LEARNING WITH SONGS

Reported Speech with Jonas Brothers

`Sucker´

Listen to this song and pause the video to report what the 

Jonas Brothers say ... to their wives? Or try reporting the underlined 
sentences from the lyrics below.

"Sucker"

We go together
Better than birds of a feather, you and me
We change the weather, yeah
I'm feeling heat in December when you're 'round me

I've been dancing on top of cars
And stumbling out of bars
I follow you through the dark
Can't get enough
You're the medicine and the pain
The tattoo inside my brain
And baby, you know it's obvious

I'm a sucker for you
Say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly
I'm a sucker for you, yeah
Any road you take you know that you'll find me

I'm a sucker for all the subliminal things
No one knows about you (About you)
About you (About you)
And you're making the typical me
Break my typical rules
It's true, I'm a sucker for you

Yeah
Don't complicate it, yeah
'Cause I know you and you know everything about me
I can't remember
All of the nights I don't remember when you're 'round me

I've been dancing on top of cars
And stumbling out of bars
I follow you through the dark
Can't get enough
You're the medicine and the pain
The tattoo inside my brain
And baby, you know it's obvious

I'm a sucker for you
Say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly
I'm a sucker for you, ooh yeah
Any road you take you know that you'll find me

I'm a sucker for all the subliminal things
No one knows about you (About you)
About you (About you)
And you're making the typical me
Break my typical rules
It's true, I'm a sucker for you

Yeah
(I'm a sucker for you)

I've been dancing on top of cars
And stumbling out of bars
I follow you through the dark
Can't get enough
You're the medicine and the pain
The tattoo inside my brain
And baby, you know it's obvious

I'm a sucker for you
Say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly
I'm a sucker for you, ooh yeah
Any road you take you know that you'll find me

I'm a sucker for all the subliminal things
No one knows about you (About you)
About you (About you)
And you're making the typical me
Break my typical rules
It's true, I'm a sucker for you
I'm a sucker for you

BLEND WORDS

  English is a dynamic language that is constantly evolving. Many of the words in the English language are derived from ancient Latin and Greek or from other European languages such as German or French. But starting in the 20th century, blended words began to emerge to describe new technologies or cultural phenomena. For instance, as dining out became more popular, many restaurants began serving a new weekend meal in the late morning. It was too late for breakfast and too early for lunch, so someone decided to make a new word that described a meal that was a little bit of both. Thus, "brunch" was born.

As new inventions changed the way people lived and worked, the practice of combining parts of words to make new ones became popular. In the 1920s, as traveling by car became more common, a new kind of hotel that catered to drivers emerged. These "motor hotels" quickly proliferated and became known as "motels." In 1994, when a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel opened, connecting France and Great Britain, it quickly became known as the "Chunnel," a word blend of "Channel" and "tunnel."

1º Bto A Worksheet Answer Keys

These are the Answer Keys to the exercises we couldn´t correct in class.

Worksheet Page 40:
1.
1. get                             4. would recognise
2. agree                         5. don´t have
3. wouldn´t do              6. feel

2
1. would make            4. didn´t stay up
2. ends                        5. enter
3. invites  

3
1. had got                                       4. had been
2. might not have become             5. wouldn´t have passed
3. hadn´t reminded    


Worksheet Check Your Progress ( Page 37)
1
1. heard / have heard                     6. had considered / was considering
2. will be working                         7. ought to / should discuss
3. will give                                    8. can cause
4. were                                          9. was studying
5. who / that                                 10. broke up

2
1. They should have called, but they didn´t.
2. That new restaurant wouldn´t have closed if people hadn´t complained about the food.
3. Sebastian won´t propose to Alicia until he buys the engagement ring.
4. My girlfriend and I met in London, where I have been studying for five years.
5. You don´t have/ need to tell me all the details.
6. Dylan and I have been playing tennis together for two months.

3 Corrected in class.

4 Sentences 1-4 corrected in class.

4. They have been skiing for ten years.
    X They have been learning to ski for ten years. (They are supposed to be able to ski
        after ten years!!)
5. I no longer live in Miami, where I was born.

5. Possible answers
1. School is finally over! This time next week, I´ll be hanging out with friends.
2. We´ve been waiting over an hour for you. You should have texted us.
3. I dislike people who are jealous.

For more practice, see the previous entry on this Blog.

GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!  😜😜

Conditionals Oral Practice

Dealing with grammar:

• Grammar (in Spanish) with lots of exercises to download.
• Notes on grammar. Very visual.Guided exercises with keys.
• Online exercises with grammar

1st Conditionals Oral Practice: Moral Dilemmas

With a partner, discuss what the options are and what to do in these situations below using a 1st Conditional sentence.

1   If you find a wallet in the street ...

2   If you are given too much change in a shop, a restaurant or a supermarket ...

3   If the only parking space available is a disabled  parking space and you are in a hurry ...

4   If you have an exam, you haven´t studied and the teacher is not looking ...

5    If your company has got a lot of extra printer paper and you need some at home ...

MORE ORAL PRACTICE

Back to the Past

PROJECTS 4º ESO:  BACK TO THE PAST:

The Music in the year 1968-1969 (USA, UK, Spain)

Group work: ( 4 students)
Content:
-  Top five or ten songs in the American/ English/ Spanish charts.
-  The Eurovision Contest.
-  The “hippie” movement in the world of music: influence on people.
-  Different music styles at the moment: rock, soul, blues, folk, psychodelia.

Description:

1. Search for information at home. Look for information, photos, videos.
2. Bring it to the class.
3. Organise each other´s part.
4. Use a big cardboard to set all the information and photos.
5. Present the project to the class.
6. Remember you can bring objects, clothes, musical instruments, photos, etc, all connected with the project.


Digital Support:

https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1968

https://fiftiesweb.com/    Para todos los trabajos
         https://fiftiesweb.com/music/1968-music/
         https://fiftiesweb.com/music/beatles/The Beatles
https://fiftiesweb.com/music/1960s-music/
https://fiftiesweb.com/music/aretha-franklin/  Aretha Franklin
http://www.rtve.es/television/20141106/diez-hits-arrasaban-cuentame-aun-hacen-bailar/1043340.shtml   Canciones Cuéntame

FridaysForFuture

What is Fridays For Future?

#FridaysforFuture is a peoples movement following the call from @GretaThunberg to school strike.

Why are kids striking?

School children are required to attend school. But with the worsening Climate Destruction, this goal of going to school begins to be pointless. 
- Why study for a future, which may not be there?
- Why spend a lot of effort to become educated, when our governments are not listened by the educated?

 How / When / Where to strike?

Greta requests that people strike in front of their closest town hall, every Friday. With a sign, take a picture and post it with the hashtags: 
#Fridaysforfuture 
#Climatestrike

Who is Greta Thunberg?

Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist.

In August 2018, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world and now involves over 100,000 schoolchildren. The movement is now called Fridays For Future. 

Thunberg has spoken at climate rallies in Stockholm, Helsinki, Brussels and London. In December she attended the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland, where she addressed the Secretary-General and made a plenary speech that went viral and was shared many million times around the globe. In January 2019 she was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos where her speeches again made a worldwide impact.

Thunberg tries to live a low-carbon life. Therefore she is vegan, and she doesn't fly. She has been named as one of the worlds most influential teens by TIME magazine.

Read here about Greta´s story in Spanish

Watch her speech at the UN Conference

MODAL PERFECTS ORAL PRACTICE

CERTAINTY  IN THE PAST:

MUST HAVE+ PAST PARTICIPLE
CAN’T HAVE + PP
COULDN’T HAVE + PP

POSSIBILITY IN THE PAST:

MAY HAVE + PP
MIGHT HAVE + PP
COULD HAVE + PP

Let´s practise these modal perfects. Look at the photos and answer the questions . Write as many sentences as you can using Modals of possibility and  deduction. Then you can do more conventional exercises by clicking below

Execrcises on Modal Perfects