Steve Jobs speech

Click on JOBS to view this truly inspirational speech!

(ORAL)Short story by Tim Bowley

Click on TIM to listen to this intriguing story about King Arthur in search of the answer to the question: What is it that women most desire in the world?

Writing very short stories

This year the EOI organises a very short story competition and you are expected to participate. The skill of writing stories is also part of the curriculum.

The 7 key elements of a successful and effective short story are:
1. good content (plot and climax/surprising element, theme, setting, characters, point of view)
2. clarity (cohesion & coherence)
3. brevity (100 words) and art of suggesting
4. range and precision of vocabulary
5. style (beauty, charm, rhythm)
6. Reference to common elements of the world, general knowledge. Famous literary/ historical references
7. Title (extra info/ meaning)

Here are 2 links with fantastic examples for you to read:
STORIES and PHOTOSTORIES

Here are 3 links to webpages full of useful tips and ideas to help you to improve your writing skills:
PROMPTS, CREATIVE, FORWARD

Think about the many sources for inspiration you have within and around you to start creating now!

PAST SIMPLE vs PAST CONTINUOUS

Click on 4U to view the explanation and then do some practise.

ENGLISHBOOKSINSPAIN

ENGLISH BOOKS IN SPAIN

Coming to EOI Motril Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20^th November 2014 to sell lovely books in English, great ideas for Christmas gift!

Bring money to purchase some wonderful books.

The book stand will be located in the school hall from 9:00 until 12:30 in the morning and

from 15:30 until 20:00 in the afternoon/evening.

 

BBC Children in Need

Click on CHILDREN to find out about this famous charity event.

KEY for marking of WRitten assignments

Reg: Register (informal, formal)

COHR: coherence (ideas, meaning, logic development...)
COHS: cohesion (puntuation, connector...)
ROS: run on sentence (too long, too many ideas together, too many commas)
Z: start a new paragraph

RiCoG (Riqueza y Corrección Gramatical)
WO: word order
AG: agreement (Subject & verb form, article & noun, singular vs. plural...)
W: wrong (preposition, article, pronoun...)
VT: verb tense
G: grammar structure

RiCoL (Riqueza y Corrección Léxica)
Sp: spelling mistake
WF:Wrong form of the family of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...)
WW: wrong word
COLL: collocation (wrong combination of words)

REP: repetitive

(!)= something missing (subject, preposition, article, pronoun, word...)

Avoid "etc/..." and USE: "and so on", "and so forth", "and the like"