HALLOWEEN

Hi my dear students, I divided the group and made 6 teams. Each team is going to work on what I decided. Remember to do a great job to stick on our wall next Friday 29th at 9 o´clock. Here there is a website in which you can choose any monster, vampire or ghost you want: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
I chose for you the following, you are going to do, in teams, the picture and the text and then you are going to decorate it.

GRUPO 407A. 6 GRUPOS

GRUPO 1

Duende. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Duende

A duende is a goblin-like creature that is found in the folklores of Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Philippines. The term may also apply more broadly to all sort sort of fairy races (elves, goblins, pixies, brownies, leprechauns...)

1. BARAJAS, LUIS RODRIGO
2. CARVENTE, LUIS ANGEL
3. CORTÉS, ASHLEY
4. DE LA MORA, KAREN
5. FERNÁNDEZ, MARTHA

GRUPO 2

Goblin.  http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Goblin

Goblin is a general term that can apply either to the ugliest members of the fae, or to certain sub-races. Those fae numbered among the goblin subraces, include the Scottish Trows, English Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .
Aka : Hobgobs, Gobelins, Hob-thrush, Blobins, Bogles, Bogies, Brags, Boggarts, …

1. GARCÍA, RODRIGO
2. GUTIÉRREZ, MAGALY
3. LÓPEZ, DAVID
4. MARTÍNEZ, GRISELDA
5. MEDINA, ANAID

GRUPO 3

Dryad. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Dryad

Dryads are female spirits in Greek mythology.

1. MEDINA, AGUSTÍN
2. MELO, JOSÉ ANTONIO
3. NOVAS, JOSÉ MANUEL
4. PADILLA, YHARA
5. PEDRAZA, MIGUEL

GRUPO 4

Ogre. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Ogre

 In folklore and fairy tales, an ogre (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creature who live on human flesh. The word was first used (and probably invented) by Perrault in his Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697).

1. RAMÍREZ, MISSAEL
2. REYES, GRISSEL
3. REYES, VIRIDIANA
4. REYES, DIANA
5. RÍOS, CARLOS

GRUPO 5

Giant. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Giant

The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "Giant" is the English word commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed example: the gigantes of Greek mythology.

1. RODRÍGUEZ, GILBERTO
2. SALVADOR, ANDREA
3. SUÁREZ, CINTHIA
4. TORRES, CECILIA
5. VALENZUELA, MARISOL

GRUPO 6

Sylph. http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Sylph

Sylph is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. "Sylph" has passed into general language as a term for minor spirits, elementals, or faeries of the air. Fantasy authors will sometimes employ sylphs in their fiction.

1. VALERIO, MÓNICA
2. VALLADARES, ANA CECILIA
3. VÁZQUEZ, ADRIANA
4. VÁZQUEZ, VALERIA
5. VÁZQUEZ, MIREYA

TO PREPARE FOR YOUR FIRST PARTIAL

Hi guys, I think you have been preparing yourselves for your First Partial Exam, haven´t you?  Well, I will give you this sites to help you get good grades (of course, if you review them, right?)

UNIT 1. NEW SCHOOL, NEW FRIENDS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1142_greeting/page3.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1142_greeting/page4.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1142_greeting/page4.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/archivelanguagepoint.shtml

In these four sites, you have to click on the listen part or if you prefer, you can download on your PC the listening and also the script for you to study.

In the following two sites, you click on each of the parts you want to review, for example in vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, and so on.

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I1/lessonhome.htm

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B1/beg__lesson_1.htm

In this site, you are going to do the pre-listening exercise, the listening exercises and the post-listening exercises.

http://www.esl-lab.com/intro2/intro2.htm

UNIT 2. FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. POSSESSIVES.

http://www.esl-lab.com/family1/fam1.htm#pre

http://www.esl-lab.com/family1/fam1.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/family1/familyfra.htm

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B5/lessonhome.htm

DESCRIBING PEOPLE. WHAT DOES SHE LOOK LIKE?. WHAT´S HE/SHE LIKE?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode152/languagepoint.shtml

http://www.esl-lab.com/des1/des1.htm

POSSESSIONS

http://www.languageguide.org/english/grammar/esp/part1/possession_this.jsp

 

 

 
 

OCTOBER 12TH COLUMBUS DAY

Hi my dear students in this month, on October 12th we´ll be celebrating the discovery of America, called in the United States "Columbus Day". So, to widen your vocabulary, go to this link, download it, print it and take it to our class this October 12th.

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/resources-et/celebrate/federal-holidays/pdfs/columbusday.pdf