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

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH WITH DUOLINGO

I think this app can be useful for you to improve your English. You can use it in your computer and also download it to your mobile phone.  Use it everyday and your English will be better soon. It won't allow you to go on until you correct your mistakes and write things properly.
I have included it to the useful links list.

https://www.duolingo.com/

PRONUNCIATION. How to pronounce words ending in S

[s]
Voiceless sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced as [s] include:

[p], [t], [k], [f] 

[z]

Voiced sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced as [z] include:

[b], [d], [g], [l], [r], [w], [m], [n], [v], [y]

[ɪz]

The sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced with an additional syllable [ɪz] include:

[tʃ] [dʒ] [s] [z]

Perfect by Ed Sheeran

Well, this is a PERFECT song to revise irregular verbs. What other tenses can you find apart from simple past ?

I  ............ a love for me
Darling just dive right in
And follow my lead
Well I  ............ a girl beautiful and sweet
I never  ............ you were the someone waiting for me
'Cause we were just kids when we  ............ in love

Not knowing what it was
I will not give you up this time
But darling, just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own
And in your eyes you're  ............ mine

Baby, I...............in the dark with you between my arms

Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
When you ............ you looked a mess, I ............ underneath my breath
But you ............ it, darling, you look perfect tonight

Well I ............ a woman, stronger than anyone I know
She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I'll share her home
I ............ a love, to carry more than just my secrets
To carry love, to carry children of our own
We are still kids, but we're so in love
Fighting against all odds
I know we'll be alright this time
Darling, just hold my hand
Be my girl, I'll be your man
I see my future in your eyes

Baby, I'............ in the dark, with you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
When I ............ you in that dress, looking so beautiful
I don't deserve this, darling, you look perfect tonight

Baby, I............ in the dark, with you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
I have faith in what I see
Now I know I have met an angel in person
And she looks perfect
I don't deserve this
You look perfect tonight

Nancy Mulligan by Ed Sheeran.

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991)^[ is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk.Their parents, John and Imogen, are London-born. His paternal grandparents are Irish,^[ and Sheeran has stated his father hailed from a "very large" Catholic family.

John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist turned jewellery designerHis parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010. Their work usually took them to London, and they spent their weekends travelling with their children, while playing music. Sheeran's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the album that first introduced him to music was Van Morrison's Irish Heartbeat. During his childhood, John took him to a number of live concerts that would later inspire his musical creations. These included seeing Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall, Paul McCartney in Birmingham, and Bob Dylan.

Sheeran sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned to play the guitar at a very young age... 

What influence can you find in this song?

Most of the blanks are verbs. Can you get them all?

Lyrics

I .......... twenty-four years old
When I ............ the woman I would call my own
Twenty-two grand kids now .................... old
In that house that your brother bought ya

On the summer day when I proposed
I made that wedding ring from dentist gold
And I asked her father, but her daddy said, "No
You can't .............. my daughter"

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford ..................

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

Well, met her at Guy's in the second world war
And she .......  ..................... on a soldier's ward
Never had I seen such beauty before
The moment that I .......... her

Nancy was my yellow rose
And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
We got eight children now growing old
Five sons and three daughters

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna ................. the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She .................. my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

From her snow white streak in her jet black hair
Over sixty years I've been loving her
Now we're sat by the fire in our old armchairs
You know Nancy, I adore ya

From a farm boy born near Belfast town
I never worried about the king and crown
'Cause I ................. my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference, I assure ya

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna ............... the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She .............. my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

https://youtu.be/VFlZXlfda6Y

Welcome !!!

WELCOME EVERYBODY TO YOUR FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL FOR THE ACADEMICAL YEAR 2017/18

So this is your English teacher for this year and here you will sometimes find stuff to make your English improve a bit. It all depends on you. If you really want to speak English, coming to my lessons three times a week won’t be enough, It won’t be anything really. English is everywhere and I will constantly encourage you to listen to music, to watch films and  TV series, videos in youtube, to read interesting books, to sing, to speak every time you have the chance. All in English. There are some other tips I will give you personally.

So, let’s start …singing for instance.

COUNT ON ME by Bruno Mars

If you ever ……………..yourself stuck in the middle of the sea,

I'll …………….. the world to find you

If you ever ……………yourself l………………..in the dark and you can't see,

I'll be the light to guide you

Find out what we're made of

When we are ………………….. to help our friends in need

You can count on me like one two three

I'll be there

And I ……………..when I need it I can count on you like four three two

You'll be there

'Cause that's what friends ……….    ……………… to do, oh yeah

Whoa, whoa

Oh, oh

Yeah, yeah

If you tossin' and you're turnin' and you just can't fall …………….

I'll sing a song

……………. you

And if you ever forget how much you really …………… to me

Everyday I will

……………… you

Ooh

Find out what we're made of

When we are called to help our friends in need

You can count on me like one two three

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two

You'll be there

'Cause that's what friends  ……….    ……………… to do, oh yeah

Oh, oh

Yeah, yeah

You'll always have my ……………….. when you cry

I'll never let go

Never say goodbye

You know you can

Count on me like one two three

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two

And you'll be there

'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah

Oh, oh

You can count on me 'cause I can count on you

I you want to practise  you can always visit lyricstraining

https://es.lyricstraining.com/play/bruno-mars/count-on-me/HDLkEvrgqD

or watch the video of our  2 ESO bilingual students some years ago.

Mexico: a terrible country to be a journalist . If you are brave, you are dead.

Crusading Mexican journalist Javier Valdez shot dead in Sinaloa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/crusading-mexican-journalist-javier-valdez-shot-dead-in-sinaloa

MARCH 8TH . INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. DÍA INTERNACIONAL DA MULLER TRABALLADORA

READING TIME.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/international-womens-day-everything-you-need-to-know/

La La Land

La La Land is winner of seven Golden Globes, recipient of 11 Bafta nominations, and the expected winner of the 89th Academy Award for Best Picture 

The Erasmus + team is going to the cinema this week. This was our second option but you can watch it at  Multicines Norte in VOS

Remember this great section from The New York Times, anatomy of a scene, where the director talks about a scene in the movie.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000004809513/la-la-land-anatomy-of-a-scene.html

Reviews from newspapers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/la-la-land-review-ryan-gosling-emma-stone-will-leave-tear-eye/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/31/la-la-land-review-ryan-gosling-emma-stone

No good for you

If he is not good for you, just break up with him, a good new year's decision.
Another fantastic way to start the year is to improve your English. So here a simple and amusing  way to help you.

Learn songs by heart, imitate the pronunciation, sing!

http://es.lyricstraining.com/play/meghan-trainor/no-good-for-you-audio/H6w0ZDLVD6#b7w

Writing

For some of you  writing means a lot of effort and, as I saw today, people  can even  go blank in front of a piece of paper. Well,  let me tell you there is only one recipe to improve that: Write, write and keep writing. Start with easy tasks and write a few lines every day. I am leaving here for you a few links where you will find hundreds of prompts that can suit different levels and interests. I am also including them in the useful links list so it will be easy to find them whenever you need them.

http://www.dailyteachingtools.com/journal-writing-prompts.html

http://thinkwritten.com/365-creative-writing-prompts/

http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts

Music and the inner self | James Rhodes | TEDxMadrid

LearnEnglish British Council Extreme Sports

FURIOUS MONKEY HOUSE

"Furious Monkey House" is a band from Pontevedra, Spain, formed by Mariña, Carlota, Amaya, Irene and Manu in March 2014.

The band recorded a five-track demo before recording their debut album between February and March 2015 at  Planta Sónica (Vigo), which some of our students from IES AS BARXAS, now in 1 BACH,  visited  two years ago, and Abbey Road Studios (London), the famous studios where The Beatles, The Rolling Stones,  and many other groups have been recording their albums.

So what is special about them? Their age! They are just teenagers like those of you who are in 1st or 2nd ESO  so they have to go to school, do homework, take exams and on top of that they  make great music!
SO HOMEWORK FOR THE SUMMER: LEARN THE LYRICS, SING THEIR SONGS. A GREAT WAY TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH.

Hey girl 
your eyes are full of big fire 
that voice is screaming in your head 

calm down 'cause everything is fine now...
Hey girl
you're not alone we are back now
we're always singing in your mind
we're always singing it out loud
I miss your face every moment
and all the little things that I have lost
I have the same dream every morning
I fly very high but I fall down

Hey girl
your blood is boiling like water
and you can fight like a tiger
there ain't clouds on that black sky
Hey girl
stop weeping 'cause you're awesome
you are the best thing in the world
just close your eyes and please listen up
I miss your face every moment
and all the little things that I have lost
I have the same dream every morning
I fly very high but I fall down

I miss your face every moment
and all the little things that I have lost
I have the same dream every morning
I fly very high but I fall down
I miss your face every moment
and all the little things that I have lost
I have the same dream every morning
I fly very high but I fall down

 When I'm SleepingI look up and I can't breath 
in my room every dark night 
I can't dream about happy things 

please turn on the light yes
There's a picture on the wall
and it's looking at me
it smiles at twelve o'clock
and (it) starts laughing
When I'm sleeping
in the darkness
I find a demon in my closet
When I am sleeping
in the darkness
there are monsters under my bed
but I like them

My skin turns as white as snow
when I hear the voices
the shadows star to dance around
and I follow that beat
My heart is going more than fast
I don't know if I wanna stop it
come with us into my room
dance with your nightmares
When I'm sleeping
in the darkness
I find a demon in my closet
When I am sleeping
in the darkness
there are monsters under my bed
but I like them

When I'm sleeping
in the darkness
When I'm sleeping
in the darkness
When I'm sleeping
in the darkness
When I'm sleeping
in the darkness

AN OPEN WORLD BEGINS WITH AN OPEN MIND

Let me share with you today this idea and the video that comes with it. It is a commercial, a very good one. Can you guess what kind of company is behind?
Don't forget to click to have the subtitles in English. You will find it easier to understand.
Have a nice weekend!

Mary Beard wins Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

British historian and academic Mary Beard has won this year’s Princess of Asturias award, one of Spain’s top honours, in the field of Social Sciences for her "outstanding contribution to the study of the culture, politics and society of classical antiquity".



And this is what she wrote about the moment she received the good news in her blog "A don's life", from THE TIMES LITERARY SUPLEMENT

I had really good news this week. I was in my Faculty office on Tuesday at about 6.15 pm packing up to bike home, when the phone rang from (as the display flashed up) for a Spanish number. It turned out to be an extremely nice man from the Princess of Asturias Foundation to alert me that the jury had just decided to award me the 2016 Princess of Asturias Foundation Award for Social Sciences. It was to be announced the next day at 12.00 and I was to keep mum until then. 

I knew something about these prizes before and was obviously extremely chuffed (you dont get phonecalls like that very often -- and I cancelled my decision to make it an alcohol-free day). But I hadn't quite realised how very grand it was until I looked at the previous laureates in my own and other categories, from David Attenborough, Tzvetan Todorov and Mary Robinson in my own category to Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen and Leonardo Padura in literature (that's Padura arriving above), Michael Schumacher in Sport and J K Rowling in Concord. That was all a bit humbling.

The award comes with a nice cash prize, but that wasn't what mattered most this week (I know people always say that, but it is true). It was the fact that people, not on your back door step, have recognised what you do. If I have had a 'project' over the last few years it has been to continue doing top flight specialist academic work, while also sharing the fruits of that with a wider public. I hate with a vengeance the kind of popularising history (or popularising anything) that assumes that that wider public can be fobbed off with some over-simplified, dumbed-down version of what academics really talk about. It has always seemed to me that you can remove some ofthe jargon, talk clearly and capture precisely the issues that are those under debate. So I was particularly pleased when I saw these words of the jury, referring to my 'talent for making specialized knowledge both accessible and relevant to the general public'. That's exactly what I have wanted to do.

It was also nice (an unworthy confession is coming up!) actually to win something. Now, I have been absolutely delighted with howSPQR has gone down with critics, and with the buying punters. I cant really imagine how it could have done better, thanks in part to the big efforts of others (it's a good book, I immodestly say, but lots of good books dont get attention or find buyers). And I have also been delighted that it has been shortlisted for all sorts of literary prizes. To me, shortlisting matters the most. It's a real vote of confidence in the product, after which the final winning choice must always be a bit random and depend on the unpredictable personal preferences of the judges (to put it another way, you could almost guarantee that a different group of judges would choose a different winner -- and that's certainly been the case on the panels I've been on). That said, I was beginning to get a bit of an 'always the bridesmaid' feeling and to wonder if, bauble as it was, it wouldn't be nice actually to win something one day.

And indeed, as I have discovered this week, it is nice. I am so very grateful to the judges for picking me, and really looking forward to going to Oviedo in October to receive the award. The aim for this summer has to be to get some conversational Spanish under my belt. I can just about read the language (especially when it is about Roman history), but I need to do a bit better than that in the autumn.

If you are still interested in some of her works, here you can watch the documentary about Pompeii. Her English is very clear and easy to understand and  I have included  the subtitles so it will be really easy to follow.

If you find it too long, watch a few minutes and in any case let me know what you have learnt. If you really like it, there a few more.

O TRABALLO AUDIOVISUAL DO ALUMNADO DE 4º ESO C NO FARO DE VIGO

O Faro de Vigo publica no día de hoxe o traballo audiovisual do alumnado de 4º ESO C 

http://www.farodevigo.es/portada-o-morrazo/2016/05/27/shakespeare-visto-moana/1468718.html

A Spaniard wins Cannes Short Film award

this is one of the articles you can read in el pais in english. what other topics would you like to read about?.  find out and share with your classmates.

For the first time, a Spaniard wins Cannes Short Film award. Juanjo Giménez earns Palme d’Or for ‘Timecode,’ a thriller about two parking lot security guards played by dancers

Juanjo Giménez has become the first Spaniard to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in the Short Film category . Click  to go on reading