them in your notebook,

3. Click on https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/used

a) Watch the video.

b) Click on GROUPING (under the video and the comments), put the sentences in the right groups, write your score and correct the WRONG sentences in your notebook.

c) Click on GAP FILL TYPING, and complete the sentences. Check your answers and write the score in your notebook.

4. Click on https://es.lyricstraining.com/play/gotye-kimbra/somebody-that-i-used-to-know/HRFPTX6H8R#ibw

a) Fill in the missing words from this song "Somebody that I used to know".

GOOD LUCK!

Integrated task 2 (17th. April, 2017).

a) In groups of 4 people choose 4 inventions you are interested in.

b) Look up information on the web about their history and who invented them.

c) On a bond paper write some lines about what they are (definition) in simple present, and when and who invented them in simple past.

d) Write the use(s) for each invention (at least) in the Passive voice in simple present.

e) Illustrate your inventions.

Rubric for the evaluation:

1. You can use informal style (contractions).
2. Consider logical order (coherence).
3. Consider grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation.

Date to deliver it: Friday, 21st. April 2017.

Example: 

The Dishwasher. 

A dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning dishware and cutlery. Josephine Garis Cochrane invented the first useful dishwasher in Shelbyville, U.S.A. and received patent # 355,139 on December 28, 1886. 
A dishwasher is used to clean the dirty dishes after having dinner. 

WRITING: A biography. 

1. Go to page 116 in your students´ book, read the biography of Norah Jones.

2. Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple.

3. Choose Read the following information to do a biography.

4. Write a biography of someone you know or of a famous person, who is still alive. Write three paragraphs.

Paragraph 1: Write information about where and when the person was born, in his / her early life. Write about 3 lines, use the Past simple.

Paragraph 2: Write about his her life as a young adult (what the person did in his / her adulthood). Write about 3 lines, use the Past simple.

Paragraph 3: Write about his / her  later life and about now (what he / she has done until now) write about 3 lines, use the presente perfect and present simple).

*Go to page 116 and check Nora Jones´ biography. 

Rubric:
a) Don´t forget to use orthography, grammar and punctuation.
b) Vocabulary
c) Style: formal (don´t use contractions)
d) Respect the number of lines (minimum 9 lines).
e) Coherence (logical order).
f) Don´t forget to write your name.

5. Send the biography to the teacher´s e-mail (alberto.lora@live.com.mx) before Wednesday, 12th. April.