WHAT´S THE WEATHER LIKE? HOW IS THE WEATHER?

Repetiré el control del tiempo de 2ºB a aquellos niños y niñas que tienen una "C".
Mañana, jueves 11 lo llevarán a casa para repasar. Por favor, firmen el control y que sus hijos/as lo lleven de vuelta al cole el día 17.

                                                     

                                                    Autumn in Ireland
GOOD EVENING EVERYONE!
Oh, dear!
What´s the weather like today?...
It´s raining and it´s windy.
I can see the leaves falling, the birds flying away looking for some shelter...
It´s Autumn at last!!!

And...what about the rest of the world?
Let´s play a game about the weather.
Check this link. I´m sure that you´ll love it.
See you tomorrow...and don´t forget to carry your umbrella!

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/practise-listening/whats-the-weather

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INFORMACIÓN SOBRE CONTROLES, EN LAS PÁGINAS "PRIMARY 1º,2º; PRIMARY 3º,4º"

Good evening.
I would like to remind you of the contents your children have to revise for the tests.
Please remember I´ll write such data in "PRIMARY 1º,2º" and "PRIMARY 3º, 4º".
Los videos, listenings, juegos sobre los contenidos que vamos viendo en clase los publicaré en la página principal.
Las páginas de "Primary 1º,2,3º,4º,5º,6º" serán para fotos de actividades, deberes de clase o información sobre controles y contenidos del curso.
Las fechas de los controles, además de llevarlas apuntadas en las agendas y libretas de Inglés aparecerán en la parte derecha del Blog, en NOTICE BOARD (tablón de avisos).
Las entradas se van archivando. Para encontrar algo que quieran recordar basta con consultar el apartado "Blog Archive" en la parte derecha de la pantalla o "Labels" , las etiquetas que voy poniendo a cada entrada (video, pictures, memories, podcasts...).
CÓDIGO DE COLORES (como sus libros):
LETRA AZUL: 1º DE PRIMARIA
LETRA VERDE: 2º DE PRIMARIA
LETRA MORADA: 3º DE PRIMARIA
LETRA AZUL MARINO:4º DE PRIMARIA
Asi nos resultará más fácil reconocer la información para cada curso.
El color negro será para información global del blog.
Un video para repasar el control de los 2º de la semana que viene:
WHAT´S THE WEATHER LIKE? o HOW´S THE WEATHER?
 Sólo pongo enlaces y videos procesados, en los que me aseguro de que no hay pop-ups ni publicidad. Los proceso para eliminar los comentarios...en este se cita la fuente original.

Revising the alphabet in 3º: unos enlaces divertidos.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/the-alphabet-song
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/were-going-the-zoo

(El British Council es el Ministerio de Educación británico. Todo lo que proviene de esta fuente garantiza la seguridad de los niños. Es una página excelente para aprender Inglés y para aquellos hermanos/as mayores que, ya en el último año de carrera quieran solicitar una beca de "Language Assistant" en Reino Unido e Irlanda. El plazo de solicitud se suele abrir en febrero).

Un saludo.
The Leprechaun in Charge

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Thanks for your comments!

Hi everyone and Lucy in particular!.
I feel extremely happy today since I´ver just read your comment. It brightened up my day!
When you teach  a subject at school you always dream of making your students an active part in it. What I mean is that you crave for communicating, for making language an important thing in their lives!.
You just wrote a comment that I did not expect, in fact, since I´m no longer your teacher.
However, I can tell you that both you and your classmates play an oustanding role in my memories as a teacher since you were one of the groups I taught in my first year at school.
I remember the Easter cards you made...do you know that I found yours last year? I still keep some of them.


By the way (I love boasting around about this...) I was lucky enough to sleep at Portora Royal, Oscar Wilde´s school in Enniskillen (Northern Ireland). It was great. You enter that school and there is a huge hall, with his portrait on the wall! I remember I was quite shocked since it was the same portrait I saw in one of the compulsory novels I had to read at the uni!!!.


I also like "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and I remember the film in the 1940s. I bought it a couple of years ago with a special edition of the novel.


Thanks so much for taking part in this!!!!.
See you around.

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SOME "GHOST STUFF" FOR MY STUDENTS IN 6º (now that you are all thinking about Halloween...)

TO MY DEAR STUDENTS IN 6º :

Since Halloween is just around the corner (even though you know I don´t celebrate it when I´m in Spain, just when I lived in Northern Ireland), I thought of letting you know about one of the classics:

"The Canterville Ghost", a short story by Oscar Wilde.

 My English teacher chose it as compulsory reading when I was a couple of years older than you.

See you tomorrow.

Mr Wilde (Dublin),  in a nonchalant attitude...in the best Irish tradition.

You can find this sculpture next to the American Institute, his former residence. It´s quite funny.

I remember I was chatting to some friends and then we came across it, just by chance.

See you around

THE LEPRECHAUN IN CHARGE

Para escuchar en compañía de hermanos/as en la ESO  y padre/madres(s), titos y titas....adultos de la familia, en definitiva. Mil disculpas por la calidad del sonido.
I made my best.

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Autumn...Fall... Francés: automne Italiano: autunno Alemán: Herbst Holandés: herfst , najaar Portugués: outono Japonés: 秋 (あき, aki):

Seasons Craft . Thanks to the mum or dad who made it. It´s been a long time since I last saw such a nice stuff! An art piece, in fact.

Well...Autumn came at last. It always was and will be my
favourite season.

Some people will get grumpy and complain about rain, wind
and cold. Cold is maybe the worst of them three.

However, there are loads of nice memories in my brain
concerning autumn and rain...

The best of them...me in my tiny wellies, jumping into every
single pond I would come across in my way to school...
and jumping so high as to get stained
and share those stains with whom dared to get in my way!...

And a few years ago...the smell of the soil, "soaked to the bone" 
by the rain drops of the emerald island...

...flavours and smells of nature, wood, factories
and the sight of ravens 
scratching their wings with their beaks,
waiting patiently on the traffic lights...
not eager at all to keep flying their way out...

What does Autumn mean to you?

To me autumn is this: este es mi otoño. ¿Cuál es el tuyo?. Espero vuestros comentarios.

                         High Street. Omagh. County Tyrone
                                     Northern Ireland.

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To those parents who feel like improving their listening skills. A aquellos padres y madres que quieran practicar el "listening"...

One of the funniest videos ever.
Fuente: "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". "Psychic Spoon Bender" Youtube.
Enjoy!

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5º PRIMARIA. ABOUT THE NOVEL "STARMAN"

Hi, dear children in 5º.
From now on I will submit some podcasts I am recording about the novel "Starman".
I will read some pages, or provide you with some activities you can do at home to improve your listening in English.


Chicos y chicas de 5º, aqui podréis consultar algunos podcasts o archivos de audio que iré grabando para vosotros. Escuchadlos y enviadme por correo electrónico lo que os voy pidiendo en cada uno de ellos.


Serán tareas simples, puesto que no os veo este curso. El objetivo es que os resulte cada vez más sencillo escuchar y pronunciar en Inglés.


Publico el primer podcast en la derecha de la pantalla, en"LABELS". Buscad el "PODCAST 5º-1" dentro de todos los Podcasts.
Os doy hasta el 15 de octubre para que me escribáis el email con lo que os pido.

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WELCOME BACK, DEAR CHILDREN!

13th September

Good morning, dear students.
I have already met some of you in the playground, waiting for lessons to start.
A school looks much better when there is life in it. You fill those empty spaces up!
I´m sure that we´ll have a great year.

See you around.

The Leprechaun in Charge

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Well...THEY MADE IT POSSIBLE! Spain vs Netherlands. WE GOT THE WORLD CUP,AT LAST

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/en-fotos-espana-campeones-del-mundo-14873766.html?action=Popup&ino=3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8687514.stm

http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/world-cup-live-netherlands-vs-spain/?hp

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2010/07/12/l-espagne-se-hisse-sur-le-toit-du-monde_1386624_3242.html#ens_id=1371076

http://www.welt.de/sport/wm2010/article8416331/Iniesta-schiesst-Spanien-zum-Weltmeistertitel.html

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,27394092-5019291,00.html

http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/WorldCup/TournamentNews/Spain-crowned-World-Champions-20100711

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4ºPRIMARIA. "Around the World in Eighty Days"

Hi, my dear students.
I hope you had a great time this weekend. I know it was quite special.
I found this album when I was tidying up.
I bought it in 1983!!!. Quite a long time ago.


At school (26th May).
VIEWS IN 4ºA ON THE ALBUM:

1 IT WAS CHEAP
2 THE ALBUM IS ABOUT A NOVEL . ABOUT MR FOGG AND HIS ADVENTURES .
3 MY TEACHER LIKED THIS ALBUM VERY MUCH.
4 COLOURS REMAIN THE SAME DESPITE THE YEARS.
5 THERE ARE SOME JOKES IN IT.
6 CHARACTERS ARE ANIMALS.
7 PAGES ARE QUITE VALUABLE.
8 CHARACTERS ARE FUNNY.

At school. 4ºB. VIEWS ON THE ALBUM:

1 THE ALBUM IS QUITE INTERESTING. SOME THINGS ARE DIFFERENT IN IT.
2 INSTEAD OF "PHILEAS" HIS NAME IS "WILLY".
3 INSTEAD OF "PASSEPARTOUT" HIS NAME IS "RIGODON".
4 MRS AOUDA IS "ROMY".
5 THAT ALBUM IS QUITE OLD AND IT HAS LOTS OF GLUE STAINS.
6 ITS PRICE IS AMAZING: 50 PESETAS=0,30 EUROS.
7 IT HAS FUNNY THINGS.
8 CHARACTERS ARE ANIMALS.

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QUIZ What´s that? Who are they talking about? M.J. got it right!!!!congratulations

Well...let´s clear up the mystery about the pic...

A girl at school (I can´t write her name, remember  safety procedures in the internet) got the right answer last week.

I felt quite surprised since she´s on holidays but thinking about the quiz!Good girl.

Try and write as many answers as possible to these questions:

What´s that?

IT IS A PIC.


Who are they talking about?
THE CELEBRITY THEY MENTION IN THE SENTENCES IS FERNANDO TORRES "EL NIÑO" .



Where was this pic taken?
I TOOK IT IN LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND (WHERE FERNANDO PLAYS).



What do you know about that place?
THIS CITY BECAME WELL-KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE OF "THE BEATLES".
JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCARTNEY, RINGO STARR AND GEORGE HARRISON WERE FROM LIVERPOOL.

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What do you like about Spring?

Well...
The little girl playing with a snow ball has gone back home for good this year.
Now you can see a lovely picture, instead. It is a very special place for me. Do you like it?...
I onced lived in an island where it rains for months, though I think we had such a rainy season this year!!!

MY FAVOURITE THING ABOUT SPRING IS THAT I CAN SIT DOWN ON A BENCH IN A PARK AND READ FOR A WHILE.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

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A Spanish Parade in another country

Hi my students in 2ºESO.

Do you remember I told you about a certain parade I took part in to welcome some Spaniards abroad?

Look at this picture. Sure you will never see me in it but I can tell you I was in that very same street.

Can you see the flag?. There were lots of them and some people even learnt a few sentences in Spanish to welcome those Spaniards.

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Andalusia. My favourite destination

by María P.
by Ana P.

Next 28 February we celebrate the day of our region.

Some students in 6ºB have written about their feelings about it.

Andalucía is a big region. In Andalucía there are monuments like the Alhambra,the Mezquita and they are very beautiful. Alfonso.

My favourite city of Andalusia is Granada. My favourite castle is la Alhambra. Maria P.

What I like the most about Andalusia is Alhambra castle and fortress.Ana.P.

Andalusia is the place of happiness, peace and hope. Amanda.S

What I like the most about Andalusia is its landscapes.Pablo.R

I live in Andalusia and,my best friend,too.Silvia.M.

For me Andalusia is the most beautiful place in the world.Carlota.R.

Andalusia is earth for all and it´s a pleasure to the senses. Laura.M

Andalusia has got a lot of monuments.Teresa.S.

Andalucia has eight provinces.Elena.S and Jaime .P

One of the things I like about Andalucía is the hymn I learnt to sing when I was at school. The hymn of my city.For those of you who can play music, here I submit the lyrics and score.

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3º and 4º Primaria

Pictures by Carl Warner.

Hi children!. Hola, chicos y chicas.
I hope you had a good Monday despite the bad weather!...Espero que haya sido un buen lunes, a pesar del tiempo. Aqui tenéis algunas fichas sobre comida y sabores, el tema de estas semanas. Pinchad donde dice "HERE".
Here I submit some worksheets about FOOD and FLAVOURS, the topic we are dealing with.
CLICK HERE.
CLICK HERE.

An activity about cooking.Are you a good cook?...Click HERE ... and HERE.

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1º ESO "THE BIG CHALLENGE"

The Royal Guard
A phone booth
Double decker
A police officer ("bobby").
Dear children,
Do you remember that we talked about "The Big Challenge" last Friday?.
Here you have the link to the test in case you want to practise a bit.
Click here

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3º and 4º

Dear children,
Here I submit some activities concerning the new topic we will deal with next week.
We´ll learn how to talk about what we like and about those things we don´t like at all!:

1. What do you like? ¿Qué te gusta?
I like cheese. Me gusta el queso.
I don´t like mustard. No me gusta la mostaza.

2. What does he/she/it like? ¿Qué le gusta a él/ella/un animal?
He/she/it likes meat. Le gusta la carne.
He/she/it doesn´t like fish. No le gusta el pescado.

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International Day of Peace and Non-violence

Good morning everyone.
We already know that "peace" is not a one-day matter. It involves everyday practice and commitment.
We´ll deal with this topic in class and students will stick some "thoughts" about it on the walls.




Some crafts. Click here.
Click here.

Click here.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASgQLgktXyOiZGh0cXNxN18xNzVjejJodHdkZA&hl=es

Click here.

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4ºPRIMARIA. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

CLick here.

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