I hope you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Next reading session: Friday, 13th January

CHAPTER 3

 pg 14-15

Why was Joe counting the hours until SundayP

Was Sunday going to be a good or a bad day in relation to weather?

Who was he driving to Newquay?

Who was Joe meeting there?

Was Anna interested in surfing?

Why did Joe feel angry?

How long was Joe going to spend in the farm?

Why was he in the farm?

They saw losts of protesters, what were they protesting/complaining about?

What were they dressed up like?

Pg 16

Was Kate interested in meeting Anna?

Where did Kate and Joe go?

What did they buy? Why?

pg 17

What is described there?

Pg 18

What does he teach her?

pg 20

What is the woman Joe admires doing?

What does kate think about her parents' GM crop?

pg 21

What does Kate ask Joe about?

VIDEO SCRIPTS

POEMS chosen by you

Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

1
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
2
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
3
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Elizabeth Barret Browning´s "How Do I Love Thee?"

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. 

UNIDAD 6- contenidos

Comprensión oral: listenings

Expresión oral: Check information pg 41 (Spb unit 6)

Comprensión escrita: dialogue (Spb unit 6 pg 40)

Expresión escrita: A Speech

Gramática: Question tags (unit 6)

Vocabulario: Clothes and parts of clothes (Spb unit 6)

Fonética: English vowels (minimal pairs)

Reflexión sobre aprendizaje: search for interactive activities; use visual context (Spb pg 48)

Aspectos socioculturales: Love poem and poets

CONTROLES

Recordad que el viernes, 18 de febrero, se repartieron los controles y que tenéis que traerlos firmados el lunes 21.

ANDALUSIA DAY

Read the text carefully and answer the questions below.

The capital city of Andalusia
Seville is Andalusia's largest city and its administrative centre. Seville is full of 1magnificent churches, convents, monuments and Moorish buildings. It's also famous for its multitude of tapas bars and a noisy nightlife.
One of Europe's biggest cathedrals is here, the 2 vast Gothic Catedral  with its famous minaret, the Giralda. Nearby is another of the city's most impressive 3sights, the elaborately ornate Mudéjar palace of the Alcázar. Close to Seville is the ruined settlement of Italica, one of the Roman Empire's most important cities, with its mosaics and 4huge amphitheatre.

Farmland to the east, Carmona
Going to the east from the city there is a vast, undulating countryside of cereal fields and olive trees with a series of towns - Carmona, Écija, Estepa and Osuna.
Located on a low hill overlooking a fertile plain, Carmona is a picturesque, small town with a magnificent 15th century tower built in imitation of Seville's Giralda. Not surprisingly, given its proximity, Carmona shares a similar history to Seville, and was an important Roman city which, under the Moors was often governed by a brother of the Sevillan ruler. Later Pedro the Cruel built a palace within its castle which he used as his royal residence in the country.
At the entrance to the town is the Puerta de Sevilla a grand and ruinous fortified 5gateway which leads to the historic old part of the city. Within the wall, you can find narrow streets with Mudejar churches and Renaissance mansions. Up still further is the Plaza San Fernando which is small but dominated by splendid Moorish style buildings.
Close by to the east is Santa Maria, a 6stately Gothic church built over the former main mosque. Dominating the town are the massive ruins of Pedro's palace, destroyed by an earthquake in 1504 and now 7taken over by a 8gracious parador. To the left  you can see the Roman Puerta de Córdoba from where the original Cordoba road drops down to a vast plain.
The Roman necropolis is particularly 9noteworthy. It lies on a low hill at the opposite end of Carmona amid cypress trees and contains more than nine hundred family tombs dating from the second century BC to the fourth century AD. Some of the larger tombs have vestibules with stone 10benches for funeral banquets and several retain carved family emblems. Opposite is a partly excavated ampitheatre. Carmona is a fascinating town and well worth a visit.

1º- Replace the underlined words by their synonyms.

Entrance

Long seats

Views

Elegant

Nice

Splendid

Immense

Huge

Replaced

Remarkable

2º- Say if these statements are true or false.

1______Seville is only known for its monuments.

2______The cathedral retains an important Moorish element.

3______Italica was a city at the times of the Roman Empire.

4______Carmona´s tower looks like Seville´s Giralda.

5______Carmona didn´t exist at the times of the Romans.

6______Pedro the Cruel built the palace but never lived there.

7______There are only Gothic monuments in the old part of the city.

8______Santa María church was built over a mosque.

9______Pedro´s palace was destroyed by his enemies in the 16^th century.

10_____Now that palace is a parador.

11_____Inside the tombs of the necropolis, the Romans used to celebrate banquets.

IMPORTANTE

Debéis enseñar a vuestros padres las notas de la última prueba escrita, que hoy (11 Feb) llevaréis apuntadas en las agendas.

CULTURE

UK 2

Religion

1.       The main religion in Britain is___________________. Most Christians belong to the Church of or the Church of Scotland. These are _________________ Churches. There are also many Roman Catholics.

2.       Although _____________is the main religion, there are also large communities of M_____________, Sihks, H_____________and J__________, and other smaller communities such as B_______________.

3.       In 1533, during the reign of_____________, England broke from the Roman Catholic Church to form the Anglican Church. Why did it happen?

Population

4.       What´s the population of UK?

5.       What´s by far the most densely populated part of the UK?

Climate

6.       The British have a variable climate changing from day to day, it is difficult to predict the weather. In general they have cold/hot/ warm summers and cool/cold/warm winters.

7.       The climate is mild with temperatures not much lower than______ºC in winter and not much higher than _______ºC in summer. It also means that it is damp and is subject to frequent changes.

Curious facts

8.       The three most popular newborn boy´s names in 2008 were _________________

9.       The three most popular newborn girl´s names in 2008 were _________________

Industries

10.   Britain´s main industries today are banking- sector bancario- and finance, steel, transport equipment –material de  transporte- (conveyors,cranes, industrial trucks,…), oil and gas, and tourism.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: past simple vs past continuous

act 1
act 2
act 3
act 4
act 5
act 6

GRAMMAR REVISION: present perfect simple with for or since

act 1
act 2

GRAMMAR REVISION: comparatives and superlatives

act 1
act 2
act 3
act 4
act 5
act 6

UNIDAD 5- contenidos

Comprensión oral:  Listenings
Expresión oral: Ask for and give directions (Spb unit 5 pg 38)
Comprensión escrita: reading comprehension activity
Expresión escrita: A biography
Gramática: Comparison of adjectives (Spb unit 4); Present perfect simple with for and since (Spb unit 4)  Past simple and continuous (unit 5)
Vocabulario: Adjectives with negative prefixes (Spb unit 4); time markers (while, as, when), prepositions of motion, verbs of movement (Spb unit 5)
Fonética: English long vowels
Reflexión sobre el aprendizaje: search for interactive activities;use textual clues to help you read (Spb 3º pg 44 )
Aspectos socioculturales: UK2

SONG

 1. Match the words to their correct definition.

____ To be stuck ____ To run away ____ To stab someone in the back ____ To break down ____ To fake a smile ____ To lock yourself in ____ To kick someone when they're down ____ To be on the edge ____ To turn up ____ To be left out

a) To lose control of your feelings and start crying. b) To increase the sound. c) To continue to hurt someone when they are already defeated. d) Unable to move or be moved. e) To be nervous, excited or bad tempered. f) Not included or mentioned in something. g) To escape h) To prevent someone from entering your room by locking the door. i) To give a false, not genuine smile. j) To betray someone who trusts you

2. Listen to the song and fill in the spaces with the missing words in the box and some words from the previous exercise.

all right, deep, desperate, edge, ever (2), gave, had, hears, hurt, lost, place, pushed around, over, sick (2), somebody, straight, stupid, understands

IST PART
Do you _____ feel like ____________ ________?
Do you _____ feel out of ________?
Like __________ you just don't belong
And no one _______________ you
Do you ever wanna ______ _________?
Do you _______ ____________ in your room?
With the radio on __________ ____ so loud
That no one ________ you screaming
No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels _________
You don't know what it's like
To be like me
CHORUS
To be _______
To feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when you're down
To feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of __________
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
2ND PART
Do you wanna be _______ else?
Are you _______ of feeling so _______?
Are you ________ to find something more?
Before your life is ______
Are you _______ inside a world you hate?
Are you ________ of everyone around?
With their big _______ smiles and _______ lies
While _______ inside you're bleeding
No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels _________
You don't know what it's like
To be like me
CHORUS
To be _______
To feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when you're down
To feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of __________
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
3RD PART
No one ever lied __________ to your face
And no one ever ____________ you in the _______
You might think I'm happy but I'm not gonna be okay
Everybody always _______ you what you wanted
You never ______ to work it was always there
You don't know what it's like, what it's like
CHORUS
To be _______
To feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when you're down
To feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of __________
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
3. Answer the following questions.
a) Do you think this is a happy song? Why?
b) Do you ever feel like breaking down? What makes you feel like that?
c) Do you ever feel out of place? What makes you feel like that?
d) Do you ever want to run away? Why? Where do you want to go?
e) Do you want to be somebody else? Why? Who would you like to be?

READING COMPREHENSION

Drawing Conclusions

Luke is very competitive and loves to win when he plays sports. Kyler doesn’t take sports all that seriously. So when their tennis singles match was over, it was no surprise that both boys were in a good mood, especially Luke.

1. Which statement is most likely true?

a. Luke won the match.
b. Kyler won the match.
c. The game was rained out.
d. Kyler was given a new truck.

Leslie’s main playlist has forty rock songs, fifteen rap songs, and one country song. It also contains twelve classical instrumentals.

2. Which statement is probably NOT true.

a. Leslie likes music.
b. Leslie’s favorite music is country.
c. Leslie likes rock better than rap.
d. Leslie listens to a wide range of music.

I think you’ll like your present, Scott. You’ll still be able to use it for at least the next couple of months before the weather gets too warm. It can be a lot of fun, especially if you take a lesson or two first. Remember, people are often injured by using these things if they don’t know what they’re doing.

3. Scott’s new present is a _______.

a. rifle
b. tennis racquet
c. snow shovel
d. snowboard

Brad put a load of clothes into the washing machine. An hour later, he unloaded the damp clothes and put them into the dryer. Later, he unloaded the clothes and carried them upstairs in a basket. To his dismay, Brad noticed that the load of laundry just didn’t smell nearly as fresh as usual.

4. One of the following is the reason why. Which one is it?

a. Brad forgot to turn on the washing machine.
b. Brad wasn’t paid to do the laundry.
c. Brad had forgotten to put detergent into the machine.
d. The radio didn’t work.

1___________2___________3___________4___________

WRITING

READING SESSION

Primera sesión de lectura: viernes, 14 Enero
Tenéis que traer el libro Food for Thought de Pauline Francis (Penguin Readers). Recordad que os di la referencia el 14 de diciembre.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: future tense

Activity 1
Activity 2: will, be going to
Activity 3: will, be going to
Activity 4: will, be going to
Activity 5: will, going to, present continuous
Activity 6: will, going to, present continuous
Grammar theory and examples