The end

Thanks for these four years together!

Publicidad institucional

Diferentes campañas, diferentes formatos, diferentes áreas temáticas y diferentes mecanismos de persuasión ¿Cuáles?

 Este último anuncio forma parte de una campaña que ha tenido gran repercusión en los medios de comunicación: la primera campaña contra la violencia doméstica en Arabia Saudí.

Helichville

Next Friday, we are going back to Helichville! Do you remember when we went there 4 years ago?

Evolution of music

Between a Boy,a Girl and Her Mother

Write a summary of the last short story of  Mind the Characters, 'The Rivals' in two paragraphs.

In a third paragraph, write your opinion about the story. Did you like it? Why? Why not?

Debate

Debate
Useful language for debating

REPASO

En este documento tenéis veinte oraciones que debéis hacer como repaso para el próximo examen.

The agony column

Visit the Agony Aunt website

Read some letters asking for advice and the answers.

In pairs, one of you writes a letter asking for advice and the other answers.

Send your letters to the blog (together, in the same entry)

Subordinadas adverbiales

Aquí tenéis el esquema que proyectamos en clase.

Part time jobs

Volunteer work

Visit the Raleigh International webpage.

Write a summary of the most interesting sections, places and things to do.

Applying for a job

Read this example of a formal letter:

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/writing/234.html

Now apply for the job you would like to do this summer.

Don't forget to mention:
- where you saw the advert
- personal information
- your personal qualities
- the experience yo have
- some questions about the job.

Don't use contractions, start and end the letter appropriately and send the letter to the blog!

When you finish, have a look at this interesting webpage about jobs!

http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/section/applying-for-a-job

Don Álvaro o La fuerza del sino

Ya sabéis que dedicamos los últimos días del trimestre a la lectura (obligatoria) de esta obra. Os dejo aquí la obra a todos aquellos que estuvisteis enfermos.

Giving your opinion: write a letter to the editor

A letter to the editor is a letter sent to a publication about issues of concern from its readers. Usually, letters are intended for publication. In many publications, letters to the editor may be sent either through conventional mail or electronic mail.
Letters to the editor are most frequently associated with newspapers and newsmagazines. However, they are sometimes published in other periodicals (such as entertainment and technical magazines), and radio and television stations. In the latter instance, letters are sometimes read on the air (usually, on a news broadcast or on talk radio). (Adapted from wikipedia)

Your task:

1) Read the informaton given on this link to understand why and how people write letters to the editor.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1239.aspx

2) Then choose one of the questions of the survey "Ups and downs"

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eiz1rQnNRprOD64i8XD0Q7zHIP-luHPwT_kpIz6G0I0/viewform

3) Write a letter to the editor answering this question (three paragraphs, about 120 words)

4) Send the letter to the blog. Don't forget to include the title (the title is the question you have chosen).

Survey

Answer this survey about the "ups and downs" of teenagers' lives, made by your classmates and other French and Polish students participating in an etwinning project

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eiz1rQnNRprOD64i8XD0Q7zHIP-luHPwT_kpIz6G0I0/viewform

When you finish, don't forget to submit the document and send a comment to the blog with your name

Sintaxis

Os dejo distintos materiales que os ayudarán a repasar el examen. Como ya os he comentado en más de una ocasión, la terminología cambia de unos libros a otros y también de unas páginas a otras, pero lo fundamental siempre permanece igual. También hay en alguna página enunciados en catalán, nada que no se traduzca fácilmente.

Teoría de las coordinadas


Práctica coordinadas

Teoría de las subordinadas sustantivas

Práctica subordinadas sustantivas I

Práctica subordinadas sustantivas II (aparecen también otras subordinadas que podéis aparcar de momento)G

Practice for the exam

Present perfect/ simple past
link

Advantages / disadvantages composition

link


Write a composition about the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small town and send it to the blog.

How to write news articles

There are some basic guidelines to follow when writing a news story:

• Give the most important information at the beggining, in the very first sentence. Although it may be tempting to save the best for last, this is not news style.
• Try to include the who, what, where, when, why, and how in your opening sentence (lead).
• Keep sentences short and to the point.
• Don't give your opinions. This is appropriate in opinion essays, but it is considered unprofessional in news-writing.
• Avoid making conclusions. While necessary to an essay, journalists present the facts and leave their readers to draw their own conclusions.

Read this example (from Reuters):

A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people.
People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt the shock wave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow.
The fireball, travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second according to Russian space agency Roscosmos, had blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail that could be seen as far as 200 km (125 miles) away.
Car alarms went off, thousands of windows shattered and mobile phone networks were disrupted. The Interior Ministry said the meteorite explosion, a very rare spectacle, also unleashed a sonic boom.
"I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it were day," said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains.
"I felt like I was blinded by headlights."


Write a piece of news following these guidelines and send it to the blog.

I have a dream

Watch and listen to Martin Luther King's speech and look for examples of the passive voice.
Send them to the blog.

Passive voice

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
Read the following page and do the activities:

Passive voice

Documentaries

Watch this documentary and write a summary of its main ideas.

HOME

La vida en una maleta

Este es el reportaje que vimos. Las actividades que puse en la pizarra las corregiremos el miércoles.

Valores del "se"

Os dejo aquí el ejercicio con el que repasaremos los valores del se. También podéis utilizar este documento como complemento a los apuntes del otro día.

Parts of a newspaper and News stories

Newspapers are usually divided into different sections. Each section covers a particular type of news.

Click on this webpage and do the three activities about the different parts of newspapers.

Each activity has got several questions.

Then go to Words in the News and choose four '2012 News Stories' and write a summary of each one.