Cover

Let's start our project!

This is the first page people are going to see so it has to be attractive.

As an example I've written the title of the book: "All About Me II".

You can write your name, include pictures...

ME

On this page you are going to provide personal details to get to know each other. You can create two columns and include the following information.

Personal Information	My Favourites
Name	Month, season, day of the week
Surname	Animal
Place and date of birth	Food
Age	Colour
School	Place
Teacher	Singer, song, film...

 This is a model you can follow, but try to be creative!

My Week

Before you start this page, click on the folowing link and complete the activities:

Daily Routine

Now, write a detailed description about your daily routine. You must include the time. This image can be used as a model.

My Classroom

Try to describe your school and your classroom. 

You have to write sentences using:
- There is / There are
- Prepositions of place

If you need to check some vocabulary you can use these websites:

Classroom Vocabulary
Dictionary

If you want, you can also add the Classroom Rules you establish with your teacher at the beginning of the school year.

Physical Appearance

You are going to work on physical description.

First of all, try these activities to see if you remember these words:
Exercise I
Exercise II

Secondly, you have to describe yourself and also to describe a friend. In order to do this activity you can use this vocabulary:
Physical Description I
Physical Description II

You can follow this model. Remember that you need to include information about:
- Hair
- Eyes
- Face
- General adjectives

You can also include pictures!

Famous People

You are going to describe a famous person that you like. You have to follow these steps:

1. Find a photograph of someone you like.
2. Cut it out and glue it to the card.
3. Label the clothes and other things that you like about the person's appearance.
4. Describe this person physically.
5. Write a few sentences explaining why you like this person and some relevant details about him / her. You can see examples of descriptions here:
Famous People Description

You can use this dictionary:
Wordreference

My Favourite Place

What is your favourite place? Why?

It's time to write about this place you like. Write some sentences including the following information:
- Where is it?
- Have you ever been there? How often do you go to this place?
- What can you do there?
- Why is it important for you?
- What do you like most about this place?
- ...

You can also include a picture of this place.

My Favourite Animal

As we've studied animals in class, choose your favourite one and complete a chart with information about this animal.

Here you have a list of animals:

Animals 

Provide detailed information about:

a) Name

b) Habitat

c) Physical description

d) Food

e) Group (mammal, amphibian...)

f) Height

g) Weight

If you need a dictionary you can use this:

Wordreference

Don't forget to include a picture of the animal.

My country

Where are you from?


Write about your country and draw its flag. Don't forget to include the following information:

- Population
- Geography
- Currency
- Climate
- Government
- Languages spoken

You can use this website to look for specific information:

Wikipedia

My Technology World

Let's talk about technology!

Do you like technology?
What gadgets do you have?
Did you buy them or were they presents?
Why do you like them?
Are they useful? What are the main uses of them?
When do you use them?
Is technology good? Or does it have some drawbacks?

Try to answer these questions using charts or following the model provided.

My Meals

Let's talk about food! 

First, answer the following questions:

 - Are you a good cook?

- Are you a vegetarian? 

- Do you usually eat vegetables?

- Do you always have dinner with your family?

Then, put a tick in the type of food you have tried:

Chinese		French
Spanish		American
Italian		Greek

Finally, complete these statements. Before you start writing, review Food and Drinks Vocabulary using these websites and completing some exercises.

Meals Vocabulary
Food Vocabulary
Vocabulary and Exercises

• My favourite food
• Food I don't like
• My favourite breakfast
• My favourite lunch
• My favourite restaurant
• The food in my schoolbag
• Some healthy food that I eat
• Some unhealthy food that I eat

Recipe!

It's time to cook!! You are going to write the recipe of your favourite food. Then, you are going to prepare it at home and bring it to class, we will taste it together! Ummm, I'm sure it will be delicious!


Check these sites to learn vocabulary related to cooking:

Cooking Vocabulary
Ways of cooking
Cooking Terms

To start with, here you can see my recipe:

Now, it's your turn! First, write the ingredients we need and then teh procedure. You have to tell us the steps we need to follow in order to prepare you meal.

Palmiers Recipe:

Ingredients:

-         1 puff pastry

-         sugar

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven at 200C
2. Roll out the puff pastry.
3. Sprinkle half of the sugar over the pastry.
4. Fold up the left and right vertical side inward, stopping at about 1/4 of the pastry. Fold both sides that meet at the centre and touch with each other.
5. Press the two sides together.
6. Repeat the process.
7. Cut pastry into strips.
8. Place them on baking tray lined with baking paper.
9. Leave about 5 cm between each because they will increase in size after baking. 

 You can see how to do them here:

http://www.nestle.es/lacocinera/video_receta/9108/mas_visitadas/0/palmeras/view.aspx 

My Clothes

Do you like shopping for new clothes?
Do you often buy new clothes?

Review clothes vocabulary by checking these websites:

Clothes Vocabulary List I
Clothes Vocabulary List II
Clothes Video

Now, complete the following information:

v     Clothes I often wear

v     Clothes I wear for parties
v     Clothes I don't like to wear
v     My favourite colour to dress
v     The most stylish person I know
v     The least stylish person I know
v     Clothes I usually wear in summer
v     Clothes I usually wear in winter

My Summer Holidays

What are you plans for this summer?

What are the first few things that come to your mind when thinking about summer? Write these ideas.

Then, write a brief paragraph telling us about the following statements:

-         My favourite summer places
-         People I'm going to see
-         Places I'm going to visit

-         Places I'd like to visit in the future

You can follow the model or create your own design. You can also include pictures.

 

Daily routines

BEFORE WATCHING

1. Review this vocabulary about Daily Routine. 
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II

2. Watch the video and write the name of these 11 actions.



3. Check your answers:


4. Complete these activities.
    Activity I
    Activity II 


WHILE WATCHING

5.  You are going to watch a film about a single day in the life of Amar, an Indian boy who is 14 years old. 


Amar (all great achievements require time) from Pilgrim Films on Vimeo.

 6. Complete the chart with the information provided in the film.

TIME	AMAR'S DAILY ACTIVITIES
03: 58 am
06:03 am
08:46 am
01:08 pm
02:15 pm
05:40 pm
10:14 pm

 

AFTER WATCHING

7. Answer these questions: 
    - "How does the film make you feel?"
    - "Do you think he is happy with his life?"
    - "Is Amar's daily routine similar to yours?"  

Welcome

Hello everyone! Welcome to your blog! This will be a place for all of you to see the steps you have to follow in order to create your own book. I hope you enjoy!

Free Page

Free Page

We're coming to the end...

On this page you can decide the topic you want to write about. For example,

1) You can write the lyrics of your favourite song
In order to do that you can visit these websites:

A-Z- Lyrics Universe
MetroLyrics

2) You can write a summary of your favourite film / TV programme, series...

3) Any other option that you choose

Evaluation

THE END!

Now that you've finished your book, it's time to see and evaluate the results.

Give your opinion and tell me if you think it's been useful, dynamic...

Then, show it to your parents and write their comments.

Finally, I will write some notes about the presentation, writing, originality, etc. and I will provide a final mark.

I hope you have enjoyed the activity and learnt a lot!

Cover

This is the first page people are going to see so it has to be attractive.

As an example I've written: "All About Me. No one in the world is exactly like me!"

You can write your name, include pictures...

Identity Card

Let's start the book by introducing yourself.

Write as many details as possible so that we can know more things about you. Answer the following questions:

• What's your name?
• What's your surname?
• Where are you from?
• When is your birthday? Check this link to see how to write the date.
• How old are you?
• Have you ever lived in another country?
• What countries have you visited?
• Do you have any pets?
• Who do you live with?
• Have you ever met a famous person?
• What languages do you speak? 
• What's the name of your school?

You can include details such as:

- Academic Year
- Name of your teacher
- Any important detail you want to tell us...

You can add your ALL ABOUT ME POEM with the following information:

Line 1: Firt name

Line 2: Four descriptive traits

Line 3: Sibling/ sister/ brother of...

Line 4: Lover of

Line 5: Who fears...

Line 6: Who needs...

Line 7: Who gives...

Line 8: Who would like to see...

Line 9: Resident of:

Line 10: Last name

Here you have an example:

Carmen
Generous, shy, hard-working, responsible
Sister of Laura
Lover of books
Fears insects
Needs being active
Gives help where needed
Would like to see beautiful lanscapes
Resident of Madrid
Bermejo