Week 22: February 26th, 2020- Acorn mediation

- We warmed up by telling each other about the little-heard-of piece of news that you had chosen to read about.
- We saw a video on how to plant trees so that we could extract interesting vocabulary on the subject.
- We read our mediation task and checked the school info and Guía bellotera to build up your mediation production. You mediated the information to your teacher in couples.

Homework:
- Translate into English the Spanish version of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip you received.
- Investigate a little bit about the links (any) between NASA and Spain. This is in preparation for our video activity next day. Read a little bit about it and be prepared to tell the class about what you've found.

Week 21: February 19th- Slovakia and still more cartoons!

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- We warmed up by explaining our own story of the cartoon strip and telling our classmate about the second strip.
- We knew about Zuzana Caputova, new president in Slovakia, of whom we hadn't heard of.
- We had a look at the pop-up books in the library and we are designing the calendar for our presentations.

Homework:
- Browse around to find an item of news which you hadn't heard of and read a little bit about it, take some notes and be prepared to explain it to your classmates.

Zuzana Caputova

Week 20: February 12th: Cartoons and Parasite

- We exchanged the different cartoons that we had chosen and explained why we liked them.
- We saw the trailer of Parasite as a warm-up for our reading/speaking exercise on Bonilla a la vista crisps.
- We practised how to say no in English with the phrases for careful suggestions we had on our handout.
- We talked a little bit about mediation but are preparing an exercise on acorns!

Homework:
- Have a look at a newspaper in English and choose an article you find interesting. Try to understand well, write down key words and then record a text in which you tell what the article is about. Don't read out parts of it, but instead rebuild the text to tell me the most important bits of it and why you found it interesting. Record about 4 or 5 minutes and send it to me.

• The Guardian
• USA Today
• The Washington Post
• The Sun

Week 19: February 5th, 2020- Careful suggestions

- We saw different onomatopoeias in English and possible Calvin and Hobbes strip versions.
- We practised how to make careful suggestions in English.
- We completed the gapped lyrics of My Song, by Elton John.

Homework:
- Remember to make your flower pot with a milk cartoon and bring it to plant an acorn. Check the instructions.
- Pick up a cartoon to explain in class next day. Check these websites:
- The Week.
- BBC.

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