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Thursday 6 May 2010
Final Task-Pub Quiz Presentation
A pub quiz is a quiz held in a public house. It is a largely British phenomenon, which reached its peak in the early 1990s. Pub quizzes are still extremely popular and may attract people to a pub who are not found there on other days. The pub quiz is a modern example of a pub game. Though different pub quizzes can cover a range of formats and topics, they have many features in common.
There may be between one and more than half a dozen rounds of questions, totalling anything from 10 to upwards of 80 questions. Rounds may include the following kinds (most common first):
Factual rounds - these are usually spoken, either over a public address system or just called out. Common topics include:
General knowledge - covering the topics listed below (if they're not a separate round) and also topics such as history, geography and science and nature. There may well be more than one of these rounds.
Sport - comprising the statistics and minutiae of popular, well-known sports and general facts about others.
Entertainment - movies, TV shows and music (see also below).
Picture round - these use photocopied or computer-printed hand-outs and consist of pictures to be identified, such as photos of famous people (possibly snapped out of context, or else partially obscured) or logos of companies (without tell-tale lettering), famous places or objects pictured from a strange angle.
Who Am I? - A series of clues to the identity of a famous person (or thing). Clues are given in order of desceding difficulty. The earlier a team can identify the correct answer, the more points they are awarded.
Music round - these consist of excerpts (often only the intro or other non-vocal segment) of songs played over the PA system. Usually the teams must identify the song and also the singer or band (sometimes the year the song was released is also required). Variations include the inclusion of film soundtracks and TV theme tunes (requiring the title), and/or classical music (also requiring the composer).
Puzzle rounds - generally on a hand-out sheet. These may consist of crossword puzzles, anagrams and basic math problems.
True or False - questions to which the answer is True or False.
Novelty rounds - themed round a specific word or name (e.g. all the questions relate to a famous Norman); 'connections', where the last answer in the round provides a link to all the previous answers; true or false; and various others to break up the general stream of questions.
Factual rounds - these are usually spoken, either over a public address system or just called out. Common topics include:
General knowledge - covering the topics listed below (if they're not a separate round) and also topics such as history, geography and science and nature. There may well be more than one of these rounds.
Sport - comprising the statistics and minutiae of popular, well-known sports and general facts about others.
Entertainment - movies, TV shows and music (see also below).
Picture round - these use photocopied or computer-printed hand-outs and consist of pictures to be identified, such as photos of famous people (possibly snapped out of context, or else partially obscured) or logos of companies (without tell-tale lettering), famous places or objects pictured from a strange angle.
Who Am I? - A series of clues to the identity of a famous person (or thing). Clues are given in order of desceding difficulty. The earlier a team can identify the correct answer, the more points they are awarded.
Music round - these consist of excerpts (often only the intro or other non-vocal segment) of songs played over the PA system. Usually the teams must identify the song and also the singer or band (sometimes the year the song was released is also required). Variations include the inclusion of film soundtracks and TV theme tunes (requiring the title), and/or classical music (also requiring the composer).
Puzzle rounds - generally on a hand-out sheet. These may consist of crossword puzzles, anagrams and basic math problems.
True or False - questions to which the answer is True or False.
Novelty rounds - themed round a specific word or name (e.g. all the questions relate to a famous Norman); 'connections', where the last answer in the round provides a link to all the previous answers; true or false; and various others to break up the general stream of questions.
Thursday 18 March 2010
Next activity: English Video Contest
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - COMPETITION OF SHORT FILMS
1. Every student at the school can take part , either individually or as part of a group or team.
2. The competition consists of making a short film ( of 3 - 5 minutes ) in English.
3. The films can be : interviews , scenes from plays, parodies of adverts, songs…
4. The films must be handed over in CD format to your English teacher.
5. Prizes of up to 40 € will be given to the best films . The prizes will be vouchers which can be used in shops .
6. The films will be judged by the entire English department.
7. Whether it wins a prize or not, every film will be considered a piece of voluntary extracurricular work and may positively influence the end of the year English mark.
Deadline :16th april 2010.
1. Every student at the school can take part , either individually or as part of a group or team.
2. The competition consists of making a short film ( of 3 - 5 minutes ) in English.
3. The films can be : interviews , scenes from plays, parodies of adverts, songs…
4. The films must be handed over in CD format to your English teacher.
5. Prizes of up to 40 € will be given to the best films . The prizes will be vouchers which can be used in shops .
6. The films will be judged by the entire English department.
7. Whether it wins a prize or not, every film will be considered a piece of voluntary extracurricular work and may positively influence the end of the year English mark.
Deadline :16th april 2010.
Friday 5 March 2010
Time for presentations
Get ready to showw off. The whole class will evaluate your assignment, so try to convice them, put in practice your speaking skills and enjoy with it.
Do you speak English?
Do you speak English?
Thursday 18 February 2010
More about your stories-Goanimate
Another way to create your own viedeo or animation is using cartoon generation sites like http://goanimate.com/. Here you´ll find an easy way to post your stories by a simple drag and drop session of ten minutes. Remember that you´ll have to sign-in first with your mail and then, try to be as creative as possible. Watch out with grammar mistakes or just ask the teacher for correction before publishing. Check this out and have a go yourself:
GoAnimate.com: english-workshop
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
GoAnimate.com: english-workshop
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
ONLINE VIDEO CREATION
New Video tasks. As we learnt, it´s quite simple to become a film director. Once you recorded your own videos, now you can play with the Web 2.0 tools to create a short scene in just 10 minutes. Just drag your favourites, add some music or effects and obviously, the subtitles with lots of imagination. Great fun. But be careful as you can have problems if you embed it in your blogs. I want you to publish the link so as to be visited with a short-cut link, just like this you hava as an example. Otherwise some blog features might disappear.
Try to do your best and good luck.
See the example: http://www.grapheine.com/classiktv/index.php?module=see&lang=es&code=c01c4beaa0a2f7ec28e10e2eab7a9ba6
Creating presentations: Bookr & Flickr
You can use the Web2.0 tools to crete your own lively presentations. Once you get all the information and create the story you want to tell, you´ll have to make your own by selecting images and text in English: you can make shot paragraphs with an image which has to do with) and embed it in your blog.
Use this tool: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
Use this tool: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Peace Day- January actvities: Gandhi
Complete these exercices and post the answers in your blog:
Mahatma Gandhi
In the 1930s and 40s Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the most important leaders of the movement that was struggling to free India from British rule and make it an ____________ country, a goal that was finally achieved in August 1947. However, that isn’t enough to explain why so many people think of Gandhi as one of the greatest political figures of the 20th century. What really made him special was his belief in non-violent ____________ to British economic, political and military power: he believed the way forward for the Indian independence movement – and for all people suffering oppression – was simple ‘non-cooperation’ rather than violence. Non-cooperation included ____________, boycotts, the refusal to pay taxes, and the willingness to go to prison if necessary – tactics that were effective in putting pressure on the British authorities.
Gandhi’s ____________ certainly influenced the leaders of other 20th-century freedom struggles, such as Martin Luther King in the United States and Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Gandhi was born in the northern Indian state of Gujarat, the son of an important local politician. His parents arranged for him to get married at the extremely young age of thirteen, and he became a father before he was twenty. His family wanted him to become a ____________ and sent him to study law at university in London, where his ____________ for English food was one of the things that made him become a vegetarian for the rest of his life.
In 1893 he went to work as a lawyer in South Africa, where his political beliefs began to develop as he saw the ____________ suffered by non-white people, including the country’s large Indian community. He also moved closer to Hindu religious ideas, particularly ahimsa or non-violence.
After returning to India he decided to live a life of ‘simplicity’, which meant giving up unnecessary spending and ____________ as few clothes as possible. In 1918 he ____________ poor farmers in Gujarat to resist a new tax introduced by the British. The authorities put him in prison, but thousands of people protested and soon he was released. The British ____________ with the poor farmers, and Gandhi became famous all over India.
Over the next 30 years he devoted himself to the ____________ of Indian independence. He lived long enough to see his dream become ____________, but he was sad to see the violence that surrounded the division of the subcontinent into two countries for Hindus and Muslims respectively – India and Pakistan – because he had always believed that the followers of the two religions should be able to live together peacefully.
Fill the twelve gaps in the text on Worksheet A with the correct words from the box below. There are four words that you will not be able to use.
barrister bombs encouraged reality ideas cause elections strikes resistance compromised independent poor owning dislike mistake discrimination
Below are five quotes by Gandhi. Can you guess what the missing words might be?
1. ‘There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to ___________ for.’
2. ‘Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with ___________.’
3. ‘What do I think of Western ____________? I think it would be a very good idea.’
4. ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s ____________.’
5. ‘You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ____________.’
Some reflections on Peace:
Mahatma Gandhi
In the 1930s and 40s Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the most important leaders of the movement that was struggling to free India from British rule and make it an ____________ country, a goal that was finally achieved in August 1947. However, that isn’t enough to explain why so many people think of Gandhi as one of the greatest political figures of the 20th century. What really made him special was his belief in non-violent ____________ to British economic, political and military power: he believed the way forward for the Indian independence movement – and for all people suffering oppression – was simple ‘non-cooperation’ rather than violence. Non-cooperation included ____________, boycotts, the refusal to pay taxes, and the willingness to go to prison if necessary – tactics that were effective in putting pressure on the British authorities.
Gandhi’s ____________ certainly influenced the leaders of other 20th-century freedom struggles, such as Martin Luther King in the United States and Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Gandhi was born in the northern Indian state of Gujarat, the son of an important local politician. His parents arranged for him to get married at the extremely young age of thirteen, and he became a father before he was twenty. His family wanted him to become a ____________ and sent him to study law at university in London, where his ____________ for English food was one of the things that made him become a vegetarian for the rest of his life.
In 1893 he went to work as a lawyer in South Africa, where his political beliefs began to develop as he saw the ____________ suffered by non-white people, including the country’s large Indian community. He also moved closer to Hindu religious ideas, particularly ahimsa or non-violence.
After returning to India he decided to live a life of ‘simplicity’, which meant giving up unnecessary spending and ____________ as few clothes as possible. In 1918 he ____________ poor farmers in Gujarat to resist a new tax introduced by the British. The authorities put him in prison, but thousands of people protested and soon he was released. The British ____________ with the poor farmers, and Gandhi became famous all over India.
Over the next 30 years he devoted himself to the ____________ of Indian independence. He lived long enough to see his dream become ____________, but he was sad to see the violence that surrounded the division of the subcontinent into two countries for Hindus and Muslims respectively – India and Pakistan – because he had always believed that the followers of the two religions should be able to live together peacefully.
Fill the twelve gaps in the text on Worksheet A with the correct words from the box below. There are four words that you will not be able to use.
barrister bombs encouraged reality ideas cause elections strikes resistance compromised independent poor owning dislike mistake discrimination
Below are five quotes by Gandhi. Can you guess what the missing words might be?
1. ‘There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to ___________ for.’
2. ‘Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with ___________.’
3. ‘What do I think of Western ____________? I think it would be a very good idea.’
4. ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s ____________.’
5. ‘You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ____________.’
Some reflections on Peace:
Thursday 14 January 2010
Podcast- Posting a song
A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication.
The mode of delivery differentiates a podcast from other means of accessing media files over the Internet, such as simple download, or streamed webcasting. A list of all the audio or video files currently associated with a given series is maintained centrally on the distributor's server as a web feed, and the listener or viewer employs special client application software known as a podcatcher (for example, iTunes, Zune, Juice, or Winamp) that can automatically access this web feed, check it for updates, and download any new files in the series. New files are thus downloaded automatically and are stored locally on the user's computer or other device ready for offline use, giving simpler and more convenient access to episodic content.[1][2] Commonly used audio file formats are Ogg Vorbis and MP3. HOMEWORK: POST A SONG AND THE LYRICS SO THAT IT CAN BE LISTENED FROM YOUR BLOG.
Hi Barbie
Hi Ken!
Do you wanna go for a ride?
Sure Ken!
Jump In...
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
I'm a blond bimbo girl, in the fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly
You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink,
kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky...
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"
(uu-oooh-u)
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees
Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again,
hit the town, fool around, let's go party
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"
You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(uu-oooh-u)
Oh, I'm having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we're just getting started
Oh, I love you Ken!
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