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Useful Expressions

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Happy Birthday!
Good Luck!
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Well done!
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Pardon?
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I’m sorry!
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Thank you, it is / was very kind of you!
Condolences!
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Happy New Year!
Happy Easter!
Would you like ... ?
Yes, please
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I’m just looking!
Welcome!
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Sleep well
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Have fun!
Have a good ...
Take care
Same to you!
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Can you speak slowly, please?
Can you repeat, please?
Can you say that again, please?
I don’t understand.
I only speak a little English!
How are you?
How do you say ... in English?
How do you spell ...?
How do you pronounce this word?
What is the English name for...?
What is the Italian translation for ...?
I can’t hear you!
Speak up, please.
Can you spell ... ?
How do you spell ...

Google Earth

Me pareció muy buena la descripción del uso de Google Earth en un proyecto de aula. A través de ésta se pueden ver las potencialidades de esta herramienta y de su incorporación en la enseñanza. Es un poderoso medio de motivación, de actualización de contenidos y de contextualizacón. Además permite la colaboración de los usuarios.

Con las manos en la geometría... TIC Competencias docentes

(Marcela Ramos) En relación a las competencias docentes, la incorporación efectiva de los recursos informáticos en el aula, requiere de un docente en constante actualización en relación a las potencialidades de la tecnología y un replanteamiento del rol de los distintos agentes involucrados en el proceso, que permitan la creación de ambientes de aprendizaje desafiantes, organizados y con objetivos claros. Las tecnologías no aseguran esto por sí solas, ya que son sólo medios y mal utilizadas pueden tener resultados adversos. No se trata de transferir la transmisión de información a medios audiovisuales sino que de incorporarlos para optimizar los aprendizajes a través de una planificación cuidadosa y selectiva en la que los alumnos los utilicen para construir conocimientos nuevos, adquieran estrategias de aprendizaje y transfieran esto a situaciones nuevas con autonomía y suficiencia.

Video Classroom Objects Song

1. Watch the video and write the names of the children in the picture.

Tony – Betty - Billy – Annie - Danny – Mary

2. Complete the lyrics with the missing words.

pen - book - crayon - rainbow - bag - ball

This is Annie. Annie is my friend. Annie has a _________
This is Billy. Billy is my friend. Billy has a _________
This is Tony. Tony is my friend. Tony has a _________
This is Mary. Mary is my friend. Mary has a _________
This is Danny. Danny is my friend. Danny has a _________
This is Betty. Betty is my friend. Betty has a _________

Film: Ice Age (2002)

http://www.iceagemovie.com/original/

I. Before watching the film, order the lines of the text.

a. Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals
b. child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.
c. come together when they have to return a human
d. named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly
e. sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed
f. tiger named Diego, and an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel
g. were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a stupid

II. Fill in the gaps

animals baby decide humans ice journey mammoth

planet river south talking tigers

20,000 years before, our ____________1 is entering an ____________2 age. All kinds of ____________3 begin immigrating to the____________4, seeking more warm climates. Sid, a sloth who never stops ____________5 is left behind sleeping while everyone else begins the ____________6 to the south. Awaking, he meets Manny, a ____________7 who travels to the north, and decides to follow him. When a camp is attacked by tigers, a woman takes her ____________8 and jumps on a ____________9. Before she drowns, the baby is rescued by Manny and Sid. The two animals ____________10 to search for the father and return the baby to him. Diego, one of the ____________11 that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby.

III. Watch the film and write the name of the character who is speaking.

a. I don't eat junk food.
b. I'm not fat. It's all this hair. It makes me look poofy.
c. I don't know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I've ever seen.
d. Hey, Lord of the Flame, your tail's on fire.
e. Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been.
f. I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.
g. If you find a mate in life, you should be loyal. In your case, grateful.
h. I'm still trying to get rid of the last thing I saved.
i. Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't even be a "you".
j. You know? This whole ice age thing is getting old. You know what I could go for? A global warming. Save your breath Sid, you know humans can't talk.
k. Here's your little bundle of joy. We're returning it to its herd. No. The sooner we get to Glacier Pass, the sooner I get rid of Mr. Stinky Droolface. And the baby, too. You won't always have Jumbo around to protect you. And when that day comes, I suggest you watch your back... 'cause I'll be chewing on it. Modern architecture. It'll never last.
l. Because returning the runt was your idea, because you're small and insignificant, and because I'll pummel you if you don't. I see. You couldn't have one of your own so you decided to adopt.
m. Why did you do that? you could've died trying to rescue me. That's what you do in a herd, you look out for one another.
n. Do we need a news flash every time your body does something? At the bottom of Half Peak... there's an ambush waiting for you. They migrated without me. They do this every year.
o. If we save it, he will grow up to be a hunter, and who do you think he will hunt? Look at you. Some great predator you'll grow up to be. I don't think so. What do you have? Just a little patch of fur. No fangs, no claws. You're just folds of skin wrapped in... mush. What's so threatening about you?

IV. Order the dialogue

Sid: This is great. Two bachelors knocking about in the wild.
Sid: You are a very shrewd mammal. Okay, big guy, you lead the way, uh... I didn't catch the name.
Sid: Manfred? Yuck, man. How about Manny the moody mammoth? Manny the melancholy? Manny the...

Manfred: Manfred.
Manfred: Stop following me.
Manfred: No, you just want a bodyguard so you don't become somebody's side dish.