SUMMER for 4º ESO students

SUMMER RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENGLISH (Albert’s students)

Students in 4º ESO

• All the students 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. You can even get the textbook and workbook (recommended) that we are going to have next year (Get Set 1 de Oxford University Press). Have a look at the official list of textbooks for next school year.  (A pen drive will be provided this June with all the material or YOU CAN SEND ME AN EMAIL ASKING ME FOR IT AND I WILL SEND YOU A LINK WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FROM).

-          Work with the compulsory readers for 1º Bachillerato (also included in the list). As we will be doing dictations out of these readers, it is advisable to listen to them (some of them include a CD, but anyway everything will be included in the pen drive provided by your teacher now in June). You should also read them aloud to improve your pronunciation. If you read any other book of similar level, you can hand in a project or fill in the READER CONTROL SHEET you can find in Files), which will be taken into account for your final marks. There are no new readers so you can borrow them from a relative or a friend, or even from the school library.

For your projects on the readers remember you have to include:

• Reference to Great Britain (the country) and you have to do a tourist brochure.

• Reference to the author of the book: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

• Reference to the writers seen in the book and make a comment in this post in my blog:

  • Once upon a time, 400 years ago, a writer named Cervantes...

- For the writing skills and the compositions you will have to write next year I would advise you to make comments in my blog (I will send you an email with the corrections, as usual) or try to write a composition every two or three weeks (there are some good samples from other students in this site).

- 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 Modules 5-12 of New That's English series or Modules 5-9 of Old That's English series +  FOLLOW ME: first 60 episodes.

I will keep a record of all the things you do during the summer time in the SUMMER SCOREBOARD, and I promise all of them will be taken into account for the next school year.

AND REMEMBER THAT GOOD RESULTS IN THE ENTRY TEST WILL BE ESSENTIAL and taken into account!!!!!