I´m still sick but I hope I´ll be able to start again tomorrow Wednesday.
The exams will be for Thursday.
Those of you who haven´t brought the form signed by your parents, please, hurry up ,otherwisewe there won´t be time left for the project .

NO CLASS TODAY, SORRY

I feel sick because of a gastroenteritis I have, so I´m afraid I won´t be coming to class today.
I hope to be better tomorrow Tuesday.
The exam will be held on Thursday in the lab.
I´ll keep you informed If I´m not feeling any better, otherwise I´ll go to class tomorrow.

BOOK REVIEW

THE PERSIDENT´S MURDER

I have chosen this book because I think that it is right for my level in English and it is easy for read.
The book is a police story. A policeman wants to find a murderer.
The police want to find a very important murderer, the man who murderer the President. Felix is a good policeman and the Chief of Police wants Felix to find the murderer and bring him back, dead or alive.
The story takes place in an imaginary country, and it is set now because the police have modern arms. But I think that the country is very small, the people know the news very quickly.
The President of a country (we don´t know which) is murdered. A new President is elected, but he´s very friendly with the police and the army.
A man escaped from prison. He´s Alex Dinon, he´s a writer and he knows the name of the killer.
It´s necessary that Dinon doesn´t talk, so the police and the army are looking for him dead or alive!!.
I like this story because I think that the author wants to mean how much corrupted the police is . The best part of the book is when the people help Alex Dinon. They don´t believe that he´s the murderer.
Finally, I think the story has an effect on all readers because the principal theme of book is about the injustice.
I can recommend ewverybody this book because it´s the story of a writer who wants to know the truth about a president´s murder and for that he is murderer too.
JENNIFER BASSETT has been a teacher in England, Greece, Spain and Portugal. She is the current Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written several other stories. Now she lives and works in Devonshire, in the south-west of England. She enjoys going for long walks across the quiet Devon hills, and she thinks of plots for stories while she is walking.
KIKE SANCHEZ TRABANCO NB2

LOVE ACTUALLY

Love actually was written by Richard Curtis and it shows the real love problems between some couples.

I have chosen this book because I know that there is a film which is based on this book, I have to recognize that, although it´s a very famous film, I have never seen it, but of course, I have heard about it, so the title wasn’t something new for me. I knew that it tells a romantic story and I like reading this kind of books.

In this book, there is a connection between many of the characters; they are relatives, friends, work colleagues or they are in love; and the author wants to tell us their story

Everything takes place in different places of London.

The book begins with the story of a rock star who is recording a new song and he has some problems because he has got a peculiar personality.

In another part of London, Jamie and Katya have an excellent relationship, but one day, Jamie comes back home and discovers that his girlfriend has a romance with his brother Chris; so he decides to go to his farmhouse in France, where he falls in love with a young girl from Portugal: Aurelia.

The Prime Minister, David, few minutes after meeting Natalie (a member of his group of employees), falls in love with her. Although he knows that they will have some problems, finally he decides to talk to Natalie and confess her his feelings.

The day of the weeding between Peter and Juliet, Peter’s best friend Mark, is recording all the time with his camera. When Juliet asks him for the video, he doen’t want to show it to her because in the video it only appears Juliet. Actually, Mark is in love with his best friend’s wife.

Daniel is really sad because his wife Jo has died and now, he is the responsible of his stepson Sam. Daniel thinks that Sam is living a really bad moment for Jo´s recent death , but Sam (who loves her mum, of course), is really disappointed because he is in love with a girl who is very popular at school, Joanna. Daniel tries to do everything to help Sam.

Finally, in an office in London, Harry (the boss), is trying to help Sarah, because she is in love with Karl, her work colleague. At the same time, Mia Harry´s secretary is in love with him, and this situation affects Harry’s wife Karen.

In conclusion, I have to say that Love Actually was a really good choice. The book is easy to read, because there’s not a complicated vocabulary, and it is very amusing. It tells the typical love story but it isn’t relating like other love stories. There are a lot of love stories inside only one.

Now, I definitely have to watch the film, because I’m sure that it will be fantastic.

I would like to recommended this book to all my friends (especially girls), but I know that they have already watched the film and I don´t believe that now, they want to read the book. I can try it anyway.

ROSA MARIA PALICIO ARBESÚ

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Homework: We checked the exercises from the first set I gave you,present perfect with just, yet and already.

Grammar: We went on to do some more exercises from the second set , also dealing with the preseent perfect.

Speaking: A pair work activity to practise the grammar seen before. " haven´t done it yet"

Grammar: The difference between the present perfect and the simple past. Grammar, unit 20 : rules and exercises.

Speaking:"Have you ever been to Italy?" when?,who with? ... and other questions with the simple past.

Writing: I asked you to write a definition of friendship for Saint Valentine´s contest.

Reading: St.B.p.44. Section 4C ,"Faster, Faster".We only had time to read the introduction, ckeck the pessimistic mood and coross out the comparative forms that were wrong.

Homework: Finish in the second set of exercises those related to the present perfect and the simple past, and in the first set ,do sections 43 and 47.

READING, WRITING AND LISTENING TESTS FOR MONDAY,8th

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Homework:Grammar, unit 37 ,requests, offers,invitations. Wk.p. 33,34,35

Grammar: comparative and superlative adjectivesand adverbs. Grammar, units: 105,106,107,107. You should know what it is about, so I consider it as a review.

Speaking: St.B.p. 55. appearances in men , women, money, designar clothes...

Listening: a song by Shania Twain "That don´t impress me much" with gap filling exercises and finding synonyms.

Homework: Grammar, units 105,105,107,108

READING, WRITING AND GRAMMAR / VOCABULARY (UNIT 3) TESTS FOR MONDAY,8th

ROMINA ALONSO ALONSO has sent us this beautiful song. Thanks a lot, Romina

HUMOUR 5

Teacher: Can anyone give me the name of a liquid that won't freeze ?
Pupil: Hot water !

Teacher: Does anyone know which month has 28 days ?
Pupil: All of them !

Why was the head teacher worried ?
Because there were so many rulers in the school !

Teacher: I told you to stand at the end of the line ?
Pupil: I tried, but there was someone already there !

Teacher: I said to draw a cow eating some grass but you've only drawn the cow ?
Pupil: Yes, the cow ate all the grass !

Teacher: and what is "don't" short for
Pupil: Doughnut !

Teacher: In 1940, what were the Poles doing in Russia ?
Pupil: Holding up the telegraph lines !

Teacher: Why are you standing on your head ?
Pupil: I'm just turning over things in my mind, sir !
From: schooljokes.com

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Homework: Grammar, units 17,95
Grammar: Present perfect: a series of exercises we did thoroughly to make sure everybody understood this tense.
Speaking: Pair work "Are you Telling the Truth?" with questions in present perfect such as "have you ever been...?" and in the simple past to ask for more details.
Listening: "I was really scared", a ghost story with specific question about the sequence of events. First we saw some vocabulary. Exercise, script and audio.
Homework: Grammar, unit 9( I have, I´ve got), 30 (I am I don´t). An extra set of exercises in the present perfect with answers.
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Homework:Grammar. Units 10,11 and 39
Reading. St.B. p.54,55 Sections a,b,c,d. "Clothes to die for"
Grammar: Grammar Bank, p.136. Position of adjectives: Rules and exercises. Grammar, unit 99 Vocabulary: A crosswords about clothes. A photocopy with more specific vocabulary :adjectives describing clothes and verbs.eg.fit,suit,match.
Speaking: Communication: Fashion show:Describe a man and a woman using two adjectives. Student A:p. 117, Student B:p.121. Another activity:"Guess the drawing".A student has to draw what his partner says using two adjectives. It was fun and we laughed a lot.
Homework: Grammar, unit 37. Requests. Wk.p. 33,34,35.

WOLVES IN DANGER

NEYLA CARBALLO has sent us this article
How much is a wolf’s life worth?
Three points -- according to Idaho’s misleadingly named Sportsmen for Wildlife, who recently held three “predator derbies,” competitions where contestants vied to see who can kill the most wolves and other animals over a two-day period.
Cabela’s and Sportsman’s Warehouse -- two major outdoor retailers -- sponsored the derbies, with the entry fees for these brutal competitions funneled to support anti-wolf lawyers and lobbyists working to keep wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the northern Rockies off the endangered species list… and squarely in the crosshairs of those who would do them harm.
Predator derbies targeting wolves are a hold-over from a more brutal time.
It was a time when wolves were hunted, poisoned and trapped to extinction in Greater Yellowstone and the northern Rockies, a time before wildlife biologists recognized the important role that wolves play in healthy and balanced western ecosystems.
We’ve learned a lot since that dark time. Since wolves were reintroduced to Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho fifteen years ago, we’ve seen local ecosystems rebound as these top predators helped prevent overgrazing of foliage by elk and deer.
According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, there are 150,000 elk in Montana, compared to 90,000 in the mid 1980s when wolves started to make their way back to the state. Wyoming's elk population is up 35% since then to 95,000, while Idaho's is up 5% to 115,000.
Defenders of Wildlife is committed to working with responsible businesses, ranchers, conservationsists and concerned citizens to ensure a lasting future for wolves in American West.
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Homework: Grammar, units 15, 17 aboy¡ut the present perfect.

Vocabualry and Reading: St.B.p.42.Section 4B "Family conflicts". verb phrases and a passage to complete with these expressions.

Speaking: what annoying things can you remember from the passage? eg.: tidy your room, do your homework, do the washing up...

Listening: St.B.p. 42. Listen and number the pictures. Listen and complete the gialogues. Underline the words:yet, already ,just.

Grammar bank: St.B.p. 132 Rules and exercises about the present perfect and yet, already and just.. We also did the exercises.

Listening:St.B.p.43 "What has just happened?" With some noises you had to write down : she has just broken a plat, they´ve just got married...

Reading: St.B.p. 43 "Problems with your teenage children?" One by one you read it and then ordered que sequence of events.three possibilities to Pick up the most suitable summary.

Homework: Grammar, units 17,95

Some of the adult students asked me to repeat the explanations about the present perfect, yet, already and just.so on Tuesday ,we´ll see these grammar points more in detail.

Last Monday my teenage students were very talkative. You must bear in mind first, that you come here because you want and secondly that it´s not fair to make a mess when there are students like you and adult students who want to learn English.

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speaking: It took us most of the class ,mainly the speech. those who finished the, started to to the reading activity on p. 54. Once done the speech , you were given sets of questions for the interaction, this time with your partner.
Listening. I think at last I´ve found a good book with listenings neither too easy ,nor too difficult.
this one was about clothes. Exercise, script, and audio
Homework: Grammar, units10,11 and 36 .

Thank you ALBERTO PINTOS for your help