WILLIAM TELL AND OTHER STORIES - Oral presentation

Dear Year 5 students,

Your oral presentation for this term will be in the form of a dramatic presentation.  You must do the following:

1. divide yourselves into groups of five

2. choose a story from the book, "William Tell and Other Stories" that we've read in class

3.  each person must choose a character and say some of the lines

4. decide who will have the following responsibilities: director, stage manager, script writer, props, costume

5.  write the script - you can make any changes you think will be necessary

6. present the play - you can do the presentation inside or outside

You can use these resources to help you:

William Tell

King Matthias and the Good Shepherd

Johnny Appleseed

Lord Bao and the Stone

Tom Blood

Have fun working on this project!

Janine

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? - question structures

Interrogative sentences

Dear year 6 students,

Please review QUESTION STRUCTURES before completing the activity.

Review notes

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-questions_structure.htm

Activities to practice

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=14129

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

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/archived-word-games/make-the-sentences/questions

PROJECT

Make a QUIZ

In groups of three or four,

1.   Formulate five questions in each of the following categories.

-      History

-      Geography

-      Famous people

-      General knowledge

2.   Check the questions of another group and choose the two best questions in each category.

3.   Go to the comments section of this Blog and enter the questions.  Don’t forget to include your group’s name.

4.   Use the questions to make a WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE QUIZ

I hope you have fun doing this Project!

Janine

Adventure Sports, the Present Perfect Tense and more!

Dear Year 5 students,

In Unit 9 we will learn vocabulary related to adventure sports and the Beaufort Scale.  We learn a completely new grammatical structure: the Present Perfect Tense and we will read about an incredible sportswoman, Ellen MacArthur.  We will also focus on two sounds in English, /eɪ/ and /ɑ:/.

Introduction

Dame Ellen MacArthur - listening comprehension

Vocabulary

ADVENTURE SPORTS ACTIVITY

THE BEAUFORT SCALE - HANGMAN

Pronunciation: Interactive phonemic chart (you must scroll down to find it)

PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE - INTERACTIVE PHONEMIC CHART

Grammar

Review: Comparative and Superlative adjectives

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES THROUGH SONG

NEW GRAMMAR: Present Perfect Tense

Explanation:

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE - Explanation in Spanish

Practice:

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRACTICE

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRACTICE

Verb list

These are some of the verbs you will find in the unit.  The list includes both the Past form and the Past participle form.  The list of regular has a pronunciation guide for the -ed endings.

file:///C:/Users/6181/Downloads/312887129-VERBS-UNIT-9-5%C2%BA.pdf

OR

VERB LIST with Spanish translations

I hope you find these activities useful!

Janine

Bike safety, rules, asking for permission and numbers

Dear Year 4 students,

Our new unit is about bike saftey and rules.  We will also practice using BIG NUMBERS and review ordinal numbers. Below you will find activities to help you learn the vocabulary and grammar for this unit.

Introduction:

Grammar - Must / Mustn't

ACTIVITIES TO PRACTICE:

Vocabulary:

At the bike track crossword puzzle

Speed vocabulary crossword puzzle

BIG NUMBERS

Activity Book page 98, activities 1 and 2

BIG NUMBERS: SPEED

Ordinal Numbers

ORDINAL NUMBERS

Grammar:

Must and Mustn't - deber y no deber

To talk about rules (normas / reglas)

We use:
must + infinitive  OR  mustn't + infinitive

mustn't is the short form (forma corta) of MUST NOT


GAME - RULES (must or mustn't)

BRITISH COUNCIL KIDS - MUST / MUSTN'T - Explanation and Game


Asking for permission

ASKING FOR PERMISSION - online activity

I hope you find these activities useful!

Janine

At the Planetarium

Dear Year 6 students,

I've prepared some activities for you online to practice the vocabulary and grammar for Unit 8.  I hope this will help you to prepare well for Tuesday's test.

Vocabulary: The Planetarium

http://www.classtools.net/crossword/201605-CeZa8E

Vocabulary: The Solar System

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=14125

Grammar: The Second Conditional

“One of Us” Joan Osbourne      

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=14124

You can also download the following PDF document and complete the activity on paper along with two other Second Conditional activities.

file:///C:/Users/janine/Downloads/311804991-Second-Conditional-Practice%20(2).pdf 

More Second Conditional Practice:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=14126

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=14127

From the Perfect English Grammar website, so not one of my activities ;-)

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

Enjoy improving your English!

Janine

Possessive Apostrophes

Dear Year 5 students,

Here is your homework for today.

1. Watch the video which explains how to use possessive apostrophes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dY2SE1G900

2. Go to the link below.  Complete the first activity on page 2 of the pdf document.

https://daniellenglish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/possessive-nouns-multiple-ws.pdf

You can complete the activity in your English notebooks or print out page 2 of the pdf document and complete it on the worksheet.

I hope you find this activity useful!

Janine