ARTS CLASS - Friday 21stMay --- Dream-like Landscape

Hi Boys and Girls:
We continue our artwork. Here you have a picture and the commands you should follow.


Download the Surreal Sketch, complete it and colour it (you can use every technique for colouring) (If you haven't any printer, draw it...don't worry about printing, it's not necessary).

Take a picture and Send it to me by email. Write in the subject: Name, surname, class and SURREAL LANDSCAPE.

Deadline (fecha tope de entrega): 19th May

ARTS CLASS --- Wednesday 26th May -- Dali's Project

Hi children,
We are going to do a project and it's going to be the last one about Dali. 
You will reproduce one of his paintings with the technique of Collage.
You'll choose one painting and then, three or four techniques of collage (not only one).

I'm going to give the techniques and the paintings (you can choose among the examples I'll give you. You can copy the painting into your paper or just, use a photocopy).

Let's talk about the techniques. There are different types of collage, here you have the ones I want you to use. Please read and think...

1st. Paper/Magazine/cardboard Collage

These collages are made from random things in magazines. They can be cut out or ripped and then stuck onto a common surface. Magazines can be replaced with newspapers, cardboard, colour papers... to give a different feel and look.

2nd. Fabric Collage

Fabric collage are very different to the first I talked about, because this one doesn't involve pictures already on the material, instead, you create the picture with the fabric. The fabric can be cut into many shapes and stuck down on a surface.

3rd. Dimensional Collage

3D Collage art is placing 3D items on a surface and creating something new. Some items that can be used are: rocks, beads, coins, buttons, sticks, new and old objects. If you want you can keep it as all natural items and do a sustainability project. 

4th. Mosaic

Mosaic is a type of collage. Most people know of tiled mosaic art, however there are a few different types. Others include paper, marble, stone and more. You can find these types of collage in cathedrals, churches and temples. 

Click here for Dali's Paintings. 
I've started mine...

Teacher's artwork in progress

Tuesday 25th May -- Culture video and worksheet

Hi sweeties!
Let's continue talking about Inventions! and young inventors!
Have you ever thought you could be a young inventor?
The unique thing you have to do is...to try it!
Tasks for today:
1. Watch the video twice

2.  Now, answer the questions in the worksheet.
In activity 1 you can write and also, you can match!! So complete every activity!

You have a liveworksheet just in case you have not the photocopy! 

See you tomorrow!

Inventions, an interactive worksheet by teachermcf
liveworksheets.com

Thursday 20th of May -- Polite or embedded questions

Good moning!

Today we will talk about Polite questions or embedded questions.
Tasks for today:
1. Open Pupil's Book page 101.
2. Look at activity n.4. Read the blue box (examples) and then, the orange box (rules)

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Grammar unit 8: Embedded Questions

We use these to ask questions in a direct way:
 "How are you?";  How old are you?"; "Is it right, teacher?"...
But, sometimes, we have to ask those questions in a politely way.
When we talk with the teacher, with adults, or with strangers...we have to change our way of asking.
We ask: "Could you tell me how old you are?", or  " Do you now if it is right?"
You can see that some elements have changed.
a. When we ask a question politely, we can use phrases at the start of the question such as
Can you tell me...
I wonder...
Do you know...
b. When we want to reproduce questions that start with a questions word (when, what, where, how, who...) we use the same question word (again).
Who invented the Penicillin?
Could you tell me who invented the Penicillin.
c. For yes/no questions we use IF/WHETHER.
Do you like Science?
I wonder if you like Science.
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4. Now please, look at the activity 4 and complete the orange box on your own.
5. Practice more with these activities. And try to be supeeeeer Polite!!

B1 grammar Embedded Questions (don't worry if you fail or doubt, it's absolutely common).
(you can see the explanation clicking in Show Explanation).
You can do/play as many times as you want, the priority is to learn!!

Complete with the correct one! Then check your answers!!

Wednesday 19th May --- Book Club and Vocabulary practice

Wednesday 19th
Tasks for today:
ANSWER KEY
1st Open Pupil's Book Page 100.

2nd. Read actv. 1 and choose the correct option.
Answer key:
1. plot    2. characters.      3. Setting 
4. Speech marks ( we also use/say "inverted commas")

Actv. 2.
The plot: it's about a girl who is called Marina who took some penicillin when she was ill. She found out more about Dorothy Hodgkin.
The characters: Marina, her doctor, Miss Hay and Dorothy Hodgkin.
The setting: Marina's home, the doctor's surgery, Marina's school.
It's set in modern time but Marina talks about the past in the presentation.

 Listen to the story again (podcast 4.11) and read the story "An important discovery" and check your answers.

Team up! 6 CD4. LISTENING 4.11 (Mediateca de EducaMadrid)


That's all for today folks!

Homework: Study, brush up vocabulary and grammar from booklets and pupil's book. One unit (from the book) each day.
CU soon!!

ARTS CLASS ---- Wednesday 5th May --- DALI's SURREALISM

As we started last Wednesday with information of Dalí, I recommend you to watch the next video in which you will see some interesting facts that perhaps explain why Dali saw the reality quite different from us.

Dalí had not a normal childhood. When he grew up his aims in life were quite childish and immature, but this eccentric vision of life left us a huge and priceless production of artwork.

Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies. 

Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an art movement where painters made dream-like scenes and showed situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life.

Let's talk about SURREALISM!

What has a lobster got in common with a telephone? Find out here!

YOUR TASK today is play this SURREALIST QUIZZ just to find out more info about the movement.

I hope you have enjoyed the Arts class today.

See you next Wednesday. Prepare your brain cause we will start producing art!

ARTS CLASS -- Wednesday 5th May

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad".

Salvador Dali

DALI was a famous and well-known artist. He was born in Figueres, Spain, in 1904. He died in 1989, in the same town. During his life he studied, worked and produced lots of artworks.

Salvador Dali was involved in a huge variety of art forms, but surrealism is considered his true forte. Ironically though, he was kicked out (expelled) of the group of Surrealists in the 1930s, to which he arrogantly responded: “I myself am surrealism”. (It was totally true)

Surrealist art portrays various unrelated elements put together in any order, depending upon the artist’s view.

 You’ve probably known one of the most iconic pieces of surrealist art which shows ‘melting watches’ – Dali’s most famous work, ‘The Persistence of Memory’.

Dali’s work wasn’t just an assortment of random objects – they often had deep religious and political underlying themes. He was also drawn to mathematics and quantum physics and many pieces of his work reflect this fascination as well. But most of all, Dali’s work had no boundaries (limits) – it conformed to nothing and could be anything.

That is why Dali is a great inspiration for you, kids, especially the ones who want to color outside the lines!

Information taken from ArtsyCraftsyMom
Click on and watch the video.

For today I think it is enough, pupils.
Have a nice and Super Realistic Day!!