CONDITIONAL SENTENCES. I WISH/IF ONLY

What are your regrets at the moment?

Write a few and use I wish/If only to share with your classmates.

Things People Regret the Most.

1. I wish I had spent more time with the people I love.

2. I wish I had worried less.

3. I wish I had forgiven more.

4. I wish I had stood up for myself.

5. I wish I had faced my fears.

6. I wish I'd stopped chasing the wrong things.

7. I wish I had worked less.

8. I wish I had cared less about what other people think.

9. I wish I had lived up to my full potential.

10. I wish I'd lived more in the moment.

WRITING. Enviroment. Problems and ways to help.

How can we help improve environment?

Some of the  Major Current Environmental Problems

1. Pollution: Pollution of air, water and soil require millions of years to recoup. Industry and motor vehicle exhaust are the number one pollutants. 

2. Global Warming: Climate changes like global warming is the result of human practices like emission of Greenhouse gases. Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth’ surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.

3.Waste Disposal: The over consumption of resources and creation of plastics are creating a global crisis of waste disposal. Developed countries are notorious for producing an excessive amount of waste or garbage and dumping their waste in the oceans and, less developed countries. Nuclear waste disposal has tremendous health hazards associated with it. Plastic, fast food, packaging and cheap electronic wastes threaten the well being of humans. Waste disposal is one of urgent current environmental problem.

4.  Climate Change: Climate change is  another environmental problem that has surfaced in last couple of decades. It occurs due to rise in global warming which occurs due to increase in temperature of atmosphere by burning of fossil fuels and release of harmful gases by industries.

5.  Deforestation: Our forests are natural sinks of carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen  Deforestation simply means clearing of green cover and make that land available for residential, industrial or commercial purpose.

6. Ozone Layer Depletion: The ozone layer is an invisible layer of protection around the planet that protects us from the sun’s harmful rays.

7.  Acid Rain: Acid rain occurs due to the presence of certain pollutants in the atmosphere. Acid rain can be caused due to combustion of fossil fuels or erupting volcanoes

Taken from http://environment-ecology.com

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/save-earth-top-ten.htm

Some of the ideas mentioned in the next Tedx Talk may be useful for your writings too.

https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/search?q=environment

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!

It was Katie's birthday on Friday. We know her mum would have organised a great party. We only managed to finish our last lesson 15' earlier and  asked her to make a wish, blow the candles and have a bit of cake with us.  She  looked happy and surprised. Happy birthday katie!!!

2 BACH. Regarding the text that introduces Unit 4

Thomas More and Utopia

Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, which was the forerunner of the utopian literary genre. More served as an important counselor to King Henry VIII of England, serving as his key counselor in the early 1500s, but after he refused to accept the king as head of the Church of England, he was tried for treason and beheaded (he died in London, England, in 1535). More is noted for coining the word "Utopia," in reference to an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935, and has been commemorated by the Church of England as a "Reformation martyr."

'Utopia'

In 1516, More published Utopia, a work of fiction primarily depicting a pagan and communist island on which social and political customs are entirely governed by reason. The description of the island of Utopia comes from a mysterious traveler to support his position that communism is the only cure for the egoism found in both private and public life—a direct jab at Christian Europe, which was seen by More as divided by self-interest and greed.

Utopia covered such far-reaching topics as theories of punishment, state-controlled education, multi-religion societies, divorce, euthanasia and women's rights, and the resulting display of learning and skill established More as a foremost humanist. Utopia also became the forerunner of a new literary genre: the utopian romance

More on this topic:

https://www.biography.com/people/thomas-more-9414278

GOOD BYE ROSBIN! SAFE JOURNEY AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR NEW LIFE!

ROSBIN is leaving this week. He is going back to  Tegucigalpa (Honduras). As today was our last class with him, his classmates  organised a small farewell party. Hector cooked some tasty brownies, María lots of delicious chocolate muffins and Ivan mmmh, yummy cookies. Others brought crisps, popcorn, chocolate bars...

Thank you for the food!!!

Katie!! You missed it! You would have enjoyed it!  Sorry!!!

VIGO EN INGLÉS.CONVOCATORIA ORDINARIA 3º ESO - 2019

Requisitos

Os adxudicatarios da presente convocatoria serán os alumnos e alumnas, españois ou estranxeiros con tarxeta de residencia ou de estancia por estudos en vigor, de centros educativos do Concello de Vigo sostidos con fondos públicos que cumpran os requisitos que a continuación se sinalan:

1. Estar a cursar 3.º da ESO nun centro educativo do Concello de Vigo sostido con fondos públicos durante o curso académico 2018/2019.
   2. Ter aprobadas todas as materias de 2.º de ESO.
   3. Ter obtido como mínimo unha nota de 7 na materia de Lingua inglesa nas cualificacións finais de 2.º de ESO.
   4. Estar empadroado no Concello de Vigo, con vixencia mínima dende o 01/01/2018 , dato que será comprobado de oficio pola propia administración.
   5. Non ter concedida, no ano 2019, outra axuda coa mesma finalidade.
   6. Ter DNI/NIE, permiso de residencia ou pasaporte en vigor cunha vixencia mínima de 6 meses.

Deberán solicitar as prazas os representantes legais (pai e nai ou titor/a legal) dos alumnos e alumnas.

Documentación, como participar, bases e anexos no seguinte link:

          http://www.vigoeningles.org/convocatoria-eso/index.htm


             GOOD LUCK!!!

THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis 3rd ESO BIlingual Section

I discovered The Breadwinner and Deborah Ellis in the fall of 2015 during my stay in Canada. Since then I have been encouraging my students to read it. This year I have planned to do the same and asked those students from 3 ESO Bilingual who will be reading it in the next few weeks to do a bit of research about Afghanistan. They have done so and we have absolutely enjoyed their  presentations today. Now they know where to place the story, the political situation of the country, a bit about the languages spoken, climate, population, religions, and the dreadful situation of the women. You are ready to start reading.


Some photos about your presentations.

Unluckily no research was done about  Deborah Ellis, the writer of the book. She is an amazing person so I think you should spend a few minutes reading and finding out about her.
You can have a look at her webpage       http://deborahellis.com/ 
And You can even contact her !!!!

 This is a video about her.

Breaking news from the United Kingdom. Theresa May survives no-confidence motion

In the video, the Prime Minister Theresa May, is addressing the press outside 10 Downing Street explaining how the government will proceed.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jan/16/this-is-the-time-to-put-self-interest-aside-may-in-brexit-plea-outside-no-10-video

BREXIT

As I have told you, today is a crucial day for the United Kingdom in relation with Brexit. The parliament was voting whether to accept the Brexit deal the government had been negociating with the European community. It is known now that Teresa May has lost the vote in a huge defeat. As a result Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a vote of no confidence, which will be debated in the House tomorrow.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jan/15/the-moment-theresa-may-loses-crucial-brexit-deal-vote-video

More on the same topic

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/01/15/second-brexit-referendum-would-work-question-will-happen-would/

News from EL país English edition

THis is the beginning of the terrible piece of news about the boy who disappeared two days ago.
Pay attention to the impersonal passive and other passives if you read the whole article.

The rescue mission to save a two-year-old toddler who is thought to have fallen down a 100-meter-deep well in Málaga in the south of Spain has entered its second day. Julen went missing at midday on Sunday after his family went to the mountains for lunch on a relative’s farm.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/15/inenglish/1547541622_689998.html

Let's have a look at the pronunciation of the ending of regular verbs

1) [t] final sound

Verbs ending in voiceless sounds [p, k, θ, f, s, ʃ, tʃ] cause the “-ed” ending to be pronounced as the voiceless [t] (with no vocal chord vibration).

•  [p] “He popped a balloon.” [papt]
• [k] “They talked a lot” [takt]
• [θ] “th”: “She frothed a cup of milk” [frawθt]
• [f] “I laughed at the movie.” [læft]
• [s] “She kissed a frog.” [kIst]
• [ʃ] “sh”: “We brushed it off.” [bruʃt]
• [tʃ] “ch”: “I reached around for it.” [riytʃt]

2) [d] final sound

Verbs ending in the voiced sounds [b, g, ð, v, z, ʒ, dʒ, m, n, ŋ, r, l] cause the “-ed” ending to be pronounced as a voiced [d].

•  [b] “It bobbed up and down.” [babd]
• [g] “He begged her to stay.” [bɛgd]
• [ð] “She breathed loudly.” [briyðd]
• [v] “They loved it.” [luvd]
• [z] “We raised her expectations.” [reyzd]
• [dʒ] “They bridged the gap.” [brIdʒd]
• [m] “I claimed it was mine.” [kleymd]
• [n] “They banned new members.” [bænd]
• [ŋ] “She banged into the chair.” [bæŋd]
• [r] “He cleared it up.” [kliyrd]
• [l] “I rolled up the paper.” [rowld]

3)  [ɪd] final sound

Verbs ending in the sounds [t] or [d] will cause the “-ed” ending of a verb to be pronounced as the syllable  [ɪd].

• [t] “She edited the research paper.” [ɛdɪtɪd]
• [d] “We ended the game early.” [ɛndɪd]
• [d] “He breaded the chicken.” [brɛdɪd]

New Year's Resolutions

CAN YOU GUESS MY FIRST NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FROM THE LIST BELOW?

WHAT ABOUT YOURS? 

I AM ALSO GOING TO PRACTISE:

LISTEN TO THEIR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. CAN YOU WRITE THEM DOWN?

ROSS is going to .................... and he is also ................
Phoebe is ..........
Joey ................

What does Phoebe offer to do?
What does Monica suggest Rachel should do?
How does she define this bad habit?