Task 11.2

Set of Hotpotatoes activities: 'quiz'

Here you are the second activity created with HotPotatoes:

I bet my life quiz

Quiz

Click on 'Show all questions' to keep the music player visible all along the exercise.

 

1. So m any ____________ nights
   1.   sleepless
   2.   slepless
   3.   sleepleess
2. ___________ you were waiting up on me
   1.   Were
   2.   Where
   3.   Wher
3. I've been around the ___________ but never in my wildest dreams
   1.   world
   2.   word
   3.   wordl
4. Would I come ____________ home to you
   1.   running
   2.   runing
   3.   runin
5. I gave you hell ____________ all the years
   1.   throught
   2.   throw
   3.   through
6. And please _________ them when they say
   1.   belief
   2.   believe
   3.   believ

Task 11.1

Set of Hotpotatoes activities: 'cloze'

Today’s post is devoted to show you a set of activities created with a very useful tool called Hotpotatoes. You can download it here. This program includes six applications, enabling you to create online multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crosswords, matching and gap-fill exercises. You can integrate a song or a video in the exercises.

In our case, we have used the lyrics of the song I bet my life by the group Imagine Dragons in the six exercises, so students can listen to the song and complete the missing words, answer to short questions about it, solve a crossword to focus on some relevant vocabulary, practise the word order in some sentences or learn some spelling by choosing the correct option in each case. This is a very good way for students to practise listening skills, pronunciation, vocabulary and spelling.

Here you are the videoclip of the song we have chosen. You can listen to it while completing the set of exercises based on the song:

In this post, we show the first of the activities, called 'cloze', which is about completing some of the words of the song while listening to the song. We will show the next activities in the following posts, as there is a technical problem when we try to post all the activities in the same post.

I bet my life

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. In some cases, you will need to choose the correct option from three aternatives.

I know I the path that you never want for me, I know I you , didn't I?
So many nights, Where you were on me
Well just a slave unto the night, Now when I told you that's the last you'll see of me
Remember when I you to tears, I know I took the path that you never want for me, I you hell through all the years

So I, I my life, I bet my life, I bet my life you
I, I bet my life, I bet my , I bet my life on you

been around the world but never in my wildest dreams, Would I come home to you
I've a million lies, But now I a single truth
There's you in I do, Now remember when I told you that's the last see of me
Remember when I broke you down to , I know I took the that you would never want for me, I gave you through all the years

So I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you
I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you

Don't tell me that I'm , I've that road before
I left you on your , And please them when they say
That it's left for , And the that I've played, Please me for all I've done

So I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you
I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you

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Task 10

Picasa video in Youtube

In this post we show us a video made with Picasa 3, a program which helps you to organise, edit and share your photos. It also allows you to create albums and to convert them in videos with music.

The video we have created is about a trip, and it will be an example for the students in1^st year of Bachillerato to make their own. We have added some sentences to the photos describing the picture, and they will have to do the same in their videos.

This way, students will be practising a little their writing skills and also learning how to use new technologies, as they will have to upload their videos to Youtube to share them with the rest of the classmates. 

Here you are the video we made:

You can also watch this video direclty on Youtube using this link: Scotland, land of the brave

Task 9

PowerPoint auto-executable

Today we want to share with you a way to introduce ethical and moral topics of the curriculum for Bachillerato to students. In this case, we have chosen a very recurrent topic: racism. However, we have contextualized this topic in the field of advertising, as we want our students realize how adverts have exploited over the years racist stereotypes and clichés in order to sell their products.

To do this, we have created an auto executable Power Point with a song by Bob Marley that is about racism: Redemption song. On each slide, we explain why the ads are racist, so students can understand it better.

At the beginning of the presentation, we show adverts from the 1900’s; then, we ask the students on a slide if they think racism is only a problem from the past, so they reflect a bit on the topic. Quickly, we show the answer: there are still racist adverts nowadays, and then, we start showing more recent ads, being some of them from very well-known brands, as L’Oréal or Sony. Finally, we provide them a Nelson Mandela’s quote about racism, which will be an excuse for reflecting again.

Click here to download my presentation.