Language Learning - FIRST LOOK

1. In preparation for our first topic, read the following articles on language learning and languages in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/jun/21/hold-your-tongues-why-language-learners-fear-a-vote-for-brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/apr/14/seven-language-learning-uk-multilinguilism

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/mind-your-minority-language-welsh-gaelic-irish-and-cornish-are-staging-a-comeback-8454456.html

2. As you read, pick out new vocabulary and write a definition for them. AT LEAST EIGHT FROM EACH ARTICLE. 
Remember to use lingro at the top of the blog to help you read the articles, especially the third one!

3. If you finish, please use the tabs at the top of the blog (Guardian, BBC etc.) to research some more articles on language learning. 

Passive voice practice

CLICK LINKS HELPER!:------- Passive Voice with Past Participles Active to Passive
                                                               Passive or active?

                                                               Passive to active

PLUS!  Make get do collocations 

Today´s revision.... Irregular verbs, what they mean and their past tense forms

1) IRREGULAR VERBS - AND THEIR PAST TENSE FORMS.

QUIZLET LIST IRREGULAR VERBS DEFINITIONS

2) IRREGULAR PAST PARTICIPLES

TRY THIS QUIZ TO TEST YOUR SKILLS!

Advanced Reporting Verbs - Structures you NEED to know

Write (by hand in your notebooks) a sentence with each reporting verb. Look closely at the structure and follow it. ASK if you are unsure of prepositions that go with some of them!

Let me know when you have finished so I can mark them!

Year 11 T3 Final exam content

Vocabulary:

1)      Language Learning

2)    Make get do collocations

3)      Internet and New technology

4)      Purple Hibiscus Chapter 1 - 6 (See blog posts or go to class folder)

Grammar:

1)      Reported Speech 

2)       Advanced Reporting Verbs

3)      Irregular Past Participles and their meanings

4)      Passive Voice ( active – Passive   and   Passive – active)

Writing Styles:

1)      Speech

2)      Transcript Interview

3)      Essay

4)      Leaflet

5)      Blog

There will also be an IB reading section

All of this will feature in the exam. There are lots of links on the blog that we have used throughout the year as well as the notes you have made during our classes... Start revising now!

Purple Hibiscus Chapter 7

Recap: Chapter 6

1. Describe Aunty Ifeoma in three words
2. Why is Kambili at first unsettled by Aunty Ifeoma and her personality?
3. List two ways in which Ifeoma is similar to Eugene (Papa) and one way in which she is different to him.
4. Is Ifeoma rich like Eugene? How do we know?
5. How does Kambili’s cousin’s (Amaka’s) personality compare with Kambili’s?


Quizlet List for Chapter 7 found here!


Final activity: Create at least five comprehension questions (with answers!) based on what we have read today. Aim to have them from the start, middle and end of where we have read.

Writing a blog

• Choose one of the two blog post topics below. Once you have chosen one, you should write a brief blog post (about 200 words) independently. This needs to be handwritten. Follow the blog writing checklist to ensure you are including as many typical features of a blog post as possible.
• Once you have finished, swap your post with your partner's.
• Aim correct any technical errors in your partner's post, as well as going through the blog writing checklist and deciding which of the typical features your partner has or hasn't included.
• A well as this, you should highlight/underline anything that you particularly like about their post. 
• Finally: Any which is theirs better than yours? And how is yours better than theirs? Make a note of any opinions on these questions underneath their blog post.
  
  

Option One: What is life like in Seville?

Option Two: How important is it to be rich?