year 6 Reporting comics

Hi there! We are going to create our wn comics, so here is the link to the page in case you want to practise:
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Have fun!

Sixth graders (year 6) verb to be

Let's see if you remember the verb to be.... (have your copy ready just in case...)
easy (check up)
exercise 
advanced (for A grades) (sobresaliente)

Sixth graders (year 6)

Read the story:

Copy and answer the questions in the notebook. 

Write a short summary (20-40 words)

Lost and Found

Donna and her husband John go to the beach every Saturday in the summer. Today is no exception. Donna packs a picnic lunch. She packs the beach umbrella and sun lotion.

She cannot find their beach towels. Donna always loses things. The towels are not in the laundry basket or dryer. They are not in the closet, either. She finally looks in her beach bag. She sees the towels folded in the bottom. Of course, the beach towels are exactly where they should be.

Donna puts on her swimsuit and floppy sun hat. She is almost ready. She just needs her sunglasses. She thinks they are on the table by the door. Or maybe they are in the bathroom. They could also be in her purse. Donna sighs.

John puts the picnic basket, umbrella, and beach bag in the car.  He  checks his fishing poles and equipment. He places them in the car beside the picnic basket.. Daisy, their dog, jumps in the backseat. She loves the beach! John is ready to leave. Where is Donna? She knows he likes to arrive at the beach before the crowds.

John groans and shakes his head. Donna is always late!

Donna searches for her sunglasses. She cannot find them, and she knows John is waiting. He hates when she is late! She grabs her purse and locks the door.

"You are late," John says as Donna gets in the car. Donna tells John that she could not find her sunglasses.

John looks at her and laughs! He flips down the sun visor so Donna can see herself in the mirror. Donna looks in the mirror and laughs too. Her sunglasses are on top of her head. They were there the whole time!

"It is always in the last place that you look," Donna giggles!

THE END

Questions: (remember to copy them in the notebook)

1. What is the meaning of:

crowds
fishing pole

 2. Where were they going?

3. What was Donna looking for before she closed the door?

4. Why does Donna say "It is always in the last place that you look,"?

Sixth graders (Year 6) Term exam

Hi there!
As you know, the term exam is going to be on Friday the 13th, March.

Things you have to know:

- first 30 irregular verbs (check the list)
- The ing form (prezi presentation)
- the meanings of have
- answering questions with how long using for (.....s, units of time)), since (dates)  with the present perfect, and ago (, .....................ago, past simple)
- Writing a summary and answering some questions
-reporting conversations.
- Writing the original conversation (quotes or direct style) from a reported conversation
- completing exercises with to be (present and past)

Good luck and go for it!
Some practise with the ing form

Some more practise with the ing form

Sixth graders (year 6) Reported speech

Unit 6 teaches us how to use reported speech. What is reporting? let's have a look!
Prezi explaining what is reported speech

Ok this prezi teaches more than we need to know in year 6.

So, this is what we must know in unit 6:

Quote                                                           Report
Direct                                                           Indirect
"........"                                                            No "...."
 Fer said: "It's my birthday!"                         Fer said it was his birthday.

                                                     Verbs  
  Mr T: "......."                                                  Mr T said that someone   .........                    
Present Simple    Aff: (go)                                      Past (went)
                              Neg (don't go)                             Didn't + infinitive (didn't go)

Present continuous Aff (am going)                         Past continuous (was going)
                                Neg (am not going)                                           (wasn't going)

Can   (can go)                                                         Could (could go)
Can't (can't go)                                                       Couldn't (couldn't go)

Will   (will go)                                                       Would(would go)
Won't (won't go)                                                     Wouldn't (wouldn't go)

                                       Possessive adjectives
My, your                                                           his, her, its
Our, your (plural)                                              their

Remember: The report always has two subjects:

Marta: "Daniel is my brother"                           Marta said Daniel was her brother.
                                                                           or She said he was her brother.

Juego avanzado para los que quieran practicar otros verbos que no sean Say o tell.
(se tendrá en cuenta para la nota del trimestre si usáis estos verbo, so go 4 it!) Os hará falta diccionario.


Remember in unit 3 we reported orders with ask and tell:

Quote                                                             Report
Direct                                                              Indirect
"........"                                                            No "...."
 The captain ordered: "Clean the ship!"        The captain told us to clean the ship.
The captain ordered: "Don't fall asleep!"      The captain told us not to clean the ship

                          Verbs                                     
Imperative:"Go!"                                              to go
Negative imperative: "Don't go!"                     not to go                          

My, your                                                           his, her, its
Our, your (plural)                                              their



We can use  tell to report statements, not only orders. But, we have to use it with an object pronoun:
 The captain: "I like swimming"                   The captain told us he liked swimming.
                                                                       The captain said he liked swimming
                                                                       The captain said to us that he liked swimming




For advanced players:

• Past continuous – changes to past perfect continuous
• Present perfect – changes to past perfect
• Past perfect – remains past perfect
• Past perfect continuous – remains the same
• Will – changes to would
• Can – changes to could
• Have to – changes to had to 

So let's report these comic strips

Third graders (year 3) telling the time

We are going to learn how to say the time in English!

Today we have learnt that we there are two  hands:

• the yellow hand tells us about the minutes
• the blue hand tells us about the hours. 

 
 Whole class clock
 
To practise at home (cross the bridge)
 
Stop the clock1

Stop the clock2

Stop the clock 3

Stop the clock 4

Stop the clock 5

Bang on time

BBC game

Hickory dickory dock

Fairy clock

Year 3. Counting to 60

Can we count to sixty? I am sure we can, but just in case, let's check with this video:

Do we need to check any number?

Now we are going to count in fives

So, let's practise one more time

Can we go down now?


Fantastic! Well done!

Year 3. exam correction

Para la corrección del examen:

4. Look and complete (use a, some and any)

5. Look at the landscape and write a short text using: a, some, any, but, finally (write an introduction)

3º Repasando las preposiciones

Vamos a repasar un poco las preposiciones

Game

Game 2

Year 6. Reading practise

Look at this text. Can you write a summary?
(20-30 words)
remeber: Identify important information, useful information and not relevant information.

Love is in the Air

 

Every summer, Penny travels to a family reunion barbeque. Penny is never excited, and this year is no different. She dreads the drive.

She does not like talking to her relatives. And she does not like the smell of hamburgers. (Penny is a vegetarian.)

When Penny arrives, she sees lots of familiar faces. It is July and Uncle Vernon is wearing a sweater. Uncle Vernon is always cold. It’s very mysterious.

She sees her cousin Polly. Polly has six children. The youngest one screams. Then the oldest one screams. Polly’s children are always screaming.

She sees many of her other cousins in the field playing softball. They play a softball game every year, and it always ends in a big argument. Penny wonders, again, why they never solve it.

Then Penny sees an incredibly handsome man. She stares at him. He catches her staring. He smiles and walks over to her. Penny is very nervous. She is nervous because a handsome man is walking up to her and she is nervous because this handsome man might be her cousin.

The man sticks out his hand and says, "Hi, I’m Paul."

"Hi, I’m Penny," Penny says. "Are we related?"

Paul laughs. "No, we are not related. I am Vernon's nurse. He is sick and needs to keep me close by. But he did not want to miss this barbeque!"

"Oh, thank goodness," Penny says and then blushes. Penny always blushes when she is nervous, embarrassed, or hot, and right now she is all three.

Handsome Paul laughs and says, "Would you like to go get a hamburger with me? They smell delicious."

Penny smiles, "Sure. I love hamburgers!"

THE END

Year 6. Exam unit 5

These are the dates of the coming exams:
Unit 5.................. Friday, 27th February
Unit 6 (term) ...... Friday, 13th March

Unit 5 Exam

Entrará:
- Ing form (formar el ing a partir de los verbos que nos den) Recordad los 4 casos y excepciones.

- Ejercicios para contestar How long:
How long para preguntar hace cuánto tiempo que sucedió algo
for (durante) con unidades de tiempo. For 5 years (la unidad de tiempo es years), For one minute (la unidad de tiempo es minute) For a long time.
since (pronunciado /sɪns/) que significa desde y se usa con momentos específicos. Since Christmas, since I was five, since 2013....
 Ago (hace) 5 years ago, 4 minutes ago. Se coloca al final. Ojo, Ago se usa con Past simple, no present perfect.

Ejercicos online para repasar
for since

for and since (incluye repaso de teoría)



- Teoría del present perfect
Significados de have
Possession: I have got a mobile phone
Eating  or drinking: I'm having a pizza (estoy tomando una pizza9
Duty/obligation: Con to: I have to do my homework
Auxiliary: Haber: En el present perfect have es el verbo haber
 (Have  significan Yo he, tú has,  nosotros hemos, vosotros habéis, ellos han
o has que significa él ha, ella ha, ello ha)

Explicar en inglés el uso del present perfect

Explicar  en inglés qué significa just con el present perfect

- Repasad los ejercicios del relativo: that, who, where (unit 4 y ejercicios anteriores del blog)

- 25 verbos irregulares

- Las distintas formas de saludar, despedirse, dar gracias 

- - Un ejercicio de comprensión lectora. (Podéis repasar las lecturas del libro  o buscar otras) que serán preguntas y redactar un  resumen. Recordad, lo ideal es menos de 30 palabras. Identificad la información importante, la que es útil y la que es irrelevante.

 

3 year Exam unit 5

Hi there! the exam is next Friday

Recordad lo que nos tenemos que saber:

Qué alimentos son contables (countable) o incontables (not countable)
Acordáos de los trucos:
Countable
si acaba en una "s" es porque se pueden poner varios así que se puede contar

An orange.......  some  oranges

pero ojo, a lo mejor no acaba en "s" porque sólo hay uno. 

Not countable
No acaban en una "s" porque no podemos ponerlos en plural (pero acodáos de palabras como grass que si son uncountable)

No podemos decir Waters o miks, ¿verdad?

Si son líquidos o vienen de un líquido, son uncountable
Si son cosas muy, muy, muy pequeñas, también son uncountable  (pero ojo con peas= guisantes, que sí se puede contar)
 Suga o  Salt: cuando tomamos azúcar no contamos cada grano, ¿verdad?

Os dejo la escena de Despicable Me (Gru) para que practiquéis a contarme Qué cosas hay  usando
A, some y any

There is   a   .................. (cuando sólo hay una cosa y se puede contar)
There are some .............s  (cuando hay varias cosas y se pueden contar)Recordad, acaba en "s"    
                                            porque está en plural

There is some ................ (cuando hay algo que no se puede contar) 

¿Os acordáis de cuándo se usaba Any? en la negativa, para decir que no hay algo  o en la interrogativa para preguntar si hay algo.


Mirad esta foto del paisaje:

¿Sabríais hacer un texto como el del cuaderno contando lo que hay y lo que no hay?
Y usando a, some, any BUT (para unir frases en afirmativa y negativa) y finally

En la siguiente entrada tenéis los juegos para practicar más

Good luck!