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Education. Parental Veto. Unit 3 1 Bach

Reading and speaking activity

Spain’s political parties lock horns over far-right Vox’s ‘parental veto’

The controversial policy from the group would give parents the right to stop their children from attending workshops on issues such as homophobia and sex education.

lock horns : fight 

https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/01/20/inenglish/1579513966_679777.html

What is your opinion on the matter?

Video: HOSTING STUDENTS FROM UCKFIELD COLLEGE

As you probably know, our school hosted students from Uckfield College (United kingdom) last December.
Some of the A level students came to our 1st Bach class to talk about their academical system. That was very interesting and our students where surprised at the number of subjects they had to prepare each year ( only 3 or 4!!!)
During the week they were hosted by students from 3 ESO and 1st BACH.                                      
    
                                                  VIGO 2019                                      
  
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Designed and painted by 3rd ESO students and art teacher

In the video you can see photos of the group in the different activities that week. Despite the terrible weather, they seem happy and said to have had a great week. 

Galicia: Your travel destination. 2 ESO

In pairs you are going to write a report about different towns and places to visit in Galicia: Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Baiona, Vigo...Choose a place, find and inviting title and start creating a text where you can mention:

Photo: Palmira Calvar
Nerga beach

• location
• how to get there
• weather
• why  it is worth to visit ( history, architecture, museums, food, landscape, beaches, food...)
• Best time of the year to visit it
• Activities to do there
• and any other idea you may like to include as well as photos.

Format: Oral presentation

Power point, google, prezi... presentation

Video

The oral presentation should be balanced 

between the two participants 

CAMBRIDGE EXAMS. 1 Bach

This may be the appropriate academical year to test your level of English. You will need to certify a B1 or B2 in some universities to get a degree and you will have to certify your level of English if you want to apply for a stay of  Erasmus mobility.
CAMBRIDGE EXAMS can be taken in Vigo,  have a look at the different dates in case you are interested.
The activities we are doing this year (Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing) are very similar to the ones you will find in those exams

Readers

More books teenagers like and you can borrow from me, download to your ebooks, buy
from https://www.iberlibro.com/
or at your local bookshop.

• THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
• EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING
• THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR
• CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (http://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/2019/06/readers.html

• SIMON Vs THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA

               Not looking for loooove, then next is a must

•  HOLES
• THE BREADWINNER  (https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-breadwinner-by-deborah-ellis-eso.html)
• WONDER
• WE WERE LIARS
• THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE  NIGHT-TIME

You can also borrow them either from me or the library.

James Corden and Adele

Have you revised the irregular verbs? Were you able to fill in the gaps of the song from the post last week?
You can then go on practising.

https://es.lyricstraining.com/play/adele/set-fire-to-the-rain-live/HK5ofqYUAK

and watch the great moment James Corden and Adele are having.

Amazing hotels. Unit 3. 2nd ESO Spend a night in a silver mine |

TIPS TO WRITE ABOUT AN EVENT AND AN EXAMPLE TO ADD TO THE ONES IN YOUR BOOKS 1st Bach

A REPORT OF AN EVENT

OPENING:

Ø  REMEMBER that answering question words such as "where, when, who involved, what" may help you begin your essay.

Ø  You can include briefly your opinion. 

BODY: 

Ø  What happened?. How did it all happened? Recount the events as they occured (timeline) using sequence linkers ( To begin with/firstly, later, next, after or before +-ing, etc).

Ø  Include atmosphere and other details.

Ø  You will use simple past mostly but you can combine it with past continuous, past perfect. Introduce contrast (although + sentence, despite + noun or -ing, however).  

Ø  Use the first person if you are involved or third person if not.

Ø  The use of  adjectives and adverbs will improve your text.

          Compare:

          The room was decorated with flowers and photos of my grandparents.

         The room was beautifully decorated  with colourful flowers,

        enormous gold- coloured balloons and old photos of my grandparents.

CLOSING:

Ø  Sum up the event starting with “all in all, In summary,...) give your opinion.

Ø  Describe how the writer/people involved felt.

Make it more interesting inventing facts if necessary.

Try to introduce the new structures you are studying (relative pronouns at the moment but you may include modals or passive structures if you remember them) and also the new vocabulary. It is the only way you will keep it and use it in the long run.

 Once you have written your draft make sure you have included all the ideas in the clearly-indicated paragraphs. 
Before handing it in, check grammar, spelling, punctuation and word order.

CLICK TO READ AN EXAMPLE ( you can read the ones in your book first, pages 168 and 42)

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/advanced-c1-writing/report-school-trip-abroad

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Los 3 ganadores, uno por cada categoría, podrán ganar un curso de 2 semanas en Inglaterra ¡con todo incluido!
ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE FOLLOWING LINK
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SET FIRE TO THE RAIN. SIMPLE PAST. REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS. 2 ESO

WE HAVE LISTENED TO THIS SONG A COUPLE OF TIMES and I really love you when you go crazy singing the chorus.
If all of you can complete the verbs in the simple past, we will listen to the song again. (two mistakes allowed)

SET FIRE TO THE RAIN

SO THEY HEARD ABOUT VIGO IN NEW YORK. 1 BACH

This is the beginning of the article published in the NEW YORK TIMES
VIGO, Spain — Before the holiday season, the mayor of this Spanish city bragged that his Christmas lights would outshine New York, which lies across the Atlantic on the same latitude.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/world/europe/vigo-spain-christmas-lights.html

What is your opinion of the article?

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. 2 ESO

I have ordered the copies of  "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" some of you are going to read and they will probably be here soon. I have started to read it and think you will enjoy it and will find it not too difficult to read. 

Have a look at some of the opinions about the book taken from goodreads where you can go and read more if you are interested (not all of them are positive but most of them are). This page is great to get information about books, to keep track of what you read, to have your readings organised and even write your own reviews.

You can't please everyone, and I guess books can be a good example of that statement. I know a lot of people who liked this book very much, but on the other hand, I also know a few people who would not hesitate to burn this book. I'm on the positive side. I really enjoyed this short novel.

I've said this numerous times in my other reviews that I like character driven novels. This book obviously focused on Christopher's development more than the plot's. The author succeeded, because I've gotten attached to the little kiddo. I have a soft spot for people, more on children, with disabilities. I can't stomach to be annoyed at them because it's not something they can control. While I don't know anyone personally with autism, the author managed to give justice to the sickness. It's not the best book on autism, but it's a short preview of it.

I honestly don't like reading huge novels during the school year. I'd rather read those gigantic books during my breaks because I tend to enjoy them better when read at my own pace. Reading is not a task for me, but it's something that I consider to be leisure. Stress from the university is not something I could control, so reading shorter novels help me unwind at times. It's actually my exam week next week but I managed to squeeze this book in my hectic schedule. I didn't feel like rushing because it was so short to begin with. Aside from being short, it was also really entertaining.

Like I said, it's not a novel that everyone's going to love, but I'd recommend taking the risk and find out for yourself. Sometimes the opinion of others may seem right, but in the end it's all about what the novel made you feel after reading. You don't have to go with the flow and hate on something you actually like.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20408288-will-m

This was a truly amazing story told from the point of view of Christopher, an autist boy. Right from the beginning, you are being thrown into this mystery story - which is not really a mystery story but a story about Christopher's life and struggles. This book comes with surprises and I loved that. I think I should've seen them coming but I didn't.
Christopher kind of reminded me of Don from "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion. So if you've read and liked that book, there's a chance you will like "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" as well.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21992464-helene-jeppesen

One of the readers who wrote a  negative review mentions this one.