Project 4: “Carpe Diem: Seize the day and find your inner talent”

-Passive form in present and past

- Primero y segundo condicional
-Will para predicciones futuras
-Going to para organizar planes (Futuro inmediato)
-Reported Speech
-Consolidation of tenses (present, past, passive, perfect tenses and reported speech)
-Verbos y vocabulario relacionado a la evolución física y emocional al alcanzar la
maduración, emociones, los cambios de la vida, pasatiempos, adolescencia y pre-
adultez, actividades de pasatiempos.

-VIERNES 24/ SEPTEMBER

PRE PROJECT CARPE DIEM MEANING FROM THE MOVIE
http://keepcalmandteachenglish.blogspot.com/2017/03/dead-poets-society-worksheets.html
Dead Poets Society - Supplement to Movie Answer the following questions while
watching the movie:
1. What does “Carpe Diem” mean? Why does Mr. Keating tell his students this?
2. According to John Keating (the English teacher), why do we study poetry?
3. What is the Dead Poet’s Society?
4. Where does the Dead Poet’s Society meet?
5. What does Neal want to do that his father will most likely disapprove of?
6. Which play is being performed at Henley Hall? Who wrote it?
7. Who is Knox infatuated with? Who is she dating?
8. Mr. Keating says, “Just don’t let your poems be
___________________________.”
9. What does Mr. Keating think the purpose of education is?
10. Do you think Mr. Keating is at fault for the tragedy? Why or why not?
Explain...
11. Choose 1 quote from the poems that Mr Keating mentions throughout the
movie that had an impact on your life.

-Reading: Chicken Soup for the Teenager’s Soul: Stories of Change: “Taking a
Stand” & “You know you’re growing up when…” “What I’ve learned so far”
-Reading: People who made their dreams come true https://brightside.me/wonder-
people/10-people-who-made-their-childhood-dreams-come-true-582960/

-Listening:
Lunes 4 OCTOBER A) Carpe Diem, Seize the day scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mo19C6enjs, Triggering question for the
project: What things you could not do in the past are you willing to do them now?
B) Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented | Maisie Williams | TEDxManchester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYOpfGvlwc
VIERNES 8 OCTOBER

C) Do not be conformist, Don’t repeat what others do and Find your own path:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ_htuCMCqM

VIERNES 15 OCTOBER
D) Michelle Obama’s speech for students https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VxW5D5VPg_0 Oral and written debate on future careers, expectations.

PROJECT “SEIZE YOUR FUTURE”

-Final scenario: Individual essay of “I seize my day, looking forward to the next
chapter in my life” with a visual part as well. (Composición escrita Individual,
retrospección personal de cuáles son sus metas a futuro, con presentación visual)
-Choose 5 pictures (1 from kinder, 1 from Primary 1 from Highschool, 2 of family
or friends) y la cancion que elegirian para su egreso.

Bibliografía
Material de referencia provisto por el docente para la revisión de contenidos
prioritarios para el 5to año:
· Sign Up 2, Coursebook (2010). Richmond. Unidad 5 (Past tense), 6
(comparatives), 7 (superlatives-modales)
· Visual Grammar (2014) Jim Scrivener, Richmond: Present Progressive-
Simple 34-38, Present Perfect 40-49, Reported Speech 56-59, Conditional types 0-3
Unid 63-70, Passive forms 73-78
· Virgina Evans “Academic Writing” Intermediate: Secciones 6 “Describing
people”, 10-11-12 a “Narrating in 1st person, 3rd Person, News reports”, 14 a y b
“Writing opinion essays”
· Chicken Soup for the Teenager’s Soul, Stories of Change “ “Taking a
Stand” & “You know you’re growing up when…” “What I’ve learned so far”.