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The school year is ending here in Argentina. In the last month we have been reading ” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain and we have prepared photostories of one part of the story (the one in which Tom and Becky are lost in the cave). Here you can see the final productions.

We have finally created our quizzes. Are you curious about them? Would you like to give them a try? We challenge you all to try to solve them. You can find them here: http://saintexupery5.blogspot.com/2010/09/quizzes.html

You just have to enter your name, click on “STAR QUIZ” and start answering your questions. Share with us your results and opinions about them.

- A presentation with sounds and images on animals adaptation.

- Information about sharks, bears, racoons and foxes.

- Information from the Toronto Zoo. (click on each of the animals and look for the title: adaptations)

You have all the information! Let’s start preparing the questions! Remember that all questions must have 4 elements: QASI Rule ( question word + auxiliary + subject + infinitive verb) For example: Why do camels have eyelashes?. Prepare for each question 4 possible answers (of course, one should be correct!)

It’s time to go live! Why not posting your quiz online and challenging your classmates to try to solve it? Here you can create your online quiz.

1) Enter your quiz title (Try to be original!) and click on Create my Quiz

2) Click on Continue

3) Login by entering the USERNAME and PASSWORD

4) Click on Multiple Choice

5) Write in the Tag box: Animals

6) Enter the question, the different options and click next to the correct option. It should look like this:

8 ) Click on Multiple Choice again until you finish writing all your questions.

9) Select the category K12 education

10) Click on Create Quiz and that’s it! Your quizz is created!

Mammals ( by Nicolas, Gonzalo, Theo, Alan and Facundo)

Fish (by Valen, Magali, Sofia, Lucia D., Amanda y Micaela)

Birds ( by Camila, Lucia V. and Lucia P)

Reptiles ( by Daniela, Ceci, Luana, Caro, Azul and Naymi)

Instructions for creating your own talking photo:

1) Choose an animal and look for an image in Google images http://www.google.com.ar/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi

2) Right click the image and save it in the computer (Remember where you have saved it!)

3) Enter this webpage: http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

4) Choose the speaker in step 1

5) Insert your text in the white box (step 2)

6) Click on download and right click on the link that appears in blue to save it to your computer. (Remember where you have saved it!)

7) Enter this webpage: http://blabberize.com/

8 ) Click on “MAKE”

9) Click on “Browse” and find your picture file.

10) Select the area of the image you want to use and click on

the blue arrow. 
11) Move the blue and green circles to accomodate them surrounding the mouth and click on the blue arrow.

12) Click on the pink arrow to upload the audio file you have stored in your computer. Click on browse and upload it.

13) When you finish doing this, call your teacher so that she can save it in the class account and upload it to the blog.

Hello my dear students! I’m very happy to welcome you all to this new project: Our own blog!!!! This blog has been created to be used as a space where we can meet and share the process of learning English. As you all may know, in this part of the year we are going to work on a project about animals, so we will be sharing all that we are learning in class here.  I’m willing to receive new ideas, suggestions and collaboration from all of you to make this blog a real place for interaction and learning. You are all part of this project so why don’t start taking part in it by leaving a comment telling us something about you and what you would like to find in this blog? We are really looking forward to your comments.