Thursday, November 24, 2011

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The aim on this day is to raise public awareness of this big problem. Have a look at this video and take your stand.


Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Thanksgiving Day

Tomorrow American people will celebrate Thanksgiving Day. You already learned in class about the history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving feast. Here you are a funny video for you to sing.

Happy turkey day!


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

No Handed Bike Moves

Rosie would also like to share this video with you. I hope you enjoy it!



"Golden Tree" by Martin Brooks from Ninian Doff on Vimeo.

Slang Presentation

Here is Rosie's presentation on slang. You enjoyed it a lot in class and I hope you can learn more things once it is here.

Good luck!


Slang

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Put a Book in your Life

This week we will work on a didactic unit to promote and foster reading among the students at our school. The main objective will be to create some kind of expectation for the forthcoming school book fair, which will be held soon (on 1 and 2 December). 

Click here, go then to contents and activities and don't forget to put a book in your life! You won't regret it!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The food of the Plymouth Colony

This work is our.
By : Ángela Macías Gómez 4ºB
Maria Guerrero Tascón 4ºD
Maria Jarana Ganfornina 4ºD
Trabajo de Ingles

Towards American Independence

As you know, these days we are working on the origins of the American independence. Last week you made your presentations on different aspects of the life of the puritan pilgrims (the first English colonists).  Now we will learn about the way in which life in the colonies evolved, we will review what you studied in your history lessons and we will learn some new facts and details.

Here you are the worksheets that we will use in class:



You can click here to see the video.


After the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and once the war had started, there were several battles between the two armies. The Battle of Saratoga was a very important one, can you guess why? Click here to see another video and answer the following questions posting a comment:


1. When did the Battle of Saratoga take place?
2. Why was it so important?
3. What European country helped America in an important way?
4. Give the exact dat for the British surrender.
5. What is the name of the peace treaty that recognised American independence?
6. What ideas inspired the American Revolution?

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The clothes of pilgrims and Wampanoag

We are going to talk about the clothes of the pilgrims and Wampanoag.

The pilgrims women wore a garter because she tie up the stocking with the garter and they wore a petticoat.
After these clothing they wore another petticoat, a shirt-jacket and a coif.
The pilgrims men wore more clothes than the women. The pilgrims men wore breeches and also wore garters and stocking.


The clothes of the wampanoag were much less modest than the pilgrims. Both men and women wore jewelry, clothings were hand-painted. Men wore only a loincloth of soft  deerskin, and went barefoot.

By: Mª Teresa Monge, Trinidad Macías






Monday, November 7, 2011

Hello to Everybody!!

Hi, I'm José Manuel and I'm 15 years old, My birthday is in 21 of November. I love do sport, specially football. I also like listening to music and goingo out with my friends. Now my hair is short and my hair is black. My eyes are greys. I'm a nice person and I also am funny. I have one sister and her name is Isabel Maria and she is 14 years old and that's all.
Bye!!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

The First Thanksgiving

The pilgrims celebrated the thanksgiving day as part of their religion. The actually holiday stem from the feast heald. This holiday now is called as "turkey day".

The reason for the voyage

The reason for the voyage is about the pilgrims are separated from the church to boot your reform therefore decide to travel to Amsterdam and then take a second ship and travel to Leiden.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Tips for Bilingual Students

Here are some tips you should take into account to improve your English and your marks at school. They include general tips and specific tips to get better writing skills. You will also have a direct link from the left hand-side column of this blog so that you can access them any time you need.

Tips for Students

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

General by Dispatch

Let's thank Rosie, our great language assistant, for the beautiful song she had prepared for today's class. Here you are the song and the lyrics:

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Phantom of the Opera

Very soon we will begin reading the adapted version of The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux. As you will see, the novel takes place in the Paris Opera House. You can click here to get some information about interesting aspects of the building and here to enjoy some beautiful pictures of the place.

Moreover you can make a virtual tour of the building as you listen to some extracts from the musical. Enjoy the video!