SHAKESPEARE'S ROUTE

During this term, we are going to read Two Shakespearian Comedies. Let's find about Shakespeare's life by discovering where he lived. Look at the following map and find information about the different cities in the Shakespeare's route. Pay attention to: Stratford-upon-Avon, Rollright Stones, Chipping Norton, Woodstock, Oxford, Marlow,Cookham, Kew and London.

Shakespeare's Route

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GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

This presentation has been done by Laura Garcinuño, my lovely workmate from 2nd Evening Batxillerat. Check it out if you need it.

Gerunds And Infinitives

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A NARRATIVE ESSAY

This is the presentation we saw in class related to the narrative essay. Check it out at any time you need it.

A Narrative Essay

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VICTORIAN PERIOD

Last week, we talked about Victoria, Queen of England from 1819 to 1901. If you click here, you can read about her in the BBC History page. If you have a look at the links, you will discover many interesting facts and people from this period. Is there something you want to share with us?

-ING OR INFINITIVE?

Here there is a good link to practise -ing or infinitive, if you don't get it right at first. Remember it's a question of good memory and practise!! Leave a comment if you have any doubt and I'll answer as soon as possible.

PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSES

This is the grammar we have to study for Unit 2: Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous. If you have any doubt, please leave a comment.

Perfect Continuous

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TO 4th A CLASS

Here I include two links to practise the grammar for Monday exam. Study hard!!

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs4.htm

And enjoy the weekend!!

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2nd Batxillerat C Activity

Here you have the trailer from The Day After Tomorrow. Comment on aspects from the film that have shocked you. You have to include the new words you have learn from the movie. Your comments must be done before Friday.

YOUR CITY

1. Post a comment with the most important words you have learnt from the unit about your city.

2. Have a look at the video some students from the high school in St. Quirze have done.


3. Listen to the podcast

A TREASURE HUNT - THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

Some months ago, I prepared a treasure hunt called The Other Boleyn Girl. It is thought to work with 2nd cycle of ESO. I read with my students of 3rd ESO Henry VIII and HIs Six Wives. To introduce the story, we had previously watched The Other Boleyn Girl, about the life of Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, lover from the king before her sister. It is a good warm-up to explain a bit of culture and history, and work the topics we can work later in the book in a pleasant way. I have structured the treasure hunt in the following way: First, I have asked about the sisters; secondly, asking about the king's wives and their heirs and finally, they have to look for information about the life in King Henry VIII's reign. This is the big question: to imagine themselves living there just for one day.

A sonnet by William Shakespeare

SONNET 33

Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, me be borne alone.


In our two loves there is but one respect, 5
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter noy love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.


I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame, 10
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:


But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.



A poem by one of the greatest playwrights in English language. He also wrote superb sonnets. There are a few old English words. If you want to, you can read a Spanish translation in the Cervantes Library.

A FUNNY PIC

This weekend, I've been correcting exams. At some point, I thought I was going bananas.

AN OPINION ESSAY

An Opinion Essay

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Presentation of the opinion essay, as seen in the Desdoblament classes

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY

For And Against Essay

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Presentation of For and Against Essay, as seen in the Desdoblament classes.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

RELATIVE CLAUSES

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This is the presentation we saw in class to explain relative clauses. Leave a comment if you have any doubt.

DISCUSSION 4: SEX, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, ENVIRONMENT, IMMIGRANTS, EATING DISORDERS AND POVERTY

The group of 2nd A has worked on this topic. Here you find some of the ideas that have come out in class. Please, write a comment with your opinion. Remember that we are working for and against points of view, so give arguments supporting one of the sides.

- It is difficult to relate these topics among them, but they were our
worries.
- Nowadays poverty is growing up. Due to famine in third world. Since in
their countries they haven’t got anything, they have to migrate to our
country.
- In the first world, we have another kind of problems: drugs and alcohol.
This leads to sex without protection.
- People don’t worry too much about environment since they only think about
partying and having fun.
- The consumption of drugs have raised among young people. Every day we can
achieve it more and more easily.
- Poverty sometimes leads to drugs and alcohol business. And the other way
round. That would lead to stealing as well.
- Drugs can be sometimes related to eating disorders. There are drugs that
make you eat a lot or nothing. Depression
- People are not very conscious. They think they control what they take, and
then they become dependant.
- They are highly addictive and people don’t realise till it is too late.
- Drugs affect differently to people. They change personality, they become
violent; others take it to become more outgoing.
- Drugs and alcohol make people to split up from their family.
- People start younger to have relationships. You have a lot of information,
but in the moment, you don’t think about it. You sometimes do not know who
you are having sex with. There are more undesired pregnancies, venereal
diseases and aids.
- When you are under age, it is very difficult to keep your life.
- It is not bad if they come, they work in the jobs we don’t want to, but they
have a lot of help from the government that we don’t have. They have to
respect our culture.
- They will have to learn our language.

DISCUSSION 3: USA ELECTIONS

The group of 2nd B has worked on this topic. Here you find some of the ideas that have come out in class. Please, write a comment with your opinion. Remember that we are working for and against points of view, so give arguments supporting one of the sides.

- McCain is republican and Obama, democrat.
- Who will win the elections?
- We think that it will be Obama.
- Vice-presidents: Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
- Hillary Clinton should have been elected as vicepresident.
- They may be equal in the elections though Obama will win.
- Obama’s race can make a difference in electors. It depends on society, in
the sense that people can see it as an advantage or a disadvantage.
- A president with cancer can be a problem if his health is not good. But this
risk is true for Obama as well (terrorist attacks, for instance)
- All the people that have tried to change the point of view have been killed
– john f. kennedy, martin Luther King- .
- We think that someone will try to kill Obama.
- People have criticised the fact that Palin’s seventeen-year-old daughter is
pregnant.
- Attacks are very personal throughout the campaign.
- Candidates are apart from the current politics, and people vote the person,
not the political party.
- Obama hasn’t talked about death penalty, because it will make him to lose
votes, but it would be nice to hear it.
- He has promised to follow the Kyoto treat and to retire Irak troops, and
have conversations with Cuban government. Support to Israel will not be so
high against Palestine (theory)
- Immigrants’ issue: Obama will not be so hard on them.
- Crisis: intervention of government is good, at least for the moment being.
- Crisis will damage McCain because his party supports Bush decisions.
- Obama will include Zapatero in his visits to other prime ministers, so that
would help to improve US-Spain relationships.
- Obama should implement national health, as we have and regulate guns in
a better way.

DISCUSSION 2: PARTYING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

The group of 2nd C has worked on this topic. Here you find some of the ideas that have come out in class. Please, write a comment with your opinion. Remember that we are working for and against points of view, so give arguments supporting one of the sides.

- Driving when partying: ad: if you drink, do not drive.

- Young people drink and smoke and take drugs

- People don’t think about drugs effect. Irresponsibility.

- Some people have sex without taking protection

- Young people go out at night and arrive home early in the morning.
o Sometimes not
oBreakfast and go to sleep

-There are other duties that keep people away from partying

-Most young people never drink water or fizzy drinks, only spirits.
oTickets are too expensive just to buy non-alcohol drinks
oDiscos use bad quality drinks (garrafon)

- Under age people are allowed to clubs and they are sold alcohol.

- Attitude of young people: they pretend to be older than they really are

- The age to start going out is going down; from 12 onwards

- Girls have the advantage to go in for free in clubs

- Going out is expensive (at night it is more expensive, it depends on the place). Between 20 and 100 euros (very extraordinary weekend: birthdays, new year’s eve…)

- You find the same everywhere you go
o Disagree…depending on the place
o Everything is packed, music quite similar,
o People may be different, types, clothes

DISCUSSION 1: YOUNG PEOPLE LIFESTYLE

The group of 2nd D has worked on this topic. Here you find some of the ideas that have come out in class. Please, write a comment with your opinion. Remember that we are working for and against points of view, so give arguments supporting one of the sides.

- There are different styles in young people: clothes, music, what they do at the weekends, hair styles, vocabulary. Relationships, Thoughts, hobbies

- Different kind of people: Emo, snobs, heavies, posh, skaters, rappers, nerds, punks, grunge, freakies, hippies, rocker, squatters, skins
Looking for a translation of ‘garrulo’, ‘quillo’, ‘rechulón’ (different

concepts?)

- Leisure: snowboarding, sleeping, practice sports, chat mssnger, going out with friends, drawing, studying, travel, playing console games, go clubbing, “botellón”, concerts, watch tv, go shopping, dancing, working, play instrument, go to the gym, listen to music, reading book

- Criticism to their lifestyle: no money, waste of time, no time enough, drugs, alcohol, vulnerable to consume, depressive people, pessimistic, we complain about everything, do not study enough, fights and a lot of violence, possessive, envy, selfish, nonconformist, changeable, capricious, waste of money, sometimes we are not conscious at all of what we are doing., we punish our body through diet.

- Positive Aspects: more variety, a lot of teenagers go away from their parents’nest with a lot of effort, we look for money working, , we want to be free, without worries

- Some people have hobbies like sports, playiing music...healthy hobbies, we have a lot of information, young people are highly informed.

HERE COMES THE SUN

Why have I chosen this title for my blog? There are two main reasons. It is one of my favourite Beatles' song, from one of the greatest albums ever, Abbey Road. Simple and nice, that's what I think every time I listen to it again. The second reason is that sometimes learning a language can be like looking for a light. At the end of the path, even if it has been quite difficult, you can find the sun. In this blog, I want to present some activities and resources to show my students and other people that English can also be fun. The first one will be listening to the song. What do you think about it?