Holes Text vs. Film: A Compare and Contrast Lesson Plan Directions Step 1: Before the students begin viewing the movie, explain to them that they will be making a Double Bubble Thinking Map comparing the book to the movie adaptation. They should be looking for differences between the book and the movie as they watch. Encourage students to take notes during the movie screenings. Step 2: Watch the movie as a class over multiple class periods. Step 3: After finishing the final segment of the movie, hand out copies of the Double Bubble Thinking Map. Step 4: Have students work individually to complete the Thinking Maps. Step 5: Come together as a class to discuss everyone's Double Bubble Thinking Maps and fill in the class Double Bubble you prepared ahead of time. Lesson Extensions When the class discussion about the Double Bubble Thinking Map is over, make a finished copy with the events on different shapes, colors, or appropriate items from the book (shovels, hats, snakes, etc.) cut from the Ellison machine.
UK bank holidays Contents The next bank holiday in England and Wales is 25 December Christmas Day Upcoming bank holidays in England and Wales If a bank holiday is on a weekend, a ‘substitute’ weekday becomes a bank holiday, normally the following Monday. Your employer doesn’t have to give you paid leave on bank or public holidays. Bank holidays might affect how and when your benefits are paid. Past bank holidays in England and Wales The next bank holiday in Scotland is 30 November St Andrew’s Day Upcoming bank holidays in Scotland Past bank holidays in Scotland The next bank holiday in Northern Ireland is 25 December Christmas Day Upcoming bank holidays in Northern Ireland Past bank holidays in Northern Ireland For ESL English Language Learners "Stanley Yelnats and his family have never had anything but bad luck, so it's not really a surprise to him when he is falsely accused and convicted of theft. Given the choice of jail or Camp Green Lake, Stanley chooses Green Lake because he's never been to camp before. Unfortunately, Camp Green Lake doesn't have a lake and it isn't really a camp. It's a juvenile detention facility. And to build character, the warden, who paints her fingernails with snake venom, has each "camper" dig a hole five feet deep by five feet wide by five feet long every day, even Saturdays and Sundays. What Stanley and the rest of the boys don't know is that the warden isn't just building character, she's looking for the lost buried treasure of outlaw, Kissing Kate Barlow. So begins Holes, a terrific, action filled story, full of great characters with strong voices, exciting, funny scenes and enough twists and turns to keep you reading non-stop to the end of the book.
Public holidays in the United Kingdom Public holidays in the United Kingdom are the public holidays observed in some or all of the countries of the United Kingdom. Most businesses and non-essential services are closed on public holidays, although an increasing number of retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. Like Denmark, the United Kingdom has no national day holiday marked and/or celebrated. Although there is no statutory right for workers to take paid leave on public holidays, where paid leave is given (either because the business is closed or for other reasons), the public holiday can count towards the minimum statutory holiday entitlement. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, public holidays are commonly referred to as bank holidays, and the two terms are often used interchangeably, although strictly and legally there is a difference. Bank holidays are holidays when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day. Bank holidays may be declared in two ways: Notes:
How to Teach Perseverance Using the Book Holes By learning how to persevere in spite of hardship, your students will thrive inside and outside the classroom. But how do you teach perseverance? Engaging books, like the award-winning novel Holes, by Louis Sachar, are great tools for helping young readers understand the importance of perseverance and determination. Plus, check out these 100 books that build character. In Holes, young Stanley Yelnats has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where he’s forced to spend his days “building character” by digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. This book will not only provide students the opportunity to learn about perseverance and determination through Stanley’s experience, it will inspire them to reflect on the role perseverance has played in their own lives and how it can impact their future. Here are a few tips for teaching perseverance to your young readers using Holes: 1. 2. What motivates Stanley to persevere each day? 3.
Nationalfeiertag (Vereinigtes Königreich) Das Vereinigte Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland hat gegenwärtig keinen offiziellen Nationalfeiertag. Als teilweiser Ersatz wird der Geburtstag des Monarchen als zentraler nationaler Feiertag begangen – unter Königin Elisabeth II. wird dieser Tag als Queen’s Official Birthday (unabhängig von ihrem tatsächlichen Geburtstag am 21. April) an einem jährlich neu festgelegten Datum meist Ende Mai oder Anfang Juni gefeiert. Dieser Tag wird jedoch auch in den anderen Commonwealth Realms, deren Staatsoberhaupt Elisabeth II. ist, gefeiert (teilweise mit abweichendem Datum), und ist deswegen nicht exklusiv britisch sowie durch sein jährlich wechselndes Datum kein echter nationaler Fixtag. Besonders in den letzten Jahren gab es deswegen immer wieder Bestrebungen, als Britain Day oder UK Day ein festes Datum zum Nationalfeiertag zu machen. Feiertage im Vereinigten Königreich
Holes Teaching Guide Overview In this Flashlight Readers session, students build key comprehension skills including identifying the sequence of story events and recognizing the cause-and-effect relationships of these events in the development of a narrative. Students gain these skills by participating in interactive games and activities related to the Newbery Medal-winning book Holes by Louis Sachar. Objectives Students will: Match key story symbols and events, and explore how they're repeated through multiple story strandsReconstruct plot by creating a timeline of story eventsInteract with vocabulary and symbols from the bookPlay a reading comprehension adventure game based on plot, characters, and themesCommunicate with the author by participating in a moderated chat or by reading the transcriptView stills from the movie with references to related passages from the bookLearn about the author, his writing process, and how he comes up with story ideas
Matching Quizzes for ESL Students (Flash) Reading Comprehension - Literature - Louis Sachar's Holes Comprehension Companion Home > Reading Comprehension > Louis Sachar 's Holes Comprehension Companion Enjoying literature is one of the joys of reading. The goal of the "Holes Comprehension Companion" is to help teach reading comprehension in an enjoyable context, and to directly teach the skills instead of providing "practice" for a skill a student may not yet have. These exercises also require students to think about what they've read; unfortunately, all a student must do when asked to write a summary of a novel is to ask a search engine and copy. Holes by Louis Sachar is a Newbery-winning novel that has a straightforward plot (with flashbacks), clearly defined characters, and an intertwining of past and present personalities with neo-Shakespearean twists, as many seemingly insignificant details tie together. Holes lends itself to explicitly teaching comprehension skills such as understanding themes, inferences, and character and quote analysis. Here are some comprehension activities related to Holes. Draw it!
Introductions Lesson for Lower Level Students - Introductions for ESL Lesson Plan The beginning of a new class is a good time to a global review of the tenses and forms that you will be studying during the coming course. The idea of this exercise is not to intimidate the students, nor to have them learn everything in one go. Most students will have already studied most of these forms and the following year serves to improve and build upon the set of English skills that they have already acquired. The following conversation exercises serves the double purpose of introducing students to each other and getting them to converse from the get-go, as well as reviewing the basic tense structures that they will be working on during your course. This spoken exercise can also work well as a means of review. Aim: Introduce students to each other while introducing/reviewing a wide range of tenses Activity: Interviewing activity in pair work Level: Pre-intermediate Outline: Questions for your Partner Why are you learning English? Questions about your Partner's Partner
Holes: Facts title · Holes author · Louis Sachar type of work · Novel genre · Mystery; folk tale; adventure novel language · English time and place written · 1998, Texas date of first publication · 1998 publisher · Farrar, Straus and Giroux narrator · Omniscient point of view · The omniscient narrator moves constantly through three different time periods. tone · The narrator of Holes seems reliable but often interjects dark humor or irony into the narration. tense · The tense often shifts from the present to flashbacks in Stanley's own life, in the life of Kate Barlow, or to the life of Stanley's great-great-grandfather. setting (time) · Most of the story takes place at the end of the 20th century but there are fashbacks to the late 19th century and to the mid 19th century. setting (place) · Most of the story takes place on Green Lake, in Texas. protagonist · Stanley Yelnats climax · When Stanley steals Mr. falling action · Stanley and Zero's escape from camp radically alters their plans.
Speaking Skills - Asking Questions Speaking Skills - Asking Questions Many post beginner to lower intermediate students are quite capable of expressing their ideas reasonably well. However, they often run into problems when asking questions. This is due to a number of causes: i.e., teachers are the ones that usually ask questions, the inversion of the auxiliary verb and subject can be especially tricky for many students. This simple lesson focuses specifically on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. Aim: Improving speaking confidence when using question forms Activity: Intensive auxiliary review followed by student gap question exercises. Level: Lower-intermediate Outline: Focus on auxiliary verb usage by making a number of statements in tenses the students are familiar with. Exercise 1: Ask an appropriate question for the response A steak, please. Exercise 2: Ask questions to fill the gaps with the missing information Student A Frank was born in ______ (where?)
Etthalomdagen - Planering och arbetsuppgifter Fredag 12 oktober Vi har en uppföljning från måndagens lektion då vi jobbade med ordkunskap och ser till att alla har fått rätt betydelse på orden. Därefter tittar vi på slutuppgiften till boken: Slutuppgift Ett hål om dagenI LPP:n för läsningen av Ett hål om dagen står att vi i undervisningen ska utveckla din förmåga att läsa och analysera skönlitteratur och att urskilja texters budskap, tema och motiv. Jag vill att du skriver en inlämningsuppgift om ett av de tre ämnena nedan. Dina egna funderingar om det du lästExempel från handlingen i bokenCitat från boken. Instruktioner: Rubriken på din text ska vara samma som ämnetTexten ska vara ca en sida långTexten ska skrivas med typsnittet Times New Roman 12Texten skrivs i skolan på lektionerna och ska vara klar onsdag 25 oktober vilket innebär att du har fem lektioner på dig. Makt - Vem är det som bestämmer över vem? Rättvisa - Boken handlar om rättvisa. Uthållighet - Ett av bokens teman handlar om uthållighet. Måndag 8 oktober Fredag 5 oktober
English wine: Is sparkling wine better in England than France? 11 July 2013Last updated at 06:22 ET By Tom de Castella BBC News Magazine A vineyard in Hampshire The Duchess of Cornwall has called for a new name for English sparkling wine to match the grandeur of champagne. Someone arrives with a bottle of English wine. The surprise used to be palpable. But English wine has grown up. It's a far cry from English actor Peter Ustinov's put down: "I imagine hell like this - Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine." But is there something holding English wine back? This week the Duchess of Cornwall called on producers to come up with a name. "People should put their heads together and think of a new name for English sparkling wine," she said while visiting Hambledon Vineyard in Hampshire. So is new terminology the final piece in the jigsaw? English wine has been through a revolution. Continue reading the main story Wine stats in England and Wales Source: Wine Standard Branch (Food Standards Agency), English Wine Producers Chapel Down Winery in Kent