2nd year Bachillerato

1. CHOCOLATE and GRADUATION, by Carmen Arias

As you can imagine , most of the year we have had the cloud of Final exams above our heads . Being this so , we had just a small number of classes left after the course , most of them tests.

Nevertheless, I managed to practise one of the activities we did  as a relaxing  way to say goodbye to the year , before sending them off to the real world. 

We did a quick oral activity with the Word “ chocolate” referring to the senses , - This was at the same time a revIew of the vocabulary on senses included in their syllabus – and led to a discussion about their preferences between sweet or bitter taste! I must say sweet won.

The second part , finding words within the wors CHOCOLATE was quick and fun , as many of the words we found in our practise in the course appeared naturally in the two minutes they had, nouns and adjectives without problem.

Then I upgraded the activity with another challenge – Find words, nouns and adjectives coming out of the Word G_R_A_D_U_A_T_I_O_N

following the same procedure , but giving them four minutes. It got more difficult , as there is no E , one of the most used vowels in English , neither other consonants that could help like S , L …

Anyway, words found included :

DATA         GRAN ( from granny)   TON          RATIO        NO    TORN                TAN           TAR           RAT           GROIN (some giggling after explanation , not all knew the word) TAG     NOD      TIN   and of course some nonsense words that made us laugh, as well as Spanish words !

After that they classified the words into three categories Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs .