Question of the Week

Greetings, students!

The question of the week for this week is about the topic of holidays.

This week, I'd like you to describe your dream holiday/vacation.

• Where would you like to go?
• Who would you go with?
• What would you do there?
• How long would you go for?
• Why would you like to go on this holiday?

Question of the Week

Hello students! This week's question of the week is:

Should students at Dara have to wear uniform? Why, or why not? If you could make any changes to the uniform, what would you do?

Readers

Greetings, students!

Today, we are going to choose our readers for the year ahead. In the first semester, we will study Frankenstein together in class.

Spooky!

However, for the second semester, you will choose your own reader. You can read it at home or in class. Near the end of the semester, you'll have some class time to prepare a presentation, which you'll then give to the class. Here is an example from last year:

I have chosen six books for you to choose from. There are three choices from Level 2, and three choices from Level 3. I'd like you to read more information about these books, and tell me which book you would like to read:

Level 2:

The Jungle Book

Robinson Crusoe

Voodoo Island

Level 3:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Love Story

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Unit 1 Games

Hello students!

Here are some games to review the present simple tense and describing appearance.

Present Simple Space Game

Present Simple + verb 'to be' game

Guess Who appearance review

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Clothing vocabulary matching game

"Teddy Dresser" clothing vocabulary game

Prepositions of place game

Fictional Dating Profiles

Hello students! Today, I'd like you to start making an online dating profile for a celebrity or fictional character. Here are some examples from the internet:

I'd like you to write at least ten different things about the person. They could include:

• Name (including surname)
• Personality
• Job
• Age & birthday
• Fashion/style - clothes
• Money?
• Special abilities/skills
• Where they live
• Would like to meet...
• Ideal date?
• Height
• Weight
• Hair
• Eyes
• Favourites
• Like/Don't like
• Free time/hobbies

Irregular Verbs

Good morning everybody! Today we are going to study irregular verbs.

We'll begin with this game show game, and then you can go to the computers to play this Macmillan irregular verb wheel game.

Social Media

Hello, students! We're continuing to look at technology and computing in this mini-topic, and today we're going to think about social media.

First, please take this short survey about social media. Answer the questions and give your opinion, then tomorrow we will look at everybody's answers.

Next, look at this slideshow of cartoons and memes about social media. I would like you to choose any three of the pictures, and write down in your notebook:

1) What is happening in the cartoon? Write at least two sentences.
2) What is the message of the cartoon? What is it trying to say?
3) Do you agree with it? Why, or why not?