English 7°

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Date: 18th March 2020, DAY 1 

Topic: Present perfect vs. Past simple

Objective: Apply and understand the differences between present perfect and past simple tense

CC: Respect

Key Words: - Ever

                   - Never

                   - Since

                   - So far

                   - Yet

                   - Last

                   - Ago

                   - Yesterday

Kids please write in your notebooks everything that appears on the blog

In the last class we saw different keywords, including two historical figures, please send a photo of your homework written in your notebook as evidence of the research guideline, to linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co

Today we are going to continue with the same topic we saw the last class, attached is the reading of page 16 of the student book (fig1) that was requests to photocopy the last class.

So, first of all, we are going to develop the activity 1 of grammar in the students book (page 17), some of you have it already written in your notebook, for the ones that still missing, write and answer the following:

Look back at the reading of page 16.

Step 1: Based on the story, answer properly the following questions

• When did Daniel write his first book?
• When did he sing a € 60.000 contract?
• When did Samantha start piano lessons?
• When did she play with orchestas?

Step 2: Which of the following question can you answer with a specific point in time? 

Step 3: Complete the rules with the correct type of tense

When we talk about a specific point in time in the past, we use the ___________

When we don´t refer to a specific point in time, we often use the ____________

When you finished and have all already written down in you notebook, send the evidence in a photo, properly taken, where I can read clearly what you wrote to my email: linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co

Date: 19th March 2020, DAY 2 
Topic: Present perfect vs. Past simple
Objective: Apply and understand the differences between present perfect and past simple tense
CC: Respect
Key Words: - Autograph
                 - Contract
                 - Prize
                 - Medal

Kids please write in your notebooks everything that appears on the blog

Step 1: Complete the pair of sentences. Use the past simple and the present perfect of the verbs

      Example:

   1. Verb: visit

I Have visited Greece more than 20 times.
I first Visited Greece in 1998.

   2. Verb: Win

• He _____ already ______ three gold medals, and he hopes to win more.
• He _____ a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics.

    3. Verb: Meet

• My mum ______ a lot of interesting people in her life.
• My mum ______ Prince harry ten years ago.

    4. Verb: Do

• Mum, I ____ my homerok. Can I go out?
• I _____ all the things on my to do-list before lunch!

    5. Verb: Record

• They _____ record their last album two years ago
• They _____ more than 20 albums so far.

    6. Verb: Live

• We _____ in Samoa for three years when I was a teenager
• We're living in Austria now, but we _____ in many differen countries.

    7. Verb: Sign

• She ____ just ____ a contract with a new e-publishin company
• She _____ the contract for her first book on her 16th birthday

Step 2: Vocabulary collocations

Circle all the correct answers

1. Which of these can you sign?

• A contract
• An atograph
• A lesson

1. Which of these things can you write?

• A novel
• A party
• A song

1. Which of these things can you win?

• A prize
• A competition
• An exhibition

1. Which of these can you make?

• Friends
• A cake
• Homework

1. Which of these can you miss?

• A future
• Your family
• The bus

1. Which of these things can you do?

• A good time
• A degree
• Something

Date: 20th March 2020, DAY 3 

Topic: Present perfect vs. Past simple

Objective: Apply and understand the differences between present perfect and past simple tense

CC: Respect

Key Words: - Passage

                   - Admire

Step 1: Talk to other people in your house, like your familiy or friends around you, and ask and answer these questions to complete the table, please draw the table in your notebooks

Find someone who has…	Who? Name of the person	Details, how was it
Asked someone for an autograph
Written a poem
Had an interview
Won a prize
Made a cake
Misses a bus or a flight

Step 2: Writte a short passage about someone you have admire for some time, include:

1. How long you have known them.
2. What you admire about them.

Step 3: Develop the workbook pages 10 and 11

When you finish all, send the respective photos through skype and the email linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co

Date: 24th March 2020, DAY 4 

Topic: Personality adjectives

Objective: Apply, identify and understand the differents personality adjectives

CC: Respect

Key Words: - Attract
                 -Decorate
                 -Genius
                 -Organise
                 -Round of applause
                 -Poem

                 - Complain


Step 1: You will watch this video

Step 2:   When you finish the video, you are going to develop the page 13,14, 15 and 16 of the workbook
For page 14 here it is the online survey on page 13 of the students book to answer the first question of the reading part.
For page 16 you will develop only the dialogue part.

When you finish all, send the respective photos through skype and the email linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co, if you have any question I will be on skype to solve your doubts

Date: 25th March 2020, DAY 4 

Topic: Personality adjectives

Objective: Apply, identify and understand the differents personality adjectives

CC: Respect

Key Words: -cinquain
                 -poem
                 -partner

For today's class we are going to develop two activities, each one has two and three points, the first activity is about the topic we saw yesterday, and the other one is a review of a topic seen in previous classes, attached goes the images taken from the students book, the idea is that you copy in your notebooks everything that says in them, or if you have a printer, print them and paste it in ypur notebook to develop them, remember to send the  activities solved to the mail and skype today.

Activity 1

Activity 2

Date: 26th March 2020, DAY 4 

Topic: Cambridge english preliminary

Objective: Apply your knowledge

CC: Respect

Key Words: -preliminay
                 -transformation
                 -gap

Date:20th April 2020, DAY 2
Topic: LQA
Objective: Close the topics seen in the first period
CC: Reliability
Key words: Adjectives, Kahoot, Workbook, Weather

We will close the first period with a test of 10 questions in kahoot, first we will enter zoom, you will type www.kahoot.it and the teacher will share her screen for you to see the questions and answer options, then you will enter the pin and your nickname, remember it must be your real name and last name for a correct identification. 

Remember that each question has 20 seconds of time to answer, the results are automatic, and the score corresponds to the number of answers you have correct, for example, if you answer the 10 questions, you have 10, if you answer 5, your score will be that number.




Date:21th April 2020, DAY 3
Topic: Second term/School subjects, verbs about thinking
Objective: identify the second term topics and start with them
CC: Reliability
Key words: innovative, tools, injury, protection

After you check for the keywords definitions, This will be the second term topics, write it down on your notebooks:

1. Asking and givin permission
2. Refusiing permission
3. present perfect with for and since, a, and, the or no article
4. School subjects
5. Verbs about thinking
6. Comparing things and actions
7. Asking for an offering help
8. Comparative and superlative adjectives
9. Making comparison stronger or weaker
10. Adverbs
11. Types of film and tv programmes
12. Expressions with get

Activity 1

Write down in your notebook words that come to your mind when you think of these places

• Holiday camp
• School

Example:

Activity 2

Read and listen to this article to answer some questions

For each question, mark the correct letter A,B,C or D

1. What is the writer doing in this text?

• A) Describing a summer school he started in 2005
• B) Explaining how to send child to tinkering
• C) Talking about the US school system
• D) Talking abour G. Tulley's programmes for kids

1. What does the text say about safety at the school?

• A) The school is too dangerous for kids
• B)No child has ever had an accident
• C)Children have never hurt themselves badly
• D)The school doesn't give information about that

1. What reaction to Brightworks have there been in the media?

• A)They have compared it to Tinkering School
• B)Most of them have been positive
• C) There hasn't been any reaction
• D) Most of them have been negative

1. What effect has the school had on Tina Cooper?

• A) It has Changed her opinion about choool
• B)It has given her exiting and boring times
• C) It has made her more interested in San francisco
• D)It has encouraged her to ask more questions

Activity 3

Which thing might Gever Tulley Say in a presentation to aprents about the Tikering School?

1. We are trying to do our best. We offer your kids a balance of thing thay will like doing and thing thay will have to do.
2. I can guarantee that you son or daughter will learn to build a rollercoaster, a rope bridge, a tree house, o motorbike and a boat.
3. Kids can learn a lot by doing things in teams. we give them materials and tools. they plan and make things.
4. Most of the articles in newspapers and magazines day lods are more motivated here than many other schools.

Date:22th April 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Present perfect with for and since
Objective: identify and apply the present perfect with for and since
CC: Reliability
Key words: Underline, Chart, Phrases, Below

Activity 1

Look back at the article: An education like no other, underline all the sentence in the presnt perfect.

Activity 2

Complete the sentences below with for and since. Then complete the rules

1. Children have made fantastic things _____ the school started.
2. Tinkering School has been around ______ many years now.

Rules In the prent perfect, we use

• 1. ____ to talk about a priod of time
• 2. ____ to refer to the point in time when and action started

Activity 3

When do we use for and when do we use since?

Complete the chart with the words and phrases in the list.

-a month

-last summer

-your birthday

-yesterday

-a year

-2014

- Iphoned you

-a long time

-many years

-days 

-Friday

-an hour

For

A month   ______   ______   ______   ______   _______

Since

Last summer  ______  _____   ______   ______    _______

Date:23th April 2020, DAY 5
Topic: Present perfect with for and since
Objective: identify and apply yhe present perfect with for and since
CC: Reliability
Key words: Several, Ought, phone

Activity 1

Complete the sentences. Use the present perfect form of the verbs and for or since

1. I __________ (be) at my new school _______ last December.
2. Hilary ________ (not see) Michael ______ several weeks
3. They _________ (not write) and email or ______ (phone) us _____ three months
4. He _______ (live) in this town _______ a long time
5. I _______(have) this camera ______ I was 10.

Activity 2

Write sentences using the present perfect with for or since

0. Rebecca doesn't live in Italy now. (three years)
-Rebecca hasn't lived in Italy for three years.

1. Theay are in the youth club. (three hours)
-

2.Joanne and I are good friends. (primary school)
-

3. She plays in the volleyball team (two months)
-

4. I ought to see a doctor. I am sick (a week)
-

5. I don't hear a lot from Sandra (last October)
-


Date:24-28th April 2020, DAY 6 and DAY 1
Topic: School subjects
Objective: improve and practice the vocabulary
CC: Reliability
Key words: ICT, Physics, subjects


Activity 1

For this activity the listening will be read by your teacher, and you should print this image to paste it on your notebook and answer it

Activity 2

Answer the questions, when you are ready we wil share the answer on zoom as a class group on day 1

1. Which are your favorite subjects? Which don't you like? and Why?
2. Which of the subjects are you studying this year?
3.How long have you studied each subject?


Date:28th April 2020, DAY 1-2
Topic: Asking and giving/refusing permission
Objective: Understand and apply the terms
CC: Reliability
Key words: refuse, give, ask, myself, necklace

Date:29th April 2020, DAY 3
Topic: Reading comprehension
Objective: Improve reading, speaking and writting
CC: Reliability

Key words: Stronger, wweds, nerve cell, container, sums up


So, first of all, we are going to read the article attached and develop 4 activities about it, if we have time, we will socialize it on our zoom conference

Activity 1
After you read te text, match the words with the meanings. write the numbers 1-5 in front of each point. 

1. To store
2. A container
3. A weed
4. A nerve cell
5. To concentrate

• To think very carefully about what you are doing ____
• To keep things for use in the future ____
• A wild plant that grow in a garden ____
• It carries information between the brain and the body ____
• An object used to carry or store things ____

Activity 2

Read the text again. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false)

1. The text compares the brain to weeds _____
2. The brain is a system of neuronal networks that can change _____
3. Whenever we lear anything, a change happens in our brain _____
4. We can't really make our brain stronger ___
5. Being able to do difficult task is good for the brain ____

Activity 3

Choose the best description of this text

1. An adventure story to entertain the reader
2. An ad to sell the reader something
3. A magazine article to give the reader information
4. A letter to persuade the reader to do something

Activity 4

Choose the title that best sums up the content of each paragraph. there is one extra title

1. The brain- a fantastic computer ___
2. What people believe about the brain ____
3. How to make you brain stronger ____
4. Our brain is a growing system _____

Date:30th April 2020, DAY 4
Topic: A, An, The or no article
Objective: Understand and apply the topic
CC: Reliability

Key words: Magazine, article, sweets, worse, better


Activity 1
As a warm up, we are going to practice our speaking and reading with a karaoke of a Queen song.

Activity 2

Activity 3

We wil play a kahoot about the topic of present perfect with for and since

www.kahoot.it




Date:4th May 2020, DAY 5
Topic: A, An, The or no article
Objective: Understand and apply the topic
CC: Reliability


Key words:Fruit, Vegetables,Drink, A lot, too much

Activity 1

Complete each sentence with A, An The or - (No Article)

1. She is ____ good student
2. She aets a lot of ____ fruit and ____ vegetables
3. _____ book that you gave me was really good
4. I  have ____ idea. Let's watch ____ new Beyoncé video
5. I never drink ____ coffee-I hate it
6. I like lots of sports, but ____ sport I like most is ____ tennis

Activity 2

Complete the text with A, An The or - (No Article)

___ People need to drink. Of course ____ orange juice and ____ apple juice are very popular, but they are not always ____ good choice. ____ orange juice has got a lot of sugar in it, so don't drink too much of it. The best drink for your brain is ___ water. ___ glass of water is the best drink you can get, but ____ water that you drink needs to be fresh and clean.

Date:11th May 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Vocabulary
Objective: Understand and apply vocabulary

CC: Reliability
Key words: sort

Activity 1

Use a dictionary to make sure you know the meaning of theses words

• To concentrate on
• to remember
• to think
• to imagine
• to wonder
• to believe
• to guess
• to recognize
• to realise
• to suppose

Activity 2

Choose the correct words

1. The task was very difficult. I had to remember/think for a long time
2. Come on, don't be silly. I don't believe/realise in ghosts!
3. Can you imagine/concentrate how great it must be to live at the beach?
4. When the teacher asked the question a different way, I supposed/realised that I knew the answer.
5. Did they really say they are moving to Nwe York? I don't supposed/believe it

Activity 3

Ask and answer these questions on a video, send it through skype as a private message. Work with someone at your house (mom,dad or brother or sister) for the answers

1. Are there any places where you can think really well or not well at all?
2. Does music help you to concentrate or make it difficult for you to concentrate? Does it matter what kind of music it is?
3. In what situations can you imagine things really well? Do you fin it difficult to use you imagination sometimes?
4. Do you find it difficult to remember thing sometimes? what sort of things?
5. Do you believe in life on other planets? What do you suppose the people there look like?

Date:12th and 13th May 2020, DAY 5-6
Topic: Routines
Objective: Understand and apply routine vocabulary, improving the speaking and listening

CC: Reliability
Key words: Typical,stage, lecture

Activity 

As a class we will do the reading of this article, when we finish each student must develop your own ideal school routine as a comic/drawings, in the next class each one will make an oral presentation in English of your illustrated routine

Date:15th May 2020, DAY 2
Topic: Workbook
Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: Possession,positive, negative,allowed

Activity 1

As a warm up, we are going to practice our speaking and reading with a karaoke of Love of my life - Queen song.

Activity 2

The students who didn't finish their presentations in the previous class will present them

Activity 3

Today we are going to work on page 18 of our workbook, with this you will give an account of the knowledge acquired in the previous classes on the respective topics (present perfect, positive and negative form, present perfect with for and since), the work will be done in the class with the teacher present to answer questions and to follow up the activities correctly

Date:19th May 2020, DAY 3
Topic: Workbook
Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: Ancient. Thousands, Path, Pleasant

Activity 1

As a warm up, we are going to practice the topic for page 19 with a kahoot quiz

Activity 2

The students who didn't finish their presentations in the previous class will present them
(Martin Cubides, Juliana Rojas)

Activity 3

Today we are going to work on page 19,20 (Vocabulary) and 21 of our workbook, with this you will give an account of the knowledge acquired in the previous classes on the respective topics (A,An The or No Article, School Subject, verbs about thinking), the work will be done in the class with the teacher present to answer questions and to follow up the activities correctly

Date:20th May 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Critical thinking
Objective:  Analyze information objectively and make a reasoned judgment
CC: Reliability
Key words: Fresh,Need, Supply, Preserve

Activity 1

We are going to watch the episode fresh water from the netflix series, our planet

Activity 2

After watching our planet episode you will develop an Essay in this regard, where you give your position about it, the essay must be a minimum of one Microsoft Word page

Date:21th May 2020, DAY 5
Topic: Cambridge English preliminary
Objective: Improve and evaluate the competences corresponding to the topics of units 1 and 2 of the period
CC: Reliability

Key words: Outdoor, Centre, Welsh, Functional, Slopes

Activity 1

As a warm up, we are going to practice our speaking and reading with a karaoke of Tomorrow never knows - The beatles song.

Activity 2

Today you are going to solve this activities

Date:27th May 2020, DAY 2

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: Deep breath, shopping bags, injuries, Knives, Hammer

• As a warm up, in the frame of the English week, we will play Hangman together, with your microphone on and sharing my screen, https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/hangman/

Activity
You will develop page 22 and 23 of the workbook, here you got the pages and activities attached, we will be together on zoom solving some points together 

Date:28th May 2020, DAY 3

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: left out, though, straight

As a warm up, in the frame of the English week, we will play Stop together, with your microphone on and video, you will write down this table on your notebook

Activity

You will develop 23 of the workbook, here you got the page and activities attached, we will be together on zoom solving some points together 

Date:29th May 2020, DAY 3

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: informal, weekends, routines

As a warm up, in the frame of the English week, we will play kahoot, we will choose the topics together, it could be movies, animals, cartoons or music 

We will continue solving the page 23 of the workbook, to finish all the activities in that page

Date:1st June 2020, DAY 4

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: dialogue, complain, reader

Activity

We will continue solving the workbook page 24 

Date:2th June 2020, DAY 4

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: purpose, each

Activity
We will continue solving the workbook page 25

Date:4th June 2020, DAY 2

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: brave, laid-back, those, angry

Activity

We will continue solving the workbook pages 25 and 26

English kahoot topic review: a, an, the or no article

https://kahoot.it/challenge/07972775?challenge-id=90cc4888-563f-45da-8736-70ff82ba46fc_1591292824982

Game PIN: 07972775

Date:5th June 2020, DAY 3

Topic: Workbook

Objective: Understand and apply previous knowledge acquired

CC: Reliability

Key words: brave, laid-back, those, angry

Activity

We wiil develop a kahoot abou A, An, The or No article to continue solving the workbook page 27

Date:8th June 2020, DAY 4

Topic: Workbook

Objective: improve our speaking and writting skills

CC: Kindness

Key words: Charity

Activity
We will socialize the writtings task about some one famous for doing charity

Date:9th June 2020, DAY 5

Topic: LQA TOPICS REVIEW

Objective: improve our knowledge in school subject vocabulary and verbs about thinking

CC: Kindness

Key words: kahoot

Activity 1

We will socialize the writtings task about some one famous for doing charity, the ones that haven't done they presentation

Activity 2

We will develop 2 kahoot about school subject and verbs about thinking

Date:10th June 2020, DAY 6

Topic: LQA TOPICS REVIEW

Objective: improve our knowledge in school subject vocabulary and verbs about thinking

CC: Kindness

Key words: kahoot

Activity 1

We will socialize the writtings task about some one famous for doing charity, the ones that haven't done they presentation, today is the last day to do it : Juanita Garzon, Juan Pablo Morea, Martin Cubides, Nicolas Anzola, Juliana Rojas, Samuel Ruiz, Gabriela Caravallo and Alejandor Gomez.

Activity 2

We will develop 2 kahoot about verbs about thinking ( from yesterday) and Comparatives and superlatives Adjectives, but first we will review the last topic.

Date:18th June 2020, DAY 5

Topic: LQA reinforcement

Objective: improve our knowledge in comparative and superlatives adjectives 

CC: Kindness

Key words: kahoot

Activity 1

We will see a video to understand the comparative and superlative adjective use in English in a clearer way

Activity 2

We will develop a kahoot about Comparatives Adjectives, as a reinforcement for the LQA we develop yesterday.

https://kahoot.it/

Date:19th June 2020, DAY 6

Topic: LQA reinforcement

Objective: improve our knowledge in comparative and superlatives adjectives 

CC: Kindness

Key words: kahoot

Activity 1

We will do a quick review of yesterday's topics, especially superlatives, to do a kahoot and assess your knowledge on the subject

Date:24th June 2020, DAY 2

Topic: Sequencers

Objective: Learn how to use sequencers in English

CC: Kindness

Key words:: FIRST, THEN, NEXT, AFTER THAT, FINALLY

Activity 1

I´m goin to share with you the essay wrote by Laura Mora, for you to understand the correct way to structure one, the paragraphs and some linking words in there.

Then, we will see a video to understand the correct way to usea sequencers in English

Activity 2

You will develop a short story using the sequencers learn, to share with us tomorrow