lunes, 31 de marzo de 2014

26/03/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, change one´s mind, chimney, choice, cockroach, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, dangerous, date, dead, death. demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), 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, path, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, right now, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, rucksack, sand, seed, selfish, shark, sheep, shelter, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, snowmobile, so, spear, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tiny, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to arrive in, to arrive at, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to breathe, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to delete, to die, 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 hire, 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 rescue, 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, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wire, wireless, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:
- Book, page 13:
*TUNE IN 1: reading and speaking
*PREPARE FOR TASK, TUNE IN 5 listening 1.9  * TASK 7.
-Book, page 16: reading de los textos para corregir los ejercicios: *1

HOMEWORK:
-Reading book: “The mummy”, chapter 1.
-Negative, afirmative and interrogative structures in the present tense:


NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE STRUCTURES IN THE PRESENT TENSE

Change these sentences as in the examples.
Ø  She doesn´t like hot weather. (cold) >>>>>> She likes cold weather.
Ø  They eat fish. (X meat) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> They don´t eat meat.
Ø  He works on Saturdays. (? Sundays) >>>>>>> Does he work on Sundays?

1. He lives in a tent. (X house)
________________________________________________________
2. They work at home. (X office)
________________________________________________________
3. It always rains there in winter. (? summer)
________________________________________________________
4. She doesn´t speak Chinese. (Japanese)
________________________________________________________
5. We like Ann and Peter. (X their children)
________________________________________________________
6. You play football. (? tennis)
________________________________________________________
7. He often travels to America. (X A frica)
________________________________________________________
8. He doesn´t eat in restaurants. (at home)
________________________________________________________
9. He cooks for himself. (X other people)
________________________________________________________
10. She knows how to make friends. (X make money)
________________________________________________________
11. She doesn´t like pop music. (classical music)
________________________________________________________
12. He reads a lot. (? novels)
________________________________________________________
13. The train runs on Mondays and Wednesdays. (? Fridays)
________________________________________________________
14. The price doesn´t include service. (tax)
________________________________________________________
15. Our cat eats meat. (X fish)
________________________________________________________

-Don´t forget that we have t o correct in class the test about "Amazing journeys":
Many animals travel long (0)_________  together. This is either to find a partner or to (26)___________ for food. Some do this only once in their lives, while (27)_________ must make the trip twice a year, just to (28)_________ alive.
One of the most famous of these journeys takes (29)__________ in the Serengeti National Park in Africa. Every October, nearly two million wildebeest move from the hill in the north of Tanzania, (30)__________ the Mara River to reach the grasslands in the south.
Whales travel in much smaller groups, yet their journey is (31)__________ amazing. Researchers (32)__________ found that they can cover 8,000 kimoletres moving from the warm waters of Central America to the cooler feeding grounds of Antarctica.
 Another creature which travels thousands of kilometers is a fish called the salmon. (33)__________ it spends most of its life at sea, every four years it makes the (34)__________ journey back to the rivers (35)__________ it was born.

0.       A. Distances B. Lengths C. Ranges D. Spaces

26.     A. Try              B. Search      C. Race          D. Get
27.     A. some           B. All            C. Others        D. Both
28.     A. stay             B. Stop         C. Continue     D. Hold
29.     A. part             B. Up           C. Off             D. Place
30.     A. running         B. Crossing   C. Going         D. Walking
31.      A. equally        B. Fairly       C. Evenly        D probably
32.     A. have            B. Are          C. Do              D. Can
33.     A. However      B. Whether  C. So               D. Although
34.     A. ugly             B. Dangerous C. Wild           D. Damaging
35.     A. when           B. Which      C. What          D. where 


viernes, 28 de marzo de 2014

Reading guide for "The Mummy" (1): Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1
1. The first chapter is set in 1290 BC. What´s the meaning of those letters, “BC”?
2. What was the relationship between Anck-su-namun and the Pharaoh /ˈfeərəʊ/?
3. What was the relationship between Anck-su-namun and Imhotep?
4. Who tried to stop the Pharaoh when he wanted to enter Anck-su-namun´s bedroom?
5. Did the Pharaoh find Imhotep in Anck-su-namun´s bedroom?
6. Why did Anck-su-namun decide to kill the Pharaoh?
7. Who killed the Pharaoh? How?
 8. Who were the Med-Jai?
9. When his priests tried to help him to escape, did Imohtep want to leave?
10. According to Anck-su-namun, why was important for Imhotep to escape and to be alive?
11. How was Anck-su-namun killed?
12. Did the Pharaoh´s soldiers know that Imohtep had also killed the Pharaoh?
13. What was the gold Book of Amun Ra used for?
14. Who had Imohtep to send there?
15. What did Imohtep need to bring Anck-su-namun back from the underworld? Where was it?
16. Why did Imohtep go to Hamunaptra?
17.What happened when Imohtep was trying to bring Anck-su-namun back to life?
18. What was Imohtep´s punishment (=castigo)?
 19. What would happen if anybody tried to help Imohtep?
20. What´s the Med-Jai task from that moment on?


jueves, 20 de marzo de 2014

19/03/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, dangerous, date, dead, death. demonstration, earthquake, essay, eve, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), 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, right now, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, seed, selfish, shark, sheep, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spear, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tiny, 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 die, 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 hire, 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, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wire, wireless, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Canción: “Come what may”, Nicole Kidman + Ewan McGregor.
-Corrección Book, page 17, 4b
-Corrección Book, page 141, 2.1.a

 HOMEWORK:
-For next 24/03/2014: “Braveheart”, from 23 to the end.
-Book, page 141, 2.3.

"Come what may" (Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5p56hEK-1A

1. _______________ knew I 2. _______________ feel like this
3. _______________ I´ve never seen the 4. _______________ before.
I 5. _______________ to vanish inside your 6. _______________.
Every day I 7. _______________ more and 8. _______________.
Listen to my 9. _______________, can you10. _______________ it sings
Telling me to 11. _______________ you 12. _______________.
Seasons 13. _______________ change, winter14. _______________ spring,
But I 15. ____________ you 16. ____________ the 17. _____________ of 18. _____________

19. _______________ what 20. _______________,
19. _______________ what 20. _______________,
I will 21. _______________ you 22. _______________ my 23. _______________ day.

24. _______________ the world 25. _______________ such a perfect 26. _______________,
24. _______________ it 27. _______________ with such a perfect 28. _______________,
24. _______________ my life 29. _______________ seem such a 30. _______________
But our 31. _______________  revolves around 32. _______________
And there´s no 33. _______________ too 34. _______________,
No 35. _______________ too 36. _______________,
Sing 37. _____________ this song and I´ll be there 38. ____________ your 39. ____________.
40. _______________ clouds 41. _______________ gather,
And 42. _______________ 41. _______________ collide,
But I 15. __________ you 16. _____________ the 17. ______________ of 18. ______________

Oh, 19. _____________ what 20. ____________, 19. ___________ what 20. _____________,
I will 21. _______________ you 22. _______________ my 23. _______________ day.

Oh, 19. _____________ what 20. ___________, 19. ____________ what 20. _____________,
I will 21. _____________  you,
24. _______________ the world 25. _______________ such a perfect 26. _______________,

Oh, 19. ____________ what 20. ____________, 19. _____________ what 20. _____________,
I will 21. _______________ you 22. _______________ my 23. _______________ day.



miércoles, 19 de marzo de 2014

17/03/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, 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, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), 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, right now, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, sand, seed, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, so, spear, 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 hire, 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, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wire, wireless, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Comentarios sobre correcciones + entrega de correcciones en papel.
-Terminar corrección de fotocopia con frases para hacer preguntas para las respuestas dadas: frases 16 y 17.
-Reading: “Braveheart”, from page 23 to 30 (principio)
-Book, page 17 GRAMMAR: 1a + 3
-Book, page 141: explicación de 2.1 SIMPLE PAST + 2.2. PAST CONTINUOUS + 2.3. PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS

HOMEWORK:
-For next 24/03/2014: “Braveheart”, from 23 to the end.
-Book, page 17, 4b 
-Book, page 141, 2.1.a

Reading guide for BRAVEHEART (and 5): from page 30 to the end

CHAPTER THREE
15.Why did Mornay leave the battle field in Falkirk?
16.Besides Mornay, who else was fighting for the English?
17.Who were the soldiers that the English king was going to send to fight against France?

CHAPTER FOUR
1.Why did William go to France and Italy for some months?
2.Can you explain Lord Mornay´s death?
3. According to her explanation to the English King, why did Isabella want to meet Wallace again?
4.Where was that meeting going to take place?
5.Was Isabella in that building? What happened there?
6.Why couldn´t Isabella be the English queen?
7. What did the Scottish noblemen do when Wallace started attacking the English again?
8.Why did Robert the Bruce say that Wallace has a brave heart?
9.Had Robert the Bruce betrayed Wallace when he was captured?
10. Explain the sentence, “Your blood dies with you”. Who said that? To whom? Why? When?
11.Why as Wallace´s death so terrible? Did the English get his objective?
12.What did Wallace see at the end of his life, and what did he say?


 

lunes, 17 de marzo de 2014

12/03/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, 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, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), 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, spear, 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 hire, 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, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wire, wireless, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Terminar corrección de fotocopia con frases para hacer preguntas para las respuestas dadas. Corrección desde la frase 11 hasta 15.
16. Yes of course, we'll send it by express post
………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ?
17. For three years
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..?

-Book, page 8:
*en parejas, preparación de un diálogo para una de las situaciones que aparecen en las fotografías para representarla          
* exercises 2.a + 2.b, sobre listening de las fotos (sólo hemos escuchado los dos primeros listenings)

 HOMEWORK:
-For next 17/03/2014: “Braveheart” from page 23 to 30 (principio)
-Ejercicios 1 + 2 + 3 de la page 16, sección READING
-Writing: page 16, READING, Esxercise 4

domingo, 16 de marzo de 2014

What can I do to improve my English? Why don´t you follow these simple advices?

First and more important I would say that is speaking to English- speaking people. I think when you travel to other country you have the need to speak English to be able to communicate with the persons from there.
If you aren´t in other country you could go to English class and do other skills as:
1. Study outside class: In my opinion, it is important because you will need to practice what you have learned therefore you always must do your homework.
2.You must hear English for instance: watch TV, listen to music or read books and magazines in English. Nowadays it´s very easy to find movies, songs or  books and news in the web that are in English. I think this thing can help you with vocabulary and pronunciation.
For the end, you need practice with different exercises and have a good aptitude for learning English.
(V1)

My five important points to learn English are:
· Read my notes before/after class: I think that is important because when you read notes in your book, you can remember the exercise and that exercise you can learn and you can use in a situation when you speak English.
· Do your homework: the homework are important to secure concepts and understand things or see other forms to do the same exercise.
· Write down and study new vocabulary: the new vocabulary is very important for a person because if I don´t know vocabulary, you will not be able to express what I want express.
· Use a dictionary: searching words that I don´t know is good, and for this reason, use a dictionary. Everybody needs to amplify his vocabulary
· Watch films and tv: this type of activities can be funny and can help to learn English because watching films you watch pictures and you understand the actions that they are doing.
(M2)

In my opinion, if you want to learn a foreign language (English or another), you should work very hard in these ways:
First and main way of learning English is speaking to English people because you can practice every day if you stay abroad. By the way, I remember an interview with an important Spanish Bank’s CEO and he said: “The best way of learning English, it’s sleeping with your dictionary”.
But in my case, I only practice a little English with my teacher and my children and wife. So I should study outside class what my teacher says in classroom. In other words, I do my homework every day, memorize vocabulary and organize my lesson notes. Also, I learn a lot when I use my English dictionary.
Besides, to improve your English, you should watch films and read books and magazines in English. Nowadays, it’s easy to find books, magazines or newspapers in English in the Internet and you can watch films in original version in all Spanish TV channels (with subtitles or not).
I think it’s also useful to listen to music in English, because my children do it, but I don’t have an ear for it.
(P)

I think that if one person wants to know an language he or she would have to do these things that I do all the days…
First, he or she should study outside class all that your teacher said there.
Second, he or she should speak to English-speaking people … this is difficult, because we stay in Spanish … but I speak something with my teacher and my friends in classroom.
Third, he or she should watch films in English. If you know the film in Spanish, you would put this film in original version. And if you don’t understand anything, you would put the subtitles in original version.
Fourth, he or she should listen to music in English. This say my teacher it’s better for our ears.
Fifth, it is better for us to read books and magazines in English. By the way, in our class we read “Braveheart”, and we realize that if you don’t know all the words, you can understand what you read. But, sometimes, I look up in the dictionary.
 (M1)


1-MEMORIZE VOCABULARY
If I don`t know the vocabulary ,I can´t talk the language. If I  know many words, I can speak better.
2-DO YOUR HOMEWORK
If I do the homework  I learn  how to make the composition phrases and the verbs,...
3-SPEAK TO ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE
I can learn better if  I begin to speak with the people, because I have to think  in this language.
4-READ BOOKS AND MAGAZINES IN ENGLISH
Reading the books  we will know better the vocabulary and we will learn more words.
5-LISTENING TO MUSIC IN ENGLISH
If we are listening to music in English we will learning how we must do the pronunciation.
(JM)