My English teacher's blog: 3B 2010-2011

Class Diary: 3B

This new page will be my class diary. Here you'll find more information about what goes on in class each day and what to expect in the following classes.

6 April
I'm posting the link to an article about a futuristic aircraft seat and another one about future inventions.

7 March

Some exercises from englishexercises.org to practise personal pronouns:
exercise 1
exercise 2
exercise 3
exercise 4
exercise 5
and to practise the present perfect/simple past:
exercise 6
exercise 7
exercise 8
exercise 9
exercise 10

17 January

I'm posting a video of the song I told you about in class today. It's not the kind of music you are used to but please give it a try, it's so powerful...
"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who released her first recording of it in 1939, the year she first sang it. Written by the jewish high school teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in all other regions of the United States.

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

13 January

Next Monday it's Martin Luther King Day in the USA. To celebrate it I want you to read my last blog post about him and watch the video of his "I Have A Dream" Speech.

Then do this activity: Before the Boycott Travel back in time and play the role of a school newspaper reporter assigned to ride the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in 1955. Learn what it was like to ride the bus as an African American during that period in history. Complete the seven-stop Montgomery bus ride and at the end of the assignment, you will be asked to describe how you felt about the bus tour.

We'll have a quiz on Friday!!

10 January

Remember that your essay about last Christmas must be in tomorrow!
Links to practise the past continuous tense:

The British Council
English Grammar Secrets
English Page
Ego4u
University of Victoria's English Language Centre

I'll leave with an explanatory video:

22 November
More practice for next test:
Exercises to practise Countable/Uncountable:
Page 1
Page 2

To practise questions:
Questions 1

Questions 2

18 November

Links to practise for our next test:

learnenglishtoday
englishexercises
nonstopenglish
learnforgood

14 October

Let's practise descriptions: