Wednesday 17 April 2019

Wednesday's lesson with Janvier.

Welcome to our last English class before the Easter holidays.

Today Conor will lead the seminar under the leadership of Janvier..

Same procedure as last time!




Here are the questions for chapters 27 & 28:-
Chapter 27
1) What age was Shelby when Lauren disappeared?


2) What had Madison imagined? Why do you think she had thought this?

3) Madison says she likes imagining being other people. What does this suggest to us?

4) What news did MJ have?


5) Who does MJ believe?



Chapter 28

1) What have Lauren’s adoptive parents been charged with?

2) Why does Lauren push the cake away?

3) What does Shelby say her parents want?


4) Why do you think she is being so cruel?


5) Describe Lauren’s room.


6) How often does Lauren have contact with MJ? Why is this?

7) This chapter ends up in a very sad way? Explain in what way.


After the questions: Conor will test you on 25 words..
Remember please that this is week 16...

There should be a word list coming my way this week (some have still not sent in the lists for week 12 or 14!!)


 Ok, joking aside.. After a short brain break Janvier will tell you a little bit about himself and his background from Burundi...

Time to spare?
Please complete your exercise based on a text from the Happy book. ALTERNATIVE Complete your word list and sent it in to me!!

We will be having our Spanish lesson today!!





Monday 15 April 2019

Working on Happy

Fanny is still sick. We will have to wait until after Easter for her seminar.

Today we are going to work on with our " Happy" texts.

For those of you who were absent last week- you need to get hold of your "Happy" text book.

Choose a text and quickly do the 15 word exercise on the worksheet. Here was mine:


Happy- Year 8 Word Study
Text of your choice
Name…Mike…  Text……Having your own car


Explain what the word means in English (5 words)


Word
Explanation in English
1
Chrome
Shiny metal used a lot in cars
2
Luxury
An unnecessary thing which is very expensive
3
Brother
A male sibling
4
Second-hand
Not new
5
Foreign
From another country
Find  opposites of the word (5 words)
1. Expensive- cheap
2. Beautiful- ugly
3. Started- finished
4. luxury- necessity
5. earn- spend
Find  synonyms [with same meaning] of the word (5 words)
1. big-large
2. cost- price
3. smart- tidy
4. pocket money- allowance
5. qualified- certified

P.S. You have to choose another text than this one!!

When you are done.. do an exercise based on your text using a mixture of the following things:

It will consist of 15 questions (like today) and you can choose and mix between any of the following exercises:


1. True/false questions

2. Comprehension questions with a question word (who, where, when, how, what, why? )

3. Matching exercise

4. Synonyms.. Find a word in the text which means the same as........

5. A crossword with clues (ledtrÃ¥dar) in English. 

6. Multiple choice questions.

Here is mine:

Having your own car                             Mike
Happy 8
Please answer the following questions

Choose the correct answer:
1) Kevin bought his car                  a) Himself
                                                      b) with a loan from a company
                                                      c) with a loan from a company and his parents
                                                      d) and paid with cash

2) The text makes it clear that Sharon  a) has older siblings and parents
                                                            b) has younger brothers
                                                            c) has family members who don’t drive
                                                            d) has older sisters

3) Without the car Sharon would   a) take the bus
                                                      b) get lifts from her parents
                                                      c) not get anywhere
                                                      d) depend on lifts from guys

Having your own car


 
 
 
 
 
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Across
2. you hold this when you drive
3. rely on something or someone
4. They give you jobs
6. to be able to pay
Down
1. famous kind of American car
5. American English word for petrol
1. In California you can drive a car from the age of 15   True/False

2. People are impressed when Nathalie turns up in her Thunderbird          True/False

3. Kevin has started his own business                              True/False

4. Sharon has been driving alone for two years             True/False

Questions with question words

1. Which of the three people is the oldest- Sharon, Nathalie or Kevin?

2. For how many of the three young people is the car really only a luxury?

You have to choose another text!!

Done?

Get going on the exercises your classmates have done.
Complete and give them back to them for marking! 


On Wednesday hopefully Conor will have his seminar. You will have a supply teacher and we English teachers will be marking the national test