ORAL EXAM, FEBRUARY 2018

CHOOSE TWO PICTURES AND TALK ABOUT THEM (2 MINUTES MAXIMUM)

DON'T FORGET TO TALK ABOUT:

PEOPLE’S DESCRIPTION: PHYSICAL APPEARANCE. PERSONALITY, HAIRSTYLE, JOB…

PLACES’ DESCRIPTION: IN THE FOREGROUND, IN THE BACKGROUND, ON THE LEFT,
 ON THE RIGHT, AT THE BOTTOM, AT THE TOP, IN THE MIDDLE.

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS:

IN THE PICTURE, YOU CAN SEE…

THERE IS/THERE ARE…

HE/SHE HAS GOT…

HE/SHE IS…

IT SEEMS…

HE/SHE LOOKS…

TIP: WHEN TALKING ABOUT  PICTURES, THE USUAL VERBAL TENSE USED FOR DESCRIBING IS PRESENT CONTINUOUS.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR PEER TO PEER

GOOD JOB OF OUR STUDENTS IN 2ND AND 4TH ESO EXPLAINING GRAMMAR AMONG THEMSELVES...MUCH BETTER THAN THE TEACHER!

ORAL EXAM

TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANTHONY GORMLEY'S ANGEL OF THE NORTH AND BERNINI'S ANGEL

4ºESO: MAKE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS USING THE TIME LINE OF INVENTIONS

THE PASSIVE

Click here to check some facts about the passive and then, have a look at this presentation:

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GET READY FOR THE ORAL EXAM!!

LET'S READ...AND WRITE...AND TALK ABOUT THANKSGIVING 2015

 (Students in 4th ESO will write and speak about Thanksgiving Day in the next speaking and writing examinations, so get ready for it!! what are you waiting for?)

When is Thanksgiving 2015 and why does the US celebrate Turkey Day?

Roast turkey, candied yams, giant balloons and American football - what is Thanksgiving Day really all about?

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Email

How much do you know about Thanksgiving?

READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text and answer the following questions:

(gather: form a group, first aider: emergency medical assistance, chill: freezing, cold, giblets: viscera of a bird, melt: become liquid)
It was the Monday before Thanksgiving, Bobby Evans collapsed in a supermarket in Worcester, Massachusetts. Other customers gathered around and the first-aider was called. It did not look good for Bobby, there was blood coming out of his ear, his face looked white and he was unconscious.
The shop manager dialled 911 and when the medical team arrived the first thing they did was take off Bobby's hat, to everyone's amazement inside was a partially frozen turkey. What knocked Bobby down was the chill from turkey paralyzing his brain. The blood came from the giblets which had melted and fell over his hair and down into his ear.
As it was Thanksgiving the sympathetic manager took pity, and rather than prosecuting the shop-lifter, gave him the partly unfrozen bird and sent Bobby on his way. Two days later the manager got a letter from Bobby apologising for his behaviour and thanking the manager for his action. Also inside the envelope was $15, the price of his turkey.

1. What was Bobby Evans doing in a supermarket?
   

2. Why did Bobby have his face pale?
   

3. Why was there blood coming out from Bobby's ear?
   

4. Was Bobby a customer at the supermarket?
   
5. Why did the manager show sympathy for Bobby?
   

 
 
WRITING


A) Write an email to a friend telling about what you have done for Thanksgiving (What have you eaten? How many people have gathered for Thanksgiving Day? How have you cooked the turkey? ... )


B) What's your opinion about the celebration of foreign festivities in Spain (Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday... )

Click on the image to complete a test on how much you know about Thanksgiving

WRITING PRACTICE. 4ºESO.

WRITING

1. Write a title or a sentence for this image.

2. Describe his feelings.

3. Write your opinion about what has happened to him.

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUTUBE!! (4ºESO)

• How often do you use YouTube?
• Which is better: YouTube or TV? Why?
• Why do some Yoube videos "go viral" (become very popular)?
• When was the last time you watched YouTube?
• Have you ever uploaded a video to Youtube? If 'yes', what was the video about?
• Can watching YouTube improve your English?
• Do you think YouTube will replace TV in the future? Why? Why not?
• How did people spend their free time before the Internet?
• Which is better: watching YouTube or reading a book? Why?
• At what age should children start to watch YouTube?
• Are you going to watch YouTube later today? Why? Why not?
• How can people make money by uploading YouTube videos?
• How old is YouTube?
• Talk about an interesting Youtube video you have watched.

50 IDIOMS ABOUT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Food, one of the necessities of life, figures often in traditional expressions. Fruits and vegetables, specifically, account for some of the most familiar idioms, including the following.

Fruit

1. To compare “apples and oranges” is to uselessly compare unlike things.  
2. The “apple of (one’s) eye” is a favorite or well-like person.  
3. To say that “the apple never falls far from the tree” is to suggest that a person’s personality traits are close to those of the person’s parents.  
4. “As American as apple pie” means that something is quintessentially representative of American culture or values.  
5. “(As) sure as God made little green apples” suggests certainty. 6–12. To be a “bad apple” or a “rotten apple” is to be a bad person. Meanwhile, to say that “one bad (or rotten) apple spoils the whole bunch (or barrel)” implies that one flawed element or person can undermine an effort or a group, and to be “rotten to the core” is to be thoroughly bad or worthless.  
13–14. “How do you like them apples?” (or “How about them apples?”) is a neutral or taunting comment, depending on the context, that refers to an undesirable state or situation.  
15–16. To “polish (one’s) apple” is to flatter someone; a flatterer is an “apple polisher.”  
17. To “upset the apple cart” is to ruin plans.  
18. A “banana republic” is a weak or corrupt country.  
19–20. A “second banana” is a subordinate, and the “top banana” is the leader.  
21–22. To “go bananas” is to become excited or crazed, and “to drive (someone) bananas” is to annoy or irritate someone.  
23. Something in “cherry condition” is excellently maintained or restored.  
24. To “cherry-pick” is to select carefully.  
25. “Life is a bowl of cherries” means that life is easy.  
26. To “not give a fig” is to be unconcerned.  
27. A “lemon” is a flawed or worthless item; the idiom often refers to a vehicle.  
28. “Melon” is sometimes used as slang for head or, vulgarly, for large breasts.  
29. To say that someone or something is a “peach” means that they are beautiful, excellent, or sweet.  
30. When everything is “peaches and cream,” life is going well.  
31. A “plum” assignment or job is a highly coveted one.  
32. One is said to have “sour grapes” when one belittles something one covets but cannot obtain.

Vegetables

33–36. To be “full of beans” is to talk nonsense, and to “not know beans” is to be ignorant or uninformed. To be “not worth a hill of beans” is to be worthless, and to “spill the beans” is to tell a secret. 37–38. To “dangle a carrot” before someone is to encourage them with an incentive, and the carrot in “carrot and stick” is an incentive or reward. (The stick is the punishment.) 

39. A “carrot top” is a red-haired person.  

40. Someone “as cool as a cucumber” is very self-possessed under pressure.  

41. To “pass an olive branch” is to make peaceful or reconciliatory overtures.  

42. A “pea-brained” person is stupid.  

43. Fog or something else very dense can be described as being “as thick as pea soup.” 

44. To be “like two peas in a pod” is to be very close with or similar to someone.  

45. To be “in a pickle” is to experience complication.  

46. A “couch potato” is someone who spends an excessive amount of time seated watching television or playing video games.  

47–48. A “hot potato” is a controversial or difficult issue, but to “drop (someone or something) like a hot potato” is to abandon the person or thing.  

49. Something that is “small potatoes” is insignificant. 

50. “Salad days” refers to the youthful period of one’s life.

 

Fruits and vegetables figure occasionally in figurative references to color, such as “beet red” (the color of embarrassment), or descriptions of specific hues, like “cherry red,” as well as other comparisons, including “pear shaped.” The words fruit and vegetable themselves appear occasionally in idiomatic phrases, including the following:

• To “bear fruit” is to produce results.

• “Forbidden fruit” is something attractive but not allowed.

• The “fruits of one’s labors” are the results of the person’s efforts.

• To “become a vegetable” is to be rendered physically disabled or to virtually cease physical activity.

Source: http://www.dailywritingtips.com
 

WRITING AN OPINION ESSAY

Useful words giving your opinion

In my view; To my mind, In my opinion, As I see it,

I think that , I believe that , I have come to the conclusion that,

I would not say that ..., Therefore I cannot agree with ...,

I am doubtful whether / certain that ...

According to the text ...

It seems to me that ...

Another argument is that ...

As far as I am concerned, ....

One reason is that ...

I would say that ...

As we have seen, ...

As we know from ...., ...

For all these reasons I would support the view that ...

As a result ...

In short ...

With regard to ...

It is for this reason that I think ...

I am convinced that ...

I feel that ...

Another example of opinion essay

“The teenage years are the best years of your life”. Do you agree?

People often say that the teenage years are the best years of your life. However, I do not agree with the statement.

Firstly, most teenagers have little independence. They have to do what they are told by their parents and teachers. In addition, they usually do not have much money.

Secondly, teenagers may not have the responsibilities adults have, but they have other worries. Teenagers have a lot of pressure form exams, which can determine the rest of their life.

All in all, teenagers have a lot of fun, but I believe that the best years of your life come when you are a bit older, with a job, money and the freedom to do what your like.

Source : http://learningenglishisgreat-rosa.blogspot.com.es/