Listening web activities recommended for 4 ESO and Batxillerat.
These activities have different levels of difficulty and we think they would be suitable for students in the last year of ESO or Batxillerat, but you can give them a try whatever year you're in.
We've watched in class the scary film "The Tell Tale Heart" adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title.
This is the video and, also, some of the activities we have done.
You can also find here other other animated adaptations of it and a link
to the whole text, just in case you would like to read it. Give it a
try! It's not long and very scary....
Activities
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What
do you expect to find in a horror story?
Watch
the adaptation from Poe's tale and order the sentences as they appear
in the film.
_____
True, I'm nervous , very very dreadfully nervous, but why would you
say that I am mad?
_____
Yes, yes, I did it.
_____
He had never harmed me.
_____
A scream, my own gentlemen, a childish dream. But, come in, please.
_____
I think, I think it was his eye.
_____
Nothing out of place here.
_____
For an hour I didn't move a muscle.
_____
Of course I had to get rid of the eye.
_____
But there were still work to be done.
_____
Still I waited while time slowed, stopped, end out.
Write
a sentence with each word relating it to the story.
Example:
old man The narrator lived with an old man.
gold eye seven
days
the
beating of the heart. a
scream the
police
floor jail mad
Poe
was a symbolist writer. What do you think the beating of the heart
stands for?
Voluntary
work: Write
a short horror story (about 100 -150 lines)
Write
a summary of “The Tell Tale Heart” (about 100 -150 lines)
We've read a book about these famous English writers, Charlotte, Emily and Ann, and we know some more about their lives, but what about their books?
Here there are two trailers of two films from the many adaptation to the screen that have been made. After watching them, you can do some ACTIVITIES to understand better the language and the stories they tell.
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Jane Eyre (1996)
They were so famous that even SONGS have been made about their plots and characters. One of the most famous song about one of their novels is "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush in the 1980s. The video is a bit weird, but you sure recognise the song.
Aquesta cançó de Katy Perry ós divertida i a més a més vos pot ajudar a repassar vocabulari, sobre tot d'antònims. A veure si podeu omplir els espais en blanc.
(Fill in the blanks with the opposite words).
Ací teniu dues versions. La primera és l'original, la segona és la que gravà per a un programa infantil, Barrio Sésamo, i que prohibiren per que pensaren que el seu escot no era apropiat (????).
Despres de les lletres podeu trobar més activitats per treballar la lletra.
And at the end, there is a KARAOKE version. LET'S SING!
HOT'N'COLD Katy Perry
You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
Yeah you PMS
Like a bitch, I would know
And you overthink
Always speak cryptically
I should know
That you're no good for me (Refrain) (1)'Cause you're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
(2 )You're __________ when it's __________
It's __________ and it's __________
We fight, we __________
We kiss, we __________
(3) You! You don't really want to __________, no
You! But you don't really want to __________
(4) You're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
You're __________ then you're __________
We used to be
Just like twins, so in sync
The same energy
Now's a dead battery
Used to laugh 'bout nothing
Now you're plain boring
I should know that you're not gonna change
(Refrain)
Someone call the doctor
Got a case of a love bi-polar
Stuck on a roller coaster
Can't get off this ride
You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
(Refrain) (1) (2) (1) (2) (3) (4)
ACTIVITATS
LEVEL 2 (Original version)
1) Find in the text these words or expressions:
- cambiar de opinion - cambiarse de ropa - solíamos ser - alguién - pilas que no funcionan - eres totalmente aburrido - nada - montaña rusa - no me puedo bajar de esta atracción
2) Write 5 meaningful sentences using some of the words or expressions from exercise 1.
3) Watch the videoKaty Perry sings "Hot N Cold" with Elmo on Sesame Street! write the different opposite words used in each video.
4) Write a short paragraph comparing the different stories in the two videos. You canstart like this: “In the original video, Katy is about to get married...
HOT'N'COLD, Katy Perry and Elmo
KP: Hi Elmo!
Elmo: Hi Ms. Katy
KP: Are you ready to play "dress up"?
Elmo: "Dress up"?
KP: You said that you wanted to play "dress up", don't you?!
Elmo: Hmm
KP: C'mon Elmo, don't you wanna play?
Elmo: Mmm
KP: Elmo!
You wanna play so I wore dressed up clothes
Then you ran away, leave me here in this pose
How am I suppose to play with you?
(Refrain)
(1)You're _________ then you're _________
You're running _________
You're _________ then you're _________
You _________ then you _________
(2) You're _________ then you're _________
You're _________ then you're _________
You're _________ then you're _________
I'm starting to doubt
You. You don't really wanna play, no?
You just really wanna go
We used to be
Just like twins, so in sync
Used to love, how we played
Now you just runaway
Didn't know, that you ware gonna change
(Refrain) (1) (2)
Someone stop that monster
Gotta chase him, all over
How to catch him, I wonder?
He’s too quick for me
You. You don't really wanna play, no
You just really wanna go
(1)
ACTIVITATS
LEVEL 1 (Elmo's version)
a) Look for the past verbs in the song. Write them and their infinitive form. There are 6.
b) Translate the underlined words or expressions from the text.
