Final Exam Practice Quizzes & Reflections

Good morning students!

Firstly, for practice go to this quiz on the active or passive voice. Under each question, you can click "Answer" to see the correct answer. After you have enough practice, you can do this quiz here and get your score!

Here is a quiz to review the grammar from Unit 7. At the end of the quiz, you'll be able to see your score.

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Finally, I'd like you to think and write about your favourite thing that we've done this year. Next week you'll do a longer multiple choice form to talk in detail about the things that you did (or didn't) like about our class, but today I'd just like you to say what your favourite thing was from this year.

You can look back at the blog to get some ideas, or talk with your friends about the things you enjoyed. Maybe you enjoyed:

Frankenstein?

The Practical English drama?

The Hour of Code?

Or maybe just learning English with your friends?

After you've got something in mind, please go to the Padlet website to write up your idea. You might need to sign up with your class Gmail account. Remember to add an image or YouTube video to illustrate your writing!

Useless and Stupid Inventions

Here are some infuriating useless inventions. Below are some inventions which aren't exactly useless, but are impractical, uncomfortable, or just plain stupid!

Now, I'd like you to design your own useless or stupid invention! On A4 paper, I'd like you to draw a colour picture of your invention, and label/describe it in English:

• What is your invention called?
• What parts does it have?
• What is made of?
• What "problem" is it "solving"? 

Reader Presentations

Hello students!

On Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th of February, you are going to give presentations about your second semester readers.

About the presentations:

-You will have time to log-in on the computer and load your presentation.
-The presentations will be recorded for checking later, and possibly for uploading to the Dara NP website (I'll ask you first to make sure that's ok)
-You will be able to use Philip's presentation clicker. You can use this to go forwards and backwards in your presentation, as well as using the laser pointer.

-You will be presenting for between 3 and 5 minutes. If you show a video, the timer will stop and then start again when you begin speaking.
-The timer will be on an iPad that only you and the teacher can see.

Grading:

You'll be given a score out of five for the following categories:

1) Speed/Fluency: Do you speak too fast, too slowly, or at a good, steady pace? Do you take a long time to think about what you are going to say next?

2) Accuracy/Grammar: Do you make mistakes in your grammar, or do you speak English accurately?

3) Content/Knowledge: Do you include all relevant/useful information? Do you include too little or too much information?

4) Style/Prounciation: Do you speak too loudly or quietly? Do you sound bored, or enthusiastic? Is your voice clear and easy to understand?

5) Creativity/Originality: Do you have your own ideas? Is your presentation different? Do you talk about different things from everybody else?

Phobias

Hello again students! This week we are studying phobias and fears. Here is a short video to introduce the topic:

The Question of the Week this week is: "What is your biggest fear? Why do you think you're afraid of it?"

Here is a game for you to practice using "For" or "Since", and here is a quiz for you to find out what phobia you might have.

Google Slides and Reader Research

Good morning students! Today we're going to make a presentation using Google Slides. If you get stuck or confused, you can here is an example presentation.

1) Sign in to your Gmail account.

2) Go to Google Slides. Under "Start a new presentation", click "Blank"

3) Slide 1

• Change the title to [Your nickname]'s Presentation. Change the font to 48 size Comic Sans MS.
• Delete the subtitle.
• Insert a GIF (animated picture) of a funny cat.

4) Slide 2

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Insert Word art, and write "My favourite English word is ______" (write in your answer)
• Change the font to Georgia (you might need to look in "More fonts")
• Make your sentence green.
• Insert a picture to illustrate your word.

5) Slide 3

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Insert a YouTube video of the "Pen Pineapple" song.

6) Slide 4

• Change the title to "The Best Food". Change the font to Pacifico (you might need to look in "More fonts"). Make the title red.
• Delete the subtitle.
• Insert a picture of your favourite food. 
• Animate the picture. Change it to "Zoom in (On click)".

7) Slide 5

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Click "Transition" and change it to "Cube"
• Go to "Insert" > "Shape", and insert a smiley face.
• Change the colour of the face to bright yellow.

8) Slide 6

• Delete the subtitle.
• Move the title to the bottom of the slide, and change it to say "THE END". Change the font to Times New Roman and make it Italic.
• Insert a picture of something that makes you laugh!
• Go to "Background". Change the colour to light blue, click "Add to theme" and then "Done"

9) Sharing

• Click the blue "Share" button on the top right
• Click "Get shareable link", then under "People", send the link to m4seek@gmail.com 
• Congratulations, you're finished!

After you've finished making your Google Slides presentation, I'd like you to spend the rest of the lesson researching information about your reader.

You can start making your presentation today, or if you like you can just take notes in your notebook.

In your presentation. you can talk about these things:

• Title: What is your book called? What does it mean?
• Author: Who wrote the book? When did they write it?
• Characters: Who are the most important characters in the book? What are their personalities? What do they look like? How are they related to other characters in the book?
• Plot: What are the important events in the story? How does the book end?
• Opinion: What did you like about the book? What did you dislike? Would you recommend this book to someone else?

Remember, you will use Google Slides in the background for your presentation. You can show pictures, videos, animations, and more to make your presentation more interesting! Think about how you can use visual aids to help your presentation.

Happiness

This week, we're going to look at the topic of happiness. What exactly is happiness anyway, and how can we 'be happy'?

First, I'd like you to take this online questionnaire about happiness. There are 29 questions, so take your time when answering. When you have finished, click "Submit" and look at your score.

Once you have your score, I'd like you to read the information at the bottom of the quiz and think about why you got this score. Is there perhaps something you could do differently in your life? Or, if you are already happy, how would you help somebody else to feel better about themselves? 

Infinitive Games

First, please play the Word 2 Word game at this address. It's the second game on the page. After you have finished, please write down your success rate and your time:

Next, we will play this game in teams.