This is your third activity: Let's visit my city!!
Here you have a map of Sabadell. You are going to find interesting places than even you don't know about your city. Have a look and start sightseeing a little bit! Then, you have to choose three monuments or important places and make a presentation to show Sabadell to your italian peers.
If you enter Panoramio and you look for Treviso, Venice or Barcelone. You can do the same project with the other cities or towns we are discovering!!!
BEYONCÉ If I were a boy (spanglish version) Here you have a video of Beyoncé. If you listen carefully, you can listen to her singing in English and Spanish. It's a very easy song to understand. You can read below the lyrics in English. Try to find the meaning in both languages, and ENJOY THE SONG!!!!
First, you need to create a powerpoint presentation with some photos and text. Second, you are going to record your voice with the AUDACITY program. Finally, it's time to put it together and you will talk about your family and all of us and above all, your italian peers will listen to you introducing your family.
Some of you asked me how to post your powerpoint document for the oral presentation on your blog. Here you have a tutorial explaining what you have to do.
First of all, enter the web page: www. slideshare.net and make a registration, when you have the log in, follow these simple steps.
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.
Be welcome to the English blog!!. Here you are going to find a lot of different things to make you enjoy English more and more. Now, it's your turn STUDENTS to do your best!!!