1ST ESO UNIT 5: MUST TRY

 

What makes a town a good place to live in? Places like museums, parks, cinemas, sports centres... and restaurants, of course!! Are you already hungry? Let's start the unit talking about FOOD!

1. FOOD AND DRINK MATCHING GAME

2. FOOD AND DRINK WHEEL

3. HOW TO EAT HEALTHILY

4. QUANTITY PRESENTATION

5. QUANTITY PRACTICE

6. QUANTITY QUIZ

7. PLACES IN TOWN CROSSWORDS

8. PLACES IN TOWN WHEEL

9. PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: GAME 1

10. PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: GAME 2

 

Use these flashcards to learn food vocabulary.

Get some practice!

Prehistory mystery

Click on the picture to watch a fun video on prehistory:

Photo by  Reinhard Bruckner

As you already know,  prehistory is the time before the invention of written language, which is one of the reasons why it is so fascinating and intriguing. When we talk about prehistory, we tend to use a range of words. Let's find out how many of them you know.

Mind-boggling invertebrates!

Octopuses are widely considered the most intelligent invertebrates. They don't have a shell to protect themselves from hungry lurking predators, but they make up for this weakness  in the wittiest of ways. Check it out!

Costumes around the world

 Different regions in the world have their own unique cultures and , of course, people in those regions wear different traditional costumes. Our 1st ESO B habLE students have created their own mini-books on a country of their choice. 

Check them out!

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1st ESO, UNIT 4: EXTREMES

 

Weather conditions can definitely affect and change our way of life. In this unit we will talk about extreme weather and how to pack for a trip.

Here are some activities you may find useful for practice:

First some SEASONS AND WEATHER FLASHCARDS to revise this vocabulary: 

Now, you  can practise your COMPARATIVES here and with this WORD SEARCH for COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES:

VOCABULARY: THINGS TO TAKE ON A TRIP; What would you take?

PRESENTATION MODAL VERBS: Do you know how to express obligation, prohibition and permission?

And below you have a bunch of activities and games to practise the vocabulary seen in this unit as well as some listening activities:

Click on the picture and download a presentation  to learn the weather vocabulary.

What's the weather like today? Use these flashcards to learn:

Take these quizzes to learn:

Click on the picture below to watch a video about the world weather forecast:

Click on the image below to play a kahoot game:

Click HERE to play a game.
Learn the weather vocabulary HERE.

Now do a listening activity. Click on the picture below:

English people love talking about the weather. True or false? Watch this VIDEO and find out.

Compound nouns: things to take on a trip:

 Use these flashcards to learn some compound nouns:

 

 Now, get some practice:

 

Listen and match:

  

1ST ESO, UNIT 3: DRESSING UP

 If you are into fashion and dressing up, you will find this unit pretty interesting; as always, here you can find a few activities to practise the vocabulary and grammar in unit 3:

Let's start revising and practising some CLOTHES vocabulary...

1. CLOTHES FLIPCARDS

2. CLOTHES BOMB GAME

3. MORE CLOTHES PRACTICE

4. DRESSING UP FOR...

5. CLOTHES MATCHING GAME

Remember the PRESENT CONTINUOUS? Click here and you will find a clear explanation. Afterwards you can try some of the fun activities below: 

 

6. PRESENT CONTINUOUS AIRPLANE GAME

7. PRESENT CONTINUOUS JEOPARDY

8. PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS VIDEO

9.PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS JEOPARDY

10. BALLOON POP: PRESENT SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS?

Do you need more practise? Let's go for it!

Very strange things are happening. Play the game and find out:

 

Learn the clothes vocabulary with these interactive activities:

Choose the correct word:

 

Match the words and the pictures

Listen and find the right picture:

Match the descriptions and the people:

Let's see if you can handle these slightly more difficult ones!

Describing clothes: play this game to learn useful adjectives.

Present Continuous practice:

Use these flash cards to learn  the Present Continuous tense.

Now test yourself with this quiz:

 

 Listen and choose the correct picture:

 

Present continuous: affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences

1ST ESO: UNIT 2: ME TIME

 Let's talk about FREE TIME and SPORTS!

1. FREE TIME FLIPCARDS: use these flashcards to study and revise the vocabulary in this unit; test yourself to see how much you remember!

2. ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY HANGMAN: play the game to brush up frequency adverbs

3. LIKES AND DISLIKES CARDS: look at the pictures and write a sentence about your likes/dislikes. Then, flip the card to check.

4. WHACK-A-MOLE GAME: DO, GO, PLAY COLLOCATIONS: have some fun and revise the use of these verbs with sports.

5. WHEEL: QUESS THE QUESTION: spin the wheel and try to write a correct question about the words in bold.

SOUND DETECTIVE

 

Do you want to become a detective for a while and discover how sound works? Click on the link, watch the video about this topic and, after that,  complete a Google Form to show your findings.https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=O26jiJ_XK0qNtkwG0Jc4IfvPejpaUyxJkg3aQoTzkRxUOUZGQVRXNVE3TlZDU0o0WkxEWDNOSzlYMC4u

The hydrosphere-Water purification methods

 How can we make sure that the water we drink is clean and safe? Click on the picture below to find out about the different methods there are:

1ST ESO - UNIT 1: SCHOOL LIFE

Here you have a bunch of activities to practise and revise the contents of Unit 1:

1. DAILY ROUTINES: A MATCHING ACTIVITY

2. THE TIME: REVISION GAMES

3. PRESENT SIMPLE FUN GAME

4. PRESENT SIMPLE: ONLINE GAMES

5. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A SONG

6. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A MEMORY GAME

 

When do you do these activities?

Get some practice!

 

Activity to practice Present Simple affirmative and negative:

Third person singular-Spelling rules

Learn the school subjects:

 

Yes-no questions:

1ST ESO - STARTER UNIT: What do you know?

Starting school again after the looong summer holidays is not easy, so I will try to help you brush up your English. Here is a list of engaging activities you can use. I hope you will find them useful! 😉

1. A WORD SEARCH: COUNTRIES

2. TO BE affirmative and negative form

3. TO BE questions

4. THE FAMILY: vocabulary games

5. THE FAMILY: memory game

6. THE FAMILY: balloon game

7. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: word search

8. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: a wheel

9. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: Guess who

10.GUESS WHO UNSCRAMBLE:

11. ACTION VERBS:Quizlet

12. UNIT REVISION QUIZ

Meet the platypus

 The platypus is one of the only two mammals that lays eggs. Amazing, isn't it? Well, this is not the only surprise this little weird animal hides. Sir David Attenborough unveils something even more bizarre about this lovely creature in the video below. Click on the picture to watch:

Photo by Aaron De Wit in Unsplash

Teverga Prehistory Park Quiz

Last week you had the chance to visit the Teverga Prehistory Park and you surely learnt tons of things about what people's lives were like in those times, the animals they hunted, the weapons that they used and so on and so forth. 

Now it's time to take the quiz below to show how much you've learnt:

Housing shortage

 Hermit crabs are invertebrates, specifically a type of crustacean. They borrow shells from other sea creatures for protection because their bodies are very soft. Click on the picture below to check out what happens when a new shell turns up. It's totally mind-boggling!

Costumes around the world

 Different regions in the world have their own unique cultures and , of course, different traditional costumes. Our 1st ESO bilingual students have done some research and created their own minibooks on a country of their choice. Would you like to have a look?

Here's a selection of some of those minibooks. Enjoy!

Ireland by Violeta Villasante Ortega 

Japan by Llara Valle Iturralde:

Brazil by Esteban Guardado Garcías:

Venice, Italy, by Sara Sánchez Martín

Australia by Llara Arne Prada:

Korea by Lola Lo Campo:

Stand by Me

 

Click on the picture to listen to this wonderful song. You'll have to type in some words.

Enjoy!

A SURVEY ABOUT... 1ST ESO LEARNING SITUATION

 

Students in 1st ESO B wanted to find about their classmates' free time habits, so they prepared surveys about different topics. To do so they learnt how to make a questionnaire in Forms and shared them through Teams; everybody answered everybody else's questionnaire. Afterwards, they tried to summarize the results in a poster. Are you curious to know about their opinions? Have a look at the results:

Rubén, Antonio and Manuel Antonio

Carolina and Julián

Jimena and Nora

Hugo and Leo

Aitor and Javier

MY IDEAL TIMETABLE: Learning situation 1st ESO B

 

This term we have been learning about different schools, their timetables and the subjects studied by students around the world. That’ s why students in 1st ESO B have designed their ideal timetable. Have a look at the results here:

Nora Echeverría, Javier Menendez and Ruben Martinez

Julián Álvarez and Manuel Antonio Valle

Hugo Abad and Jimena Maxide

Antonio Fonseca and Leo Suárez 

Catalina Carús and Aitor Pérez 

Elena Cespón, Carmen Jiménez and Sofía Valdés

A QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT THE VISIT TO TEVERGA PREHISTORY PARK (1ST ESO)

 

Last April 25th students from 1st ESO visited the Prehistory Park in Teverga, an activity included in the institutional project "Tan lejos, tan cerca: La intepretación del mundo prehistórico a través del arte". 

In the English classes students prepared some questions to create a questionnaire and find out what you learnt  during the visit and your opinion about the activity.

Submit your answers before 23rd May, please!

Easter fun

 

 

Play and learn about Easter.