READERS FIRST TERM

These are the Readers for the first term and the dates for the Reading Tests:

 1º ESO - Tales from Greek Mythology (Burlington) - 22/11/12
 2º ESO - The Swiss Family Robinson (Burlington) - 23/11/12
 3º ESO - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Burlington) - 20/11/12
 4º ESO - Romeo and Juliet (Burlington) - 23/11/12

 The deadline for handing in the activities about the Readers will be the same date as the Reading test.

I hope you all had a great summer!!! But now it's time to go back to school...so here you have a song to start practising your English and welcome you back! You can watch the first video and see how much you can understand with the help of the cartoons...and then you can sing along with the lyrics in the second video. Enjoy!





Now try to translate the lyrics!

We're Going to be Friends
by The White Stripes 

Fall is here, hear the yell
back to school, ring the bell
brand new shoes, walking blues
climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends

Walk with me, Suzy Lee
through the park and by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we found
then safely walk to school
without a sound

Well here we are, no one else
we walked to school all by ourselves
there's dirt on our uniforms
from chasing all the ants and worms
we clean up and now its time to learn

Numbers, letters, learn to spell
nouns, and books, and show and tell
at playtime we will throw the ball
back to class, through the hall
teacher marks our height
against the wall

And we don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything
we sit side by side in every class
teacher thinks that I sound funny
but she likes the way you sing

Tonight I'll dream while in my bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphabet
and when I wake tomorrow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
cause I can tell that we're going to be friends

English practice for the summer

This is a great website to practise your English this summer...Try it and have fun!!!

Learn English Teens

HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS!!!!
            

SEPTEMBER 2012

EXAMEN DE SEPTIEMBRE:
3 / 09 / 12 - 9:00 h

A continuación tenéis una lista de los contenidos que entran para el examen de septiembre. Los que tenéis que hacer el examen, también debéis hacer los ejercicios del libro de refuerzo correspondientes a vuestro curso y enseñármelo el día del examen. Os recuerdo el nombre del libro:


ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR ESO (Ed. Burlington) 


Para los que habéis aprobado os recomiendo de todas formas hacer un cuaderno de vacaciones para repasar y reforzar los contenidos vistos durante este curso:


 SUMMER FUN (Ed. Burlington) 

Y para todos en general, os recomiendo leer libros adaptados a vuestro nivel (readers), ver películas en inglés y practicar el idioma todo lo que podáis este verano, hay muchas formas divertidas de hacerlo sin necesidad de irse muy lejos...y a los que tienen la suerte de irse fuera a practicar y mejorar su inglés, que disfruten de la experiencia y la aprovechen al máximo!

CONTENIDOS EXÁMENES SEPTIEMBRE

1º ESO

• Have got.
• Prepositions: about, of, by, on.
• Interrogative Pronouns.
• Demonstrative Pronouns.
• There is, There are + a, an, some, any.
• Comparative Adjectives.
• Present Simple.
• Subject and Object Pronouns.
• Present Simple with wh- questions.
• Adverbs of frequency.
• Like + noun; like + -ing.
• Present Continuous.
• Contrast Present Simple / Present Continuous.
• Can / Must.
• Countable and uncountable nouns: some, any, much, many, a lot of.
• Indefinite pronouns: something / anything.
• Present Continuous for future arrangements.
• Was / were; There was / There were.
• ago
• Past Simple of regular and irregular verbs.
• Adverbs of manner.
• Imperatives.
• Be going to.

2º ESO

• Adverbs of frequency.
• Present Simple / Present Continuous.
• Verb + ing.
• Past Simple.
• Was / were.
• There was / There were.
• Time expressions + ago.
• Past Continuous.
• Contrast Past Simple / Past Continuous.
• The future: Be going to / Will.
• Present Continuous with future meaning.
• First Conditional.
• Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative.
• Too and Enough.
• Pronouns.
• Present Perfect.
• A/an, countables and uncountables.
• Some, any, much, many, a lot of.
• Indefinite Pronouns.
• Should / Must.

3º ESO

• Present Simple / Present Continuous.
• Adverbs of Degree.
• Adverbs of Frequency.
• Was, were, there was, there were.
• Past Simple / Past Continuous.
• Much, many, a lot of.
• Relative Pronouns.
• Too, too much, too many, enough, not enough.
• Present Perfect: Affirmative / Negative / Interrogative.
• Present Perfect + just, still, yet, already, for, since.
• Present Perfect / Past Simple.
• Should / Must / Have to / don’t have to.
• Will / Might.
• First Conditional.
• Be going to.
• Will / be going to.
• Present Continuous for future arrangements.
• Verbs + -ing / -to.
• Could, can, will be able to.
• Second Conditional.
• Present and Past Passive.

4º ESO

• Used to.
• Past Perfect / Past Simple.
• Past Simple / Past Continuous.
• Present Perfect + ever / never / just / still / already / yet.
• Present Perfect + for / since.
• Present Perfect / Past Simple.
• Present Perfect Simple / Present Perfect Continuous.
• Ability: could, can, will be able to.
• Possibility and certainty: may, might, could, must can’t.
• Advice and Obligation: should, must, have to.
• Will / Be going to
• Future: Present Simple, Present Continuous, uses of Will.
• So, such, too, enough, not enough.
• Present, Past and Future Passive.
• Reflexive pronouns; each other.
• Indefinite pronouns: some-, any-, no-, every-.
• Relative pronouns.
• Make / let.
• First conditional + if / unless.
• Second conditional.
• Comparing Adjectives and Adverbs.
• Third Conditional.
• Gerunds and infinitives.
• Indirect requests.
• Reported Speech: Tense changes.
• Reported and indirect questions.

Dickens' Project

Here you have one of the projects our students have been working on during the last few weeks. Congratulations girls, you've done a great job! I hope you've enjoyed it and you have also learnt something about Victorian times and literature.

DICKENS 2012

This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of one of the UK's most popular novelists of all times: Charles Dickens, who was born on 7th February 1812. He wrote some of the greatest novels in English literature: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol...
Here you have a short biography
...or you can have a look at this video...it's fun!

In order to find out more about this great author, 3rd and 4th of ESO students are working on a project about his life and works.
I hope the following links will be helpful for your research. Remember you are expected to select the relevant information and summarize it yourselves with your own words, so don't just copy and paste!
Enjoy!


Charles Dickens - Biography
The Literature Network
Oxford University Press - Resources
Life and Works
Quotes by Dickens
Dickens in Wikipedia
Victorian Period
Victorian literature

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

The "School Day of Non-violence and Peace", founded in 1964 and also known as World or International Day of Non-violence and Peace, is a pioneering, non-state, non-governmental, non-official, independent, free and voluntary initiative of Non-violent and Pacifying Education,

which is now practised in schools all over the world and in which centres of education, teachers and students of all levels and from all countries are invited to take part.

It advocates a permanent education in and for harmony, tolerance, solidarity, respect for human rights, non-violence and peace. It is observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

Its basic message is: "Universal Love, Non-violence and Peace. Universal Love is better than egoism, Non-violence is better than violence, and Peace is better than war".