Reading - Harry Potter

 Hello again!

The following test we are going to practice is a little complex, but we want to focus on the description J. K. Rowling does of Harry's family, the Dudley family.

This is a fragment from the fisrt chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone

Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. 

Can you paint the Dudley family? Why do you think J. K. Rowling told us this characteristics and no others?

Bibliography:

Rowling, J. K. (1999). Harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone. Scholastic.

Listening - Taylor Swift - RED

 Hello again!

Today we are going to listen to Red, a famous song of the songwriter Taylor Swift. I want you to listen it the first time just to enjoy the song and see if you can recognize some words when you listen. This is the official video for the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlot0i3Zykw

After listening for the first time, I want to focus on the colours and the adjetives that accompany the colours on this song. They are mostly on the chorus, but some of the colours are also during the rest of the song.

Can you complete the lyrics?

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street

Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly

Loving him is like trying to change your mind

Once you're already flying through the free fall

Like the colors in autumn, so bright, just before they lose it all

Losing him was _____, like I'd never known

Missing him was _____ _____, all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know

Somebody you never met

But loving him was ____

Loving him was ____

Touching him was like realizing all you ever wanted

Was right there in front of you

Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words

To your old favorite song

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword

And realizing there's no right answer

Regretting him was like wishing you never found out

That love could be that strong

Losing him was _____, like I'd never known

Missing him was _____ _____, all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know

Somebody you never met

But loving him was ____

Oh, ____

________ ____

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes

Tell myself it's time now gotta let go

But moving on from him is impossible

When I still see it all in my head

In ________ ____

________, it was ____

Losing him was _____, like I'd never known

Missing him was _____ _____, all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know

Somebody you never met

'Cause loving him was ____

Yeah, yeah, ____

________ ____

And that's why he's spinning 'round in my head

Comes back to me, ________ ____

Yeah, yeah

His love was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street

And after listening to this song, can you tell me your opinion about why she chose this colours and what relationship they have with the feelings she tried to communicate? What are the colours of Autumn?

Speaking

 Hello again!

We are going to practice speaking today! for that we are going to record ourselves with the following tool so we can share the audio with each other. This tool is called Vocaroo and you can find it on the following page: https://vocaroo.com/

The text we are going to recite is a tongue twisted text, it is hard to pronounce, because it was words that sound the same even though they are written differently. My favourite is about the weather:

Whether the weather be fine

or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

or whether the weather be hot.

We’ll weather the weather

whether we like it or not.

I recomend you to try it out a few times before recording, so you get in the rhythm.

WRITING - LEARNING IRREGULAR PAST TENSES

Hello fellow classmates! 

 As my first entry I am going to use some materials to learn some irregular past tenses of the English verbs. I think that people mostly make memorize the list basically, but I think use them and see them in different context make learning them easier, so I create a big puzzle to improve their learning. For this activity I use puzzlemaker (https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com)

ACROSS 

1. Past tense of bite 

2. Past tense of buy 

5. Past tense of forgive 

7. Past tense of fight 

8. Past tense of bring 

10. Past tense of run 

12. Past tense of sleep 

 DOWN 

1. Past tense of bend 

3. Past tense of understand 

4. Past tense of hear 

6. Past tense of fight 

8. Past tense of become 

9. Past tense of Teach 

11. Past tense of beat 

12. Past tense of see 

 You can also download the PDF so you can print it for your classroom https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1q7DGtsU4QusEMLa8QZNWN0FlRsdSCr/view?usp=sharing