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Sunday, December 28, 2014

mesos de l’ any




Monday, December 22, 2014

2 photos -script


oral tanscript 


I'm going to give each of you a photograph of people with letters. 
So, Bertha, here is your photograph (Thank you) Please show it to Eva but I'd like you to talk about it. 
Eva, you just listen and I'll give you your photograph in a moment. So, Bertha, please tell us what you can see in your photograph.  

EVA: Uh-huh. In this picture I can see a very cute boy. He's in...in a really…I think it's his house but it's very...a very nice and big house and he's having breakfast. An orange juice and cereals and he's reading a ...a letter. It looks like a letter because he reads …his (sic) reading er...in the …in the same time that he's er drinking the orange juice. He also have a newspaper and...he...he looks very...very ..you know...er.. important person because his er clothes informal but he has a very .. a very nice house and she wears a green T-shirt very colour. I don't know really what about the letter but maybe it's a notice about the...the job or actually some notice about the...his girlfriend.

Now, Eva, here is your photograph. It also shows someone with a letter. Please show it to Bertha and tell us what you can see in the photograph. 

Eva:  Okay. Bertha, in this picture, we can see a room, maybe is the room of of this guy whose in the, in the photo. On the left, we can see one TV and er one chair. At the background we can see the heating and on the left, sorry on the right of the photo we can see a blue sofa. The guy, he's sitting on the floor and maybe he's doing his homework. He's wearing a red...er... jumper and and jeans, I think. Er, he's wearing a glasses as well. And he's drinking some tea. Maybe. I think he... he's studying for his exam, I think. 



In some speaking exams you have to talk about photos or pictures. The video and tips below will help you to do really well in this type of speaking exam.
Here are our top tips for describing a photo or a picture in an exam.


If you are asked to describe a photo or a picture in the exam, here is some language you can use:

What is in the picture?


In the picture I can see ...
There
s / There are ...
There isn’t a ... / There aren’t any ...

Say what is happening 


with the present continuous

The man is ...ing
The people are ...ing
It’s raining.

Where in the picture?


At the top/bottom of the picture ...
In the middle of the picture ...
On the left/right of the picture ...
next to
in front of
behind
near
on top of
under

If something isn’t clear


It looks like a ...
It might be a ...
He could be ...ing
Maybe it’s a ...
- See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/describe-photo-or-picture#sthash.KrGRaL3N.dpuf

Sunday, December 21, 2014

this is not the end... afterlife begins at 5pm -CLASSROOM CATASTROPHES



We’ve all had those moments — times where the best-laid plans turned into complete debacles. But then you readjust, dust yourself off, and either scrap that plan or learn how to do it better the next time.So, in the spirit of keeping the holidays merry and bright, some of our Teacher-Authors offered up their blush-worthy moments. We hope you enjoy a good belly laugh or two!
                     have a look at this Teachers pay teachers post 

CLASSROOM CATASTROPHES: A CLOSE SHAVE

Jessica Scott:
Jessica Scott “My second year of teaching, I taught 2nd grade. We were using shaving cream to practice our spelling words; students used a finger to write their words in the shaving cream on top of their desk. My kids were having so much fun and were getting louder and louder. My principal walked in and used our school-wide quiet signal… a hand clap signal. I tried to stop her, but my students responded with their hand clap signal and as they did, shaving cream went flying… all over my room.
I never used shaving cream again.”
                                           Green Apple Lessons:
Green Apple Lessons “One year, for our kindergarten field day, we made cream pies for a pie-throwing event for our students. Unfortunately, we used shaving cream in metal pie tins, instead of whipping cream. About five minutes into the event, we had kids crying and yelling because they’d gotten the shaving cream in their eyes. Needless to say, the event was a big mess… in more ways than one!
  • The takeaway from that experience is to expect the unexpected and keep fun events simple and safe. I also learned that kindergarteners and shaving cream really don’t go well together.”

CLASSROOM CATASTROPHES: SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN EGGS

UtahRootsUtah Roots: 
“One year, early in my career, I saw an experiment done with eggs. Raw eggs. You dissolve an egg shell by submerging an egg in vinegar. I taught secondary science, so at the time I had about 100 students in teams of three — roughly 33 raw eggs in vinegar in my classroom.
The idea was to (over a period of days) transfer the now shell-less eggs to various liquids and measure the change in their diameter, after soaking them overnight; thereby demonstrating that they would get larger or smaller through the process of osmosis. Each day, the students would take the raw shell-less egg out of one liquid, measure its diameter with string, and transfer it to a new liquid.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Until about the third day of 33 raw shell-less eggs being handled by 100 13-year-olds. My dismal planning included a weekend, during which of course, students weren’t able to proceed with the experiment, and the 33 eggs were sitting in my classroom at room temperature… without shells.
Day 5 — more than a few of the raw eggs had been sitting outside of liquid for two days (because students thought they weren’t supposed to move on to the last experiment until Monday). There are no words to describe the stench of raw rotten eggs exploding in a closed classroom.”

CLASSROOM CATASTROPHES: DISAPPEARING ACTS

Leah ClearyLeah Cleary: 
  
“My students were working on argumentative essays. These were the essays to end all essays, and only I could guide them through this daunting feat. And guide them I did. They had to have a thesis. Bodies would contain points and explanations. There would be acknowledgments of the other side of the issue. No logical fallacies! Varied sentence structure!
Brilliant teacher that I was, I guided them through first draft, second draft, peer editing, works cited, and that ever-glorious MLA formatting. These were going to be amazing — the argumentative essays to end all argumentative essays.
I sat upright at my desk on a Friday afternoon, red pen in hand, all ready to provide my students with relevant feedback for their long-sought-after final drafts. These babies were going in my portfolio. But they weren’t on my desk. So I checked my drawers. No. The bottom shelf of the overhead cart? Uh-uh.
Panic set in. To make a long story short, they were nowhere. The whole school was on the lookout. Even — gulp and swallow pride — the principal. They never turned up. All that work for naught. Perhaps I misplaced them… perhaps a student absconded with them…
Lesson learned? I’m not an organized teacher, but if I’m going to be an effective one, I’d better make an honest effort at organization. It’s still a struggle these many years later, but completely worth my effort.”
 
Ellen Weber - Brain based tasks for upper gradesEllen Weber – Brain based tasks for upper grades: 
“I’d been teaching four or five years — It was Friday afternoon, and I was running late after getting tangled in traffic during a snow storm. I entered my noisy, party-like secondary room late and tried to create calm in the class before I found it within myself. When nobody responded, I clapped my hands (hard) and shouted, “PLEEEASSE CALM DOWN RIGHT NOW!”
Surprised, the class came to an instant silence. At that same moment, as humor would have it, I slipped on the puddle my boots had created around me and slid under my desk so I could no longer be seen by my suddenly silenced, and obviously shocked students.
Only when they saw I was OK — except for my pride, did we all have a good laugh! Since that day, I’ve found much gentler and more effective ways to coax students out of their own fun, and into what I hope will be a classroom adventure that’s worth their shift!”
Common Core ConnectionCommon Core Connection:
 “Our class was going on a field trip. My class was scheduled for art class, but it didn’t occur to me to tell the art teacher. The art teacher had an amazing lesson planned for my class, which the principal was planning to observe. The principal showed up to observe the lesson,

  • but my class was nowhere to be found. Oops! Since then, I try really hard to let everyone know of schedule changes ahead of time.”

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Not to miss the point: Lincoln news coverage of Gettysburg

martinFACTS: Washington, 1963
As the nation this week recalls the historic 18 August 1963 march on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, The Washington Post reminds us that sometimes the press misses the point.
His speech was delivered on the landing 18 steps below Lincoln's statue.  There is now an inscription on the step where Dr. King stood, commemorating that historic event. (*)
FACTS: GETTYSBURG, 1863 
November 19, 1863 At the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg President Lincoln delivers a two-minute speech with his high-pitch voice. Immediately following the speech he calls it a "flat failure." The speech is known today as the Gettysburg Address.





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The first news coverage of Gettysburg appeared in the Nov. 21 edition, the delay being caused by the difficulty getting home from Gettysburg on the trains, more of which in a moment.



The Gettysburg Address, Performed By President Obama


The newspaper's own news account of the proceedings focuses largely on the lousy train service to and from Gettysburg that left thousands stranded in Hanover unable - after traveling hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles - to attend the event. The same occurred on the trip back out of Gettysburg.
As the Patriot & Union reporter noted, 
"The amount of blasphemy manufactured at that little hotel was considerable."
But to the point - the newspaper's own reporter described the President's speech in Gettysburg like this:
"The President then arose and delivered the dedicatory address, which was brief and calculated to arouse deep feeling."


The Elusive Gettysbur_Newh.jpg
(a 1905 rendering) literally verbatim: those 'silly remarks'
TASK 1. 
READ your  copy of the Gettysburg Address to students and then let them follow along as they watch the Presidential Lincoln Library




     TASK 2. 
Now, SHARE the scores you gave the reenactment of the Gettysburg Address.Pass out “Retraction for our 1863 editorial calling Gettysburg Address ‘silly remarks’” resource to students and explain to students that not everyone always agreed that the Gettysburg Address was  one of the greatest speeches in the history of the United States.


TASK 3. 
100 years ahead. Read the original 1963 article, “A Voice from the Dead,” by the Patriot and Union Newspaper.

TASK 4. 
 What do you think of the criticisms from the article.
  • Were they right?

  • If wrong, how come they made that mistake?

  • How can we predict what speeches or events 

  • are going to become historical?

PS: Read the Museum’s reenactment of the Gettysburg Address (click on task 1)



Lincoln Memorial Approval and Construction
The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated on Memorial Day—May 30, 1922.

Years in the making, the planning and building of the Memorial would end with soldiers and civilians from all sides of the Civil War together for the dedication ceremony—joined in peace as Lincoln had wished and fought for decades before.





(*) On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., made his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (the speech was delivered on the landing 18 steps below Lincoln's statue); there is now an inscription on the step where Dr. King stood, commemorating that historic event. Dr. King was speaking at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.


The March on Washington in 1963 brought 250,000 people to the National Mall