26/02/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, dangerous, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, human beings, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, kind (noun / adjective), knife, knowledge, landscape, lazy, leather, likely, loan, look forward to hearing from you,  lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, seed, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to breathe, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-¿Inminente revisión de vocabulario?

-Entregar correcciones

-Corrección Book, page 9, sección GRAMMAR, ejercicio 5, formular preguntas para las respuestas dadas.

-Corrección Book, page 10, sección READING AND SPEAKING, “SETI Institute” + ejercicio 3 de comprensión del texto: hemos contestado sólo las preguntas 1 y 5.

-Book, page 11, exercise 4 – in groups

-Corrección BOOK, page 11, ejercicio 1 VOCABULARY.

-Corrección BOOK, page 11, ejercicios 1 + 2 (éste con listening 1.7) LISTENING&SPEAKING

HOMEWORK:

-“Braveheart” from page 5 to 13.Important to look at the blog.

-Writing: page 13, PREPARE FOR TASK, 4: hay una propuesta de 10 formas de aprender un idioma extranjero; de esas diez recomendaciones tenemos que elegir las cinco que consideremos esenciales, ordenarlas según su importancia y explicar cuáles son sus beneficios. Podemos enviar por e-mail antes del domingo por la tarde.

Reading guide for BRAVEHEART (2): from page 5 to page 13

ABOUT CHAPTER TWO (2):

6.Why couldn´t William speak to Murron at the market the first time?

7.What did William give Murron before leaving her at her parents´ house?


8.Why did William go back to his family´s farm?

9.In what event did William meet Murron again two weeks later?

10.Why did William and Murron get married secretly?


11.Who was Hesselrig?

12.What happened to Murron when she was escaping from the English soldiers?


13.What did William look at when he was cuting Hesselrig´s throat?

24/02/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, dangerous, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, human beings, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, knowledge, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-¿Inminente revisión de vocabulario?

-Entregar correcciones de resúmenes del texto sobre SETI.

-Comentarios sobre las composiciones/entrevistas.

-Reading guide: Braveheart, Introduction + pages from 1 to 5

-Book, page 4, exercise 3a, listening, hacer notar el uso de hablantes NO nativos.

-Book, page 5, exercise 4 a, con el mismo listening anterior.  

-Corrección Book, page 140, EJERCICIOS 1.2.a +1.2.c       

HOMEWORK

-Book, page 9, section VOCABULARY, exercise 2.a + 2b + 3 (escrito para leer en clase) 

-Book, page 11, sección VOCABULARY, exercise 1

-Book, page 11, section LISTENING & SPEAKING, 1 + 3a (escrito para leer en clase)

HOMEWORK FOR NEXT MONDAY 03/03/2014

-“Braveheart” from page 5 to 13.Important to look at the blog.

Reading Guide for BRAVEHEART (1): Introduction + from page 1 to page 5

Try to answer these questions about the pages we have to read for next Monday. If you can answer all of them it means that you have understood the story so far. 

ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION:
1.The actress that played Princess Isabella in Mel Gilbson´s film was __________
2.When did the writer hear first about William Wallace?
3.Where does Randall Wallace live at the moment?

ABOUT CHAPTER ONE:
1.What´s the meaning of "truce"?
2.Can you explain why there was a war between England and Scotland?
3.Who supported William´s father in that war?
4. Who is going to stay William with?
5. What advice did this character give William?
6. When William was moving o his new house, what did he take with him?

ABOUT CHAPTER TWO (1):
1.What is the rule of "first night"?
2.Who was the son of the King of England with during his own wedding night?
4.What does "earl" mean?
5.Who wanted to be King of Scotland?

19/02/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, human beings, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, knowledge, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Book, page 5, corrección de KEY VOCABULARY B

-Corrección page 140, exercises 1.1.a + 1.1.c sobre present simple / present continuous

-Book, page 9, GREEN GRAMMAR PANEL, Explicación de la estructura de la pregunta en inglés + ver esquema en page 140.

-Corrección Book, page 10, sección READING AND SPEAKING, con lectura del texto “SETI Institute” + ejercicio 3 de comprensión del texto: hemos contestado sólo las preguntas 1 y 5.

-Explicación teórica: estructura de la pregunta en inglés (con y sin verbo TO BE).

HOMEWORK

-Book, PAGE 140, EJERCICIOS 1.2.a +1.2.c            

-Redacción: entrevista imaginaria a un personaje famoso o de la historia (¡para publicar en blog!). Se puede incluir un párrafo breve como introducción sobre el personaje y después la entrevista imaginaria, aplicando correctamente la estructura de la pregunta que hemos estudiando.

-Reading book: hasta rombo de mitad de la página 5 de BRAVEHEART.

Our reading book: BRAVEHEART

As others have rightly pointed out, this novel does have its faults and weaknesses, but on the whole I found it entertaining. I normally read non-fiction, but I liked the movie so much that I felt that I had to read this book.

This would not be a particularly good book to rely on for a history lesson. Randal Wallace butchers history a bit in order to make a juicier plot. Though I would like to think that just as exciting a story could be told without sacrificing accuracy, I must admit that his technique works at times. For example, Randal Wallace portrays an affair between Scottish commander Sir William Wallace and French Princess Isabella that didn't and couldn't have happened. Randal Wallace also writes an epilogue which has an air of sober history, but where he's still running with his wildly revisionist story. He tells us that Edward II's reign was sad and brief. Sad, yes, but I wouldn't call a 20 year reign brief!

A blurb on the back cover makes the mistake of refering to Sir William as a highlander. Even Randal Wallace doesn't make this mistake himself.

There are also other little mistakes, such as giving the name "Stewart" to a character who is little more than a peasant. I'm no professor, but wasn't the name "Stewart" reserved for persons holding an important office in this period?

Despite these negative points, though, the book has its strenghts. There is romance, drama, tragedy, humor, action, and there are interesting characters. Though I favored the movie over this book in many ways, the book does deliver some bits that the movie doesn't. There are two separate scenes in the book that appear as one combined scene in the movie, and actually that's to the movie's credit.

17/02/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Entrega de correcciones de composiciones + comentarios

-Canción: “Faith”, de Celine Dion

-Book, page 7, GRAMMAR, exercise 1 + 2a + 2b

-Book, page 140, explicación teórica sobre simple present / present continuous

  

HOMEWORK

-Book, page 10, sección READING AND SPEAKING, lectura del texto “SETI Institute” + ejercicio 3 de comprensión del texto.

-Book, page 9, sección GRAMMAR, ejercicio 5, formular preguntas para las respuestas dadas.

Celine Dion sings at Mecafast!

Have you ever listen to this song by Celine Dion? Try to fill the gaps while you listen twice or three times. And then... you will be abe to sing it even in the shower!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lbxjIg_e8

Don't be 1. ______________ to feel this way, 

Gonna make you 2. ______________.
It's not about you, cause I am the 3. ______________
Building 4. ______________ in the sand. If I am crazy, just don't 5. ______________,

It doesn't 6. ______________ I don't need you near,
7. ______________ is the story 8. ______________ me and you
And it's called... 9. ______________! 

Right 10. ______________ you is 11. ______________ I'll stay. Oh 9. ______________! 
Just 12. ____________ me as I 13. ____________... so please... have 9. ___________! 

So many times and so many 14. ______________,
I didn't know 15. ______________ where to go, 
You 16. ______________ me a sign and 17. ______________ my eyes 
That's the 18. ______________ why I know 
That you are different, you're 19. ______________ here
I 20. ______________ you figured me out right then 
21. ______________ I believe that we can make it 22. ______________.
And that's called...  9. ______________! 

Right 10. ______________ you is 11. ______________ I'll stay. Oh 9. ______________! 
Just 12. ____________ me as I 13. ____________... so please... have 9. ___________! 

Don't be 1. ______________ to feel this way 

Just 23. _______________ me out! Stay... 

...and that's called... 9. ______________! 

Right 10. ______________ you is 11. ______________ I'll stay.

 It's not too 24. _____________. 

Just 12. ____________ me as I 13. ____________... so please... 
have 9. ___________ in 25. _____________! Oh yeah! Just 12. ____________ me as I 13. ____________... so please... have 9. ___________! 

Links... because writing in English is easy!!

1. Conectores que indican la secuenciación de las ideas o de los argumentos: First, then, next, at the same time, finally, in the end, firstly, secondly, thirdly

2. Conectores para añadir información o argumentos a una afirmación anterior: And, also / too, besides, what is more, in addition

3. Conectores para expresar un contraste con una afirmación anterior: Although, though, even though, however, but, on the one hand / on the other hand, by contrast

4. Conectores para corregir o dar otro enfoque a una afirmación anterior: Actually, in fact

5. Conectores para introducir ejemplos o especificaciones: Like, this means that, for example, for instance, that is to say, in other words

6. Conectores para indicar el resultado o las consecuencias de algo: So, as a result, therefore

7. Conectores para concluir: To sum up, in short, in conclusion, in summary

8. Otros términos útiles al redactar:

• Hoy en día: Nowadays
• Actualmente: At present, now, these days
• Hace mucho tiempo: A long time ago
• Hace poco tiempo: Not long ago
• En los viejos tiempos: In the old days
• Aún así: Even so
• Incluso si: Even if
• De todos modos: Anyway

This is UK, the country whose language I´m learning...

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12/02/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Entrega de correcciones de composiciones + comentarios

-Información sobre el libro (incluida en el blog): analizamos la estructura del libro de texto.

-Dibujar mapa mudo de Reino Unido, para completarlo en ronda.

-Análisis de conectores para utilizar en los ejercicios de writing que hagamos a partir de ahora.

-Book, page 6 READING, exercise 1: descripción de las fotos + contestar a las preguntas dadas.

-Book, page 6, READING, exercise 2a + 2b

-Corrección de Book, page 5, KEY VOCABULARY, sección A.

 HOMEWORK:

-Writing: Why do I want to learn English?

-Book, page 140, exercises 1.1.a + 1.1.c