EXAM

 

This is what I am going to ask you in the exam:

3rd A

- Vocabulary: 2 questions [2 points]

- Will [2 points]

- Be going to [2 points]

- Will vs. Be going to [2 points]

- First conditional [2 points]

3rd B

- Vocabulary: 2 questions [2 points each question = 4 points]

- Will [3 points]

- Be going to [3 points]

LISTENING ACTIVITY: THE SIMPSONS

Since this unit deals with the future, let's watch an episode of The Simpson about that topic. In this episode, Holidays of Future Passed, we can see how the life of the Simpsons will be in the future.

Let's find out what happens to our favourite TV family in the future!

Now, to check if you understood the episode, complete the following activities:

FIRST CONDITIONAL

It's time to learn the last grammar lesson of this unit: the first conditional. Click here to see its structure. 

And now, let's practise what we have learnt with the following exercises:

 
If you need extra practice, here you have some useful links with more exercises:

- Ego 4 u

- English Grammar Secrets

- Englisch-Hilfen1

- Englisch-Hilfen2

WILL vs. BE GOING TO

Now that you have learnt how to form and use the will future and the be going to future, it's time to learn when to use each of them.

Look at this chart to learn when to use the will future and when to use the be going to future.

And now, practise what you have learnt with the following exercises:

 
If you need extra practice, here you have some useful links with more exercises:

- English Grammar Secrets

- Englisch-Hilfen

BE GOING TO

Now it's time to learn how to use the "be going to" future.

Click here to see a presentation about its form and its uses.

Here you have several exercises to practise:

If you need extra practice, here you have some useful links with more exercises:

- Isabel Perez's website

- Ego 4 u

- English Grammar Secrets

- Englisch-Hilfen

WILL: Listening Activity

If you want to practice the will future in a different way (not only with grammar exercises), here you have the song Without You, by David Guetta feat. Usher.

It is an easy activity: you have to fill in the gaps in the lyrics with the will future. Then, listen to the song and enjoy!

If you want to listen to the song while reading the lyrics, click here.

WILL FUTURE

In this third session we are going to learn about one of the future tenses in English: the will future.

If you want to see the presentation that I showed you in class, click here. There you can see how to form the will future, its uses, and where to place expressions of time when using the will future.


And now, activities to practice!

If you need extra practice, here you have some useful links with more exercises:

- Isabel Perez's website

- Ego 4 u

- English Grammar Secrets

- Englisch-Hilfen

VOCABULARY ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

This second session is going to be focused on the vocabulary of the unit, which is related to technology. The vocabulary of this unit is divided into two sections: items and adjectives.


To see all the vocabulary of this unit, click here.


And here you have a couple of activities to practice this vocabulary:

INTRODUCTION

In this first session I am going to introduce you to the main topic of this unit: the future.

So I thought a good way to do this could be reading a comic about two famous British novels: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

Both novels deal with dystopian futures, that is to say, futures in which society is supposed to be perfect but it is not. On the contrary, society is strongly opressed by the government.

Click here to read the comic.

If you are interested in knowing more about these books, you can see the presentation that we saw in class here.

In addition, here you have some useful links about both novels:

    Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
     - Read the book online
     - Wikipedia's article on Nineteen Eighty-Four
     - Video: plot of the book in 60 seconds
     - Information about the film

    Huxley's Brave New World:

     - Read the book online

     - Wikipedia's article on Brave New World

     - Video: plot of the book in 60 seconds

So after learning so much about these futuristic novels, I encourage you to think about this:

    .    Do you think these authors were right when they predicted the future? Why?
    .    Which future (Orwell’s or Huxley’s) do you think is more likely to happen? Why?

I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit of literature in this session and getting to know the two best dystopian novels ever written together with Fahrenheit 451: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.


* EXTRA: Did you know that the film The Hunger Games is based on the dystopian novel of the same name?

WELCOME!!!

Welcome everybody!

I have created this blog for you, my 3rd of ESO students, to help you with the unit I am teaching you in Ágora Secondary School. 

As you all know by now, this unit is about the FUTURE. 

These are the contents of this unit:

- Vocabulary: technology

- Grammar:

          · Will future

          · Be going to

          · First conditional

You can find these contents in units 6 and 7 of your textbook.

Throughout this blog, I will post what we have seen in class plus extra material for you to practice. So you can use this blog to practice what you have learnt, to ask any questions you have, or even if you couldn't go to class one day and you want to know what we learnt that day.

I hope you all like my blog, and remember: if you have any doubt, just write a comment and I will help you!!!