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Day 1 and homework

Dificultades que tengo

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Qu puedo hacer para mejorar?

Ejemplo: no comprendo textos Ej: Porque son muy extensos; Ej: concentrarme en leer en ingls porque necesito utilizar prrafos y despus textos; continuamente el diccionario... entender la situacin de habla...

Activity 1 Vocabulary. Write here words you might need to study this unit.

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Activity 2 You must do a mental diagram similar to this one using the English vocabulary above. Vocabulary: Prehistory, characteristics, nonexistence of written documents, archaeology, human evolution, changes, hominid creatures, bipedality, brain developement, language, beliefs and art, ago, ages, Paleolithic Age, Neolithic Age, Metal Age, predatory economy, producing economy, inventions, climate change, demographic increase, Neolithic Revolution

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Human creatures or apes?

At the end of this activity, you will be able to: name past human creatures understand a timeline ask and answer questions about cronology. TASK:HUMAN EVOLUTION. MEET THE FAMILY.

Website

Activity 3

1.Click on this website and elaborate a timeline similar to the timeline shown on the net. You can use different colour pens and drawings.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/index.html

2.Are you good at Maths? Prehistory is the longest period in human history. If we compare it with a day, Prehistory would last 23 hours and almost 59 minutes. The rest of History would only last one minute and thirty seconds. Human history----------------------------- 24 four hours Prehistory---------------------------------- 23 hours and 59 seconds Calculate: How long does it take Australopithecus period, Homo Habilis period, Homo Erectus period, Homo Neanderthal period if we compare Prehistory with a day?

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Day 2 and homework

AS HOMO SAPIENS LOOK TO THE PAST......

At the end of this activity, you will be able to: name parts of body understand written and oral descriptions of early ancestors ask and answer questions about people appearance. compare people TASK: Physical Descriptions I can describe people The blog Activity 4 1.- What were early human beings like?

2.- Are you a good observer? Tick the characteristics of people you, an homo sapiens sapiens, see in pictures above. Then write descriptions on the blog.

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Big brain in australopithecus. . The oldest ancestors were similar to chimpanzees. . All the ancestors walked on two feet. . Homo erectus walked upright.

Homo neanderthalensis were stronger than homo sapiens. . Their brain was bigger than homo sapiens' brain. . They were shorter than a ape...

. It seems Neanderthal man was able to speak. . Homo sapiens were slimmer but taller than Neanderthals. . Oldest hominid ancestors and oldest great ape ancestors were the same.

. The skull is more ronded in Australopithecus. . Homo habilis has the most large brain size. . The forehead rises sharply in Homo sapiens

R Day 3 and homework Activity 5 Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages

At the end of this activity you will be able to: . Do and interpret a venn diagraman. . Do and interpret a T-chart . Recognize different styles of life. . Know new words about economy, art and society.
Webquest

Days 4, 5, 6 and homework Prehistoric humans, were they artists? At the end of this activity you will be able to: . Interpret a prehistoric painting . Understand the importance of Art . Know new words about Art . Explain in a simple way your ideas of paintings. TASK: Paint like a caveman. I can recognize prehistoric artistic style of paintings

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ACTIVITY 6 Match vocabulary with pictures Vocabulary Pictures

1.Cave

2.Ancestors

3.Paintings

4.Deer

5.Bison

6.Horses

7.Mammoths

8.Egg

9.Brush

ACTIVITY 7

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Fill in the gaps Vocabulary: Animals colours About 35,000 years ago, human beings started decorating caves with paintings. This type of art is called ____________________________. It shows that our ancestors had an artistic sensibility. Perhaps the paintings also had a ritual meaning. - Altamira minerals cave art realistic animal hair Lascaux -

Palaeolithic art had the following characteristics: . ____________________, such as deer, bison, horses and mammoths, were often represented. . The paintings were realistic. The relief surface of the cave was used to give them volume. . Several __________________________ were used . __________________ were mixed with egg white to make the colours. _____________________. _________________________ was used to make brushes. The most famous Palaeolithic paintings were found in _____________________, in the north of Spain, and ________________________, in the south of France. They are among the most admired works of art ever created. ACTIVITY 8

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1.Who are these people? 2. What are they doing? They are... a. ... preparing the paint b. ... scaffolding c. ... hunting d. ... painting e. ... drawing 3. Which of these objects are represented in this scene? a. Torch b . Brush c. Flashlight 4. Where are they ? 5. When did they live? ACTIVITY 9 Homework: Complete your index with new words ACTIVITY 10 Check out these websites and answer the following questions:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu3.htm http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cavepaintings/vallon.html http://www.donsmaps.com/indexpaintings.html http://museodealtamira.mcu.es/ingles/index.html http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/02_00.xml

Don't forget this usefull website: http://www.wordreference.com/ Questions: 1. Which animals are represented? 2. What colors did they prefer to use in their paintings? 3. Where Lascaux is located ? And Altamira? ACTIVITY 11 First let's read the text and later, you have to answer the following questions.Work in pairs.

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a. Themes: b. Pigments: c. Age of paintings:

contain some of the earliest known art in human history, dating back to somewhere between 15,000 and as far back as 27,000 years ago. The Paleolithic cave paintings consist mostly of realistic images of large animals. The other common theme of the paintings is a number of human hand prints. Pigments (paints) are made from ingredients such as plants, berries, rust, charcoal and dirt. The paintings demonstrate the advancement of Cro-Magnon humans and their way of life, and actually show the quality of the art and of the materials used getting better over time.

is huge, with many rooms and tunnels underground. Such a place would have offered shelter and protection for a band of hunter-gatherers. The evidence shows that groups of humans returned to Lascaux year after year, and added their own paintings to earlier ones
The cave complex at Lascaux

1. Shelter means ................................. 2. Gatherer means............................... 3. What for Paleolithic people used this cave? Is it for sure? Pay attention to this expression woud have offered... 4. Are these paintings made up in the same period of time? How did you find out this information? Wich words exactly help you to answer?

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a. Purpose means....................... b. Aside means........................... c. Why were Paleolithic people supposed to paint these paintings? Several answers may be right. . Because they like express ideas. . Because paintings express their beliefs . Because God ordered to do it . To have successful hunt through magic. d. Why did Palaeolithic people throw sharp objects againts animals paintings? e. Does one of these two sentences express greater certainty? . There is some evidence that the Paleolithic people at Lascaux threw spears or shot arrows at pictures of animals. . The paintings might have also had a religious or spiritual significance

There is some mystery surrounding the purpose of the cave paintings. Aside from just a human desire to express ideas and artistic visions, the paintings might have also had a religious or spiritual significance. There is some evidence that the Paleolithic people at Lascaux threw spears or shot arrows at pictures of animals to ensure a successful hunt through magic. This had the added benefit of acting as a sort of target practice, making the hunt more likely to be successful anyway.

ACTIVITY 12 Become a Paleolithic painter! Gather all the information about making a painting in Paleolithic style and GO! You and your partner must prepare all the painting work as you were prehistoric humans. ACTIVITY 13 The folowing worksheets help you to prepare your presentation. a. Talking about:
Theme:

Colours: Pigments:

Objects: Animals/people:

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Symbols:

Process of painting: Reasons to paint:

b. Ordering ideas: Add your own sentences

A FRAME TO EXPLAIN

INTRODUCTION

I want to explain

(The issue)happens when

There are different explanations as to

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To better understand.. it is necessary to examine

SECOND PARAGRAPH

To begin with

First of all

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There are several reasons for this, the first being

Importantly

One explanation of

My first point is

THIRD PARAGRAPH

Another reason is

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In addition

After that

Influenced by

My second point is

Because of

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FOURTH PARAGRAPH

Another reason

As a result of

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In order to

However

On the other hand

After

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In other words

CONCLUSION

After all

Finally

So, now you can see

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Consequently

A FRAME TO ARGUE

INTRODUCTION

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It is perfectly clear to me that

It is my intention to argue that

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SECOND PARAGRAPH

From my introduction I am sure you that

It seems to me that

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ACTIVIDAD 14 Presentation of the painting created in pairs. While you listen your classmates you must evaluate them.
Not really. Oops! Try again! Right Terrific work Congratulatio ns. Good work! Tremendus. Couldn't have done it better myself.

Vocabulary

Fluency

New ideas about paintings

Skill (destreza) on paintings Paintings express early human beings beliefs.

Comments:

Day 7 and assessement

Enigma at prehistoric times...

At the end of this activity you will be able to solve a riddle.

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ACTIVIDAD 15 Choice one of these tree options to investigate. You must work in groups of three and explain what you discovered to other groups.
Enigma Who built this place? Where? When? Why? How? What for? And its name is.... Pictures Texts http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/ page/st/Stonehenge http://kids.britannica.com/elem entary/article353815/Stonehenge? #9353815.toc http://library.thinkquest.org/J00 2388/stonehenge.html http://news.nationalgeographic. com/news/2010/07/photogalleri es/100723-stonehengewoodhenge-twin-timber-circlescience-pictures/ http://news.nationalgeographic. com/news/2008/05/080529stonehenge-video-vin.html Who made these tracks? Who built this Megalithic place? Where? When? Why? How? What for? And its name is.... http://www.art-andarchaeology.com/malta/malta.h tml http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=wGZ9DzPhvx4 http://www.youtube.com/view_ play_list? p=BFF6823301CE153B http://www.semiadventuroustra veler.com/pst%20malta.html

Who sculpted these animal sculptures? Who built this Megalithic place? Where? When? Why? How? What for? And its name is....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver raco http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=Kua2LZxg3Dg http://dictionary.reverso.net/sp anish-english/verraco http://wn.com/vettones? orderby=relevance

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ASSESSEMENTS
Before doing these activities I had problems with...
Alway s Usually Som etim es

Never

The exercise hepls me the most is number....

Why do I think this exercise helps me?/ Por qu creo que me ha ayudado?

Timelines Calculating dates Doing T-charts and venn diagrams Using colours Writing sentences Writing paragraphs Understanding new words Explaining ideas in oral English Comments:

Now I feel more confident with... Timelines Calculating dates Doing T-charts and venn diagrams Using colours Writing sentences Writing paragraphs Understanding new words Explaining ideas in oral English Comments:

Perfectly

Pretty good

Not really good

Not at all

Seala si los ejercicios realizados te han parecido ms o menos necesarios y

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Motivadores

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