Let's celebrate Christmas!!!!!

Useful resources:

-The history of Christmas celebrations: click here

Extra credit...

Here you can upload all the optional activities that you have designed to increase your grades!!!

1- Sara (2ºC): IESO Tomás Bretón. Click here 

Thanksgiving in America

Using your own words, explain one habit, custom, characteristic or surprising fact related to the festivity of Thanksgiving day celebrated in American.CLICK HERE to have access to the PowerPoint.

Strange Restaurants!!!!!!

1. Find a strange restaurant around the world.

2. Pick up some interesting information about it.

3. Create a document (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) with the basic characteristics of it, including some photos.

4. Present your task in front of your class.

Something to eat?... Or a pirate story?

Group 1: Carlos and Francisco M. García. Click here

Group 2: Sara. Click here

Group 3: Lorena and Elsa. Click here

Group 4: Adrián and Egoitz. Click here

Group 5: Gadea and Andrea. Click here

Group 6: Eva and Marina. Click here

Group 7: Laura. Click here

Group 8: Óscar and Sergio. Click here

Group 9: Nerea and Daniel.

Group 10: Unai and Francisco M. Amores.Click here

A Photo Description

1. Look for a photo of you having fun with your friends or family. 

2. Describe the most important characteristics: where you were, when it was taken, what you are doing.

3. Make a PowerPoint and present your photo in front of the class.

1- Sara. Click here
2- Laura. Click here
3- Daniel. Click here
4- Carlos. Click here
5- Andrea and Gadea. Click here
6- Lorena. Click here.
7- Eva. Click here
8- Óscar. Click here

Let's celebrate Thanksgiving!!!

Useful resources:

-The history of Thanksgiving: click here

-Charlie Brown: click here

-Animated Thanksgiving: click here

The First Settlements and the Cathedral Builders

Here you have some information about the city of Salamanca and its main buildings: CLICK HERE

With this information and with the guided itinerary that we did around Salamanca create a PowerPoint and share them here.

Group 1: Lorena and Elsa. Click here

Group 2: Adrián and Egoitz.Click here

Group 3: Francisco M. García and Carlos.Click here

Group 4: Eva and Marina.Click here

Group 5: Óscar and Sergio. Click here

Group 6: Sara and Laura. Click here

Group 7: Gadea and Andrea. Click here

Group 8: Nerea and Daniel. Click here

Group 9: Unai and Francisco M. Amores.

Halloween Contest

We're celebrating Halloween!!!!

Look at the following steps and customize your pumpkin...

Projects:

Group 1: Sara, Gadea, Andrea and Eva. Click here

Group 2: Unai, Carlos and Francisco M. García. Click here

Group 3: Nerea, Lorena and Daniel. Click here

Group 4: Óscar, Francisco M. Amores, Egoitz, Adrián and Sergio. Click here

Group 5: Elsa, Laura and Marina. Click here

Let's celebrate Halloween!!!

Useful resources:

-The history of Halloween: click here

-Trick or Treat??: click here

-Monsters: click here

-Animated Halloween: click here

-Why kids love to be scared: click here

-Activities: poems of witches, poems of ghosts, songs, riddles

-Printable games: worksheets

American Schools

Using your own words, explain one similarity or difference between the American and the Spanish education systems.

TASK ONE: Write down some questions that you would like to know about the American education system. Prepare and record an interview and transcribe it. Upload in your blog.CLICK HERE to have access to the PowerPoint.

TASK TWO: Choose an English-speaking country high school. Make a leaflet that could be used as an advertisment, emphasizing its most important characteristics. 

Rules for Singular / Plural Nouns

Hello everybody!!!!

Here you have a website where you can practise the rules we learnt in class about singular and plural nouns:CLIC HERE 

I hope you enjoy it!! 

Past Simple Pronunciation

Look at the following exercises and practise the past simple pronunciation:

Exercises 1: BBC

Exercises 2: To Learn English

Exercises 3: English Hilfen

Exercises 4: ESL Lounge

Exercises 5: Pearson Longman

Exercises 6: Proprofs

Exercises 7: Better English

English Newspapers

These are the English Newspapers most accessed online in September 2015.

 Top 50 English Newspapers

1 Daily Mail 2 Daily Mirror 3 The Guardian 4 Daily Express 5 The Daily Telegraph 6 BBC News 7 The Independent 8 The Times 9 The Sun 10 Al Quds 11 The Mirror 12 The Telegraph 13 Daily Star 14 London Daily 15 Evening Standard 16 The Observer 17 Financial Times 18 The Sunday Times 19 The Cornish Gazette 20 London Observer 21 The Economist 22 Manchester Evening News 23 The Guardian Weekly 24 Metro 25 Evening Chronicle 26      Local London 27      Daily Post 28      Sunday Mail 29      Asharq al-Awsat 30      Elaph 31      The Morning Star 32      International Herald Tribune 33      News of the World Online 34      The Advertiser 35      Achievements 36      Manchester Times 37      The London Weekly 38      Daily Post 39      The Beaver 40      Birmingham Post 41      Windsor Express 42      City A.M. 43      The Advertiser 44      Independent Observer 45      Asian Times 46      London Mercury 47      Evening News 48      Cambridge Evening News 49      Liverpool Echo 50      The Jewish Chronicle

Choose one and make a brief comment on it about its history, date and place of publishing and main characteristics.

TASK ONE: Write a piece of news, a review, or any other type of article belonging to a newspaper, using a pre-established template in PowerPoint. Upload it in your blog. 

TASK TWO: Create a Glogster about the newspaper that you chose from the list above. Upload it in your blog.