WONDERFUL WEBSITE TO PRACTICE

Activity for my students in 1ESO and 2ESO. You can practice vocabulary and grammar at all levels on this website:


 https://www.montsemorales.com/index.htm#.XIuVRShKjcs

You can also write in Google: Mado Sánchez learning English
Thanks M J M for showing my this website. My students love it!

REPORTED SPEECH

Activity for 2º Bachillerato.
You can practice the reported speech with this activities. There is a summary of the rules below in another post if you click GRAMMAR, you can find it:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech

FUTURE TENSES

FUTURE TENSES

This is a useful website to practice.

FLIPPED CLASSROOM 3: NUCLEAR BOMBS IN HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI

Actuvity for my students of 4º ESO Sección:

3.1. Here are some facts about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that will you help understand the next activity

Hiroshima 

On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion was huge, the city was destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were killed. The bomb was dropped by a plane named the Enola Gay which was piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbetts. The bomb itself was over 10 feet long and weighed around 10,000 pounds. A small parachute was on the bomb in order to slow its drop and allow the plane time to fly away from the blast zone. 

Nagasaki 
Despite witnessing the terrible destruction of the bomb on Hiroshima, Emperor Hirohito and Japan still refused to surrender. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Again the devastation was horrible. 

Surrender 
Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito and Japan surrendered to US forces. The Emperor announced this on the radio. When the Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender, he explained that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."

It was the first time most Japanese had heard his voice. 

Interesting Facts

·         The lead scientist on the Manhattan Project was J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".

·         The first bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made from uranium. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki was made from plutonium, which was even more powerful than uranium.

·         It is thought that at least 135,000 people died from the Hiroshima explosion and another 70,000 in Nagasaki. Many of these people were civilians including women and children.

·         Hiroshima was chosen because it was a large port city with an army base. It also had not been damaged much by earlier bombings. This would show just how powerful the new weapon was.

 3.2. Read the following poems:

November

By: William Stafford

From the sky in the form of snow
comes the great forgiveness.
Rain grown soft, the flakes descend
and rest; they nestle close, each one
arrived, welcomed and then at home.

If the sky lets go some day and I'm
requested for such volunteering
toward so clean a message, I’ll come.
The world goes on and while friends touch down
beside me, I too will come.

Let Us Be Midwives! An untold story of the atomic bombing

by Sadako Kurihara, translated by Richard Minear

Night in the basement of a concrete structure now in ruins.
Victims of the atomic bomb jammed the room;
It was dark—not even a single candle.
The smell of fresh blood, the stench of death,
The closeness of sweaty people, the moans.
From out of all that, lo and behold, a voice:
"The baby’s coming!"
In that hellish basement,
At that very moment, a young woman had gone into labour.
In the dark, without a single match, what to do?
People forgot their own pains, worried about her.
And then: "I'm a midwife. I’ll help with the birth."
The speaker, seriously injured herself, had been moaning only moments before.
And so new life was born in the dark of that pit of hell.
And so the midwife died before dawn, still bathed in blood.
Let us be midwives!
Let us be midwives!
Even if we lay down our own lives to do so.

3.3. Watch this video.

 The song Enola Gay by the British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark was very popular in the 1980s. Music is another form of art. Read the lyrics carefully and watch the scenes in the video and read the comments in YouTube below the song. The song was written in 1980. It means that almost 40 years after the bombing people still were impressed about it. The song was published in YouTube in 2014 and the comments are recent so we are still worried about nuclear bombs and nuclear attacks since they have not disappeared in spite of the horror.

ENOLA GAY by O.M.D.

Notice that Albert Einstein appears in the video. Research his connection with the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and we will talk about it in the class.

3.4. How do you feel now? What do you think?

Express it by writing a poem, haiku or acrostic poem about the bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Next week we will know about the world after the World War II. How people were scared about another war during the Cold War and we will read a lovely literary text about it: Snow by Julia Álvarez

3.5. Did you enjoy the flipped classroom? In groups discuss and write the reasons and post them on your website.

And remember: “Tell me and I forget.

                           Teach me and I remember.

                            Involve me and I learn”

                            (Benjamin Franklin)

You can find more information about the song in the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay_(song)

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

ACTIVITY FOR MY BELOVED STUDENTS OF 2E
This is the PDF of the wonderful novel we are reading by Mark Haddon.
Remember that you can also see the play at Teatro Marquina in Madrid.

FLIPPED CLASSROOM 2: GAS CHAMBERS

ACTIVITY FOR 4E ESO

2.1. Watch the following video It is a summary of the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, based on the novel by John Boyne:

video

             

2.2. What do you think the children think in the last scene

2.3. What is this final scene, showing the gas chamber door, supposed to tell us? What's the message?

2.3. We´ll discuss in class what you feel about this  terrible scene.

2,4. In groups in the classroom we will reflect and write about how people can do this to other people.

FLIPPED CLASSROOM 1: GUERNICA

ACTIVITY FOR 4E ESO
As you know we are working a Project  about the HORROR of the WAR  through History, Physics and Chemistry and English.
This is the task you have tio do before the 4th of February:
1.1. Watch these videos:
26th April 1939. The Bombing of Guernica

1.2. Read the following article:

It was market day in Guernica when the church bells of Santa Maria sounded the alarm that afternoon in 1937. People from the surrounding hillsides crowded the town square. "Every Monday was a fair in Guernica," says José Monasterio, eyewitness to the bombing. "They attacked when there were a lot of people there. And they knew when their bombing would kill the most. When there are more people, more people would die."

For over three hours, twenty-five or more of Germany's best-equipped bombers, accompanied by at least twenty more Messerschmitt and Fiat Fighters, dumped one hundred thousand pounds of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the village, slowly and systematically pounding it to rubble.

"We were hiding in the shelters and praying. I only thought of running away, I was so scared. I didn't think about my parents, mother, house, nothing. Just escape. Because during those three and one half hours, I thought I was going to die." (eyewitness Luis Aurtenetxea)

Those trying to escape were cut down by the strafing machine guns of fighter planes. "They kept just going back and forth, sometimes in a long line, sometimes in close formation. It was as if they were practicing new moves. They must have fired thousands of bullets." (eyewitness Juan Guezureya) The fires that engulfed the city burned for three days. Seventy percent of the town was destroyed. Sixteen hundred civilians - one third of the population - were killed or wounded.

1.3 Imagine you are a survivor and a witness of the bombing of Guernica:

Write a letter to Picasso asking him to paint the horrors the bombing left and suggesting him the elements he should draw and what they should represent. (the war, the brutality, the wounded, the death…)

Let him know you want this horror to stop.

(140 – 200 words)

When you finish writing the letter in groups, you will post it in the class website. 

Good luck!