Sing it all

Now is the moment to assess your new vocabulary, try to fill this crossword, then make an original sentence with each of the words you have guessed in it.

This will suppose a 15 % in your vocabulary final mark.I will take into account the originality and the complexity of the sentences. 

The deadline is the 11^th of December 

Across the universe

Across the universe was one of the most popular hits of the Beatles, and it is also the name of a film that we are going to watch in class during the next week. You can also check the original soundtrack in spotify. The films uses lots of the beatles songs to tell us a love history that took place in USA in the sixties. 

You will have to write a sinopsis of the film and a review. You will have to write between 200 - 300 words. Please be very carefull with the spelling and the grammar, it would suppose a 30% of your final writing mark.

The deadline is the 14^th of December. 

Sing the future: WILL

The next activity is  for your listening mark, you will hear a song here, you can play it as many times as you need.

Then you have to do this exercise where you will have to fill some gaps. You will be asked about the exactly word said in the song so be very focus and try not to use te clues.

Again, you will have to send me a screenshot with your results.  It will give you a 10% of your final listening mark. 

Now, we are going to keep working with this song. As you know we use the auxiliary verb WILL to form the future simple in English. I want you to find in the song every single time they use it. Then I want you to make a sheet for younger students where explain them the use of will: when we use it and how we use it. 

This will give you a 10% of your grammar final mark. 

 The deadline for these activities is the 4^th of December. 

Who is who?

Now, I want you to work in groups of five, so each group can choose a member of The Beatles. 

The aim of this activity is that you go throw his biography, his contribution to the group and the history of music. You should make a poster, and you will explain it to the rest of the class.

Be careful with the grammar and the spelling mistakes while you write your poster. Also, prepare yourself to speak out in public, take care about the pronunciation and the grammar while you are speaking.

You can email me with the members of the group and The Beatle yo have chosen. If more than one group choose the same member, I will do a raffle. 

So at the end of this activity I will give you three marks out of 10. One for speaking, one for writing and one for team work. And that marks will suppose a 20% of your speaking final mark, a 20% of your writing final mark and a 10% of your team work final mark. 

The deadline is the 9^th of December. 

Who were the beatles?

The Beatles were a legendary rock group that formed in Liverpool, England, in 1960, and went on to transform popular music as a creative, highly commercial art form over the next decade. The Beatles were one of the most popular bands of all time, producing songs like "Yesterday, "Hey Jude," "Penny Lane, "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Day Tripper" and "Come Together. 

You can find more information here. 

During the next weeks we are going to talk, read, watch, listen, play, etc. and every activity is going to be related with them. 

To start I want you to read carefully this text and then answer the questions you will find below: 


The Beatles were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era, and many consider them the best musical group on Earth. Initially they affected the post-war baby boom generation of Britain and the U.S. during the 1960s, and later the rest of the world. Certainly they were the most successful group, with global sales exceeding 1.1 billion records.

While they were originally famous for light-weight pop music (and the extreme hysterical reaction they received from young women), their later works achieved a combination of popular and critical acclaim perhaps unequaled in the 20th century.

Eventually, they became more than recording artists, branching out into film and — particularly in the case of John Lennon — political activism. They achieved an iconic status beyond mere celebrity, with far reaching effects difficult to exaggerate.

The members of the group were John Lennon, (James) Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), all from Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Original drummer Pete Best was asked to leave the group just before it started recording. Stuart Sutcliffe was with them in Hamburg but also left.

Beatlemania began in the UK and exploded following the appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States, on February 9, 1964. The pop-music band became a worldwide phenomenon with worshipful fans, hysterical adulation, and denunciations by culture commentators and others such as Frank Sinatra.

Some of this was confusion over the sources of their music (a similar confusion was evinced in 1956 over Elvis Presley by commentators who were unaware of the tradition of blues, R&B and gospel out of which Presley emerged), and some of it was simply an incredulous reaction to the length of their hair. At any rate, it was regarded by the band members with both awe and resentment.
This text has been taken of: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/beatles.html

The deadline is the 2^nd of December. You have to send an screenshot of your results in both activities. 

Then, I will give you a mark out of ten that will suppose a 20% of your reading comprehension final mark.