My High School Información del recurso .................................................................................. 2

Students ...................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ............................................................................................ 5

Activity 1: First day of school .................................................................... 6

Activity 2: At school ................................................................................. 8

Activity 3: Timetables ............................................................................. 10

Self-evaluation ....................................................................................... 12

Final activity .......................................................................................... 16

Referencias bibliográficas y electrónicas .......................................................... 18

Recursos TIC................................................................................................ 19

Mapa de contenidos ...................................................................................... 20

Glosario....................................................................................................... 21

Ayuda ......................................................................................................... 22

Créditos ...................................................................................................... 23

Información del recurso

My High School

Área curricular: Lengua extranjera: Inglés

Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

Primer curso

Illustration. Classroom. Source: Intef.

Durante este recurso se trabajará sobre el vocabulario del colegio y el material

escolar, y se conocerá como utilizar las preposiciones "in" y "at", así como el uso

del verbo "there is/are".

Se trabajará de forma colaborativa y participativa, esto significa que la fuente de

conocimiento surgirá de la interacción entre compañeros y compañeras a través de

la realización de las diferentes actividades propuestas. Para que el trabajo sea

óptimo, se seguirán las pautas y orientaciones indicadas en cada una, a través de

la consulta de recursos web y enlaces proporcionados como fuentes de información.

Students

To start off

This educational resource contains four activities:

Activity 1: first, you will write a description about a friend. Then, you will

work in pairs.

Activity 2: in this activity, working in pairs again, you will practise the use

of the expressions “there is” and “there are”. You will use them to orally

describe the objects in your classroom. Then, in groups, you will create a

poster to revise the vocabulary about school materials.

Activity 3: the whole group will solve an enigma posted in the classroom

blog. You will also learn how to create a timetable.

Final activity: finally, working in groups, you will describe a friend, your

classroom and your timetable.

In this educational resource, you will carry out different types of activities: you will

work independently and also with classmates, think for yourself, go one step

further when to get more information on the topic studied, and finally, assess

yourself.

These are some of the skills you will practise with these activities:

You will learn how to work in groups and how to present your ideas;

specifically, you will learn to:

present concepts and ideas clearly.

analyse and evaluate other people's points of view.

develop attitudes that foster reflection and dialogue.

You will learn how to use your computer and the Internet to study:

Picture. Skills. Source: Mediateca.

using search engines and official websites with useful information.

using desktop applications to edit images or to create text

documents, audio material and presentations.

and you will also learn to make sense of informative texts.

You will learn and use vocabulary related to school:

using the correct words and expressions to describe school

materials and subjects.

and you will then be able to understand a dialogue and to write

texts in which people describe a classroom and talk about

timetables.

You will learn when and how to use time expressions containing the

prepositions “in” and “at”.

You will learn to use the expressions “there is/are” properly.

Are you ready? Let’s go!

Introduction

Illustration. Introduction.

Help Luisa and Miguel in their first day at high school by doing the following

activities:

Activity 1. First day of school.

Activity 2. At school.

Activity 3. Timetables.

Final activity. This is me.

Activity 1: First day of school

It's your turn

What’s in a name?

Click on the following link:

I spy.

Illustration. Question. Source: Intef.

Do all the activities that you find in the sections “My name is Looney”, “I spy with

my little eye” and “Martin, my friend”. You will learn a lot about descriptions. Take

screenshots of each activity that you do (you may use GIMP), paste them into a

text document and then, send it to your teacher by email or webmail.

Then, you will write a description about either a real or a fictional friend using

Writer. Use the knowledge and the examples that you studied when you visited the

link above. Remember to include the following information in your description:

name, age, nationality, hobbies, preferences, etc.

Once you have finished, send the text document to your teacher by email or

webmail.

Let's practise together

Find someone who…

In this activity you will work in pairs. Are you ready?

Your teacher will provide you with this document:

Find someone who.

First, read the whole document; then, find a classmate to work with.

Illustration. Question.

You will both ask each other the questions that appear in the document. Do not

forget to take notes about your classmate’s answers because you will need the

information later.

Once you have finished, describe your classmate, according to his/her answers, in a

Writer text document. For example, “Joseph likes pasta. He loves playing the guitar

but he hates science-fiction films”.

Finally, share your text document with your teacher using Google Docs so that he

can assess your homework.

Activity 2: At school

Let's practise together

A dictionary about school

In this activity, you will work in pairs again. Click on the following link:

My New School.

Illustration. Chair. Source: Intef.

Do all the activities that you find in this digital educational resource. You will learn a

lot of vocabulary about school. Take screenshots of each activity that you do (you

may use GIMP), paste them into an Impress presentation. Upload the presentation

to AuthorStream. and share it with your teacher.

Now, working in pairs, you will practise with the expressions “there is” and “there

are” and the vocabulary about school materials that you studied in the resource

above.

Make up either a true or a false sentence about the school materials that you can

find in your classroom, using “there is” or “there are”. Your classmate must say if it

is true or false. If it is false, your classmate must create a correct sentence. For

example:

A: There are two pencils in the class.

B: False. There are twenty pencils in the class

Once you have finished, you both must write, at least, 5 sentences and their

correct responses. Use Google Docs to create the text document and share it with

your teacher.

Let's practise together

Is it true or false?

In groups of three, you will create a glog (poster) using Glogster EDU. The glog

must include a picture about a classroom (a laboratory, a gym…) where you can

find some school materials that you studied in the resource "My New School":

My New School.

You can download the pictures from any of the following links:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Once you have finished the glog (poster), post it in the classroom Blog.

Your teacher will show all the posters on the interactive whiteboard. Use them as a

resource to help you do the following activity.

In turns, each group will orally make three statements using the information in the

posters displayed on the interactive whiteboard. Only one of the statements must

be true; the others must be false. For example:

There are two tables in the laboratory. (False)

There are two blackboards in the gym. (True)

There are two chairs in the classroom. (False)

The other groups must guess the correct statement. Pay attention to the

information because you will only hear it once.

Activity 3: Timetables

Illustration. Timetables.

It's your turn

Maths or English?

Now, you will work individually. Click on this link:

It's a sign!

Illustration. Classroom. Source: Pics4learning.

Do only the activities "Aries" and "Taurus" in order to revise the vocabulary that

you learnt in the previous activity. Take screenshots of each activity that you do

(you may use GIMP), paste them into a text document and then, send it to your

teacher by email or webmail.

Then, visit the entry "Give me a clue" that you can find in the classroom Blog. This

entry contains an enigma that the whole class must solve. Discuss the solution with

your classmates by posting comments in the Blog entry. At the end of the day, you

should have come up with a solution. The enigma is related to the vocabulary that

you studied when you visited the link “It’s a sign!”: subjects and timetables.

Remember that you must use the English language in your comments and that you

only have 24 hours to solve the enigma!

Once your time is up, your teacher will post the correct answer in the classroom

Blog.

Let's practise together

My timetable

In this activity you will work in pairs.

First, you will create a timetable in a text document using Google Docs. The

timetable must contain the subjects that you study at high school and also several

activities that you can practise in the afternoon. It may be fictitious!

Then, you must write, at least, 6 sentences using the information provided in the

timetable. Do not forget to use time expressions containing the prepositions “in”

and “at”.

Once you have finished your work, share your text document with your teacher

using Google Docs.

Self-evaluation

Now, you will check what you have learnt throughout the different activities that

you have done in this unit.

Final activity

Task

This is me

Individually, visit the following link:

Test two.

Illustration. School materials. Source: Intef.

Do all the activities you find in the digital test, in order to assess the knowledge

that you have gained throughout the various educational resources that you have

studied previously. Take screenshots of each activity that you do (you may use

GIMP), paste them into a text document and then, send it to your teacher by email

or webmail.

Then, in groups of four, you will create a presentation using Photo Peach.

The presentation will contain four slides with the following information:

A plan of the high school showing the location of the different rooms:

classrooms, library, gym…

An image of a classroom containing school materials: desks, blackboard,

pencils, chairs….

A timetable

A description about your best friend in the high school.

You can download the images from the following links:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Finally, your group will orally present your work to your teacher and your

classmates using the interactive whiteboard. Remember to use the vocabulary and

the structures that you have learnt throughout the previous activities: you may use

“there is/are” to talk about the school materials that you find in the classroom and

use the prepositions “in” and “at” to explain your timetable.

Your teacher will publish your presentation in a new entry of the classroom Blog.

Referencias bibliográficas y

electrónicas

Ilustración. Referencias bibliográficas y electrónicas. Fuente: Pics4learning.

Bueso Fernández,I., Casamián Sorrosa, P. (1991). Diferentes usos

gramaticales entre el español y el inglés. Madrid: Edinumen.

Marcel Danesi, Ph. D. (2005). Crucigramas y acertijos en inglés para

hispanohablantes. New York: Baronseduc.

Agrega2.

Educa Madrid.

Recursos TIC

Recursos

Programas y aplicaciones:

AuthorStream.

Blogger.

Glogster EDU.

Fotografía. Recursos TIC. Fuente: Wikimedia Commons.

Google Docs.

Photo Peach.

Programa para la edición avanzada de imágenes: GIMP.

Writer. Paquete OpenOffice.

Impress. Paquete OpenOffice.

Sitios web utilizados durante el recurso:

I spy.

My New School.

It's a sign!

Test two.

In class.

Bancos de imágenes con Licencia Libre o Creative Commons:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Mapa de contenidos

Ilustración. Mapa de contenidos.

Glosario

Brainstorming: lluvia de ideas.

Capital letters: mayúsculas.

Ilustración. Glosario.

Clue: pista.

Corridor: pasillo.

IT: informática.

Library: biblioteca.

Lie down: tumbarse.

P.E.: Educación Física.

Sibling: hermano/a.

Staff room: sala de profesores/as.

Subject: asignatura.

Timetable: horario.

Ayuda

Cada pantalla del recurso tiene una estructura definida:

Las actividades se inician siempre con una situación o presentación del

tema que vas a trabajar.

A continuación se proponen una serie de actividades para trabajar de

manera individual o colaborativa con el grupo. Se trata de "It's your turn"

o "Let's practise together". En estas actividades tendrás que realizar

alguna acción:

Actividades que tendrás que trabajar individualmente o

colaborativamente, y el resultado enviarlo a tu profesor o

profesora para evaluarlo.

Recursos para profundizar en el tema.

Créditos

Este material didáctico digital ha sido desarrollado por el Ministerio de Educación,

Cultura y Deporte, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación del

Profesorado, el Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo y la entidad pública

empresarial Red.es. Se ha desarrollado en el marco del programa Escuela 2.0 y

puede ser utilizado y adaptado en los términos de la licencia Reconocimiento-

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