Descriptions

GENEROUS:
My grandmother is the most generous person I know. She always helps poor people and the people that need help. She says that all the people have the same rights and anyone is better than other.

IMAGINATIVE:
My cousin is an imaginative person. He always invent original things and he thinks very funny things and strange thing, he is the most imaginative person I know.

Next week...

Hi, this is just to remind you of some tasks and homework you have to complete for next week, so pay attention:

Monday 30th: Read "The Way up to Heaven".
Remember to complete the activities in the student's book if you were not able to complete them in class or you didn't have your books, unit 6, ex 1, 3, 6 and 7. We are going to correct 6 and 7 in class.

Wednesday 2nd: Homework: workbook, unit 6, ex 1, 2 and 3.
Remember that, for some of you, we also have to complete correcting unit 5 (ex 1, 3, 4 and unit check).

Thursday 3rd: Hand in the writing activity in unit 5 (e-mail).

Monday 7th: Read "The Leg of Lamb"

You can contact me if you have any doubts, on the blog or by e-mail, if it's urgent. Good luck and work hard, our Mid-year exam is coming!

BRING YOUR BOOKS AND MATERIAL NEXT CLASS!!

Take care, Jimena

Descriptions (By Javier)

GENEROUS
A generous person is someone who, for example, lend you things when you need them. Is someone who doesn't matter helping other people, who thinks in the others before him, who hears everyone. Generous people is usually very sympathetic. You can never think of a generous person as someone hipotrical.

IMAGINATIVE
An imaginative person is someone who has a lot of imagination, what means that he or she thinks a lot and has a lot of ideas. Imaginative people is usually very intelectual and bubbly, and like art. However, an imaginative person is scatty and absent-minded, 'lives in the moon'.

Descriptions

Genreous: A really generous person i know is my mum.Once,going out of the supermarket she saw one poor kid and she gave him a bag of food. Also years ago she a school in miami. She likes giving things that we don use anymore,and she loves giving other people gifts.


Imaginative:A really imaginative person i know is my younger brother alan,he is always playing with his friends,and creating crazy historys,for example,that he is a power ranger. He always sees the "magical" side of the things.

Descriptions by Sebi

GENEROUS: A really generous person I know is my grandmother. Everytime we go to her house, there is a different candy awaiting for us. She also cares about other people, and once she lent more than one thousand dollars to the Keren Kayemet. She is a very good person.

IMAGINATIVE: My little brother is a very imaginative person. He is always playing games with his toys as if they really had life. He can also invent a game which is very fun in five minutes. He loves to imagine.

descriptions by maca

generous: my grandmother is a really generous person. She is always giving her clothes and things to another people. She loves help people voluntaryly and she don't wait to recive something.

imaginative: my cousin Mariano is very imaginative. He has a lot of ideas which are creatives. One day he make a college with two horribles shirts.

descriptions by yani

generous:

someone who is generous like to help other people. I know a generous person, she is my ancle, she allwais is thinking first on the other people and then thing about her. She love giving things to the others and dosen´t care if he will recive something or not.

imaginative:

an imaginative person is someone who allwis is thinking on dreams and things they want to be real. I have a friend call barbara, she is very imaginative and some times she have so good ideas that we can use them on the real life.but some times she think lot of things that aren´t real and they wont be, so she forget real and important things.

Descriptions:

Someone who is generous:

A generous person might be a person who loves other people. Of course is not pretentious about what he/she does and is probably charming. He/She thinks a lot in the others, usually helps people who need clothes and other things. I think that a person who is generous know that what he/she does is very good and feel happy of helping other people so often have a very big smile on his/her face.

Someone who is imaginative:

An imaginative person would probably be scatty because he/she is always thinking about original things but he/she may forget other important things. An imaginative person should not be smug, although what he/she thinks is probably brilliant.

Karen Han 2°H

a generous and imaginitive person:

Generous:A generous person I know is john, he always thinks of the rest before him. For example last week he brought to school some clothes for the poor, he was very smug after giving the clothes up. He’s also very sympathetic, he always hears everyone’s needs and tries to help them in any way he can. Another good thing about him is that he’s not hypotrical, he always gives advice and he follows it himself.

Imaginative:
An imaginative person I know is Luke, he’s always writing in his notebook stories about the future, or another world. He’s also very intellectual, for example last year he won a writing contest at school, and his story was published in a book. However, he’s very scatty, he always forgets things.

Descriptions (by Vicky)

A generous person I know is Johnny. He enjoys helping other people and takes care of them.
Last year Johnny collected clothes for charity. He gave the clothes to a school that needed his help. He was very proud of being the one that changed the life of some kids.

An imaginative person I know is Tati. She is always talking about her dreams and she has brainchilds for performing.
I remember last holidays when she used her imagination to write a script for a theatre performance.

Descripion

GENEROUS:
A person who help people and like to help. A generous person always is thinking in the others, and want the equality in the society. To be generous also is to do something voluntary, not waiting to recive something.

IMAGINATIVE:
A person who always is thinking for example original things, bad things, good things, funny things, etc. An imaginative person have the ability to think always new ideas or inventions.

Descriptions (by Johanna)

GENEROUS:

A person who is generous, is a person who helps people in every way. He might be very symphatetic and he would help the people in what they need. I think someone generous wouldn't care how he looks, he would care of helping people.

IMAGINATIVE:

A person who is imaginative would be very witty, because he can imagine really funny things to comment. At the same time he has to be very intelligent, because he has the ability to think in fantastic things.

Descriptions ( by Leandro)

Generous: One of my uncles, called Carlos, is a very generous person. Last week, I went to Puerto Madero to watch a film in the Cinemark. When we were reaching Cinemark a poor person asked my uncle to give him some money, because he had nothing. My uncle accepted, very happy to help other people. Later, we finished watching the film but when we were going to the parking lot, where our car was, another poor person asked my uncle for some money, and of course my uncle gave him some money.

Imaginative: I know a person who is very imaginative. He is one of my best friends, his name is Guido. He solves every situation with a pich of imagination, even the bad situations. He also encourages you if you are depressed and he always makes you laugh, even if you are very sad

Descripcion generous and imaginative

1_ One of my friends,called martin,is a very generous person.The other day we were having a drink at the shopping centre and when I was going to pay I relised I had forgotten the money, then martin said -no problem I will pay it for you-.I was very happy for his action.

2_ My brother is called francisco and he is very imaginative. On sunday he was writing a story. when he had finished it I read it and it was all about dragons and warriors. but I undersand him, he is only nine years old!

Denscripcion generous and imaginative

My friend Pedro has got blond hair. It is very short and it´s like the short grass in the mornings. His mouth is as big as the door of my garage.
He is very generous guy because he always lend his things to all of the classmates and of course he gave me his look to study for the geography test. He is also very imaginative when he writes stories about monsters, faries witchs and dragons.

Generous and imaginative (by Bren)

Generous:
George, is a very generous man, he always think in the others person, and he dont do the best for him, he do the best for the others person. When someone us sad, he is there to contain, and make that person luf. He is fantastic!

Imaginative:
I know a person, that always is thinking in imagines thiks, hers name is Lisa, all the time, she is a very positive person, and she likes that others person be positive too. She really is a imaginative person.

Short Descriptions.

Generous:
My brother is a person who is generous. He likes helping people without any recompense. He doesn’t care who he is helping, he help everybody. He is very sympathetic; you can talk with him anytime. He is always there when you need him. He knows that he has the capacity of help other people, however he is not smug.

Imaginative:
Damian is a person who is imaginative.He is always imagining things. He is bubbly and he always knows what to do to make you feel better when you are sad. Sometimes he is maybe a little cheeky, but he doesn’t want bother people, he is just joking and imagining crazy things!!!

Lucia Pe 2f

For Cynthia and Karen

Girls, I saved your e-mails as draft copies (Guardar como borrador) because you should hand them in in class, not post them. Good work!
See you, Jimena

Next homework

Hi, this is just to remind you to post two short descriptions of a person you know who is:

• generous
• imaginative

Two or three sentences will be enough but remember to use some of the new adjectives we've learned! Follow the instructions in the student's book, Unit 5, Write.

Sorry, I don't have the book at home so I can't tell you the exact page number but PLEASE, if any of you reads this and has the book, complete the missing information for the rest of the class.

You should post this before Friday 27th, so that I can check it and you write the final task (e-mail) for the following week.

You should HAND IN the final version (remember the template) BEFORE THURSDAY JULY 3rd.

One more thing! Have you read Taste? Don't forget we'll be discussing it on Monday so it's essential to read it at home by that date.

See you, Jimena

Short Descriptions!

Generous:
A person who is generous is a person who loves helping the others. They might be sympathetic and every time we need it they listen to our problems. We can have a talk with them and the keep us happy. They are good persons that love and help other people who need it.

Imaginative:
A person who is imaginative is an intelligent person, because he has de ability to imagine incredible things that can’t happen in the real life. They might be witty and very ingenious persons.


Denise Hile 2ºG

SHORT DESCRPTION

GENEROUS:
A person who is generous might be someone who loves the others. I imagine him/her wearing ordinary clothes and i think that he /she will be taking a big suitcase with clothes, toys, or things like that to give it to charity. It will be bubbly but not hypocrital.

IMAGINATIVE:
This person will be definetly witty. He/she will be very intelligent, and will have the capacity of thinking strange things. I think that imaginative people are, sometimes, scatty bacause they will be imaginating things at all time.

Taste and other Tales

As I've already told you, this term we will be reading some short stories by Roald Dahl. The three stories are from the book Taste and other Tales.

I leave you the schedule so that you can organize yourselves for home-reading:

• Taste: Monday, 23rd June


• The Leg of Lamb: Monday, 30th June


• The Way up to Heaven: Monday, 7th July

The objective of home-reading is to get the general idea of the story (plot), don't worry if you don't know the meaning of a word or expression, you can ask in class or look it up in a dictionary later. I leave you a very useful on-line dictionary!

Pay special attention to the main characters, you will have to describe them!

Good luck with these thrillers,

See you, Jimena

Some important dates

Remember tomorrow you should hand in your writing assignments from Unit 4 (Alex's letter) and next Wednesday, 18th you're having the test of Module 1 (units 1 to 4).
That's all for now,
Jimena

Readers

Hi, this time I'm using our blog to present the material we'll be reading this term.

Taste and other tales, by Roald Dahl

Contemporary / British English
In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there's a woman who finds an unusual use for a leg of lamb...

Soon I'll tell you which stories you have to read and the corresponding dates.
See you tomorrow, Jimena

Today' s class

Today we are going to practise reported speech.

Here you can try some exercises, open the pages in a NEW WINDOW, and when you finish the activity you come back to the blog:

Reported commands

Reporting negative commands

Reporting simple statements

Reporting statements with expressions of time

Repoting questions

Reporting questions with expressions of time

Study these examples and rules,

Reporting commands

Reporing statements

Reporting questions

For a complete explanation of reported speech, you may browse this page and complete the suggested activities.

Remember next class we're having a test on relative clauses, passive voice and reported speech!

• If you need to practise relative clauses, try this link! or follow these activities:

Relative pronouns - who, which, whose or no pronouns?

Relative pronouns - who, which, whose - Exercise

• If you need to practise passive voice, follow these activities:

Passive - form, use and examples

Passive sentences - Exercise

Passive sentences in the Simple Past - Exercise

Passive - Sentences in the Simple Present - Exercise

Passive - various tenses - Exercise

Active or Passive? - Exercise 1 Active or Passive? - Exercise 2

Good luck, Jimena

Writing Unit 3
Horse riding

Horse riding it´s an original and different sport. It´s practise in the sand or in the grass, and there are often competitions.
This sport is a good way to get on with animals (horses.) It´s sometimes recomended to sick people to open their mind and it also helps people thinking how to solve their problems. Horse riding is a good option to families who want to share something because it might be practise by everyone, since very little children to grandmother or grandfather.
However there are negative points too. It´s a dangerous aport, although you wear a helmet. You can fell down of the horse and have an injurie. Moreover it´s an expensive sport and you can only practise it in some special places.
I think it´s important to relax and don´t be scared because in that case you could produce an accident and you couldn´t enjoy this beautiful sport.

152 words

Karen Han. 2°H


Jime I couldn´t print the writing so I hope you can correct it from here or if not a will try to print it.
thank you
karen

For GHKP students only!

Hi, 2nd GHKP, remember we are meeting at the Lab on Thursday 5th.

See you there,

Jimena

Some revision on Relative Clauses

Hi, I've found this interesting post about defing and non-defining relative clauses. You may print the activities if you need some extra practice!

Good luck, Jimena