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¡Hola de Iowa! Soy la profe de la clase de español en Solon. Escribo por primera vez para contribuir al blog. Queremos poner nuestros videos y unas fotos nuestras también. Aquí tienen una foto de mi en México.

OPINION ESSAY

SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES


Some people think that the new smoking law, which will come into force next January, will decrease the number of smokers in Spain. Other people consider that it will be a complete disaster for restaurants and pubs owners. In my opinion, once the new law is working, people will get used to it and nobody will talk about it.

For one thing is clear, smoking is bad for our health; experts think that if people do not smoke in public places there will be a reduction in lung cancers, especially when we talk about people such as waiters, who work in places where smoking is something natural. This is one of the reasons why the government has decided to go on with the prohibition despite the criticism.

However, in my opinion, this law should have been passed before. We must not forget that this same government allowed pubs and restaurants to create special rooms for smokers. Consequently they spent a lot of money just two or three years ago and now they are not allowed to use those spaces.

In short, there will always be different opinions and points of view about smoking but I honestly think that everybody will be pretty happy about the new legislation in the future.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE....?

As we have seen in the PAEG exam of last September the question "¿ Cuánto tardas en....?" in English could give us some trouble. Here you have a link that will explain the use of this difficult structure.

http://menuaingles.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-long-does-it-take.html

WELCOME BACK!

The new course has started. We have a complete year ahead in which I will be working with two courses of 1st year ESO, two groups in the 2nd year of bachillerato and one group in the third year of Compulsory Education.
I am going to work with the E-pal project again and we are preparing an exchange with other school for next spring.
I hope everybody enjoys this new year we are going to spend together.

WELCOME BACK!

I PASSED MY TEST!!!!!! WILL BE BACK IN GÁLVEZ.

PTI SEPTEMBER

Bueno, aquellos que no hayáis ido a recoger el pti o que no podáis acceder al papas. Los ejercicios de recuperación son los siguientes:

2º ESO: tenéis que comprar el cuadernillo Summer Fun de la editorial Burlington y hacer todos las actividades excepto la última lección. La entrega del cuaderno es OBLIGATORIA E IMPRESCINDIBLE.

3º ESO: Las actividades del cuaderno SUMMER FUN para tercero de la eso, de la editorial Burlington. Todos menos los de la unidad 9.

Buen verano

Why do we need English?

RECIPES

QUESTIONS FOR THE TEST ( 2ESO, 3ESO)

2nd ESO. Do click HERE if you want to download the questions for the test on next 10th of June.
3rd ESO. Do click HERE if you want to download the questions for the test on next 11th of June.

PRBLEMS TO DOWNLOAD THE NOTES FOR TOPIC 6

I know some of you have been trying to download the notes for topic 6 and the web asked you for some code or password. I have already changed that and you can get your notes doing click on GRAMMAR NOTES 2nd ESO.

Thank you to the students who told me the problem.
Marta

TEST TOPIC 5: QUESTIONS

If you want to see the questions for the 2ND ESO TEST do click in HERE.

if you want to see the questions for the 3RD ESO TEST do click in HERE.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION UP TO 18 YEARS OLD

SPEAKING TESTS ON 19th/20th APRIL

As you already know, we are having the diagnosis test in second course of secondary education next week. In the last weeks we have been preparing the speaking exam trying out different methods and techniques, looking to several expressions that could help us in dialogues and doing different activities in the class. Now I will give you a link to the models that the administration (the government) has published on the web, so that you can have an exact idea about the test.

I hope it helps you.

MODEL OF THE EXAM

NEXT TEST ABOUT THE FILM

I want to remind you that next TUESDAY we will have the test about the film we saw before our Eastern break . You are allowed to bring your dictionaries if you like.

See you in two days...

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Here you have a link where you can find some information and the summary of the film we are watching in class. REMEMBER you will have a test about it when we are back from our Eastern Holiday. Some of the questions I suggested were:

1. What did Claire's friend bring her as a present?

2. What effects did the drug they were testing in the rats have?

3. What object fell from the table'

4. What did Claire find on the floor of the studio?

5. What did Clarie see when she was in the bathroom?

6. Who did Claire thought that was the Ghost? Why?

7. Who was really the ghost?

8. Why was it in the house?

9. Who was the bad guy in the film?

10. How does the film end?

THE HURT LOCKER

If you want to wacht the trailer of the film "The Hurt Locker" do click in HERE

AVATAR TRAILER

If you want to watch the trailer of the film AVATAR do click in HERE.

CALENDAR FOR 2nd ESO

Here you have a calendar with the dates of the exams and works you have to handle to me.

CALENDAR FOR 3rd ESO

Here you have the calendar with the dates for the tests and works you have to do.

NEXT EXAMS

I have already mentioned it in class but I would like you to check the calendar with the exams for the next weeks. They are written in the web page PAPAS and I will post the grades too.
Regards, Marta

OUR EPALS IN IOWA

Dear students,
As you know we are working with a high school in USA placed in SOLON. I've created this label so we can share pictures, songs, articles and posts with them. They have a question for you:

DO YOU PLAY VIDEO GAMES ON LINE?
they also want to share some videos with us, so please visit the folloing links
THE FINAL TEST
GYM
THEIR SCHOOL

BACK ON MONDAY, 7TH OF FEBRUARY

Hello everybody,
after this week off, I will be back in class next 7th of February. Please bring all your exercises done as we will be correcting them in the next two classes.
See you soon, Marta

DO YOU USE THE BLOG?

Compulsory Education until 18

Please, do so many comments as you like ...

SUMMER CAMPS IN CASTILLA LA MANCHA

If you want to download the document with the information about the English Summer camps in Castilla la-Mancha do click here.

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE TESTS

Here you will find a document with Comparative and Superlaive test exercises. Take note of your answers and we will check the correct ones in class next monday. Good luck¡

EXERCISES

Very funny ads

I remind you the web page where you can find funny ads like the ones we saw in class.

Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.veryfunnyads.com/

COMPARATIVES

If you want to download the grammar notes for the comparatives do click here

1st term results in 3b

1st term results. Click here

topic 3. Grammar notes

You will see the notes for topic 3 if you do click here.

A NEW TOOL IN CLASS

Dear 3B

During this 2nd term we are going to be working with this new tool, a blog. I will send several documents as notes for the exams, questions, homework, pictures or links to other webs. You will have to comment the articles or photos or upload articules yourselves.
I hope you like and enjoy this new tool.
Kisses.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (2nd ESO)

GUIDE TO CREATE YOUR COMPOSITION

1^st paragraph: BIOGRAPHY

· Who is William Shakespeare? In which century did he live?

· Where was he born? Any important information about his parents or siblings.

· Was he married? Had he got any children?

· Do you know any gossip about him?

2^ND paragraph: WORK

· What did he wrote (poetry, literature, prose)?

· Why is he famous? Most important titles.

· If you know any famous sentence or quotation of whatever you want to write about his work

3^rd paragraph: OPINION

· What are we going to read about him?

· What is the story about?

· Your likes or preferences when reading books?

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William Shakespeare was a famous English poet, player and playwright in the 16^th century. He was born next to London in1564 and his parents were not poor. He had 7 siblings. He got married when he was 18 years old with a woman who was 26. He had two daughters and a son but he died when he was 11.

Shakespeare wrote poetry and theatre but he became famous for his theatre plays. He is the author of “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The merchant of Venice”, “Othelo” and many others and he is very famous around the world. For example one of the most famous sentences is “to be or not to be… this is the question” written in “Hamlet”.

This term we are reading a fragment of “Romeo and Juliet” in class. It is a love story between Romeo and Juliet but their families don’t like the relationship and finally the two lovers die. I don’t like love stories, I prefer action or terror stories because they are interesting.

2nd Term for second year of CSE.(ESO)

First of all I want to wish you all a happy new year 2010.
I hope the year we are starting brings you happiness but also knowledge. In this second term we are going to read a book by Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost", we will be working with units 3, 4 and 5 of our book and we will continue with our e-pals from the USA.

Your first task is to do a research about Oscar Wilde, where is he from, when did he live, why is he famous... In the post titled "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE" your teacher has given you an example of composition and the guidelines to create your own. Remember you have to handle it back next Thursday, 14th of January. Good luck¡