Keep your English alive!: October 2014

Oct 26, 2014

HALLOWEEN IS NEAR...

WE ALL LIKE A GOOD LAUGH, BUT DOES EVERYBODY ENJOY THE SENSATION OF FEAR AS WELL?

Respond to theses questions using a scale o 1-5, where 1 means that you don't agree at all, and 5 means that you strongly agree:

I don't enjoy watching scary films or reading horror stories
After watching a scary film, certain noises make me jump
I don't like sleeping in complete darkness
If I saw a spider in the shower, it would make me scream
I could never spend tome in a house where somebody had died.
When I wake up from a nightmare, I try to analyse everything that happened and I van't get back to sleep

1. Let's watch the trailer for "The Woman in black":

Now read the abstract from the story:

Find the meanings o these SPOOKY IDIOMS:

As shite as a sheet
To give uyp the ghost
To dig one's own grave
To role over on one's grave

to do something that will cause you problems later
To be upset por offended by something
To stop doing something because you think it won't work
To go pale as a result of being frightened

Oct 20, 2014

THE FAMILY

More practice:

WH- QUESTIONS

It's time to review for the unit1 test...

Wh questions from Chelo Parra

NOW, IT'S TIME TO PRACTISE... CLICK HERE

Oct 12, 2014

MALALA YOUSAFZAI: 2014 PEACE PRICE WINNER

"LET'S EMPOWER OURSELVES WITH THE WEAPON OF KNOWLEDGE"

"ONE CHILD, ONE TEACHER, ONE BOOK AND ONE PEN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. EDUCATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION"

Malala, the 16 year old activist, has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight on education equality in Pakistan.
She'll be sharing the $1.1million prize with Kailash Satyarthi, who has long been campaigning against child exploitation in neighboring India. They both are a great example to follow.

In 2012, Malala was shot by radical Taliban militants while on her school bus. She was a youth blogger for the BBC advocating girls education in her native Pakistan, and continued to go to school despite a Taliban ban outlawing women’s education. Malala made a full recovery, and has since used her newfound fame to highlight the discrimination that girls often face when seeking an education in the developing world, and why girls’ education is so essential to the health of a society.

Because of her courage in the face of great opposition, Mala was nominated for last year's Nobel Peace Prize. Although she didn't win the prize, she continued to speak out and raise money to promote education, despite renewed death threats against her...Today we can finally congratulate her!!

You can learn more about her life and work HERE.

In the infographic below you can find more bits and pieces about her.

TASKS:

1. Watch the following video showing Malala's U.N. Speech Highlights on her sixteenth birthday and do the tasks below:

Write the best headlines in it.
What were the Taliban's two goals in attacking Malala?
What role has technology played in Malala’s crusade?
What are the characteristics of a hero? Is Malala Yousafzai a hero? Find adjectives to describe her.