It’s Halloween! October 26, 2009

 

Do you like ghost spooky stories??

Every 31st October million people around the world wear fancy dress and they go door-to- door saying  TRICK or TREAT.

But do you really know the origins of this holiday? Where does the word “Halloween”  come from? Why do people carve pumpkins?  

Let us get to know more about this and have fun…….!

You will have to make a video including the following aspects of Halloween:

1. History and origins of Halloween:

a. www.halloweenishere.com/history.html

b. http://wilstar.com/holidays/hallown/htm

 

2. Halloween symbols

a.http://www.123christians.com/christians/halloween/symbols/index.html

3. Recipes for Halloween

a. http://www.britta.com/Hw/hwr.html

4. Halloween songs

a. http://www.jackolanterns.net/songs.htm

5. Scary Ghost Story

a. http://www.halloweenishere.com/ghost_stories.html

 Or you can invent your own scary story….

Here you are a brief summary of the most important things that you should know about this holiday: click here

AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE SPOOKY MUSIC IN YOUR VIDEO

SIMPLY LONDON September 21, 2009

Let’s travel to London and know interesting things!!

For this project , work in groups of 4 or five people and make a power point presentation  or a video about a monument you choose.

Use the internet to search for information about how to travel to Britain from your city to visit the interesting place.

Your project should include:

a. Historical background of the city.

b. Area  and population

c. Currency

d. Popular tourist destinations and holidays.

e. Information on the monument and nearer places.

f. Typical things to buy as a souvenir

g. Attractive slogan to convince people to visit it.

The project should have visual support (images!!!)

Be creative and imaginative. I hope you like this project.

Let´s make a comic story May 2, 2009

 A Comic Story

In groups of four or five you will create a comic story with our own photos from a song in English. You will have to follow these steps:

1. Select the song from this list, find the lyrics on the Internet and read the story. You can also watch the video on youtube:

• “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias.
• “Chasing Pavements” by Adele.
• “Better in Time” by Leona Lewis.
• “Love Story” by Taylor Alison.
• “What Have You Done?” by Within Temptation.
• “Broken Strings” by by James Morrison and Nelly Furtado.
• “This Is The Life” by Amy Macdonald.
• “Beggin” by Madcon.
• “The Man Who Can´t Be Moved” by the Script.

2. You will use the story of the song to write your script. Think about different settings and write the dialogues:
3. Make photos for every situation.
4. To make your photo story you can use:
• The software “ Comic Life”.
• The website: http://comiqs.com
5. Print the final result or publish it on-line.

Romanticism Poetry March 23, 2009

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord Byron, in a letter to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821.

Poetry Project:

In groups or pairs you will make a video or a powerpoint presentation for a Romantism poetry recital.  You must include:

-  The lines of the poem.

-  Images for every line of the poem related to the meaning or images of the poets. Use these links:

• Romanticsm poetry: http://www.textetc.com/traditional/romanticism.html
• Lord Byron poems: http://englishhistory.net/byron/poetry.html
• Keats poems:  http://englishhistory.net/keats.html 
• Lord Byron poems in Spanish: www.dim.uchile.cl/~anmoreir/escritos/byron.html    

- Classical music (Albeniz, Bizet, Chopin):

• Music of the Romantic period:  http://innig.net/music/inthehands/category/recordings/chopin/?paged=2     

- Images: www.flickr.com

- You can include the recordings of the poem.  Download a mp3 podcast from the Internet or record your own voice.

1. MP3 files:  http://www.podcastdirectory.com/ 

Use your imagination and creativity!

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN SPAIN February 29, 2008

            

     You will visit the websites of three important ecological organisations in Spain and know more about the main environmental problems that affect our country. Each group will work on a problem related to their research topic:

1. Blue Sky

2. Crystal Water

3. Garden of Life

4. Ecological House

5. Piles of Rubbish

    The leaders of each group will post the problem in the Twinspace. The other groups will read the messages and suggest possible solutions to each problem posted in the eco forum.  

Adena

WWFAdena es la sección española del WWF, una de las mayores y más eficaces organizaciones internacionales independientes dedicadas a la conservación de la naturaleza. WWF fue creada en 1961 y en España se formó en 1968.Nuestro compromiso con el mundo es que trabajando todos juntos podamos encontrar las mejores soluciones para salvar la naturaleza. Esta es, además, nuestra razón de existir. WWF/Adena trabaja por un planeta vivo y su misión es detener la degradación ambiental de la Tierra y construir un futuro en el que el ser humano viva en armonía con la naturaleza:

Greenpeace

Somos una organización ecologista y pacifista internacional, económica y políticamente independiente, que no acepta donaciones ni presiones de gobiernos, partidos políticos o empresas. Nuestro objetivo es proteger y defender el medio ambiente y la paz, interviniendo en diferentes puntos del Planeta donde se cometen atentados contra la Naturaleza. Greenpeace lleva a cabo campañas para detener el cambio climático, proteger la biodiversidad, acabar con el uso de las energía nuclear y de las armas y fomentar la paz.  

Ecologistas en acción

Ecologistas en Acción es una confederación de más de 300 grupos ecologistas distribuidos por pueblos y ciudades. Forma parte del llamado ecologismo social, que entiende que los problemas medioambientales tienen su origen en un modelo de producción y consumo cada vez más globalizado, del que derivan también otros problemas sociales, y que hay que transformar si se quiere evitar la crisis ecológica.

Let´s write stories in english! November 15, 2007

 

Let´s write stories in English with this interesting on-line activity. Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Pay attention to the teacher. She will write a story with your help.

Step 2: Now it´s your turn. Try to write your own story. Listen carefully to the text because you will have to read it aloud for the rest of your classmates. You can print the story at home.

Step 3: Finish the story on your own.

Step 4: Enjoy the activity. This is the easiest exercise, don´t you think?

You can use this on-line dictionary to look up words you don´t understand.

Click here to learn how a word is pronounced in English.

 

www. h o w j s a y . c o m

 

Let´s get started! Click here to start the game.

English Vocabulary and Grammar for 2º E.S.O Bilingual November 4, 2007

 

We will practise vocabulary and grammar on-line. Enter this website and click on the 1st year Elementary section, read the explanations and do the exercises in each of these sections:

Vocabulary

         

1. Classroom                 2. Numbers                 3.The time               4. Days, months

                

5. Dates                       6. Transport                   7. Hobbies                    8. Sports

Grammar

9. Indefinite article.

10. To be.

11. To have.

12. Short answers.

13. Present simple.

14. Prepositions of place.

Important: Write down the score of all the exercises in each section in your notebook.

Links for the English Classroom October 17, 2007

PICTURE DICTIONARY 

These are the links for Clipart images for the picture dictionary.

http://us.gifs.tv

www.bestanimations.com

http://classroomclipart.com

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/

 PRONUNCIATION

This is the link for phonetic symbols:

http://perso.orange.fr/yvanbaptiste/phonetik/index.html

HALLOWEEN

This is a website for Halloween activities:

http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/pilar-cordoba/haloween.htm#printable

Excellent on-line activities to learn vocabulary:

http://www.e-cambridgeschool.com/anglesonline/halloween/learn_vocabulary.swf

A website with sounds and spooky images:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/curly.johnson/halloween.htm