Wednesday, April 27, 2011

ROYAL WEDDING

Prince William and Kate Middleton have made their vows to each other during their wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

Watch  the BBC video of the Royal  Wedding 

 

On 29 April, Prince William will marry Catherine (Kate) Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
The couple's romance has captured the public's imagination for the past nine years. Now is your chance to explore some others Royal Weddings from the past.
Watch this video on British Royal Weddings to gain some background information on the forthcoming wedding of William and Kate.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

LITERARY WEEK (fotos)







From Monday 25th  to Friday  29th we are celebrating our Sixth Literary Week. Hopefully we will read a lot of books during all our life, and  I am sure we will have a lot of moments of pleasure through them.

Reading is the basic foundation on which academic skills of an individual are built. You can read almost anything including books, newspapers, magazines, comics etc . So the list is very long, but that hardly matters, as long as you like doing it. Whether you like fiction or non-fiction is not important, but whether you like reading or not is!

Nowadays teenagers are often too busy with their computer games , social nets and chats , whereas some parents are glued on to their television screens . Reading does have its loyal fan following, but the fan base is rapidly decreasing. We at IES Portada Alta have been making an attempt at increasing this fan base through our Literary Week celebrated every year.
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Reunido el Jurado del II Concurso de Microrrelatos "LA VIDA ES CUENTO: CUÉNTALA" ha decidido otorgar los siguientes Premios:
CATEGORÍA SECUNDARIA:
  • PRIMER PREMIO: María Vilches Jiménez 4º ESO-B
  • SEGUNDO PREMIO: Mahmood Mohamed Ali, por "Vine y me fui"
CATEGORÍA BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS:
  • DOS PRIMEROS PREMIOS: Eva Cristina Javier Remes, 2º Bachillerato A y Jorge Reyna Navarrete por "Qué estás buscando?
Agradecemos a todo el alumnado participante su ilusión y sus ganas literarias, que han hecho que en esta edición del Concurso fuese más difícil la elección de los ganadores, tanto por el aumento del número de obras como por su calidad.
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 EL IES PORTADA ALTA EN UN MUY BUEN PUESTO EN EL CONCURSO EUROESCOLA 2011
La Oficina del Parlamento Europeo en España, en colaboración con la Representación en España de la Comisión Europea, convocó este año la XVII edición del Concurso Euroscola.
Coincidiendo con el AÑO EUROPEO DEL VOLUNTARIADO 2011, el tema central de esta edición ha tenido como objetivo fomentar el voluntariado entre los jóvenes en el marco de la Unión Europea.
La competición comenzó el 14 de febrero y finalizó el 14 de abril.

MY CONGRATULATIONS !

Sunday, April 10, 2011

EASTER

REPORTED SPEECH

For those of you who need some extra- practice  here you have some excellent exercises:


Reported speech statements ( easy)
Reported speech  : statement and questions (1)
Reported speech: statements and questions(2)
Reported speech: commands (1)
Reported speech commands(2)


Listen to this song by Nelly Furtado and guess how many direct questions the singer changes

Monday, April 4, 2011

PRACTISING ENGLISH AND CREATING MOVIES

Some of my students are now practising their English by creating short 3D animated movies from simple text-based movie-scripts. 

Watch them and comment which ones are your favourite , ok?

MARINA CUBERO 4º B



To see more movies created by them you can clic on ACTIVITIES FOR ESO