Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Negative prefixes and modals









TASK:

With a partner, choose 10 of these photos and write a a sentences about each photo you chose using  vocabulary from the two boxes.


Use one word with a negative prefix
Anti-clockwise
Antigovernment
Antiwar
Deactivate
Decaffeinated
Defrost
Disadvantage
Disapprove
Disorganized
Illegal
Immature
Immodest
Incorrect
Indirect
Inexperienced
Irresponsible
Misunderstand
Misplace
Mistreat
Unbelievable
Uncertain
Unhealthy
Unlimited
Unknown
Unsafe



Certain: must, should, will
Possible: can, could, might, may, might not, may not
Impossible: cannot, could not, should not, must not, will not
Use at least one modal in your sentence….
Can
Could
Might
May
Should
Must
Will
Cannot
could not
might not
may not
should not
must not
will not



EXAMPLE: 

When Bart misbehaves,  Homer will disapprove



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Monday, January 12, 2015

Unit five - Glacier Video


Jan 12/Monday:


Why do you think polar bears are a symbol for the environment symbol?

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Complete the "watch and listen" section of book: Pages 147 to 153.

 Answer questions from page 153 (task 6) in a titanpad  with a partner.



COPY AND PASTE a, b, c, and d INTO TITAN PAD

a) Do you think climate change is the result of human activity? Why?

b) Whose responsibility is it to try to stop the climate changing?
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c) List at least five actions companies and governments take to reduce the problems of climate change?

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d) What are five things individuals (
like you) can do to help to protect the environment?

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When completed with titan pad, put the link on your padlet. 
Title it "12/1/2015: Climate Change Actions"


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After uploading tighten pad, work on quizlet:


Saturday, January 10, 2015

Unit 5 intro


In Unit five Reading and writing you will learn these skills:

* Quickly scan for information when reading
* Expand vocabulary on environment
* Write a topic sentence
* Write an outlined cause and effect essay.


Jan 11/Sunday: Today's 5 tasks

1) Make a Padlet board for homework/classwork/project work / Send link to teacher.




 Discuss these questions:


a) How is the weather changing in your country?


b) How have humans affected the environment?


c) Why should we care about the environment?


d) Why do you think polar bears are an environmental symbol?

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4) Complete the "watch and listen" section of book: Pages 147 to 153.

 *Answer questions from page 153 in a titanpad you started from task 2 (the environmental problems list).


a) Do you think climate change is the result of human activity?
b) Whose responsibility is it to try to stop the climate changing?
c) What steps can companies and governments take to reduce the problems of climate change?
d) What steps can you take individually to help to protect the environment?

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5) On Thursday, there will be a quiz that includes vocabulary and the spelling:






Schedule for week: January 11-15

11/Sn: Padlet link, Unit Five Glacier Video, Reading Writing Unit Five Vocab

12/Mn: Unit Five Reading 1 (“Changing Planet”), OWB RW Unit 5 exercise 1-4

13/Tu: Unit Five Reading 2 (“Deforestation”), Language development, OWB exercise 5-6

14/We: Critical thinking, Grammar for writing,  OWB exercise 7-10

15/Th: Reading, writing, vocab and spelling quiz / Begin Writing Essay. Due Jan 17