First Seniors

FIRST SENIORS

 

Look at your exam marks list.  I had to re-correct an item, and your marks have gone up a little!

I really do apologise!

Miss Christine

 

ENGLISH EXAM MARKS

First Seniors

I had to re-correct two items of the reading section of the exam, and this made a variation (for better) of your marks! These are the corrected marks below:

Aldayuz, Fernando	6.2
Burgos, Marcela	4.9
Heck, Nicole	6.1
Irigoyen, Aitziber	5.5
Horn, Felipe	6.5
Lepe, Matías	5.8
Poggi, Isabella	6.4
Rojas, Ignacio	5.4
Reyes, Gabriela	6.0
Anjarí, Belén	5.2
Boltei, Fernando	6.2
Aspeé, Libis	5.1
Bravo, Camila	6.3
Fierro, M. Ignacia	5.5
Figueroa, Ignacio	5.5
Foucher, Nicole	5.2
Hughes, Javier	6.1
Inostroza, Valentina	6.5
Jensen, Pablo	5.6
Parra, Rebeca	6.2
Triday, Fernanda	5.7

I'm very sorry, but I'm also glad that your marks were better than you thought.

Love,

Miss Christine

RELATIVE CLAUSES/PRESENT PERFECT (First Seniors)

http://www.usingenglish.com/members/teachers/12.html

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/lefg2_whowhichwhose1.html

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.relative.i.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.since.i.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?02

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?02

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/present-perfect-simple/exercises?04

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/present-perfect-simple/exercises?06

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/irregular-verbs/exercise?0

 

FIRST SENIORS INTERACTIVE EXERCISES (PAST/PRESENT PERFECT)

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/may5.htm

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/mar31.htm

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/jul28.htm

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/jan21.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit11.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/rules/presperfvssimppas.html (information about both tenses)

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit13.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit14.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/spvprpf1.html

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/testtenses2.htm

http://www.quia.com/pop/153349.html

 

 

LISTEN TO SPELLING (For First Seniors)

Ypu can also become a fast speller! All you need is practice.

 

 

LINKS First Seniors for Unit Three test

First SeniorsJune 12^th 

Simple past / Past Continuous

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/exercise_page.php?ID=75 http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pastpastcont.html  http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/past_progressive_questions.htm http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/past_progressive_questions2.htm http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/pasprg1.html 

Were / was

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/waswere.htmlhttp://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/was.html 

 Used to / Didn’t use to

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/usedto01.htmlhttp://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/usedto02.html 

Question Words: Guess the correct answer and then check.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/dg-wh.html 

They’re/their/there?

http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc-ttt.html 

Family relationships

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz85bem.htm 

Online exercises Simple Past

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/past4.htm http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past1-sw.html http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/past_1.htmhttp://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past2-sw.htmlhttp://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/regirreg.html http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/s_past3.htmhttp://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/s_past1.htmhttp://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/simple_past_negations1.htmhttp://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/simple_past_questions.htmhttp://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/padisast1.htm  

Family Relationships

 http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blfamily.htmhttp://www.better-english.com/vocabulary/relations.htmhttp://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=288http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=755 

Past Continuous

http://www.englishtenseswithcartoons.com/verb/PastContinuous.htm

Simple past or Past Continuous

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pastpastcont.htmlhttp://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=885 

Verb quizzes (for home study) 

Irregular verbs 1 • Irregular verbs 2  • Irregular verbs 3   • Irregular verbs 4 • Irregular verbs 5 • Irregular verbs 6 • Exercise Mix 1 • Exercise Mix 2 • Exercise Mix 3 • Exercise Mix 4 • Table - Fill-in exercisehttp://www.better-english.com/grammar/irregularverbs1.htm 

 Listening

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/40-Resemble.html  

Listening

http://www.elllo.org/english/0151/Q196-Nicola-Twins.htm 

Listening

http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G045-Horse.html 

Dictations First Seniors

Antarctica Cruises

 

         Antarctica is an inhospitable place. There are no towns or cities.  In fact, nobody lives there permanently, except for a few scientists and those who represent armed forces on a rotation basis.

         However, things have now begun to change. Since the 1980s, polar tourism has grown rapidly.  These have become extremely popular because of the beauty of the polar landscape and the wildlife, such as penguins, whales and dolphins. Although these cruises are expensive because the ships need to be very strong to break the ice, more and more tourists go on them, taking day tours to icebergs, visiting glaciers and beaches.

         Unfortunately, this tourism has started to cause problems. Scientific studies show that tourists are destroying the ecosystem of the Antarctic. The numbers of some species of wildlife have gone down rapidly. Many ecologists now feel that we should leave this beautiful continent alone.

Salvador Dali

          Salvador Dali was a famous Spanish artist, born in 1904. When he was a child he showed strange behaviour, and often interrupted his classes at school. As he got older, he started to paint pictures that came from his dreams.  His dreams and his paintings were scary and unreal.

          He went to art school in Madrid, but he didn’t finish his studies because he was expelled.  However, he continued to paint, and his style of art became known as surrealism.  Dali drew and painted everyday items, but changed them in odd ways. For example, one of his paintings is of melting clocks.

         Before he died, at the age of 85, he had created works of art in ballet, films, opera, fashion jewellery and advertising illustrations.

Aborigines – The Native Australians

         Aborigines probably came to Australia from Indonesia 50,000 years ago.They were nomads, who didn’t have a sense of land ownership, although Aboriginal children were taught from an early age that they belonged to the land and must respect tribal boundaries. Tribes returned to particular places to bury their dead. Some places, like Urulu, were sacred because they were associated with the ‘Dreamtime’, the time when the earth was formed and cycles of life and nature were begun.

         The arrival of white people gradually brought an end to the traditional Aboriginal way of life. The ‘new’ Australians began to settle on Aborigine tribal lands. Today, most Aborigines live in cities, towns, or isolated settlements near tribal lands, and few continue the old nomadic way of life.

         In recent years, white Australians have become more sensitive to their native countrymen’s situation, and the result has been an increase in health and education service, greater recognition of land rights and a growing appreciation of Aboriginal culture.

LINKS TO EXERCISES TO IMPROVE GRAMMAR UNDERSTANDING

Grammar Timeline exercise (interactive)

http://www.humsam.hik.se/distans/existstud/toolbox.htm

 

Alternative Types of Energy

     Today, as the world’s resources are being used by a rapidly growing population, it is important to study the natural resources which have existed since time immemorial. There are several options: solar energy, wind power, water and geothermal energy. Solar energy is possible all over the world, and is already being used at the industrial and domestic level. Wind power is being used in some parts of the world, and has become an inexpensive solution in all of them.  Hydroelectric plants take advantage of the power of running water and convert it to electricity. Areas which are on or near volcanic zones can take advantage of the thermal energy inside the earth for many purposes.