Saturday 11 April 2020

Unit 5: Writings

SB; Page 69; Ex 7

The music club

Learning sessions

Who wants to learn playing an instrument? We are holding classes for new members to learn and practise music. We are all the week days. Meet us in the school hall at 5 p.m. any day and tell us your instrument, we will give you information about your classes.

Concert events

We are excited to announce that the first Saturday of each month all the club members will meet and make exhibitions about the things they have learned. The idea is to make a performance each class during the month and play it the exhibition days. This parties would take place in the school pavilion at 8 p.m.

Visit from famous singer

All members are invited to a special evening next Friday with a famous musician, who is going to talk about his music experience and maybe he/she would sing something. Join us in the school pavilion at 7.30 p.m.

New club website

We are pleased to announce that we are launching a new club website to keep in touch with all the members and to inform about news of the club. Don't forget to post comments on the web!

Unit 5: Writings

WB; Page 47; Ex 3


   Hello writers! Today I am going to summarize the most important tips that Charlie P. has told us on her blog article and why she thinks blogging is usefull. At first, she said that blogging helps her to reflect her feelings and success on the past and present and to plan her new movements. Also, she said that blogging is better than writing a diary because when you know people are going to see it, you write as well as you can. She said that it isn't important about what subject you write if it helps you process your ideas and discover new ones. She talked about comments on her blog posts and how this boosts her confidence and make her continue writing without any important disadvantages.
   In my opinion, blogging is a good way to express the feelings, but, under my point of view, the bad comments would make you dessist and stop writing. So my advice would be to start writing a blog but with the comments out before you start to be sure about your writing and your blog.

Unit 5: Writings

WB; Page 45; Ex 4

Announcing the first school's rock band concert

Great news for rock music lovers! We are pleased to announce that we are listening our first school's rock band concert.

Hurry! Limited places!

Join us at 9 p.m. next Friday in the school hall and take a ticket for the concert. The idea is to present the first hundred of fans to the pavilion to listen the concert!

The concert night

After taking the tickets, all fans with them are invited to the concert. The band members start the meeting with their story and, after that, they start with their songs. After the concert, a famous secret rock singer will give tips to our students to improve. He/she will talk a bit about his/her story and maybe he/she would sing one of his/her famous songs. Fans will can eat and drink their own food or drink.

Stay in touch online

Register with the band' website and access information about next songs and concerts. You can also follow them on other social networks such as Instagram or Twitter and listen to their songs on music platforms like You Tube or Spotify. You can comment and interact with the musicians in all of them.




Thursday 20 February 2020

SELF-ASSESMENT


  • What can I do that I couldn't do before?
Now I do my listenings better than before this term
  • What do I like most?
I like doing passives and conditional sentences.
  • What do I do well?
I think I do well on Grammar parts.
  • What am I confused about?
I am a little confused about have something done and on Translations.
  • What do I need help with?
I think I don't need help for anything yet.
  • What do I do in English outside the class?
Sometimes, I listen the TV in English.
  • What do I need to improve?
I need to improve the translation.
  • What did I learn about culture?
I learn about Dracula, I learned about kinetic energy and also I learned about Vancouver.

STEPHEN KING WORK

PRESENTATION

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WRITING PART

BIOGRAPHY

At first, I'm going to talk about his biography. He has borned the 21st September 1947 on Portland, Maine.

FAMILY

When he was two years old, his father gave her mother alone with the two boys: David and Stephen. She carried them to Fort Wayne. We actually know that his father was Donald King. His mother was Nellie Ruth Pillsbury. His old brother is David who is a chemistry professor on University. His wife is Tabitha King who is a novelist who met Stephen when he was studying at university. They had three kids: Joe Hill King(is an author who usually writes comic books), Owen King (who is an author too) and Naomi King (who is a minister of Unitarian Universalist Church of River of Grass).

CHILDHOOD AND STUDIES

He studied on the different places where he was living, but, when his family finally gets stablished on Durham, Maine (and he was eleven), he started to study at Lisbon Falls High School in which he graduated on 1966. Then, he studied an english career on University of Maine of Oronto in which he graduated on 1970. On this period of time, he jointed to a politic group of students called Student Senate which made an antimilitar movement versus Vietnam war.

WHERE HE LIVED / LIVE

He borned at Portland, Maine. Then he lived most of his childhood moving throught Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connectitude on Malden, Massachusets. He finally stablished his home at Durham, Maine where he studied, as I said before. Now, he is living on a mansion at Bargor, Maine.

IMPORTANT THINGS ON HIS LIFE

He started writing small stories at the age of seven, but his first public work is In a Half-world of terror which was published on The Maine Campus, the University magazine when he was 18.
On 1999 a van run over him. This made him a colapse on one lung and a crash on his hip.
His first works were a guard on a factory, a lauvendry work and, finally, his actual job, english teacher.
When he was a child, he loved terror history like Dracula, which made him get inspired for future works.

BOOKS

Now I am going to talk about his writing style and I am going to mention the most important and famous works.

STYLE

He writes on an efective and direct way. He also has a great capacity to talk about the most frightening aspects about rutine day. So this to characteristics help him to write in a really good way novels of horror and science fiction gendre.

FAMOUS BOOKS

Some of his famous books are the Fire-starter ehich talks about a girl who can made fire with her eyes; It which have a film based on it; Misery which talks about a women who kidnap the author of her favorite novel; The shining which talks about a hotel and Doctor Sleep which is the second part of The Shining.

ACTUALLY

Now, he continue teaching at the university and he continue writing. He has made a book with his son Joe Hill which is called In The Tall Grass and another book with his other son Owen King which is called Sleeping Beauties.
His last work is The Institute.

Monday 17 February 2020

UNIT 4: LIVE WELL

GLOSSARY
Calm down: Free from excitement; tranquil from higher to lower.
Cheer up: To become or make happier or more cheerful.
Cut down: To reduce or make a reduction.
Slow down: Moving or going forward from higher to lower speed.
Anxious: Full of mental distress or of fear of danger or misfortune; troubled; worried.
Cheerful: Full of cheer; happy; in good spirits.
Dynamic: Vigorously active or forceful; energetic.
Grumpy: Unhappy and bad-tempered; grouchy.
Sleepy: Ready to sleep; drowsy.
Bruised: To injure by striking or pressing, without breaking the skin but causing a discolored spot to develop.
Itchy: To have or feel a tingling irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected.
Sore: Physically painful or sensitive, such as a wound or diseased part.
Sprained: To overstrain or twist (the ligaments around a joint) so as to injure without a fracture or break.
Stiff: Rigid or firm.
Swollen: Overly proud or conceited.
Avalanche: A large mass of snow, ice, etc., that comes loose from a mountain slope and slides or falls suddenly downward.
Layer: A thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface.
Parka: A hooded coat made of materials that protect against very cold temperatures.
Snowshoes: A frame shaped like a racket and attached to the shoe for walking on deep snow without sinking.
Thermal underwear: Underwear designed to retain body heat in cold temperatures. Also called  thermals. 
Thermometer: An instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.

UNIT 3: POWER TO THE PEOPLE

GLOSSARY
Convert: To change into something of different form or properties; transform.
Generate: To bring into existence; produce; originate.
Run: To process (the instructions in a program) by computer.
Boost: To lift by pushing from below.
Crash: (Of a computer) to shut down because of something wrong with the hardware or software.
Release: To free from jail, burden, debt, pain, etc.; to let go.
Celebrate: To show that (a day) is special by having ceremonies, parties, or other festivities.
Develop: To bring out the possibilities (of); come or bring to a more advanced state.
Participate: To take part or have a share, as with others.
Support: To bear (a load, mass, part, etc.) from below; to sustain (weight, pressure, etc.) without giving way.
Train: To (cause to) become skilled in some work by teaching or practice.
Development: The act or process of developing; growth; progress.
Mechanical: Lacking freshness; dull or done by habit.
Alternative: A choice limited to one option among two or more possibilities.
Sustainable: (Of economic development, energy sources, etc) capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage.