Yesterday, Thanksgiving was celebrated in many English speaking countries. It's a very important holiday, especially in the USA. Nithin, our language assistant, has helped us today to know a little bit more about this day by showing us a video and answering students' questions about it.
Friday, 29 November 2013
Friday, 15 November 2013
TELEVISION SERIES: LOST
How observant are you?
1. The first image we see is Jack's right eye.
2. The dog came from Jack's left.
3. Jack took a bottle out of his left pocket.
4. The man with the trapped leg was wearing a grey shirt.
5. Jack tied his tie round the injured man's right leg.
6. The pregnant woman was not wearing a necklace.
Thursday, 7 November 2013
My best friend (3rd ESO)
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary a friend is a person who you like being with, a person who helps or supports someone or something and one attached to another by affection or esteem.
Have you got many friends? I'm not talking about Facebook friends, I'm talking about real, close friends. If you have many friends you should feel the luckiest person in the world. Quoting Robert Louis Stevenson "a friend is a gift you give yourself".
So let's talk about friends. Students from 3rd ESO had to write a composition whose topic was "My best friend". Some of them followed the writing guide from the SB but some others simply felt free to speak about their closest pals. These are some of the compositions they handed me over last Monday. Well done guys!!
by Martín Muñoz, 3rd ESO Group A
Bruno is my best friend, he's amazing.
He lives in Santa Cruz, so far from where I live. He isn't very tall, he has got brown eyes and black hair. He is thin and active.
He is friendly, funny and he always smiles. He loves playing the PS3 and going to the cinema with me. He's an excellent person and I can tell him everything. He likes video bames, football and cars.
I love staying with him and everyday we chat on our mobile-phones and speak with a microphone in the PS3.
His best thing is his personality. We always smile and spend a lot of time playing video games. His worst thing is his house, because he lives far from me and we don't see each other everyday.
by Irene Medina, 3rd ESO Group A
My friend's name is Iria. She lives in Ourense and she goes to my school. She is 14 years old. She is tall, with green eyes and long, blond hair. Iria is a very positive person and she is very nice.
She likes doing gymnastics and meeting her friends and she loves music. When we are together we like to go to the shopping centre, we talk about music or we go for a walk.
My best friend
by Selva Barrios, 3rd ESO Group B
Ana Belén and I are friends. Ana Belén lives in Benavente. She lives in a duplex penthouse. We don't go to the same school.
Ana Belén is fourteen years old. She's tall and thin. She has got short brown hair. She's very funny and friendly and she is a good person.
Ana Belén is happiest when we go to the shopping centre. She likes meeting other people and she likes going to parties.
by Yago Cruz, 3rd ESO Group B
My best friend is Alba Areas. She is 13 years old. Her birthday is 29th November. She was born in 1998.
She lives far from me, about 14 km, but we go to the same school, "Santo Angel". She has got straight blonde hair, green eyes and her face is normal. Her fingers are thin and large and she has got long legs. She's tall and thin.
She has got a lot of positive sides in her personality but some are her sincerity, friendliness, sympathy and her joy. I've never found a negative side in her personality. If you found one, tell me and we can talk about it.
My friend is happy when she stays with me and we can have fun. We watch a lot of films because we love watching films; she likes playing volleyball and playing with her computer.We go to a lot of places, to the park, to the cinema, to our house, to church and sometimes we go to the bowling alley.
I love her :)
ALTER EGO
AMIGO
BUDDY
CHUM
COMPADRE
CRONY
MATE
PAL
Thursday, 24 October 2013
ADJECTIVES + PREPOSITIONS
I've always thought prepositions are brain teasers. You never know if you're using the correct one. Even for advanced learners it's always a difficult issue, since for one of our Spanish prepositions, there are usually more than one possibility in English. What can we do then?? The best option, in my opinion, is to read a lot. Reading is the only natural way we have to get to know which prepositions are used in any given expression. The problem comes when we find out that our students are not exactly eager readers of literature in English. Let's face it, even though they are surrounded and constantly in contact with English, it's not enough.
Our 4th ESO students have just seen in class a list of some common adjectives and the prepositions which usually follow them. For those of you who weren't in class today, here is a list of the adjectives + prepositions we will be working with.
Here are some examples of the use of adjectives + prepositions:
"I'm tired of bad news"
He's bored of watching TV.
He's worried about the bill.
They were shocked at his strength.
For more practise on adjectives + prepositions you can visit the following sites:
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Dinosaur stories
Last Friday, our new native assistant, Nithin, helped 4th ESO students with the pronunciation of the -ed past endings. For this purpose, they invented a story about dinosaurs in which each student had to say one sentence using a regular verb in the past. Students learned a lot and we all had fun. Here is the result:
4th ESO Group A
First we talked to a T-Rex. The T-Rex was
dangerous. The T-rex worked in the jungle. We cooked breakfast for the T-Rex.
We asked the T-rex, “What is your name?” The T-rex said my name is Eustaquio.
Eustaquio liked to play tennis. After, Eustaquio watched a piece of meat. We
waited for the bus with him. In the movie Jurassic Park, they filmed
velociraptors. He invited me to his house. We watched a film on the TV.
Eustaquio ate us. But we killed him from the inside. Then he smiled. But then
we found another T-Rex. And he was called Gervasio. We invented fire and burned
him. The other dinosaurs traveled to the future with us. In the future, we
killed all the dinosaurs and we cooked them. In the future, we cooked a
barbecue.
4th ESO Group B
One day the dinosaurs started to destroy
the universe. The dinosaurs invented the work. The dinosaurs were pink. The
dinosaurs watched TV. The dinosaurs were very dangerous and they liked to
destroy the University of Ourense. All the class traveled to the past to save
the universe. The dinosaurs listened to music, hard rock. They invited some
aliens. The dinosaurs talked English. The dinosaurs cooked the cookies for the
mermaids. The dinosaurs traveled on the bus. A dinosaur married another
dinosaur. People wanted to do something to save the universe. The whole class
that went to save the universe died because of an atomic bomb. The dinosaurs
tattooed the young people. A dinosaur survived and he killed a lot of people. I
played football with Tommy, he was a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Rex cleaned the
universe. I went to the wedding between the dinosaurs where everybody danced.
The class rose from the dead and wished they were back in Santo Angel.
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Activity: Face reading
3rd ESO Groups A & B
Describe the following people's personalities taking into account the Face Reading Guide from the SB p. 9.
Describe the following people's personalities taking into account the Face Reading Guide from the SB p. 9.
Monday, 7 October 2013
Summer is gone...isn't it??
Starting the 2nd week of October....leaves on the ground, morning fogs, early nights. Looks like everything is telling us that we've just dived into autumn...except for the weather!!! Do not misunderstand me. It's not that I don't like hot. I do love it but, hasn't it been enough?? Apparently not, so in order to keep this summertime atmosphere, I've decided to update the blog today with some compositions of our 3rd ESO students about their summer. Here they are. Read, enjoy and re-taste summer:
Mª Alejandra Ruiz
3rd ESO A
After finishing school in June, I went to Ireland to study English and to learn to write it and speak it well.
I visited Ireland, it's very nice. I liked Ireland very much. It's beautiful.
I went to Ourense and I was a week in Ourense and after that, I went to Colombia with my family because my family and I are Colombian.
On the first days we were resting in the house of my father. We went to visit many places with my father. Some of them were San Andrés, an island of Colombia which is in the Caribbean. The beaches there are beautiful.
It's amazing the amount of colors which the sea may have. It's said that's the sea of the seven colors. I also flew in paragliding with my father and we went to the town where my father was born. It's called the Cocuy and it's very nice.
It's where I could ride a horse and a lot of other things. It's a unique experience.
This was my summer.
Miguel Rosales
3rd ESO A
I have a strange friend. He's a Super Wild Pig-Bear called Paco. He's very hairy and he loves cookies. He lives in my house but he doesn't sleep at night. He waits for the sun. I've spent all my summer with him. We played football twice a week. He was the best of the park and everybody said:"WOW!!, he's amazing!!"
On Wednesdays we played on the computer all day long. He doesn't like playing but he loves to watch me doing it.
On Tuesdays and Fridays we went to the swimming-pool. It was fun but...he has a lot of hair!
At weekends we did a lot of things: travelling, discovering the city, sleep...and we sometimes phoned our other strange friends (the catbird, the red swimmer dog, the politicrat) and we played on the computer with them again!!
Andrea Mosquera
3rd ESO B
When I finished the course, I started to prepare the suitcase because later, I went to a summer camp in Gandarío, A Coruña. It was about aquatic activities like surf, windsurf, aquatic ski...
We were 100 people, so I made a lot of new friends. We spent there 12 days and I really had a lot of un. When it finished we were all very sad because we had to come home.
After this I spent one week in Ourense, meeting my friends, going to the pool...But then I went eight days to Madrid to visit the city. It's a big city and so beautiful!! We went to museums, the zoo, the Royal Palace, Aranjuez, Toledo, etc...I loved it!!
After this I went to Valencia to the beach. It was a good time, the beach was beautiful and I had a lot of fun with my family.
When I came to Ourense, I went to my village for some days and then I spent time going for a walk with my friends and family, going to the pool, to the cinema, doing a pyjama party...
When the summer finished I had a lot of photos, it was a great summer.
Ezequiel Álvarez
3rd ESO B
My summer was good. I went to the beach a lot of times and to the pool more times than the beach.
In July, I went to my village and I played with my XBox 360 a lot of time and I watched TV and went to the river. In August I stayed in Ourense for one week or two, I don't remember, but I listened to a lot of music. I went to the pools of Monterrei, to the pool of my uncle and I watched a lot of television too. The other weeks I went to my village.
In September I stayed here and I talked with my friends. I played with my PC and I got the things ready to school.
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