End of Course-Extraordinay Test

British Culture quiz.

Find the answer to these questions and post them on to your personal blog: (10marks)

1. Which of the following is a traditional British dish?
a) Paella
b) Fish and chips
c) Frogs’ legs
d) Tagliatelli.

2. Who is the current heir to the British throne?
a) Prince Charles
b) Prince Harry
c) Prince Edward
d) Prince, the singer

3. What is an MP?
a) A military policeman
b) A monetary policy
c) A member of parliament
d) A master postman

4. The United Kingdom is made up of:
a) England, Scotland and Wales
b) England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland
c) England and Scotland
d) England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

5. List the capital cities of each country in the UK.

6. The famous sword of King Arthur was called:
a) Exchequer
b) Excalibur
c) Exactor
d) Excapitulator

7. Which famous theatre has recently been reconstructed near its original site?
a) The Theatre Royal
b) The Globe
c) The Shakespeare
d) The King’ s Theatre

8. Who is the patron saint of England?
a) St. Patrick
b) St. Andrew
c) St. David
d) St. George

9. What´s the BBC? What does it stand for ?

10. Who´s the writer of:???
Hamlet
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter
Gulliver’ s Travels
Robinson Crusoe

ICT

Vocabulary: Find a definition to these terms and p create a simple powerpoint presentation to be uploaded and embedded in your personal blog: (10 marks)

Podcast;
RSS;
Web 2.0
Streaming
WIKI
Social Network
Webquest
Login
Firewall
Search Engine


Embed in your blog your favourite English song, with lyrics and a picture of the band/singer so that it can be heard and watched from your website. (5marks)

Evaluation of the course

End of course – Evaluating sheet-0809- Javier Martínez- English Language

The content of the course
1. The course is appropriate to the aims of the students.
1 2 3 4 5
2. The course material follows a clear logical structure.
1 2 3 4 5
3. The course material is useful and interesting.
1 2 3 4 5
4. The course is oriented to the practical application of the information.
1 2 3 4 5
The teaching methodology
5. The teaching methodology supports the students' active involvement in the teaching process.
1 2 3 4 5
6. The language assistant is an interesting/necessary support for the course skills.
1 2 3 4 5
7. The teacher effectively uses the time. Contents are correctly programmed.
1 2 3 4 5
8. Using the internet raises the students' motivation toward further work in this field. Is it a useful tool for you?
1 2 3 4 5
The professional skills
9. The sessions provide the information in a clear and interesting manner.
1 2 3 4 5
10. The teacher promotes the students' independence & respects the students.
1 2 3 4 5

Add any other comments or suggestions you´d like to be considered.
Thanks in advance

Or just do it online:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=G862DFCFGx9tTifUk4YZ_2fQ_3d_3d

Test your level of English

Please read the information by the British Council :

test your vocabulary :http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/test/vocabtest.html
Try this test to know how good you are at English vocabulary. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!

test your grammar: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/test/grammartest.html
Try this test to know how good you are at English grammar. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!

test your listening: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/test/listeningtest.html
Try this test to know how good you are at listening in English. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!

test your reading: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/test/readingtest.html
Try this test to know how good you are at reading in English. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!

Final task. Pub Quiz Presentation.

A pub quiz is a quiz held in a public house. It is a largely British phenomenon, which reached its peak in the early 1990s. Pub quizzes are still extremely popular and may attract people to a pub who are not found there on other days. The pub quiz is a modern example of a pub game. Though different pub quizzes can cover a range of formats and topics, they have many features in common.

There may be between one and more than half a dozen rounds of questions, totalling anything from 10 to upwards of 80 questions. Rounds may include the following kinds (most common first):
Factual rounds - these are usually spoken, either over a public address system or just called out. Common topics include:
General knowledge - covering the topics listed below (if they're not a separate round) and also topics such as history, geography and science and nature. There may well be more than one of these rounds.
Sport - comprising the statistics and minutiae of popular, well-known sports and general facts about others.
Entertainment - movies, TV shows and music (see also below).
Picture round - these use photocopied or computer-printed hand-outs and consist of pictures to be identified, such as photos of famous people (possibly snapped out of context, or else partially obscured) or logos of companies (without tell-tale lettering), famous places or objects pictured from a strange angle.
Who Am I? - A series of clues to the identity of a famous person (or thing). Clues are given in order of desceding difficulty. The earlier a team can identify the correct answer, the more points they are awarded.
Music round - these consist of excerpts (often only the intro or other non-vocal segment) of songs played over the PA system. Usually the teams must identify the song and also the singer or band (sometimes the year the song was released is also required). Variations include the inclusion of film soundtracks and TV theme tunes (requiring the title), and/or classical music (also requiring the composer).
Puzzle rounds - generally on a hand-out sheet. These may consist of crossword puzzles, anagrams and basic math problems.
True or False - questions to which the answer is True or False.
Novelty rounds - themed round a specific word or name (e.g. all the questions relate to a famous Norman); 'connections', where the last answer in the round provides a link to all the previous answers; true or false; and various others to break up the general stream of questions.

World Book Day

Answer the following questions about the most important writers in Literature:

SHAKESPEARE:

Life & Biography
Also known as…..
Where was Shakespeare born?
How many children did he have?
Time when he lived?
Who did he married?
A strange profession he had?

Works

How many sonnets did he write?
How many plays did he write?
Translate these well-known plays:
Sueño de una noche de verano
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces
El mercader de Venecia

Match the titles with the themes:
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Ambition – Doubt – Jealousy – Love

Language & technique

How many words did he used in his Works?
How many words is he said to have created?
Definitions of language resources:
Long speech by one actor alone on the stage
Direct address to the audience
Words with more than one meaning
Unrhymed five-metre verse

CERVANTES

Vida y Biografía

También conocido como….
¿ Dónde nació?
¿Dónde vivió?
¿Época en la que vivió?
Un hecho llamativo de su vida.
Un trabajo extraño que desempeñó…

Obras

¿Qué son los entremeses?
¿Qué géneros literarios escribió Cervantes?
¿Quién no pertenece al Siglo de Oro español?
Reinados:
Felipe II, Carlos V, Felipe IV, Fernando VII,
Literatura:
Góngora, Berceo, Quevedo, Calderón,
Pintores:
El Greco, Zurbarán, Goya, Velázquez
Empareja los personajes con la idea que representan
D. Quijote
Dulcinea
Sancho Panza
La libertad, el ideal perfección, el materialismo

Lengua y simbolismo

¿Qué aspectos sociales ensalza y cuáles critica?
Cita un paralelismo entre Cervantes y su personaje del Quijote:

Algunos vínculos para más información. Recursos:
http://www.worldbookday.com/
http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=4/23/1616
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/life.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/
“El corazón tiene rezones que la razón no entiende”
“ Ser o no ser, esa es la cuestión”

RSS

It is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format. : "Really Simple Syndication”

Look at the examples and add a source to get information into your blog.

PODCASTING

It is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. ("Personal On Demand broadCASTING").



Look at the teachers sidebar and get some exmaple to embed into your blog

English Speaking Countries

ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES PROJECT:

AUSTRALIA-NZ

CANADA

ENGLAND-UK

IRELAND NOTHERN IRELAND
SCOTLAND

U.S.A.

WALES

INDIA

MALTA-SOUTH AFRICA

Easter is coming...new tasks

Easter

Here you´ll find a message with your task reminder: Presentation about any English Speaking countries. Try to be creative and use the web 2.0 for that.

Javier

http://www.acapela.tv/Easter-1-bcffcc2e53045

Web2.0 tools for presentations

You can create your own photo.book presentation by adding images from Fliker and, obviously your comments in English in each page. You won´t need to make a page for each piece of information. Just write small paragraphs and select a picture by tags which has to do with it. Care with your writing and Good Irish Luck for it.

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

General Information Questionnaire:

Try to answer these questions about the Emerald Island and then fill in the table with the missed information as you search the web and your teacher´s presentation:

1. Which of these statements is true?
a) Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
b) Ireland is part of Scotland.
c) Ireland is an independent country.

2. Which colour is associated with Ireland?
a) green
b) red
c) blue

3. What is the approximate population of Ireland?
a) 4.3 million
b) 21.5 million
c) 43 million

4. Which two sports are both very popular in Ireland?
a) football and American football
b) football and Gaelic football
c) golf and baseball

5. What is ‘Guinness’?
a) a kind of beer
b) the capital of Ireland
c) a kind of Irish music

6. Which of these has not increased in Ireland since the 1990s?
a) the number of immigrants
b) foreign investment
c) the number of people leaving the country to live abroad

7. Which of these statements is true?
a) Irish people have a reputation for being talkative.
b) Ireland’s national day is called Saint Rafael’s Day.
c) It doesn’t rain very often in Ireland.

8. What is ‘Gaelic’?
a) a language
b) a kind of food
c) the capital of Ireland

Source : Inside out (Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.)

• Full country name: Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland (part of the UK)
• Population:
• Capital city:
• Religion:
• National Holiday:
• Government:
• Official languages:
• Population:
• Flag:
• Climate:
• Major Rivers:
• Highest Point:
• An Irish saying:
• A common social custom:
• Famous musicians/bands:
• Symbols:
• Landscape:
• Traditional values:
• A popular drink:
• Famous writer:
• A Traditional dish:
• Sports:
• Leisure/Hobbies:

St. Patrick´s day & Ireland

After the video creation, it´s time to spend some time learning about English speaking countries. Ireland is probably one of the best destinations to pracrise your English. Have a go with these activies:

On March 17th, the Irish celebrate St. Patrick´s Day, which is becoming quite popular among other cultures and traditions. This website provides huge information about it (have a look at some surprising cultural facts, music bands, social customs,...) while ask you to compare traditions with Spain. We´ve got so many things in common...

Take this Irish Quiz:

1. When did St Patrick arrive in Ireland?
2. What happened in 800?
3. What began in 1167-9?
4. When did Henry VIII declare himself king of Ireland?
5. What happened in 1690?
6. When was the Easter Rising in Dublin?

Find the answers to these history questions with the information given above or at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/

Some more interesting sites.

http://islandireland.com/Pages/history.html Historic figures

http://www.visitdublin.com/tourstrails.htmTours of Dublin

http://newwww.guinness.com/All about Guinness.

http://www.u2.com/intro.htmlU2 fan site, includes lyrics.

http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/A wealth of resources.

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/More about Joyce.

http://www.ieslamarina.org/departamentos/ingles/upload-jjaviering/St%20Patrick

More video creation

Another way to create your own viedeo or animation is using cartoon generation sites like http://goanimate.com/. Here you´ll find an easy way to post your stories by a simple drag and drop session of ten minutes. Remember that you´ll have to sign-in first with your mail and then, try to be as creative as possible. Watch out with grammar mistakes or just ask the teacher for correction before publishing. Check this out and have a go yourself:
GoAnimate.com: english-workshop


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Online Video Creation

New Video tasks. As we learnt, it´s quite simple to become a film director. Once you recorded your own videos, now you can play with the Web 2.0 tools to create a short scene in just 10 minutes. Just drag your favourites, add some music or effects and obviously, the subtitles with lots of imagination. Great fun. But be careful as you can have problems if you embed it in your blogs. I want you to publish the link so as to be visited with a short-cut link, just like this you hava as an example. Otherwise some blog features might disappear.

Try to do your best and good luck.

See the example: http://www.grapheine.com/classiktv/index.php?module=see&lang=es&code=c01c4beaa0a2f7ec28e10e2eab7a9ba6

http://www.grapheine.com/classiktv/

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?lang=uk

Deadline for Video Submission: February

Remember, remember...
before the end of february, send it.
Still waiting for your art
which hopefully catches my heart.
You´ll practise your skills
and learn English in small pills.
So try to do your best.
and let us enjoy the rest.
Go for the Oscar...

Do you Speak English?

English Video Contest

Video Contest-English Department

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - COMPETITION OF SHORT FILMS


1. Every student at the school can take part , either individually or as part of a group or team.

2. The competition consists of making a short film ( of 3 - 5 minutes ) in English.

3. The films can be : interviews , scenes from plays, parodies of adverts, songs…

4. The films must be handed over in CD format to your English teacher.

5. Prizes of up to 40 € will be given to the best films . The prizes will be vouchers which can be used in shops .

6. The films will be judged by the entire English department.

7. Whether it wins a prize or not, every film will be considered a piece of voluntary extracurricular work and may positively influence the end of the year English mark.

Deadline : February 28th 2009.

Peace Day, celebrating 30th january

My alphabet...By next Thurs,29 jan

Remember that you will have to post your OWN PERSONAL ALPHABET with your pregferred words, adjectives which define you, images, and your intentions (New year Resolutions) for the New Year. It´s a dictionary activity which should be displayed in your blog. Try to be as creative as possible. Good luck

JANUARY ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY 1: What are your New Year’s Resolutions?:
1

2

3

4

5

http://www.123newyear.com/resolutions.html

ACTIVITY 2: LANGUAGES
Happy New year is a universal wish which is expressed in many languages. Can you fill in the table with some of them?
Dutch

Finnish

French

Gaelic

German

Greek

Italian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Russian:

Spanish: Feliz Año Nuevo

Welsh :

http://wilstar.com/holidays/
http://www.theholidayspot.com

ACTIVITY 3: SHOPPING IN ENGLAND.
What percentage of the money spent in England goes for shopping?
What is the main shopping street in many towns called, where you should head for if you want to go shopping.?
What are the shopping times?
What´s a bank holiday?
Find the names of five of the most famous and well-known department stores in England.
Give the names of three of the most popular London Markets.
London has over 40,000 shops and 26 major street markets to choose from. Complete the following information
Oxford Street (Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus) Oxford Street, London's busiest shopping street, is in the heart of the city's West End. It is the place for buying souvenirs, clothes, and so on.
------------------------ (Nearest Tube: --------------------- ) Overflowing with street markets, entertainment, trendy cafes, English pubs, and small boutiques. A must visit for all tourists to London.
------------------- Road--------------------Road is where book worms go. Mainstream bookshops, such as Foyles, Borders and Blackwells, line the street but perhaps the most unique feature about this road are its rare, second-hand and specialist shops. Foyles is famous for five floors containing thousands of titles.
------------------------ Road The best place for electronics shops and furniture stores.
----------------------- (Nearest Tube: -----------------------) Fashion / Designer boutiques
The cost of living varies from one part of the UK to another. Generally it is more expensive to live in London and the south-east of England, and cheaper up north Britain's currency is based on the pound sterling (£) which is divided into one hundred pence (100p). Could you find the price of these products in England (approximately):

Drinks (in a cafe or bar)
Beer - ------ per pint,
-----------per half pint
Wine - ------per glass
Coffee - -------------
Tea - ----------------
Soft drinks - -------
Bread (400g loaf)

Eggs (carton of 6)

Sugar (750g)

Petrol (gasoline)-------- per litre

Fish and chips

Theatre Ticket

Cinema Ticket


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/shops.htm

ACTIVITY 4: What are the most typical and frequently bought products in January sales?
http://www.thefrugalshopper.com/articles/seasonal.shtml

Happy New Year

Wish you the very best for the New Year.
A MUSICAL PRESENT FOR EVERYONE:


Playing For Change: Song Around the World Stand By Me from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.