ESO 3 & ESO 4 1st Term PBL - Crime Report for a Newspaper

ESO 3 & ESO 4 Students,

This is your 2012-13 1st Term PBL assignment. It is a group project. Your task is to 

WRITE A PIECE OF NEWS FOR THE ACCIDENT & CRIME SECTION OF A NEWSPAPER.

Listen to Sting's song I Hung my Head. Find the song lyrics on the internet, and think carefully about it...I hung my Head

 
(Song starts on 1:23)

WRITE A REPORT FOR TOMORROW'S NEWSPAPER AS IF STING'S STORY HAD HAPENNED YESTERDAY:

Bullying

WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston took a moment during Tuesday's morning newscast (Tuesday 2nd October 2012) to directly address a recent email she received from a viewer complaining about her weight:

"To the person who wrote me that letter — do you think I don't know that? That your cruel words are pointing out something that I don't see?" Livingston asked in response. "You don't know me. You are not a friend of mine. You are not a part of my family. And you have admitted that you don't watch this show. So you know nothing about me but what you see on the outside. And I am much more than a number on the scale."

Lost in Translation

Unfortunately, many people still think that a translator’s job is only a matter of having a dictionary and some resources such as the internet or translation manuals. Translation involves much more than linguistic knowledge: it also involves  cultural knowledge. Moreover, as translation is a process of creation, it involves creativity...

Do you think you would be able to translate the following images with only a dictionary?  The image is vital, as the translated text should fit in the same place of the image as the original one does...

In this image we have a bear. The word “bearly” does not exist but it was made up as a derivation from the word “bear”. “Bearly” would sound exactly the same as “barely”, which does exist and means “apenas / más o menos”.

  “A nice” is pronounced the same way as “an ice”

Piercing=a piece of jewellery attached to pierced flesh

To be pierced= to have a piercing done

Screw=tornillo

To be screwed= estar “atornillado” / ser estafado

To keep someone in stitches=To make someone laugh a lot
Stitch=puntada, punto.

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October quiz

Emoticons were originally created for us to be able to express our mood via internet. However, another use has been given to them in this quiz. Each row of emoticons represents the name of a film. Your task for this quiz is to discover what films are hidden under those emoticons. 10 points as usual to the first student who emails us the correct names IN ENGLISH of the following 16 films:

Things our Grandkids Will Never Understand

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How do you Look in your Bathing Suit?

It is funny, surprising (and, to some extent, comforting) to find old advertisements like the one posted above when surfing the web.

The aesthetics of the 21th century imposed by mass media show us skinny women as the ideal beauty, and, as there’s business everywhere, many advertisements try to present and sell consumers “miraculous” diets, pills or beverages of all kinds that will guarantee a fast and effortless weight loss. Those, however, end up being useless and dangerous for our health.

It seems that in the 50s and 60s, the ideal beauty was totally the other way round, and that women were more eager to have a curvy figure than to look as a skeleton. Surprising as it may be for youngsters, advertisements then showed women products to gain weight, in order not to be "tired-out" or "rundown".

In any case, what also seems to be true is that even nowadays, when thinness appears to be the ideal, curvy women rank first on the lists of the most desirable (Beyoncé, J.Lo, Sofía Vergara, Christina Hendrix…). It’s not that we should believe the Orquesta Mondragón when they claimed for really big women to be sexy, but, as always, we should find a healthy balance.

Sofía Vergara                                                                    Christina Hendrix

 

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Autumn

(Original post at La Letra 15)

Autumn (or Fall in American English) is traditionally the third season of the year. It is time for leaves to fall and time for ocher, sienna, orange and reddish colours to flood the landscape. Autumn also means we are back to school and for many, just as at New Year's time, it is the beginning of new cycle, new plans and new resolutions:quit smoking, trying to study a foreign language, start working out in a gym...

ESO English Syllabus 2012-13

ESO Students,

If you click on the following links you can download your English syllabus, terms and conditions for 2012-13:

• ESO 1 Syllabus
• ESO 2 Syllabus
• ESO 3 Syllabus
• ESO 4 Syllabus

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Love

'Love' as defined by a 5-Year old. Clic on the picture to enlarge:

Originally published by The Huffington Post.

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SMS Language Quiz

When we send an sms in Spanish, we usually make words shorter for space saving, for example:

Bss = besos        Msj =mensaje      Salu2 = saludos

And of course, the same happens in English! 10 points, as usual, to the first ESO 1 student who can write this sms conversation in full English and emails the answer to us HERE

-HRU?

-I’m GR8, I HV a D8 2nite!

-OMG! HV fun

-THNQ. CU L8R

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The Rules to Always Being a Gentleman

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Dangers of Careless Internet Surfing

What is the name of your children? What was the price of your house? How much money is there on your bank account? How much did you spend on clothes last month? What is your bank card code number? Your entire life is online, and it may be used against you. That is why you have to be vigilant.

Dave, a grey haired man with a spiritual look on his face, is a fortune-teller. Or better said: he pretends to be a fortune-teller. In fact, he is an actor who constantly gets his information from a small microphone in his ear. The people who provide him with information, are hackers wearing a balaclava and hiding behind a shabby curtain. They are constantly screening public websites for information about the unsuspecting visitors waiting in line for a consultation with this medium. The things they find, are truly spectacular.

Points of View

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20 Ways to Improve your English

1. Download and listen to English podcasts or to radio programmes in English (BBC, ITN, etc.)
2. Listen to English music.
3. Read the lyrics to a song with a dictionary.

ESO 1 First term English exams schedule

This is a reminder for all ESO 1 students. As we have discussed in class, the schedule for your English exams during this first term is as follows:

UNIT 1 - Thursday 11th October

UNIT 2 - Friday 9th November

UNIT 3 - Wednesday 5th December

Note that dates are guiding and subject to change in case it is considered appropriate by the teacher!

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Calvin and Hobbes

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2012-13 Exam Schedule for ESO 2, 3 & 4

ESO 2, 3 & 4 Students,

This is your exam schedule for the 2012-13 schoolyear (you can also find a calendar of exams, deadlines and other events at the bottom of this blog):
Please note that all exams and dates are subject to change. PBL's and Irregular verbs tests dates to be confirmed.

English and Galician teacher

Hi there!

This is Raquel Lorenzo. She will be your new English and Galician teacher for those of you who start ESO 1. You will meet her tomorrow in your Galician lessons. Have a pleasant beginning of this school year!

On Happiness

Henry David Thoreau "On Happiness". Artwork by Gavin Aung Than

(Post taken from Zen Pencils)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, poet, philosopher and one of the leading figures of the transcendentalism movement. Besides writing Civil Disobedience, which inspired such revolutionaries as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jnr, Thoreau is most well-known for his book Walden, in which he recounts the two years he lived in a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used the time to immerse himself in his writing and to live a more simple and self-sufficient life. As he put it:

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Ham Geography

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