Monday, 5 December 2011

Christmas and New Year Challenge



Choose one of your favourite tool and create....
Christmas

  • How is Christmas celebrated in your country? In your school? In your house/family? Share your world with us so we might know you a bit better. :)
    If you're not too keen on writing just create a video with pictures and short sentences. You can use Animoto, Flixtime, or moviemaker to do this. If you want to take a less techy approach you can always use PowerPoint, and then upload your presentation to SlideShare or SlideRocket. Again, it's all up to you.
  • Write a Christmas or a New Year's eve story to fill our hears with joy and happiness.
  • Create a presentation on how christmas is celebrated in 2 different countries. You might use GoAnimate, Prezi, Fotobabble, moviemaker or any other tool any tool you want. Just dazzle us with your creativity.
  • Create a Christmas compilation album. Glogster will be very useful.
  • Help us with Christmas shopping and prepare a list with gift ideas for different age groups.
  • Christmas is a time to watch movies together with family. Tell us 5 popular Christmas movies. give your reason and persuade us to buy these DVDs.
  • Help us to cook for Christmas. We would like to know 5 traditional Christmas foods and please add one of the recipes.
  • You all know Christmas stories, such as Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or The Gift of Magi by O'Henry, etc. Choose one of the Christmas stories that you like and write a review for your friends.
  • Prepare a picture dictionary with Christmas vocabulary.
  • Prepare a word game or a puzzle.
  • Write your New Year's resolutions
  • Create an online greeting card, write your own message on it.
  • Write a Christmas poem

New Year


Write your New Year's Resolutions
How do you celebrate New Year? Describe it.
Write A New Year poem
Create a New Year Story.

Friday, 2 December 2011

Telling Stories

Have you ever told stories to a kid, friend?
Do you know how to tell stories?

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Vocabulary Presentations

You are going to prepare a short presentation to revise some vocabulary you learned in unit 3. Choose 10 words and prepare a word poster with definitions, sample sentences and illustrations. You can use glogster, powerpoint or just an A4 size paper.
Here is an example for you:

Personality adjectives

Here are some execises to practise the vocabulary we learned today


a href="http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2941">Personality adjectives, by papuch
Find this and other adjectives exercises in English Exercises .org

Thursday, 27 October 2011

Topkapi Palace

The school's project club is trying to get ready for hosting our guests in May. We will take the guest students to some historical places. You think that Topkapi Museum should  be visited. Your teacher told you that you must prepare a presentation to persuade the project comittee to include Topkapi Palace trip in the programme. Answering the following questions and using some visuals prepare your presentation.

1. Where is the palace situated?
2. Which other historical places are near Topkapi palace?
3. How much is the enterance fee? Is it open everyday?
4. When was the palace built?
5. Why was Topkapi Palace important in the history?
6. When was the palace converted into a museum? Why?
7. What are the sections that a visitor must see?
8. Where do you arrive when you walk through the Imperial Gate? and how do you feel when you walk there?
9. What is Enderun?
10. Where is the flower garden and the marble terrace with a pool?
11. Which sections you enjoyed visiting most?
12. Why should we take our guests there?

Good Luck!

Thanks for all the hard work, I loved your presentations.