11th June 2013

Good morning 4ºESO class!

I would like you to enter into" intranet" (webs preferidas, inglés,  ELC...) and practice reading and vocabulary exercises.

You have almost finished all your tests.

Anyway here is the link, just in case you don't find it:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/


See you tomorrow.

SONGS XI

Listen to these two new songs. They are awesome!!!

SONGS X

More songs for you to be voted:

This song is suggested by Sara Gimeno



This one is suggested by Luis Álvarez



These are suggested by Sofia Ardid and Paula Calvo





And the last one is suggested by Licer Gómez

Conditional sentences

Check what you know abouy conditional sentences please:


1.Complete the sentences with the correct first conditional forms.
1 If we ……................. (not demonstrate), things ……................. (not change).
2 The refugees ……................. (suffer) if we ……................. (not help).
3 If scientists ……................. (clone) people, there ……................. (be) protests.
4 We ……................. (make) more money if we ……................. (organize) a campaign.
5 If we ……................. (not protect) tigers, they ……................. (be) extinct.



2.Write sentences. Use the first conditional.
1 global warming / cause / serious problems / if / we not control / it
…............................................................…… .
2 if / we / not stop / war, poor countries / not develop
…............................................................…… .
3 the government / not listen / if / we / not send in / a petition
…............................................................…… .
4 if / we / not boycott / the company, the situation / get worse
….............................................……………. .
5 the campaign / be / more effective / if / people / give out / leaflets
…............................................................…… .



3.Complete the sentences with the correct second conditional forms.
1 If I ……................ (be) taller, I ……................ (not wear) platform shoes.
2 She ……................. (buy) designer clothes if she ……................. (earn) more money.
3 My parents ……................. (be) angry if I ……................. (have) a strange hairstyle.
4 If he ……................. (wear) smarter clothes, he ……................. (look) better.
5 You ……................. (not feel) comfortable if you ……................. (put on) a lot of weight.
6 If we ……................. (go) to school in England, we ……................. (have to) wear a uniform.
7 If you ……................. (buy) some trendy clothes, you ……................. (improve) your image.

QUOTATIONS

Let's present a new section of the blog: "The Quotation Contest".
You can write a quotation and the rest of your school mates can vote for it or write a new one to be voted as the best one.

1. "Each end gives us the opportunity for a rebirth" (Aleph)by Paulo Coelho.
(Cada final nos da la oportunidad de renacer)

2."Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" by John Lennon.
(La vida es lo que te pasa mientras haces otros planes)

3. "Dream as if you'll live forever
    live as if you'll die today" by James Dean
(Sueña como si fueras a vivir para siempre,
 vive como si fueras a morir hoy)

4. "What's poetry?, You ask me as you fix 
      your blue pupil in my pupil;
      What's poetry? And are you really asking me?
     Poetry ...is you", Rhyme 21 by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
    (¿Qué es poesía?, dices mientras clavas
     en mi pupila tu pupila azul;
     ¡Qué es poeesía! ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
     Poesía ...eres tú.)

5. "Don't worry, be happy" by Bob Marley
(No te preocupes, sé feliz)

6. "The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul" by David O.Mckay
(La batalla más importante de la vida es aquella que se pelea diariamente en los silenciosos aposentos del alma)

7. "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; th e point is to discover them" by Galileo Galilei
(Todas las verdades son fáciles de entender una vez se han descubierto; el problema es descubrirlas)

8. "To be or not to be, that is the question" by William Shakespeare
(Ser o no ser, esa es la cuestión = Is it better to live or to die?)

9. "The old bitch alcoholada", La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
(La puta vieja alcoholada)

10. "Food is our common ground, a universal experience" by James Beard
(La comida es nuestra tierra común, una experiencia universal)

11."Have you ever  heard that we can't live without love? Then, the oxygen is more important" House
(¿Ha oído alguna vez que no se puede vivir sin amor?. Pues el oxígeno es más importante)

12. "God save the Queen" by Sex Pistols
(Dios salve a la reina)

13. "Knocking  on Heaven's doors" by Guns and Roses
(Llamando a las puertas del cielo)

14. " I live without living in me" by Santa Teresa de Jesús
(Vivo sin vivir en mi)


15." Love told me that I had to make her smile. the problem is that every time you smile, I fall in love"
by  Bob Marley

(El amor me dio que tenía que hacerle sonreir, el problema es que cada vez que te hago sonreir me enamoro)

16."Men are moved by two levers only: fear and selfinterest" by Napoleon Bonaparte
(Los hombres sólo se mueven por dos cosas: por miedo y por propio interés)

SONGS IX

Some of the ones I like. Do you like them?

Vote your favourite song to listen to it in class.

Expression

Learn English: Daily Easy English Expression 

SONGS VIII

Some of the songs you highly recommend:

Patrick Miller - Dancing In London [with lyrics] 2012 by Javier Abán

Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold Lyrics, by Kike Soro

EXPRESSING THE FUTURE

How can we express the future in English?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS	For definite future arrangememts	Belchite is playing against Stadium         next Saturday.
GOING TO	To talk about our plans or intentions	We are going to watch a video.
WILL	Predictions            When we decide to do sth at the time of speaking                        When we offer to do sth              To make promises              When we are sure about sth in the future           We use “probably” if we aren’t completely sure	Cars will fly in the future.            I think I’ll try them on (at a shoes shop)                 I’ll hold your books for you.                 I promise I won’t forget                 It’ll be cold in the North Pole                You probably won’t like the food               You will probably like the food.

EXPRESSING QUANTITY IN ENGLISH

Thie will help you to understand how countable and uncountable nouns work:

COUNTABLE NOUNS	SINGULAR C.N.	A/AN (un,-a,-o) (affirmative, negative & interrogative)	-       There is a cat on the roof. -       There isn’t a cat on the roof. -       Is there a cat on the roof?
	PLURAL C.N.	SOME (algunos-as) (affirmative) ANY (algunos-as        ningunos-as) (negative & interrogative)	-       There are some cats on the roof. -       There aren’t any cats on the roof. -       Are there any cats on the roof?
		A LOT OF/LOTS OF (muchos-as)(affirmative) MANY (negative & interrogative) HOW MANY (cuántos) (interrogative)	-       There are a lot of cats on the roof. -       There aren’t many cats on the roof. -       Are there many cats on the roof? -       How many cats are there?
		TOO MANY (demasiados)	-       There are too many cats on that roof.
		(NOT) ENOUGH (suficientes)	-       There aren’t enough cats.
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS		SOME (algo)(affirmative) ANY (algo o  nada) (negative & interrogative)	-       There is some water in the jar. -       There isn’t any water in the jar. -       Is there any water in the jar?
		A LOT OF/LOTS OF (mucho-a)(affirmative) MUCH (negative & interrogative) HOW MUCH (cuánto) (interrogative)	-       There is a lot of water in the jar. -       There isn’t much water in the jar. -       Is there much water in the jar? -       How much water is there in the jar?
		TOO MUCH (demasiado)	-       There is too much water in the jar.
		(NOT) ENOUGH (suficiente)	-       There isn’t enough water in the jar.

SONGS VII

More songs:

Skrillex & Damian Marley -- "Make It Bun Dem" Lyrics, by Diego Gracia

AC/DC-Back in Black Lyrics by Borja García

IRREGULAR VERBS

Please, listen to the video to improve your irregular verbs pronunciation:

Book Expressions

Learn some useful expressions by watching this video:

Past Simple & Past Continuous

We are going to check this video to understand the differences between these two tenses:




And go to this link to do some exercises:

"HAVE TO & MUST" EXPLANATION

Watch this video to understand the difference between the modal verbs "have to" and "must":

SONGS VI

They are awesome!!! Don't you think so?

SONGS V

I really like this song suggested by Ari Rodrigo



This song was recommended by Ángel Querol:





And this one by Diego Gracia:

Present Simple & Present Continuous

You can watch this video to understand the difference between simple present and  present continuous or progressive::


Please do the exercises with this video:


And now check if you have understood with the tests of this link:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/tests?test1

You have a presentation to clarify any possible doubt:

HALLOWEEN

Watch this video on Halloween's day:



You can watch two more videos about how to live it in US or Ireland:
HALLOWEEN IN USA

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IU1cpClOFijw0LPX58QddaTIKU-dI7YjRmBTbq5Ef7I/edit

HALLOWEEN IN IRELAND:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z38IZr6xiAw7N6ZDOVElioBOJqBag-VB4f1iQTJPYfo/edit

And you can listen to this song suggested by Kike Soro:

Relative Clauses

Watch this video about the relative clauses, please:




Check this link and practise relative clauses:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses



And here you have got an explanation in Spanish:

Defining and Non -Defining Relative Clauses. Short explanation.
Cuando queremos añadir información sobre alguien o algo en una frase, lo hacemos a menudo con una oración de relativo. La oración de relativo se pone inmediatamente detrás del nombre que hace referencia a la persona o cosa de la que estamos hablando.
- The girl who came into the room was tall and dark.

who came into the room es la oración subordinada de relativo que hace referencia a The girl. De hecho, las oraciones de relativo tienen una función similar a la de los adjetivos y por eso también las llamamos a veces oraciones subordinadas adjetivas.

Por medio de una oración de relativo podemos unir dos oraciones. Para ello utilizamos los pronombres relativos who, which o that.
- I've got a friend. He collects stamps. -> I've got a friend who collects stamps.

- There's a problem. It worries me. -> There's a problem which worries me.

Para personas, utilizamos who; Para cosas se usa which. That se puede utilizar tanto para personas como para cosas en estilo informal y, por lo tanto, es correcto siempre para las oraciones de relativo especificativas (defining clauses)
- The man that lives there is my teacher.

- I have got the book that you need.

Hay dos tipos de oraciones de relativo: oraciones de relativo especificativas ('defining' relative clauses) y oraciones de relativo explicativas ('non-defining' relative clauses).

Las oraciones de relativo especificativas, p.e. The man that is going to marry Mary is called Bruce, describen al nombre (man) y son necesarias para la comprensión de la oración.

Las oraciones de relativo explicativas, p.e. Bruce, who is going to marry Mary, is a car salesman, dan más información sobre el nombre (Bruce) pero no son necesarias para la comprensión de la oración.

Muchas oraciones de relativo comienzan con un pronombre relativo. El pronombre relativo funciona normalmente como sujeto o complemento del verbo de la oración de relativo.
Pronombre relativo como sujeto del verbo en las oraciones de relativo especificativas:
a) personas como sujeto:

- Mary is the only girl that / who interests Arthur

b) cosas como sujeto:

- The book that / which was on the desk is mine.

Cuando el pronombre relativo es el objeto del verbo en las oraciones de relativo especificativas, es posible, especialmente en inglés hablado, omitirlo:
a) personas como objeto:

- She is the girl (that / who) he met in the pub.

b) cosas como objeto:

- That is the punch (that / which) John mixed.

Cuando el verbo en las oraciones de relativo especificativas va seguido de una preposición (p.e. look at, speak to), se puede omitir el pronombre. Las preposiciones en las oraciones de relativo se colocan normalmente al final de la oración de relativo:
a) personas como complemento de una preposición:

- The person (that / who) I got this letter from lives in Italy.

b) cosas como objeto de una preposición:

- Is that the knife (that / which) you cut the cake with?

En inglés muy formal, también se puede poner la preposición delante de whom o which:
- The police found the man for whom they had been searching = The police found the man (that / who) they had been searching for.

- The company for which he works is very successful = The company (that / which) he works for is very successful.

Entre las combinaciones de verbo + preposición más corrientes encontramos: look for, look after, look at, be in, be from, be for, speak to, be interested in, be surprised by / at, go to, go into, go out with, work in / at, work for, sell to, buy from, live in, stay at, write with, write to, etc.


La oración de relativo explicativa no forma parte integral de la oración y es en realidad otra forma de unir dos oraciones principales que tienen la misma importancia.
El nombre que precede a una oración de relativo explicativa debe ir separado de ella por una coma.
No se puede utilizar that en las oraciones de relativo explicativas. Se debe usar who o which en las oraciones de relativo explicativas:
- Arthur went to the main hall, which was filled with students.

- He saw Mr Trafford, who gave him his timetable.

- They each said a few words, after which everybody left.

- My father, who is a bank clerk, lives in Jaén.

Podemos unir oraciones con whose para sustituir a his, her o its:
- Look at that girl. Her brother is a footballer. -> - Look at that girl whose brother is a footballer.

oraciones de relativo especificativas con el adverbio relativo where.
- This is the station where (=at which) we get off.

oraciones de relativo especificativas con el adverbio relativo when.
- There were one or two days when (=on which) they found themselves prisoners in the cottage.