B2 ( Advanced 2) Grammar unit 1B: Cleft Sentences + keys + song ( Eric Clapton)

SONG ACTIVITY: ERIC CLAPTON

Now do this song activity:
1. Download this worksheet
2. Listen to the song twice and answer the questions. To listen click here.
3. Download the keys here.

Follow-up activities:
BBC - The Teacher- idioms: blue
Colour idioms
Idioms and sayings in various languages

B2 ( project): ADVERTISING: relaunching a product.

• Information and listenings about advertising

video- branding
script video- the idea behind the logo

• Classroom task: An advertising campaign

STEP 1: learn the language for discussion.
DOWNLOAD THIS FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE:
Useful classroom language for the advertising campaign: 

• putting forward new ideas
• reacting positively to new ideas
• reacting negatively to new ideas
• summarising/recapping (recap)

STEP 2: relaunching the product, aspects to consider:

• changing the name
• changing the packaging
• changing the advertising to target a different age group
• drop/raise the price

STEP 3: post your notes and final decisions onto Trello. You will see some windows, named: Group 1 4ºA, 4ºB,etc.

STEP 3: create your poster.

Think about the visual impact and remember to create a poster with your product. You can use www.canva.com to create your poster.

The secretaries can post their summaries in the comments section.

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• CLASSROOM PROJECT SAMPLE from the students at the EOI Motril: 

WATCH THIS OUT:
BELOW IS YOUR PRODUCT CAMPAIGN POSTER.
Here's your document with the agreements reached in class on the advertising campaign by you ( the Marketing Department).

IDEAS ORIGINALES DE ALUMNADO DE 4º.

The posters have been created by students at the 4th year Nivel Intermedio B2.1

EXCELLENT TEAMWORK!!

MANY THANKS!!

B2 SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION

Watch this documentary ´Social Media Revolution
While you listen do the activities
Keys
Tapescript

Discussion

Would you like to be involved in making a show? What kind of programme would you make? What would your role be?

pre-listening: vocabulary
word of mouth

B2 KEYS TO FILE 6B READING: Three things you ( probably) didn't know about sleep

Page 59. Three things you (probably) didn't know about sleep.

b.
1. T ( Line 6. A lucid dream is one in which we are aware that we are dreaming.)
2. F ( Line 7: in a lucid dream, dreamer is sometimes able to control of influence what is happening to them..)
3. T ( Line 12: Gamers spend hours a day in a virtual reality and they are used to controlling their game environments, and this seems to help them to do the same when they are dreaming.
4. T ( Line 17: Some experts believe that we have nightmares to help us practise for life-threatening situations in a safe environment.)
5. F ( Line 19: Since video gamers already practise those ( life-threatening )situations regularly in games...video gamers may have less need of nightmares.)
6. T ( Line 25: When they- a gamer- have a frightening experience in a dream they don't run away like most of us do, they turn round and fight back.)

d.
1 syndrome   2 loyal   3 deep   4 century  5 nightfall  6 pray   7 gamer   8 lucid   9 turn round


p. 61- VOCABULARY - SLEET

1. sleepy   2. yawn  3  set their alarm clock   4 pillow   5 duvet, sheets, blankets   6 fall asleep
7. snore   8 nightmares  9 overlseep  10 keep you awake  11 insomnia  12 sleeping tablets  13 siesta, nap  14 log   15 jet-lagged  16 fast asleep


3+ 4 REVISE AND CHECK SECTION - page 43
Can you understand this text?
1D  2E  3A  4F  5C


Can you understand this film?

1 quarter  2 more extreme  3 wettest  4 mild  5 economy, politics   6 cold weather  
7 spring, summer  8 revolution  9 artists  10 storm


5+ 6 REVISE AND CHECK SECTION - Pages 62-63

Can you understand this text? p. 63

b. 1a   2c  3c  4b  5a  6c  7c  8b  9a  10b

Can you understand this film? p. 63
1c  2b  3a  4b  5c

B2 KEYS TO FILE 6A: MUSIC AND EMOTION

P. 55. READING WHAT MUSIC WOULD YOU PLAY TO AN ALIEN

b. Before getting his new hearing aid, Austin Chapman had never heard music. He went on the internet and asked for suggestions of what to listen to. Someone on the site reddit.com wrote that introducing Austin to music is like introducing music to an alien since we imagine that aliens would never have heard any music either.

c.
1. profoundly ( line 1)
2. make a fool of themselves ( line 2)
3. moved to tears ( line 4)
4. with no great expectations ( line 7)
5 a cacophony ( line 9)

B2 Listening: Steve Jobs

 

 You are about to watch a video in which Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs delivered the commencement address to graduating students at Stanford University( one of the most prestigious universities in the world)( 2005). 


Follow the instructions and complete the exercises in part A ( comprehension questions) and B ( gap-fill and use of English).
1. Part A: Watch the video once and answer the following comprehension questions. Then check your answers with the keys. 
2. Part B: Listen again, fill in the gaps and answer the questions. To check the keys, go to the last page of this worksheet.

Hope you find it inspirational.

FILE 5B: VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING: LOVE RELATIONSHIPS AND DATING

Here are some extra voabulary activities on dating and St.Valentine's Day.
Dating scene 1: clip.
Dating scene 1:activities. You will also find some functional language to give advice and persuade.
Dating scene 2 : clip
Dating scene 2: activities
Wedding


 

B2 ( Writing strategies): Portfolio 1- Topic and supporting sentences

Writing strategies writing paragraphs from Elena Gómez

 Practice

News: World Climate Summit in Paris 2015

On November 27th 1995 the King of Pop Michael Jackson released the single and video " EARTH SONG".  "Earth Song" music video featuring Michael Jackson walking through a burnt down forest singing. Includes footage depicting pollution and suffering of people around the world.
20 years later the situation is still an urgent global challenge.This issue is getting worse and worse.

30 November 2015: UN climate summit opened in Paris this morning.
I think it's about time to do something for Planet Earth.
Please watch this video and read the articles below on climate change today.




What is climate change?
Why do two degrees matter?
NASA: Climate Change evidence
NASA: Climate Change: How do we know?

Michael Jackson's poem : Planet Earth "Earth Song"
  READ PLANET EARTH POEM HERE

B2 ( Writing) : linking words and phrases

Download pdf here.

B2 (FYI- 5º A) : STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NOW (25TH NOVEMBER)

FYI ( For Your Interest)- 5ºA

GENERAL INFORMATION
Information about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

The hideout.org.uk

1. Your relationship: Healthy relationship is possible and you deserve to be in one!
2. What's Abuse?
3. Is this domestic abuse?

ACTIVITIES- HOMEWORK

TESTIMONIES: READING AND LISTENING TASKS

READING  AND WRITING TASK.

Before reading the task read the following information: How to Summarise a written text.

1. Read a couple of stories and select ONE.  Now summarise ONE of the stories 150- 200 words using the techniques learnt above.

LISTENING TASK.

Watch the videos below and summarise the whole story 150-200 words.

1. Watch this video. Daisy talks about how her dad abused her mum ( video with script)
2. Daisy talks about how she was affected in school. 
3. Refugee Key worker vide + tapescript.

NEWS ARTICLE: The Guardian

• Swedish 'social experiment' shows people ignoring domestic abuse in a lift

A Swedish organisation has posted a distressing video showing women being abused physically and verbally – yet only one person reacts

B2 ( Vocabulary Upper-Intermediate and Advanced) : ENGLISH UNLIMITED VOCABULARY EXTRA WORKSHEETS AND KEYS

INDEX OF LEVELS AND CONTENTS

B2 (Vocabulary ): EOI Marbella Wiki

Vocabulary bank B2- 

B2 ( BBC Radio 4 Extra): A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA-

You will hear a radio programme about the origins of gothic horror.
Who was Horace Walpole?  Horace Walpole biography


When Gothic was born.

Radio programme: A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto

Rory McGrath explores the origins of gothic horror, manifest in the first ever novel about a haunted castle, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

The book, published in 1764, became the first gothic novel and heralded the start of a new literary genre.

ENJOY BY LISTENING, LEARN BY LISTENING!

B2 ( Vocabulary): Keys- character and personality worksheet

B2- FCE  GAMES AND ACTIVITIES- PEOPLE AND ADJECTIVES OF PERSONALITY

Here are some of the adjectives we've learnt:

conceited=egotistical= creído

industrious= hardworking

bitchy (informal)=malicious, spiteful-  con mala leche

gregarious= outgoing= sociable

suspicious=desconfiado, suspicaz.

timid=shy, hesitant

garrulous=talkative- charlatán

tetchy (informal)- irritable

stoical (pertaining to the Stoics)=characterized by impassivity or resignation

bigoted=(intolerante--fanático) extremely intolerant of another's creed, belief, or opinion

 (un)reliable (A) = fiable, responsable

----to rely on sb/sthg= to have trust in

KEYS KEYS KEYS

1. Chris   2. Anne   3. Rebecca  4. Oscar   5. Luke

6. Isabel   7. Nigel   8. Elizabeth

B2- Speaking strategies practice: How to prepare your outline to deliver a monologue

Last Wednesday we agreed on me leaving a post on the blog to upload the speaking sessions you're having with the language assistant teacher on Wednesdays.
Please follow the steps below to prepare and record your speaking.

First, read the following instructions:

SPEAKING SKILL TIPS:
To prepare your monologue think about the following points:

1. Brainstorm vocabulary related to the card using bubble maps, small mind maps,etc.
2. Write a bare bones outline.
3. Add information to your bare bones outline. To do so, you'll  need to:

• Organize ideas starting with a topic sentence and add supporting sentences o it.
• Connect your ideas logically using connectors.
• Make sure you conclude your monologue within the time limit (around 4 minutes).

HOW TO PREPARE AND UPLOAD YOUR TASK:
Pre-task: Reading outline samples.
1. Here's an outline sample Kathryn has prepared for you on last year's card model 8A. Please read them through them.
Bare bones outline
Detailed outline

2. Now draft the outline and record your monologue without reading it.
3. To record your monologue use this online voice recorder: www.vocaroo.com ( once you finish recording your speaking, click on : click here to save and copy your embed code).
4. Send me your embed code by email or submit it in the "comentarios" section below.
5. Listen to your classmates' speaking tasks.
6. Choose a classmate's speaking and draft its outline.
7. Let's share the results in class.

Mind mapping to start writing/speaking

What is mind mapping?

Mind mapping examples
1. Shakespeare
2. Suffixing rules

3.HOW ICT CAN ACCOMMODATE LEARNING STYLES

To learn more click here.
mind-map tools

B2 ( Reading): BBC- Capital- The joy of living with less

The joy of living with less.
f you’ve ever fantasised about selling everything you own and paring down your possessions to the bare essentials, you’re probably familiar with minimalism.

B2 ( Music): Michael Jackson new single and Billboard performance

Michael Jackson hologram steals the show. The late Michael Jackson steals the show at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards with a computer-generated hologram performance ( read more here).




Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake: ' Love never felt so good'. Read the news here.

B2 Documentaries

EARTH 2100 ( with subtitles)




THE ILLUSION OF TIME





PLANET EARTH 100 MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE