Modal Verbs

Modal verbs

LONDON IN FIVE DAYS

 It took me quite a while to find time to put some photos together after our trip to London with all the planning, teaching, correcting before the end of the 2nd term. So I only sat down to it at Easter.  I am sure you have lots more but I would like to share with you Enma`s wonderful photos and my not so good ones + final video. I hope you enjoy  it!

Thanks again to my brave colleagues Xulio, Anxo, Trini and Enma and to all the students from 1st Bach who came to London and followed us at a good pace (almost one hundred kilometres in less than five days) without much complaining. My camera  got proof of that tiredness with studtents taking naps in different museums. I was nice enough to discard those photos though.   

The students had to do some research about the places to visit. Have a look at the web page created by Enma for the students to upload their post before travelling. ( We are still waiting for some...)

https://agueiro.edu.xunta.gal/view/share.php

Click on the photo to watch the video.

Conditional sentences

Next week we will be revising conditional sentences. Easy peasy... I will explain the different patterns and we will listen to different songs where the contitionals are used.  If  you have problems to understand them, you can have a look at the videos below.

 

Making suggestions. 1st ESO

Playing with comparatives and superlatives. 1st ESO

VIGO EN INGLÉS. 3 ESO

O programa da edición 2024 vai dirixido a estudantes de 3º da ESO. Desenvólvese nos meses de setembro, outubro e novembro de 2024 e consiste nunha estadía de 3 semanas nun país de fala inglesa. Durante este tempo, os rapaces asisten a un centro escolar, coma calquer outro estudiante local.

All the information in the following link

https://escolas.vigo.org/vigoeningles

Taylor Swift - Timeless 1st Bach Conditional sentence. Unit 5

For those who like Taylor Swift. Can you find any conditional sentence in the lyrics?

What is the song about?

More songs where conditionals are used in this blog

ONE LIFE (2024) movie clip with Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton

The Spring - The charity: water story

CHARLOTTA BASS. ONE OF SO MANY FORGOTTEN . EL PAÍS ENGLISH

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Charlotta Bass: Black, progressive and a vice-presidential candidate 70 years before Kamala Harris

Editor and owner of a newspaper and founder of her own political party, Bass was a pivotal figure among African-Americans in the early and mid-20th century, but her name faded from history

Charlotta Bass has no tombstone to mark her burial place. She has gone so unnoticed by history that there is not a single street, square, or park in the United States officially named for her. But she came before so many others; before almost all the others. Charlotta Amanda Spears, born in rural South Carolina in the late 19th century, was an inconceivable figure. Female and Black, the sixth of 11 children and educated in public schools, she became the owner and publisher of an influential newspaper for nearly four decades, founded political parties, ran twice for Congress and once for the Los Angeles City Council and was the first African-American woman to appear on the vice-presidential ballot, in 1952, almost 70 years before Kamala Harris or the current mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who is no relation to her namesake, were elected.

...and she moved to an emerging Los Angeles.

In the early 1900s, the California city was ablaze with the birth of motion pictures, streetcars, and mass media. And an unstoppable Bass (then still Charlotta Spears) was eager to work. In Rhode Island she had sold advertising and newspaper subscriptions, and when she arrived in Los Angeles she managed to place herself similarly at The California Eagle, which was aimed at a Black readership and located in the heart of community in Los Angeles, among churches and jazz clubs. “The Eagleilluminated Black life in a way that was not illuminated in other papers,” Angeleno journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan, whose uncle wrote for the publication in the 1950s, told The New York Times. The paper’s white founder saw Bass’s talent and she grew in the organization. So much so that when he became ill, he offered to let her keep the paper...if she would become his girlfriend. She refused, and when he died, she borrowed $50 and bought the paper at auction in 1912.

As owner she decided to hire a prominent Kansas publisher, Joseph Bass, whom she married in 1914. At the helm, they made big editorial bets that saw the Eagle become the largest African-American-focused media outlet in the West, growing from four to 20 pages and selling 60,000 copies. They unabashedly attacked the Ku Klux Klan; in fact, several members showed up one night at Charlotta Bass’s office. She was alone and did not hesitate to pull out the pistol she kept in her drawer to encourage them to leave the way they had come. They criticized the racism of The Birth of a Nation, and even wanted to stop the filming of the movie, which brought them national fame. 

GO ON READING HERE ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY ELPAISIN

Translation. Modals. 1st BAC

 1. Viendo la portada puedo decir que estos libros deben de haber sido muy caros. 

2. No tuvimos que comprar entradas para el espectáculo porque mis padres me las habían regalado por mi cumpleaños. 

3. Deberías contarle a tus padres que estas pensando en tatuarte la espalda. Podrías lamentar después.

4. A nadie se le permite ver la película antes de su estreno.

 5. Deberías haberte probado la ropa antes de comprarla. Ahora tendrás que ir a devolverla y perder la mitad de la tarde.

6. No podré preparar el examen esta semana porque estaré tremendamente ocupada . 

7. Es imposible que me hayas visto en el cine porque estuve acabando el trabajo de ciencias. 

8. Puede que compre un coche nuevo puesto que el mío se avería cada semana.

 9. Deberías contarle a tus padres que estas pensando en tatuarte la espalda. Podrías lamentar después.

Learning English abroad

 

Link á orde

READERS 1st BAC

As I have mentioned in class, the titles below are for you to choose and read. There are copies in the library but not enough for all of you to read at the same time so you shouldn't have them for a long time in order to allow others to read them.  In case you want to buy your own copy, they are all from Burlington Books.

1st BACH A

                                                                    

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The following titles can also be found in the library ( about 10-12 copies each). They are full books, not adapted like the ones before. I would like to encourage those who like reading to pick one of them. If you find them too hard or long, you can always go for the easy ones.

 

READERS 1st ESO BIL