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Vyučující Nick Wears
E-mail nwears@leapcz.com

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Videa k domácí přípravě a opakování – Super Minds Vocabulary

  • 27.04

    Test
    A reminder that the unit test is on next Monday 4th May

    Warm up
    We warmed up with a game of guess the famous logo.

    Vocabulary
    We reviewed the unit 8 vocabulary with a game of Around The World using the unit flashcards.

    Homework
    We went over and corrected the homework from last week.

    Video
    We watched a video about how robots are taking over from humans in some jobs, and discussed how we thought that was going to affect life in the future.

    Portfolios
    In our portfolios we did an exercise on the unit grammar, using ‚if….then‘. We had some interesting answers to the questions.

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a class game of Uno.

  • 17.04

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is due next week on Monday, pages 94 and 95 of the workbook.

    Late test takers
    Those who hadn’t taken the unit 7 test took it today.

    Portfolios
    In groups we designed a robot and gave it functions using the unit 8 grammar, If…then I will..

    Student’s book
    We completed pages 98 and 99 of the student’s book

  • 13.04

    Homework
    Homework was set, pages 94 and 95 of the workbook

    Warm up
    We warmed up and got into English speaking mode with a quick game of Mafia

    Vocabulary
    We learnt the new unit 8 vocabulary, farmer, cleaner, engineer, dentist, artist, designer, computer programmer, mechanic, businesswoman, and businessman and discussed why they are important to the world, and how things would be different without them.

    Grammar
    We looked at the first grammar point for this unit, the 1st conditional, and looked into how it is used with a wordwall exercise. https://wordwall.net/resource/6593860/first-conditional

    Portfolios
    We answered some questions on how we feel about robots and artificial intelligence

    Student’s books
    We worked through pages 94 and 95 and 96 in the student’s books

  • 10.04

    Test day

    We had a circle time where we all said one thing that we are good at and pointed out one thing that out classmates are good at.

    Review of unit 7
    We reviewed the unit 7 vocabulary and grammar, going over the flashcard words  lute, candles, mask, actor, wig, costume, tights and audience, and reviewing the use of ‚have just‘.

    Test
    We took the unit test, and finished the lesson with a game of Mafia

  • 30.03

    Class dojo
    We were awarded points for coming to the lesson ready and prepared.

    Vocabulary
    We reviewed the unit vocabulary, lute, candles, mask, actor, wig, costume, tights and audience, by playing a game of pictionary.

    Homework
    We went through our homework and marked it, pages 84 and 85 of the workbook.

    Unit grammar
    We reviewed the unit grammar, ‚have just‘ and ‚i’ll‘ with a gap filling exercise.

    some examples..
    The school bell _ (just / ring). It’s time to go!
    My mom _ (just / bake) some fresh cookies.

    „I am very thirsty.“… „Don’t worry, I’ll ____________you a glass of water.“
    „This bag is so heavy!“… „Give it to me, I’ll____________ it for you.“

    Portfolios
    We wrote a 50 word story in our notebooks..


    Student’s books
    We completed pages 88 and 89 of the student’s books

  • 23.03

    Warm up
    We warmed up by playing a game where we had to take it in turns to think of words from a particular category, like animals, clothing, parts of the body

    Vocabulary
    We reviewed the unit 7 vocabulary lute, mask, candles, actor, costume, tights, audience and wig with a game of rock, paper, scissors

    Homework
    We went over and corrected our homework, pages 82 and 83 of the workbook. Homework is set for next week, pages 84 and 85 of the workbook.

    Portfolios

    We wrote suggestions to help someone who has a problem in out notebooks.

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 84 and 85 of the student’s book

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of mafia

  • 16.03

    Class dojo
    We were awarded points for coming to the lesson ready and prepared.

    Vocabulary
    We learnt the new unit vocabulary, lute, candles, mask, actor, wig, costume, tights and audience, and practised them.

    Test
    Those who were away for the test last week took the unit 6 tests, while the rest of us made stories by writing a line, then folding the paper over for the next person to write a line, then read the story…it was certainly interesting.

    William Shakespeare
    In unit 7 the kids find William Shakespeare so we watched a short video about his life.
    https://youtu.be/8yY70sTvPCA?si=HNnSfd0N9xFX5a7v

    Portfolios
    We wrote about our favourite movies and series‘ and why we like them

    Student’s books
    We did pages 82 and 83 of the student’s book

  • 09.03

    Test reminder
    Unit 6 test review and test will be on Wednesday 11th March

    Homework
    We went through our homework and marked it

    Class dojo
    We were awarded class dojo points for coming to class ready for the lesson and prepared with our books.

    Vocabulary
    We revised the Unit 6 vocabulary by playing a game of pictionary with the unit flashcard words

    Grammar
    We reviewed the unit grammar, the use of the word ‚should‘, and ‚could I‘, and ‚Do you mind‘
    https://wordwall.net/resource/107980430/should-shouldnt

    Student’s books
    We read through the story on pages 74 and 75 of the student’s book, and completed the comprehension questions

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a few rounds of mafia

  • 9.3. YLE exams

    Dnes nám Miss Lenka představila cambridgeské zkoušky YLE Flyers, které je možné skládat na naší škole. Dozvěděli jsme se, co zkouška obsahuje, jaké má části a podívali jsme se i na certifikát, který po složení zkoušky získáme.

    Ke zkoušce je doporučený přípravný kurz, 6 lekcí probíhajících v dubnu a květnu. Zkoušku pak budou žáci skládat 5. června zde ve škole. Na kurz i na zkoušku je možné se ještě tento týden přihlásit u paní ředitelky Barešové.

  • 06.03

    Test reminder
    Unit 6 test review and test will be on next Wednesday 11th March

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is due in next Monday 9th March, pages 72 and 73 of the workbook

    Class dojo
    We were awarded class dojo points for coming to class ready for the lesson and prepared with our books.

    Vocabulary
    We revised the Unit 6 vocabulary by playing a game of pictionary with the unit flashcard words

    Grammar
    We reviewed the unit grammar, the use of the word ‚should‘, and ‚could I‘, and ‚Do you mind‘
    https://wordwall.net/resource/107980430/should-shouldnt

    Student’s books
    We read through the story on pages 74 and 75 of the student’s book, and completed the comprehension questions

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a few rounds of 4 corners

  • 02.03

    Class dojo
    We received class dojo points for coming to the lesson with all our books, and being prepared

    Homework
    Homework is set, pages 72 and 73 of the workbook. We looked at and marked last weeks‘ homework.

    Warm up
    We warmed up with a game of bamboozle, where we had to guess the missing pronoun in a sentence.

    Vocabulary
    We reviewed the unit 6 vocabulary with the flashcards, playing Pictionary, and Around the World.

    Portfolios
    We thought of our own country, gave it a name, and thought of some rules that people should follow there

    Guess the city
    We played a guess the city game, watching a video of the city, and then guessing on a map where it was.

    Student’s book
    We completed page 74 of the student’s book

  • (bez názvu)
    • 25.02

      Class dojo
      We received class dojo points for coming to the lesson with all our books, and being prepared

      Warm up
      We warmed up our brains and got them ready for English by playing a bamboozle game where we had to form a sentence to describe what a group of pictures together meant.

      Vocabulary
      We reviewed the unit 6 vocabulary with the flashcards

      Grammar
      We played a wordwall game practising the use of ‚should‘

      Notebooks
      We wrote a travel guide to a city of our choice, saying what you should take if you go there, and what you should see when you are thereStudent’s book
      We completed pages 72 and 73 of the student’s book

      Warm down
      We finished the lesson with a game of ‚4 corners‘
  • 23.02

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson.

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is set, page 59 of the workbook.

    Warm Up
    We warmed up with a game of missing word in Bamboozle.

    Vocabulary
    We learnt the unit 6 vocabulary Flag, Plate, Carpet, Sunglasses, Cup and Saucer, Cushion, Rings, Comb, Soap , Basket and Earrings and learnt their pictures on the flashcards

    Grammar
    We learnt about the first grammar point for this unit, the use of ‚should‘ and ‚shouldn’t‘ for advice, and played a wordwall game practising how to use it.
    https://wordwall.net/resource/107980430/should-shouldnt

    Portfolios
    In our portfolios, we wrote about which city we would like to visit and 3 reasons why we would like to

    Student’s book
    We did pages 70 and 71 of the Student’s Book

  • 13.02
    • Unit review
      We reviewed all the vocabulary and grammar of unit 5, playing a game of pictionary to guess the vocabulary name, then reviewed the use of ‚It’s made of‘, and ‚It’s used for‘. Finally we went over the use of apostrophes to show possession of something.
    • Unit test
      We did the unit 5 test.
    • Warm down
      We played a few rounds of 4 corners and ended the lesson with a game of ‚real or fake‘ on bamboozle as a reward for doing so well in the test.

  • 9.2

    Portfolio: We did possessive apostrophe review via word wall, all 10 in the portfolio.

    Moving activity: I had students stand up and touch something made of…, touch something used for… around the classroom, then the students were the teacher and told me and others what to touch. Example: touch something made of plastic, touch something used for reading.

    Vocabulary review: In pairs students did a word search/crossword with the vocabulary words. The first pair finished got to pick the video at break and students helped each other find the words

    Kahoot: Students were divided into teams and we did a Kahoot to prepare for the test. Each group had a white board and marker and answered drawing the symbols to the corresponding answers. https://create.kahoot.it/details/75240a63-0da1-491c-ba6b-93ef92499f19?drawer=

    Baamboozle: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/3184935

    Mafia: We did one game of Mafia because both classes were mixed today and the students behaved super well!

  • 6.2

    Portfolio: I had the students think of their favorite item or toy, and write two sentences about it (what’s it used for and what it’s made of) as well as draw it. Then the students read their sentences outlaid and other students guessed the item.

    Review: Since we had a mixed class we did a vocabulary review to ensure everyone was up to date on the grammar

    SB 62: We listened to the story, and did activities 1-4. Talked about the story and went over words we didn’t know.

    WB 62: We did activities 1-3 in partners

    Whisper game: As a vocabulary review we played whisper, age where there are two teams lined up to the back of the classroom. I gave each team a vocabulary word which they whispered down the line of their classmates to the final person who ran and hit the corresponding vocabulary photo.

  • 02.02

    Homework
    Homework was assigned, page 59 of the workbook.
    We reviewed last week’s homework, going over and checking the answers.

    Warm Up
    We warmed up with a game of scattegories in teams on Bamboozle.

    Vocabulary
    We reviewed the unit 5 vocabulary with the unit flashcards and a game of Around the World.

    Portfolios
    We reviewed the unit grammar points ‚It’s made of‘, and ‚It’s used for‘, by doing a fill in the blanks exercise.

    Student’s Books
    We completed page 60 of the Student’s Book

  • 26.01

    Homework
    Homework was set, page 58 in the Workbook

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson.

    Flashcards
    We listened to the audio of the new Unit 5 flashcards and learned the vocabulary. Robbers, Jail, Wagon, Sheriff, Saddle, Pistol, Handcuffs, Rope and Barrel .

    Unit 5 introduction
    We watched a Youtube video explaining all about the Wild West, cowboys, and outlaws
    https://youtu.be/Jq1J8DHgrJo?si=Smk8PB3ElpYGPNFM , and talked about the things we learned in the video.

    Portfolios
    We thought about which one of 3 eras we would like to have lived in, and thought of 3 reasons why we would have liked to live then

    Invent an outlaw
    We thought of an outlaw, gave him/her a name, and thought about what they might have done that made them an outlaw, we had some interesting examples.

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 58 and 59 of the student’s book

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of scattegories

  • (bez názvu)

    23.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson.

    Unit review
    We reviewed the work we have done in Unit 4. Unit 4 vocabulary, ordinal numbers, conditional statements, and dates of the month

    Unit 4 test
    We did the unit 4 test

  • 19.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson.

    Unit test
    A reminder that the unit 4 test is this week, on Friday

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English mode by playing a game of what’s the body part in Bamboozle.

    Flashcards
    We revised unit 4 vocabulary by playing around the world with the unit flashcards, and by doing anagrams of the unit vocabulary

    Portfolios
    We practised the zero conditional, making sentences beginning with ‚If….‘, we had some interesting answers !!!

    Ordinal numbers
    We did work on ordinal numbers, writing the dates of birthdays on the board

    Conditionals
    We thought of rules for a board game, to say what would happen if we landed on different coloured squares

    Student’s Books
    We completed pages 54 and 55 of the Student’s book

  • 16.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson.

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is set for next week, pages 47 and 48 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 19th January.

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English mode by playing a game of Mafia.

    Flashcards
    We practised the Unit 3 flashcards, making sure that we have all the words in our heads.

    Portfolios
    We worked on conditional statements…finishing the sentences

    Willy Wonka
    We watched a video of Willy Wonka to prepare for the Student’s Book topic today….strange food

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 52 and 53 of the Student’s book

  • 12.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson.

    Homework
    Homework is set for next week, pages 47 and 48 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 19th January.

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English mode by playing a game of Mafia.

    Flashcards
    We practised the Unit 3 flashcards, making sure that we have all the words in our heads.

    Portfolios
    We thought about days that we would like to celebrate, and what date they would be on, and wrote about them in our portfolios.

    Student’s book
    We read the story on pages 50 and 51 of the student’s book, and answered questions about it, then finished the rest of the exercises on those pages.

    Warm down
    We finished the lesson and warmed down with a game of scattegories.

  • 09.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is set for next week, page 46 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 12th January.

    Student of the month
    Student of the month for December was awarded.

    Flashcards
    We played Around the World with the unit 4 flashcards to keep them fresh in our minds

    Portfolios
    We wrote about whether we would rather go a thousand years into the future, or a thousand years into the past, and gave 3 reasons why. Some interesting reasons were given

    Calendars
    On blank calendar months, we came up with a name for a new month, and 3 celebration days to practice ordinal numbers. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th,7th,8th,9th,10th

    Student’s Book
    We did page 48 of the Student’s Book, thinking about recipes and menus, thought of our own dinner menu, and presented it to the rest of the class, in pairs

  • 05.01

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is set for next week, page 46 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 15th December.

    Welcome back
    We talked about what we had done over the Christmas holidays, places we had been, events we had taken part in, and presents we had received.

    Introduction to new unit
    We watched a video about how the world might be like in 2070, ands the challenges and opportunities for the years ahead https://youtu.be/aNv3mOR1QJQ?si=J22JfMQbU4SljNIQ We talked a little bit about the world of the future.

    Portfolios
    We wrote in our portfolios what we thought the technology, and entertainment of the future might be, and what we thought the future will be like.

    Student’s book
    We completed pages 46 and 47 of the student’s book.

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of scattegories

  • Christmas Lessons

    Made up tests and did Christmas activities.

    Happy holidays and see you in the new year 🙂

  • 15.12

    Portfolio: introduced a Christmas lesson by going over Christmas words they already knew. Did a timed drawing game as review.

    Test: Anyone who hadn’t taken the test last week made up the test today.

    Activity: While the students took the tests, other students completed a word search and hidden message worksheet that was Christmas themed.

    Discussion: Talked about Czech traditions for Christmas versus USA. Also talked about Christmas gifts.

    Kahoot: I split up students into groups and we did a Christmas Kahoot, covering traditions, movies, and music. Talked a lot about each category.

    Christmas Karaoke: We did some singing and dancing.

    Mafia: We did a big game of Mafia with all the students together!

  • 12.12

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    A reminder that homework is set for next week, pages 38 and 39 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 15th December.

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English mode with a game of Scattergories

    Unit review
    We reviewed the Unit 3 flashcards, grammar and vocabulary

    Test
    We did the unit 3 test

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of guessing which animal was in the picture

  • 08.12

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    Homework is set for next week, pages 38 and 39 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 15th December.

    Unit 3 test
    A reminder that the Unit 3 test will be in the next lesson this week.

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English mode with a game of Scattegories

    Flashcards
    We played Around the world with the unit 3 flashcards to keep them fresh in our minds

    Portfolios
    We wrote about what would make a perfect day in our portfolios. Using the times given on the clocks, we wrote about what we will be going to do at that time on a perfect day.

    Time worksheet
    We worked through a worksheet, telling the time in English

    Student’s Book
    We worked through page 42 of the Student’s Book, and then warmed down with a game of Mafia

  • 05.12

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    A reminder of homework. Pages 36 and 37 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 8th December.

    Flashcards
    We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of flyswatter

    Christmas Discussion
    We had a discussion comparing Christmas time in the Czech Republic with Christmas time in the UK, and watched a video about Christmas time in the UK

    Portfolios
    In our portfolios we wrote 5 things that we would like to get for Christmas, and then we questioned each other to guess what they were. Some interesting gift wishes!!

    Student’s Book
    We did pages 40 and 41 of the Student’s Book

    Warm Down
    We warmed down with a game of scattegories

  • 01.12

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    Homework was set . Pages 36 and 37 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 8th December.

    Flashcards
    We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of Round the World

    Going to
    We watched a youtube video on the use of ‚Going to‘. https://youtu.be/U8L2m8TeIWA?si=qrozB2D5M5WUfFMi

    Portfolios
    We discussed the use of ‚going to‘ and wrote in our portfolios what we will be doing in the future

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 38 and 39 of the Student’s Book

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a quick game of Scattegories

  • 28.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson.

    Warm Up
    We warmed up with a game of Mafia (Mr Nick played too)

    Flashcards
    We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of Round the World

    Portfolios
    We watched a video of Chuck Berry https://youtu.be/aKCt8ssC7cs?si=56uyk9u8a6I6krZM and discussed whether we liked the music, then wrote in our portfolios about what our band would be like

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 36 and 37 of the Student’s Book

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of Scattegories

  • 24.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class    Prepared    and ready for the lesson.

    Homework
    Homework was set. Page 34 and 35 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, December 1st

    Flashcards
    We learnt the Unit 3 vocabulary from the flashcards and the audio in the Student’s Book

    Musical taste
    We watched a video showing different kinds of music, and discussed which one was our favourite
    https://youtu.be/7uxF9CsxW88?si=S5tzhb8g_c7Ck6to

    Portfolios
    We wrote which is our favourite type of music and why it is in our Portfolios

    Student’s Book
    We did pages 34 and 35 of the Student’s Book

    Warm Down
    We warmed down with a game of Scattegories

  • 21.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class    Prepared    and ready for the lesson.

    Warm up
    We warmed up with a game of scattegories

    Flashcards
    We reviewed the Flashcards for the Unit 2 test with a game of fly swatter

    Portfolios
    We reviewed have to/don’t have to in our portfolios

    Big numbers
    We revised big numbers, writing them on the board and saying them all together

    Test
    We did the unit 2 test

  • 14.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class    Prepared    and ready for the lesson.

    Test
    Unit 2 test will be on Friday 21st November.

    Flashcards
    We revised the unit 2 flashcards with a game of Duel.

    Portfolios
    We decided on 4 chores that we have to do at home and wrote about them in our portfolios.

    Rainforest quiz
    We answered questions about the animals and plants in the rainforest

    Big numbers
    We went over how to form and say the big numbers that come from somewhere as big as a rainforest, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions !!

    Had to/Didn’t have to
    We did a worksheet on the use of had to/didn’t have to

  • 10.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English with a game of Mafia

    Portfolios
    In out portfolios we wrote about whether we would rather visit the Savannah or the Rainforest, and gave 3 reasons why.

    Student’s Book
    We reviewed the story of the time travelling kids so far, then we carried on reading the story on pages 26 and 27 of the Student’s Book

    Flashcards
    We played a game of duel to refresh our memories of the Unit 2 Flashcards

  • 07.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    A reminder that pages 22 and 23 of the Workbook have been set for homework, due in next Monday

    Rainforest Mind Map
    We thought up Rainforest vocabulary, and did a Rainforest mind map on the white board together, then wrote it into our portfolios

    Student’s Book
    We did pages 24 and 25 of the Student’s Book

    Rainforest game
    In pairs we made a game which had a rainforest animal as it’s main character, and presented it to the rest of the class

  • 3.11

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    Homework is assigned, pages 22 and 23 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 10th November

    Flashcards
    We learnt the names of the new Unit 2 flashcards

    Rainforest maps
    We looked at a map of the where the Amazon rainforest is in South America, and a map that compares the size of the rainforest to the size of Czechia

    Portfolios
    We watched a video full of interesting facts about the rainforest, and answered questions about it in our portfolios
    https://youtu.be/1BGcT1gnDSQ?si=jaGRGIF13BanjEH4


    Student’s Book
    We did pages 22 and 23 of the Student’s Book

    Big number slides
    We did a quiz about big numbers…..

    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10YGP57_17U8dWMjlzxvKi9PxhGEdeHSZ/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

  • 31.10

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

    Warm Up
    We played a Halloween word search to get warmed up
    https://wordwall.net/resource/23767483/angli%c4%8dtina/halloween

    Find someone who
    We did an exercise, finding out which of our classmates was most excited about Halloween by asking who liked the most Halloween things

    Writing
    We decorated the white board in Halloween themes, drawing Halloween objects and writing about them on the board

    Bamboozle
    We did a Halloween themed gap filling exercise game https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1176250

  • 24.10

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

    Tense relay
    We divided in to 2 teams to do the theme of the lesson, writing the best Halloween story. We warmed up by playing a game of tense relay, racing to do a fill in the gaps exercise.

    Idioms
    We learnt some idioms to put into our story, then played a game in our teams to see who could remember the idioms the best.

    1. Ghost townA deserted, quiet place.
    2. Scared stiffTo be completely paralyzed by fear.
    3. Skeletons in the closetA shameful secret from the past.
    4. Dig one’s own graveTo do something that will cause big problems later.
    5. Night owlA person who stays up late at night.
    6. Over my dead bodyTo absolutely refuse something.
    7. Make one’s blood run coldTo terrify or horrify someone.

    Halloween Story
    In our teams we wrote our Halloween story, containing as many of the idioms we had learnt as possible.

  • 20.10

    Test Day! today we did some reviewed and took the Unit 1 test. In the time remaining we played Mafia as a mixed class.

    Students did very well:)

  • 13.10

    Unit test
    No homework set this week because the Unit 1 test will be next Monday

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

    Warm Up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Meet in the middle (rock/paper scissors) with the Flashcards from Unit 1 in 2 teams.

    Portfolios
    We learnt about the word ‚While‘ by forming sentences using what we were doing at 3 pm yesterday afternoon.

    We formed sentences from slides.
    While Tim was watching television, Sarah was playing football

    Student’s Book
    We read and listened to the story on Page 14, and completed the exercises

    Workbook
    We completed Pages 12 and 13 of the Workbook

    Warm down
    We played scattegories in our groups

  • 10.10

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

    Warm Up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Duel with the Flashcards from Unit 1 in 2 teams.

    Portfolios
    We did exercises describing what we would do if there was a natural disaster in Prague.

    Video
    We watched a video about volcanoes, and how they are formed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jxeh-yAXek

    Workbook
    We did pages 10 and 11 of the Workbook

  • 06.10

    Class Dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

    Homework
    Student’s Book, page 13 due Monday 13th October

    Student of the month
    The student of the month award was awarded for September

    Warm Up
    We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Scattegories in 2 teams

    Portfolios
    We did exercises describing what we would do if we could time travel to a different time, we had some very interesting answers https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ufxT6ilNlkaDTgDY4aYfbUYsH4NH5PdX/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

    Unit 1 Vocabulary
    We started to learn the Unit 1 vocabulary on Page 10 of the Student’s Book

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 10, 11 and 12 of the Student’s Book

    Warm Down
    We warmed down with a flashcard game to make sure that we keep the new vocabulary in our minds

    Class dojo
    We received Class Dojo points for working hard and speaking English during the lesson

  • 3.10

    Warm up
    We warmed up by playing a game of scattegories to get our brains thinking in English

    Portfolios
    We looked at slides about historical eras, and wrote about what we would have done if we had travelled back to that time.

    Classroom Inventions
    We finished our classroom inventions that we started last week, things to help us with our school day. We then did a short presentation of our invention to the rest of the class

    Super Minds
    We finished pages 8-9 of our workbooks

    Warm down
    We warmed down with a game of Mafia

  • 29.9

    Class dojo
    We received class dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the test

    Warm up
    We warmed up our brains ready for the test by reviewing the Unit 0 vocabulary on the flashcards. We practised question forms and practised making true/false statements

    Portfolios
    We practised forming the past tense of verbs in our portfolios, taking the base form of the verb, and writing the past tense down.

    Test
    We did the Unit 0 test

    Books
    Some of us picked books from the library to take home and do book reports on, they will be due back to the library in 2 weeks

    Irregular verb worksheet
    We received a worksheet on irregular verbs to work on at home when we want to do some practise with them

    Warm down
    We did an animal quiz on bamboozle to warm down after the hard work we did on the test

  • 26.9

    Unit 0 test will be on Monday 29.9
    No homework before then

    Class dojo.
    Students received points for coming to the lesson Prepared with their Super Minds textbooks, and for Working hard and Speaking English.

    Warm up
    We played Past Tense bingo to practice the tenses we will need to know for the test on Monday.

    Portfolio
    We did a fill in the gap exercise to practice our unit vocabulary for Monday’s test.
    We recommend the students review this again at home as there will be an almost identical activity on the Test.

    Wordwall
    We played Wordwall spin the wheel game https://wordwall.net/resource/97960797/sm5-practice-2 to practice the tenses will we need to know for the test.

    Super Minds
    We completed page 7 of the Student’s book, and the Workbook, and read the story on page 8 of the Student’s book. If a student was absent, please make sure that they complete the pages by the next week

  • 22.9

    Homework: Please scratch off the Activation Codes in Both the Student’s Book and Workbook and register both books on the Cambridge One Platform. We will be checking that the codes have been scratched off during the next class. 

    Please do Activity number 2 on page 6 of the Workbook to check that you know where to find the audio resources on Cambridge One.

    Unit 0 Test will be on Monday 29.9

    Class Dojo: At the start of class, students receive Class Dojo points for coming Prepared with their Super Minds textbooks, for having done their Homework, and for any Book Reports they have done. At the end of class students receive further points for Working hard and Speaking English

    Warm Up: Wordwall to practice irregular past tense.

    We recommend the students play this at home as these are the verbs they will need to know for the Test

    We also played a round of Around the World with irregular past tense flashcards.

    Portfolio: Gap fill exercise to further practice irregular past tense.

    We recommend the students review this again at home as there will be an almost identical activity on the Test.

    Unit 0 Vocabulary review: We reviewed our Unit vocabulary using the Super Minds online flashcard resources. Students have access to these flashcards at home as well on Cambridge One (under Learner Resources), so we recommend they review and make sure they can spell all Unit vocabulary.

    Super Minds: We made sure all students have completed pages 4-6 in both the Student’s Book and Workbook. If a student was absent, please make sure they complete these pages by the next class. If a student did not complete all exercises on pages 4-6 in SB and WB, please make sure they do by the next class. We will begin page 7 in SB and WB next class.

    Class Poster: We finished our Class Poster and are looking forward to showing it off in our hallway soon.

    Scientific Invention: Students worked alone or in pairs to create their own invention which would make their school life easier. We will finish and present during the next lesson. 

    Screenshot

    Closing: We played irregular past tense word dominoes and a game of flashcard duel.

  • 19.9

    Homework
    Student’s book, page 6 due Monday 22nd

    Warm Up
    We made 2 teams and we played Taboo to warm up our English brains, using our unit 0 flashcards and practising our new vocabulary : goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, test tube, powder, and gloves

    Student’s Book
    We completed pages 4 and 5 of the Student’s book, learning about the science lesson vocabulary and doing a logic puzzle, finding out which lessons certain kids had been to from the clues on the page.

    Workbook
    We did pages 4 and 5 of the Workbook

    Posters
    We continued working on our class poster, gluing on the cheetahs that we have coloured in

    Warm down
    We finished the lesson by playing a game of werewolf, a game that practices vocabulary

  • 15.9.

    Homework was set…page 6 of Super Minds by next Monday.
    We chose new class dojos categories, and scores.
    We played scattegories to get into English.
    We chose a song to use during break time during this unit.
    We started our Super Minds books, and did page 4.
    We carried on with our class poster.

  • 12.9.

    We listened to the sound of a cheetah calling, we were going to learn all about our mascot.
    We did a mind map of the things we know about Cheetahs, then we played a game of word chain using words to do with cheetahs .
    We watched a video all about Cheetahs and found out lots of new facts about them.
    We answered questions based on the video.
    We started out class poster.

  • 8.9.

    We started by learning about our new teacher, Mr Nick, finding out where he comes from, which is Wales, in the UK.
    We received our new textbooks and portfolios, wrote our names on them, and started to decorate the covers.
    We played 2 truths and a dream to learn more about our classmates and then filled
    in ‘All about me’ worksheets.
    We had a class discussion about the importance of rules, and came up with a list of
    class rules which we wrote in our portfolios.
    We taught Mr Nick the rules of ‘Werewolf’ and ‘Mafia’, and played a few rounds of
    the game.
    Finally, we thought about one thing we had learnt or enjoyed in our class today.