Science - Unit 5 - The Hapsburg Period

Unit 5 - The Hapsburg Period

Video - The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire / Österreich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLSUZ1qlVM

The Golden Age (Siglo de Oro): http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/history/spanish-golden-age.asp

Siglo de Oro - A brief historical background: http://www.nps.gov/cham/planyourvisit/upload/siglo_history_handout_2_27_09.pdf  

Portraits of Spain: http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/135054/3597_Prado_secondary_resource_FINAL_online.pdf 

Spain´s empire and european absolutism: http://www.euro-webonline.com/world_cultures/Spains%20Empire%20and%20European%20Absolutism%2021%201.pdf

Practise for the PET speaking exam!

Areas to improve on

So, this week we have started to practise the PET speaking exam! There are a few areas that both classes need to work on:

1. The alphabet!

http://youtu.be/5XEN4vtH4Ic

2. A watch is something you wear on your wrist, a clock is something on a building or on a wall.

Science - Unit 4: The age of discoveries

The age of discoveries

Exploration:  

http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture2c.HTML

Christopher Columbus cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJKoOaRZmE

Magellan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan 

http://www.biography.com/people/ferdinand-magellan-9395202

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEwHNfJgo7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEEbQ3hWmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63TlYTmIknE

Funny video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmwriy3a6sc

song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9q6HtcgWRA

Games and activities: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/christopher_columbus/

Gap fill: http://mathis.martine.free.fr/fichierscollege/colombus%20linbergh/gapscolom.htm

Queen Isabel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmFcUpvFphQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB30kdrjjBo

PowerPoint: http://www.slideshare.net/rrobrady/unit-7-the-age-of-discoveries-2-bil-eso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4 

Renaissance art and culture
 
http://www.slideshare.net/ElnaPanopio/arts-and-culture-of-renaissance-period

http://www.history.com/topics/renaissance-art/videos#the-renaissance

The conquest and colonisation of America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZX3eOmFnA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaF-daf4M5M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mu47IfTXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69TvQqyGdg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec

 

PET Result Book - Unit 4 - Animals and humans

Unit 4

Vocabulary The Body:

Exercise on the Head

Exercise on the Face

Exercise on the whole Body

Games:
1. http://www.eslgamesplus.com/body-parts-board-game-for-esl-practice 
2. http://www.eslgamesplus.com/body-parts-esl-vocabulary-memory-game/

Films: http://www.eltbase.com/get_quiz.php?id=20

Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/comparative-and-superlative-adjectives
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/45.html

Introduction to comparatives 
More comparative forms
Introduction to superlatives
Irregular comparatives and superlatives 
Comparatives and superlatives revision

Game: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/comparatives-superlatives-wild-zoo-animals-vocabulary-grammar-interactive-monkey-fun-activity/

PET Result Book - Unit 3: Buying and selling

Unit 3: Buying and Selling

Vocabulary:
http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/b1_shopping.htm 
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/shops-and-shopping.htm

Reading:
http://www.examenglish.com/A2/A2_reading_shopping.htm  

Worksheet:
http://kaykaynewman.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pet_unit11_worksheet-shopping.pdf 

Clothing vocabulary
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/clothing_vocabulary.php

Clothes Games:
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/clothes-colors-vocabulary-esl-interactive-board-game/ 
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/clothes-vocabulary-esl-memory-game/
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/clothesTopic.htm

Grammar - Countable and uncountable:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/grammar-reference/countable-uncountable-nouns-1
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/210.html
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php
http://a4esl.org/q/j/km/mc-noncount.html
http://www.language-worksheets.com/support-files/elementarycountableanduncountablenounsexercises.pdf
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3246

Concept Maps

Hey, Year 6!

Look here: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Concept-Map

It will help you design the PERFECT concept map! :)

PET Result Book - Unit 2 - Learning

Learning


Vocabulary
http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/b1_hobbies.htm

Make and Do
http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/uploads/ressources/grammar/15_verbs/makedo/makedolist.htm

Adverbs of Frequency
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/adverbs-of-frequency-hangman-spelling-game-for-esl-efl-practice/

Present Simple and Present Continuous
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
Notes and Exercises: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/present-simple-and-present-continuous
Exercises: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.HTML
Exercises: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-2.HTML

Education
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vc-subjects-lb.HTML
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/education-vocabulary

Unit 12 English - Family and Friends 5

In this unit you will study the past passive sentences and questions, question words,

Game:
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/passive-voice-past-passive-esl-grammar-sentence-activity-fun-game-online/

Guess the sentence in pairs:
http://www.slideshare.net/rethinkingeducation/game-passive-voice-simple-past-10625757

Basketball Game:
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/basketball/active%20vs.%20passive%20voice/active%20vs.%20passive%20voice.html

Exercises: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4947

More exercises: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm

Game/Exercises: http://autoenglish.org/gr.pas.i.htm

Matter and materials

Matter and materials (unit 12) 

In is unit you will learn about solids, liquids and gases. The mass, volume and density of matter. Pure substances and mixtures, chemical reactions and different materials and their properties.

Games:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/changingmaterials.htm

Video and information:

http://m.everythingscience.co.za/grade-10/03-states-of-matter/03-states-of-matter-01.cnxmlplus

Games and videos:

http://www.neok12.com/States-of-Matter.htm

Games and presentations:

http://science.k12flash.com/statesofmatter.html

Animal Reproduction

The role of reproduction is to provide for the continued existence of a species

Animal Reproduction Quiz:

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/science/animal_reproduction/quiz924.html

http://www.saburchill.com/ans02/chapters/chap050.html

http://www.saburchill.com/ans02/chapters/chap049.html

Animal Planet - Panda Reproduction

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/animal-planet-presents/videos/pandas-panda-reproduction.htm

Plant Reproduction

Science - Plant Reproduction

Revision: http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_reproduction.html

Games, videos and Quizzes: http://www.neok12.com/Plants.htm

Quiz: http://www.quia.com/rr/12502.html

Games and many webpages: http://www.gamequarium.com/plants.html

Unit 11 - Family and Friends 5

Unit 11 - Family and Friends 5

In this unit you will cover passive voices and also how to use the prepositions by and with.
 
English has two voices: active and passive. 
The active voice is used when the action is done by the subject: The dog ate my homework. 

The passive voice (BE + V+-ed/-en/-t) is used when the action of the sentence is not being done by the subject: My homework was eaten by the dog.  

The passive is formed with any time frame of the verb TO BE + the PAST PARTICIPLE.  
The passive voice is often used:

• to describe artistic, scientific and literary endeavors:

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Research is now being done on a cure for this disease.

• to explain directions and procedures:

The game of Monopoly can be played by two to four players.

• to describe legal and governmental matters and to avoid placing direct blame:

Reports on several new gun laws were being discussed.
When active sentences have verbs with direct objects (are transitive), they can become passive:

She is reserving a table.	A table is being reserved.
A thief stole my stereo.	My stereo has been stolen by a thief.

Game: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/passive-voice-past-passive-esl-grammar-sentence-activity-fun-game-online/

Helpful video on this grammar topic: http://youtu.be/QTQb42w7oig

Game: http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/basketball/active%20vs.%20passive%20voice/active%20vs.%20passive%20voice.html

Coca Cola Video and Game - http://www.quia.com/cb/353496.html

Online Exercises:
1. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm
2. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive1.htm
3. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive2.htm
4. http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html
5. http://www.e-grammar.org/passive-voice/test1-exercise1/
6. http://www.e-grammar.org/passive-voice/test1-exercise2/
7. http://www.e-grammar.org/passive-voice/test1-exercise3/

By and With:

Both prepositions can be used to show how something is done.

‘By’ can be followed by a gerund (-ing form):

 

He improved his English by reading novels.

You can change the look of that room by redecorating it.

 

‘By’ is followed by a noun in combinations refering to the means of transportation or communication:

 

by plane/car/bus/subway

by fax/mail/phone/sea

 

‘With’ is used when tools or parts of the body mentioned:

 

I opened the wine with a bottle opener.

He pushed the door with his foot.

 

Note: ‘by hand’ means ‘handmade’, ‘made by a person, not by a machine’:

 

She made the pie dough by hand.

Compared to: The mother touched the girl’s forehead with her hand.

Alphabet

You also need to learn the Alphabet again as you have problems with this, you can practise here:

Game: http://www.boowakwala.com/learning/alphabet-learning-game.html
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-PM95y-VI
Game: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/antics/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IBDpTRVNE
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=RyBuYclBSwI&feature=fvwp

Unit 10 - Family and Friends 5

Unit 10 - Family and Friends 5

In this unit you will cover vocabulary of ancient buildings, learn how to create question tags, learn words with the suffix -ful, indefinite pronouns and to enhance your writing skills.

Question Tags links

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/question-tags

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/233.html

Suffix -ful

When a word adds -ful to it, it means that it it is full, for example 'colourful' means something is full of colour. Another example is exciteful, when a person is full of excitement.

More examples: playful, careful, beautiful, helpful. Can you guess what they mean or use them in a sentence?

Indefinite pronouns

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/pronouns/indefinite-pronouns

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1761

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3719

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/indefpronoun.php

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.anythin.i.htm

Writing

http://www.time4writing.com/learning-how-to-write/creative-writing-ideas/

Creating questions - http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/question-forms

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/question-forms-subjectobject-questions

Present Perfect

Present Perfect

FORM: [has/have + past participle]

The present perfect simple expresses an action that is still going on or that stopped recently, but has an influence on the present. It puts emphasis on the result.

	Positive	Negative	Question
I / you / we / they	I have spoken.	I have not spoken.	Have I spoken?
he / she / it	He has spoken.	He has not spoken.	Has he spoken?

Past Continuous

Past Continuous

The past continuous is formed from the past tense of be with the -ing form of the verb:
We use the past continuous to talk about the past:

• for something which continued before and after another action:

The children were doing their homework when I got home.

Compare:

I got home. The children did their homework.
and
The children did their homework when I got home.

As I was watching television the telephone rang.

This use of the past continuous is very common at the beginning of a story:

The other day I was waiting for a bus when …
Last week as I was driving to work … 

• for something that happened before and after a particular time:

It was eight o’clock. I was writing a letter.

Compare:

At eight o’clock I wrote some letters.

In July she was working in McDonald’s.

• .to show that something continued for some time:

My head was aching.
Everyone was shouting.

• for something that was happening again and again:

I was practising every day, three times a day.
They were meeting secretly after school.
They were always quarrelling.

• with verbs which show change or growth:

The children were growing up quickly.
Her English was improving.
My hair was going grey.
The town was changing quickly.

Games to help you study the past continuous:

• Past continuous betting game
• Past continuous quiz game

Videos to help you study the past continuous:

 

 

  

Worksheets to help you study the past continuous:

Past Continuous Tense 1
Past Continuous Tense 2

Past Simple

The Past Simple

We use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past.

We can use it to talk about a specific point in time.

• She came back last Friday.
• I saw her in the street.
• They didn't agree to the deal.

It can also be used to talk about a period of time.

• She lived in Tokyo for seven years.
• They were in London from Monday to Thursday of last week.
• When I was living in New York, I went to all the art exhibitions I could.

You will often find the past simple used with time expressions such as these:

• Yesterday
• three weeks ago
• last year
• in 2002
• from March to June
• for a long time
• for 6 weeks
• in the 1980s
• in the last century
• in the past

Games to help you study the past simple:

        

       

      

    

        

Videos to help you study the past simple:

  

 

Present Continuous

The Present Continuous

FORM: [am/is/are + present participle]

1. We use the present continuous tense for activities that are happening just now.
Examples: I am doing some English exercises at the moment. You aren't listening! Why is he sitting here?

2. We use it for an action happening about this time (today, this week), but not necessarily at the moment of speaking. It is a temporary activity.
Examples: I am in London. I am staying at the hotel. (But just now you can be somewhere else.) She can't go out. She is writing her essay today. (But she can be having lunch at the moment.) You can't borrow this book today. Mary is reading it. (But not right now.)

3. With a future time expression (soon, on Monday) it is used for definite arrangements in the near future. The continuous tense is more personal than the simple, because it expresses the speaker's plan.
Examples: I am leaving soon. We are meeting on Monday.

Games to help you study the present continuous:

   

Present Progressive Tense - Hangman Game  

Present Progressive Tense - Spelling Game

Present Progressive Action Verbs - Fling the Teacher Game  

Present Progressive - Car Racing Game

Videos to help you study the present continuous tense:

 

 

Worksheets to help you study the present continuous tense:

Worksheet 1: Present Continuous I

Worksheet 2: Present Continuous II

• present continuous - positive form
• present continuous - negative form
• present continuous - questions
• present continuous - short answers

• http://www.macmillaninspiration.com/original/files/2010/07/INSP1_ws4.pdf
• http://www.uhu.es/antonia.dominguez/present.pdf
 

Tests on the present continuous:

 1. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1083

2. http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=2126

3. http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=3438

4. http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=5021

Present Simple

The present simple tense is usually the first grammar tense you learn in English:

The present simple consists of PRONOUN+VERB(+S/ES)

To be	Have	Speak	Watch	Play
I am You are He is She is We are They are	I have You have He has She has We have They have	I speak You speak He speaks She speaks We speak They speak	I watch You watch He watches She watches We watch They watch	I play You play He plays She plays We play They play

Games to study the present simple tense:

          

     

    

• Pirate present tense quiz game

Videos to help study the present simple tense: 

 

 

 Worksheets to help study the present simple:

1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7395229/Simple-Present-Tense-Worksheet-

2. http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/grammar13learn.pdf 

• Exercise 1 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 2 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 3 - Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 4 - Review of the Simple Present Tense
• Exercise 5 - Review of the Simple Present Tense
• Answer Key - This is the answer key to Unit 1 worksheets.

Check your knowledge with these tests:

1. http://www.english-4u.de/present_ex1.htm

2. http://www.english-4u.de/present_ex2.htm

3. http://www.english-4u.de/present_ex3.htm

4. http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/65.html

5. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=714

6. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1052