Feliz Navidad

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Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holiday.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —48

This week revise conditional type 1 with Hercules... and practise your listening and reading.
Esta semana, repasad el condicional de tipo 1 con Hércules ...y practicad.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —48

There are a series of videos about phrasal verbs which are very interesting for you. Here is the first of them. A bit long but it's worth watching it.

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —46

To help you for this week essay: "We should work hard in order to protect our oceans.", here is a video, "Why the ocean?".

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —47

This week we have watched this video: GoldieBlox & Rube Goldberg  "Princess Machine".
Due to legal problems with copyright, they have removed the parody of the Beastie Boys' lyrics (much better than the Beastie Boys'), but, nevertheless, here they are:

Esta semana hemos visto este vídeo : GoldieBlox y la "Máquina Princesa" de Rube Goldberg .
Por razones de derechos de autor han quitado la parodia de la letra de la canción de los Beastie boys, pero era así:

Hey pretty girl... Hey pretty girl livin' in a pretty world.

GIRLS
You think you know what we want, GIRLS
Pink and pretty it's GIRLS
Just like the 50's it's GIRLS
You like to buy us pink TOYS
And everything else is for BOYS
And you can always get us DOLLS
And we'll grow up like them... FALSE!

It's time to CHANGE
We deserve to see a RANGE
'Cause all our toys look just the SAME
And we would like to use our BRAINS

We are all MORE THAN PRINCESS MAIDS

GIRLS, to build the spaceship
GIRLS, to code the new app
GIRLS, to grow up knowing that they can engineer that!
GIRLS
That's all we really need
GIRLS
To bring us up to speed
GIRLS
Our opportunity is
GIRLS
Don't underestimate GIRLS
GIRLS
GIRLS

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —47

This is "First Certificate Speaking Part 2" on the description of photos, which has been the topic of our work this week. Hope it will be useful to you.

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Weekly Links 2º BACH —45

As it is your exams week, this video to help you relax: Whatever by Oasis

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Weekly Links 2º BACH —44

This video can help you with the topic of this week "Do you think racism is a problem in Spain?"

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —46

Next week, our Term Assessment is here so let me drop some links to exercises for those who want to train a bit more.

La semana que viene tenemos el examen de evaluación así que aquí van unos enlaces para los que quieran entrenar un poco más.

• Present simple and Present continuous:
    Exercise 1               Exercise 2              Exercise 3

• Past simple and Past continuous:
   Exercise 1               Exercise 2              Exercise 3

• Future tense:
    Exercise 1              Exercise 2               Exercise 3

And the video we have watched this week: future simple: will versus going to 

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —46

Our Term Assessment is here so I'll leave you these links in case you want to review a little more:

• English Tenses:
 Exercise 1             Exercise 2              Exercise 3
• Relative Clauses:
  Exercise 1            Exercise 2         Exercise 3

And the video we have watched about relative clauses:

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Weekly Links 2º BACH —43

The topic of this week is "In what ways was your childhood different from your parents'?", so here is this funny video about how these people see it: The Old Childhood Vs The New Childhood.

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Weekly Links 2º ESO —45

Reviewing Past simple and Past continuous with songs. Enjoy.

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Weekly Links 4º ESO —45

As we are working on "Boy Talk, Girl Talk", here is a subtitled song of Disney's Mulan: I'll Make a Man Out Of You.
Sure that will remind you of when you were children.

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —42

The topic of this week is "Advantages and disadvantages of Modern society"  — pay attention to the "and": you have to talk about both.
To get some ideas,  have a look at this video about how your great-grandparents saw how the future would be like.

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —44

How to pronounce "-ed" ending in regular verbs in the past tense. A clear explanation in American English. In British English they prefer to pronounce [id] instead of [əd].

Cómo pronunciar la terminación "-ed" de los verbos regulares en pasado. Una explicación muy clara en inglés estadounidense. En inglés británico prefieren el sonido [id] más que el sonido[əd].

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —44

Just to review the tense of this week, the future continuous tense with songs.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —41

To help you with your weekly composition, here's this video and at the same time you practice your listening.
How has technology changed lives in the past 10 years? A US International Youth Study

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —43

The video of this week: "Charley Boorman's South African Adventure."
El vídeo de esta semana: "La ventura surafricana de Charley Boorman".

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —43

This week we've been watching the possibilities of the Internet and one of them is crowdfunding ("financiación en masa") and its results in this original and fantastic idea: POLAR pen and stylus, a pen made of magnets. Read more at Kickstarter.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —40

Some ideas for your composition this week: "How do you relax?"

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —42

Here you are the video we have been watching this week to learn a little bit more about the United Kingdom.
Aquí tenéis el vídeo que hemos estado viendo para aprender un poco más sobre el Reino Unido.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —42

Here is the video we have watched to learn some expressions:
bite your tongue [morderse la lengua], hold your breath [estar en vilo], rock the boat [hacer olas -armar jaleo], make a mess [estropearlo todo], breaking point [límite], stand for [aguantar], fall for [dejarse engañar], hold someone down [oprimir], brush off the dust [juego de palabras entre limpiarse el polvo—porque te has caído y te vuelves a levantar— y "brush someone off", rechazar a alguien]: Roar by Katy Perry with subtitles in English and Spanish. The translation into Spanish is quite good.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —39

I think this video can give you some ideas for your composition this week: "'The British are less talented than the French, Spanish and Americans.' Do you think that this research is correct?"
It's about British people's creativity, not about what you like in British culture.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —41

As I told you, here is a video to review how to say in English email and internet addresses.

Como os dije, aquí va un vídeo para que repaséis cómo decir las direcciones de correo electrónico y de internet en inglés.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —41

Another video on how the Internet works related to the one we saw in class.This one is "in plain English". Do you find any difference? ¿Do you understand it better?

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —38

For those who feel concerned about their accent, have a look at the variety of British accents you can listen to.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —40

To review the Present simple in contrast with Present simple —and practice your listening, here are two videos worth watching.

Para repasar la diferencia entre el presente simple y el presente contínuo —y practicar escuchando, estos dos vídeos.

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —40

To review the difference between Past simple and Past continuous —and practice listening, this video of Leonard Cohen singing live one of his most beautiful —and ironic— songs  about the futility of art: "Hallelujah". No exactly your kind of music, but I think you should have a go with it. And if you want the lyrics...

Para repasar la diferencia entre el pasado simple y el pretérito perfecto — y practicar escuchando, este video de Leonard Cohen cantando una de sus canciones más bellas —e irónica— sobre la futilidad del arte: "Aleluya". No es vuestro tipo de música, pero creo que merece la pena que le deis una oportunidad. Si queréis la letra...

Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

Weekly Links 2º BACH —37

Here you are some ideas for the composition of this week on:
 "How do you help to protect our environment?"

Have a nice weekend.

Means of Transport

At last, I have managed to create the mind map we intended. We have been trying in class with different apps but none of them suited our needs. I have found this one, Mindomo, and this is the result. See you..

Por fin he logrado conseguir hacer el diagrama que quería. Hemos estado intentando esta semana con diferentes aplicaciones pero ninguna daba el resultado que queríamos. He encontrado al final Mindono y este es el resultado.
Nos vemos.

Click to enlarge
(Haz clic para agrandar)

Weekly Post 2013/2014 —1

Back again. So let's start with this video that I have subtitled (first in English and then inSpanish, as usual) for my students of 4th ESO and 2nd Bachillerato. A very intelligent satire of a heart-breaking reality. Although you end up with a bitter-sweet feeling, I think it's worth watching it.

De vuelta. Empecemos con este vídeo que he subtitulado (en inglés y en español, como de costumbre) para mis alumnos de 4º ESO y 2º Bachillerato. Una sátira inteligente de una realidad descorazonadora. Aunque acabamos con una sensación agridulce, creo que vale la pena verlo.


Have a nice weekend.
Buen fin de semana.

¡Feliz Verano!

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It's been a good course and we all deserve a good holiday and lots of sunny days.
 See you back in September.
 

Selectividad 2013: ¡Enhorabuena!

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¡Enhorabuena! ¡Todos aprobados!

El mañana pertenece a aquellos que se preparan para él hoy.
—Refrán africano.

Os deseo todo lo mejor.

Selectividad 2013

Best of Luck to Everyone!

Weekly Links 1º ESO —38

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
Os recuerdo que cerraré los ejercicos mañana jueves día 6. Si os quedan algunos por hacer, ¡ánimo!

Algunos enlaces con ejercicios por temas por si queréis practicar un poco para el examen final:
• Prepositions:      Exercise 1        Exercise 2
• Comparison:      Exercise 1        Exercise 2
• Simple Past:       Exercise 1        Exercise 2
• Directions:          Exercise 1        Exercise 2

Best of luck to everyone.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —38

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
Os recuerdo que cerraré los ejercicos mañana jueves día 6. Si os quedan algunos por hacer, ¡ánimo!

REVISING for final English exam:
• Past simple vs Past Perfect:   Exercise 1        Exercise 2
• Already, still, yet, any more:  Exercise 1        Exercise 2
• Must/ have to:    Exercise1        Exercise 2
• Can / could:        Exercise 1       Exercise 2
• Must / should:    Exercise 1       Exercise 2

Best of luck to everyone.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —38

Blinklearning
Evaluación 3:
Os recuerdo que cerraré los ejercicos mañana jueves día 6. Si os quedan algunos por hacer, ¡ánimo!

Para repasar par el examen de evaluación aquí os dejo lo mismo que os he repetido tantas veces pero a lo mejor, dicho por otro, cala más: 4 Consejos para reescribir con éxito frases en inglés que signifiquen lo mismo (rephrasing)
También espero que se os de mejor que a Mr Bean.

Enjoy and best of luck.

Weekly Links 1º ESO —37

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_Simple Past
• Exercise21_Simple Past

A song to practise Simple Past tense.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —37

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_Modal Verbs Review (Elementary)
• Exercise20_Modal Verbs (Elementary) 3

An easy song by Barry Manilow, Can't Smile Without You.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —37

Blinklearning
Evaluación 3:
• Exercise20_Rephrasing Mix 5

Let's listen: Tom Petty - Learning To Fly    (Thanks Pablo)

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 1º ESO —36

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_comparison
• Exercise20_Comparison 3

Watch this video and pay attention to the comparatives that Christina Aguilera uses in her song "Fighter", with English and Spanish subtitles..
Mira este vídeo y fíjate en los comparativos que utliza Christina Aguilera en su canción "Luchadora", con subtítulos en inglés y español..

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —36

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_Modal Verbs Review (Elementary)
• Exercise19_Modals (Elementary) 2

Modal Verbs of Obligation in Films

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —36

Blinklearning
Evaluación 3:
• Exercise19_Rephrasing Mix 4

Listen to Pearl Jam's song, Wishlist, to revise "Wish" structure.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 1º ESO —35

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_comparison
• Exercise19_Comparison2

Here's a funny song with comparatives: Anything You Can Do from the musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun 

Una canción divertida con comparativos: "Cualquier cosa que puedas hacer" de la comedia musical Annie Get Your Gun (Annie coge tu fusil)

And here are the lyrics:
Aquí está la letra

Anything You Can Do
Anything you can do,
I can do better.
I can do anything
Better than you.

No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!

Anything you can be
I can be greater.
Sooner or later,
I'm greater than you.

No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're NOT!. Yes, I am.
Yes, I am!

I can shoot a partridge
With a single cartridge.
I can get a sparrow
With a bow and arrow.
I can live on bread and cheese.
And only on that?
Yes.
So can a rat!
Any note you can reach
I can go higher.
I can sing anything
Higher than you.
No, you can't. (High)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I CAN! (Highest)

Anything you can buy
I can buy cheaper.
I can buy anything
Cheaper than you.

Fifty cents?
Forty cents! Thirty cents?
Twenty cents! No, you can't!
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!

Anything you can say
I can say softer.
I can say anything
Softer than you.
No, you can't. (Softly)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer)
YES, I CAN! (Full volume)

I can drink my liquor
Faster than a flicker.
I can drink it quicker
And get even sicker!

I can open any safe.
Without bein' caught?
Sure.
That's what I thought--you crook!

Any note you can hold
I can hold longer.
I can hold any note
Longer than you.

No, you can't.
Yes, I can No, you can't.
Yes, I can No, you can't.
Yes, I can
Yes, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I No, you C-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-N'T--
CA-A-A-A-N! (Cough, cough!)
Yes, you ca-a-a-an!

Anything you can wear
I can wear better.
In what you wear
I'd look better than you.
In my coat?
In your vest! In my shoes?
In your hat! No, you can't!
Yes, I can
Yes, I CAN!

Anything you say
I can say faster.
I can say anything
Faster than you.
No, you can't. (Fast)
Yes, I can. (Faster) No, you can't. (Faster)
Yes, I can. (Faster) Noyoucan't. (Faster)
YesIcan! (Fastest)

I can jump a hurdle.
I can wear a girdle.
I can knit a sweater.
I can fill it better!
I can do most anything!
Can you bake a pie? No.
Neither can I.
Anything you can sing
I can sing sweeter.
I can sing anything
Sweeter than you.
No, you can't. (Sweetly)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't, can't, can't (sweeter)
Yes, I can, can, can (Sugary)

Yes, I can! No, you can't!

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —35

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_Modal Verbs Review (Elementary)
• Exercise18_Modals (Elementary)

Modal verbs in "In my place " by Coldplay.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 4º ESO —35

Blinklearning
Evaluación 3:
• Exercise18_Rephrasing Mix 3

A nice video to train our listening skills.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 1º ESO —34

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_comparison
• Exercise18_Comparison

This week let's see the comparison of adjectives.

Enjoy.

Weekly Links 2º ESO —34

Blinklearning
• Irregular verbs 1- 50
Evaluación 3:
• Grammar_still, yet (todavía)
• Grammar_already,yet, any longer (ya)
• Exercise17_Still, already,yet,anymore

Revise and practice still, already and yet with this video:

Enjoy.