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.
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?
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!
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.
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/
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.
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!
