Online Classes on Wednesday 30th, 2020

 8th Grade - Working on the "I'd prefer conversation"

9th Grade - Working on the infographic Speaking Task!

11th Grade - Working on top 5 tips to be safe on the internet.

5th Grade - Book work continue on Past Simple.

6the Grade - Book work continue on Past Simple

Study Group - Listening practice on the Past Simple.

Saturday Class May 17th

ECOTOURISM

Vocabulary about tourism: Match the vocabulary using the correct letter on each word. One is extra.

Lodge __ Heritage__ Cuisine __ Ecotourism __ Amenities __ Peak ___ Valet ___ Franchise __ Package

a) Useful infrastructure or services that are intended to make life more pleasant for the people in the general area. In the tourism and hospitality world this would include swimming pools, tourist information centres and spas.

b) A type of tourism that aims to reduce the harmful impact that visitors can have on local communities and environments.

c) That season is the time of year when most people go on holiday – all of the tourist attractions are open, the weather is nice, and prices are generally steep.

d) A member of hotel staff that performs personal services for guests, this usually involves parking their vehicles.

e) A room or rooms rented out to someone, usually in the same residence as the owner.

f) Property that is or may be gotten as part of a legacy. 

g) A style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment.

h) A set of proposals or terms offered or agreed as a whole.

1. How mass tourism is destroying cities. A video that shows how mass tourism affect the places that they visit. The idea is to watch it with class and clarify the vocabulary as you go through the 4 sections of the video. Warning: Some security cam violence is shown. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyt1HdR4uLw

- What are the 4 problems with tourism?
- What Spanish city has 9 million visitors?
- Where can you find a long line to visit?
- What do tourists consume?
- What country is proctecting its coral reef?
- What percentage of global gas emissions tourism represent?
- What kind of bad behaviour can be seen in certain tourists?
- What are the problem with temples?
- What is the problem with AirBNB?
- What solutions are countries taking?

Saturday Classes - 28 de Marzo 2020

Saturday Classes - 28 de Marzo 2020

Assignment
Rise of the Cities Section: Class Discussion (1 hour and 15 minutes).
Today's topic is about the rise of the cities. We are going to learn how cities came to be from the origins of history. So, "watch Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years - Vance Kite" and check for understanding completing these ideas:

Main Ideas
1) In 3-4 sentences, discuss the importance of improvements in farming techniques to the development of cities:
2) Reliable food supplies allowed humans the luxury of free time, which provided the opportunity to produce items for trade. Describe how the production of goods contributed to the growth of cities.
3) Experts predict that global population will top out around 10 billion people, with 7 billion of those people living in cities. What are some of the opportunities and challenges that cities will face as the population increases.

Specific Details
- What percentage of the human population lived in cities 100 years ago?
- What led to the development of the first semi-permanent settlements? -}
- Which of the below technologies is a development that resulted from the desire to trade with neighboring communities?
- Why were people initially drawn to cities?
- Global population is expected to top out at _______ billion people.

Independent Reading Section: City Problems - Book Section (1 hour).
In a blank word document, upload the file answering the following questions.
Exercise 1: On page 50 - Do activities A, B, C and D
Exercise 2: Read pages 51 - 53. On pages 54 and 55, do activities A, B, C and D.
This will be checked at the of the classes to track progress.

Friday 6th/Saturday 9th Classes

Friday 6th - The Definition of Beauty

Class: 07- Working on the idea of beauty.
1) Game of the day: Last Man Standing
This is a game which gives students the time to think and encourage peer learning. As they hear other students speaking, they will pick up on some words.  Have all the students form a circle and stand at the center with a ball. All you have to do is name a category (food, places, hobbies, etc.) and pass the ball to one student. Let them toss it to another student as they name a word related to the theme. If they repeat a word or can’t say any more words, they need to sit down. The last man/student standing wins the game.

2) The Idea of Beauty: Show your concept of beauty by arraging this pictures in order of beauty. Then, in open class make SS show their choice and explain why.

Pre-Watching: Look at the vocabulary and match it to the proper definition. Two words are unnecessary.

symmetry - assess - pervasive - rank - abstract
shape - functionality - sprawling - aesthetic - monotone

1) Extending out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way.
2) Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.
3) The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
4) Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
5) Evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of.
6) The quality of being suited to serve a purpose well.
7) Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
8) Without intonation or expressiveness.

As you watch: answer the following questions.
1) What is proof that beauty is an antique human experience?
2) What ideas have never gone out of fashion?
3) Where do patterns of beauty have come from? How do we know?
4) How do we know that the sense of beauty is hard-wired in our minds?
5) Why is beauty important for us? How could it make our lives better?
6) What do many studies show about the relevance of beauty and health?
7) What about beauty and happiness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5kNPlUV7w

After-watching: Think about the following ideas and indicate if you agree or disagree. 

- Deep dive into grammar exercise: Page 275 and on. Passive causative practice. The rest of the lesson is dedicated to the book focusing on grammar practice.

Saturday 9th - Oral presentations on health dangers.
1) Game of the day: Last Man Standing
This is a game which gives students the time to think and encourage peer learning. As they hear other students speaking, they will pick up on some words.  Have all the students form a circle and stand at the center with a ball. All you have to do is name a category (food, places, hobbies, etc.) and pass the ball to one student. Let them toss it to another student as they name a word related to the theme. If they repeat a word or can’t say any more words, they need to sit down. The last man/student standing wins the game.

2) Health and technology

Saturday 29th, 2020.

Saturday Classes

1. Stop - Vocabulary War: In groups of three or two, SS create a list of vocabulary based on the topics given by the teacher. They have to write up to 10 words and say stop to indicate the end of the round. Words give 100 pts, repeated words are valued 50 pts.

2. Newsy Video: How to prepare for a Coronavirus outbreak.
Pre-Watching: Match the definitions with the proper words. Two words are not necessary.
Outbreak - Pandemic - Screening - Rosy - Speculative - Chronic - Triage - At-risk - Transparent - Vaccine

1) A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases.
2) Vulnerable to harm or affections.
3) Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
4) Easy to perceive or detect.
5) Promising or suggesting good fortune or happiness; hopeful.
6) The evaluation or investigation of something as part of a methodical survey, to assess suitability for a particular role or purpose.
7) A sudden occurrence of something unwelcome, such as war or disease.
8) Engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge.

While you are watching: Answer the following questions based on your view and the information given in the video.

1) Is the president Donal Trump doing what is right?
2) Why is it difficult to contain the Coronavirus spread?
3) What are the health authorities doing about it? Is it enough?
4)What is the best way to be safe?
5) Should we have a big supply of face masks?

After Watching: Discussion. Interpret this quotes from the video and indicate what is their main idea. Do you agree with the message? Why?

A. "It's not his (President Trump) role to paint a rosy picture. It's his role as the president, as the Commander-in-Chief, to tell the truth, to be open and transparent," Dr. Wen said.

B. "Once that happens, it's extremely hard to contain an outbreak. And this is the reason why the CDC has been saying now for a few days that it's time to move on to the next stage in outbreak response, which is we can no longer contain the outbreak and prevent it from coming here," Dr. Wen said.

C. "It's not too late to get your flu shot. It's not too late to get all your other vaccines. You should keep yourself and your family as healthy and well as possible," she said.

4) Missing Presentations on crimes solved through tecnology.
5) Reading Section: Tut's dead.
6) Writing Section: Writing an opinion paragraph.  

Saturday Courses

Saturday Courses

- Game: Spelling weird words!

7 new discoveries nobody is talking about:
Pre-watch: Match the following vocabulary with the proper definition. A word does not possess a definition here.
Slate - Fossils - Mammals - Period - Species - Coral - Electrolyte - Scan
1) ___________ : A hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton.
2) ___________ : A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
3) ___________ : A liquid or gel which contains ions.
4) ___________ : A rock easily split into smooth, flat plates.
5) ___________ : Cause (a surface, object, or part of the body) to be traversed by a detector or an electromagnetic beam.
6) ___________ : A warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur.
7) ___________ : The remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form.

While you are reading, answer these questions: 
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxB86VrD8g
1) What did the paleontologist find in a slate?
2) What was different in Mars billion years ago?
3) What differences are there between the regular orca and the type D orca?
4) What is coral transplantation?
5) How could CO2 be transformed?
6) What was the problem of type one diabetes?
7) Why MRI in 70 seconds is revolutionary?

Post-watching: Divide the group in teams, make them pick one of these discoveries and then give them time to make educated guesses on how this technology could be revolutionary and change people's live. 

- Presentations on Science and Discovery.

- Reading Section with exercises and writing practice. 

Thursday Class

Thursday Class

Warming up - Sea Animals
https://quizlet.com/es/317046815/sea-animals-flash-cards/

Engaging
In groups of 3, Ss talk about what they know about the oceans and what’s their current situation is.
· Ss discuss if they have been to the ocean and what issues they have evidenced.
· Ss make a list of the issues on the wall talkers.
· Ss share their findings with the class.

Exploring
- Ss watch the next video to complement the previous activity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CdhLMV7Es
- Ss see the reality and find out if any of their concerns on their lists have to do with the ones on the video.
- In the same groups Ss were before, they discuss what they know or think we are doing to address this situation.

Constructing
Ss decide which of these videos to watch and they can watch them either on their smartphones or as a
group if they don’t have access to the internet or smartphones.
A plastic ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zrn4-FfbXw
Mission Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wp2MQCsfQ
Run for the oceans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDTi91q8WIM
· T asks Ss to think about what is happening in the oceans right now and what will happen in the future.
· In pairs, Ss write down 5 questions in their notebooks about the video(s) thinking about what will happen based on the actions shown in them, e.g.
- According to Sylvia Earle, if we don’t take an action now, our planet will disappear. How long will this action take?
- Based on Mission Blue, what are we eating?

Practicing
How are our free time activities changing because of the world current situation?
· According to the activities shown in the videos, how are free time activities changing for social
impact?
· Ss socialize and describe how the different activities have changed, e.g. running is not just for
exercising, but for raising money to clean the oceans from plastic.
· Ss write their ideas on the wall talkers and then the class analyzes how similar or different they are.

Extending
· Ss work in groups of 2 or 3.
· Ss think about possible leisure activities which can be used to raise money as the ones on the video(s).
· Ss make a poster to show their ideas including how to do it, where it could take place, how doable it could be,
and what impact it will have in the future.

Wrapping-up
· Ss place the posters around the classroom and the class goes around seeing and thinking if the activities proposed can have the impact stated or maybe different ones.
· Homework: Ss start collecting clean plastic waste and taking notes about how much they dispose on a week.