● Statement of inquire

● The Story behind different pictures

● The story behind Monsters Inc and the power of a story.
● Analysed an article on the evolution of storytelling
● Our childhood memories and worked on useful expressions to talk about memories
● The following items related to language:
● Past tenses (particularly present perfect vs. simple past)
● Relative clauses: defining and non-defining
● Text analysis (audience, register, purpose and type of text)
● Text and paratext

The Story behind different pictures

A story behind different pictures has different opinions about how to tell a story.

Vocabulary:
Storytelling originated with visual stories, such as cave drawings, and then shifted to oral
traditions, in which stories were passed down from generation to generation by word of
mouth.

The story behind Monsters Inc and the power of a story.

In the video it says that you have to write about what you know(LIKE), because it will be
more attractive and funnier it will have a story behind it .
Vocabulary:
Attracted
Related to
Funnier--->Divertida

Analysed an article on the evolution of storytelling:

The stories were evolving over time since they did not have the same characteristics as
before. Now everything that has to do with social media is used more and before it had to do
with the fact that they were more visual in books, it was said more orally in front of others.
Our childhood memories and worked on useful expressions to talk about memories
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Vocabulary:
1. Time after time = Repeatedly
2. At the time = Then
3. For the time being = For now
4. Any moment now = Very soon
5. The whole time = All the time
6. Endless = Never-Ending
7. Once in a while = Occasionally
8. Not for a moment = Never
9. At once = Immediately
10. In the end = Finally
● Recall: Bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind; remember.
● Hindsight: Experience of a memory from the picture.
● Picture: The memory that your mine has and is projective like a picture.

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 ● Ingrained: Stuck in the memory, It went on and didn't come out.
● Evocative: Causes a sensation of a memory
● Call: Expression. It means that we can not call a memory.(llamar a un
recuerdo).
● Recollection: Remember exactly what it is in your memory.
● Reminisce: Good memories.

Expressions:
➔ To refresh one’s memory:To remember about something. EX: I write a summary
to refresh my memory.
➔ To jog my memory: To help someone to remember something.EX: I tried to
jog my mom;s memory because she forgot where it is her pencil.
➔ If my memory serves me well: If I have correctly remembered the
details.EX: If my memory serves me well my history boyfriend is a
pharmacist.
➔ Something slipped my mind: To forget what you were going to do. EX: Her
birthday slipped my mind.
➔ To ring my bell: To remind you of something, but you cannot remember
exactly what it is. EX: I think her name is Carlota, it rings my bell.
➔ His/Her escape me: It means you can't remember it. EX: I don’t know her
name.
➔ To be on the tip of your tongue: Almost but not quite brought to mind or
spoken. EX: His name's on the tip of my tongue.#
➔ In living memory: During a time that can be remembered by people who
are still alive. EX: Last year was the best year in my living memory.

Language items
● Past tenses (particularly present perfect vs. simple past)
● Relative clauses: defining and non-defining
● Text analysis (audience, register, purpose and type of text)
● Text and paratext

PAST TENSES:
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1. Simple Present:
● To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations,
emotions and wishes .
Ex: I always go to tennis on Wednesdays .
● To give instructions or directions.
Go to the train.
● To express fixed arrangements, present or future.
Ex: The train leaves at 3:30.

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 ● To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon
as, unt.
Ex:As soon as I finish homework I am going to cook.

2. Present Continuous:
We use the present continuous to describe when an action happened, or may
happen. You can use it to describe both events that are happening in the present –
right now, while you are talking about something, or in the future – something that
may or will happen later on.
Examples:
1. I am listening to melodious songs.
2. He is travelling around the world.
3. They are playing cricket in that field.
4. The poet is writing romantic poems.
5. The lyricist is writing realistic songs.
6. Are you listening to realistic songs?
7. I am not quarrelling with you.
8. Are you coming to our home?
9. I am helping him to do the task.
10. My mom is cooking beef with cabbage.

3. Simple Past:
Simple past tense verbs show an action that occurred and was completed at a
particular time in the past.
● Regular verbs en in: -ed , -d

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 ● Irregular verbs have various endings.
● Did and didn’t “eat”(errase) the past.
Past expresion: this shows that an action was made in a determinate time in the
past.
Clues when these tense appeared:
3 days ago - yesterday - last week - a couple years ago - last century - in 2016 - on
Sunday - the day before.
Regular:
If a single syllable word ends consonant-vowel-consonant, double the consonant and
add -ed: chat becomes chatted. (But if the final consonant is w, x, or y, don't double
it.)

Examples:“I walked up to the dog.”

Irregular:
Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal patterns for tense. Irregular
verbs each have their own unique tense forms.

Examples: “I fell down the stairs yesterday.”

Questions, Negative Statements, and Negative Questions:

Question:
“What happened?”
“Did you fell?”
“How’s your sister??”
Negative Statements/questions:
“I didn’t do that.”
“I wasn’t there with them.”
“Weren’t you at the park last week?”
“Didn't you tell me the truth?”

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4. Past Continuous
For what we use it for?
● To talk about actions and states in progress around a particular time in the
past.
● To give a reason or context for an event
● To talk about repeated background events in the past.

How do we form the past continuous?

Was/Were +. The verb in ing

Examples:

5. Present Perfect
What do we use it for?
● Refer to an action that started in the past and continues or has an effect in the
present. EX: I have lived in Bristol since 1984, I still live there.
● The purpose of this verb is to link the past and the present. Ex: They´ve been
married for nearly fifty years.
● We often use the adverb ever to talk about experience up to the present. Ex:
My last birthday was the worst day I ever had.
● The present perfect is composed by two elements the verbs have/has. Ex: I
have lost my purse.
● The verb is used to describe an action/situation that began in the past and
continues in the present. Ex: She has lived in Liverpool all her life.
Examples:

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6. Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect continuous tense represents the work or an action which started in
the past and is still happening in the present. It uses “have been/has been”.

Examples:
1. Martina has been reading the book for two hours.
2. They have been playing football for an hour.
3. She has been finding the dress since morning.
4. He has been studying in the library for three hours.
5. We have been shopping at this fair for two hours.

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 7. Past Perfect
The past perfect is used in the part of the sentence that explains the condition
(the if-clause). Most often, the reason to write a verb in the past perfect tense
is to show that it happened before other actions in the same sentence that are
described by verbs in the simple past tense.
Examples: ”I had cooked cupcakes before they came.”

RELATIVE CLAUSES: DEFINING AND NON-DEFINING

Defining:
● We use defining clauses to give more information about a person, thing, place
or time and make it clear which one we are talking about.
● Relative pronouns:
➡️Who for people(also can be that). Ex: The people who work here are very friendly.

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➡️Which for things(also can be that). Ex:That is the bus which goes to Paris.
➡️Whose for position. Ex:The man whose care was stolen was very upset.
➡️When for time(also can be that). Ex: I remember the day when I started school.
➡️Where for a place. Ex: That’s the house where I used to live.
➡️Why for a reason (also can be that). Ex: He explained why he came late.
● When a verb is followed by a preposition we usually put it at the end. Ex: is
this the bag (that)you were looking for?
● We don’t use WHAT to start a relative clause.
NON-Defining:
● Extra information
● Isn’t essential to identify the person or thing.
● Is between commas(“”)
● They DON'T use THAT

TEXT ANALISE(audience, register, purpose and type of text)

Biography:Presentacion 1:
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RmlBlM_K0vTlBZT7XOJ8/edit
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cdwM/edit#slide=id.gf6be1de864_0_121

Type of text:
In order to identify a type of text, you need to spot the elements:
Narrator (1st person, 3rd person?)
Facts or opinions?
Subheadings?
Byline?
Chronological order?
What type of image is it?
Literary devices?
In the case of poems: Stanzas? /
In the case of comic strips: Frames? Speech bubbles?

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Purpose:

What is the purpose of the text?

Possible answers:
To inform
To analyse a topic
To entertain/tell a story
To express an opinion
To tell someone else’s life story
Register:
Is it a formal or informal text?
Informal:
It has contractions (don’t, didn’t, won’t, etc)
It uses neutral/informal words or verb phrases (go ahead, anyway, let down, etc)
Formal:
Never uses contractions (do not, did not, will not, etc)
It uses formal words/language (continue, beneficial, present, etc)

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Audience:
Who is the text written for?
kids
teenagers
adults
everyone
Remember to be specific:
athletes
doctors
kids who are homeschooled

Possible non-fiction texts:

● Biography
● Opinion article
● Balanced arguments
● News Report
● Interview
● Informational text
Possible fiction texts:
● Extract from a short story/novel
● Poem
TEXT AND PARATEXT

Text:
The text is all we find within(dentro) this very. Ex: body, paragraph, etc
Paratext:
Paratexts are everything we find outside the text. Ex: byline, title, images, etc.
Purpose of a text

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You can tell the purpose by:

● Its content – who would be interested?

● Its tone – is it serious or light-hearted?
● Its structure – what are the order of events? Does the writer use
headings, subheadings or pose questions to the reader?
● Its language – is the language formal or informal?

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