THE CREATURE

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ACTIVITY: The creature – Group work: writing
TIME: 45 min
AIM: To describe the appearance and (in) abilities of an imaginary creature
LANGUAGE: Functions 1.1 expressing (in) ability in the present and
1.2 Describing people and animals Grammar: Modal can, Present simple tense
PROCEDURE
Before class: Make one copy of the worksheet for every 10 students.
In class:
1. Write the following words on the board: color, number, size, shape, height, hair style, build, positive adjective, negative adjective, length, part of the body.
2. Ask students at random to go to the board and write an example of each category. For example: blue, nine, small, rectangle, tall, curly, fat, good, ugly, short, arm. Elicit other examples orally from the rest of the students to recycle vocabulary related to descriptions.
3. Write the name FRANKENSTEIN on the board. Do some brainstorming around it. Encourage them to say at least one word from each category that they relate to this character. For example: green, monster, bad, big, square head, etc.
P E4. Arrange students into rows of up to ten. Explain that they are going to invent their own creature in rows, in which each student is going to describe the way they imagine its different features by completing a description. If necessary, write a similar beginning paragraph on the board and have a couple of students fill in the blanks.
R on L5. Give the first student of each row a copy of the worksheet. Ask them to silently read the first paragraph only and complete it by writing the words required. Tell them they should not show it or discuss it with the others.
6. When they finish, ask them to fold it to the back of the page and pass it to the person behind them. The next student should follow the same procedure to complete the second paragraph without reading the first one, fold it and pass it to the student behind him or her.
7. Students continue until the description is over. Make sure you’re available during the process for any language questions they may have.
8. Collect the descriptions and stick them around the classroom. Ask students to go around and read them in order to choose the funniest creature. Encourage them to correct any mistakes they might find.
PERFORMANCE EVIDENCE: Students can use language creatively and appropriately by selecting lexis, phrases and grammatical resources in order to produce short, relevant texts (article) regarding peoples’ and/or animals’ (in) abilities and physical characteristics.
REFLECTION ON LANGUAGE: Students notice that adjectives have a fixed order: size + color (e.g. She has big brown eyes) and that some words are used to replace a proper noun (e.g. Maria is a nurse à She is kind à Everybody likes her à Her cousin is a doctor), and use such language features appropriately.
POSSIBLE FOLLOW UP: You can have students draw the monster they liked best and encourage them to write more about it. You can recycle structures and vocabulary learnt in first grade by giving them a questionnaire about its routines, habits and preferences. For example:
How old is it?, Where does it live?, Does it have a family/a pet/a hobby?, What’s its favorite sport/dish?,
What time does it wake up?, What does it like doing at the weekend?, etc.
IDEAS FOR EVALUATION: You can use either the original description or the follow up composition to evaluate students’ written performance, focusing mainly on some features such as the use of personal pronouns and possessive adjectives, the correct order of adjectives and the correspondence between subject and verb. If you use the original description, have your students work together with the rest of their row and make any necessary corrections as well as to elaborate in order to produce a final extended version. For example:
This creature is short, plump and green with purple spots. It has four long arms on each side of its body, with three small fingers each. Its legs are long, thin and yellow with a fat, big, red toe, etc.

ESTRATEGIAS DIDÁCTICAS

UNCOUTABLE NOUNS
By – Miss Jackie Cardenas Mendoza.
Secundary Subject -Language English II
Grade Level –second grade age: 12 -13
Time: 30 minute period

INSTRUCTIONAL GOAL: To enable students to identify uncountable nouns

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES:

WARM UP MOTIVATION:

Teacher ask these questions to the students
What is your name?
What is the name of your city?
What is a table, a pencil, a clock, and a shoe?
What is sugar?
What do all of these words have in common?
They are all called nouns.
Is "window" a noun? How many windows are in your classroom?
Can you count them?
Can you count all nouns?
Is sugar a noun?
Can you count sugar?

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TOPIC:
The "things" that we cannot easily count are called "Uncountable Nouns". Today we will explore "Uncountable Nouns."

METHODOLOGY:
Have your students help you write the definition of nouns and uncountable nouns on the board. Then write a list of uncountable nouns on the board as you show examples of them. For example:
Show a glass of water and ask the students: What is it? A glass. The word "glass" is what part of speech? A noun. Can you count glasses? Yes. What is in the glass? Water. Can we count the water? No. Therefore, "water" is an uncountable noun.
What is in the plate? Soup. Can you count soup? No.
Continue the lesson with other examples you have brought in or find in the classroom environment.
ASSESSMENT: At the end of the lesson, assess whether the objective was achieved or not with a flash card activity. Show pictures of countable and uncountable nouns. Ask students individually to tell if the picture shown is of a countable or uncountable noun. In this way, the concept will be clear.
HOMEWORK: The students will be asked to write five countable and uncountable nouns in their notebooks.

MATERIALS AND AIDS: flip chart, flash cards, sugar, tea, salt, rice and examples of uncountable nouns found in a classroom environment.

ADIOS MAMÁ ANGELITA... ADIOS PREPARATORIA SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ

Fue un honor para mi, al encomendarme la tarea de decir unas palabras como familiar de la profesora María de los Ángeles Martínez y Martínez,
Quien vivió exactamente un siglo, desde la época revolucionaria hasta la época actual, viviendo muchos cambios hasta "el mundo cibernético"
Me llena de orgullo y satisfacción el ser su nieta, ella el tronco principal de mi familia que integró a través de sacrificio y trabajo incansable, formadora de grandes personas y profesionistas y dejando un gran árbol genealógico.
Fue directora de muchos planteles educativos iniciando desde 1951 con la secundaria "Miguel Hidalgo" situada en Actopan, Hidalgo.
Desde los años 60´s dio versatilidad y apoyo al deporte; softball y fútbol principalmente, actividades Sociales, talleres de carpintería, imprenta, corte y confección, Laboratorio de química y biología así como actividades musicales.
Directora innata de juventudes, poseedora de múltiples y fascinantes facetas siempre tenía en mente beneficiar a los que en verdad sentían deseos de superación y logró con esa FE inquebrantable que muchas generaciones concluyeran con éxito sus estudios superiores.
Dirigió la secundaria " Lic. Benito Juárez", en donde fue fundada la preparatoria Naucalpan, y que actualmente la conocemos como “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”, desde conseguir un terreno para su construcción hasta adecuar todos los objetivos que tenia proyectados. Su valor moral y de sabiduría es el legado más valioso e importante que están presentes en mí y en muchas personas que seguimos su camino, Era enemiga del engaño y de la decepción, fue una mujer luchadora, incansable, audaz y honesta. Ahora lo único que nos queda es continuar con las enseñanzas que nos dejaste. El sueño ha terminado!... Descansa en paz... Profesora María de los Ángeles Martínez y Martínez.
Para mí…………………………..MAMÁ ANGELITA!!!!!!!!!!


Gracias a mis hermanos Guillermo, Angélica y mi adorada sobrina Victoria por su colaboración al poner el corazón en estas palabras.

Gracias Preparatoria Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por 20 años por que viste el inicio de mi carrera como maestra de Inglés siempre apoyandome, incentivándome y regalándome experiencias, anécdotas, tristezas, alegrías dándo como resultado fructífero trabajo y countribuir al desarrollo de la comunidad.

HALLOWEEN 2008

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31st . Halloween activities include trick or treat, ghost tours, bomires, costume parties, visitinghaunting attractions, carving jack o´lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and at times in parts of Australia and New Zealand.
History
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year." Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween. The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening," but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day," which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar.
Symbols
The carved pumpkin lit by a candle inside is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols in America and is commonly called a jack-o'-lantern. Originating in Europe. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body, containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the "head" of the vegetable to frighten off any superstitions.The name jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a greedy, gambling, hard-drinking old farmer. He tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk. In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with the only light he had: a candle inside of a hollowed turnip. Halloween imagery tends to involve death, evil, magic, or mythical monsters. Traditional characters include the Devil, the Grim Reaper, ghosts, ghouls, witches, pumpkin-men, bats, owls, crows, vultures, black cats, spiders, goblins, vampires, werewolves, zombies, mummies, skeletons, and demons.

MAESTRIA EN EDUCACION en el área de Docencia e Investigación

La escuela Normal Superior de Cd. Madero, Tamaulipas A.C .
nos ha abierto las puertas de su casa educativa, ofreciéndonos Maestria en Educación en el área de Docencia e Investigación, trayéndonos una de sus tantas sedes a Naucalpan con un equipo maravilloso de maestros muy bien preparados y con una gran vocación de enseñarnos y compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias, para que nosotros, maestros frente a grupo con ganas de crecer personal y profesionalmente nos sigamos preparando, ya que la vida actual y la Alianza por la Calidad de la Educación lo exige. Somos la Segunda Generación que llena de alegria y energia iniciamos el tercer cuatrimestre con muchas ganas y deseos de aprender mucho y tenemos la seguridad de que nosotros y nuestros alumnos nos veremos beneficiados con los aprendizajes y experiencias obtenidas.

COUNTRIES & NATIONALITIES

En la Escuela secundaria Estado de México # 68 los alumnos de 1er grado en la clase de Ingles, vivieron la experiencia de ir con su imaginación a diferentes partes del mundo caracterizándose así con los diversos trajes típicos y los países de su elección mostrando la bandera, nacionalidades, ciudades de procedencia y lenguaje y así poder conocer y respetar costumbres y tradiciones de cada país. "Hello, my name is Fritz, I am from Berlin, Germany, so I am German, I speak English and German, Where are you from?...