Welcome to the class! Who are you?

This week, we will be producing introductions to ourselves. Here are some areas which would be good to include:
Your favourite:

• -entertainment - books, films, songs, actors/actresses, programmes, singers, groups
• - foods, drinks, restaurants, things which you can cook! 
• - sports - sportsmen and women, which sports do you play outside of school, which teams do you like

Your family - include some details about your family, try to include anecdotes if possible
Pets
Interests outside of school
Interesting facts (e.g. about Seville)
Ambitions and dreams for the future

We're going to be using http://popplet.com/. 

You will be writing information about these topics as well as including pictures, so think about using the following expressions:

• I'm really into...
• I love...
• I used to love... but nowadays...
• Usually I...
• I am used to ... (i.e. I have become accustomed to...)
• I would like to
• Although many people ..., I ...
• I have always...
• To be honest...
• This is ..., who is...

If you don't know the word for something, use www.wordreference.com

Organisation of English folder on Computer

If you have any questions about this, ask a classmate or me, :)

Lesson starters - Information from Powerpoint

If you have any questions about how to save these and where to save them, ask your neighbour or me :)

Important first tasks to get organised

Important first tasks:

1) You need a gmail account. If you already have one you can use that but if you don't you need to create one. Make sure your name and password are easy for you to remember. If you are finding it hard to find a good name, add 'sfp' to the end of your name. (e.g. joesmithsfp@gmail.com)

2) Send an email to banwellsfp@gmail.com with your name and class as the subject. This is to help me make a class email list for English. Please do this before the end of the lesson :)

3) Download google drive to your computer (using your new gmail account)

4) Join Studyblue -  Use this link 
http://www.studyblue.com

5) Join Headmagent - http://headmagnet.com

6) Join Quizlet - http://quizlet.com

Welcome to the Year 10 English blog

On here you will find links to the activities that we are doing in class as well as other links that will be useful for you this year. The blog will be a very important tool for us this year.

Make sure that you are checking the blog regularly (even when we do not have class!), as important information will be put on here (eg. about assessments).