GETTING READY FOR HALLOWEEN

October 31st is Halloween. Where does Halloween come from? The Celts lived in Britain, Ireland and parts of France over 2,000 years ago, and October 31st was the end of their year. The Celts believed that ghosts came back to earth on this day. Today many people around the world celebrate this old festival - but today people usually have parties, dress up, and tell spooky stories about witches, skeletons, bats and ghosts.

 Have some Halloween fun!

Bilingual Section celebrating Halloween with their class-made Jack-o-lanterns

MAD ABOUT MOBILES ?

AVERAGE TEEN SENDS 3.339 TEXTS PER MONTH IN USA!!

If you needed more proof that mobiles are on the rise, here's a stat for you: the average teenager in USA sends over 3,000 texts per month!
According to a new study ,  our society has gone mad with texting, data usage and app downloads. Some  American Technology Universities have analyzed the mobile data habits of over 60,000 mobile subscribers and surveyed over 3,000 teens during April, May and June of this year. and the numbers they came up with are astounding.

TELLING STORIES

listen to this song and then write a short composition about a nice summer memory.
(Use verbs in the past)

PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Listen to this song  and then answer the questions below.

1. What do you know about this street called Penny Lane ?
2. How many jobs are mentioned in the song ?
3. Find examples of Present Simple and Continuous in the lyrics

COLUMBUS DAY

Columbus Day became an official United States federal holiday in 1970. "Since 1971, the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada. Many states and cities with large Native American populations do not recognize Columbus Day or celebrate "Indigenous People's Day" or "Native American Day" instead. Many countries celebrate Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World under the names Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) or Day of the Cultures, Day of the Americas, Discovery Day, Spanish Day (Spain), or Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance - Venezuela).

STREET DANCE

Can you recognize any of the artists or cartoon characters dancing in here ?

HELPING YOU WITH REAL ENGLISH

I want to show you a new resource to make your learning funnier and more effective. It is a video and grammar programme, its name is Real English.
How to use Real English?
1 - Watch the video without subtitles.
2 - Do all the Exercises.
3 - Come back to the previous page.
4 - Watch the video with English Subtitles. Use the Pause button. People speak fast!
Important: watch & listen to a video many times before reading, & before watching with subtitles. Your pronunciation will be much better!

BRITISH LIFE , CULTURE AND CUSTOMS

QUIZZES 1 and 2

WELCOME BACK

The teachers of English are looking forward to an exciting 2010 - 2011 school year and from here we want to welcome everybody back .

  ( Of course we hope you will be some more enthusiastic about learning than Bart Simpson is  !)

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN WALES

Here I am enjoying my last days in Wales before going back to school again :))

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through
We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
Cause we are the champions - of the world( 3)
I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise -
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I aint gonna lose -
FOOTBALL VOCABULARY

SUMMER BREAK ....ARE YOU READY ?

A REWARD FOR PROMOTING RECYCLING IN OUR SCHOOL

La Junta de Andalucía has rewarded our school  for promoting the recycling and good use of residues. 

The participants have been given an mp4 each and a laptop for the  Art Department

See their "rap" in the site: http://www.momentoeco.com./

BILINGÜISMO: OFF WE GO !

Ya estamos en la línea de salida. El año que viene iniciamos nuestra andadura como centro bilingüe. Este curso, lo llaman Año 0 como si no contara, lo hemos dedicado a planificar, programar, organizar y coordinarnos los diferentes departamentos para que todo esté listo cuando suene el pistoletazo de salida en septiembre.

La planificación del trabajo del año ha estado dividida en tres frentes básicos:

1. Programación del curso

2. Formación del profesorado

3.Captación de alumnos/as.

Es con el tercer apartado con el que mas hemos disfrutado. Alumnos y alumnas de 6 de los dos colegios de la zona (Ricardo León y Antonio Machado) han participado en clases de conversación con nuestro lector, Ryan Gartner. Lo han pasado tan bien y han aprendido tanto que el último día le organizaron una fiesta sorpresa. Aquí os dejamos algunas fotos de esa despedida. Esperemos que su futuro en el IES Portada Alta sea tan exitosa como lo son sus intenciones.

Gracias Ryan en nombre de todos.

WHAT WILL THE WORLD LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE?

Thanks to some awesome technology, the world will look very different in a few years.

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

SEE THE VIDEOS AND COMMENT ON :
1.- The Future of Teaching.
2.- The Future of Shopping.
3.- Men and Women shopping in the Future.
4.- Can a robot play the violin?
5.- Intoducing NAO, an amazing robot.
6.- Future cars.
7.- The Computers of the Future.
8.- New Technology for the Future.
9.- The House of the Future.
10.- Digital Lifestyle. (A very funny story)
11.- The Healthcare of the Future.
12.- Future vision of retailing.
13.- The Future Supermarket.