Oscar Ruiz – författare

Extra CLIL content and online adventures

 

Islands is a more intensive version of Our Discovery Island. It puts strong emphasis on introducing cross-cirricular and cultural topics to engage pupils in developing knowledge of other subjects while learning English.

 

 

Extra CLIL content and online adventures

 

Islands is a more intensive version of Our Discovery Island. It puts strong emphasis on introducing cross-cirricular and cultural topics to engage pupils in developing knowledge of other subjects while learning English.

 

 

Create a world of excitement and adventure

Welcome to Poptropica English Islands, a four level primary English series that engages young learners like never before.

 

The unique combination of beautiful in-class materials and fun-filled online activities, songs and games, creates a world of excitement and adventure that children won’t want to leave.

The Activity Book reinforces and consolidates the language and skills presented in the Pupil’s Book

An introduction highlighting the main features of the course.

A ‘tour’ of a unit. Advice on how to use Active Teach and Island Adventure Game in class. A summary map for each unit highlighting the linguistic content - this lists the crosscurricular, cultural and phonological elements, and summarizes the integration of key competences. Step-by-step lesson plans covering all of the course material, including activities for Assessment for Learning, as well as the answer key and audioscript alongside the teaching notes. A Games bank and Extension activities. Teaching notes and answers for the Photocopiables. Access to Island Adventure Game.

An introduction highlighting the main features of the course.

A ‘tour’ of a unit. Advice on how to use Active Teach and Island Adventure Game in class. A summary map for each unit highlighting the linguistic content - this lists the crosscurricular, cultural and phonological elements, and summarizes the integration of key competences. Step-by-step lesson plans covering all of the course material, including activities for Assessment for Learning, as well as the answer key and audioscript alongside the teaching notes. A Games bank and Extension activities. Teaching notes and answers for the Photocopiables. Access to Island Adventure Game.

The Activity Book reinforces and consolidates the language and skills presented in the Pupil’s Book.

Practice material for every lesson, including Welcome, Goodbye and Festivals. Extra practice activities linked to the corresponding grammar points in the Pupil’s Book, which can be used for evaluation or additional practice. A Picture dictionary at the end of the book, to help pupils review and remember target language. Access to the Poptropica English Word Games app is provided.

The Activity Book reinforces and consolidates the language and skills presented in the Pupil’s Book.

Practice material for every lesson, including Welcome, Goodbye and Festivals. Extra practice activities linked to the corresponding grammar points in the Pupil’s Book, which can be used for evaluation or additional practice. A Picture dictionary at the end of the book, to help pupils review and remember target language. Access to the Poptropica English Word Games app is provided. My Language Kit is a combination of the Reading and Writing booklet, and also the Grammar booklet, from the previous edition, updated to reflect changes to the syllabus for the new edition.

 

The Activity Book provides reinforcement and consolidation of the language presented in the Pupil's Book. It is organised as follows: * A Welcome unit of four lessons, for use after the corresponding Pupil's Book pages. *Eight units divided into ten lessons (as in the Pupil's Book). * A Goodbye unit of four lessons (as in the Pupil's Book). *Eight festival lessons at the back of the book for use at Bonfire Night, Christmas, Easter and Wimbledon. *Unit review activities. These are linked to corresponding grammar points in the Pupil's Book. * A Picture Dictionary at the back of the book to help pupils to review and remember the target language.

The Pupil's Book provides materials to effectively present and practice the target language. It introduces new language in lively and engaging contexts. A wide variety of practice tasks lead from controlled language activities through to production and personalisation activities. There is also a high level of cross-curricular and cultural content, so that language learning can be integrated into the Primary curriculum (CLIL). Additionally the Pupil's Book contains songs, stories, games, listening and reading texts and communicative activities to ensure lessons are varied, motivating and effective. The Access code printed at the back of the book gives pupils and parents unique and safe access to Future Island Online via the internet.

The Activity Book provides reinforcement and consolidation of the language presented in the Pupil's Book. It is organised as follows: * A Welcome unit of four lessons, for use after the corresponding Pupil's Book pages. *Eight units divided into ten lessons (as in the Pupil's Book). * A Goodbye unit of four lessons (as in the Pupil's Book). *Eight festival lessons at the back of the book for use at Bonfire Night, Christmas, Easter and Wimbledon. *Unit review activities. These are linked to corresponding grammar points in the Pupil's Book. * A Picture Dictionary at the back of the book to help pupils to review and remember the target language.

The Pupil's Book provides materials to effectively present and practice the target language. It introduces new language in lively and engaging contexts. A wide variety of practice tasks lead from controlled language activities through to production and personalisation activities. There is also a high level of cross-curricular and cultural content, so that language learning can be integrated into the Primary curriculum (CLIL). Additionally the Pupil's Book contains songs, stories, games, listening and reading texts and communicative activities to ensure lessons are varied, motivating and effective. The Access code printed at the back of the book gives pupils and parents unique and safe access to Future Island Online via the internet.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 17th Colombian Conference on Computing on Advances in Computing, CCC 2023, held in  Medellin, Colombia, during August 10–11, 2023.The 22 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Applications - Industry 4.0 - Precision Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed systems and large-scale computing, Computational Statistics, Digital Learning - E-learning, Software Engineering, Human Machine Interaction, Image processing and Computer Vision, Robotics in Industry 4.0 and Scientific Applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 17th Colombian Conference on Computing on Advances in Computing, CCC 2023, held in  Medellin, Colombia, during August 10–11, 2023.The 22 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Applications - Industry 4.0 - Precision Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed systems and large-scale computing, Computational Statistics, Digital Learning - E-learning, Software Engineering, Human Machine Interaction, Image processing and Computer Vision, Robotics in Industry 4.0 and Scientific Applications.

It is usual that existing material on computer aided geometric design oscillates between over-simplification for programmers and practitioners and over formalism for scientific or academic readers. The first type of publications suppresses the taxonomy and properties of the mathematical concepts discussed when seeking straightforward notation and procedures. The second type of materials in thorough in the mathematical concepts at the expense of increasingly complicated notation and sacrifice of clear procedures for the reader.This book intends to be a compromise between the aforementioned extremes. It recalls basic concepts on functions, relations, transformations, matrices and groups and makes evident their impact in the engineering properties of projections, rotations, translations, perspectives, and so on. The material is of interest for computer scientists and electrical, mechanical, production, mathematical and physics engineers. In particular, it gives valuable insight into robotics, computer vision, design, manufacturing, kinematics and dynamics from a practical point of view while keeping contact whit the underlying decisive mathematical properties of the objects and transformations handled.The exercises and examples discussed in this book were stated, solved, documented and illustrated under the supervision of professors Oscar Ruiz and Carlos Cadavid during the years 2004 to 2007. Scenarios for such a work were the courses introduction to CAD CAM Systems and Geometric Modeling and the activities in the CAD CAM CAE laboratory at EAFIT University.This book intends to be a compromise between the aforementioned extremes. It recalls basic concepts on functions, relations, transformations, matrices and groups and makes evident their impact in the engineering properties of projections, rotations, translations, perspectives, and so on. The material is of interest for computer scientists and electrical, mechanical, production, mathematical and physics engineers. In particular, it gives valuable insight into robotics, computer vision, design, manufacturing, kinematics and dynamics from a practical point of view while keeping contact whit the underlying decisive mathematical properties of the objects and transformations handled.The exercises and examples discussed in this book were stated, solved, documented and illustrated under the supervision of professors Oscar Ruiz and Carlos Cadavid during the years 2004 to 2007. Scenarios for such a work were the courses introduction to CAD CAM Systems and Geometric Modeling and the activities in the CAD CAM CAE laboratory at EAFIT University.The exercises and examples discussed in this book were stated, solved, documented and illustrated under the supervision of professors Oscar Ruiz and Carlos Cadavid during the years 2004 to 2007. Scenarios for such a work were the courses introduction to CAD CAM Systems and Geometric Modeling and the activities in the CAD CAM CAE laboratory at EAFIT University.

An introduction highlighting the main features of the course. A ‘tour’ of a unit. Advice on how to use Active Teach and Island Adventure Game in class. A summary map for each unit highlighting the linguistic content - this lists the crosscurricular, cultural and phonological elements, and summarizes the integration of key competences. Step-by-step lesson plans covering all of the course material, including activities for Assessment for Learning, as well as the answer key and audioscript alongside the teaching notes. A Games bank and Extension activities. Teaching notes and answers for the Photocopiables. Access to Island Adventure Game.