How to give the BEST speech or presentation in English

How to give the BEST PowerPoint presentation!

FAMOUS PHOTOS

This is a PowerPoint presentation for a speaking activity with a number of internationally famous photos. When they are first displayed, the photo has no caption. The students are to look at the photos and make guesses using as much vocabulary as possible to describe what they see. Then the teacher reveals the title of the photo and can start a further discussion.

Gustav Doré's engravings for Don Quixote

This week we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death with the presentation of Gustav Doré's engravings for Don Quixote. Each student in the class translated the title of the chapters illustrated by Doré. Don Quijote, reading novels of chivalry (I, Prologue)

BOOK REVIEWS

You can read your classmates' book reviews before attending their presentations.

READERS

This term, each student is presenting the book they have chosen to the class. Last Friday we attended to four very good presentations.

OUR FAVOURITE LOVE SONGS

Last month our 3ESO students presented their favourite love songs to celebrate Saint Valentine's Day. Enjoy them! We had a great time with your presentations!!!

LET'S TALK ABOUT ART!!!

AND THIS WEEK...

Enjoy some of the writings sent by our 4ESO students concerning different works of art. They have learnt a lot after working the Integrated Unit of The Divine Proportion.

PENPALS

This term you are going to learn to write friendly letters and to make it real, we will start by writing an introduction letter to a pen pal. But first, let's read different tips which can help you write a wonderful interesting letter to your new friend.

WRITING THE FIRST LETTER TO A PEN PAL

The first letter can be as long or as short as you like, but you probably don't want to make it too daunting for your new friend to read - so perhaps 2-3 small sheets of paper, or 1 big sheet, like an A4 size. Besides, it's nice to keep some news and random facts for your next letter.
Here are some ideas:

• Start with an introduction of yourself and also introduce your immediate family too.
• Tell your pen pal about where you live, what the area is like and even how the weather is at the moment.
• Let's talk craft! Let your new friend know what creative interests and hobbies you have, perhaps what your favourite one is at the moment and what project/s you're working on.
• What does your average day look like - pick a week day or a day on the weekend to talk about.
• Ask questions! because this gives your new friend some things to reply to when they write back.
• Tell your pen pal what else you really enjoy doing in your spare time (that's not a hobby) - I like drinking tea, borrowing cook books from the library and watching movies with my family. What are some things you really love doing.

you can also have a look at these documents with some more tips....

Here you can watch very interesting videos with tips for your letters.

When writing the first letter to a pen pal, include personal information, such as name, age and interesting hobbies. In addition, learn what questions to ask a mystery pen pal to start communicating with them in this free video from a professional writer

8 TO BE GREAT!!!!

LOVE SONGS

Love songs are popular all over the world, and everyone has their favourites. In this unit, now that St Valentine's Day is near, we will work with your favourite love songs in English and we will see that we can learn a lot from them.


Here you can listen to one of the best in my opinion. It was composed for the film Shreck 2 by the band called Counting Crows. I hope you also like it!!

ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE

AND NOW IT'S YOUR TURN....
The class will be divided into groups of four students. Each group has to present and analyse a love song to the class. Remember you must bring a copy of the lyrics for the classmates, comment on the new vocabulary and give your opinion saying why you have chosen that song. You can also talk about the singer or the band. Finally, and this is important, you must bring one or two activities to be used in class. You will have to make sure your classmates learn a lot with your presentations because in the end, everybody will have to take a test about all the songs presented in class.
If you want to have a look at some possible activities to prepare your lesson, visit thislink where you will find dozens.

AND THE WINNER IS...

This week the 3º ESO students have been talking about famous people. Enjoy some of their writings where they compare two celebrities.

Raquel Terrón

CURRENT EVENTS

HERE YOU CAN READ THE NEWS WRITTEN BY SOME OF THE 3º ESO STUDENTS  FROM OUR INTEGRATED CURRICULUM PROJECT OF THE FIRST TERM, PROYECTO SUCESOS.

THE LEGACY OF THE GREEKS. ENGLISH TASK

Here you can meet some of the new gods and goddesses  the 1ºESO B students  presented in class as their final task for the integrated unit, The Legacy of the Greeks. We hope you like them!!!


David Naranjo



Miguel Ángel Moya

María Montiel

REMEMBER YOUR SUMMARIES ALWAYS BEFORE THE TESTS

You know you MUST hand out a complete summary of every unit before the test and "complete" means you have to include every new aspect you want to learn in the unit (vocabulary, grammar, writing tips, etc...). Also, it would be great if you included all the questions explained by the teacher which are not present in the textbook but which have been dealt with in class. You can follow this structure or you can innovate using  goconqr, for example.
VOCABULARY (unit, reading texts, new words studied in class or which appear in the activities).
USE OF ENGLISH (grammatical aspects studied in the unit with examples and translations).
SPEAKING (list of questions and different possible answers studied in the unit in the "speaking" part)
WRITING (writing tips,  connectors and structure of the type of  composition studied in the unit).