Summer for 3º ESO students
SUMMER RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENGLISH (Albert’s students)
Students in 3º ESO
Those students who failed in June will have an opportunity to pass the failed subject (PENDIENTE) when we do the Entry English exam in September. Therefore, once you have your individual report, you should revise very well all the lessons studied all along the year (mainly the first 8) and the other aspects learned. THE SEPTEMBER EXAM WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE “SUPER-MÍNIMOS” ONE SET IN JUNE, which could include a LISTENING or/and WRITING exercise. As well, you must remember that I can lend you the textbook we have using during the year to revise all the grammatical and semantic aspects we have seen.
Those students who have passed are advised to do some activities to prevent summer language attrition during these holidays not only to keep everything we have learned, but also to be ready for Bachillerato:
- Revise what we have seen this year regarding the entry test. As you can see the textbook that we are going to have next year is Smart Planet 4 - Ed. Cambridge University Press. Have a look at the official list of textbooks for next year, which is the same as for previous years. (I can send you an email providing you with a link you can download from all the material > listening exercises, audio for the readers).
- Work with the compulsory readers for 4º ESO (also included in the list). You should listen to them and read them aloud to improve your pronunciation. If you read any other book of similar level, you can hand in a project, which could be digital using programmes such as GLOGSTER, PREZZI, POWER POING... or fill in the RENEWED READER CONTROL SHEET (you can find it in Files), which will be taken into account for your final marks. You can borrow two of the readers from a relative or a friend, or even from the school library. And you could also do the activities at the end of the book.
For your projects on the readers remember you have to include:
A Christmas Carol >> Reference to the author of the book: Charles Dickens and make a comment in this post in my blog:
Rabbit-Proof Fence >>>> Reference to Australia (the country)
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde >>>> Reference to the author of the book: Robert Louis Stevenson and make a comment in this post in my blog:
- For the writing skills I would advise you to make comments in my blog (I will send you an email with the corrections, as usual).
- It is important to read a lot about different topics to improve your understanding skill. You can use this Google site, my blog, other web links here included (for instance, newspapers in English), etc.
- In order to improve your listening skills in case you have an oral test in the Selectivity exam in two years’ time, you’d better start watching films in English, listening to songs or doing listening exercises (remember there are some useful web links here where you can do listening exercises online and then get your corrections).
YOU CAN ALSO WATCH SOME OF THE TV ENGLISH COURSES YOU HAVE GOT IN THIS SITE. I advise you to watch OLD THAT'S ENGLISH: Modules 1 to 6 and NEW THAT'S ENGLISH: Modules 1 to 6.
OUR DIGITAL PROJECT >>>> We will keep on working in our digital project. Remember you've got many ideas and tools here in this site in Our digital project.
There are activity books you can also do during the summer (students can have a look at samples we have in the language department).