THE MOST POPULAR SHORT FILM AT THE BERLINADE COMPETITION

This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization.

There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY

TRIBUTE TO IMPORTANT WOMEN

Did you know all these women ?
Copy out their names and investigate why they were so important

VOKI , A FANTASTIC TOOL FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Voki is a great tool that allows the 21st century students and teachers to capture, publish, celebrate and converse about any topic or subject.
 Here are some of the things we can do :

1. -During English lessons some students are uncomfortable reading their homework. Thanks to this tool they can present their work without embarrassment.
2. -We can use it recording themselves saying a dialogue or reading a passage. Listening enables us to hear how we sound and we can work on fluency.

Here I give you some examples with some of the main characters from Treasure Island :

• Jim Hawkins
• Billy Bones
• Dr.Livesey
• Captain Smollet

 WEEK ACTIVITY : 
Now it´s your turn , you must create a speaking avatar and send it to me ...
After that we can try with our own class !!!
Have fun :-)

RELATIVE CLAUSES

VALENTINE´S DAY

Love is real, real is love.
Love is feeling, feeling love.

Love is wanting to be loved.

Love is touch, touch is love.

Love is reaching, reaching love.

Love is asking to be loved.

Love is you, you and me.

Love is knowing we can be.

Love is free, free is love.

Love is living, living love.

Love is needing to be loved.

      ( John Lennon)

ORIGINS ,HISTORY, SYMBOLS, QUIZZES

LOVE SONGS

As you well know next week we are going to work on a project to celebrate Saint Valentine with...:-)

Click on the WEBQUEST and follow the instructions on the things you will have to do. 

FIRST PRIZE FOR PEER MEDIATION AND PROMOTION OF THE CULTURE OF PEACE

  Enlace a la noticia en la web de la Junta de Andalucia

Programa El club de las Ideas

Congratulations to all the members of I.E.S. Portada Alta for being awarded a first prize in Andalucia for their participation in the promotion of the CULTURE OF PEACE . Above all  we must thank this recognition to   the psycological counselling given by some teachers in the reflection room and of course peer mediation.
 At this moment we have more than one hundred mediators at our disposal which means a 20 per cent of total pupils divided in four stages:

Level 0. Class Mediation : First year students
Level I. Peer Mediation: Second ,third and fourth year students
Level II. Peer Mediation: Second ,third and fourth year students and 1º Bachillerato
Level III. Personal Support: 4º ESO y Bachillerato

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

 COMPARATIVES:

short adjectives: +er than...
-The Ferrari is longer than the seiscientos

long adjectives: more .....than
-The Ferrari is more beautiful than the seiscientos
SUPERLATIVES:

short adjectives: +est in/of
-The seiscientos is one of the oldest cars in Spain

long adjectives : the most.... in/ of
-The Ferrari is the most beautiful car in the world
SPECIAL CASES:
good-better-the best
bad -worse-the worst
far-further-the furthest
EQUALITY (the "sandwich"!!!:)),
as........as
INFERIORITY
less ........than
.......................................................
TASKS:

1. Write in your notebooks the comparison between subjects, singers, sports, films, books,countries, actor/actress, football teams,tv programs  etc
2.  Complete these exercises:     1,   2   , 3 
3. Enjoy visiting the Guinnes world records, then find ten records and explain them to your classmates:

LONDON ATTRACTIONS

TREASURE ISLAND BY ROBERT LUIS STEVENSON

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson    ( 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894 ) wrote Treasure Island  , a tale of pirates, a treasure map, a mutiny and a one-legged sea cook which remains as one of literature's best loved adventure stories.

While we are reading the  book this term  you must complete some of the following activitities:


1. Draw  the characters  and the ships:
2.-Read about some students´ book review and write your own one.
3.Answer this quizz and see if you could be a good pirate.

OUR DAY TRIP TO GIBRALTAR

• As you can see by our lovely smiles, last Friday we had a very nice day out in Gibraltar  , except for the poor ones who took the second coach   to the  Upper Galleries   and, what was even worse, listened to the driver´s bad jokes!!! :-) or those who were disturbed when the  apes jumped on them after  hearing the loud screams and laughters  !!! :-) 
• But yes , now ít´s real time we work hard, so this week you must start preparing your own Pps presentations and the anwers to the questionnaires given by your teachers.

Meanwhile you can add your comments below.

TONGUE TWISTERS

Click  and practise some tongue twisters. Have fun!

CHRISTMAS CARDS COMPETITION

Christmas is on its way, another year, and we are holding our traditional Christmas Cards Competition for our ESO students.

Here are some guidelines to consider:

1. Students can participate with different designs (bilingual too)
2. They will hand their cards to their English teachers.
3. Deadline is December 23rd.
4. We will value: creativity, presentation, use of different languages,originality etc .

                MERRY CHRISTMAS(click)

Find out lots of surprising facts about Christmas

ENGINEERED MUSIC

Engineer/producer Alan Parsons and his colleague, lawyer, songwriter and lyricist Eric Woolfson, formed the Alan Parsons Project in 1975. Throughout their career, the Alan Parsons Project recorded concept albums (including adaptations of Poe and Asimov books), with a revolving cast of session musicians. 1982's Eye in the Sky was their greatest success; the title track charted in the Top Ten on the pop charts and the album went platinum. Although they weren't able to repeat that success, the group maintained a devoted cult audience

Now try and practise with the karaoke version too


I love listening to this album, from the first song to the last, the whole album has its own storyline, just awesome!


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