Summative Assessment: 6.10.16

•Your first summative assessment of the year will be next Thursday (6th October).

•You will recieve a mark for category C (33%) and category D (33%)

•You will be marked on your use of the following:

–Adjectives and adverbs used to express emotions (from the Student Book)

–Crime and gang vocabulary from On the Sidewalk Bleeding

–Conditionals (all four! We’ll be revising these today)

–A variety of past tenses (past simple, past continuous, past perfect) *We’ll be looking at these more closely over the next week

–Phrasal verbs (from a Quizlet list that we’ll be looking at soon)

–Persuasive language devices (we’ll spend a short time revising these also)

Recapping Conditionals

You should all be familiar with conditionals (you studied them in Year 8), but just in case you've forgotten about them, the table below should help you to remember...

Now that you've had chance to study the above table, you should write down the grammatical structure of each of the four conditionals in your notebook. Once you've done that, spend about twenty minutes testing your knowledge of conditionals by clicking on some of the links below.

*Don't forget: You will be expected to use ALL FOUR conditionals accurately in your assessment next week.

Zero Conditional

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/zero-conditional.html

http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-verbs-exercises.html

1st Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3226

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html

2nd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3227

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

3rd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3233

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional-exercise-1.html

On the Sidewalk Bleeding: Final Analysis

After reading the final part of the story, answer the following questions. If you answer the questions in a Word document, make sure you save it in your 'On the Sidewalk Bleeding' folder.

1.Why does Andy decide to take off his jacket?

Andy takes off his jacket because…

2.How does he feel when he takes it off?  Explain your answer.

When he takes if off, he feels… This is because…

3.How would you describe the policeman´s attitude towards Andy?  How do you know this?

I would describe the policeman’s attitude to Andy as… I know this because…

4.What is the message of the story?  What might the writer want the reader to think about?

The message of the story is… The writer might want the reader to think about…

5.What do you think of this story and why

I think that this story is…

On the Sidewalk Bleeding: In a character's shoes

You will be completing the following task:

What would you have done if you had walked past Andy lying there bleeding? 
You should:
-  Aim to write about 100 words.

-  Try to use as many conditional structures as possible. Think about the 1st, 2nd and 3rd conditionals we studied last year.
-  Use a number of opinion adjectives. You should revise this aspect via the following link before you start writing:

Opinion Adjectives

On the Sidewalk Bleeding: Key Vocabulary

Copy and paste the following tasks into a Word document, and then type and answer underneath each question.

Save the document in your 'On the Sidewalk Bleeding' folder as 'Key Vocabulary: Lesson 2'.

1)Find a synonym for to rip.

2)Find a synonym for injury.

3)Find an adjective that means terrible.

4)Find a  verb that means to hold something tightly.

5)Find a noun which means that you are not aware/don´t know something.

6)Find a  verb that means to move quickly or to hurry.

7)When Andy dreams, what type of place does he want to move to?

8)Find a phrasal verb that mean to rest on something.

9)Find a verb that means to be very embarrassed.

10)Find 2 verbs that are also tools when used as nouns.

On The Sidewalk Bleeding

Revise the key vocabulary from the short story,
On The Sidewalk Bleeding

Create a Symbaloo

Go to:

http://www.symbaloo.com/

Create an account

1.                  In the top hand corner put it in 'English (UK)'

2.                  Click on 'Create Free Account'

3.                  Enter your details and click 'Create Account'

Create a tile for your symbaloo

1.                  Click on the '+' symbol in the middle of an empty box

2.                  Click on an empty tile

3.                  Click on 'Create a tile'

4.                  Enter http://www.wordreference.com/ in the box called 'Add the address of the website'

5.                  Click on 'Save'

6.                  Note: In order to make your Symbaloo page more visually appealing, you can add an image that corresponds to your weblink. At the bottom of the ‘Edit tile’ box, you can either select ‘Choose icon’ or ‘Upload an image’. For some weblinks, Symbaloo will have images that you can select. However, you can also upload your own saved image.

Create more tiles for your symbaloo. Use all the following websites to start off with.

• http://www.sfpaula.com/
• http://www.mrkellyenglish9.blogspot.com.es 
• http://quizlet.com/
• http://lingro.com/
• http://www.linguee.com/
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm
• http://www.guardian.co.uk
• http://www.bbc.co.uk
• http://www.studyblue.com/
• http://headmagnet.com/
• http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/
• http://popplet.com/
• http://animoto.com/
• http://goanimate.com/
• http://www.youtube.com
• http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php
• http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/
• http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml

There will be other weblinks that we will add to your Symbaloo page throughout the year.

Once you have create a number Symbaloo links, you should save Symbaloo as your homepage. You do this by following these steps:
 Click on the menu button to the right of the browser  
 Select ‘Settings’

              Underneath the heading ‘On startup’, click ‘Set pages’
 In the box to the right  of ‘Add new page’, type http://www.symbaloo.com
 Finally, click ‘Ok’
 Once you restart your computer, Symbaloo should be saved as your internet homepage

Welcome to the Year 9 English Blog

Welcome to the Year 9 English blog...

Here, you'll find a variety of resources, as well as links to external resources. We will be using the blog regularly throughout the academic year.

You should also check the blog regularly out of class hours, as there may be occasions when important information (regarding upcoming assessments, for example) will be posted.