Merry Christmas!

I wish you all very merry Christmas and a very happy new year with this wonderful song



Have good holidays

Christmas time is here!

Christmas is the most widely celebrated festival in the whole world today, after New year. It has grown beyond being a religious Christians-only festival and now it is enjoyed by people from all faiths. In most of the countries, the whole week from 25th December to 1st is a holiday, which adds to the festive spirit. If you click on Santa you will find greeting cards, personalized Christmas gifts, wallpapers, screensavers, crafts, recipes, history, activities, decorations and many more.
Merry Christmas!

Past Perfect

We are going to work with the movie "Falling Down", here you are a sketch of it. Watch it, don't try to understand every word, just the global meaning and the action, we will work it in class next day trying to use the Past perfect we have just studied by writing sentences about what had happened by the time...



This is the Worksheet to work with, next day, you can start practising with it.
Past Perfect

Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving Day was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians. The traditional Thanksgiving menu often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.
Presently it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November,and it has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.

Past simple or Present Perfect?

Try this quiz to practise the difference between these two tenses. Remember I'll get your scores and time on my page. You can also practise on the pages I recommended you.

Past simple or Present Perfect? » Quiz Maker

Easy idioms

Here you are some easy idioms to work with. I hope you enjoy the exercise. We will correct it on Tuesday.
Idioms

Comenius: a new project

We are involved in a new project. It is an european program in which we try to encourage Reading. Our program name is "Reading for travelling through the paths of life" and our partners are: Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Turkey. The program consists of the exchange of experiences among these countries in order to improve Reading encouragement techniques. IES Mediterraneo library won the third prize on a national contest called: "Concurso nacional de buenas prácticas para la dinamización e innovación de las bibliotecas de centros escolares para el año 2007", announced by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Based on this project the school applied for the Comenius program and was accepted, that's why our school is now coordinating this Comenius program. We have made a web page on Wikispaces that we'd like to share with you. You'll be able to easily join our discussions.I hope you'll join us! Just click on the image on the right and you'll go there.
We have also a blog in which you can follow the news and write comments on them. If you click on its image you'll go there, too.

Halloween is here!

Tomorrow will be a great day! We've been preparing the play with effort an illusion and I'm sure everything is going to be perfect! I hope your comments after it. I am very grateful to my collegues Caridad Quevedo for her imagination writing the play and to Jose García because she made it possible with her great activity of organization. Thanks again to you all!

Time is gold

Add fun to your classroom games and activities with the time bomb counter. At the end of a given time the bomb explodes. Click on the image and you'll find more fun teaching tools. You can even download some of them.

Ciclo Superior Educación Infantil

Here you are a cute video to teach your future pupils the Alphabet. Listen to it and... REPEAT!


The Alphabet Song - Watch the top videos of the week here

A useful tool

I want to show you a place where you can get any text translated word by word. Its name is LINGRO and it is very easy: when you enter LINGO you write the address of the webpage you want to translate, choose the language and wait for a few seconds, afterwards you can click on any word you don't know and it will be inmediately translated, you can even listen to its sound. Fantastic! I've found it thanks to a colleague's blog. Thank you Carmen!

Present Perfect

You can download the presentation I have used to explain this tense. You only have to click on the "b" you can see at the left bottom of the presentation, it sends you to the page where you can download it. It is easy!
You can also practise the tenses we have seen by clicking on the left side bar under "Exercises on line" and looking for the tense you want to work. Don't forget to study the rules for the test on Tuesday.

Present Perfect

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Hello my new students!

Welcome to my blog. As you can see it tries to give you a little help with your English learning. I will explain how it works in class because I think it can be useful for you to find more resources to practise your english in a funny way.

Bye, dear Elcano students

My time as a teacher there is over. Thank you very much for helping me to enjoy my job, it has been wonderful to work with you all for these twenty years. You have been the best part of my job, sometimes it has been a challenge to get you motivated but when I got it, you really made me happy.
My new school is IES Mediterráneo and I will be there at your disposal, as usual. It’s exciting to have a new project ahead: after so many years working in the same school.
Remember this is also your blog and I hope you will keep taking part in it whenever you want. It’s always a pleasure to read your comments, they feed the blog and help me to improve it.

Thank you again, my dear students!

Rosanna's recipe

This a recipe Rosanna gave me last week, Victoria sponge cake, I've made it following her instructions and the result was fantastic, I recommend it to you all to celebrate the end of the classes.
Ingredients:
112g of unsalted butter or margarine (I prefer butter)
112g of flour with a teaspoon of baking powder
112g of sugar
2 eggs.
Preheat the oven to 180º. Grease two cake tins (15cm) with butter.
Stir the butter and sugar together. Stir the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the flour with the baking powder. Divide the cake mix into the tins and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool slightly, then take them out of the tins to cool completely.
For the filling stir together 50g of butter and 100g of icing sugar. Spread some jam onto one of the cakes and the buttercream on the other, then sanswich them together.
Easy, isn't it?

Relax and amuse yourself!

What can you see in the picture? Me or You?
I'm sure you need to relax after the exams and on the other hand I think you really enjoy optical illusions, that's why I propose you this link I found in Inés workshop and I hope you have fun with them. You can also click on the image to go there.

Reported Speech

This is our last lesson. You can download it as usual and also practise the exercises on the right side bar under the title "To practise what we have worked".

Reported-speech

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Oregon quiz

Now try this quiz and check how much you have learnt about this wonderful state, and then let me know, as usual.

Oregon, a marvellous state

Have you ever heard about Oregon? It is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers. Spanish explorers sight the Oregon Coast in 1543 and it became the 33rd USA state on February 14, 1859. Oregon is located on the Pacific coast between Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east.The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely populated. Oregon enjoys a diverse landscape including a scenic Pacific coastline, the volcanoes of a glaciated Cascade Mountain Range, dense evergreen forests, the country's deepest lake, Crater Lake, and high desert across much of the eastern portion of the state.



Click and play. Have fun!

4º Diversificación Homework

There are some exercises on the Future "going to", Countable and Uncountable and "Quantifiers: some,any,much, many" you have to do. They are on the right bar under the title "To practise what we have worked". Remember they are in alphabetical order. You can just click on this image too.
Hay unos ejercicios sobre el Future "going to", "Countable & uncountable" y "Quantifiers: some, any, much, many" que tenéis que practicar, están en la barra de la derecha bajo el título "To practise what we have worked". Recuerda que están en orden alabético. También puedes pinchar sobre la imagen

Passive Voice

I hope it helps you with this topic we saw yesterday in class. Then do the exercises on the passive voice I propose you on the right under the title "to practise what we have worked"

Passive Voice

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A funny task

Watch the video, it is a funny tale. Your task consists of writing a different tale using as many words as possible from the video, and you have to find me! I hope you enjoy it!

Present Continuous quiz

This is the quiz I promised you this morning. Have fun! and don't forget to write your name before starting the quiz.
No olvidéis escribir vuestro nombre antes de empezar el ejercicio.

Present Continuous quiz » Quiz Maker

Conditionals Quiz

Complete this quiz and get an achievement certificate!

Conditionals » Make Your Own Quiz

Conditional sentences

This is the presentation I talked you about this morning. Watch it and complete the exercises, we will correct them in class. Don't forget to practise with the exercises you can find on the right bar under "To practise what we have worked"


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Listening to a song

This is a song written in memory of Janis Joplin by the great singer Joan Baez. I've built this exercise for you to practise the listening skill while you enjoy this beautiful music. Janis Joplin was a wonderful singer who died when she was 27 because of her drug abuse. It was a sad and lonely death. I'm working on her life to talk about her in class one of these days. I hope you like it as much as I do.

If you want to improve your pronunciation

I recommend you to download a free Windows programme that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet and many English pronounciation games. I am sure you are going to enjoy it.

But if you prefer to practise on line you can try this other link.

4º Diversificación

A short video starring Michael the cop, and Tom & Connie talking about their plans in real English.
Don't forget to practise this structure with the exercises on the right.

1º ESO-C

This is the video I promised you this morning.
Let's learn some useful adjectives to show our positive feelings: Listen to the adjectives and repeat them. I hope you like it. See you next Thursday.

The Flatmates: a soap opera

Learning English with a soap opera? Try this link. It is really funny.

If you Click on the image you will find the archive episode and choose the chapter you prefer from the very beginning.

In each episode you can:

• Listen to a dialogue (with or without reading the text).
• Work the new vocabulary
• Practise the Language Point of this episode
• Take a quizz
• and participate with your comments on line
  
  

Certificates

Ya hemos terminado la Segunda Evaluación, Enhorabuena a todos los que la han superado! y a los que no, ánimo y a trabajar más duro que ya queda poco tiempo, todo es cuestión de querer.

Who goes fishing? : Answer

If you want to know the answer click on the image.

Para que os riáis un rato

Después de ver este video ya no os puede dar vergüenza hablar en inglés. Si Elvis habla así el castellano...

St Patricks Day

St Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years.

On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. Click on the image to know more about this topic.

Glitterfy.com - Glitter Graphics

4º Diversificación

Create your own phrase with images and send it to a friend.
Click on the image to start.

Quiero que hagáis las frases en Simple Past, es muy fácil. Escribís la frase y váis añadiendo las imágenes que elijáis de las que aparecen, si alguna no os gusta, pulsáis en "change" hasta encontréis la que más os guste, luego le ponéis un título y me la mandais.

Más pistas para la adivinanza

He añadido más pistas a la adivinanza porque veo que os está resultando muy difícil. Volved a leerla a ver si ahora lo conseguís. Suerte. El primero que la adivine que me lo ponga en comentarios.
Las pistas están en la adivinanza: Who goes fishing?

ATENCIÓN TUTORÍA!

Con motivo de la celebración del 9 de Mayo DÍA DE EUROPA, la Concejalía de Juventud del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena convoca para este año 2009, la II Edición del Concurso ¿Qué sabes de Europa? dirigido a estudiantes de todos los IES de Cartagena.
El concurso consiste en realizar un trabajo LIBRE en donde quede reflejado vuestro conocimiento sobre Europa.
El formato del trabajo será libre: fotografía, pintura, puzzle, mural, power point, teatro, danzas, artes plásticas, gráficas, etc.
Los trabajos se podrán aceptar tanto en español como en cualquier otro idioma perteneciente a la Unión Europea.
INSCRIPCIÓN: Hasta el 25 de Marzo de 2009
ENTREGA TRABAJO: Hasta el 5 de Mayo de 2009
PREMIOS: Viaje a Valencia en el mes de Junio para visitar el Oceanográfico, el Museo de la Ciencia y el Hemisferio
Es importante que me contestéis en comentarios lo que pensáis del concurso y si estaríais dispuestos a participar! espero vuestros comentarios, a mí me parece muy interesante.

Modal Verbs

This is for you - 1º bachillerato. Remember you have to download the presentation if you want to work better. The test will be on Monday, so... study and practise!


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4º de Diversificación

Let's practice the Simple past tense with a fun Road Runner cartoon. Watch the video and then do the sentences!

1º Bachillerato: Modals

This presentation will help you understand what we have worked in class, you can also practice with the exercises you have on the right.
Remember you have to work English a bit every day!

Modal Verbs

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A riddle for 3º Diversificación

Who goes fishing?

Facts

* There are 5 houses of 5 different colours: blue, green, red, white, yellow
* In each house lives a person of a different nationality: American, Australian, British, Canadian, Irish
* Each of the 5 house-owners has a certain job: carpenter, lawyer, pilot, plumber, waiter
* Each of the 5 house-owners has a certain hobby: chess, fishing, football, sailing, tennis
* Each of the 5 house-owners has a certain pet: cat, dog, goldfish, hamster, horse

None of them have the same pet, job or hobby.

Other facts

* The Irishman lives in the green house.
* The red house is on the immediate left of the white house.
* The person in the red house is a pilot.
* The American plays chess.
* The Canadian is a waiter and has a horse
* The person with the horse lives next to the one who plays tennis.
* The person who goes sailing lives next to the plumber with a cat.
* The person with the goldfish plays football and lives next to the waiter.
* The person in the blue house has a cat.
* The Briton has a hamster and lives next to the one who plays football.
* The Australian lives next to the yellow house and plays tennis.
* The person with the horse has a neighbour who is a plumber.
* The person in the center house is a lawyer.
* The Australian lives in the first house.
* The dog owner is a carpenter and lives in the last house.
From ego4you.com

Give Caridad Bernal your answers or write them in "Comentarios".

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!

"Principle not policy; Justice, not favors. Men, their rights, and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less."
The Revolution, edited by Susan B. Anthony (Hymowitz, 161)

The history of Women's Day dates back to New York in 1857, when hundreds of working women went on strike and demonstrated against low salaries, long working hours and inhuman working conditions. 35 Years later in Copenhagen, Denmark, it was decided that the anniversary day of the women's "New York Strike" would be celebrated as International Women's Day. On the 8th of March 1975, the UN (United Nations) officially declared the 8th of March as a day of women's rights and world peace.
In all over the world this day is dedicated to women.

I'd like to wish all women all the best, and I invite men to celebrate this day with women all over the world!

We are the world

Esta es una webquest creada especialmente para 3º de Diversificación, con ella pretendo que nos adentremos en el mundo de la inmigración, aprendiendo un poco más de su vida y costumbres y así poder ponernos en su lugar. Como la actividad se prolonga a lo largo de 6 sesiones, espero que para la Semana Intercultural la hayamos terminado y sea el momento de exponerla, ésta será, por tanto nuestra participación en esa actividad.

Influential British Women

Para celebrar el Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora vamos a trabajar una Webquest sobre la situación de la mujer a lo largo del tiempo.

4ºDiversificación

Os he puesto un ejercicio de Revisión de las units 44-49 para que trabajéis con él y recordad que hay que trabajar también los irregulares.

Irregulares Completos para 4º de Diver

Ahora ya podéis practicar también el past participle. No os quejaréis!

Verbs Irregular 2

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Irregular verbs para 4º Diversificación

Una buena manera de practicar los verbos irregulares. Recordad que tenemos control el miércoles 25 y que me tenéis que presentar el homework del último día. See you on Wednesday.

Irregular verbs

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Nuevos documentos

He puesto unos documentos a vuestra disposición para que repaseis y comprobeis vuestro progreso de cara al control que tenéis el martes, tanto los de 1º de Bachillerato como los de 3º de Diversificación. Os vendrá bien practicar lo que habéis estudiado. Los tenéis en la barra de la derecha y los podéis bajar al ordenador para trabajarlos.See you on Tuesday.

4º de Diversificación

Esta presentación está dedicada a vosotros, como ya os anuncié esta mañana, espero que la trabajeis y lleveis los resultados el viernes a clase. Aunque tenemos computers, pediré esta tarea como homework, no me falleis. Como sé que tenéis la excursión a Lorca, NO preguntaré los iregulares, esos los dejamos para el control del miércoles. See you on Friday.

Health Vocabulary

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Para enriquecer vuestro blog

Si queréis hacer vuestro blog más completo, además de los gadgets del blogger podeis descargaros más cosas en la dirección que os he preparado. PINCHAD AQUÍ. Seguro que encontráis cosas que os gusten.

St Valentine's day

Os propongo que leáis atentamente esta presentación, penseis sobre ella, elijáis la frase (quote) que más os guste y la defendáis el próximo día en clase. ¡Ánimo!

Love Quotes

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Ejercicio para 3º Diversificación

Rubén Gómiz me ha aportado este ejercicio para hacer en línea sobre el Simple Present y el Present Continuous. Muchas gracias Rubén. Para verlo pinchad aquí

Relative sentences

You know what I have told you, you can download the presentation by clicking on "presentation" and you'll get all my presentations uploaded, once you are there you can click on "download" and you can save it wherever you want, your pen, computer... Doubts on Friday.

Relative Sentences

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KID STONED FROM THE DENTIST!!

Listen to the kid, it is really funny

1º Bachillerato!

I will ask you the uses of the Future tomorrow morning. This time I'll ask the theory, I won't accept "I can't understand it" if you don't prove you have learnt the theory by heart. The test will be very simple, just the paper I gave you. Here you are, just in case.

Future

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Here I am

Una preciosa canción para que hagáis Karaoke o, sencillamente, disfrutéis escuchándola

Here i am
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Videos para practicar inglés

Os dejo una dirección de Internet, muy útil, podéis ver videos de canciones, dibujos animados, entrevistas e incluso el juramento de Barack Obama, pero todo con el texto en inglés y traducido. Muy interesante, de verdad. Se puede parar el video y rebobinarlo, a vuestro gusto, para entenderlo mejor... Pinchad aquí

¡Merece la pena que lo visitéis!

Para 3º de Diversificación

The Present Simple Tense

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Una curiosidad

Este es un capítulo de los Simpson en su primera temporada, los dibujos son antiguos, pero también buenísimos, además ¡atención! Maggie habla!

Enhorabuena a los profes YA funcionarios

YA lo habéis conseguido! ahora a disfrutar de vuestra situación que ya habéis pasado bastante aunque, como ya sabéis, la tarea que tenéis por delante tampoco es fácil, pero es lo que hemos elegido y puede ser realmente gratificante sobre todo si se hace con ilusión. Un beso a todas y a él!

Más vocabulario con canción incluida

Mañana os lo pregunto, ya sabéis... a trabajar!

Más vocabulario con canción incluida

Mañana os lo pregunto, ya sabéis... a trabajar!

Body Vocabulary

Ahora las de mi tutoría este año

Fué una comida estupenda, no sólo por la comida que estuvo bien y muy abundante, con eso del buffet libre no parasteis de comer, sino por el ambiente que fué divertido y muy relajado, esta evaluación prometo repetirlo, a ver si ahora se nos apuntan también Belén y Tania que esta vez se escaquearon por irse con los novios, ¡qué dolor!, bueno y José Francisco que tampoco vino, no sé muy bien por qué. Ya veis que os perdísteis cosa buena.

Más fotos de alumos

La verdad es que fué un curso magnífico y nos lo pasamos estupendamente a lo largo de todo el año, para colmo todos los que se presentaron al exámen de Selectividad aprobaron el Inglés, y algunos con notas altas, me sentí muy orgullosa de ellos!

Día del centro 2008

A petición de mis alumnos y alumnas del año pasado:

A promise is a promise

Here you are. The presentation I talked you about this morning: Expressing the Future. You can download it and work with it at home. See you on Monday

Expressing the Future

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Entrega de diplomas

Mañana haré entrega de los diplomas a los que han aprobado esta Primera Evaluación, son chulísimos y además AVISO!último día de entrega de trabajos para 1º de Bachillerato!

De vuelta!

FELIZ 2009 a todos! Mañana nos vemos en el insti y volvemos a la carga, espero que con ganas después de las vacaciones.Así, en principio, no apetece mucho pero en cuanto empecemos será coser y cantar, ya veréis (al menos eso me digo yo a mí misma para animarme a retomar la tarea).