Now that the term is over I would like to congratulate Ana, the winner of the Olympic Games in this group, a very deserving winner. I want to thank her because of the interest she has shown in all the activities we have done, especially our play. Her classmates have benefited from it.

Last Tuesday everybody did a good job in the play and I really enjoyed the first performance of Sergio Pastor. He made me laugh a lot. Lucía, who did not like the idea of acting in a play, was really good: she knew her lines perfectly well. And Paola too, even though she had not been to the last rehearsal. And I mustn´t forget the robbers, Nico and Sergio Pastor, who really got into their role.

I think after all that hard work we all deserve a BREAK, so I wish you

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

Hope Santa is good to you, 

Your teacher, Begoña

Here is a summary of the things we studied in the First Term:

Topic: Family matters.

Description of personality.

Things you like doing.

Things you plan to do.

Family members: mother, father, parents, sister, brother, son, daughter, children, aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, grandparents, grandchildren, cousins, niece, nephew. Step father, step brother or sister…

Adjectives: tall, short, thin, fat, blond, dark, young, old. Big, small. Strict, kind, unkind, lazy, hardworking, friendly, unfriendly, intelligent, generous, mean, tidy, messy, cheerful, shy, brave.

Verbs:Play, read, go, go out, go skateboarding,  cook.

Grammar and types of sentences:

I've got a brother. I've got two uncles and three aunts. My father's got one sister and two nieces.

What does---- look like?: She is short and thin and she has long dark hair.

Present Cont: Joe's father is reading the newspaper.

Going to ± infinitive: What's  Joe's mother going to do? She is going to cook.

What´s he or she like? (And, but) She is intelligent and generous. He is shy but brave.What do you like? I like music.

Topic: Hobbies

Saying what's your hobby

 How often and when you do it.

Things you need for your hobby.

Who you share it with.

Nouns: Guitar, violin, magazines, cards, stamps, board games, chess, other music instruments.

Verbs: Buy, do, go (to), practice, stick, collect, Past tense irregular verbs: woke up, got up, had, went, caught, did, ate, drank, run, saw, wrote, read, said.

Adverbs: once, twice, three times a week, a day, a month. Usually, often, sometimes, every day, never, always. Yesterday, last week.

Grammar and types of sentences:

Present Simple. Regular actions. Do you …? Does he/she…? I don't …  He/She doesn't...

Past Simple: regular and irregular. Did you...? Yes, I did, No, I didn't.

Questions with prepositions at the end: Who do you play chess with? Who are you talking to?

Asking questions in the present and in the past: Do you play chess at the weekend? Did you play chess yesterday?

Topic: School is out

Nouns: Beach, the mountains, the countryside, seaside, sightseeing, village, city

sand sandcastle, sunbathing, hiking, hotel, camp site, apartment, towel.

Verbs: swim, hike, fly, arrive, ski, skateboard, surf, sunbathe, visit, stay,

Grammar and types of sentences:

Where are they? They are in Rome.

Where do you go on holidays?

Where is…?

Where are you staying? Where are you going?

Things you can do somewhere: you can go hiking, you van go sightseeing, you can visit museums, you can go to the beach.

What can you do at the seaside?

Where did go on holidays last summer? I went to...

Expressions: have a good time, enjoy yourself.

Questions students must be able to answer: Tell me about your next/last holiday.

Where is your favorite place to place to go on holiday?

What do you enjoy doing on holiday?

We spent the whole class preparing for our play. First we had to make the tree and the presents. To make the presents we wrapped little boxes in color paper  and tied them up with laces we made with tissue paper. We also used tape. To make the tree we used green construction paper and scraps of color papers for the ornaments.

During the second part of the class we were rehearsing. Paola was missing, I hope she comes next week; today, Lucía had to do her lines.

Homework: find a postcard and write it for a friend telling her/him what you are doing in your holidays.

 

Today the teacher could not do much talking. Some questions were written on the board and students had to ask one another:

Where are you sitting?    Ex: I´m sitting next to Ana.

Where is you bedroom?   Ex: It´s opposite the kitchen.

Where did you go on holidays last summer? Ex: I went to the beach.

We are learning about holidays, places where we can go and things we can do there.

These are the words we are studying:

City, seaside, campsite, stay, hotel, skiing, swimming, sightseeing, hiking, fishing, going to the beach, riding your bike, taking photos, skateboarding, going shopping.

Students said where they went on holidays last summer and then they had to write 5 things they could do there, like: You can go fishing in my village. Next, they asked other students: What can you do in your village? or What can you do in Alicante?

We were rehearsing our Christmas play. Actors and actresses did much better  today.

Ana completed her project about her hobby. Good for you¡ I hope your classmates decide to follow your example and learn to be proud of their work.

It would be nice if you looked for something you could wear for the play. Myself I´m gonna try to find a white bear and a Santa´s hat.



Look, it seem the elves wear red and green clothes. 

And the robbers, what do you think they should wear to look like robbers?

And the children? What about a nightgown?

Also, see if you can find some ribbons at home. 

Ribbon

Today students asked each other the question: What´s your mother´s last name? And how do you spell it?
We practiced questions in Past Simple, like: Did you wash your hair yesterday?


Then we started to prepare our Christmas play. Roles were given, students highlighted their lines and we read the play.


Here is the script: please learn your lines.

A Christmas Adventure

Dominic Streames © 2006

Elves:

1.     Santa: .......................

2.     Elf 1: .........................

3.     Elf 2: .........................

Robbers:

4.                 Billy: ...................

5.                 Tommy: ..............

Family:

6.                 Child 1: ...............

7.                 Child 2: ...............

Scene 1   The North Pole

(enter 2 or 3 children who stand at the front of the stage and say “Scene 1 The North Pole“ then exit)

(Enter elves, singing a typical Christmas song, Jingle Bells, or We wish you a merry Christmas etc)

Elves:                    Hello everyone.

Audience:           Hello.

Elves:                    How are you today?

Audience.           Fine, thank you. And you?

Elves:                    Fine thank you. We are elves.

Elf 1:                      We are small.

Elf 2:                      We are happy.

Elf 1:                      We are strong.

Elf 2:                      We help Santa.

Elves:                    We are  .............. Santa´s elves!

Elf 1:                      We make the presents.

Elf 2:                      We put the presents in boxes.

Elf 1:                      We wrap the presents.

Elf 2:                      We put the presents on Santa´s sleigh.

 (Enter Santa)

Santa:                   Ho, ho, ho! Hello everyone.

Audience:           Hello.

Santa:                   What’s my name? (Asking the audience)

Santa:                   Yes, my name is Santa. I like good boys and girls. I don´t like bad boys and girls. Are you bad?

Audience:           No!!

Santa:                   Are you good?

Audience:           Yes!!!

Elves:                    What time is it?

Santa:                   It’s Ch ristmas time. Let’s go.

(Exit elves and San

Scene 2 In a house in (insert name of town)

(enter 2 or 3 children who stand at the front of the stage and say “Scene 2 In a house in ……“ then exit)

(enter childen)

Child 1,2:             Hello everyone.

Child 1:                 It’s Christmas time.

Child 2:                 Do you like Christmas?

Child 1:                 Yes, I do.             Do you like Christmas?

Child2:                  Yes, I do.

Children:             Do you like Christmas? (Asking the audience)

Child 1:                 I’m very tired.

Child 2:                 Me, too I’m very tired.

Child 1:                 What time is it?

Child 2:                 It’s twelve o´clock.  Time for bed.

 (They all go to sleep on the stage at the side. Enter Santa and his elves tiptoeimg quietly)        

Santa:                   Put the presents under the tree.

(They all sing quietly, whispering)

Under the tree

Under the tree

Put the presents under the tree

(repeat)

(Exit everyone and enter robbers)

Robbers:             Hello everyone.

Billy:                      My name is Billy

! We are robbers We are robbers Yes, we are We are robbers We are robbers Yes, we are We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers Yes, weeeee     arrrrrre!

Tommy:               My name is Tommy.

Robbers:             We are .... robbers!

Sing/Chantto the tune of “If you´re happy and you know it”

                                 

Billy:                      We are strong.

Tommy:               We are fast.

Billy:                      We are clever.

Tommy:               I am bad.

Billy:                      No, I am bad.

Tommy:               No, I am bad.

Billy:                      You? Ha, ha, ha. I am bad.

Tommy:               You? Ha, ha, ha. I am bad.

(Everyone starts shouting “I am bad” etc)

Billy:                      Quiet! I am bad .. and you  ....

Tommy:               Yes?

Billy:                      Are an idiot! come on!

Tommy:               Look! presents!              

Billy:                      Put the presents in the bag.

(They all sing quietly, whispering)

In the bag

In the bag

Put the presents in the bag

                                                     (Repeat)

(Tommy is going to sneeze)

Tommy:               Ah……ah…..ah…..

Billy:                      Shhhh!!!!!!!

Tommy:               Ah……ah…..ah…..

Billy:                      Shhhh!!!!!!!

Billy:                      Achoo!

(The noise wakes the children up)

Chidren:              Aaaaahhhh!!!

Children.             Who are you?

Robbers:             Ha, ha, ha. we are fast, we are strong, we are .......robbers!

Children:             Oh no!

(Enter Santa and the elves while they are saying this and they creep up behind them)

(Santa and the elves poke them with their fingers to get their attention)

Robbers:             Yes? (Turning round to see who it is)

Santa , Elves:     Merry Christmas!

(And Santa and the elves hit the robbers over the head and knock them out and then everyone sings the final songï Sung to the tune of  “Santa Clause is coming to town.”ð)

Everyone sings:                                              He is happy

He isn’t sad

He is good.

He isn’t  bad.

Santa, Santa is our friend.

He is happy

He isn’t sad

He is good.

He isn’t  bad.

Santa, Santa ....... is ....... our ........... frieeeeeeeeend!

Everyone.           The end.

HELP PARENTS! 

Please remind your children to spend 5 o 10 minutes doing their English homework.

Come on boys and girls! When you put time into something it becomes more interesting. This is your last opportunity to print the illustrations for you paper on Your Hobby.

Yesterday we started the lesson with the question: How many grandparents do you have? Grandparents is the word we use to talk about both our grandfathers and our grandmothers, so we may have 4 or 3 or 2 grandparents, or we may have only 1 grandparent or none.

We reviewed the flashcards for actions and then the teacher asked the students 10 questions in the past simple tense:  Did you buy some candy yesterday?

Later students were interviewing each other about things they did yesterday or things that happened yesterday.

We started a new unit. It is about holidays, things we do during our holidays, places where we go for holidays.

New words: beach, seaside, mountains, sunbathe, snowboard, ski, sea, sand, make sandcastles, sightseeing, take photographs, travel, towel. 

Students had to describe 3 pictures of people on their holidays. 

  Homework: again, bring those printed pictures to stick on your paper about your hobby.

Also: find 3 postcards and write where is the place we can see on the postcard and who went there for holidays.

Example:

This is San Marcos´square in Venice. I was there with my daughter in the summer of 2010.

Only two students did their homework. The other ones said they had not remember.

WELL, DON´T FORGET IT THIS TIME.
                                      NEXT LESSON I EXPECT EVERYBODY to bring the illustrations for the Hobby.

Today students were practicing saying dates: they said when is their birthday and the birthday of a family member.

We continue studying the past simple. We were studying actions like: get up, get dressed - got up, got dressed, have - had, eat - ate, drink - drank, catch - caught, run - ran (all irregular verbs) and other ones that are regular verbs: wash - washed, play - played, talk - talked, help - helped, carry - carried, brush -brushed.

Students had to write questions and answers for their project: My hobby. Most students found it difficult. Only one finished it. We we´ll finish it next week.

For homework you need to write some questions like this:

Do you wash your face everyday? ( In present simple, using do as an auxiliary )

Where did you buy yourT-shirt? (In the Past Simple, using did as an auxiliary)

When do you play the piano? ( In present simple, using do as an auxiliary )

Who do you go swimming with?  (A question with a preposition at the end. In Spanish we put it at the beginning: ¿Con quien ...?

Hello 6th graders, it was a very good first hour.

We started the lesson asking the questions: What year were you born? (I was born in 2000) and Where are you from? I am from Leganés.

2 students ( better than last week) had done their homework well and read it, one student had not understood and the other 3 had not done it. I hope next week is better.

Teacher explained how to make the Past Simple tense. Remember:

Irregular verbs: you have to study the past form. Example: buy/ bought, eat/ate, drink/drank, speak/spoke.

Regular verbs: you need to add the particle  -ed to the verb. Examples: want/wanted, walk/walked, play/played.

To make questions, instead of do you have to put did. A question in the present is: do you make breakfast everyday? A question in the past is: did you make breakfast yesterday?

Students did exercises from book: first, they asked a partner some questions about their hobby, then they wrote down answers. In the second exercised students read aloud some sentences and matched them with an activity.

For the Olympic Games students were divided in two teams. Unfortunately they were talking so loud we did not even finished the game, which was about picking a questions from a bag and answer it or ask partners for help.

Scores
Player 2   3
Player 3   3
Player 4   3.5
Player 5   3.5
Player 6   3
Player 7   3.5

Remember you need to think of 5 questions for your project. And you need to print some pictures to illustrate your project.

My example is
What´s your hobby?   I like roller skating.
Do you have roller skates? Yes, I do.
Where are they? They are in my bedroom, on a shelf.
Where did you buy them? I bought them in a sport supplies shop.
Where do you rollerskate? I rollerskate in the Retiro Park.
When do you rollerskate? I rollerskate every Saturday afternoon.
Do you like it very much? Oh yes! I do, I love it.

Students had to spell their last name or surname. Today they did better than last week.

We were reviewing the vocabulary we studied last week: this unit is about hobbies. Then students had to write some questions in the Present Simple form and ask their classmates the questions.

Nouns they are studying: stamps, chess, coins, cards, trading cards, magazines, guitar, piano, violin, flute, drums, shelf-shelves, bed, wardrobe, side table, 

Verbs: collect, play, buy, practice, eat, drink, sleep, get dressed, read, watch, listen to, run, walk, catch, throw, make dinner, talk on the phone, sing, draw, paint, write, ride (a bike).

For the Olympic Games students had to write down 10 words that the teacher spelled for them.

Here are the scores

Player 2  8
Player 3  8
Player 4  10
Player 5   9
Player 6   8
Player 7   2

For homework  students need to ask their parents 5 questions in the Pr. Simple form.

Example: Do you sleep 8 hours every night?

Today was our 5th lesson. We started the lesson spelling our surnames or last names and saying our email address. Students ask the other students the following questions:

How do you spell your las name?

What´s your email address?

To say our email address we use the word at for @ and dot  for .

We were learning to talk about aour hobbies, matching verbs with nouns.

Vocabulary

Nouns: guitar, violin, piano, drums, stamps, coins, books, magazines, board games, chess, computer,

Verbs: play, read, collect, watch, listen to.

To talk about your hobbies you use the verb in the ing form: I like playing chess or I enjoy collecting coins.

Ana read her homework. WELL DONE, ANA, you were the only one in the group who had done the homework. The other students had to listen carefully, because I asked them questions to score for the Olympic Games.

We also did a little exercise, so students get used to receive and give instructions.

Walk slowly, walk fast, raise your hands, touch your feet, put your hands on your waist, bend your waist.

We played a game called Around the World: students had be faster saying the word on a flascard.

We did the Olympic Games but I had no time to check their exercise so the scores will not be published until next week.

HOMEWORK
You need to make a list of things you have in your bedroom and write 4 sentences about your hobbies. Example: I love playing tenis.

Today we practiced spelling. Students must be able to spell their name at a good pace.

We continued practicing I´m going to verb. Students worked in pairs pretending they were calling a friend on the phone and asking him/her what she/ he was doing next weekend.

The activity for the OOGG was word spelling.

The scores are:

Player 1  8 points

Player 2  8 ponts

Player 3  10 points

Player 4   10 points

Player 5   6 points

Player 6   10 points

Player 7

We reviewed adjectives to describe people´s personalities: kind/unkind, funny/serious, friendly/ unfriendly, tidy/messy, generous/mean, hardworking/lazy, shy, brave. Students practiced pronunciation.

Students wrote a description of themselves.

We read some texts about different families. Everybody got to read aloud part of the text. They matched the texts to different pictures.

We are also learning to give different type of instructions.

For homework students must describe 3 people in their family. They must say what they look like (tall, short hair?) and what adjectives describe their personalities.

Olympic Games of Learn & Enjoy

player 1   9 points

player 2   9 points

player 3   10 points

player 4    10 points

player 5    7 points

player 6    7 points

player 7    5 points

Maybe a little late to write here, but just in case, please remember to bring 2 or 3 photograpsh of your family. You need to tell us about them the way I did with my own photos during the class.

Example:These are my parents. My father is 55 years old and he likes money. The woman in red is his wife, my mother. She a very generous.