Moving to a new site

 

I am moving to a new site: https://sites.google.com/view/mr-silva-digital-planning/inicio

Contact me: valissirana@gmail.com

I teach English, create material for classes, and make content.

These are part of my services: 

• Grammar Classes (past tense classes, classes about modals, specific uses of the subjunctive, verbal periphrases...).

• Conversation and Pronunciation Classes (oral fluency, oral presentation of projects to a specific audience, challenging sounds in the target language...).

• Role Play Classes (a specific communicative situation derived from real life).

• Vocabulary Classes (within a semantic field, in some communicative situations, lexical collocations, phraseology...).

• Writing Classes (specific textual typologies, use of specific vocabulary and structures...).

• Classes for Preparation for Specific Exams (IELTS, TOEFL, university exams...).

Let's Play Classes

 

 Class 3

- Organizing Attendance, 5 minutes.

- Spelling the Alphabet, 10 minutes.

- Spelling their Names, 10 minutes.

- Today: Starter Pages - He's my brother. 6 -7 30 Minutes

- Video-chant: HE/SHE, 10 minutes.

- Challenge: Present characters or people from pictures. 10 minutes 

 Class 4

- Organizing attendance. 5 minutes.

- Spell your name and last name, please. 10 minutes.

- Today Starter: Pages 8 and 9. 

- Video: Days of the Week.

- Challenge: PANDA

 Class 5

1 - Quizziz Start: 

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f52f63bf71804001b9a694e

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f51b9a24eec03001e834a62 

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f6261105c18ed001bf2e88d

2 - Spelling Challenge! Virtual Board

3 - Review on page 10.

4 - Review on page 11.

5 - Create a complete conversations with all the vocabulary.

Class 7 - Before the exam

1. Explain how to download and use Panda. 

2. Evaluation on the first unit announcement, points to study:

- Speaking: Saying hello, your name, your age, indicating your family.

- Listening: Spelling Words.

- Reading: Members of the Family.

- Writing: Making a small introduction of your family and friends.

2. People and places, page 16. Introductions and nationalities.

Class 8 - Before the exam

1. Practicing This/That/These/Those

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/this-that-these-those

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/this-that

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/forms

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/write

2. Communication: Talk about music. Page 20.

3. Write: Write about your band. Page 21.

4. Feedback

Class 9 - Before the exam

1. Checking out - Attendance
2. Musical Instruments:
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/musical-instruments-1
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/musical-instruments-2
https://1c7951e0f713f82c10d3-9c5e6fbd2c9d828eb37b6bf0399bddd6.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/animal-band-quiz/index.html
3. Cross-curricular Studies, page 22.
4. Geography, page 23.
5. Nationalities
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_SoAmCA_G1_drag_drop.html

Class 10 - Before the exam 

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3. Wild World, page 26

4. Feelings, page 27

5.

Class 13 - Before the exam 

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3. Wild World, page 27

4. Grammar, page 28

5. 

Class 14 - Animals and plurals

1. Guess what animal it is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA6Mofzh7jo&t=20s

2. Guess what country it is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2XZxZlofI

3. The Parrots are Amazing, page 30

4. Grammar: Singular / Plural, page 31

5. Revision, page 32.

6. Singular and Plural Exercises: https://agendaweb.org/grammar/plural-exercises.html

Class 15 -Describing animals

1. The Big Describer: Students enter a do activities 1 and 2 to practice describing animals.

Link: https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/describer/

2. What baby animal are you? Male SS take the quiz and see what animal they are similar to.

Link: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/personality-quizzes/which-cute-baby-animal/

3. Book Work: Pages 34 - Animal Description and 35 Star Spot.

4. Describing 3 animals using the vocabulary that they have seen.

5. General Review on Unit 3.

 

Kid's Starter Class 1 and 2

 Saying hello!

Class 1
- Checklist
- Welcome to the program.
- Rules and agreements
- Saying hello
- What's your name?
- Digital Worksheet: https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Greetings_and_farewells/Nice_to_meet_you!_zt8174ur 

Class 2
- Saying hello to get acquaintance to other SS
- Checking homework together!
- Today Starter: I'm Lily, pages 4 and 5.
- Spelling Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfKfstRfPI
- Spelling names

Online Classes on Wednesday 30th, 2020

 8th Grade - Working on the "I'd prefer conversation"

9th Grade - Working on the infographic Speaking Task!

11th Grade - Working on top 5 tips to be safe on the internet.

5th Grade - Book work continue on Past Simple.

6the Grade - Book work continue on Past Simple

Study Group - Listening practice on the Past Simple.

Saturday Class May 17th

ECOTOURISM

Vocabulary about tourism: Match the vocabulary using the correct letter on each word. One is extra.

Lodge __ Heritage__ Cuisine __ Ecotourism __ Amenities __ Peak ___ Valet ___ Franchise __ Package

a) Useful infrastructure or services that are intended to make life more pleasant for the people in the general area. In the tourism and hospitality world this would include swimming pools, tourist information centres and spas.

b) A type of tourism that aims to reduce the harmful impact that visitors can have on local communities and environments.

c) That season is the time of year when most people go on holiday – all of the tourist attractions are open, the weather is nice, and prices are generally steep.

d) A member of hotel staff that performs personal services for guests, this usually involves parking their vehicles.

e) A room or rooms rented out to someone, usually in the same residence as the owner.

f) Property that is or may be gotten as part of a legacy. 

g) A style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment.

h) A set of proposals or terms offered or agreed as a whole.

1. How mass tourism is destroying cities. A video that shows how mass tourism affect the places that they visit. The idea is to watch it with class and clarify the vocabulary as you go through the 4 sections of the video. Warning: Some security cam violence is shown. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyt1HdR4uLw

- What are the 4 problems with tourism?
- What Spanish city has 9 million visitors?
- Where can you find a long line to visit?
- What do tourists consume?
- What country is proctecting its coral reef?
- What percentage of global gas emissions tourism represent?
- What kind of bad behaviour can be seen in certain tourists?
- What are the problem with temples?
- What is the problem with AirBNB?
- What solutions are countries taking?

Saturday Classes - 28 de Marzo 2020

Saturday Classes - 28 de Marzo 2020

Assignment
Rise of the Cities Section: Class Discussion (1 hour and 15 minutes).
Today's topic is about the rise of the cities. We are going to learn how cities came to be from the origins of history. So, "watch Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years - Vance Kite" and check for understanding completing these ideas:

Main Ideas
1) In 3-4 sentences, discuss the importance of improvements in farming techniques to the development of cities:
2) Reliable food supplies allowed humans the luxury of free time, which provided the opportunity to produce items for trade. Describe how the production of goods contributed to the growth of cities.
3) Experts predict that global population will top out around 10 billion people, with 7 billion of those people living in cities. What are some of the opportunities and challenges that cities will face as the population increases.

Specific Details
- What percentage of the human population lived in cities 100 years ago?
- What led to the development of the first semi-permanent settlements? -}
- Which of the below technologies is a development that resulted from the desire to trade with neighboring communities?
- Why were people initially drawn to cities?
- Global population is expected to top out at _______ billion people.

Independent Reading Section: City Problems - Book Section (1 hour).
In a blank word document, upload the file answering the following questions.
Exercise 1: On page 50 - Do activities A, B, C and D
Exercise 2: Read pages 51 - 53. On pages 54 and 55, do activities A, B, C and D.
This will be checked at the of the classes to track progress.

Friday 6th/Saturday 9th Classes

Friday 6th - The Definition of Beauty

Class: 07- Working on the idea of beauty.
1) Game of the day: Last Man Standing
This is a game which gives students the time to think and encourage peer learning. As they hear other students speaking, they will pick up on some words.  Have all the students form a circle and stand at the center with a ball. All you have to do is name a category (food, places, hobbies, etc.) and pass the ball to one student. Let them toss it to another student as they name a word related to the theme. If they repeat a word or can’t say any more words, they need to sit down. The last man/student standing wins the game.

2) The Idea of Beauty: Show your concept of beauty by arraging this pictures in order of beauty. Then, in open class make SS show their choice and explain why.

Pre-Watching: Look at the vocabulary and match it to the proper definition. Two words are unnecessary.

symmetry - assess - pervasive - rank - abstract
shape - functionality - sprawling - aesthetic - monotone

1) Extending out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way.
2) Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.
3) The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
4) Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
5) Evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of.
6) The quality of being suited to serve a purpose well.
7) Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
8) Without intonation or expressiveness.

As you watch: answer the following questions.
1) What is proof that beauty is an antique human experience?
2) What ideas have never gone out of fashion?
3) Where do patterns of beauty have come from? How do we know?
4) How do we know that the sense of beauty is hard-wired in our minds?
5) Why is beauty important for us? How could it make our lives better?
6) What do many studies show about the relevance of beauty and health?
7) What about beauty and happiness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5kNPlUV7w

After-watching: Think about the following ideas and indicate if you agree or disagree. 

- Deep dive into grammar exercise: Page 275 and on. Passive causative practice. The rest of the lesson is dedicated to the book focusing on grammar practice.

Saturday 9th - Oral presentations on health dangers.
1) Game of the day: Last Man Standing
This is a game which gives students the time to think and encourage peer learning. As they hear other students speaking, they will pick up on some words.  Have all the students form a circle and stand at the center with a ball. All you have to do is name a category (food, places, hobbies, etc.) and pass the ball to one student. Let them toss it to another student as they name a word related to the theme. If they repeat a word or can’t say any more words, they need to sit down. The last man/student standing wins the game.

2) Health and technology