WEB QUEST (CA4)

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

·      Don’t forget to select English before starting the activity.

Questions:

Ø What’s your carbon footprint?

Ø What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz-going-green/

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/Science-Quizzes/r/Recycling-Quiz.asp

Questions:

Ø Hand washing dishes can use up to ______ % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

Ø Only about _________ % of global energy comes from renewables.

Ø True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.

Ø Can you make paper out of hemp?

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbSEIOUp4w

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1.

2.

3.

WEB QUEST (CA2)

You are going to spend a week in London evaluating tourist locations for an end of year study trip.

Here is a list of things you want to do while you are there.  Follow the links and fill in the table.

Half Day Outings

London Eye

http://www.londoneye.com/

The British Museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/

The Tower of London

http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/ (including Crown Jewels)

Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum

http://www.madametussauds.com/london/

The Natural History Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

The Tate Modern Art Gallery

http://www.tate.org.uk/

Full day

Kew Gardens

http://www.kew.org/

Camden Market

http://www.camden-market.org/

For each location say:

What day you will visit,

How much you will have to pay to get in,

Which Tube station you will travel to (nearest to location), and the zone it is in.

What will you do on the other days? (2 full days / 4 half days / 1 full day 2 half days)

Search the web for other things to do in London.

What is the total cost?

Post 10 (week 15) >> Evaluation of your Blogging Experience

Write about your experience using blogs in the English class.

Say:

> What you think about the experience in general
> How much you feel your writing skills have developed
> What you would like to include in the future
> What else you would like to write about


Wordcount: 200

Post 9 (week 14) >> Themed/Free post 4 "FOUCh"

Dear all,

Your assignment this week is writing about your Faculty.

Please include:

- General vision about the FOUCh

- Positive and Negative things about it.

- Changes you would do in the faculty.

- Communication with other faculties of the University. 

- Any other piece of information you may consider important.

-190 words minimum.

- Include a picture. 

- Comment on at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs

Post 8 (week 12) >> Themed/Free post 3 "Childhood Series"

Your task for today is to talk about the programmes you used to watch, as a child.
PleaseInclude:
- Did you have any favorite cartoon as a child? Why?
- How old were you when you watched it/them?
- Do you have any favorite cartoon now?
- Which cartoon would you recommend for kids, and why?
- Make a comments on 3 of your classmates posts.
- Word Count for this post : 180 words

Post 7 (week 11) >> Carrer-Related Website OR An Expert on your Field

British Council is a useful career-related website that I'm not using in my current job, but I used it a lot when I worked at school; Not only because it has available material for me as teacher, but also it contains a lot of exercises for students to practice at home and using the computer as a tool for learning english.
What's the difference with other  english websites? in my opinion here you have more than one option to achieve what you are looking for. For example, in other webpages you might find only fill in the blank activities, but here you have suitable tasks according to the different levels and proficiency. This webpage also has a friendly design, which makes easier for teachers and students to find what they need because the contents are organized into categories. Also, it is possible to develop different skills because you can find listening, reading, writing activities and some others of repetition.
I also used a lot of ideas specially games, that helped me to apply the contents in a meaningful and interesting way for students and of course they enjoyed them. 
I think it is important to use technological resources specially nowadays that most of the people have access to a computer and is something they are familiar with.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar


For this post, the students have to choose only ONE of these  2 options:

Post 1 (Instructions). 
Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting.

You have to:

- provide the link
- describe the website (sections, features,etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.
>Add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs
>Word Count: 170


Post 2 (Instructions)
Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Say:

-Who she/he is. (short biography)
-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
-Why you like her/him.
-Include his/her image

> About 170 words
>Add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs

Post 6 (week 10) >> Themed/Free post 2 "My favourite Movie"

In this opportunity I'll talk about my favorite movie, and despite I love watching movies in my free time, I think that the one that I like the most is BIG FISH. It's kind of difficult for me try to find just one reason to explain why I like it so much, I love the way this story is presented and the characters are very particular. Among them you can find a witch, a giant, a werewolf and a very big fish in a lake. I love the way in which magic and reality are mixed, and above all I think that in a way the main character is very similar to my dad, and that makes it so special.
To tell the truth, I don't remember the first time I saw this movie, but I can tell you this: "this movie has the best ending I've ever seen" It's totally perfect for me, and I really recommend you to see it if you haven't yet. It has everything, action, romance, magic, tragedy and adventure.
In second place I like FIGHT CLUB, this one is completely different from Big Fish, but I totally love it too! and I think it is interesting to analyze through this movie the role of society, consumerism, behavior, and how we just reproduce a system without thinking if we feel happy or not about the way we are living. In a way I believe there is a Tyler Durden inside of each one of us, but of course we don't like to think about it.
In general I like different kinds of movies, because as the same as happens with music, there is a time for everything. Sometimes I want  to laugh with a comedy, or some others I like science fiction, etc. But there is one category I don't like at all, and this is horror movies, I'm not good at watching them because after I see them I just can't forget those scary characters or images that appear on the movie and I feel scary for a long time, that is why I prefer to avoid them. 
The most recent movie I saw was "Whiplash" about a young drummer, It is  an excellent movie... you should see it. 

Dear all,

Your assignment this week is writing about your favourite movie. 

  Please include:

- What's your favourite movie and why you like it?

- When was the first time you saw it?

- What kind of  movies do you like to watch?

- What is the most recent movie you saw? Did you like it?

- Any other piece of information you may consider important.

- Number of words: 160
- Leave comments on at least 3 of your mates' posts.

Post 5 (Week 9) >> "A photograph you like"

Today I'll talk about a photograph I like... what a difficult decision, because as I wrote in a previous post I love taking pictures, but instead I wanted to focus in a significant moment behind the photograph. 
For this reason I chose this one, they are my pets Horus (the dog) and Minerva (the Cat) and I love this image because it remains me that beautiful reencounter .

The story behind the photograph...
I should start saying that in my house we love animals and this is why we rescued our two pets. Horus is two years old now and he was our only pet until the last year, in July to be more specific when mi brother rescued minerva a little cat who was alone in the street so he decided to bring her home. She was only months of life and was dirty and thin, so we feed her and took her to the Vet to received a proper treatment. Everything was ok, I have to say that my dog is extremely friendly so he accepted that Minerva was going to be a new member of our family so they started building a beautiful friendship. They played all the time, shared food and even slept in the same place. 
The months passed and Christmas came, we were having dinner at the backyard and then some noisy fireworks scared Minerva and she just run away, we though she will return but after many hours she didn't come, we started getting worried about her so asked our neighbors but no one saw her, we waited for weeks without having news so we started thinking the worst. Apart from this situation we had everything ready for our holidays so we went, but nothing was the same, of corse we were sad because we didn't know what happened to our cat. 

When we came back of our holidays, getting out of the car we saw Minerva again, we were all so happy, but what impressed me the most was the reaction of our dog, he was so euphoric that he jumped and barked. When we got into the house she seemed to be tired so she went to my parents bed and my dog just lie down next to her and started licking at her like trying to say "I missed you". For me it was so cute that I took them a picture. 
I took this photograph on January of 2015 because it was a moment that I wanted to remember.
...Do you have a favorite photograph?



Write about a photograph you like.
Say:
Who took it
What it shows
When it was taken
Why you like it
Upload it too

Include any other information you'd like to mention.
Write at least 150 words.

Add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs

Post 4 (week 6) >> Themed/Free Post 1 "My Favourite Music"

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination

and life to everything.”

Wonderful quote by Plato, In my case Music has always been part of my life since I was only months of life, and the most beautiful thing is that for all my family music is important too. I would say that for this reason I like playing drums and my brother plays the bass and guitar. We enjoy spending time singing and discovering new bands.  

My parents always remember that when I was a baby and I couldn't stop crying my dad just put some music on the radio and I immediately calm down. Since I was a child I've always been exposed to music in English, specially from the 80's, and with the passing years my musical interests have changed a lot, but I'll never forget the moment when it became really important... 

When I was 8 years old I listened to a song from Aerosmith called "Hole in my soul" that just blew my mind, and from that moment on I couldn't stop looking for new similar bands. I like different types o music, my favorites ones are aggro or nu metal (deftones, korn, staind, tc.) and grunge (alice in chains, pearl jam, smashing pumpkins,tc.) and I'm really lucky to say that I have seen most of my favorite bands live, whenever they come to Chile I always go to the concerts. 

The most amazing one I've ever seen was Roger Waters presenting "The Wall" in 2012, It was so overwhelming that every time I watch the DVD of this presentation again I get goosebumps.
I also love film soundtracks, some of them are Ennio Morricone who came to chile in 2013 with Mike Patton (Mondo Cane) it was a wonderful concert I had the opportinity to see, there is also Jon Brion who composed songs for a movie I like a lot  "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"  and my favorite one Danny Elfman, who is a close friend to Tim Burton, so he has composed soundtracks for many of his movies like: Big Fish, The nightmare before christmas, Batman, Edward Scissorhands among many others. I can say that I'm a big fan of movies and music plays a relevant role there.
I also enjoy quiet music. I think that Sigur ros is one of those bands that helps me think clearly when I need to relax, and similar to this Post Rock style I listen to are "God is an astronaut" "If these trees could talk" "Explosions in the Sky" etc. 

And from Disney movies of course! "hakuna matata"  and "you've got a friend in me" from Toy Story.

Dear all,

Your assignment this week is writing about your favourite music. Please include:

- The kind(s) of music you like and why you like it?

- When you started listening to this kind of music.

- Any information about the bands or the musicians you like.

- Concerts or music events you have attended.

- Any other piece of information you may consider important.

-140 words minimum.

- Include a picture. 

- Comment on at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs.

Post 3 (week 5) >> My favourite Piece of Technology

In this opportunity I'll talk about my favorite piece of technology. I have to admit that it was kind of difficult at first thinking about only one, as we have many technological devices that we use every day and make our life easier. I realized how important is for most of the people having their cellphones for example. Nowadays everybody spend a lot of time in front of their computers or sending text messages, but to tell the truth I'm not a tech fan. I actually don't use them very often and I've never played those popular cell games, so despite their are useful tools in my life of course, I wouldn't say that I actually "enjoy" using them. But then I started thinking Which one of them I really like? and what first came to my mind is my camera.

I love taking photographs! ... since I can remember I've always have fun taking photos, when I was younger I used a small camera, but two years ago I  bought a professional one with more options to make photographs more precise. When we go on holiday with my family I really enjoy to capture all those beautiful moment with people I love, and from landscapes I don't want to forget.   
For some people is annoying carrying a camera all the time, or they are worried because they want to look good in every photograph, but I like to take them in spontaneous moments, like when people is laughing or they look happy and they don't realize that I'm taking photos, so then they are surprised to see them.
Some people say that the problem with the cameras nowadays is that you can take hundreds of photos and you never have time to see them all, and that's right but at least in my case I check them and after erase those who are not that good I put them in a CD, so every time we want to see them again we have them there.  

Of course I would like to learn how to use it properly because it has  many options and everything I know I have learned it on my own, so I'm thinking on taking one of these summer courses so I can take advantage of the full potential of the camera. 

... What about you? What is your favorite piece of technology? 




*Write about your favourite piece of technology

Say:

-What it is.
-When you got it.
-How you use it.
-How often you use it.
-Why you like it.
-What life would be like without it.

- 130 words minimum.
- Include a picture. 
- Comment on at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs.