Weather forecasts. Ampliación I

Activity: Watching some videos & writing two summaries of the weather news.

Look at some of the summaries you wrote and compare your team's work with the ones from other people in the class. We can learn a lot like that! Enjoy!

If you double click on any word AnswerTips will show information about it. Feel free to use it if you need help with vocabulary.

Common European Framework

This is a basic document for the learning and teaching of languages. A compulsory reading to keep updated.

http://www.educa.madrid.org/cms_tools/files/738a5dc3-7604-4cf6-9432-e6f9ff9fe50f/Common%20Framework.pdf

Learning English with Yappr Video

Watch these videos from Yappr. You can see the transcripts in a box next to them.

Bart Simpson is trying to help his mum in the kitchen. How is he getting along?

http://tinyurl.com/afgjfy

The people singing Forever Young are Bob Dylan and Will.I.Am.The song was first published in Bob Dylan's Planet Waves album in 1974. This is one of the advertisements shown for the Super Bowl in 2009 on American television. But what does this ad want to sell?

http://tinyurl.com/awh9jl

This is a music video by Coldplay. In The Scientist they tell us a story backwards. What's this story about?

http://tinyurl.com/cyv9rs

Have fun! Copy the questions and answer them. Then show them to your friends and your teacher. See how many you got right! Good luck!

A couple of easy tasks: Complete a gapped text with information taken from a National Geagraphic feature on the rain forests and answer two questions on the Amazon. Good luck!

Follow this link and complete the gaps in the text below:

http://tinyurl.com/d3r4gd

LOTS OF BIODIVERSITY

From____________________to dawn, orangutans roam the forest treetops. Then as_______________________falls, these__________________animals make leafy nests in the trees and bed down. Once numerous, there are now__________________than 30,000 orangutans left in the wild.

The most visible symbol of the Borneo rainforest’s plight, the red ape represents the tremendous loss of_________________in rainforests around the world.

Although they cover___________________than 5 percent of the Earth’s land_________________, rain forests are home to millions of__________________of animals, insects and plants.

Amazing nature – The Amazon rainforest - Wettest place on Earth? BBC wildlife

Watch this video and answer these questions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-cogjNkxis

1. What’s the average rainfall in the Amazon rainforest?

2. Do animals like so much rain?

Hi there folks from 1º Bach A-B. This is your teacher calling!I'd like you to go through some weather activities.You will watch some videos and you must write a summaryof two of them. Work with a partner. Good luck! You can sendyour answers to this e-mail address rusocoll@gmail.com

A couple of videos to start with.

This is the weather forecast for a winter day!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAo7qcpMSAY

Weather forecasts

Look in this site http://news.sky.com/skynews/video to watch weather forecasts from Sky News archive.You must type the following words: WEATHER FORECAST in the seach for more sky news video box. There are examples to browse weather info. If you write a summary of ONE of them, identify it clearly.

Podcasting for EFL

What’s a podcast?

A podcast is a free video or audio series — like a TV or radio show — that you download from the Net and play on your computer.These podcasts are for learning English at different levels. Check on the transcripts that accompany the audio material. You may have to download Quicktime http://tinyurl.com/ctcfkk to listen to them.

http://www.eltpodcast.com/eltp.xml

http://a4esl.org/podcasts/

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/freesample.shtml

Desde este enlace Using Twitter with your students
se puede seguir una experiencia de enseñanza con twitter.