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HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY 8th NOVEMBER (PREP FOR SPEAKING EXAM!)

•Complete exercises A, B, C, D and E on page 152 of the Grammar Book (CONDITIONALS)

•Comlete exercises A, B, C, D and E on page 128 of the Grammar Book (ADJECTIVES)

You must complete these exercises to the best of your ability as they are important for the preparation of your speaking exam. 

Please read the pages before (151 and 127) if you are unable to complete the exercise or come and speak to me in school... or email me at: sellicksfp@gmail.com 

GOOD LUCK!

Upcoming Assessments for TERM 1

READING EXAM 33% CRITERION B -
DATE: FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

Your work on Holes has prepared you very well for this.

Your homework due in on the 3rd November will also help.

The level for the reading exam will be moving toward B1 level.




SPEAKING EXAM 67% CRITERIA C AND D -
DATE FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 

q3 to 5 minutes long

qPresent a sport that you enjoy doing.

vHow long you have done it for?

vWhy do you like it? How does it make you feel?

vHow often do you do it and at what level?

vWhere you do it and with who?

qPresent a sport that you would love to try

vWhy do you want to try it?

vHow would it make you feel?

vWhere would you like to do it?

qPresent a sport that you don’t like

vSay why you dont’ like it?

vHow does it make you feel?

YOU MUST INCLUDE!...

•Conditionals (use the grammar book for help)

•A variety of tenses (PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE)

•Adjectives to describe sports from Quizlet

•Good phrases about sports from your notebook and textbook

•Good vocab and phrases from the exercises in your booklet

Preparation for SPEAKING EXAM - 67% CRITERIA C/D

You can use this Quizlet list to find out some excellent adjectives used to describe SPORT!

CLICK HERE!

HOMEWORK - Due in THURSDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2016

Attention 8ºD!

Thank you all for the wonderful Verb Presentations you sent over yesterday.

Next task - you must read the end of Chapter 7 and then up to the end of Chapter 9 of our novel, HOLES.

You need to replicate a table like the one below with as much detail as possible! We are going to find out information about the other boys with Stanley at Camp Green Lake.

Remember to use the adjectives we talked about in class!

Please include the page number when you are writing your quote in the table!

You can complete the homework on your computers or on paper.

Any questions, please email me: sellicksfp@gmail.com

Emotions... VOCAB!

Use this Vocab list to revise the emotions that we could be feeling!...

IMPORTANT TENSES: Present, Past, Past participle...

Mr Sellick managed to get 39/ 50 correct. Can you beat this score? 

Attempt the Quiz HERE!

Sports Vocabulary - PET preparation...

Quizlet List is here!

Young Offenders' Institution

Quizlet List CLICK HERE

Grammar IMPROVEMENT - PAST TENSES

It is important to remember that when we are writing stories about the past, we must know the different past tenses. We will start by checking our level of knowledge with the SIMPLE PAST TENSE.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Complete this exercise by clicking here.
2. Take a screenshot of your final score. 
3. Copy and paste the text from the website into a word document. 
4. Save your work as SIMPLE PAST TENSES and save in your English folder. 

IMPORTANT FIRST TASKS

Important first tasks:

1) You need a gmail account. If you already have one you can use that but if you don't you need to create one. Make sure your name and password are easy for you to remember. If you are finding it hard to find a good name, add 'sfp' to the end of your name. (e.g. joesmithsfp@gmail.com)

2) Send an email to sellicksfp@gmail.com with your name and class as the title. This is to help me make a class email list for English.

3) Download google drive to your computer (using your new gmail account)

4) Join Studyblue -  Use this link 
http://www.studyblue.com

5) Join Headmagent - http://headmagnet.com

6) Join Quizlet - http://quizlet.com

Welcome to the class!... Who are you?

This week, we will be producing introductions to ourselves. Here are some areas which would be good to include:
Your favourite:

• -entertainment - books, films, songs, actors/actresses, programmes, singers, groups
• - foods, drinks, restaurants, things which you can cook! 
• - sports - sportsmen and women, which sports do you play outside of school, which teams do you like

Your family - include some details about your family, try to include anecdotes if possible
Pets
Interests outside of school
Interesting facts (e.g. about Seville)
Ambitions and dreams for the future

We're going to be using http://popplet.com/. 

You will be writing information about these topics as well as including pictures, so think about using the following expressions:

• I'm really into...
• I love...
• I used to love... but nowadays...
• Usually I...
• I am used to ... (i.e. I have become accustomed to...)
• I would like to
• Although many people ..., I ...
• I have always...
• To be honest...
• This is ..., who is...

If you don't know the word for something, use www.wordreference.com

What vocabulary do we need for the PET exam?

What vocabulary do you know for these topics?

Grammar checklist for 2016/2017

-Modal verbs (can, could, shall, must, need, used to, etc)

-Tenses

-Verb forms (negatives, imperatives, gerunds, etc)

-Conditional sentences

-Simple reported speech

-Interrogatives (what, who, where, how, etc)

-Nouns

-Pronouns (me, myself, this, that, something, whose, etc)

-Determiners (a, the)

-Adjectives

-Adverbs

-Prepositions

-Connectives