Dear students, to get you into the mood for working on your projects, submitting your project proposals and getting you excited about the future please do this short interactive task and find out how humans will look like in a thousand years.
Hopefully, you'll acquire (*usvojit) some new vocab along the way. I won't overburden you with assignments this week because you need to submit your project proposals. You'll receive feedback during the weekend. For most, I'll just "like" your proposals but some will receive a more extensive commentary. Hopefully, you will all have submitted your Gforms (Review of Module 3) that were assigned last week, by the end of this week (along with the GForms on Linking words and your project proposals). (Do you see how I used future perfect here :)) You have your work cut out for you and I won't pile on more. Focus on your projects and catching up with assignments that you might have missed.
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Today's lesson builds on task 5 (p. 41) in your SBs and tasks 3 and 4 (p.31) in your Workbooks. We're going to explore the subject of comparing and contrasting a bit further. To be able to compare and contrast we need these little words that we call LINKING words (*veznici). Linking words help us bring our ideas together and in relation. In our native language we usually don't have any issues with linking words. However, the same cannot be said for our second/third languages. The issue lies in not knowing were to position a linking word within a sentence (if we use it at the end or at the beginning) and which structures (forms) might follow them. General (basic) guidelines that you should keep in mind are: 1. AVOID starting sentences with ANDs and BUTs and rather use IN ADDITION and HOWEVER. After IN ADDITION and HOWEVER always use commas. E.g. The idea of self-driving cars is becoming more mainstream. In addition, they are proven to be safer THAN regular cars. 2. ON THE OTHER HAND - is always used at the beginning of a sentence E.g. On the other hand, are we really willing to let AIs make life or death decisions that we face in traffic? 3. TOO - is usually comes at the end of the sentence E.g. In addition to AIs gaining more independence, they are becoming more widely used TOO. 4. WHILE vs WHEREAS - to compare and contrast ideas. However, unlike WHEREAS, we typically use while at the beginning of a sentence. E.g. While he may be rich, he certainly isn’t handsome. We can’t reverse the sentence order: He certainly isn’t handsome while he may be rich. - INCORRECT !!!2 ASSIGNMENTS (deadline: 7.5.)!!! 1. What you have to do now is to solve tasks 3 and 4 (p. 31) in your workbooks. 2. After that, we'll do a little exercise were you'll compare and contrast the world as predicted in a cult move BACK TO THE FUTURE (made in 1985) and the world as it was in 2015 (in regard to TECH). Therefore, you have two 2015s: one fictional (envisioned by the movie's director) and the one that you actually lived through. a) You have to produce 6 sentences based on the video below (perhaps the diagram below can help). b) In every sentence you need to used one linking word. You'll submit your work at: forms.gle/FyKPL7sauKChAkV58 You are going to be offered 12 possible topics that you can cover and develop for your project. You have to present your vision of what the future will bring (the future development – desired, as well as undesired) to certain areas of human interest. ✔️ You have to base your vision on at least some research. There are already some advances and thought processes which suggest what the future might bring and in which directions might we be headed. ✔️ You can work in pairs or alone. You can collaborate with your potential partner online via, for example, google docs. ✔️ You are supposed to do a multimedia presentation through some kind of combination of voice and text. The easiest way to do it is to make a PowerPoint presentation and record it together with you providing context and additional information (basically, guiding us through your work) via a voice recording. ✔️ If you decide to do it alone – your work should not be shorter than 2 min and 30 seconds, but not longer than 5 minutes. If you decide to do it in pairs, your work should not be shorter than 5 minutes but not longer than 7. ✔️ After you decide whether you want to work in pairs or alone and which topic you want to develop further, you need to inform me about your plans till 7.5. ✔️ In addition, you need to submit an outline (a plan, a general overview) of your presentation in written form before submitting the real thing (7.5). This outline needs to tell me which specific issues you’ll be addressing, things you’ll focus on, your motivation behind exploring this particular subject further – why you have chosen that particular topic, questions you want to answer E.g. An outline for “The Future of Education” might look something like this: ✔️ Your outlines need to have at least 4 headings (*podnaslova) or parts and 10 specific questions you want to answer/address in your presentation.
You have to submit the outline via Loomen till 7.5. ✔️ After doing preliminary research needed for submitting your project outlines, you need to start putting together the project itself. ✔️ You should follow the outline that you’ve submitted and use it as your guideline in making this presentation. Of course, there might be some questions and headings from the outline that you end up discarding (*odbaciti). That’s perfectly fine. ✔️In the final project/product – at the very end, I want you to directly address and state the things that you’ve learned by doing this project. Thus, WHAT I LEARNED should be the last heading/part of your presentation/project. ✔️I also want you to address how your vision compares with other visions put forward about the future of a specific field – so some kind of a comparison with other people’s ideas is needed (E.g. Elon Musk is obsessed with his idea of a Hyperloop) – Perhaps you don’t agree that this is such an amazing idea. ✔️✔️✔️✔️THE LIST OF TOPICS (Choose whichever you like)✔️✔️✔️✔️ 1. THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE and HEALTHCARE -- possible subtopics of interest: vaccination (*cjepivo), CRISPR, chimera (*animal/human hybrid), artificial wombs 2. THE FUTURE OF SPORTS -- possible subtopics of interest: genetic doping 3. THE FUTURE OF schools/ education --- possible subtopics of interest: online schooling/homeschooling... 4. THE FUTURE OF warfare/army 5. THE FUTURE OF the economy (*gospodrstvo) --- possible subtopics of interest: cryptocurrencies, commerce (*koncept trgovine), redundant professions vs professions of the future, Microchip implants for payment, social credit rating, automation, drones... 6. THE FUTURE OF social relationships --- possible subtopics of interest: dating/love/marriage/family/ death – funerals, procreation, digital afterlife... 7. THE FUTURE OF nutrition 8. THE FUTURE OF the environment and energy --- possible subtopics of interest: endangered species, carbon footprint, waste management, sustainable development, solar panels, renewable energy resources... 9.THE FUTURE OF cities (the vision of the future city) --- possible subtopics of interest: accommodation, vertical gardens, commuting, living arrangements, suburbs 10.THE FUTURE OF leisure --- possible subtopics of interest: entertainment, hobbies, movies, concerts, pets, tourism, games…. 11.THE FUTURE OF transport --- possible subtopics of interest:(new modes of transport, energy-efficient, space travel, commuting, renewable energy sources, carbon footprint) 12. THE FUTURE OF crime and police --- possible subtopics of interest: the judicial system (*pravosudni sustav), crime rates, cyber crimes, surveillance, law enforcement, gear (*oprema) ✔️✔️✔️✔️ Checklist for this project✔️✔️✔️✔️: ❐ I have familiarized myself with the general recent trends and development in the field of my interest (I’ve done my research). ❐ The presentation is at least 2min and 30 second long (singles) or 5 min for (pairs) Longer doesn’t necessarily mean better. ❐ I haven’t plagiarized any of the text I presented or directly read the text which I found on the internet. ❐ I checked the meaning and the pronunciation of words that I used in my project but of which I had been unsure of ❐ When recording the presentation, I didn’t just read out the script that I had written. I’ve engaged at least some of my presentational skills. ❐ The project itself can be divided into several subsections (headings) ❐ I started my motivation behind selecting this topic in the introduction ❐ I clearly stated and answered all of my research questions. ❐ I’ve compared my ideas and solutions with someone else’s ides (and provided arguments why mine are better) ❐ I stated what I’ve learned at the end of my presentation. ❐ I’ve used some visual aids (images, info-graphics, pictures) ✔️✔️✔️✔️ Submit your work at ✔️✔️✔️✔️: 1.b(12.5): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JzGqG2_Mqby_u3iQgT_tx57aHB7Ae2mO?usp=sharing 1.f(13.5.): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H1I3L9bliIh7ABq8hfqXZVqBhtaDTE-0?usp=sharing Dear 1st graders, you can find the key for Grammar Revision (p. 29, Workbooks) in the word document attached below. Hope you have completed your work so you can just scan through the attached document. The plan for this week goes as follows: 1. You'll have to complete and submit one comprehensive (*sveobuhvatni) Google Form which checks how well you've been progressing through Module 3. If you're not sure which answer is correct, you're more than welcome to check your books. The end game here is that you learn something by going through these tasks ( and not to go through them mindlessly). Ideally, you'll be more aware of your weak spots after you complete this Form. -- forms.gle/ZsFUoitUJi8jid9EA Take your time. It'll take you at least 30 minutes to complete his google form. 2. On Thursday, you'll be presented with a list of Project topics to choose from. You'll have to select a project topic that you want to work on. Of course, it goes without saying that these project topics will be related to the.....FUTURE (and various aspect thereof). To be continued..... ![]()
This lesson builds on tasks 3 + 4 (p. 31) in your Workbooks and task 5 (p.41) in your Student books. To start with, comparing and contrasting is something that we do on a regular basis not only in an academic setting (i.e. school). However, to be able to that successfully we need to have the mastery of these little words (i.e. linking words - vezinici) that bring our ideas together and establish a relationship between them. We usually don't have a problem with linking words in our native language but struggle with them in our second/third language. We usually don't know were to position these linking words or which structures might follow them. Do they come at the beginning or the end of the sentence? Generally, we should: 1. AVOID beginning sentences with ANDs and BUTs - Instead, we can begin sentences with IN ADDITION (instead of AND) and HOWEVER (instead of BUT). We use commas (,) after IN ADDITION and HOWEVER. - Self-driving cars are expensive. However, they are proven to be safer THAN regular cars. 2. ON THE OTHER HAND - always comes at the beginning of the sentence and it's followed by a comma. - ON THE OTHER HAND, do we really want to leave life and death decisions that might arise in traffic to machines? 3. TOO - almost always comes at the END of the sentence 4. INSTEAD OF and RATHER THAN (both meaning : in place of, in lieu of) Instead of flying cars, nowadays we have self-driving ones. Rather than flying cars, nowadays we have self-driving ones. !!! Assignments (DEADLINE: 7.5.)!! : 1. What you have to do today is to solve task 4 (Workbook), p. 31. You have to complete the task with linking words from task 3. 2. After that, you're going to watch a short video about the things that the famous, cult movie BACK TO THE FUTURE (made back in 1985) predicted correctly and incorrectly about the year 2015 (in regard to tech). You are going to compare and contrast these two 2015s (one fictional and envisioned back in 1985 and the real one that you lived through). Write 6 sentences expressing similarities and differences between the two (compare and contrast) and USE LINKING words in every sentence. Submit your 6 sentences with linking words below at by 7.5. (DEADLINE) 1st grade - 23 & 24 April - Grammar Revision and Designer Babies - The future of Humanity?(Workbook)4/22/2020 1. We'll start off with completing the grammar revision (p. 29) in Workbooks. You have to complete 4 tasks that cover grammar (all the tenses - present, past and future, and all aspects - simple, continuous and perfect). This will come in handy (*be useful) for your upcoming project work. More on the project next week ;). All of the tasks on page 29 contain expressions (e.g. time adverbials - a week ago, by next year, for years, in 2050) or context words (because, think, believe, hope) that point you in the direction of which tenses you're supposed to use. ***FOR YEARS, BECAUSE, BY NEXT YEAR, BEFORE..etc. - point to the need of using a perfect tense - other words in the sentences will tell you whether to use a present, future or past perfect tense. I will upload the key and elaborate these 4 tasks next week (after you complete these exercises on your own). 2. On page 33, in your workbooks there's a text on DESIGNER BABIES. Maybe you've heard of this term/concept or maybe you haven't. In any case, you'll soon learn what it is. You're supposed to read the text and answer the 5 questions in task 1 via this link: forms.gle/jeUUyyyEZyF82p3K8 I've attached the audio of me reading the text below. !!!!! You should definitely go through this Quizlet (before you move onto answering the questions in this google form) with key vocabulary in order to become equipped for discussing the subject of GENETIC ENGINEERING and DESIGNER BABIES. The vocabulary covered in this Quizlet relates to the text as well as to the video that you'll be watching via this google form: forms.gle/jeUUyyyEZyF82p3K8 DEADLINE: 1b - 28 April 1f - 29 April ![]()
1st Grade - 21/22 April - Revision of PAST perfect and PREPOSITIONAL phrases (with one online task)4/20/2020 After reviewing your written assignments on the topic of SURVIVAL and past tenses, we should take a step back and reflect on some of the mistakes that you made. There were some which kept popping up. 1. When we are telling a story or giving an account of something that happened in the past, most of our verbs in that text are going to be in one of the past tenses. So, instead of WILL – we should use WOULD; we shouldn't use – WON'T but WOULDN'T, not CAN but COULD, not HAS but HAD. There has to be a good reason to use a present tense verb in the same sentence with verbs in the past. (Mora postojati dobar razlog zašto bi koristili sadašnja vremena u rečenici s prošlim vremenima) ''Even back then, people KNEW that the Earth IS round." U tom je slučaju dozvoljeno koristiti - IS – jer je činjenica da je Zemlja okrugla bila istinita i još uvijek je istinita. (Na stranu Flat Earthers i njihovi 'argumenti' za one koji su upoznati s njima :)) 2. When you use PAST PERFECT you need to have a (darn good) reason why you need to use it, otherwise you should definitely rather use PAST SIMPLE. PAST SIMPLE will suffice in most cases (75%). If we have a sequence of past actions, one following the other – we should use PAST SIMPLE. When we do use PAST PERFECT there should always be a more RECENT past action expressed in PAST SIMPLE with which you are going to correlate this more DISTANT action in PAST PERFECT. Without having a more RECENT action (expressed or very obviously implied) to establish a relationship with, you should NOT use PAST PERFECT. I had come home late. – an INCORRECT usage of PAST PERFECT – you don't have an adverbial (never, always, by the time, ever, for, since) or a more recent past action (in PAST SIMPLE) with which you could establish some sort of a link/connection/correlation. My dad was pissed because I had never come home that late before. - a CORRECT usage of PAST PERFECT !!! Also, be careful – with using BY THE TIME…try to envision which action happened first. That action should be in PAST PERFECT. The other, more recent one should be in PAST simple. BY THE TIME I CAME HOME, they HAD EATEN all the cookies. (1st they ate the cookies, then I came home. – as you can see, we’re using PAST SIMPLE here because we have a sequence of past actions happening one AFTER another) 3. Not to overwhelm you, I want to focus on one last thing unrelated to tenses - PREPOSITIONS and PREPOSITIONAL phrases.
A lot of you still don't have a firm grasp of which preposition you should use - for example, with modes of transport. It is quite understandable that this happens because your mother tongue (CROATIAN) interferes with English. There isn't any inherent logic behind prepositions and prepositional phrases; you just have to become aware that these structures exist in Croatian as well as in English and these structures more often than not differ from one another. There is no inherent logic behind why we say: "Reci to NA engleskom." VS "Say it IN English." * Prepositions: BY; AT; IN; ON; INTO; ONTO; FOR; OF; TO: WITHIN; WITH... !!! The assignment for next time: 1. Go through this QUIZLET with ENG-CRO prepositional pairings: quizlet.com/_8bkd4q?x=1jqt&i=ol6mm 2. Then, based on this quizlet , try to complete this online task as best as you can. Go to educaplay: game.educaplay.com/ and use this PIN: 322310 to access the game. Dear 1st graders, hope you had time to find your bearings last week. We're continuing our work with the future. I'm going to give you the whole week's worth of assignments so you can complete them at your own pace. (deadline 22 April)
1. Watch and listen to the video with the explanation (key) of the assignment you were supposed to submit via liveworksheets last week (or the week before that, to be exact). Link: youtu.be/uOyGWxawuxA 2. Next, please complete this google form which consists of 2 listening tasks 3. Then, go to game.educaplay.com/ and use the pin: 818366 to complete the challenge on the future of travel 4. Finally, complete 5 tasks in your workbooks related to future tenses (heading 3C, from task 1 to task 5); I'm going to provide the key for these tasks next week. And that's all folks! By the end of the week, you can expect to see some new grades in your grade book. :) 1st Grade - 8th & 9th - session - Vocabulary and Grammar reinforcement & Future time clauses3/31/2020 1. Hopefully by now you are masters in tenses we use to express the future, but in case you’re not, it wouldn’t hurt to go through some basic concepts again. Please watch the video above to reinforce your knowledge of some of the tenses we use to talk about the future. 2. In addition, we should definitely check your answers to tasks 7-13 (page 37, SB). You’ll be provided the key through this video. I also discuss how and when we’ll deal with the subject of the exams held before the school was closed. 3. Finally, this week we are going to explore the concept of (future) time clauses (p. 39, p. GR 9, tasks 10-11). You have several resources available here to take charge over your learning process, tailor it according to your preferences and learning styles. There’s a PowerPoint presentation attached below that explores future time clauses. You can also watch a video on the topic. ![]()
What isn’t negotiable is you completing this digitized worksheet (those are the same tasks as the ones from your book – pages 38 and 39 – but made to fit our current circumstances). When you provide your answers within this worksheet be sure NOT TO USE contracted forms (so no won’t, isn’t, aren’t, doesn’t, etc.). You can check how well you did before you submit your work to your teacher, i.e. ME by selecting the option “check my work” (after clicking on the FINISH button). Link: https://www.liveworksheets.com/at104000dr
4. The last assignment is writing 4 to 5 sentences based on the picture prompts from task 12, page 39 (SB). You have the model already provided. You should use as many different forms and tenses to express your predictions about one of the characters portrayed in the photos. If you’re feeling particularly inspired, you can even select an image of a person that isn’t from your book and make predictions about him/her – but then, you also have to upload the photo you used as your starting point. I just want to check if you have mastered the wider scope of forms used to express the future. Please submit these sentences by 10 April (deadline) via this link (use your google email accounts – not skole.hr) : https://forms.gle/hNCpQbdhEobdT2CL8 1st Grade - 6th and 7th online lesson - Future forms (How we talk about the future?) + Kahoot3/25/2020 1. First things first, to get your mind in the right headspace for learning and practicing tenses which express the future, watch the video above. If it is easier for you to study by watching and listening to videos I also recommend you watch this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTFAMF1SUk 2. After that, download the PowerPoint presentation attached at the bottom of this post about (already familiar) tenses that we use to express the future: present simple, present continuous, going to future and future simple. You can also check the grammar reference in your books (p. GR 8 and 9) 3. Go through the PowerPoint presentation and try to solve a couple of online exercises which also offer you feedback (an explanation) if you answer incorrectly: When solving these grammar tasks, try to keep an internal monologue going which would (ideally) sound something like this: "What am I expressing with this sentence?"
4. Then, download the second PowerPoint presentation that focuses on future perfect and future continuous and solve these online multiple choice exercises: If you find it easier to study along with videos do watch the ones produced by BBC English about future continuous (www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFhZXEOiVk&t=93s ) and future perfect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd2WfMgapws). 5. When you start feeling comfortable with using these different forms and tenses, go and solve this Kahoot! kahoot.it/challenge/0622397?challenge-id=9e5a4d4c-98d2-48e7-948e-a00fed04c18a_1585254793604 . Please use your real names and surnames as nicks since I'll monitor your attendance and activity through this challenge. (!!!!due date 4 April) ![]()
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Dear students,
we'll continue our work on Unit 3, specifically 3b (page 37). There are a couple of things you'll be required to do this week: 1. Watch the video above to get you in the mood of thinking about the future of nutrition. 2. Open your books on page 37 and look at the table in task 7, then click on this link and collaborate with your classmates on creating an exhaustive list of food items (notice how words for certain kinds of meat and veggies come from French). 1.F docs.google.com/document/d/1YI_PfJx3DyNMA5B9eTNAT2LiV1nuO_srW7IZpmRg68w/edit?usp=sharing 1.B docs.google.com/document/d/1-0XBCKyybsRK7WiaTaMkJpQgmF7xIQIwjnoxpllUV0A/edit?usp=sharing
3. After hopefully learning some new vocabulary items related to food (perhaps even from your classmates or on your own via your new best friend Google ;)), go back to your books and complete the tasks (from 8-13) on page 37. Make use of all the available resources to arrive at the correct solutions. If you're not sure which words to use, you can follow the same search pattern as shown in the example below for task 8 (use quotation marks " ___ " and an asterisk * as a stand in for word/s you're not sure of). Words follow certain strict patterns and there's a limited number of words that can come between the word "people" and "a diet". As you can see, the most common word that comes between the word "people" and "a diet" is the preposition ON but FOLLOW is a close second. 4. After completing page 37, go to Padlet where you'll see 4 questions and one model answer to these 4 questions. Plan out your responses to these 4 questions, record yourself speaking (for min 60 secods) and upload the audio to Padlet. You are required to sign your audio response (i.e., write your name and surname or at least initials and grade). You have sufficient time to submit your audio assignments (1 April). This lesson entails you watching a video and following (checking!) the tasks in your books. Easy, right? It's certainly no brain surgery. The vocabulary covered here relates to the previous 2 online lessons and tasks. Last time you were supposed to read the text on page 34 and 35 about VR, do 3-8 tasks in your books (page 34/35) and answer the questions related to the text and video via Google forms. You will be provided with the key to these tasks together your 4th online lesson and receive feedback on your work submitted via Google forms.
This time, we'll be focusing on developing and expanding your vocabulary. We will also discuss the future of transport. But first things first. 1. Open your books on page 36. First answer the 3 tasks that relate to text you had to read last time. Then, move on to transport vocabulary (task 4-5). Read task 6. 2. After completing the tasks in your books, go to Google forms and answer a couple of questions about technology and transport. 1.b --- link for Google forms: forms.gle/w9T8LCtWGkBUJKp46 1.f ---- link for Google forms: forms.gle/RgHPw899aWjzUAqi9 PLEASE BE CAREFUL THAT YOU COMPLETE THE FORM INTENDED FOR YOUR GRADE. I hope this message finds you well. I'm here to support you however I can. Take care of yourself and your family first. However, in these dire times, certain distractions (even schoolwork) can be more than welcome. To start with (2 steps): 1. Go to your books. Read the text in Module 3 "A total reality experience" and do the tasks under the 3a heading (tasks 2-8) -- page 34-35. If you'd like to listen to the text while you read, download the audio below. 2. Based on the text you will have read, you'll have to complete the google form quiz. Link : https://forms.gle/Vo3P3zJ2aPNLuvSw9 Based on these google forms I will be assessing your class participation. They are not optional. They have to be submitted before the next lesson. ![]()
The link provided below (quizlet) will help you practice for your upcoming exam. Good luck!
quizlet.com/174230976/unit-2-flash-cards/ For your 1st book report exam, you have to read two stories/essays written by the New York Times Best Selling author David Sedaris. They both deal with cultural differences with a humorous twist. You can download the annotated stories with the required vocabulary and various reading comprehension and vocabulary tasks via the provided download link below. You can also listen to Sedaris read one of his stories. Practice your vocabulary with the assistence of this quizlet: quizlet.com/253641668/holiday-customs-sedaris-flash-cards/ ![]()
Give a presentation on one of the below-mentioned subcultures:
1. Punks 2. Skinheads 3. Goths 4. Mods 5. Hippies Focus on: 1. their origin - social/political/ economic circumstances which led to their emergence (answer the 3 W-questions: WHERE did they emerge? WHEN did they emerge? WHY did they emerge? ) 2. their core beliefs (ideology) and behaviours 3. music and appearance (clothing) Go through the workbook (44-49 + wordlist 133) and Student's Book: pay special attention to Vocab bank on p. 139 - Types of advertising and Consumerism + vocabulary revision and expansion on p. 78 - 79. Vocab to the handout "Torches of Freedom" is included in this quizlet, in addition to other vocabulary: quizlet.com/_3iqyha Good luck and don't forget to wear your sunglasses. :) QUIZLET VOCABULARY LIST - quizlet.com/_3az5m1 (TO EDIT LIST - PASSWORD: charity) FUTURE PERFECT (USUAL) TIME EXPRESSIONS: BY, BY THE TIME, BEFORE, BY THEN FUTURE CONTINUOUS
(USUAL) TIME EXPRESSIONS: THIS TIME TOMORROW, AT 6 PM, IN THE MORNING...(WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?) |
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