ACTIVITIES

CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES

• Describing a picture: Students have to go to this link: https://voicethread.com/?#u2507093.b3088655.i16363180  and see the picture there, so later they have to comment by saying which of those food are countable and uncountable. It must be recorded in the same page. To do so click on comment and there you will see the options "record" and "type," so click on "record" and record your answer. If the link asks you to sing in to do so, here you have the information needed alexjandro26@hotmail.com and password: alejandrito

•  Two options: Students have to go to this link : http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php  and do the exercise. Then, they have to copy the results on a word document and send it to the teacher´s e-mail (alexjandro26@hotmail.com) 
  

•   Quiz: Students have to read the following article:  http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~nozawa/Food-e.html  and then, they have to take the quiz about it on: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=212092 . e-mail your results to the teacher´s e-mail (alexjandro26@hotmail.com)

SEMI-CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES

• Our story: Students have to create a stoy with the following words: a box of cookies, mayonnaise, some apples, sweet, frozen, fish, work, lettuces, turkey, red meat, several lobsters, salty, a jar of honey, a pound grapes, crisp. The story must be recorded in http://mailvu.com/  and sent to the teacher´s e-mail  (alexjandro26@hotmail.com)   

• my experience: Students have to talk about their experience at a restaurant, what was good, and what was not that good. they have to record their experiences on http://vocaroo.com/  and share it in our group in facebook.  

•  Recording: Students have to go to this link:  http://voicethread.com/?#u2507093.b3090152.i16371810   and after seeing the picture, they have to record themselves on http://mailvu.com/   saying what is required in each exercise. 

FREE  ACTIVITIES

• Role play: Students have to make groups of five and roleplay any of the situations below:

- Your mother asks you to go to the supermarket but as you do not like taking notes, you prefer to go by repeating the list. Then a friend of you meets you on your way and start to talk to you, so that you forget what you are going to buy. 

- You and your friends go to the restaurant, but you do not have any reservation. How would you solve the situation?

Record your role play, and send it to the teacher´s e-mail (alexjandro26@hotmail.com) . 

• Debate: Students have to start a talkgroup on http://www.voxopop.com/ about any of the following topics: 

 

-          A simple rose is better than a bunch of them.

-          Salvadorian people consume more chocolate than American ones

-          Smoking cigarettes helps you to overcome stress.

-          Buying fruits and vegetables at the marker is cheaper than buying them at the supermarket.

After finished your talkgroup, you have to comment on what your classmates have said. 

• My recipe: Record yourself in http://mailvu.com/ explaining your favorite dish. You have to say the recipe to prepare it. Send the recording to the teacher´s e-mail. Do not forget to say if what you are using is a countable or an uncountable noun and why?