Flipped Class, Did you Like it?

Thursday 30^th October, 2014

Hi everybody! Are you Ok?

Did you go out last night? Did you find any monsters, vampires, zombies…?

We started the class with an interview in pairs.

It was useful to revise the past passive. The questionnaire was headed (passive) ‘What’s it Famous for?’. You were supposed to (passive structure) write different things.

For example:

·         …a famous film that was shot in your city.

·         …a famous fictional character that was created by a Spanish writer.

·         …a famous building that was designed by a Spanish architect.

·         …a famous invention that was made by a Spanish person.

Remember, this is how we make passive sentences:

Farmers	grow	bananas	in the Canary Islands.
Subject	V	Object
Bananas	Are grown	In the Canary Islands
Subject	Passive V
Shakespeare	wrote	Hamlet.
Subject	V	Object
Hamlet	Was written	by Shakespeare.
Subject	Passive V	Agent

·         The object becomes the subject of the passive sentence. The subject becomes the agent. When the agent isn’t important or it’s a pronoun, it isn’t necessary to write it.

·         The verb changes into passive voice by writing the verb “to be” in the same tense as in the active sentence + the participle of the verb used in the active sentence.

·         Like this:

Present simple	produce		Present simple of “to be”	Am / is/are	+	participle	Is produced
They produce coffee in Brazil.			Coffee is produced in Brazil
Past simple	wrote		Past simple of “to be”	Was/were	+	participle	Was written
Dickens wrote ‘Oliver Twist’			‘Oliver Twist’ was written by Dickens.
Future simple	Will sell		Future of “to be”	Will be	+	participle	Will be sold
They will sell hundreds of tickets.			Hundreds of tickets will be sold.
Infinitive	buy		Infinitive of “to be”	be	+	participle	Be bought
You can buy the tickets on the net.			Tickets can be bought on the net.

·        More passive exercises on this link

After that, you showed me what you had prepared for your classes.

 You brought plenty of materials. I especially liked the instructions to make a paper bat- brought by Jorge. The power point presentation that Andrea brought, explaining the history and traditions of Halloween and the code to be deciphered used the words on the pumpkins! But everything was good, as well as the effort you made to prepare the class!

As for “Flipped Class”, I’d like you to write your opinions on the blog.

Did you like the experience? How did you feel being teachers? What would you change of the class you taught to kids?

For homework, we will correct page 143- Photocopy on the third conditional. And the exercises on the text “National Environmental Concerns” photocopy p.48.

GAME 5

Player 1	9
Player 2	8
Player 3	8
Player 4	9
Player 5	8
Player 6	8
Player 7	8

Have a nice week!

See you on Thursday!