domingo, 23 de octubre de 2016

OPINION ESSAYS 1st Bachiller. Let's start



GENERAL LAYOUT



How to write an Introduction


SYSTEM A:  -Background statement (paraphrase the statement
 -Thesis statement, "In my opinion"


SYTEM B: 1. a)What about this topic in the present? What about this topic in the past?
                    b) What's the situation here or some other places?
                        c )What's your opinion? And other people's opinion?
                        2. Thesis statement.





STRUCTURE OF BOTH SYSTEMS


martes, 20 de septiembre de 2016

SUBJECT-OBJECT QUESTIONS 4th ESO - 1st BACH



SUBJECT - OBJECT QUESTIONS


  1. Read the questions below. Is the WH-word a subject or an object?

  1. What are Brazilians like? ___________________________________
  2. What film would you like to see? ____________________________
  3. Who cooks dinner for you everyday? _________________________
  4. Who knocks at the door? _____________________________________
  5. What is she looking in? ___________________________________
  6. Which instrument did Beethoven play? _______________________
  7. How much pasta have you eaten? ___________________________
  8. Who gave you that money? ________________________________
  9. What team has won the match? _____________________________
  10. How much does this shirt cost? _____________________________
  11. What happened to his car? __________________________________
  12. Who said I´m going crazy? __________________________________

 JOHN LENNON 
Write a question for every answer. Pay attention to subject and object questions:
  1. What songs by John Lennon __________________________________________ ?
I like “Imagine” and “Power to the people”.
  1. How many ________________________________________________________?
There were 4 members in the British rock band The Beatles.
  1. Which musicians ___________________________________________________ ?
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon formed The Beatles.

  1. When ____________________________________________________________ ?
John Lennon was born in 1940.
  1. Where ___________________________________________________________ ?
John Lennon was from Liverpool, in England.
  1. Where ___________________________________________________________ ?
In 1980, John Lennon lived in New York.
  1. When ____________________________________________________________ ?
John Lennon and Yoko Ono got married in 1969. 
  1. Who _____________________________________________________________ ?
Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon in 1980.
  1. How many people __________________________________________________ ?

More than 220.000 people attended Lennon´s funeral in the Central Park, New York.

viernes, 26 de febrero de 2016

English Corner School

English Corner School

Practice with these Opinion Essays

ARGUMENTATIVE TOPICS
- Advantages and disadvantages of being an only child.
- Advantages and disadvantages of being a working mother.
- Childhood is certainly not the happiest time of your life.
- Capital punishment is the only way to deter criminals.
- Examinations have a very bad influence on education.
- Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays.
- The space race is the world's biggest money waster.
- Pros and cons of living in a large modern city.
- Advertising performs a useful service to the community.
are
better than in the past? Why?
Nowadays everyone agrees that communication between the membe
rs of
the family has changed but, is it true?
On the one hand, relationships are better than in the pas
t because fifty
years ago Internet didn
t exist, for that reason, parents and children used to
spend more time together . Furthermore children were more respectfu
l with
their parents.
On the other hand, relationships are better now because there
are more topics to talk about such as: sex or policy. In additio
n, taboos have
disappeared. There is more confidence and tolerance on both
sides.
Moreover, parents are more understanding with their children.
As far as I
m concerned, most relationships between parents and
children are better than in the past despite the new technolog
y.