Lab Activities 26th April

Dear all,

Welcome to the computer lab session today!

We will divide our work between language exercises and the historical district project. Please organise your time accordingly, so there's enough time to fulfill both.

First part: Language practice (30 minutes)
Jumbled sentences: Please do exercises 1-5
Some tips about punctuation and some exercises.
Punctuation exercises

Please write a brief reflection on the advantages and disadvantages of these exercises in your blog.

Second part: Historical district project  (50 minutes)
Get in your groups and start googling for information about the place you want to work on.
Remember to bookmark all the sites you visit! They have to be included in the bibliography, as they were consulted websites.

1.  Group leader: Create a google doc
2. Share it with your classmates & teacher (top right / sharing options)
3. Start working, on your different computers on the same doc. Copy / paste information IN ENGLISH about the place you are researching. Please do not consult wikipedia. 
4. You can interact with the google doc by checking the chat on the right. If so, please chat in English!
5. Your teacher will leave some comments on the doc within this week. Remember this is just the first approach to the research, which has to be book-based.
6. Suggestion: You may check official tourism website, Lonely Planet, Trip Advisor, Welcome Chile, Santiago Tourist, etc. 

Lab activities April 11

Dear students,
Welcome to our lab session today!
Please ensure to fulfill the activity today. I'll be printing your blogs on Thursday and give you a progress mark on your blogs (Criteria: Organisation of ideas, coherence of ideas and cohesion; use of vocabulary according to the assigned tasks; and task completion).

Today, we will work on describing places and people, in preparation to your cumulative test on Thursday 14th.

1. Organise your paragraphs coherently!
Keep in mind

ONE idea - ONE paragraph

Therefore, when describing, you can have paragraphs on 1. Location/surrounding; 2. Building (divided into shape, colour, architecture style, special features...);  3. Purpose; 4. Your opinion. This is just a suggestion! Please think of your reader, who will be puzzled with a mixture of characteristics!


You may want to brainstorm and organise the ideas first. Also, use your connectives you have learnt so far. Bear in mind sentence structure (Subject + verb + (object, complement, adverbial).

Describe and compare the following pictures:

1. Offices

 2. Bedrooms

3. Santiago

Post the descriptions in your blogs. As soon as you finish them off, please comment on your classmates' blogs and give feedback, as appropriate.