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FOR: CELe students. 6th level.
BOOK: English File Intermediate
UNIT: Relative Clauses
TACTIC: 3 teams of 4 students each. Each team will present their findings in the end.
OBJECTIVE: "EXPLAIN THE IMPACT THAT INERNET HAS HAD ON THEIR LIFESTYLE"

SCENERY: Students will analyse the impact that Internet has had on everyday activities.

CORE QUESTION: WHAT HAS BEEN THE EVOLUTION AND USES OF THE INTERNET?

TASKS

TEAM 1 "WHAT IS INTERNET AND WHEN WAS IT CREATED?"

1. searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/.../0,,sid8_gci212370,00.html
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

TEAM 2 "WHY WAS IT CREATED AND HOW WAS IT DEVELOPED?"

1. www.sat.lib.tx.us/Displays/itintro.htm
2. www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

TEAM 3 "WHAT ARE THE MAIN USES OF THE INTERNET IN MOST STUDENT'S LIVES?"

1. wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_main_use_of_internet
2. www.worldenable.net/iapolicy/.../sld032.htm

PRODUCT

TEAM 1 Design a PPT of no more than 10 slides in which they will describe their findings using relative clauses.

TEAM 2 Make a mind or concept map with the acquired information, trying to use relative clauses in their oral exposition and/or write a report for the group containing relative clauses.

TEAM 3 Make and present a video (any format allowed) which shows real people using Internet
in their everyday life. Apply a quiz to their classmates based on the video shown. The quiz has to have relative clauses and it may be open cloze, column matching, fill in the blanks, etc

Practice Past Simple vs Past Continuous

Task 1 Read English New File 2 page 145 letters A and B about past simple and past continuous.

Task 2 Follow these links and make a summary about when to use past simple or past continuous:

http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Lecc19.htm
http://estudiaingles.blogspot.com/2007/11/past-continuous-syntax-and-use.html
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastsimpleorcontinuous/menu.php

Task 3 After completing the previous tasks, answer the exercises in the followin links:

http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Tenses/PastSvsPastC.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm
http://ro.zrsss.si/~viljenka/ex_pastcontc.htm

Task 4 Print your answers and add them to your file and present it next class.

Any doubts, leave a comment in the blog.