A pen pal
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PRE-TASK ACTIVITIES (Task guide)
Activity 1 Learn the most important parts of a letter Activity 2 Different steps to write a letter TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 3 Find a penpal at: http://www.penpal-friends.com/
Activity 4 Write the letter following the different steps of the file penpals on the right Activity 5 Answer the letter when you receive it in the future |
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An advertisement
PRE-TASK ACTIVITIES(Task guide)
Activity 1 Whole class discussion Activity 2 Analyse the billboards you see on your way home. Fill the chart and answer the questions of the billboards file on the right. Activity 3 Television inventory: Watch tv ads and record them TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 4 Discussion and writing (task guide)
Activity 5 Write a short essay describing your favourite TV commercial/ad (task guide) Activity 6 Advertise your product to your classmates. (task guide) Activity 7 Analyze your classmates´ads |
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A biography
PRE-TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 1 Match personal information 1
Activity 2 Match personal information 2 Activity 3 Ask questions for the following answers about Shakira: 1.-Singer and songwriter. 2.- Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll 3.- Februray 2, 1977. 4.-Barranquilla, Colombia Activity 4 Read Shakira´s biography on her official website http://www.shakira.com/biography/ (En español) http://es.shakira.com/biography/ (in English) |
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TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 5 Write about Shakira
Activity 6 Make a powerpoint/impress presentation . Use the writing you have prepared and add photographs. Each slide can show an aspect of your artist´s personal and professional life. Activity 7 Roleplay: "I am a celebrity" Introduce yourself as if you were the celebrity you made the presentation about. Talk about your place and date of birth, personal information, most well known work, awards given. You can also perform the roleplay imitating your celebrity or using typical clothes that he/she uses, singing one of his/her songs, some sentences he/she said in a film , an interview ,etc... |
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Write an email
PRE-TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 1 Discussion (task guide)
Activity 2 Match the acronyms with the correct meaning Activity 3 Emoticons Match the emoticon with the correct meaning Activity 3 Do´s and don´ts Fill in the gaps |
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TASK ACTIVITIESActivity 4 You´ve got an email
Imagine you receive an e-mail from a friend asking for your help to solve his/her problem. He/she has had an argument with a best friend because they like the same boy/girl. What advice would you give to your friend? Activity 5 Write an email Choose an Email friend on the Internet address: http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/learn/english.asp and write /him/her an email.You can also log in and write an email introducing yourself so that others can email them |
Weekend activities
PRE-TASK ACTIVITIES (Do the activities in the WeekendActivitiesWorksheet)
Activity 1 Daily Activities Activity 2 Write sentences Activity 3 Fill in the gaps Activity 4 Punctuation |
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TASK ACTIVITIES
Activity 5 Role play Work in pairs. Write a dialogue about your last weekend. Use morning, afternoon or evening. Act it out in front of the class. Include false information for the class to guess. Activity 6 Writing Write an essay about your last weekend. |
Your favourite TV Program
PRE-TASK ACTIVITIES
Activity 1 Types of programmes (task guide) Activity 2 Television questionnaire. A survery on tv habits Activity 3 Soap operas. Why are they called soap operas? a. Because the characters sing during the drama b. Because the characters often wash during the drama c. Because soap companies originally paid for the shows d. Because many of the actors also appeared insoap adverts Now read about the origin of soap operas: "But why soap? Why are these things called soap operas? Well that goes back to the 1930s and it was probably because some of the early sponsosrs of radio programmes at the time and television programmes were soap manufacturers, and so the idea came that a soap was one of these everyday, you know, washing machine kind of dramas." |
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TASK ACTIVITIES
Activity 4 : Role play. Pick up a card and perform the role Activity 5: Make a poster and a graphic of your classmates´preferences on television programmes Use the questionnaire in Activity 2 to interview some students in your school. Compare them to your answers. Write a final essay about these habits. You can also make a poster to show what different types of programmes people watch or make a graph using this web page application http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx Follow the 3 steps and save it as an image. (gif/jpg) |
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