GREETINGS from students at school

Click on the image to read the acrostic poems our students at 2º ESO A have written to greet everybody in the holidays coming.

Verbal TENSES. Future time

Click on the image to follow a visual presentation to review the use of verbal tenses.
Then, you can practise the use of future tenses you are studying in unit 3: future progressive and perfect future.

• practice 1
• practice 2
• practice 3
• practice 4

Also you can download these worksheets to review future time.

• worksheet 1
• worksheet 2
• worksheet 3
• worksheet 4
• worksheet 5

Thanksgiving day and countdown to shopping time?

Last thursday 27th november Americans celebrated Thanksgiving day. Follow the presentation to learn about the origins and history of such a festival.

Thanksgiving day from Telma Lenita Zen

After this day the countdown for shopping time in USA before Christmas time is shot. This tendency is spreading throughout Europe too. We all  hear of Black Friday in our country now. Follow the links to read about this special day.

•   Blackfriday in USA
•   Cybermonday
•   Blackfriday; Boxing day sales come early?

  

El bilingüismo. ¿Por qué es bueno para nuestro cerebro?

¿Por qué es positivo aprender en más de una lengua? Seguro que a menudo os lo preguntáis y aunque quienes sois habituales de este blog ya participáis de una manera u otra en él como alumnado, profesorado, como padres/madres...creo que os será útil leer este artículo publicado en el País este mes.

Does being bilingual make you smarter? Watch the video. Then you can read some more articles related to the great benefits of bilingualism for our brain:

• Learning a second language slows brain ageing
• Being bilingual may slow down the brain aging process
• Speaking a second language may delay dementia
• Being bilingual boots brain power

Adventure and Emergency situations

Tsunami Thailand 2004

• Activity 1: Speaking

In units 1 and 2 we have learnt vocabulary in the fields of adventure and emergency. Here you are a picture of the most serious, devastating and thrilling natural disasters of the recent times in history.
Describe the picture in detail. What can you see? Where is it happening?...

• Activity 2: Reading

Read the text in the following link about the film The Impossible (2012) inspired by a Spanish family of survivors in the chaotic destruction of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

• Activity 3: Listen and watch

Watch the video of an interview with Naomi Watts, the female protagonist  of the film by J. A. Bayona and María Belón the woman who lived  together with her family such a horrifying experience and had the fortune to survive . 

Later you will work on this worksheet to check your understanding.

Portfolio tasks 2015 for Trinity examinations

As you know, our school is a registered Exam Centre for students enrolled in it. . Those of you who are interested in the exams please contact your teachers in class. Our Language Assistant this year, Stacey Limones, is having a conversation lesson to help you.

Here you are the portfolio tasks for 2015.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN...to everybody!!

Halloween isn't just costumes and candy; it's a cultural holiday rich in tradition. Follow the video below from the National Geographic about the origin of this tradition that is celebrated all around the world.

 Do you enjoy scary, spooky stories? Do you like getting dressed up in costumes? If that is the case watch the video. Michael Jackson's Thriller is one of the hits in pop music of all times. Listen to the song, follow the lyrics and have fun!!