viernes, 16 de febrero de 2018

1 ESO B students also talk about their most important meal of the day



Only a few students from 1 ESO B wanted to participate today in this activity. They all had different  answers to the same question.
I haven't seen Jamaal at school today but he is in the video... a ghost?

Don't you think  they are fantastic? I do!

Can you answer these questions?
  1. How many different dishes do they have?
  2. Why doesn't Lois normally have fish?
  3. What is  inside Gabriel's omelette?
  4. Do they have any desert?
Some words are badly pronounced. Check them here!



My 1st ESO A students say what they usually have for lunch

We are leaning how to talk about meals and food. Some of my students from 1 ESO A have answered the question: What do you usually have for lunch?

I think they are great! Some may not sound very fluent but I think they were just nervous. We have to work on pronunciation with words like "chocolate", "fruit", "vegetables", "ribs" and try to soften "have" "for" in some cases but very proud of you!!!

Well done!!!








viernes, 9 de febrero de 2018

That would have been a great job for me!

It doesn’t mean I am not happy being a teacher but when I read about this guy, man, I thought ... this should be me. I do that all the time, for me, family, friends, students.  I don’t have the time to travel that often now  but as soon as I retire I will be travelling the world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/29/how-a-29-year-old-turned-an-obsession-with-cheap-plane-tickets-into-a-1-million-business-in-under-2-years.html

jueves, 8 de febrero de 2018

BECAS PARA CURSOS DE INGLÉS EN GALICIA, REINO UNIDO, FRANCIA, PORTUGAL E CANADÁ

Actividades de formación en linguas estranxeiras 2018

Great news! You may enjoy one of these scholarships abroad again!!!

200 BECAS PARA ALUMNADO DE 1º BACHARELATO CURSOS EN REINO UNIDO E CANADÁ
170 BECAS PARA ALUMNADO DE 2º BACH EN REINO UNIDO E CANADÁ 

Destinatarios: 
Alumnado de centros educativos sostidos con fondos públicos que impartan ensinanzas de réxime xeral, na Comunidade Autónoma Galega, de: - 1º, 2º, 3º e 4º ESO. - 1º e 2º Bacharelato.

Requisitos: - Estar cursando 1º, 2º, 3º ou 4º de educación secundaria obrigatoria ou 1º ou 2º de bacharelato, en centros sostidos con fondos públicos que impartan ensinanzas de réxime xeral,
durante o curso 2017-2018, na Comunidade Autónoma de Galicia.

 - Para as actividades de integración (1º Bacharelato, que se desenvolverán no inicio do curso 2018-2019) estar matriculado/a, no curso 2017-2018, nun centro da Rede de Centros Plurilingües.

- Non ter concedida outra axuda para o mesmo fin neste curso nin estar incurso/a nalgunha prohibición para a subvención. - Nota mínima na área ou materia de lingua estranxeira que se vai perfeccionar na estadía de Ben ou 6, curso 2016-2017.

- Ter superadas todas as áreas ou materias no curso 2016/2017.

- Ter DNI (excepto menores de 14 anos), ou NIE en vigor, segundo corresponda. No seu caso, dispoñer de pasaporte e documentación que permita viaxar ao estranxeiro

Acceso ó cartel informativo no seguinte link

https://www.edu.xunta.es/axudaplicacion/files/axudasle/Cartel%20informativo%202018.pdf

Prazo aberto dende o 8 de febreiro ata o 7 de marzo (incluído)
All the information in the following link




miércoles, 7 de febrero de 2018

2 ESO IRREGULAR VERBS

SOME OF YOU ARE FINDING HARD TO REMEMBER IRREGULAR VERBS
You could practise with The Big Challenge. They have a section for you to revise them.

Click on the following link:

http://verbs.thebigchallenge.com/#gamePage

martes, 6 de febrero de 2018

USEFUL VOCABULARY TO TALK ABOUT CINEMA


Passive voice. SPEAKING FILM: 300 BACH

YOU ARE GOING TO WATCH A VIDEO SEGMENT FROM THE FILM 300

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.es/search?q=300

BUT FIRST:

A. TALK TO A PARTNER ABOUT THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:


1. IN A FEW CULTURES, COUPLES MUST HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD. DO YOU THINK IT’S FAIR? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER.

 2. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD, WOULD YOU STILL HAVE THE BABY KNOWING HE/SHE WOULD BE SICK FOREVER? EXPLAIN. 

3. IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRAIN SOMEONE TO BE A KING OR A HERO? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER. 

4. IN ANCIENT GREECE, SPARTANS USED TO REJECT AND KILL ALL THE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. THE WHOLE POPULATION CONSISTED OF HEALTHY, STRONG PEOPLE. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION ABOUT IT?



B. Before you view the segment, rewrite the following sentences using passive voice.

1. Spartans inspected the boy when he was born.

2. Spartans would have discarded him if he were too small or misshapen.

3. Spartans baptized him in the fire of combat.

4. They taught him not to retreat or surrender.

5. They taught him that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory.

6. Spartans took him from his mother and plunged him into a world of violence.

7. They called it the agoge.

8. Rod and lash punished the boy.

9. They taught the boy to show no pain or mercy


C. Watch the movie segment and check your answers.

lunes, 5 de febrero de 2018

GOYA AWARDS 2018 1 BACH C

Isabel Coixet’s ‘The Bookshop’ Tops Spain’s 2018 Goya Awards


Basque period drama ‘Giant’ sweeps nine prizes

MADRID — Just three hours after female talent was amply awarded at Sweden’s Göteborg Festival, Scandinavia’s biggest film event, Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” topped the 32nd Goya Awards Saturday night, winning best picture, director and adapted screenplay.
Healthily sold abroad by Celsius, and a sturdy box office performer in Spain, where it has earned $2.9 million, “The Bookshop” is produced by Spain’s A Contracorriente Films and Diagonal TV and Zephyr Films. A big-screen makeover of Penelope Fitzgerald’s quietly subversive 1978 novel, about a widow opening up a bookshop in a sleepy coastal town, “The Bookshop’s” triumph represents only the second time an English-language movie has won a best picture Goya. The first was Coixet’s “The Secret Life of Words” in 2006.

A coming-of-ager – and ode to diversity – hailed by Variety as a “delicate sleeper,” Carla Simon’s debut “Summer 1993” took first feature at the Goyas, as well breakthrough actress (Bruna Cursi) and supporting actor (David Verdaguer). It is one of the flagships of the newest generation of Catalán filmmakers, many of whom are women.
Women did not, however, exactly sweep the board at the 32nd Goya Awards. A flagship for the modern Basque cinema, Jon Garaño’ and Aitor Arregi’s “Giant” produced by Irusoin and Kowalski Films swept most plaudits. Set in 1836 in a backward rural Basque Country, “Giant,” about two brothers’ deep affective bonds surviving grinding poverty, romantic rivalry, war and wrenching modernization, swept original screenplay, breakthrough actor (Eneko Sagardoy), and eight technical awards.
Javier Gutiérrez’s scooped best actor for Manuel Martín Cuenca’s “The Motive” where he plays a talentless wannabe novelist, who manipulates the lives of his neighbors to inspire his prose.
Nathalie Poza took actress for her performance in dramedy “Can’t Say Goodbye,” beating out Emily Mortimer (“The Bookshop”) and Penelope Cruz (“Loving Pablo), just as Bill Nighy and Javier Bardem lost out in the best actor race. Beyond Bardem’s win for “Biutiful,” there is little tradition of the Goyas  awarding foreign or Hollywood-based actors.
It was, however, women and their campaign in Spain to swell their presence in its cinema, which proved the insistent trending topic of the 2018 kudos ceremony.With female attendees sporting bright red fans with #masmujeres slogans, multiple Spanish film industry attendees, J.A. Bayona among them, called for women to receive 50% of governmental film subsidies in Spain. They waved them, making the auditorium look as if it had been invaded by red butterflies, roaring on Spanish Academy vice-president Nora Navas as she attacked gender violence in one speech.
“I’m in favor of all kinds of quotas and anything which can contribute to change,” Cruz said on the red carpet. “If a man earns 20 and  a woman 10, the woman should denounce that, supported by the man,“ added Bardem.
Almodóvar muse Marisa Paredes (“The Flower of My Secret”) accepted an honorary Goya, bringing the Goya Awards audience to its feet.
In its battle for larger gender balance, Spain is a long way off, however. It was notable that the screenplay for a ceremony which served as a platform for the revindication of women’s rights was written by five men. Of the 2,270 people making the 154 features presented for 2018’s Goyas, 24% were women. Drilling down, women made up 16% of their directors and 26% of their producers, according to a study by CIMA, Spain’s Women’s Audiovisual Assn. Only four women have won best director awards in 32 Goya editions. Of the 25 highest-budgeted Spanish films last year, none were directed by a woman, said actress Pepa Charro.
2018’s highest-grossing Spanish movie, earning $21.3 million in Spain, and backed by Telecinco Cinema and Movistar +, Enrique Gato’s adventure romp “Tadeo Jones 2,” won best animation feature, as animation promises some of the biggest movie titles from Spain in upcoming years.
Julita Salmerón provided some of the best comedy of the night in a impromptu acceptance speech for son Gustavo Salmerón’s docu-feature winner, of which she is the star, “Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle,” which she dedicated to all mothers. The title already won best documentary at Karlovy Vary.
Oscar-nominated “A Fantastic Women” took best foreign Spanish-language film, accepted by its Chilean director Sebastián Lelio. “Rebellion, resistence and love,” said star Daniela Vega, in maybe the shortest acceptance speech of the night. Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square,” a Palme d’Or winning Oscar nominee, took best European film.
The longest applause of the night, however, went to Reyes Abades, the dean of Spanish VFX, who died this week, having won nine Goyas after learning his craft on such films as “Patton.”


http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000299/2018/1/

3 ESO C 2nd period

As I can't make it for 9.50 today, here is what you can do
-Read the text about Nigerian talking drums page 53 of your books
exercise 2
-Escribe o vocabulario en azul na libreta e traduce. Pode axudarche a explicación do exercicio 3/diccionario/wordreference.
-Completa exercicio 3 pax- 53.
-Os últimos 10 minutos practica cun bigchallenge

http://bigquiz.thebigchallenge.com/#gamePage

Questions Everything, everything

Sorry I cannot come this morning. As I guess most of you will be eager to write about the book, take a piece of paper and answer the following questions (2 pages maximum)
1.         Who brought a cake to Madeline’s door? Why?
2.         Why was Madeline at home all the time?
3.         What is special about the first day in the book, what do they do that evening?
4.         How did Olly manage to see her for the first time?
5.         How did Maddy feel the day after their first meeting? What did she think? What did Carla think?
6.         What happened to Madeline's dad and brother?
7.         Where did Maddy and Olly go and what happened there?
8.         Why was Carla fired?
9.         When Madeline gets mad at her mother, where does she go, how long does she spend there?
10.   Write a few lines about the end of the story.

jueves, 1 de febrero de 2018

Everything Everything Part 3

And this is the last part. Even if you have already read it. You can reread it and listen to the audio at the same time. It is a great way to improve your pronunciation.



Everything Everything Part 2

You never asked for the second part. I guess if you needed you just found it in the net. Anyway, I am uploading it in case you still haven't finished  reading it. Do not worry, you still have the weekend and we will be revising tomorrow. Remember to bring your questions, doubts, comments, etc.