4th Assignment 2013/14

Hi Guys, check out your next assignments.

REMEMBER
When you're done, please, send me your work. If it's a link to your work online use the GoogleForm, if it's a file you created use DropitToMe.

Due on the 10th of February

1º Access our VoiceThread.
     - 7th Grade - Do pages 13, 14, 15 and 16
     - 8th Grade - Do pages 14, 15 and 16

2º  To celebrate Saint Valentine choose 2 of the tasks below.  Get in touch with your inner Cupid and spread some love :)

• Create a Valentine's card on animoto.
• Recreate a scene in goanimate between 2 famous couples - it could be historical couples like Romeo and Juliet or present day couples that you like.
• Do a research project about famous historical couples and present it either through glogster or capzles.
• Go into the origins of St. Valentine's Day and create a presentation on it using PowerPoint or Movie Maker.
• Write a poem/song or choose a poem/song and then perform it (audio or Video)
• Create a wordsearch or a crossword with Saint Valentine related vocabulary - you can use Wordsearchmaker , Wordsearch or Justcrosswords.

Check out the content of this Live Binder to access web pages that might be useful.

 

3rd Assignment 2013/14

Ok guys, here are your next challenges. :)

REMEMBER
When you're done, please, send me your work. If it's a link to your work online use the GoogleForm, if it's a file you created use DropitToMe.

Due on the 10th of December

1- Access our voicethread and do the tasks on page 11 and 12.

2- Christmas is just around the corner so let's spread some fun loving Christmas magic, shall we?
     Choose ONE of the following:
         a) Create a poster celebrating Christmas - you can use Glogster.
         b) Create a video holiday card - you can use Animoto or Goanimate.
         c) Create a wordsearch or a crossword with Christmas related vocabulary - you can use Wordsearchmaker , Wordsearch or Justcrosswords.
         d) Create a picture dictionary - you can draw it yourself or create it online using this Picture Dictionary
         e) Create a mindmap to share cool Christmas tree/house decorations, the presents you'd like to get, and some Christmas songs/movies - you can use Popplet.
         f) Create a short comic strip about Christmas - you can use Pixton.

2nd Assignment 2013/14

Halloween is just around the corner so here's what I need you to do.

7th and 8th Grade due on the 31st of October

7th Grade
Choose ONE of the following tasks. When you're done, please, send me your work. If it's a link to your work online use the GoogleForm, if it's a document you created use DropitToMe.

- Draw your own horror story. You can either draw it yourself or you can use one of these tools: Goanimate; Bitstrips; Toondoo
- Create a mindmap using Popplet and share what you think are the 10 scariest halloween/horror: movies, costumes, books or music videos.
- Create a halloween poster using Glogster.

8th Grade
Choose ONE of the following tasks. When you're done, please, send me your work. If it's a link to your work online use the GoogleForm, if it's a document you created use DropitToMe.

-Write your own horror story.
- Create a quiz on halloween. You can use Blubbr or QuizRevolution.
- Create a presentation on the origins of halloween. You can use Prezi or powerpoint.
- Choose a scene from an horror movie/book and make your own video reenactment of it.

3rd Assignment

8th Grade - Due on the 12th of December

Lets bring some Christmas joy into our classes, shall we? Choose TWO of the tasks below.

1- In pairs use glogster, animoto, scrapblog, flixtime or goanimate and create a presentation on one of the following:

5 Christmas movies

5 Christmas songs to cheer you up

5 Christmas recipes (traditional)

5 decoration ideas to jazz up your homes

2- Share with us how you celebrate Christmas. Write a short text on it and add pictures that show your Christmas tree or any other Christmas decorations around your place. Email me the text when you are done.

3- Create a video or a PowerPoint presentation on the use of any of the grammar items we have learnt in class this term. Don´t forget to add examples. 

9th Grade - Due on the 15th of December.

Choose ONE of the tasks below.

1- Share with us how you celebrate Christmas. Write a short text on it and add pictures that show your Christmas tree or any other Christmas decorations around your place. Email me the text when you are done.

2- Create a presentation on Prezi or PowerPoint and let the world know how we celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve in Madeira.

Again choose only ONE of the tasks below.    

1- Choose a song, grab the lyrics from Lyrics.Wikia or Lyrics.com, draw or use images that portrait what happens in each line of the song. When you're done take a picture or scan your drawings and upload them to Movie Maker in order to create a music video for the song you chose.

I have placed a video below to show you what the end result might look like.
2- Review the verb tenses - present simple; present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous - we have learnt in class this term and create a video that explains how and when a particular tense is used. Then use song lyrics to present examples of its use. You can download the audio of YouTube music videos using Flvto and then cut the excerpt of the music that interests you using mp3cut.net or cutmp3.net.
Below is an example of how your work might look like.
As soon as you finish your video you have two choices: either send me the file so I can put it online or you take care of that yourselves. Whichever you choose is fine by me.

2nd Assignment

8th Grade - Due on the 31st October

Hi guys, this assignment has two different tasks:

- Visit Halloween from Around the World and choose a country. Gather information about how that country celebrates Halloween. Then use GoAnimate and create an animation where you present the information you gathered in a fun way.

 It's time to practice your reading/speaking skills.
- Access audiopal,  vocaroo, or chirbit and record yourself reading the text on page 27 of your English book.

As always you'll need to share your work on the class blog afterwards.

9th Grade - Due on the 5th November 

Three different tasks guys.
First is optional the second and the third are mandatory.

1st
- Watch the video below and create a Halloween timeline using Capzles OR based on the information you gather from the video or any other reliable source (yes, you'll need to let us know what other sources you used) create a Halloween quiz using QuizRevolution 


2nd
 It's time to practice your reading/speaking skills.
- Access audiopal, vocaroo or chirbit and record yourself reading the text on page 27 of your English book.
- Access englishcentral and do this exercise. Use screencast-o-matic or screenr to video record yourself doing the exercise

3rd
Write a film review. Refer to the topics that appear on the page 27 of your book. Then access Glogster and create a poster for the movie you have chosen. Add images, text, video and audio to your poster. 

8th Assignment - Addictions

9th Grade - Due on the 4th of March

Hi guys, access the voicethread below and listen to what you're supposed to do. You can view it fullscreen HERE.


You may use the following tools:
Animoto
GoAnimate
Xtranormal
Photopeach
Powerpoint
MovieMaker
Glogster
Authorstream

You'll find some useful information HERE.
Use Sqworl to bookmark any other website you think is relevant for the task at hand. Use Compfight to get copyright photos.

7th Assignment - St Valentine

8th GRADE - Due on the 13th of February

Hi guys, hope you enjoyed your reading assignment. Am really looking forward to your presentations in class. :)

Now, as far as St.Valentine goes, we have joined the wiki Celebr8Uand MeDigitally, so lets create magic shall we? ;)

Please, choose 2 of the tasks below and then put it on your blog.

• Create a Valentine's card on animoto or goanimate
• Recreate a scene in Xtranormal between 2 famous couples - could be historical couples like Romeo and Juliet or present day couples from a romantic movie that you like.
• Do a research project about famous historical couples and present it either through glogster or capzles.
• Go into the origins of St. Valentine's Day and create a short movie on it using Movie Maker or just scrapblog
• Record a Valentine's message using Vocaroo
• Write a poem or choose a poem and then perform it (audio or Video)
• Research and send us the stories of a couple from our own culture using one of the web 2.0 tools of your choice.
• Prepare a crossword puzzle using justcrosswords
• Create a mini-dictionary using wordwizard.

Check out the content of this Live Binder to access web pages that might be useful for you research.

If you have any questions or doubts, e-mail me or use the Audio Dropbox and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

6th Assignment

8th and 9th GRADE - Due on the 30th of January

Here's your 1st assignment of 2010. Hope you enjoy it! :)

This tasks is all about books, audiobooks to be precise. So, I want you to visit StoryBee, LoudLit and Storylineonline and choose ONE audiobook. Listen and/or read the story and then choose one or two of the tools below to: briefly present the author; explain what you (dis)liked about the story and then retell the story or create a new version of it.

Tools you may use:
GoAnimate
Xtranormal
Toondoo
Glogster
Capzles
Tar Heel Reader

As usual, should you have any questions or doubts feel free to contact me. ;-) Happy readings!

2nd Assignment - Halloween

9th GRADE - Due on the 30th of October 

Great work on your Wordles guys. Sorry Gizmoz let some of you down.

Now, for this next assignment you will be working in pairs. Here's what I want you to do:

- Gather information on the history of Halloween - the following links will help you : History of Halloween ; Ancient Origins; What is Halloween; Boo-ography Quizzes and Boo-ography Videos.

- Based on the information you collect, use either GoAnimate or Glogster to create a presentation about Halloween or use MyStudiyo and create your own quiz about halloween.

8th GRADE - Due on the 30th of October

Congratulations! You passed this 1st test with flying colours. You have made me proud. :)
You will be working in pairs for your next assignment. Here's what I want you to do:
- Visit Halloween from Around the World and choose a country. Gather information about how that country celebrates Halloween. Then use GoAnimate and create an animation where you present the information you gathered in a fun way.

Below you have a quick screencast on how to use GoAnimate.

Free online screen recorder

11th Assignment!

Ready for Easter holidays? I know you are! Well, just so you don't forget ZarcoEnglish here's your new assignment. ;)

This is due on the 14 of April. You have enough time to create something that will dazzle me, so make me proud! :)

Go to Goanimate and create a short (minimum 5 minutes long) animated movie. You can choose ONE of the following topics:

- your version of a fairy tale.

- Your version of a book you read or a movie you watched.

- your own story, something you imagined yourself.

Prontos para as férias da Páscoa? Tenho a certeza que sim! Bom, só para que não se esqueçam do ZarcoEnglish cá está a vossa nova tarefa. ;)

É para ser publicada até o dia 14 de Abril. Têm tempo suficiente para criar algo que me impressione, por isso deixem-me orgulhosa! :)

Acedam ao Goanimate e criem um pequeno (no mínimo 5 minutos) filme animado. Podem escolher UM dos seguintes tópicos:
- a vossa versão de um conto de fadas.
- a vossa versão de um livro que leram ou de um fime que viram.
- a vossa própria história, algo que vocês imaginaram.