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PREPARATION WORKSHEET: REMEDIAL TEST

1^st TERM – 6^TH GRADE

STANDARDS

Reading: Understands the main and secondary ideas in descriptive texts.

Writing: Organizes short descriptive paragraphs using specific vocabulary.

Listening: Identifies a wide range of vocabulary based on familiar topics.

Speaking: Gives relevant information related to familiar topics.

Reading: You will read a descriptive text that provides information about someone’s life (a biography). You must practice questions such as:

· What does he/she look like?

· What is/he like?

· What is his/her occupation? Just to mention some.

Listening: You will listen to an audio describing people’s appearance, character and main traits of his/her life. You can practice listening exercises on the blog: 6thcsi2016.blogspot.com

Speaking: The test will consist of two parts. In the first part, you will be given a picture and you will have to describe the person in the picture for his/her appearance and character. In the second part, you will have to talk about two famous people: Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein. Prior to the test, you must answer the questions used for the second speaking test.

What does she/he look like?
Name: His/her name is ……
Age: He/she is ….(number) years old.
Height: He/she is tall/short/medium-height.

Weight: He/she is slim/plump/thin.

Eyes: His/her eyes are round/oval/small/big. He/she has blue/hazel/brown/black eyes.

Hair: He/she has length (long/short), shape (wavy/curly/straight), color (black/blonde/reddish) hair.

Who is she/he? (Relationship to you) She/he is my friend/mother/father/cousin….
What do you do together? (Activities) Together, we play soccer/go to the cinema/go for a walk…
What is she/he like? (Description of character) She/he is cheerful/humble/polite/faithful/patient/optimistic/cheeky…
How long have you known her/him? I have known him/her for …. (number) years.
Where does she/he work? (Place) He/she works in a bank/school/company/hospital…
What does she/he do? (Description of his/her job) He/she helps people/makes designs….

Writing: You will write a short recommendation email. Practice the structure of such texts and the following topics:

· Simple past.

· Punctuation and capitalization.

· Expressions to give opinion.

Besides the text, you will develop some grammar exercises about simple present and simple past.

Study hard and good luck!

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein was born as the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch, in Ulm on March 14, 1879. When Albert’s grandmother saw him for the first time she is said to have cried continuously: "Much too thick! Much too thick!" But despite all fear the development of young Albert was a normal one. In November 1881 Albert’s sister Maria – called Maja – was born.

A short time later the Einstein family went to Munich where Albert first attended elementary school and subsequently Luitpold grammar school. He was an "average" pupil but already very early interested in science and mathematics. He did not like lessons in grammar school as they were held with strict discipline and as he was forced to learn. When he turned 15 he left school without any degree and followed his family to Milan. To make up for the missed degree he attended school in Aarau (Switzerland) from 1895 to 1896 when he successfully took his A-levels and began to study in Zurich. His ambition was to obtain the diploma of a subject teacher for mathematics and physics. He successfully finished his studies in July 1900.

He moved to Bern and was given work at the Patent Office. In his leisure time he worked in the area of theoretical physics. In 1905 he published several of his important scientific works. One of them deals with the ground-breaking special theory of relativity. Another work contains the most famous formula of the world "E = m · c2". This formula states that matter can be converted into energy.

In 1903 he married his college mate Mileva Maric. One year later Einstein’s first son, Hans Albert, was born and his second son Eduard followed in 1910. In 1909 he became professor for theoretical physics at the University of Zurich. After that time he was given a professorship in Prague and then again in Zurich. In 1914 Einstein was called to Berlin to work there scientifically. In the same year World War I broke out.

After Einstein had separated from his wife Mileva he married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal in 1919. From 1909 to 1916 Albert Einstein worked on a generalisation of the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity. After this theory was proven right in an experiment in 1919 (deflection of light by the sun’s gravitational field) Einstein became famous over night. He received invitations and honours from all over the world. There was hardly any magazine which did not report about him and praise his work to the skies. For the year 1921 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Through the political situation in Nazi Germany Einstein left the country in December 1932 and never again entered German ground. From 1933 Einstein and his family lived in Princeton, USA. At the "Institute for Advanced Study" he found ideal working conditions. In December 1936 Einstein’s wife Elsa died. In 1939 World War II broke out. Because of his fear that Germany was working on atomic bombs he wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States of America, to tell him about the possibility of atomic weapons. In 1946 he proposed a world government in which he saw the only way to achieve continuous peace.

Einstein spent the last years of his life reclusively in Princeton. Until his last breath he worked on a new theory, the unified field theory, which however was not successful. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955. He was 76 years old.

NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Hendry Mphakanyiswa of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand where he studied law. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.

After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.

Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson

GOOD LUCK!

Friday, April 15, 2016

6th lab April 15th

KET

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_grammar.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_reading_part4.htm

PLURALS

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/irr-plurals1-jw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/irr_plurals1-mw.html

http://enjoyenglish.free.fr/english/college/irregular_plurals/ip1.htm

ADVERBS OF QUANTITY

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/preposition-interactive-grammar-game-for-esl-wheel-game/

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/adverbs-quantity

http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/w/words.php?f=adverbs_of_quantity

http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/vocabulary/memoryaudio/description/index.html

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

English lab 6th grade March 30th

Hi everybody,

Please go to the following links, and perform the activities.
Notice: some activities MUST be done in your notebooks, and register your scores.

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_writing_part7.htm

http://www.english-online.org.uk/ketfolder/ket9.php?name=KET%20Reading%20and%20Writing%20part%209%20test%201

http://www.english-online.org.uk/ketfolder/ketread.php?name=The%20KET%20Reading%20and%20Writing%20test

(click on reading and writing and do activities part 1 to 9),
then click on listening and perform activities 1 to 3.

WRITING

MOVIES OR BOOKS
Recommendation e-mail

LAYOUT

INTRODUCTION

•Mention the purpose of your email

•Mention the name of the film/book.

BODY

•Summarize the plot in a few sentences.

•Mention the setting (place and time of the plot).

CONCLUSION

•Give your opinion about the film/book.

•Give reasons why you like it/don’t like it.

•Write a short recommendation line.

Expressions to give opinion:

•In my opinion…

•To my mind…

•As far as I am concerned…

•Speaking personally…

•From my point of view…

•My view/opinion/belief/impression/ I would say that…

•My impression is that…

•I have the feeling that…

•I am sure…

•I think/consider/believe/suppose…

CONNECTORS:

or, but, besides

•First of all, firstly, secondly, finally, lastly

•However, nevertheless

SAMPLE:

•Hi Pat,

I I saw a great movie last time I was at the cinema and I want

to recommend it. It’s called “Finding Nemo”.

The movie was about a clownfish named Marlin who was looking for his son Nemo because he had disappeared. Along the way, he met Dory, who suffered from short-term memory loss. Both Marlin and Dory faced many challenges to find Nemo and bring him back home.

The movie takes place in the Australian ocean in the 2.000’s.

In my opinion, the movie was fantastic! It was full of adventure and comedy. Besides, it showed the love of a father towards his son. I’m really excited because the sequel “Finding Dory” will be out soon!

You should really watch this movie. I’m sure you will enjoy it.

Love, Hellen.

WRITING

•Write an email to your best friend describing the most recent movie you watched. Follow the layout and make sure you express your opinion, recommend the movie and give arguments why you liked it or not.

•80 words.

Remember:

1. Title and plot.

2. like

3. Didn't like

4. Why do you recommend it?

Thursday, March 17, 2016

2nd Oral preparation (Biographies)

Directions:
Read the following texts very carefully. Remember thy are the material for your oral test.
Keep in mind the questions given and the information worked in class.

MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 26**, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.

Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.

The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.

After several years of deteriorating health, in which she suffered from heart, lung and kidney problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87. She was beatified in October 2003.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Born in Aracataca, Colombia, writer Gabriel García Márquez grew up listening to family tales, eventually becoming a journalist. His fiction work introduced readers to magical realism, which combines more conventional storytelling with vivid fantasy. His novels Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera) have drawn worldwide audiences, and he won a Nobel Prize in 1982. García Márquez died on April 17, 2014.

Writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez was reportedly born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia to Luisa Santiaga Márquez and Gabriel Elijio García. (Birth certificates were not issued in his village at the time of his birth and some sources state his birth year to be 1928.) The eldest of twelve children, the young García Marquez lived with his maternal grandparents listening to numerous family stories, including his grandfather's military reminiscences, his grandmother's tales of the fantastic and his parents' dating adventures. He published his first story while in college and then became a journalist, writing at a time of murderous upheaval in Colombia known as La Violencia.

He pursued his craft experiencing a "bohemian life" as he would recall, voraciously reading a number of international authors and immigrating to Europe during the mid-1950s after writing an article that stoked the wrath of military dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. García Márquez eventually returned to his home region and worked with publications based in Venezuela and Cuba. The writer wed Mercedes Barcha Pardo in 1958.

Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layered fantasy.

Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles including El general en su laberinto (1989), aka The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.

In his later years, García Márquez explored his own life in his work. His memoir Vivir para contarla (2002), published the next year as Living to Tell the Tale, received warm reviews and accolades from critics and fans. Throughout his career, García Márquez won numerous awards and honors, including the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The writer had been diagnosed with cancer in the late 1990s and, as reported by his brother, eventually began to suffer from dementia. Gabriel García Marquez died in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87, with the world immediately honoring his immeasurable literary legacy.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, a landowner and planter, died when George was just 11 years old. Fortunately, George had an older brother named Lawrence who took good care of him. Lawrence helped to raise George and taught him how to be a gentleman. Lawrence made sure that he was educated in the basic subjects like reading and math.

When George turned 16 he went to work as a surveyor, where he took measurements of new lands, mapping them out in detail. A few years later George became a leader with the Virginia militia and became involved in the start of the French and Indian War. At one point during the war, he narrowly escaped death when his horse was shot out from under him.

After the French and Indian War George settled down and married the widow Martha Dandridge Custis. He took over the estate of Mount Vernon after his brother Lawrence died and raised Martha's two children from her former marriage. George and Martha never had kids of their own. George became a large landowner and was elected to the Virginian legislature. Soon George and his fellow landowners became upset with unfair treatment by their British rulers. They began to argue and fight for their rights. When the British refused they decided to go to war.

George was one of Virginia's delegates at the First and Second Continental Congress. This was a group of representatives from each colony who decided to fight the British together. In May of 1775 they appointed Washington as general of the Continental Army.

The two terms that Washington served as president were peaceful times. During this time, George established many roles and traditions of the President of the United States that still stand today. He helped build and guide the formation of the actual US Government from the words of the Constitution. He formed the first presidential cabinet which included his friends Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State) and Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury).

George stepped down from the presidency after 8 years, or two terms. He felt it was important that the president not become powerful or rule too long, like a king. Since then only one president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, has served more than two terms. Just a few years after leaving the office of president, Washington caught a bad cold. He was soon very sick with a throat infection and died on December 14, 1799.

ALEXANDER FLEMING

Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St. Mary's Medical School, London University. He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St. Mary's under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy.

Early in his medical life, Fleming became interested in the natural bacterial action of the blood and in antiseptics. He was able to continue his studies throughout his military career and on demobilization he settled to work on antibacterial substances which would not be toxic to animal tissues. In 1921, he discovered in «tissues and secretions» an important bacteriolytic substance which he named Lysozyme.

Sir Alexander wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, including original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillin. They have been published in medical and scientific journals.

Fleming, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), 1909, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), 1944, has gained many awards. They include Hunterian Professor (1919), Arris and Gale Lecturer (1929) and Honorary Gold Medal (1946) of the Royal College of Surgeons; Williams Julius Mickle Fellowship, University of London (1942); Charles Mickle Fellowship, University of Toronto (1944); John Scott Medal, City Guild of Philadelphia (1944); Cameron Prize, University of Edinburgh (1945); Moxon Medal, Royal College of Physicians (1945); Cutter Lecturer, Harvard University (1945); Albert Gold Medal, Royal Society of Arts (1946); Gold Medal, Royal Society of Medicine (1947); Medal for Merit, U.S.A. (1947); and the Grand Cross of Alphonse X the Wise, Spain (1948).

He served as President of the Society for General Microbiology, he was a Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science and Honorary Member of almost all the medical and scientific societies of the world. He was Rector of Edinburgh University during 1951-1954, Freeman of many boroughs and cities and Honorary Chief Doy-gei-tau of the Kiowa tribe. He was also awarded doctorate, honoris causa, degrees of almost thirty European and American Universities.

In 1915, Fleming married Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala, Ireland, who died in 1949. Their son is a general medical practitioner. Fleming married again in 1953. Dr Fleming died on March 11th in 1955 and is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral