First book

Title	Plot	Main characters	What moment to was the most thrilling for you and why?	Which character do you feel closer to? Why?	Activities
“The lost ship”	This story is about a crew that is heading to Florida, then the captain enters a boat traveling at sea, and this realizes that this boat is that they travel.	Captain and crew	Well, the part I liked most of the story was when the crew is given how much traveling a ship at sea, the captain then goes to the ship enters and sees that there is no person in, but when he sees that in a table is the book where he writes every day what happens on the boat and see his portrait tood.	I don’t feel identified any character, because the story is horror and not many characters.	No activities

TEXT COMPLETION QUIZ

NR: Hello. This is Charles Richards from Channel 7 News, and we're down here, uh, at the City Mall, interviewing people on how they 1) Christmas. And, uh, hi young lady. What is your name?

YG: Elizabeth Carter.

NR: And, uh, Elizabeth, uh. How does your family celebrate Christmas?

YG: We go 2), and we go over to my grandparents house and have dinner with them.

NR: Well, that is great, and let me ask this young man. Hi, what is your name? [Johnny.] And Johnny, how old are you?

J: Five.

NR: And, uh, does your family eat anything 3) for Christmas?

J: Turkey . . .

NR: And what does Christmas mean to you?

YG: Going to my grandma's and 4) their breakfast.

NR: Going to grandma's and making breakfast. And let me ask another young man. Hi, what is your name? [Steven.] Okay, and Steven, what does Christmas mean to you?

S: Giving but not expecting to get.

NR: Now, that's kind of hard for a young man like yourself. What does that mean: Giving by not expecting.

S: Well, one thing that we do is 5)giving.

NR: Secret giving? Now how does that 6) in your family?

S: We 7) up to the porch of somebody that we want to give to, we put the gift that we want to give to them, ring the doorbell, and 8).

NR: Ring the doorbell and hide? Uh, so you're not expecting something; you just want to be 9) to someone else. Is that right?

S: Yeah. That's correct.

NR: And let's interview one more. And, uh, how do you celebrate Christmas? What is the best thing about Christmas and what does it mean to you?

YW: It means getting off from school!

NR: Getting off from school?! Do you all feel that way?

GCH: Yeah!!

YG: Because I hate 10) .

NR: Yeah. Well, that all here from the City Mall. Channel 7 reporting.

1.- CELEBRATE	6.- WORK
2.- SLEDDING	7.- SNEAK
3.- PARTICULAR	8.- HIDE
4.- MAKING	9.- GENEROUS
5.- SECRET	10.- HOMEWORK

VOCABULARY

v  Matching exercise.

SLEDDING

HIDE

CELEBRATE

MEAN

PARTICULAR

1.- We CELEBRATE birthdays by eating cake and icecream.

2.- What does his celebration MEAN to you?

3.- Is there anything special or PARTICULAR that you do for the holidays?

4.- Where should we HIDE the gifts so the children don’t fine them?

5.- Our family loves to go SLEDDING down snowy hills.

SECOND PARTIAL.

SECOND PARTIAL.

1.- Where does this news program take place?

 R= At a shopping center.

2.- How does the young girl, Eñizabeth, celebrate  this holiday with her family?

R= They visit close relatives.

3.- What does Johnny and his family eat on this day?

R= Turkey.

4.- What sentence best describes Steven’s feelings about Christmas?

R= It’s a day when people think of others without waiting for a gift in return.

5.- The final young woman says that the best thing about Christmas is:

R= Habing a vacation from school.

Vocabulary activities.

v  Multiple-choice and short-answer question.

Holiday traditions: Tanksgiving and Christmas.

1-. What does Tanksgiving MEAN to you? For some, it represents a time to remember your blessings.

2-. How does your family CELEBRATE Christmas?

3-. My father has always been very GENEROUS TO OTHERS. He always give his time and money to those is need.

4-. I want to go SLEDDING after lunch. It should be a great day because there is a lot of snow on the hill, and everyone is traveling relly fast down it.

5-. When I wast little, my parents’ didn’t want me to fine my presents. So they tried HIDE them in their closet, But I always figured out where they put them.

v  Mixed-up sentence exercise.

CHRISTMAS

CELEBRATE

DOES

YOUR

FAMILY

HOW

 R= HOW DOES YOUR FAMILY CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

Media library hours.

Hours:                Date:              Material used:               What I learned:

9:40/10:22,   23/09/2012,      Top noch,                       I learned to describe people. to say hair color, eyes, etc.

    

 8:40/9:37,      17/09/2012,   Tell me more english,      I learned to work possessive adjetives.

9:45/10:57,     17/09/2012,   Tell me more english,    I learned to accomodate clutter words correctly in a sentences.

11:50/12:51,    05/09/2012,   Tell me more english,   I learned to use word such as " has" and "have".

7:50/8:54,        05/09/2012,   Tell me more english,   I learned to tell the age of people and things

8:20/9:30,       05/09/2012,   Tell me more english,    I learned to put words to sentences such as Those, That, These and This..

9:11/10:20,      29/08/2012,   Tell me more english,   I learned to make sentences with words such as What, When, How, Where, etc.

13:22/14:54,     22/08/2012,    Top noch,     I learned to describe people, to say hair color and eyes, etc.