2009: The year in review

Interactive news in 2009. Wonderful ideas for your-say

Conditioned Values

Do you need more practice on the conditionals?

Home: a visual poem, a movie, a song to our endangered planet

Politicians have been talking over in Copenhagen what to do about the climate change and its dramatic consequences on Earth. People are protesting . What is your attitude to climate change?

Watch thismovie: HOME




AFTER THE FILM:

Write a formal letter (150 words) to the next climate summit organizers explaining:

-Which Home planet would you like your children to inherit?
-What should politicians do?
-How can you personally contribute to reverse the climate change? here are some ideas
-How would you professionally like to contribute to reverse it?
Remember to include the environment vocabulary presented.

News according to your lifestyle and personality

Take this visual test of LA Times to help you choose the news for your-say.
Lots of of ideas for you! :)

Vote National Geopraphic best pics 2009

Click here for the voting machine!

here are the winners: post a comment with the picture you like best, if you like, on your-say.
Please put the photo credit with the page link.

Do you know your rights?

WRITE A POST ON YOUR SPACE entitled HUMAN RIGHTS. 

0.Take the Quiz: do you know about your rights as human?
How well did you do?
1. What are human rights?
2. When did human rights start?
3. Why were they created?
4. How many human rights are there?
5. Which human right were you not familiar with?
6. Choose one human right and discuss:
- Is it fully respected in your country today? Justify with news, comments, studies on the subject (cite the links of your information sources)

- Do you know if it has been respected in the past? Why or why not?
-Where in the world is this right not complied with? Check here
7. Are Humans rights relevant in the world today?  why?
8. Participate on Facebook: Join the Human Rights Campaign on FB and comment on 2 campaigns/news they have been involved.
9. Discussion essay( to be done in class): Should Human Rights be enforced by law or optional?  

LINKS for help

Universal declaration of Human Rights
Human right videos
Human rights watch: news from the Human Rights perspective

Human Rights in the world: United Nations
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Idioms

Oral presentation

Film review

Watched a film and want to publish it in your-say?
Want to get extra points with extra posts?
here is a little help! Enjoy being a critic! :-)

Grammar Revision

REPORTED SPEECH

MODALS

tips for a good composition

Dorian Gray's dream

*Participate in our wiki-project:
3 contributions to the topics of discussion.
More contributions, extra points ;-)

*Find one news item related to
plastic surgery today ( publish it in your_say)

Modal verbs

the history of internet

What do you know about internet...

When did the first internet connection take place?
What was the aim of the first internet systems?
What were the 3 founding concepts for the internet?
What is packet switching and why was it necessary?
What's the relationship between Internet structure and Cuba?
Where was the word inter-net first used?
When was modern internet up and running?

Computers: parts and how they work

Parts Of A Computer

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Oscar Wilde quotes

Reported speech Grammar

5e.Reported Speech Theory And Changes

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Oral presentation topics first term

Batxillerat oral presentations

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April Fool's day Reading

Watch The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax, the best April Fool’s Day hoax of all time! On April 1st, 1957 the BBC ran a short programme about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland, showing spaghetti growing on trees. Many people believed the programme and phoned in to ask how they could grow their own “spaghetti tree”.

Welcome to your English space

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