Homework / Tarea 2015-2016

TAREA - DEBERES 2015-2016

9th Grade homework will now solely be entered into the school's Edupage portal. Please refer to the portal. Spanish Ab Initio (Grades 11 and 12) homework will continue to appear in this page.

Dear Students, please make a point to bring an agenda / diary to school. Even a tiny notebook will do. You need it to keep proper track of work due. Remember that late work generates a failing grade.

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Thursday 14 January 2016

Complete homework related to LA VUELTA AL MUNDO song, send your voice recording to me by e-mail:

Ahora que has visto el video escoge una pregunta y escribe un párrafo. Grábate diciéndolo de manera natural.

·Piensa en 3 cosas importantes en un trabajo, después ordénalas de más importante a menos y justifica tu elección.

·¿Cuáles crees que son los mejores trabajos? ¿y los peores? ¿Por qué?

·¿Estarías dispuesto a ganar menos dinero a cambio de tener más tiempo?

·Si fueras el jefe de una empresa, ¿qué harías para mejorar la vida de tus empleados?, ¿crees que sería compatible con la rentabilidad de la empresa?, ¿por qué?

En el vídeo vemos a dos compañeros de trabajo enamorados. ¿Crees qué es posible el amor entre compañeros de trabajo?, ¿qué tiene de positivo y qué tiene de negativo?

Those of you who were not in school on Tuesday 05/Jan/2016 please watch the video here and do your own research for lyrics (and grammar questions) for you to be able to complete the task above properly and to get the IB Oral practice you missed. I expect you to show up to class in the weeks that we have left before your oral.

Monday 4 January 2016

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

Many of you need to thoroughly review your Preterite, Present Progressive and Present Perfect tenses. Please do so during the holiday. 

Good material to revise these tenses is in your book: 

Units 2, 4 and 7 and their extra exercises (pgs. 138-143, pgs.150-151 and pgs.168-173). You may complete these above exercises for extra credit.

COMPULSORY HOMEWORK

Flipped units 3 and 5 -  AULA 2

Search for vocabulary on Pg. 34, 1A. Write it on notebook or printed document 

Say which one of the possibilities on pgs. 34 – 35 you like the most and why.

Read page 41.

English help:

·         Expresing tastes (verbs GUSTAR/ENCANTAR/PREFERIR)

·         Expressing coincidence (We have the same tastes, very similar tastes, very different tastes)

·         Material (wood, metal, crystal, marble, plastic, iron, carton, cloth, wicker, paper, stone)

·         Situating (under, on top of, behind, in front of, between, to the right, to the left, beside, in the middle

·         Without / With / Of / For

·         Comparing

·         Superiority (with nouns / adjectives / verbs)

·         Equality (with nouns / adjectives / verbs)

·         Inferiority (with nouns / adjectives / verbs)

Do all exercises on page 38.

Do Pg. 145 exercises #4 and #5

Do Pg. 148 exercise #14

Do Pg. 63 ALL exercises

English help:

A. Listen to two friends deciding which movie they are going to watch at the cinema. Which movie do they pick in the end?

B. Check these sentences in the audio. Do you understand what the bold type words mean? How do you express the same idea in your language?

C. Pick what you would say in each of the following situations?

Find out what all the things listed on p. 66 exercise 8A mean. Write the meaning in your notebook or on a printed document.

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Friday 11th December

Quiz on Verb tenses:

• Preterite, 
• Future tense, 
• Present progressive, 
• Present, 
• Immediate future, 
• Present Perfect

Tuesday 8th December

Orange workbook

1. Pages 43-44. All exercises.

AULA 2 book

1. Go to page 26. Do all exercises.

2. Go to page 31. Exercise 9A and 9B.

Monday 30th November - 4 December during class 

Spanish Ab Initio 

Please submit the FINAL DRAFT of your IB written assignment this week.
The draft must be submitted by e-mail.
You should send 2 copies: 
* 1 PDF document (the name of the file must have your full name)
* 1 Word document (the name of the file must have your full name)

Your Final Draft should have:
1 Title in Spanish 
3 Sections (copy and paste from my e-mail)
Word Count
Bibliography (MLA format)
Please do not put your name on the documents. Only put your full name when you name your Word and PDF files.

Friday 20th November

Spanish Ab Initio 
Please submit the 1st draft of your written assignment as a hard copy

4. Start writing your written assignment and bring in your first draft by this week as well as all sources if you were still missing some for approval before leaving for Diwali.

Monday 16th November

Spanish Ab Initio 
AULA 2 book

1. Go to page 156 and 157. Do exercises 1, 2, 5 and 7.

2. Go to page 158. Translate into English the headlines on exercise 9.

3. Go to page 159. Do exercise 12.

4. Start writing your written assignment and bring in your first draft by this week as well as all sources if you were still missing some for approval before leaving for Diwali.

Monday 5th October

Spanish Ab Initio 
Print out for Ms. Aline one page of each Spanish language reference you have found for your Written Assignment topic. Put your name on each and staple them before turning these in.

Learn the lyrics by heart to chorus (singing voices in the karaoke) of VIVIR MI VIDA song as per the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_985zWSUc. Be prepared to sing on Monday 5th October in class without reading the lyrics!

Sahirah and Arnav: Please start learning the song lyrics that are sung in between the chorus. You can find them at http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/marcanthony/vivirmivida.html

Tianna and Raysa: Please see me for choreography before Monday 5th October.

For those of you who wish to see the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXnjy5YlDwk

Tuesday 22nd September

Spanish Ab Initio 
UNIT 7 AULA 1 book

1. Go to page 91. 

- Do the listening exercises (B and C).

2. Check the following links and get familiar with the uses of past participles and impersonal SE. Be ready to explain what you learnt and show me notes.

http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pastpart.htm
http://www.drlemon.com/Grammar/impersonal.html

Wednesday 16th September

Spanish Ab Initio 
Please bring a tentative topic title for your IB Written Assignment. Remember you should be comparing an aspect of your culture to the culture of the country you chose for similarities and differences. Be as specific with your topic as you can.

Tuesday 8th September

Spanish Ab Initio 
FLIPPED UNIT 9 AULA 1 book

1. Go to page 113. 

- Read the whole page very thoroughly. Check anything you might not understand.  

- Look up any words you might not be familiar with. 

- Write to me or ask questions in class if there are any doubts. Please do the same for any instructions you are not understanding from the exercises you need to complete below.

2. Go to page 108
- Exercise 2A
- Exercise 2B

3. Go to page 109
- Exercise 3A: Read and understand the text only (look up words you do not understand and keep them as vocabulary).
- Exercise 3B: Listen and take notes to show and discuss in class.
- Exercise 3C: Write answer.

4. Go to page 110
- Please complete all exercises on this page.

5. Go to page 111
- Exercise 6C

6. Go to page 112

- Exercise 7A: Read and understand the text only (look up words you do not understand and keep them as vocabulary).

- Exercise 7B

- Exercise 7C

7. Go to page 114
- Exercise 9A