Book report

For Friday you have to do a book report about a book you have read. The report must be in English but the book can be in Spanish.




Include:

Title and author of the book.
Setting: Where and when the action happens.
Main characters and other characters.
What happens in the book.
Your opinion.

To get a good grade:

--Be careful of verb tense!!!!

--Be careful of spelling and punctuation.

--Try to use lots of adjectives and adverbs.

--Use sequence words. First, next, then, later…   (depends on what you want to say)

--Use expressions to link ideas together: because, so, but…

Use complete sentences!

More circuits

Can you label the parts of this circuit?  What type of circuit is it?



Click here to go to the page and see more about electricity.

Here is a diagram of the circuit:

English Test Units 4 and 5

Your test is on Monday, 1st February. Here's what you have to study!

-- Grammar: 

Present Perfect: Asking and answering questions about life experience: 
"Have you ever..."  "I have never..."   "I have + past participle"

Present Perfect: Questions and answers with "yet" and "just".
"Just"-- it happened a short time ago
"Yet"-- It hasn't happened but it will happen in the future.

--Vocabulary:

Words with the prefix "un":  unusual, unhappy, untrue, unfriendly, unkind, unwrap, undo, unfold, uncover (p.53, WB p.36)

Words with the prefix "dis": disappear, disagree, distrust, disobey, dislike (p. 63, WB p.46)

Vocabulary from Unit 5: horrifying, voyage, exhausted, hero, creature, dreadful. (p. 60)

--Use of English:

Capital letters for proper nouns, book titles, days of the week and months of the year.  (WB p. 37)

How do we use electricity?

Electricity is generated in power stations. Here is a solar power station in Seville.  It uses the Sun's thermal energy to produce steam, which is used to power turbines to generate electricity.






Here is a Nuclear Power Station in Guadalajara:





From the power station, the electricity travels along big cables to our homes.  Pylons help keep these cables away from people and things on the ground.





Where the electricity enters our house, there is a fuse box. This makes the electricity safe to use.






From the fuse box, the electricity travels through wires to all the light switches and sockets in our home.

Social Science test

On Thursday we have our Social Science test for Units 4 and 5.  As I said before, you do not have to study all of the pages, only these: p. 50, 52, 53, 62, 65.

You do have to study the information in the text  but you do not have to memorize the information from the maps.

Also, you do not have to memorize the information from the table on p. 62 about the products of the ten countries.

You should be able to classify items into two groups: raw materials and manufactured products, and say which industry they come from.

Ex.  A T-shirt is a manufactured product. It comes from the textile industry.   Eggs are raw material. They are from the livestock farming industry.

Good luck!

Irregular verbs review

Here are some short videos to review irregular verbs.

In the first part, watch and listen. In the second part, you have to guess which verb the man is drawing.







Now, watch this video story:

Images for Peace

Preparing for Peace day, in Art class we are looking at some elements of design.  Here are some examples of posters which use different design elements.














And this slide show:

Peace Quotes to Inspire from Mitchell Ditkoff

Día de la Paz

On Friday, January 29th, we will celebrate El Día de la Paz at 13h in the patio.  Everyone must wear a white T-shirt (if it is cold you can wear it over your coat.)

We will sing this song:



and this one:




Here are the lyrics:

Busco sonrisas que no lleven prisas,
que sean de verdad con credibilidad,
que salgan de dentro.
Busco ese gesto,
en peligro de extinción.
Yo quiero sonrisas
que llenen esta canción.

Busco en las caras de todos esa gran sonrisa,
ojos que brillen llenos de emoción.

Busco sonrisas para enamorarnos,
para sentirnos vivos,
para ilusionarnos.
Busco sonrisas,
dame una sonrisa. (x2)

Busco sonrisas que no sean postizas,
busco afinidad,
esa complicidad después de ese momento.
Busco ese gesto lleno de satisfacción,
yo quiero sonrisas que salgan de corazón.

Busco en las caras de todos esa gran sonrisa,
ojos que brillen llenos de emoción.

Busco sonrisas para enamorarnos,
para sentirnos vivos,
para ilusionarnos.
Busco sonrisas,
dame una sonrisa.(x2)

Busco sonrisas.
Busco sonrisas.

(Sonrisas, sonrisas, sonrisas)

Regalame una sonrisa,
(sonrisas)
solo quiero sonrisas,
busco sonrisas,
busco sonrisas.

Circuits and symbols

We are learning about electrical circuits. 



Making circuits:



Here's a game about making circuits.

Let's try this one!

And here:

The next 15 verbs

Here are the next 15 verbs. The next quiz will be on Wednesday, 28th January.

Make sure you know what the verbs mean (you can write the translations on your list.)

Simple	Past	Past Participle
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lie	lied	lied
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
run	ran	run

Electricity song!

Since I know how much you like singing, here is a song about electricity, our next topic in Natural Science. I listened to it when I was a child, so it is an old song, but the tune is very catchy (pegajoso)!




Here are some explanations:

Social Science test

On Thursday, 28th January, we will have our test on Social Science Units 4 and 5. The pages you have to study are: p. 50, 52, 53, 62, and 65. 

After the test we will study pages 66 and 67 and do some activities about them, but they will not be on your test.

How is chocolate made?

Here is a video about the traditional process of making chocolate:




And here is the modern process, in a factory:

Mmmmm, delicious!

Present Perfect

Watch this video.



Try these games from LearnEnglishKids to practice Present Perfect.

More verbs to learn

Here are the next 15 verbs. You will have a short quiz on Thursday.

Simple	Past	Past participle
feel	felt	felt
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	got/gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hit	hit	hit
hold	hold	hold
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
know	known	known

Static Electricity experiment

Watch this!

Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two materials.

Opposite charges attract each other.

Objects with the same electric charge are repelled.

Rubbing the balloon gives it a negative charge. Electrons move from your hair to the balloon.  Your hair loses electrons and becomes positively charged. 

    Opposite charges attract each other.  The balloon (negative)   attracts your hair (positive).

    Each hair has a positive charge. The hairs repel each other (they separate).


Now, look at this explanation of how static electricity is used to paint cars: 

Mining in Spain

Here is a picture of a quarry in Spain. It is an example of opencast mining (above ground.) It is in the Basque Country:

Here is an old picture of a coal mine (underground mining) in El Valle de Turón in Asturias:

What is an atom?

 All matter is made up of microscopic particles called molecules. We can divide a molecule into smaller parts, called atoms. An atom is the smallest part possible-- it cannot be divided.  In fact, the word "atom" in Greek means "indivisible."





Electricity is formed when electrons move from one atom to another.

Economic Sectors

Here is a short PowerPoint about economic sectors. Can you identify the Sector and Industry for each photo?

Economic sectors from Kathleen Marcy

Have you found the sheep yet?

Okay, here are two photos to show you where they are:

Have you found them yet?

There they are!

If you want to see more pictures and read the article in the Daily Mail newspaper,  here is the link.

Verbs to learn

Here are the first 15 verbs from your list. You need to learn all three forms!  (And of course, the meanings!)  We will have a quiz on Friday!

Simple	Past	Past participle
be    (ser/estar)	was/were	been
become  (hacerse)	became	become
begin  (empezar)	began	begun
blow  (soplar)	blew	blown
break  (romper)	broke	broken
build  (construir)	built	built
buy  (comprar)	bought	bought
catch  (coger)	caught	caught
come  (venir)	came	come
cost (costar)	cost	cost
cut  (cortar)	cut	cut
do  (hacer)	did	done
drink  (beber)	drank	drunk
drive  (conducir)	drove	driven
eat  (comer)	ate	eaten