Reading club. Monday 17th February at lunchtime

Remember We will have our first meeting tomorrow to talk about the first part of ...




 We will also be doing a quiz
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/quiz/

Bring your copies!!!

Translation. Modals on Valentine''s day

Old post for a quick revision before the exam.
http://englishasbarxas.blogspot.com/2017/02/translation-modal-verbs-1-bach.html
http://englishasbarxas.blogspot.com/2017/10/3-eso-bilingual-section.html
https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/2018/09/2-bach-translation.html


may/might/can/could/should help

If you have time and want to know about Valentine's day, listen to the freaky story told by this funny lady
https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-strange-freaky-history-of.html

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement (graduation ceremony)

There are lots of amazing speeches online. Despite being from 2008. I only came across this one a few weeks ago.  J.K Rowling  talks about failure, the benefits of it and how you can  learn from it.
About the importance of true friends, how working for Amnesty International was an incredible and inspiring experience and dedicates the last part of her speech to encourage the graduates to... 

Can anyone finish the sentence?
Subtitles are not always correct but may help.

Hair Love | Oscar-Winning Short Film . 2 ESO ADAPTATION

How many parts of the house  can you see? Can you name them?
Can you write  5 objects in each room?
Can you write 4 sentences using the verb TO BE (is/are) and 4 using HAVE GOT (have/has got) about the short film?

Parts of the house. 2 ESO Adaptation

We have been studying the parts of the house and common objects in rooms.

Para practicar co vocabulario aprendido.

Click on the following

Parts of the house

Parts of the house 2

2 ESO. Miming actions with adverbs

MORE Activities

Waiting for a bus	Having a shower	Cooking an omelette
Watching TV	Fishing in the rain	Sewing a button onto a shirt
Playing cards	Waiting for a friend	Telephoning someone
Playing tennis	Studying English	Reading a big newspaper
Finding a radio station	Typing a letter	Getting dressed

MORE Activities

Waiting for a bus	Having a shower	Cooking an omelette
Watching TV	Fishing in the rain	Sewing a button onto a shirt
Playing cards	Waiting for a friend	Telephoning someone
Playing tennis	Studying English	Reading a big newspaper
Finding a radio station	Typing a letter	Getting dressed

I should have bought you flowers

From the "I should have  known better" by the Beatles  to    You should see me in a crown by Billie Eilish there are hundreds of songs where modal verbs are used and a great way for you to remember them.
Let's go romantic, oooooh a bit and listen to Bruno Mars

What does he regret?

Hold on a second! Is his English correct?  Can you find any mistake in the following lines?

Hmmm too young, too dumb to realize
That I should have bought you flowers and held your hand
Should have gave you all my hours when I had the chance
Take you to every party cause all you wanted to do was dance
Now my baby is dancing, but she's dancing with another man.

And others like Roxette sang "It must have been love"
Gloria Gaynor told herself she should have changed that stupid lock and she should have made him leave his key...
 More recently the fantastic Jamie Cullum  Kept repeating  Even though I might, even though I tried I can't  in the "Well you needen't"
and lots of examples could  be added if I had the time...

MORE ON MODALS
https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/search?q=modals
https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/search?q=MODAL+VERBS
https://teachingenglishpalmira.blogspot.com/2019/05/translation-modals-3-eso-bilingual.html

Oscars. Modal verbs

This is the beginning of an article about the Oscars ceremony and the lack of a host for the second time.

Several modal verbs have been used. Can you mention and translate them?

Sunday’s Oscars ceremony will be hostless for the second year in a row. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced via Twitter in January that no host would be forthcoming. Instead, it named a long lineup of quality presenters, from fan favorites like (2020 Oscar nominee) Taika Waititi and Lin-Manuel Miranda to industry legends like Steve Martin and Sigourney Weaver. 

That roster of A-listers should hopefully ensure that the ceremony can still provide something for everyone — or at least the roughly 30 million people who’ll bother to tune in. In fact, it seems likely this hostless streak is the start of a new normal.

It’s been a long time since January 2019, so you might not remember that last year was the first time in two decades that the Oscars had gone without a host. The Academy went host-free when its first choice, Kevin Hart, flounced from the job after coming under social media fire.

forthcoming:dispoñible
lineup: reparto
roster: lista
streak: cualidade
flounced

To go on reading:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/2/9/21126627/oscars-host-2020-why-no-one-is-hosting