OPEN HOUSE INSTRUCTIONS

Next Saturday, June 1st, will be our OPEN HOUSE🎇🎉

🌵Teachers and students must arrive as usual, 7:50 a.m., to practice, prepare, and enjoy a meal together.
🌵Your parents are welcome to come in at 1 p.m.
       🌹Miss Grace's Open House will be on classroom 14.
       🌻Miss Jessica's will be on the Polivalente.
       🌷Miss Michelle's will be on the Auditorium.

🍕For the meal:
You must bring FOOD/DRINKS/SNACKS TO SHARE, and your own PLASTIC PLATE AND CUP (non-disposable: you'll take them back to your house and clean them). We want to not create too much trash, and we are asking you to help us out.


🎇For the Open House:
    🎆Dress formally. If you can dress up in a typical outfit from someone in the place you chose, please do so! Be creative :)

    🎆Bring all materials to decorate! Your stands need to look colorful and related to the place you're going to present.

    🎆Bring the brochures to give to everyone who goes to your stand!

From Ms. Jessica's class: looking for Emiliano and José Ángel

If anyone has Emiliano's and/or José Ángel's contact, I need you to send them a message: ask them to send me an email to jessicagzz.cideb@gmail.com. Please, it is important!

FOR YOUR PARENTS: VERY IMPORTANT

THIS IS FOR ALL STUDENTS

🔴🔴 Hi, guys!
It is VERY IMPORTANT that your parents read the following document. It has information about the re-enrollment process, about the Open House, and other information they can't miss. Please, pass the document onto them. 🔴🔴

🔴🔴 ¡Hola, chicos!
Es MUY IMPORTANTE que sus papás lean el siguiente documento. Tiene información acerca del proceso de reinscripción, del Open House, y otra información que no pueden perder. Por favor, háganselos llegar. 🔴🔴

Ms. Jessica's Students:

I need all of your homeworks in your folders: whatever homework or dictation you have in your house or in your backpacks, I need you to give them back to me next Saturday.
This reminder goes especially to those who have some dictations with you: ask your parents to sign it this week and deliver them back to me!

Homework, quiz, or dictation that is not in the folder next Saturday, is homework not delivered, since I don't have evidence that you gave it to me.

For all students: HOMEWORK

🍐Page 131, exercise C.

‬🍎🍎TO ALL STUDENTS:
Guys, the Open House presentations will be evaluated NEXT SATURDAY. Therefore, you must already bring your brochure, poster(s), and decoration.
We will give you a grade on that Saturday, and on June 1st you'll present to your parents.

By presentations, we mean you will present your topic next Saturday! Therefore, you must talk to your team, choose who says what, and rehearse individually.🍎🍎

🍏Ms. Jessica's students:
Send the brochure by Tuesday May 14th, 11:59 p.m.
I'll send you corrections for you to deliver it printed by Saturday May 18th.

🍏Ms. Grace's students:
Deliver the Final Project (individual report):
    - Cover page
    - Report parts (introduction, body, conclusion)

TOPICS FOR THE THIRD WRITTEN EXAM

Hi guys!

As you already know, next Saturday (May 18th), we're going to have our last Written Exam.

⛅The exam will be that you write a descriptive essay, and you must include the following:
    🌈    10 vocabulary words
    🌈    Sentences in unreal past
    🌈    Sentences with relative and participle clauses
    🌈    Reported speech sentences
    🌈    Clause of result, concession, and purpose

As always, we will ask for 500 words.

It is very important that you study!

Writing a letter expressing an opinion PPT

Grammar: Clauses of result, purpose and concession PPT

For all students: HOMEWORK

🌙  Study for the 3rd Oral Exam.
    ✰  Send your PowerPoint Presentation to your teacher by Thursday 9th.
    ✰  Must not be longer than 5 slides.
    ✰  Your Oral Exam will be 3 minutes long. Remember, you have to sell the idea to your classmates!

🌙  Correct the Final Project to deliver it on Saturday.

🌙  Book pages 119 and 122.

🌙  Bring materials to build your Open House stand:
    Paper, cardboard, pictures, foami, tissue paper...
    ✰  Be creative💡

🌙  For Ms. Grace's students: Bring the brochure.

Grammar: Reported Speech PPT

Vocabulary: Jobs PPT

Reading Worksheet:

I'm so sorry for the wait, guys! Here is the worksheet.

To Ms. Jessica's Students: About the Final Project Draft

To Ms. Jessica's students:

Hi, guys!
I hope you're having great vacations.
This post is to remind you that, if you haven't already, you must send me an email for me to send you pictures of your draft or your essay with corrections.
The purpose of me sending you your draft or essay is that you can correct what I asked you, for your Final Draft to be the best it can be.

If you have any doubts, please send me an email.
-Ms. Jessica

Homework for all students:

🌟Study for the TOEFL, which will take place on May 4th.
🌟Complete the worksheet about "The Pit and the Pendulum" (it will be uploaded later to the blog).

🌈FOR APRIL 24th:
Send your final Final Project Draft to your teacher by email.

🌈FOR MAY 1st:
Send screenshots to your teacher of the answered questions of:
     🎈2 TOEFL lectures
     🎈3 TOEFL conversations
     🎈3 TOEFL structure tests
     🎈3 TOEFL readings
  😊Note: Create a word document with all of the screenshots and send it to your teacher´s email.             Remember, you can find the activities in the Links section on the blog

🎉We hope you have amazing Easter holidays!!😃🎉

🌠Ms. Jessica's Students, remember to finish page 109, exercises B and C.

Grammar: Participle Clauses PPT

Grammar: Causative Forms PPT

Grammar: Prepositions PPT

Ms. Jessica's Students:

Since we don't have a group where the class representative can send the pages, here they are!

REMINDER: You should already have answered these pages, you are only checking that you completed them.

Homework week 11

Hello, guys. Just a little reminder of your homework:

• Answer page 106 and 107 from your book
• Study for the grammar & vocabulary quiz (Make&Do, Relative clauses, Unreal Past, -Ing vs Infinitive)

Finish the pages of the book that we have seen during the semester (in case they are incomplete), because there will be revision next saturday. The pages that you are supposed to have answered are going to be sent to your respective group representative. 

GRAMMAR: Infinitives and -ing verbs PPT

VOCABULARY: Suffixes (changing adjectives to nouns) and Expressions with "Mind" PPT

HOMEWORK FOR ALL STUDENTS:

🎸    Study for the Second Written Exam.
🎷    Work on the Final Project.
🎻    Bring an Easter Egg:
    🎼    Decorate it.
    🎼    Fill it with:
            🎶    A small candy that fits.
             🎶    A conditional sentence of any type.
    🎼    Close it.

Vocabulary: Crime Words PPT

Grammar: Unreal Past PPT

Grammar: Conditionals Type 3 PPT

Grammar: General Review of Conditionals 0, 1st and 2nd PPT

Answer for next class: Reading Worksheet about The Black Cat

IMPORTANT FOR ALL STUDENTS:

✨This Saturday, March 30th, we will have a Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz about the last topics seen in class.✨

As requested by Ms. Jessica's Students (but useful for everyone)

Connectors instead of "because"
🎮    As: "He chose not to see that movie, as it had gotten poor reviews." Instead of: "He chose not to see that movie because it had gotten poor reviews."
🎮    As a result of: Substitutes "because of": "He could not play football as a result of his broken leg." Instead of: "He could not play football because of his broken leg."
🎮    Due: Substitutes "because of": "He could not play football due to his broken leg." // "Due to the fact": "He could not play football due to the fact he had broken his leg."
🎮    Since: More informal than "because", but has the same meaning: "She didn't want to go since she had a lot of homework." Instead of: "She didn't want to go because she had a lot of homework."

From: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/16-substitutes-for-because-or-because-of/
https://sites.google.com/site/maycaingles2011/writing/linkers-and-connectors

FOR ALL STUDENTS: HOMEWORK

🐉    Re-write your final project as an essay, including the outline.
🐉    Answer pages 94 and 95 from your book.

How to Write an Essay II PPT

Vocabulary: Prepositional Phrases PPT

Grammar: Conditionals 2 and 3 PPT

Preparation for oral exam

 Hi guys! You may be asking yourselves: "How can I get prepared for my oral exam?" And here are some tips:

• Rehearse the vocabulary words we have seen until now, you should be able to incorporate them into your speech and your answer of the oral exam. 
• Practice grammatical structures that we have seen, as well as the basic ones you already know. These will be necessary to have a good grade on your oral evaluation. 
• Practice pronunciation by listening english programs, try to repeat the words and phrases you are hearing; on this technique you improve your pronunciation by imitation. 
• Practice oral development and self confidence: set a random situation and try to solve it yourself in front of the mirror, take control of your volume, non-verbal language, diction, eye contact, fluency, etc. 

St. Patrick's Day: Miss Michelle

St. Patrick's Day: Miss Jessica

St. Patrick's Day: Miss Grace

FOR ALL STUDENTS: HOMEWORK

🌎    After a research of how to present a product, what language should they use, how to stand (use of strong adjectives) and how to make information attractive, bring the 1st Final Project Draft:
      🌳    It must be a report or article, that contains:
                  🐊  Coverpage
                  🐊  Report
                      🌲  Destination
                      🌲  Activities that you will include
                      🌲  Budget
                      🌲  Advantages and disadvantages of buying that trip
                      🌲  Facilities of the hotel
                      🌲  Costs
                  🐊  Conclusion
                  🐊  Pictures
                  🐊  Graphics

How to Write an Essay PPT

Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs with Go and Fall + Prefixes PPT

Grammar: Relative Clauses PPT

HOMEWORK FOR ALL STUDENTS:

• Read "The Raven" and make a book report according to the instructions seen in class.
• Brainstorm about topics for the final project: Bring ideas of places to visit.

To Ms. JESSICA'S STUDENTS:

• Bring a green piece of paper :)

Writing a Book Report PPT

Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs with Fall and Go + Adjectives to Describe Food PPT

Annabel Lee and Cask of Amontillado Hard Words

Final Project vs. Open House PPT

TO ALL STUDENTS: HOMEWORK

⬟  Remembering to use a catchy title, strong adjectives, and to address your reader properly, write an article about skills and methods to convince people to buy a product. It has to include 5 sentences in passive voice and must be 350-500 words, made by hand.
Include:
    ⬧Introduction
    ⬧Body
    ⬧Conclusion

⬟  Study words about animals and animal parts for dictation (pages 72 and 73 of your book).

⬟  Study for grammar and vocabulary quiz.

⬟  Answer worksheet about The Cask of Amontillado.

TO Ms. JESSICA'S STUDENTS:
⬟  Finish exercise F from page 77.

Animal's Vocabulary PPT

Grammar: Passive Voice II PPT

An Article + Strong and Weak Adjectives PPT

Annabel Lee Worksheet

Hello, guys!!
TO ALL STUDENTS --> The homework for this week:

•  Read the next story "The cask of Amontillado"
• Answer the reading worksheet (based on the story: "Annabel Lee") 
• Sign dictation 
• Study for your Written Exam:
• Future forms (simple future, future perfect, future perfect continous)
• Past forms (simple past, past perfect, past progressive, past perfect continous)
• How to write a report 
• linking words from page 162

REMINDER FOR ALL STUDENTS

♻    The Cans Recycling Campaign will take place next Saturday, February 16th: remember to bring as many cans as you can to enter the contest!!

💘    To celebrate St. Valentine's Day, we are asking all students to dress with red or pink clothes next Saturday.

HOMEWORK for Saturday February 16th

• Read the first Edgar Allan Poe short story (Annabel Lee) and copy the words you don't understand with their definitions.
• Finish answering the grammar and vocabulary pages from your book.
• Bring back your dictation with your parent's signature.
• Study for the dictation and the Oral Exam.

Writing an Article

Sports Idioms and Vocabulary

Grammar: Modal Verbs PPT

Grammar: Conditional Sentences Type 0 and 1 PPT

TO ALL STUDENTS
The first oral exam will be moved to February 16th for you to have more time to prepare and focus on your grammar quiz. We hope you have a great week! See you Saturday.

Homework for Saturday February 9th

• Write a report (500 words, by hand), suggesting ways to improve CIDEB in terms of facilities, classes, activities and events. (including all the parts of the report and using phrases from page 162-- also appears on the PPT).

• Finish the Grammar Foldable

• Remember, we'll have the dictation about the vocabulary words seen in class and a grammar quiz next Saturday!

Ms. JESSICA'S STUDENTS:

• Do page 47 of your workbook. If you don't have the book, you can ask for a picture of the page and write down the question number and the answer in a piece of paper.

How to Write a Report

Traveling: Vocabulary Words

Grammar: Future Tenses PPT

FOR YOUR PARENTS: This is the presentation we used for today's Parent-Teacher Meeting.

Grammar: Past Tense Review PPT

Vocabulary PPT - Module 3

TO ALL STUDENTS: Homework

• Bring 'The Agreement' (the rules) signed by both your parents and yourself.
• Bring the email information signed and filled by both your parents and yourself.
• Bring the payment receipt.
• Print the Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories:

1. Annabel Lee
2. The Raven
3. The Cask of Amontillado
4. The Black Cat
5. The Oval Portrait
6. The Pit and the Pendulum 

• Bring a folder and a picture of yourself to paste in it. 
• Write down 10 sentences using the vocabulary words seen in class.

FOR Ms. JESSICA's STUDENTS:

• Finish copying phrasal verbs, similes with as... as... and grammar review of the past tenses (the presentations of the vocabulary words and the grammar tenses will be uploaded later today. 

TO ALL STUDENTS: PARENT-TEACHER MEETING

VERY IMPORTANT: On Saturday is the FIRST MEETING WITH PARENTS
1era Junta de Padres de Familia on Saturday February 2nd at 10:30. The meeting will be held in the auditorium.

The students will stay in class until 12:30, as regular.

We hope all of your parents can come.
Any doubts, you can ask via e-mail.
Thank you!

FOR Ms. JESSICA'S STUDENTS: Phrasal Verbs + Similes as... as... --- Write down keywords from the presentation as we discussed in class.

Teachers: Contact via E-mail

🌟Michelle Armendáriz - michellearb13@gmail.com
🌟Jessica González - jessicagzz.cideb@gmail.com
🌟Grace Hernández - lyzly21@hotmail.com

CALENDAR 2019