Merry Christmas to everyone!

It is fantastic to be on holiday. It is great to get up at 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock...
Also, today it was sunny, like a spring day.

What are you doing?

This is what I have been doing:

Saturday
On Saturday morning I went to the shops to buy food: fish, meat, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes etc........
On Saturday afternoon I went to the hairdresser's and I went out with friends.


Sunday
Today I talked on the 'phone with a lot of people. I cleaned the house and I cooked.
I read a book.I also played Cluedo with José and Carlota. This afternoon I watched television and played Connect 4 and sudoku games on my phone at the same time.


Tomorrow
On Christmas Eve ( 24th December), we are going to go to Madrid. We are going to have dinner with my husband's family.

My family in England
My family are in WORKINGTON, Cumbria, which is in Northern England.
Today in Workington, it is 9ºC, and it is going to rain all week.
We go to England at Easter. The weather is nicer at Easter.

In England we have lunch together on Christmas Day. For starters, my Mam always makes prawn cocktail ( coktel de gambas). The main course is roast turkey with lots of vegetables. For dessert, we have Christmas pudding.We also pull crackers.

Homework : 3ºA, 3ºB, 4ºA,4ºB, 5ºA,5ºB, 6º A &6ºB:

During the holidays, it is a good idea to practise the CD-Rom for Units 1, 2 3 and 4.

I suggest you practise the CD Rom 7 times x 30 minutes. Normally you don't have much time to practise the CDRom and it is excellent to help you learn and practise English:

• Wednesday 26th December
• Thursday 27th December
• Friday 28th December 
• Monday 31st December
• Wednesday 2nd January
• Thursday 3rd January
• Friday 4th January

Here is the homework from ANA BELÉN, ( Alumnos de 5ºB):

A todos/as los padres/madres de los alumnos/as de 5º B.

La hoja grabada en las notas como nota informativa de trabajo para las vacaciones, es una mera recomendación sobre lo que pueden hacer sus hijos durante este periodo vacacional.

Los alumnos/as, única y exclusivamente deben entregarme a la vuelta:

            -El cuadernillo tema 6 y 7.

            -El glosario de los temas (hoja grapada) escrito en el cuaderno de conceptos.

            -Frases de lenguaje, análisis de los artículos, sustantivos y los adjetivos (que se hará en esa misma hoja).

            -Resumen de un libro (les entregué una única hoja de resumen a cada uno).

Todo lo demás son recomendaciones (recomendaciones para todas las asignaturas: lenguaje, matemáticas, conocimiento del medio, plástica, música e inglés, durante siete días no los 17 días de vacaciones) para no perder el hábito de trabajo, pero queda a vuestro criterio que lo hagan o no.

Vuelvo a insistirles que cualquier duda o aclaración se pongan en contacto conmigo mediante la agenda (ya sea para contestarles ahí o en una cita personal).

UNIT 3 TESTS
click on the link

Here are the dates for UNIT 3 TEST:
Monday 10th December : 9.30 6ºA
Tuesday 11th December 9:30 5ºA
Wednesday 12th December 9:30 5ºB

Monday 17th December 12:00 4º A
Tuesday 18th December 12:00 3ºA
THURSDAY 20th December 15:00

UNIT 1 TESTS NEXT WEEK!

Next week you are going to have the UNIT 1 test for ENGLISH.

Monday  15th October
9:30 6º A
15:00 5º A
15:45 5ºB

Thursday 18th October
9:30 3ºA

Friday 19th October
10:30 4ºA
10:30 4ºB

Please click on the link here or to the left: TEST PREPARATION SHEETS to download the information you need to prepare for the test.

TO STUDY FOR ENGLISH:
 a) Look at the activity book
b) Practise with the CD Rom
c) Use your grammar Book ( 5º/6º)
d) Study the vocabulary 

REMEMBER: It is VERY important to STUDY English to remember the words and the structures.

Thankyou,


Pamela

Happy Holidays to all my students

SUMMER IS HERE!

The holidays are going to start on WEDNESDAY for YOU!

Have a good time!

During the summer PLEASE practise your English:

3ºAB:
Practise English with Super Summer 3.
Play with the CD Rom for Sparks 3
 
4ºAB : Practise English with Super Summer 4
Play with the CD Rom for Sparls 3 & 4

5ºAB : Practise English with Super Summer 5
Play with the CDRom for Sparks 4 & 5

  6ºAB: Play with the CD Rom for Sparks 5 & 6
Practise English with Super Summer 6

UNIT 8 TEST PREPARATION SHEETS ARE HERE

This week are the final English exams for this year:
 Thursday and Friday.
 Click here to download the sheets.

Thursday 14th June: 3ºA, 6ºB

Friday 15th June :4ºA, 3ºB, 5ºA & 5ºB

Monday 18th June : 6ºA

Click on this link if your Mam or Dad would like to talk to Pamela.

You can select Thursday 14th June, Thursday 21st June or Wednesday 27th June.

On Friday we are going to finish at 1 o'clock.

 On Friday we are going to begin the month of JUNE.

The classes are going to be only 40 minutes long:

9:00 - 9:40 1st LESSON

9.40-10.20 2nd LESSON

10.20-11:00 3rd LESSON

11.00-11.40 BREAK

11.40- 12:20 4th LESSON
12.20-13:00 5th LESSON

6th grade exam sheets are here

Click on the usual link to download the TEST PREPARATION SHEETS  for UNIT 7 .
 UNIT 7 is a review of:
 PAST SIMPLE
PRESENT SIMPLE
FUTURE GOING TO + VERB.

 The exam is going to be on TUESDAY for 6A and 6B.

BFN,

Pam

UNIT 7 EXAMS

Next week, 3rd, 4th,5th and 6th grades are going to have unit 7 exams.

MONDAY 21st May :
9.30 5ºB
12:00 4ºA
15:45 3ºA

TUESDAY 22nd May:
9.30 5ºA
15.45 3ºB

MONDAY 27th May:
10.30 6ºA
12:00 6ºB

Here are the test preparation sheets.

EXAM PREPARATION SHEETS

Click on the link to the test preparation sheets.

Here are the exam dates:
EXAM DATES:
MONDAY 23rd April :
9.30 5ºB
12.004ºA
15:00 3ºA
TUESDAY 24th April:
9.30 5ºA
12:00 6ºB
15.45 3ºB
THURSDAY 26th April:
15.45 6ºA

UNIT 6 EXAMS

What are we studying at the moment?

3rd grade: We are learning about plants, trees and bushes. We are practising HAVE GOT, HAS GOT and plant parts.

4th grade: We are learning about animals. We are asking QUESTIONS , for example....
Has it got a spine? Does it lay eggs? Has it got scales? Has it got fur? Has it got lungs?

5th grade: We are learning about the PAST.
We are using WAS / WERE / WASN'T / WEREN'T. We are practising years and centuries.....
1875,1910,2012,1680.....

6th grade: We are learning about the history of transport.
We are using PAST SIMPLE QUESTIONS.



EXAM DATES:

MONDAY 23rd April :
9.30 5ºB
12.004ºA
15:00 3ºA

TUESDAY 24th April:
9.30 5ºA
12:00 6ºB
15.45 3ºB

THURSDAY 26th April:
15.45 6ºA

Only 2 weeks until the Easter holidays!

TODAY:
We finished the exams for Unit 5. Great!!!
We worked hard and studied hard this term. We did units 3, 4 and 5 of Sparks.


TODAY ++++++:
Now we are going to start Unit 6. We are going to have 5-7 lessons before the holidays.
We are going to celebrate "Culture Week" at school.
You are going to have the exams for Unit 6 probably 23rd/24th April.
The exams are going to be approximately:
Unit 6: 19/20th April
Unit 7 : 17/18th May
Unit 8: 14/15th June

IMPORTANT: 6º A & B: Prueba CDI 6º Ed. Primaria: 7-11th May 2012.

Remember to practise English with your CD Rom.
The CDRom is very good for practising LISTENING.

Your parents can make an appointment with me to talk about you. Click here on the LINK.

ENGLISH EXAMS for UNIT 5

Click on this link to get the test preparation sheets.

EXAM DATES:



MONDAY 12th March
5ºB : 9.30

4ºA: 12.00


TUESDAY 13th March
5ºA 9.30

THURSDAY 14th March
6ºB: 12.00
3ºA : 15.00
6ºA: 15.45

Tuesday 20th March
3ºB 15.45

Homework:
4ºA: Poster about a person who works in a museum with 5 sentences. STUDY for the exam also.
5ºa & B : STUDY FOR THE EXAM
6ºA & B : pages 95 6 96, exercises 1,2,3,4 and 6 of NGT 2 and the activity book
3ºA & B : page 54 Activity Book

QR Codes

In the 21st century we are going to use QUICK RESPONSE codes: QR codes.

In Korea you can buy food at the train station by scanning the QR code on the packet.
Many important companies use QR codes to send a lot of information to the clients:

Coca cola, Ford, Calvin Klein, Gap, Starbucks and the television channel HBO.

Smart phone users scan the QR code on the item with an application and go to the website or blog or social network.

At conferences QR codes can be printed on T-shirts...

Here is a video about QR codes:




Here is the QR code for this blog:

Welcome to March!

Today is the first of March: 1st March.

In English we use ORDINALS for dates and centuries:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th,7th,9th,9th,10th,11th,12th,13th,14th,15th,16th,17th,18th,19th,20th,
21st,22nd,23rd, 24th,25th,26th,27th,28th, 29th,30th
31st.

This is the GRAMMAR that we are learning:
We are doing UNIT 5 in 3rd,4th,5th and 6th grades.

3rd grade:
There is a/ There are some

4th grade:
Do you like? Yes, I do. No , I don't.
Does he/she like? Yes, he/she does. No, she/he doesn't.

5th grade:
There is a / there isn't a ( any for uncountables) / There are some / there aren't any
Superlatives ...the biggest, the highest, the most spiders on a human body, the most intelligent...

Click on this link to see:
a)furthest / farthest eye squirt....
b) most nails on face...
Check out this video:





6th grade:
Past simple of regular and irregular verbs: affirmative, negative and interrogative.

Here is a music video with LOTS of examples of the PAST SIMPLE:

Here are the dates for the next exams for UNIT 5

Here are the dates for the next exams.
We usually need 10-12 lessons per unit to teach the grammmar structures and the vocabulary.

EXAM DATES FOR UNIT 5:

3ºA Wednesday 14th march
3ºB : Tuesday 13th March

4ºA: Monday 12th March

5ºA: Tuesday 13th March
5ºB: Monday 12th March

6ºA: Tuesday 13th March
6ºB: Tuesday 13th March

This term finishes on Thursday 29th of March.
It is vital that you speak in class to get a pass (=suficiente). It is very important that you demonstrate that you CAN use the vocabulary and structures that we learn.


For all the reports, I evaluate :

a) participation in class: speaking in English : correct use of the grammar
b) understanding of English
c) attitude to English
d) homework
e) Activity book
f) test results
g) pronunciation

ALL the TESTS are here now!!!

Attn: Madres y padres de 3º: Ya he subido la hoja para preparar los alumnos de 3ºA y 3ºB . Pinchad en el enlace abajo.

Gracias por avisarme.

Pamela

We are going to do tests to evaluate unit 4 in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades.
You are going to have the tests on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

Here are the test days:

FRIDAY
4ºA 9:30
10:30 3ºB
12:00 5ºB
15:00 5ºA

MONDAY
10:30 6ºA

15.45 3ºA

TUESDAY
12:00 6ºB

Click on the link to go directly to the TEST PREPARATION SHEETS.

Now it is half past ten on Thursday night. I have got a sore throat

(me duele la garganta). Maybe I am allergic to work?

I need a weekend every day!

We are learning about tenses in 5th grade and about FOOD.
We are studying: the present simple, the present continuous and the future to express intentions ( to be going to + infinitive).

Here are 2 songs which show a simple example of the present simple:

I need a dollar (affirmative)


We don't need money to have a good time ( negative)



We are studying the present simple in 6th grade and also revising CAN and have got.
The vocabulary is solids, liquids and gases.

In 4th grade we are studying FOOD, imperatives ( cut, chop, mix, stir, peel, wash) and there is/ there are, how much/how many.

In 3rd grade we are studying ANIMALS and learning how to use TO HAVE GOT to talk about animal body parts. We are also using CAN/CAN'T to talk about how animals move.

TESTS

CLICK ON THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE TEST PREPARATION SHEETS.
I am going to give you tests next week for UNIT 3, for all students in 3º, 4º,5º and 6º.



REMEMBER! I ALWAYS collect the activity books on exam day.

Pam
Here are some LINKS to practise UNIT 3:

5º A & B :
Comparitives: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2065
4ºA 4ºB 5ºA 5ºB:
Present continuous:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3438
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2126

6ºA & B : Adverbs of frequency: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6611

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7330

SHOULD/ SHOULDN'T:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4125






EXAM DATES: 5ºA & B : IMPORTANT: Practise the song.
Do New Gramamr Time, page 59, exercises 1 & 2.



FRIDAY :
5ºA: 9:30

MONDAY
5ºB: 9.30
6ºA: 10:30

TUESDAY
9:30 5ºA
12:00 6ºB
15.45 3ºB