Monday 15 December 2008

WORKING ON THE ORAL PRESENTATION

As we have said in class, you have to prepare your oral presentation about

1. TYPES OF MUSIC
1. Its origins, characteristics, talk about names of bands and singers, recent hits.
2. Choose one group and talk about it.

You know different kind of people: Emo, snobs, heavies, posh, skaters, rappers, nerds, punks, grunge, freakies, hippies, rocker, squatters, skins and they all like different style of music.


2. IMPORTANT CITIES BECAUSE OF MUSIC
1. Choose a city that has become important by the music.
E.g. Liverpool (the Beatles)
Woodstock (hippies)
Seattle (grunge)
...
Talk about the type of music:
Its origins, characteristics, talk about names of bands and singers, recent hits.
2. Choose one group and talk about it.

Now, to start you have to post on your blog the first draft.Use images and videos to illustrate your presentation.

Guidelines for the draft:

Title: The history of Punk, Heavy, Pop, Rock....

Write 3 paragraphs.
1st. You can start talking about the origins. E.g "Punk rock began in New York .....
Then talk about the characteristics. E.g. Punks wore strange clothes, had strange hair,..
and finally talk about the type of music nowadays. E.g. Today punk ....

2nd. Talk about names of bands and singers. Name the first groups, who were the vocalist or guitarist. And important hits.

3rd. Choose a group and describe it.

To write paragraph 1 and 2, you can use as a model. Workbook p.16: Reading.
For paragraph 3, use Workbook p. 4: ex. 2 and p. 15: ex. 13.

Remember you have to use images and videos.



Tuesday 21 October 2008

Learn the alphabet

Do you know the alphabet? Do you remember vowels and consonnes in the English alphabet?
The English Alphabet
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: alphabet)

Monday 20 October 2008

ADJECTIVES

Learn about adjectives with a song from Grammar Rock

Mods and rockers

After watching the DVD, you have known different teen culture movements and some of you have discovered "mods" for the first time.

Here you have a video that can help you understand more about this fashion.

TC students


Teen Culture
As a teenager, you are no longer a child and you are not yet an adult.
Most teenagers like music, mobile phones, computers, films and fashionable clothes. They love hanging out with friends. These things are often called "teen culture".
People first used the word "teenager" in the 1940s. There have been teen culture movements in most decades since. Mods and rockers in the 1960s; hippies in the early 1970s. Then in 1976 punk started in Britain and became fashion on the day. And so it continues - everything lasts for a while until a new fashion takes over.
From Macmillan Secondary Course DVD 3