1st DAY RULES

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

25% Speaking / Listening / Attitude

50% Grammar / Vocabulary

25% Writing / Reading / Homework

Exams include Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading, Writing, Listening. So they are the 75% of your mark. Then we add a 25% from your Homework and Attitude marks. Remember that English is a subject with continuous assessment. To pass English, you have to pass a minimum of 2 terms of the year (3rd Term+1st/2nd Term). If you fail English, you will have to take a remedial exam in September. You will have to do some summer homework (20%).

Extra Points: +0,25 points at the end of your Term Mark if you always try to talk to me in English inside and outside the classroom. And yes, I will ALWAYS talk in English, of course!

ENGLISH MATERIAL:

- 1 Student's Book and 1 Workbook.

- 1 Notebook (with squared paper, 4 holes and micro-perforated). At the end of the year you will have to create an English Portfolio including all the notes you have got in your Notebook, all the photocopies and other activities we have done in class. Optional: plastic folder.

- 4 pens: 1 red (titles), 1 green (correction), 1 blue (English) and 1 black (translation).
- 1 English dictionary.

- 1 English reader. (1^stESO: Sherlock Holmes / 4^thESO: The Canterville Ghost / Shakespeare)

- 1 email (better from Gmail) to enter your coursebook website, blog and to email me.
- CLASSROOM EMAIL: inspauvila@gmail.com
- CLASSROOM BLOG: http://anglester.blogspot.com/
- CLASSROOM MOODLE: http://agora.xtec.cat/iespauvila/moodle/
- COURSEBOOK WEBSITE: I’ll tell you your usernames and passwords (October aprox).
(1^stESO) www.voices.mac-english.com
(4^thESO) www.burlingtonbooks.es/realenglish4

EXAMS AND TESTS:

You will take an exam after every unit. They include EVERYTHING we have done in class, so YES, they are difficult and you have to study. You will also take different vocabulary or reading tests during the year. Once they are corrected, I will give them back to you so your parents can look at it and sign it. If you don't bring your exams back in 1week, you will have a negative. At the end of each term, I will return your exams so you can include them in your English portfolio at the end of the year so you can review them.

HOMEWORK:

There is ALWAYS homework to do, so it's your DUTY to bring your homework and English material every day that we have got class. If you don't show me your homework or you don't bring your books, you have got a negative. I will only give  you a positive for extra activities (presentations, news, projects, celebrations...). To begin with, you have this 1^st week to hand in your summer books (Friday 21^st September).

EXTRA ACTIVITIES:
At the end of the term, if you behave, there will be a TREAT: watching a Movie, going to the Computers or Audiovisuals room, or creating a Project. If your attitude is not correct, there will be NO TREAT, and we will continue with the next lesson on your book. There are also EXTRA activities, like going to the Theatre (1^stESO) or the Comenius Exchange (2^ndESO), like the Scottish Dances (3^rdESO) or the Cultural Trivial (4^thESO). But it all depends on your behaviour: “the better your attitude is, the more extra activities we will do”.