English practice for the summer

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

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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".

COMENIUS 2011-2013

As you know, our school has started an international project together with other schools in different European countries. English will be the language of communication among participating schools and all activities in the project will be developed in English, so this is a great opportunity for you to improve your oral and written skills! You will also have the chance of getting to know different cultures and countries and making new friends…I hope you make the most of it and enjoy the experience!

Here is a brief description of the project:

COMIC (Creativity Oriented Motivating International Communication) is a multilateral Comenius project developed by six partner schools from different European countries: Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Denmark, Poland and Spain. Our main aim is to raise awareness among students and teachers of European cultural and linguistic diversity in a creative and dynamic manner.

Our project has been organized according to three main topics: Arts, Sciences and Sports. The project activities will focus on these educational fields. Practical and manual work will be enhanced in all activities and they will be oriented towards the professional world. The outcomes of the students' work will be posted on different blogs, which will have free access from the websites of each partner school. ICT will be used in all activities.

Click here to access the Comenius blog at our school, where you can find all the information and news about the project in Spanish. You can also find links to our partner schools.