W/C 8th December and W/C 15th December

Hello! So, I thought I would combine these last two weeks to make things a bit easier...

With almost all of you I did a presentation about Christmas in the UK! We also did a Christmas quiz. You can find the presentation here, which has some more activities on it as we didn't manage to finish it in class. Click on the cute photo below to see the presentation:



The quiz, and the answers, can be found here

Other than the Christmas lesson: with 1 ESO we finished practising conversations about greetings. With 2 ESO we finished talking about jobs. With 3 ESO we finished talking about appearances and using our comparatives and superlatives to talk about our funniest/happiest/saddest/scariest moments of our lives - some very interesting stories!! Finally, with 4 ESO we did a worksheet related to disabilities, and discussed how we would do various everyday activities if we had certain disabilities. There were some very interesting suggestions in this activity too!

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas, have a well-deserved break and enjoy the time with your family and friends!

See you all soon,

Nicola :)

W/C 1st December

This week...

With 1 ESO we continued discussing various dialogues.

With 2 ESO we discussed jobs and places of work in small groups, sharing our ideas about what would be the best and worst jobs we could imagine!

With 3 ESO we described photos of famous people to practise our vocabulary about appearances, and we also discussed the happiest/saddest/funniest/scariest moments of our lives to practise our comparatives and superlatives.

With 4 ESO I gave a presentation on disabilities. Click on the photo below to access the powerpoint:



As the 4th year students will know, today (3rd December) is the International Day of People with Disability. If you want to find out more about this day then click on the following link:

http://www.idpwd.com.au/

W/C 24th November

This week we mainly continued with topics from previous lessons so that everyone could practise their speaking skills...

1 ESO - we practised some more dialogues to improve our reading skills and pronunciation.



2 ESO - we started discussing jobs and places of work in small groups.

3 ESO - as we hadn't done the Bonfire Night presentation which I had done previously with other groups, we did this. Please scroll down on the blog to find the link to the presentation :)

4 ESO - we continued describing various accidents and emergencies in small groups and sharing our own personal experiences.

Have a good weekend! :)

W/C 17th November

Brrr this week is cold! Here are the activities from this week:

1 ESO - we continued practising dialogues to improve our reading and pronunciation.

2 ESO - I gave a presentation about jobs and places of work. Get ready to answer questions about this topic next week! HERE is the presentation so you can revise!

3 ESO - We did some fun work on appearances! Someone said I should have included Zac Efron with the celebrity descriptions, so here he is - click on him to open the powerpoint!

4 ESO - Following on from last week's accidents and emergencies lesson, we started to discuss various incidents in small groups and share our personal experiences - some of these have been very interesting! I look forward to hearing more next week. :)

W/C 10th November

This week in some classes we continued with work we had already started whilst in others we began new topics...

1 ESO: We practised dialogues in small groups in the English department.

2 ESO: We continued discussing the theme of TV

3 ESO: We started a new topic - healthy eating. Click the photo below to view the presentation and activities from this lesson:



4 ESO: We started a new topic, too - accidents and emergencies. Click HERE to view the presentation from the lesson and also HERE for the descriptions of Frane's accidents.

W/C 3rd November

This week in the UK there is a big celebration - Bonfire Night. So this week, with 1 and 4 eso we did some work on Bonfire Night... Click the photo to view the presentation.

With 2 eso we continued discussing TV and their thoughts about Sleepy Hollow which they watchted in the filmoteca!

Unfortunately I had no lessons with 3 eso this week due to their trip to the filmoteca. See you next week!

W/C 27th October

As it is Halloween this week, I prepared a special presentation on this celebration, which we looked at with 1 eso and 3 eso. 2 eso began to discuss TV with me in small groups, and 4 eso continued to discuss their photos with me in small groups. Click on the photo to view the presentation!

Happy Halloween!

W/C 20th October

Despite the strike causing some disruption with the older students, here are the presentations of what we covered this week. Click on the titles to take you to the presentations!

1 eso: Prepositions of Place 1
          Prepositions of Place 2
         
         

2 eso: Television
         

3 eso: Super Nature
         

4 eso: Began to describe photos in small groups

W/C 13th October

During my second week, I began doing various activities with each class relating to the topics they are currently studying.

1 eso: In My Town

2 & 3 eso: Free Time Activities

4 eso: Describing Photos

W/C 6th October

During my first week at Norba I gave a presentation about myself to all my classes so that you would know all about me and my background! Everyone was very friendly and I really enjoyed my first week at school.

Welcome!

Hello! I am Nicola, the conversation assistant at Norba and this is my new blog! I will put presentations, news articles, links and interesting information on this page so that you can access it all in your free time. Please feel free to ask questions and leave comments...

Nicola :)