ACTIVITY ON PHONETICS

You already know the importance of knowing phonetics in any language when wer want to master that language.

I propose a kind of game where you have to classify the following words according to their vocalic sounds. Before starting you can have a look at the following site where you will find a phonetic chart.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/phonemic-chart

Which of the following words contain the sound /æ/ and which others the sound /a:/?

1. car 2. back 3. father 4. cat

5. bag 6. last 7. start 8. hard

9. flag 10. hat 11. heart 12. sad

13. man 14. calm 15. park

Good luck!!!

MEXICO, NOT ONLY INFLUENZA VIRUS.

NOW EVERYONE KNOWS MEXICO LIKE THE PRINCIPAL PLACE WITH THIS NEW VIRUS, BUT DO YOU REALLY KNOW MEXICO?

Mexico is a federation of thirty-one free and sovereign states, it’s one of the 18 mega diverse countries of the world. With over 200,000 different species, Mexico is home of 10–12% of the world's biodiversity. Mexico is also considered the second country in the world in ecosystems and fourth in overall species (approximately 2,500 species are protected by Mexican legislations).

According to the World Tourism Organization, Mexico has one of the largest tourism industries in the world. In 2005 it was the seventh most popular tourist destination worldwide, receiving over 20 million tourists per year; it is the only country in Latin America to be within the top 25. It has one of the seven wonders: Chichen Itzá. And it also count with many beautiful places with wonderful beaches like: Acapulco, Quintana Roo, etc.

The peak tourist seasons in Mexico are during December and during July and August, with brief surges during the week before Easter and during spring break at many of the beach resort sites which are popular among vacationing college students from the United States.

Mexico is the twenty-third highest tourism spender in the world, and the highest in Latin America
Mexican cuisine is known for its intense and varied flavors, colorful decoration, and variety of spices. Most of today's Mexican food is based on pre-Hispanic traditions, including the Aztecs and Maya, combined with culinary trends introduced by Spanish colonists.

The most internationally recognized dishes include chocolate, tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas, burritos, tamales and mole among others. Regional dishes include mole poblano, chiles en nogada and chalupas from Puebla; cabrito and machaca from Monterrey, cochinita pibil from Yucatán, Tlayudas from Oaxaca, as well as barbacoa, chilaquiles, milanesas, and many others.

KATHERINE PADRÓN (3ºESO-A)

TRIP TO "LA PEDRIZA" (SOLUTIONS)

Next Thursday, students from 1ºESO are going to go on trip to "La Pedriza". Students from higher level went there last year with Mercedes. You will find different plants, animals and stones as the ones that appear in the pictures below.

Do you know the names of the following pictures in English?

1. 2. 3

1. a) Bull b) Cow c) Goat
2. a) Pine b) Olive tree c) Cypress
3. a) Bush b) Juniper tree c) Chesnut tree

4.5. 6.

4. a) Slate b) Diamond c) Granite

5. a) Carnation b) Rockrose c) Daisy

6. a) Lime Blossom b) Pennyroyal c) Lavender

7. 8. 9.

7. a) Rosemary b) Lime Blossom c) Camomile

8. a) Stork b) Vulture c) Eagle

9. a) Cypress b) Juniper tree c) Pine

TWILIGHT: A BOOK TO READ

I want to recommend you an interesting book I like: TWILIGHT (EL CREPÚSCULO) That’s a book about vampires. Bella’s a girl, who met Edward and after that…
I don’t want tell you anymore because you have to read it!It’s been successful and that isn’t to be strange because the book is really mysterious and terrific!
Some teachers of our high school have read it and they liked it!After of that, there’re others books which are the sequels of Twilight, like New Moon or Eclipse. They have even made a film based on this book.But only a piece of advice… read it, please! ^_^

PRIYANKA Mª RUIZ (2ºESO-B)

ENGLISH WORDS IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

I propose you a kind of game. It consists in thinking about words that we have in Spanish which come from English. I can come up with a few words, for example, friki or internet.
What about you? Any ideas?

WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH.

Listening to songs in English and watching original version films will help you to improve your English.
I recomend you a very good site where you can watch film trailers and then you can do different activities based on the trailer you watched. You can register for free.
This site is http://www.english-trailers.com/
I hope you like it and you have fun!!!

GOODBYE DAVID!!!

David has been our language assistant in our school this year. Every week you have gone with David to improve your oral English.
Thank you David for your help and patience with all of us. We will never forget that smiling guy taking always a fork, a knife and a spoon with him.
We all hope you will be in our school next year again!!!
See you soon.