Wednesday, 7 January 2009

TOWNS AND CITIES IN EUROPE PROJECT: FIRST SESSION











SABADELL (BARCELONA)-TREVISSO(VENICE)

Now, it's your turn to start!
Remember that you have to get in contact with your italian peers. Your first activity is to write a letter talking about you

To do it you have to follow some instructions:

1. First, write a personal description. Give some personal information (name, age, where do you live )

2. Second, write a second paragraph with your physical description and describe your personality.

3. Third, write a third paragraph about your personal preferences. What do you love, like or hate? What can or can't you do?

Remember that you have to translate the e-mail into three languages: English, Spanish and Catalan.

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.