Christmas activities

Do you get the joke? lol
Do you think "Tió", the Three Kings or "Cagananer" need therapy? What would they say to the therapist?

Watch a brief history of Santa in this video. He speaks really really fast, but don't worry. Just try to understand what you can, you'll be surprised.

Are you a Santa's or a King's person? Who brings you presents? What did you get? Did you get what you wanted? What would happen if you didn't?
Watch some disappointed kids here

And one really angry kid that got a BOOK, and not a TOY. Santa, what were you thinking?!!


2. This is a New Year's Eve very beautiful song

"My dear acquaintance” Regina Spektor

Now, fill in the gaps with the words given below:

hearts, joy, loving, cheer x 3, good, dear, here x 2, young, kind

My dear acquaintance, it's so ___________to know you
For strength of your hand
That is __________and giving
And a happy new year
With love overflowing
With ___________ in our hearts
For the blessed new year

Raise your glass and we'll have a ______________
For us all who are gathered _____________

And a happy new year to all that is living
To all that is gentle, ____________, and forgiving
Raise your glass and we'll have a _____________
My dear acquaintance, a happy new year

All of those who are hither and yonder
With love in our ___________
We grow fonder and fonder
Hail to those who we hold so ____________
And hail to those who are gathered ____________

And a happy new year to all that is living
To all that is gentle, ______________, and forgiving
Raise your glass and we'll have a ________________
My dear acquaintance, a happy new year
Happy new year 

Do you have a new year's resolution? Tell your classmates about it!

Tutoría 07/11/2012: Violencia de género

Artículo en la vanguardia
artículo en público
artículo en el país: el amor no duele
maltratadas en acción. El país

Michael Jackson's Thriller

Watch this video.
In the first part of the video Michael has two things to say to the girl. What are they?

Now try to fill in the gaps with the words given.

get night eyes scream screen door  midnight  time x2  cold  moonlight   imagination  before    behind between together run posses stops

It's close to ...............
and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the............... ,
you see a sight that almost ............... your heart
You try to ...............
but terror takes the sound ............... you make it
You start to freeze
as horror looks you right  ............... the eyes
You're paralyzed

You hear the............... slam
and realize there's nowhere left to ...............
You feel the ............... hand
and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your ...............
and hope that this is just ............... , girl!
But all the while
you hear the creature creeping up ...............
You're out of ...............

They're out to ............... you,
there's demons closing in on every side
They will ............... you
unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the ...............
for you and I to cuddle close ............... , yeah
All through the ...............
I'll save you from the terror on the ...............
I'll make you see







Now this is a bit tricky, find the 6 wrong words  and the 4 words that have been misplaced.

Darkness falls across the hand 

The midnight hour is close at land  
Creatures crawl in search of food  
To terrorize y'all's neighborhood  
And those whoever shall be found  
Without the soul for getting clown  
Must stand and face the hounds of shell  
And rot inside a corpse's hell

The foulest stench's in the hair 
The funk of thirty thousand years  
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom  
And though you light to stay alive  
Your money starts to shiver  
for no mere mortal can insist the evil of the thriller
      

Just some more words to fill in...
share beast fighting ghost save tight dare

'Cause this is thriller  
Thriller night  
And no one's gonna ................ you 
From the ................ about to strike  
You know it's thriller  
Thriller night  
You're ................ for your life 
Inside a killer  
Thriller...

That this is thriller  
Thriller night 
'Cause I can thrill you more  
Than any ................ would ever ................ try  
(Thriller) (Thriller night)  
So let me hold you ................   
And ................a killer, diller, chiller  
Thriller here tonight

 
 

Halloween song

Listen to the song and try to fill in the gaps:

bones   sweet  gifts costumes  scary    ancient  bats scream x 2   fun    treat    faces   started

Halloween, Halloween
Creepy, crawly Halloween
Trick or ________ all in fun,
October 31st has come

Halloween, Halloween
Spooky, kooky Halloween
Kids in ________ , what a sight
On Halloween tonight

Big black cats
Vampire ________
Ghosts and goblins out tonight
Causing quite a fright

Halloween, Halloween
Painted ________ , what a scene
Door to door
They trick or treat
For something ________ to eat

Halloween, Halloween
Celebrating Halloween
Jack-o'-lanterns all aglow
So the ________ stories go

Halloween, Halloween
Celtics ________ Halloween
They celebrated harvest time
With ________ of food and wine

Candles glow
Spirits go
Bringing luck and fortune too
This is what they knew

Halloween, Halloween
Now they call it Halloween
Skulls and ________
Create the scene
Very ________ Halloween

Halloween, Halloween
Let's have ________ on Halloween
Witches fly
And children ________
Tonight on Halloween

Witches fly
And children ________
Tonight on Halloween!

Halloween: Idioms about fear

Watch this video:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/the_teacher/mp4/teacher_halloween.mp4

Spooky Halloween

Watch this video.
What happened to these cats?
What happens when a cat dies in the video?
Where are they? How many Halloween related things can you see in the video? Do you know the words in English?

Carly Rae Jepsen's Call me maybe

Let's watch this video

What happens at the end? Do you think she's got a chance with this boy? why?

Could you work out what his tattoo says? 

Now, let's listen again and try to fill in the gaps with the words given 

 

where, me, your, first, boys, know, soul, look, showing, wish, wayx2, metx2, intox2

I threw a _________ in the well
Don't ask me, I'll never tell
I looked to you as it fell
And now you're in my _________

I trade my _________ for a wish
Pennies and diamonds for a kiss
I wasn't looking for this
But now you're in my _________

Your stare was holding
Ripped jeans, skin was _________
Hot night, wind was blowing
_________ you think you're going baby?

Hey, I just _________ you, and this is crazy
But here's my number, so call me maybe
It's hard to _________ right, at you baby
But here's my number, so call me maybe

Hey, I just _________ you, and this is crazy
But here's my number, so call me maybe
And all the other _________ , try to chase me
But here's my number, so call me maybe

You took _________ time with the call
I took no time with the fall
You gave _________ nothing at all, but still you're in my way
I beg and borrow and steal
Have _________ sight and it's real
I didn't know I would feel it, but it's in my way.

Your stare was holding...

Before you came _________ my life I missed you so bad
I missed you so bad... I missed you so, so bad
Before you came _________ my life I missed you so bad
And you should _________ that... I missed you so, so bad

It's hard to look right, at you baby
But here's my number, so call me maybe

Hey, I just met you...

Before you came into my life...

Katy Perry's "Firework"

Listen to the song. What do you think it is about?

Now try to fill in the gaps with these words:

July, shine, paper, spark, wind, light, hear, do x4

____________ you ever feel like a plastic bag
drifting through the ___________
wanting to start again?
____________ you ever feel, feel so ___________ thin
like a house of cards
one blow from caving in?
____________ you ever feel already buried deep
six feet under?
Scream, but no one seems to ___________ a thing
____________ you know that there's still a chance for you?
'Cause there's a ___________ in you

You just gotta ignite the ___________
And let it ___________
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of _____________

doors, be, shoot, heart, waste, come x2, future, rainbow, original

'Cause, baby, you're a firework
___________ on; show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you ___________ across the sky-y-y
Baby, you're a firework
___________ on; let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"

You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own

You don't have to feel like a ___________ of space
You're ___________
You cannot ____________ replaced
If you only knew what the ___________ holds
After a hurricane comes a ___________

Maybe you're reason why all the ___________ are closed
So you could open ___________
That leads you to a perfect road
Like a lightning bolt
Your ___________ will glow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the…

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the Moon, Moon, Moon,

It's always been inside of you, you, you,

And now it's time to let it through, ooh, ooh

'Cause, baby, you're a firework...

Let's have a look at these sentences. Why are they writen like this? Can you write them properly?

'cause =___________

Make 'em go oh =___________

You're gonna leave'em falin' down=___________________

You just gotta ignite =____________________

 

Jessie J's "Price Tag"

Listen to the song in the video. What do you think the song is about?

 
Now try to fill in the gaps with the following words:

serious, time, second, high,  left, got, love, smile, first, right

Okay, Coconut man, Moon Heads and Pea
You ready ?

Seems like everybody's _____________ a price,
I wonder how they sleep at night.
When the sale comes ___________,
And the truth comes ___________ ,
Just stop for a minute and _____________

Why is everybody so _____________?
Acting so damn mysterious
Got your shades on your eyes
And your heels so ___________
That you can't even have a good _________________

Everybody look to their ____________ 
Everybody look to the ___________
Can you feel that (yeah)
We're paying with ___________tonight

can, when, don't,  dance x2, happiness,why,  alright, not, am

It's ___________about the money, money, money
We ___________ need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world __________,
Forget about the price tag
Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching.
Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling
Wanna make the world ____________,
Forget about the Price Tag.

Okay!
We need to take it back in time,
__________music made us all unite
And it wasn't low blows and video hoes,
____________ I the only one getting tired?
__________ is everybody so obsessed?
Money can't buy us _____________
_________ we all slow down and enjoy right now?
Guarantee we'll be feeling ___________.

Everybody look to their....

What do you think she refers to when she says "Cha-Ching Cha-Ching"? What about "Ba-Bling Ba-Bling"?

Now, this is a little bit difficult. There are eight wrong words, can you find them?

[B.o.B] 

Yeah yeah, well, keep the price tag, 

and take the bagpack,

just give me six strings and a half stack. 

And you can clean the car, leave me the garage

And all I... yes all I read are keys and guitars, 

and it's within 30 minutes I'm leaving to Mars!

Yeah, we're leaping across these undefeatable odds.

It's like this man, you can't put a price on life, naha!

We do this for the love so we fight and sacrifice tonight

So we aint gon stumble and fall, clever

Waiting to see this in the sign of defeat, uh uh

So we fon keep everyone moving their fat

so bring back the beat and then everyone scream:

It's not about the money, money, money...

What do you think these expressions below mean?
six strings =____________
keys =__________
I'm leaving to Mars =______________
you can't put a price on the life =___________

naha= __________

Now translate into "proper" English the following:
So we aint gon stumble and fall = ________________________________
So we gon keep everyone moving their feet  = ________________________________

Do tongue twisters twist your tongue?

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

 

Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.  

If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?

Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.

games links

Boogle

West Side Story Project
Session 1
1. Ice breaker:
Boom Chicka Boom, this is a "repeat after me" song. Repeat the lines after the song leader sings them. Stand up and follow the actions in the parentheses for each verse...
Go Bananas, repeat each line and perform each movement with your hands and body.


 2. Introducing West Side Story:
 
West Side Story is a musical that takes “Romeo and Juliet” the drama by Shakespeare to New York’s West Side. The Italian rival families are changed by city gangs, but the story is pretty similar.
So we are going to talk about, belonging, love, rivalry, arguments, fights, etc.

A) I want to live in America song
They are talking about their life, comparing Puerto Rico to what they call America, which is the United States of America (USA).
Can we compare our life in Primary School to our life in Secondary School, maybe? Do we want to go back there?
Listen to the song:

 

B) Jet’s song.
We are going to work on a song that tell us about the story of the Jets, a gang in New York. They are fighting the Sharks, who are Puerto Rican. There are some issues raised here: racisim, territory, belonging, rivalry, etc.  

Listen to the song:

This is the way the Jets and the Sharks fight:

And this is the party at the Gym, where Maria and Toni meet and trouble begins:

Tutoria 12/04/2012

Avui farem una tasca en grup: origami modular o sonobe.
Origami és una paraula japonesa que vol dir: ori, doblegar i kami, paper. És l'art tradicional japonès de doblegar paper.
Mitsunobu Sonobe va inventar l'origami modular que practicarem entre tots.

Primer hem de fer un mòdul amb un full de paper quadrat.

 Amb mòduls com aquests podem fer un seguit de volums entre tots. A partir d'una piràmide bàsica com aquesta:

 

Podem fer formes com aquestes, o bé fer una gran superfície de piràmides interconectades. Aviam què surt!

O

 

End of term songs

Jessie J "Pice Tag"

Listen to the song in the video. What do you think the song is about?

Now try to fill in the gaps with the following words:
alright, am, don't,  dance x2, time, when, can, shades, love,  sleep, why,  second, stop, right, heels, not, smile, got, serious, left, first, happiness

Okay, Coconut man, Moon Heads and Pea
You ready ?

Seems like everybody's _____________ a price,
I wonder how they _____________ at night.
When the sale comes ___________,
And the truth comes ___________ ,
Just ______________ for a minute and _____________

Why is everybody so _____________
Acting so damn mysterious
Got your_____________on your eyes
And your ____________ so high
That you can't even have a good _________________

Everybody look to their ____________ 
Everybody look to thAmeir ___________
Can you feel that (yeah)
We're paying with ___________tonight

It's ___________about the money, money, money
We ___________ need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world __________,
Forget about the price tag
Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching.
Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling
Wanna make the world ____________,
Forget about the Price Tag.

Okay!
We need to take it back in time,
__________music made us all unite
And it wasn't low blows and video hoes,
____________ I the only one getting tired?
__________ is everybody so obsessed?
Money can't buy us _____________
_________ we all slow down and enjoy right now?
Guarantee we'll be feeling ___________.

Everybody look to their....

[B.o.B]
Yeah yeah,well, keep the price tag, 
and take the cash back, 
just give me six strings and a half stack.
And you can keep the cars, leave me the garage
And all I... yes all I need are keys and guitars,
and it's within 30 seconds I'm leaving to Mars!
Yeah, we're leaping across these undefeateble odd.
Its like this man, you can't put a price on the life, naha!
We do this for the love so we fight and sacrifice every night
So we aint gon stumble and fall, never
Waiting to see this in the sign of defeat uh uh
So we gon keep everyone moving their feet
So bring back the beat and then everyone sing:

It's not about the money, money, money...

What do you think these expressions below mean?
six strings =____________
keys =__________
I'm leaving to Mars =______________
you can't put a price on the life =___________

Now translate into "proper" English the following:
So we aint gon stumble and fall = ________________________________
So we gon keep everyone moving their feet  = ________________________________



Adele's "Rumor has it"

Listen to this song in the video:
What is she talking about in the beginning?
Is she being rude? To who?
What do you think "tong in cheek" mean? Now, try pulling the face, what does it mean?
And chit chat?

 

Now, listen again and try to fill in the gaps with these words:

things, crazy, down, head, don't, hear, any, whispered, love, around, stranger, fool, missing, really, your, you're, leaving, half,

She, she ain't real,
She ain't gon' be able to ______ you like I will,
She is a _______________ ,
You and I have history,
Or ___________ you remember?
Sure, she's got it all, love...
But, baby, is that ___________ what you want?

Bless your soul, you've got your _____________in the clouds,
She made a ___________out of you,
And, boy, she's bringing you ___________,
She made ___________heart melt,
But ______________ cold to the core,
Now rumour has it she ain't got your love _________ more,

Rumour has it, rumour...

She is _________ your age,
But I'm guessing that's the reason that you strayed,
I heard you've been ___________ me,
You've been telling people ___________ you shouldn't be,
Like when we creep out and she ain't ____________
Haven't you heard the rumours?

Bless your soul, you've got your...

All of these words ____________ in my ear,
Tell a story that I cannot bear to _____________,
Just 'cause I said it, it don't mean that I meant it,
People say ___________ things,
Just 'cause I said it, don't mean that I meant it,
Just 'cause you heard it...

Rumour has it, rumour...

But rumour has it he's the one I'm ___________ you for.

Now translate into "proper" English: 
Just 'cause I said it, it don't mean that I meant it,
Just 'cause you heard it...

West side story project (I)

The first two bits of West side story (very long intro, let's watch it from minute 6)

Now answer this questions:
Why do the Jets call the others "chick, chick, chick..."?
Who are the Sharks?
Does the fight in 5' remind you of anything?
Now, in your own "West Side Story", who are the cops?
Let's read the script:

Policeman: Come on, boys, huh? Hey, come on, huh? 

Break it up, you punks...
How many times have l told you punks to cut this stuff out?

Jet:Why, if it ain't Lieutenant Schrank.

Jets: Top o' the day, Lieutenant Schrank.

Bernardo: And Officer Krupke...

Sharks: Top o' the day, Officer Krupke.

Policeman: I'll give you the top o' the head. Hey, you, get down.

Riff: But we're havin' such fun. We enjoy the playground. 

See, it keeps us deprived children off of the foul city streets.

Policeman:Shut up.

Jets: Born like we was on the hot pavements.

Policeman: You wanna get your skull broke? Baby John, come here. 

Come here!
All right. Now, which one of these Puerto Ricans bloodied you?

Jet: Well, sir--

Policeman: Which one?

Riff: Excuse me, sir. As a matter of fact, we've suspicion...

that the job was done by a cop.

Jets: Two cops. At the very least.

Policeman: Impossible.

Bernardo: In America, nothing is impossible.

Policeman: All right, wise guys. You listen to me...all of ya! 

You hoodlums don't own these streets... 

and I've had all the roughhouse I'm gonna put up with around here. 

You wanna kill each other? Kill each other. 

But you ain't gonna do it on my beat. 

Are there any questions?

Bernardo: Yes, sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish?

Policeman: Get your friends out of here, Bernardo...and stay out. Please...

Bernardo: Okay, Sharks, “vámonos”.

Policeman: Boy, oh, boy, as if this neighbourhood wasn't crummy enough. 

Now, look, fellas. Fellas? Look, let's be reasonable. If l don't get a little law 

and order around here...I'll get busted downto a traffic corner... 

and your friend don't like traffic corners. 

So that means you're gonna start makin' nice with the P.R.s from now on. 

I said nice, get it? 'Cause if you don't...

and I catch any of you doin'any more brawlin' in my territory...

I'm gonna personally beat the living crud out of every one of you... 

and see that you go to the can and rot there
Say good-bye to the nice boys, Krupke. (Good-bye, boys)

 

Now, write our own script for the conversation between the cops the Jets and the Sharks.

tutoría 08/03/212

Los peligros de leer

Al leer, cuando leemos dándonos a la lectura, algo 'en' nosotros pasa 

La Vanguardia 05/03/2012, Xavier Antich

María Zambrano se preguntaba: "Habiendo un hablar, ¿por qué el escribir?". Es una pregunta pertinente. Porque, si ya podemos hablar, ¿para qué escribir? ¿Qué nos aporta la escritura que no tengamos en el habla? Zambrano decía que, al hablar, soltamos las palabras, nos desprendemos de ellas de modo que también ellas se alejan de nosotros. Las palabras dichas son nuestras, claro, pero, como en seguida se van, dejan casi de ser nuestras en cuanto salen de la boca. Por eso, a veces, es bueno morderse la lengua pues, a menudo, nos cuesta reconocernos del todo en lo que decimos y pronto tendemos a desdecirnos de lo dicho: "No quería decir eso". Por el contrario, al escribir, se retienen las palabras, se hacen más propias y, al quedar fijadas, ya no podemos, amparándonos en la prisa del hablar, hacer como si no fueran nuestras. Lo escrito, escrito está. Dicho y, ya de una vez por todas, ahí queda: devolviéndonos lo que quisimos decir, en la forma que lo dijimos, sin poder dar marcha atrás. Por eso la escritura nos compromete más de lo que hace cualquier cosa.

En ese sentido, no parece impertinente preguntarse, con todo lo que hay para ver, mirar y escuchar, por qué leer. ¿Qué nos aporta la lectura? ¿Qué extraña forma de compromiso mantenemos con lo que leemos? ¿Qué hacemos, al leer? ¿Qué hace la lectura con nosotros? ¿Será la lectura, como ingenua y equivocadamente pretenden algunos, un paréntesis de la vida? ¿O será quizás más bien una forma de vida? Por otra parte, ese acto de lectura, que tradicionalmente se ha considerado como un recogimiento, como una concentración en la soledad del leer, ¿no será más bien una forma de comunidad, un modo de pertenecer a una comunidad y de contribuir a enriquecerla? Sobre estas, y muchas otras cosas, estuvieron conversando, el otro día, en la sede de la editorial RBA, Iñaki Gabilondo, el periodista, y Ángel Gabilondo, el metafísico y, hasta hace nada, ministro de Educación. Fue una sesión memorable, que deslumbró a quienes tuvieron la fortuna de acercarse hasta allí y que, sin duda, salieron trastornados por participar en la conversación a la que allí se convocaba. La ocasión: la presentación del último libro de Ángel Gabilondo, Darse a la lectura (RBA), un texto formidable y fascinante que hará las delicias de quienes aman leer y de quienes, además, piensan que, en la lectura, está en juego mucho más que la simple ocupación del tiempo.

Darse a la lectura es, antes que nada, una invitación a conversar, leyendo, pues toda lectura es conversación, en torno a una pasión, esa que su autor imagina, acertadamente, compartida. Gabilondo ha recordado a menudo aquello de Hegel: "Sin pasión nada grande se ha llevado a cabo ni puede llevarse". Y la lectura, cuando alguien se da, entregándose a ella, tiene algo de pasión: es una pasión porque es algo que nos pasa. No algo que pasa, sucede sin más y luego desaparece. Sino algo que nos pasa: cuando leemos, dándonos a la lectura como quien se da a la bebida o a otras cosas, sentimos que ya no podemos pasar sin ello. Algo que nos pasa: también, por eso, algo que nos cambia, que nos hace ser otros. No sólo porque, a través de la lectura, podamos, a menudo, dejar de estar en nuestro lugar y en nuestro tiempo para habitar otros espacios y momentos, o dejar de estar solos para estar con otros, cuyas vidas, mientras leemos, pueden importarnos más, y mucho más, que la nuestra, sino, sobre todo, porque al leer, cuando leemos dándonos a la lectura, algo en nosotros pasa y, además, a veces, nos damos cuenta.

Pero lo mejor del libro, aparte de que da que pensar, cosa que no puede decirse siempre de un libro, y de que está atravesado por consideraciones sabias y preguntas que nos obligan a detenernos, es que señala, también, los peligros de la lectura. Y eso lo hace imprescindible. Porque la lectura no es una actividad inocua. Al contrario. Al leer, se moviliza todo lo que somos, hasta el extremo de que, cuando leemos de verdad y cuando lo que leemos merece en rigor ser leído, eso nos pone realmente en peligro. Por eso Gabilondo advierte que quien se sienta completamente satisfecho con lo que es y con cómo es no merece la pena que pierda el tiempo en leer. Tampoco, quien crea saberlo todo o suponga que lo que piensa no merece ser cuestionado. Porque todo eso, al leer, seguramente quedará trastornado. Y a lo mejor, entonces, corre el peligro de ser de otro modo.

¿En qué consisten estos peligros? Casi podrían ponerse en una lista, cosa que no vamos a hacer aquí, porque ya lo hace el libro y mejor de lo que podríamos siquiera insinuar. Pero algunos de estos peligros pueden ser elocuentes. Veamos. "Leer es demorarse", cosa nada recomendable en una época que nos lleva de un sitio para otro sin que muchos de estos lugares nos inviten a permanecer en ellos. Y, además, eso comporta otro riesgo, que es el de encontrarse: "desde luego, con los otros y, si se persiste, consigo". Por eso, para leer, hay que estar dispuesto a hacer la experiencia de la hospitalidad: "la que permite el acceso, la entrada, la irrupción, la participación", nada menos. Y leer, además, exige estar dispuesto a "pensar más, para pensar mejor, de otro modo". Pero, sobre todo, leer implica estar a punto para "dejarse decir": para que algo nos llegue de fuera y se nos meta dentro, para convertirse, tal vez, en algo más nuestro que lo que, antes de leer, era nuestro. Y así, llegar a ser algo que no éramos gracias a esa irrupción, en nosotros, de algo de lo que ya no podremos prescindir.

¿Qué opináis?

Concurs de punts de llibre

Com cada any per aquestes dates s'acosta el concurs de punt de llibres que organitza l'ajuntament de Cornellà. El tema d'enguany és energia sostenible per a tots. 

Els alumnes han de fer un disseny relacionat amb el tema i és molt important que darrere hi consti:  

nom i cognoms de l'alumne, nivell i grup i centre.   

Hem de presentar els punts el dia 6 de març 

Les bases les teniu penjades a l'aula.

Aquí teniu més informació:2012 año internacional de la energía sostenible para todos

Tutoría 01/03/2012

Veamos este video:

Reflexiones:
Este señor habla de los sueños y lo que cuesta conseguirlos. De la frustración que producen los fracasos. De lo que ha aprendido de sus padres, profesores y entrenadores. Que cuando le dicen a uno que se tienen que esforzar más, no es para fastidiarle sino porque se preocupan por su desarrollo y saben que lo puede hacer mejor.
También habla de como se puede elegir estar triste o contento, aunque requiera entrenamiento.

Se propone la siguiente actividad para el día 15/03/2012:
Haz un power point hablando de (el orden es indiferente):
- Tus sueños, ¿qué quieres ser de mayor? No hace falta ser realista, puedes soñar.
- Algo que hayas aprendido de alguien, y que te haya ayudado a seguir adelante.
- Éxitos y fracasos. ¿Qué has aprendido de tus fracasos?
La exposición no deberá exceder los 5 minutos de duración.

El objetivo es recopilar los power points de todos los compañeros, para tener un documento que nos recuerde lo que soñamos y cómo éramos en primero de la ESO. Cuando os hagáis mayores os encantará verlo :)

Animal vocabulary

Can you guess the animals with the silhouette and the inicial? There are some difficult ones!

Tutoria 23/02/2012

Hoy en tutoría hemos revisado las agendas, haciendo una tarea de autoevaluación, para tomar conciencia de como lo hacemos. Esta actividad la acabaremos en la próxima sesión de tutoría.

Hemos visto este video sobre la percepción distorsionada de la belleza:
Algunos compañeros han dicho "qué fea..." antes de que la maquillaran.
Se invita a hacer una reflexión acerca de la presión que se ejerce sobre las chicas desde los medios de comunicación.
Se recuerda que las chicas somos lindas, tal cual y a todas horas, incluso al levantarnos con los pelos despeinados y legañas. La belleza es otra cosa.

En esta página se pueden encontrar actividades para mejorar la autoestima de las chicas. 

También hemos visto este anuncio:

Se reflexiona acerca de lo que es un buen ejemplo a seguir y lo que no. En el caso del video no se muestran buenos ejemplos.
Se les pregunta:  cuando yo grito, ¿estoy dando un buen ejemplo?
La mayoría de los alumnos responden que no.
Se les pregunta ¿qué tengo que hacer para tener silencio en clase?
La mayoría responde gritar más.

Conclusión: lo eficaz no siempre es un buen ejemplo.

In Valencia

Some students complaining about the cuts in education in Valencia

Carles Capdevila, Periodista: La educación, dignificando la profesión

Educar debe de ser una cosa parecida a espabilar a los niños y frenar a los adolescentes. Justo lo contrario de lo que hacemos: no es extraño ver niños de cuatro años con cochecito y chupete hablando por el móvil, ni tampoco lo es ver algunos de catorce sin hora de volver a casa. Lo hemos llamado sobreprotección, pero es la desprotección más absoluta: el niño llega al insti sin haber ido a comprar una triste barra de pan, justo cuando un amigo ya se ha pasado a la coca.

Sorprende que haya tanta literatura médica y psicopedagógica para afrontar el embarazo, el parto y el primer año de vida, y que exista un vacío que llega hasta los libros de socorro para padres de adolescentes, esos que lucen títulos tan sugerentes como Mi hijo me pega o Mi hijo se droga . Los niños de entre dos y doce años no tienen quien les escriba. Desde que abandonan el pañal (¡ya era hora!) hasta que llegan las compresas (y que duren), desde que los desenganchas del chupete hasta que te hueles que se han enganchado al tabaco, los padres hacemos una cosa fantástica: descansamos. Reponemos fuerzas del estrés de haberlos parido y enseñado a andar y nos desentendemos hasta que toca irlos a buscar de madrugada a la disco. Ahora que al fin volvemos a poder dormir, y hasta que el miedo al accidente de moto nos vuelva a desvelar, hacemos una siesta educativa de diez o doce años .

Alguien se estremecerá pensando que este período es precisamente el momento clave para educarlos. Tranquilo, que por algo los llevamos a la escuela. Y si llegan inmaduros a primero de ESO que nadie sufra, allá los esperan los colegas de bachillerato que nos los sobreespabilarán en un curso y medio, máximo dos. Al modelo de padres que sobreprotege a los pequeños y abandona los adolescentes nadie los podrá acusar de haber fracasado educando a sus hijos. No lo han intentado siquiera.

Los maestros hacen algo más que huelga o vacaciones, y la educación es bastante más que un problema.

Pido perdón tres veces: por colocar en un título tres palabras tan cursis y pasadas de moda, por haberlo hecho para hablar de los maestros, y, sobre todo sobre todo, porque mi idea es -lo siento mucho- hablar bien de ellos. Sé que mi doble condición de padre y periodista, tan radical que sus siglas son PP, me invita a criticarlos por hacer demasiadas vacaciones (como padre) y me sugiere que hable de temas importantes, como la ley de educación (es lo mínimo que se le pide a un periodista esta semana). Pero estoy harto de que la palabra más utilizada junto a escuela sea 'fracaso' y delante de educación acostumbre a aparecer siempre el concepto 'problema', y que 'maestro' suela compartir titular con 'huelga'. La escuela hace algo más que fracasar, los maestros hacen algo más que hacer huelga (y vacaciones) y la educación es bastante más que un problema. De hecho es la única solución, pero esto nos lo tenemos muy callado, por si acaso.

Mi proceso, íntimo y personal, ha sido el siguiente: empecé siendo padre, a partir de mis hijos aprendí a querer el hecho educativo, el trabajo de criarlos, de encarrilarlos, y, mira por donde, ahora aprecio a los maestros, mis cómplices. ¿Cómo no he de querer a una gente que se dedica a educar a mis hijos? Por esto me duele que se hable mal por sistema de mis queridos maestros, que no son todos los que cobran por hacerlo, claro está, sino los que son, los que suman a la profesión las tres palabras del título, los que mientras muchos padres se los imaginan en una playa de Hawai están encerrados en alguna escuela de verano, haciendo formación, buscando herramientas nuevas, métodos más adecuados.

Os deseo que aprovechéis estos días para rearmaros moralmente. Porque hace falta mucha moral para ser maestro. Moral en el sentido de los valores y moral para afrontar el día a día sin sentir el aprecio y la confianza imprescindibles. Ni los de la sociedad en general, ni los de los padres que os transferimos las criaturas pero no la autoridad. ¿Os imagináis un país que dejara su material más sensible, las criaturas, en sus años más importantes, de los cero a los dieciséis, y con la misión más decisiva, formarlos, en manos de unas personas en quienes no confía?

Las leyes pasan, y las pizarras dejan de ensuciarnos los dedos de tiza para convertirse en digitales. Pero la fuerza y la influencia de un buen maestro siempre marcará la diferencia: el que es capaz de colgar la mochila de un desaliento justificado junto a las mochilas de los alumnos y, ya liberado de peso, asume de buen humor que no será recordado por lo que le toca enseñar, sino por lo que aprenderán de él.

Practice your English with Pusheen

Pusheen is a very special cat, have a look here.

Tutoria 16/02/2012

Hoy en tutoría hemos trabajado como somos.
Algunos, a la pregunta cómo somos, respondemos: qué hago, qué me gusta, quién son mis amigos, o qué quiero ser.
A menudo no nos vemos como nos ven y nuestros compañeros no están de acuerdo con nuestras descripciones. A otros compañeros enseguida los reconocemos, porque se describen tal cual como nosotros los vemos.

Ha sido una actividad muy bonita, gracias.

Sant Valentine's day

Whitney Houston "I wanna dance with somebody"

baby x2, day, heart x2, or, in,loves x4, chance x2, burns x2, hour, say, loneliness, lost, time, blues, heat, aright,  spinning, down, come, boy

Clocks strikes upon the ____________,
And the sun begins to fade.
Still enough __________ to figure out,
How to chase my ___________ away.
I've done _____________up 'til now,
It's the light of __________ that shows me how,
And when the night falls,  _______________calls.

(Chorus:)
Oh! I wanna dance with somebody.
I wanna feel the___________with somebody.
Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody,
With somebody who __________ me. (x2)

I've been _________ love and lost my senses,
____________ through the town.
Sooner__________later the fever ends,
And I wind up feeling _____________ .
I need a man who'll take a ___________,
On a love that ___________hot enough to last.
So when the night falls, my lonely __________ calls.

(Chorus x2)

Somebody who... Somebody who... somebody who _________ me...
Somebody who... Somebody who... to hold me in his arms...

I need a man who'll take a __________,
On a love that_________ hot enough to last.
So when the night falls, my lonely__________ calls.

(Chorus x2)

Ooh ooh! Dance! ___________ on baby... (laughs)
Dance! Wooo! Yeh! Dance! You dance like this... (laughs)
Woah! (dance!)

Don't you wanna dance? (dance!) with me___________.
Don't you wanna dance? (dance!) with me _________.
Don't you wanna dance? (dance!) with me_____________.
With somebody who ___________ me.

Don't you wanna dance?
_______you wanna dance.
Don't you wanna dance? (dance!) x3
With somebody who___________me.
Ooh (dance!)
Ooh-oh (dance!)
Ooh (dance!)
...with me baby...
Adele's "Rolling in the deep"

open, for, beat, all x2, story, you, darkx3, clear, allx2, do, despair  heart x3, lovex2, inside, burn, gold
There's a fire starting in my _________
Reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the _________
Finally I can see you crystal _________
Go 'head and sell me out and I'll lay your ship [shit] bare
See how I leave with every piece of _________
Don't underestimate the things that I will _________
There's a fire starting in my _________
Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the _________

(chorus:) 
The scars of your _______ remind me of us
They keep me thinking that we almost had it _________
The scars of your________, they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling...
We could have it _________
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart _________your hand
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
And you played it, to the _________
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Baby, I have no  _________ to be told
But I've heard one on you
And I'm gonna make your head _________
Think of me in the depths of your _________
Make a home down there
As mine sure won't be shared

(chorus) x2

Throw your soul through every ____________ door
Count your blessings to find what you look ___________
Turn my sorrow into treasured _______________
You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown

(chorus)...

 
Bob Dylan's "To make you feel my love" cover by Adele.
Let's watch this video:

Now, fill in the gaps of the lyrics with the words below:

years  face  embrace  evening  wrong  belong  hungry  do  arex2

When the rain is blowing in your _______
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm _________
To make you feel my love

When the ________ shadows and the stars appear
And there is no - one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million ___________
To make you feel my love

I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you ____________
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you ___________

I'd go _________, I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling, down the avenue
Know there's nothing that I wouldn't ___________
To make you feel my love

The storms _______ raging on the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change _________ blowing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do,

go to the ends of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love,

To make you feel my love

Kelly Clarkson's "My life would suck without you"
 Let's watch this video:

What's going on with the little boy and the little girl? and with the boy and the girl? 
Listen again and fill in the gaps:

wrong   is   together   back   but    goodbye    got   forever    me   too   miss much   can't   never    sorry     nothing

Guess this means you're ___________ ,

you're standing at my door
Guess this means you take _________
all you said before...
Like how you wanted
anyone_________ me,
said you'd __________ come back,
but here you are again!

'Cause we belong ___________ now, yeah
____________ united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of _________,
and honestly,
my life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you...

Baby I was stupid for telling you ___________,
maybe I was ___________ for tryin' to pick a fight
I know that I've _________ issues,
but you're pretty messed up ____________
Either way, I found out I'm ___________without you

'Cause we belong together now, yeah...

Being with you ____________so dysfunctional,
I really shouldn't_________you
but I ___________let you go, oh yeah

'Cause we belong together now, yeah...

What does "it sucks" mean? Let's look in the urban dicctionary

Adele's Someone like you

Can you understand what she's saying at the beginning of the video? 

Is she being optimistic or pessimistic about her future love life?

 

Now, listen again and fill in the gaps with the words below:

that x4  blue yesterday   mistakes   forget  friend  mind   shy  lasts   away   this   things married  over   worries   best    time   born    summer    hurts

I heard ____________you're settled down
__________ you found a girl and you're now
I heard _________ your dreams came true...

guess she gave you ___________ I didn't give to you.

Old ___________ , why are you so __________?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the ___________uninvited
But I couldn't stay ___________ , I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face and ___________ you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't ___________...

Never __________, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the __________ for you, too
Don't __________ me, I begged
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it __________in love but sometimes it ___________ instead” (x2)

You know how the __________ flies

only __________ was the time of our lives

we were __________ and raised

in a __________ haze

bound by the surprise of our glory days...

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited...

Nothing compares
No ___________ or cares
Regrets and ___________
They're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet __________ would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you...