sábado, 24 de diciembre de 2011

lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011

ACTIVITIES pg 55

EJERCICIO 1
1 If my sister and I had separate bedrooms, we wouldn´t argue all the time.
2 If I wasn´t in a hurry, I´d stay for a meal.
3 If it wasn´t raining, I´d go for a jog.
4 If he didn´t sit around all day, he would be more fit.
5 More people would want to become teachers if the salaries weren´t so low.
EJERCICIO 2
2a  They are looking for a grassy area where they can have a picnic.
3e   I met a girl last week who says she knows you.
4b  He´s got a tiny mobile which fits into the palm of his hand.
5f    She´s writing to the boy who was at summer camp with her.
6c   That was the film in which George Clooney starred.
EJERCICIO 3
The poem Ben wrote for the competition won first prize.
The operation his brother had on his knee was a complete success.
The digital camera my brother got for his birthday has already gone wrong.
The beautiful motorboat we saw in the bay belonged to Steven Spielberg.
Tened en cuenta que en estas oraciones puede suprimirse el pronombre relativo (o sustituirse por that) porque son defining (especificativas) y el pronombre funciona como objeto directo.

lunes, 25 de abril de 2011

domingo, 20 de febrero de 2011

CONTROLES

Recordad que el viernes, 18 de febrero, se repartieron los controles y que tenéis que traerlos firmados el martes 22.

ANDALUSIA DAY

Read the text carefully and answer the questions below.

The capital city of Andalusia
Seville is Andalusia's largest city and its administrative centre. Seville is full of 1magnificent churches, convents, monuments and Moorish buildings. It's also famous for its multitude of tapas bars and a noisy nightlife.
One of Europe's biggest cathedrals is here, the 2 vast Gothic Catedral  with its famous minaret, the Giralda. Nearby is another of the city's most impressive 3sights, the elaborately ornate Mudéjar palace of the Alcázar. Close to Seville is the ruined settlement of Italica, one of the Roman Empire's most important cities, with its mosaics and 4huge amphitheatre.

Farmland to the east, Carmona
Going to the east from the city there is a vast, undulating countryside of cereal fields and olive trees with a series of towns -
Carmona, Écija, Estepa and Osuna.
Located on a low hill overlooking a fertile plain, Carmona is a picturesque, small town with a magnificent 15th century tower built in imitation of Seville's Giralda. Not surprisingly, given its proximity, Carmona shares a similar history to Seville, and was an important Roman city which, under the Moors was often governed by a brother of the Sevillan ruler. Later Pedro the Cruel built a palace within its castle which he used as his royal residence in the country.
At the entrance to the town is the Puerta de Sevilla a grand and ruinous fortified 5gateway which leads to the historic old part of the city. Within the wall, you can find narrow streets with Mudejar churches and Renaissance mansions. Up still further is the Plaza San Fernando which is small but dominated by splendid Moorish style buildings.
Close by to the east is Santa Maria, a 6stately Gothic church built over the former main mosque. Dominating the town are the massive ruins of Pedro's palace, destroyed by an earthquake in 1504 and now 7taken over by a 8gracious parador. To the left  you can see the Roman Puerta de Córdoba from where the original Cordoba road drops down to a vast plain.
The Roman necropolis is particularly 9noteworthy. It lies on a low hill at the opposite end of Carmona amid cypress trees and contains more than nine hundred family tombs dating from the second century BC to the fourth century AD. Some of the larger tombs have vestibules with stone 10benches for funeral banquets and several retain carved family emblems. Opposite is a partly excavated ampitheatre. Carmona is a fascinating town and well worth a visit.


- Replace the underlined words by their synonyms.

Entrance
Long seats
Views
Elegant
Nice
Splendid
Immense
Huge
Replaced
Remarkable


2º- Say if these statements are true or false.
1______Seville is only known for its monuments.
2______The cathedral retains an important Moorish element.
3______Italica was a city at the times of the Roman Empire.
4______Carmona´s tower looks like Seville´s Giralda.
5______Carmona didn´t exist at the times of the Romans.
6______Pedro the Cruel built the palace but never lived there.
7______There are only Gothic monuments in the old part of the city.
8______Santa María church was built over a mosque.
9______Pedro´s palace was destroyed by his enemies in the 16th century.
10_____Now that palace is a parador.
11_____Inside the tombs of the necropolis, the Romans used to celebrate banquets.

domingo, 13 de febrero de 2011

CONTROLES

Hoy, martes 15 de Febrero, lleváis apuntadas las notas del control en las agendas. Es muy importante que se las enseñéis a vuestros padres.

jueves, 10 de febrero de 2011

IMPORTANTE

Mañana es el control (listening, reading, writing, grammar).

CULTURE


UK 2
Religion
1.       The main religion in Britain is___________________. Most Christians belong to the Church of or the Church of Scotland. These are _________________ Churches. There are also many Roman Catholics.
2.       Although _____________is the main religion, there are also large communities of M_____________, Sihks, H_____________and J__________, and other smaller communities such as B_______________.
3.       In 1533, during the reign of_____________, England broke from the Roman Catholic Church to form the Anglican Church. Why did it happen?
Population
4.       What´s the population of UK?
5.       What´s by far the most densely populated part of the UK?
Climate
6.       The British have a variable climate changing from day to day, it is difficult to predict the weather. In general they have cold/hot/ warm summers and cool/cold/warm winters.
7.       The climate is mild with temperatures not much lower than______ºC in winter and not much higher than _______ºC in summer. It also means that it is damp and is subject to frequent changes.
Curious facts
8.       The three most popular newborn boy´s names in 2008 were _________________
9.       The three most popular newborn girl´s names in 2008 were _________________
Industries
10.   Britain´s main industries today are banking- sector bancario- and finance, steel, transport equipment –material de  transporte- (conveyors ,cranes, industrial trucks,…), oil and gas, and tourism.

lunes, 31 de enero de 2011

LISTENING

This is the video I talked about in class. Click here.

jueves, 20 de enero de 2011

UNIDAD 5- contenidos

Comprensión oral: listenings
Expresión oral: Give, accept and question or refuse advice pg 33 (Spb unit 5)/Ask and talk about personality and mood pg 62 (Spb unit 9)/Agree and disagree pg 42(Spb unit 6)
Comprensión escrita: reading activities
Expresión escrita: A story about an unusual experience 
Gramática: Modals> should(n´t) (advice), must and have to (obligation and prohibition), must and can´t (conclusions) Comparison of adjectives and adverbs; adjective word order; verbs seem/look/ sound + adjective or like/as if (Spb units 5,9)
Vocabulario: Personality adjectives-Jobs and occupations / Physical appearance-Personality and mood adjectives (Spb unit6, 9)
Fonética: English diphthongs 
Reflexión sobre el aprendizaje: search for interactive activities; skimming
Aspectos socioculturales: United Kingdom 2

domingo, 16 de enero de 2011

SONG


* gotta = have got a; *gonna= going to;
*wanna= Want to
1. Translate the sentence:
I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
2. Listen to this part of the song and fill in the spaces with the prepositions in the box
up, out, off, down
1 I gotta* feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
2 That tonight's gonna* be a good night
3 That tonight's gonna be a good good night (x3)
4 Tonight's the night night
5 Let's live it _______
6 I got my money
7 Let's spend it _______
8 Go _______and smash it
9 Like Oh My God
10 Jump _______that sofa
11 Let's get get _______
12 I know that we'll have a ball
13 If we get _______
14 And go _______
15 And just loose it all
16 I feel stressed _______
17 I wanna let it go
18 Let's go way _______spaced _______
19 And loosing all control
20 Fill _______ my cup
21 Mozoltov
22 Look at her dancing
23 Just take it _______
24 Let's paint the town
25 We'll shut it _______
26 Let's burn the roof
27 And then we'll do it again
3. Find the sentences with the structure "Let's+ infinitive" and translate them.

martes, 11 de enero de 2011

sábado, 8 de enero de 2011

READING COMPREHENSION

Britannia
Britannia is an ancient term for Great Britain, and also a female personification of the island. The name is Latin, and derives from the Greek form Prettanike or Brettaniai, which originally designated a collection of islands with individual names, including Albion or Great Britain. However, by the 1st century BC Britannia came to be used for Great Britain specifically. In AD 43 the Roman Empire began its conquest of the island, establishing a province they called Britannia, which came to encompass the parts of the island south of Caledonia (roughly Scotland). The native Celtic inhabitants of the province are known as the Britons. In the 2nd century Roman Britannia came to be personified as a goddess, armed with a spear and shield and wearing a centurion's helmet.

The Latin name Britannia long survived the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and yielded the name for the island in most European and various other languages, including the English Britain and the modern Welsh Prydain. After centuries of declining use, the Latin form was revived during the English Renaissance as a rhetorical evocation of a British national identity. Especially following the Acts of Union in 1707, which joined the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, the personification of the martial Britannia was used as an emblem of British imperial power and unity. She has appeared consistently on British coinage ever since.
1.       When was the term Britannia used for the first time?
2.       Which area did it refer to?
3.       Which areas did the term Britannia include for the Romans? (mention current countries)
4.       How did the Romans call the native people of this new conquered area?
5.       Was Roman Britannia a male or a female character?
6.       Did Roman Britannia have a peaceful or a warlike appearance?
7.       Apart from symbolizing Great Britain, has Roman Britannia had any other meaning for the British?
8.       When did the Romans leave Britannia?
9.       Is there any trace of Roman Britannia in present Britain?

READING SESSION

Primera sesión de lectura: Viernes, 14 de Enero
Tenéis que traer el libro de lectura graduada: The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Readers). Recordad que os di la referencia el 14 de diciembre.