THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

The best scene of The Pursuit of Happiness,a good example of motivation and great desire for
self-improvement.

3rd ESO . UNIT 4: EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Related to Unit 4, "Journeys", you can do extension activities to improve your listening comprehesion and your social and cultural knowledge.Watch the following videos and write the ten things you need to know about each of the following cities: London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

LONDON

EDINBURGH

 

NEW YORK

Answer sheet HERE.

3rd ESO. UNIT 1: EXTENSION ACTIVITY.

                       ORDERING FOOD IN A RESTAURANT

    These days we are studying items related to food, quantifiers needed for these words and expressions and formulae used when ordering food in a restaurant. However, what happens when you don’t have to order in a conventional way? 

Watch and listen to the following video and do the activities related to it.

ACTIVITY 1

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Which part of London is the restaurant "Inamo" in?
2. How do people order?
3. What does Noel think about waiters’ conventional dialogue?
4. When can people order?
5. What is one of the most wonderful features of the system?
6. Do you like the idea? Why?

ACTIVITY 2

2. Tell if the following statements are True or False:

• London isn’t in the leading lines of food and drink.
• Menus appear on a TV.
• You can play games while waiting.
• The founders met in a cooking class.
• Customers feel they are free to choose.
• Inamo is very trendy in London.

CLASSROOM LANGUAGE

We will start the classes soon. It can be helpful to know and understand the language we will use in our everyday lessons.

TO SAY HELLO AND GOODBYE:

GOOD MORNING / AFTERNOON / EVENING!

HELLO / HI

HOW ARE YOU?

GOODBYE

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND / DAY

TO ASK ABOUT SOMETHING:

CAN I HAVE A PEN, PLEASE?

CAN I GO TO THE TOILET?

DO YOU HAVE A PEN FOR ME?

TO ASK ABOUT A WORD OR SENTENCE:

WHAT DOES "TABLE" MEAN?

HOW DO YOU SAY "MESA" IN ENGLISH?

HOW DO YOU SPELL "TABLE"?T-A-B-L-E

HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE "(TABLE)"?

WHERE'S THE STRESS IN "(TABLE)"?

TO ASK FOR HELP:

I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

CAN YOU HELP ME, PLEASE?

IS THIS RIGHT / WRONG?

COULD / CAN YOU REPEAT THAT, PLEASE?

COULD / CAN YOU SAY THAT AGAIN, PLEASE?

PARDON ME?

TO APOLOGIZE:

EXCUSE ME, PLEASE.

I'M SORRY.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

SORRY I'M LATE.

JAMAICA INDEPENDENCE DAY

Jamaica is a Caribbean island and was discovered by Cristopher Colombus in his 2nd voyage around America. The first settlers were Spanish and they occupied Jamaica in 1504. However, the British established their control over the island in the 17th century and in 1834 Jamaica was made a Crown Colony. 
 After years of colonization, Jamaica acquired its independence from the British in 1962 and its own Constitution was created.

The official language of Jamaica is English, but they speak an English-African Creole language called Jamaican Patois (English+ African languages + Native American words)  due to its cultural diversity.

Jamaica is world wide known for its athletics figures such as  Kerron Stewart, Aleen Bailey, Juliet Cuthbert...or its musical genres: reggae, ska, mento, rocksteady, dub, and, more recently, dancehall and ragga. The fact is that we do not know too much about this country and because of that, it deserves a site on our blog to commerate Jamaican Independence Day, August 6th.

This country is part of the Commonwealth ( association of 54 countries which shared a past with Britain), you can find more information about it on
                                              http://www.thecommonwealth.org/

WORLD QUIZ

INDEPENDENCE DAY

1. Today is July 4th, the Independence Day in the USA. This day commmemorates that 237 years ago (in 1776) the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. American people were never ruled by Great Britain again.

END-OF-YEAR TESTS.SEPTEMBER.

If you have failed the subject of English language this year, you will have another opportunity in September. Take note of the following dates:

BACHILLERATO:
ENGLISH SUBJECT:Friday 2nd. 11'00h. (Classroom: 1st and 2nd Bachillerato)
PRACTICAL ENGLISH SUBJECT: Friday 2nd. 12'30h.(Classroom: 3rd ESO Aand B)

ESO:
ENGLISH SUBJECT: Friday 2nd. 12'30h.(Classroom: 1st and 2nd Bachillerato)
PRACTICAL ENGLISH SUBJECT: Thursday 1st. 12'30h.(Classroom: PDC)

BLOOMSDAY

BLOOMSDAY is celebrated in Ireland in June 16th to commemorate the life and literary works of James Joyce ( an outstanding figure of the Irish literature). This day was named "Bloomsday" because the main character of one of the best novels of this author ( Ulysses) is called Bloom and all his adventures took place in Dublin in June 16th in 1904.

2nd "ESO" C+D. AUSTRALIAN FORESTS.

Some students of 2nd "ESO" C+D are getting information about different forests in Australia. The groups are the following:

GROUP A :




    STUDENTS: Laura R., Ana L., Cristina.
                        "If we want, we can"
   

              NEW ENGLAND
     NATIONAL PARK
                      
  



GROUP B:

     

STUDENTS: Mayte, Malena, Laura D.,
                       Mari.   
                      "We are the best"

   LAMINGTON PARK





GROUP C:

 STUDENTS: Juan José, Jefferson, Lisandro,
                         Antony.
                      " We are forests"


                 DORRIGO
   NATIONAL PARK




GROUP D:

STUDENTS: Carlos, Jordi, Yelco, Miguel.
                     " We are Nature" 


                    DAINTREE
    NATIONAL PARK

ENJOY YOUR EASTER HOLIDAYS

Enjoy your Easter holidays. This is a good moment to relax, meet friends...

(Sorry but, I have to tell my students that they must finish the exercises of unit 7 of their workbook, You can leave a comment if you need my help)

MULTICULTURAL FAIR

   On Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th, we will participate in different workshops to celebrate our special:

                           "Multicultural Fair"

 Teachers and students will guess more about different countries such as their typicical food, dressing, music, literature... In addition, people from foreign countries will show us some aspects of their customs and ways of living.
   As soon as we know the schedule of the activities for these days, we will post it here.

                                        

THURSDAY 17th: ST. PATRICK'S DAY

On Thursday 17th we will celebrate St. Patrick's Day, your English teachers will tell you more information about the story of this celebration.

                                               

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FORESTS, 2011

We are creating a project to celebrate the International Year of Forests, 2011.
The objective is to know and think about the forests in different English speaking countries.

                                                                           

Soon, you will know more about it.

TO RETAKE THE ENGLISH SUBJECT OF PREVIOUS YEARS (EXAMEN DE PENDIENTES)

On Wednesday 23rd, you will be able to retake the English subject of previous years. You have to revise those units studied last year and take into account that the test will be oral, be ready to answer.

At home, you can visit the following web to do exercises ans check your answers.

http://www2.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=160
http://www2.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=409

STUDY AND GOOD LUCK!

January 30th: The School Day of Non-violence and Peace

NEXT WEEK TESTS

We are finishing unit 4, so we will do the following tests next week:

1st ESO E: Monday 31st (written test)
                   Thursday 3rd (oral test )

2nd ESO A+B: Tuesday 1st (oral test)
                         Wednesday 2nd (written test)

2nd ESO C+D: Wednesday 2nd (written test)
                          Thursday 3rd (oral test)
   
(Teacher: I know you can do it very well)

3rd ESO C: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Here you will find the worksheet you have to complete when you read the book. Remember you must give your teacher the worksheet before February 14th. In case you finish it in less than two weeks you can read another book. Ask your teacher.
Click in this link to get the worksheet http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/11/29/3026937/READING%20WORKSHEET.DOC

1st ESO E: WATCH THE VIDEO AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

Listen to the video and answer the following questions:

1. What is Sammy doing? He's.......................
2. What is Suzy doing? She is........................
3. What is Donny doing? He is.............................. and ........................................
4. What is Lisa doing? She is ..........................
5. What is Lonney doing? He is ........................................................

(Teacher: we will correct this activity on Monday)

If you want to practise more, click here.

LISTEN! Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas,"Make a Wave"

Demi Lovano and Joe Jonas, Make a Wave

For students of 2nd year of "ESO".Pay attention to the vocabulary related to Nature (unit 4). We will do some activities about it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

                          

STUNNING PERFORMANCE!!

We are very grateful to some students of 1st year of "Bachillerato" who performed the play A Christmas Carol, you have worked a lot and you are a very good example for the rest of students of this school.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS AND MORE...

We are preparing different activities for the days before Christmas (December 20th and 21st):

 - A Christmas Carol, performed by students of 1st year of "Bachillerato"

English breakfast+Petit-déjeuner = 1 euro
                                                     

                                        

FOR STUDENTS OF 2nd YEAR OF "ESO"

Next Wednesday 15th you will do unit 3 test, the most difficult part of this unit is to study the past of irregular verbs. If you want to practise and check your answers click here.

Remember you have to do your Christmas project.

SANTA CLAUS HAS GOT A MESSAGE FOR US, IT'S AMAZING!!

Get a Voki now!

Xmas songs

Practise your English with Christmas songs and choose one for the Xmas Song Contest on December 21st. Here you will find lots of songs with their lyrics and sung by famous singers. http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs.htm

CHRISTMAS WEBQUEST

It will be Christmas soon, and you can do a project about it. The conditions are the following:

1st: Make a group of 3 or 4 students.
2nd: Follow the instructions of this website.
Answer the 10 questions that appear in the "Process" section on the left.
3rd: Summarize the answers in this sheet: http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/8/25/2951681//answer%20sheet.doc or ask your teacher for one. You can do it by hand or using your word processor.
4th: Create your own cover page with: TITLE, DATE, and MEMBERS of the group.
5th:Give your project to your teacher until Wednesday 14th.

THANKSGIVING DAY

SONG: LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE

You can watch the video and listen to the song LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE (Eminem and Rihanna) and learn English on your own.Ready? Try it.

THINK: Do you understand this couple's relationship?
               What details have caught your attention?

WELCOME

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