BUTTERFLYFISH

Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm in length. The largest species however can grow up to 30 cm. The common name references the brightly coloured bodies of many, with shades of black, white, blue, red, orange and yellow.. Many have eyespots on their sides and dark bands across their eyes.Their deep,laterally flat bodies are easily noticed through the reef life, leading many scientits to believe that these colours are used for communication among the many species of butterflyfish.

They have diurnal and live in shallow waters of less than 18 m . By night butterflyfish hide amongst the crevices and gaps of the reef and show markedly different coloration than they do by day.They eat coral polyps, sea anemones and zooplankton.They release many tiny eggs into the water which then become part of the plankton , floating with the currents .

Today´s quotation:

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble". Blaise Pascal.

A can, a plastic bag , only one is enough to carry on with the degradation of our environment. Never say "It´s just one" . If everybody has the same behaviour our planet won´t last very long.

Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm in length. The largest species however can grow up to 30 cm. The common name references the brightly coloured bodies of many, with shades of black, white, blue, red, orange and yellow.. Many have eyespots on their sides and dark bands across their eyes.Their deep,laterally flat bodies are easily noticed through the reef life, leading many scientits to believe that these colours are used for communication among the many species of butterflyfish.

They have diurnal and live in shallow waters of less than 18 m . By night butterflyfish hide amongst the crevices and gaps of the reef and show markedly different coloration than they do by day.They eat coral polyps, sea anemones and zooplankton, and release many tiny eggs into the water which then become part of the plankton , floating with the currents .

Today´s quotation:

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble". Blaise Pascal.

A can, a plastic bag , only one is enough to carry on with the degradation of our environment. Never say "It´s just one" . If everybody has the same behaviour our planet won´t last very long.

NB2A/C.-

-- Homework: Workbook, section 1B . Grammar exercise 2C, the pronunciation exercise and the reading were checked. Remember that I don´t always have time to check everything and that the answers are in a separate leaflet.

-- Oral: We carried on with the activity which was left unfinished yesterday: A Student´s Profile. Questions such as: Where were you born?, what do you do?, where do you live? and so on were practised. Then you were asked to change seats and use the third person singular asking questions and giving answers. eg: what does he do?, where´s he from?

-- Vocabulary: We started section 1C At The Moulin Rouge with an exercise about parts of the body which led us to page 146 with more words related to the topic. Exercises a,b and c were done.

-- Pronunciation: Back to section 1C in the pronunciation activity we practised vowel sounds .

-- Homework: A composition to be handed on Thursday about the activity of Student´s Profile and information fron the speaking activity on Student´s page 7 (the latter has other ideas you can include in the composition such as personality, appeareance and what he/she doesn´t like doing)

NI2E.-

Our group has been named NI2E instead of F as there has been a rearrangement of groups.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

All of you have the chance of improving your skills with supplementary activities in this EOI.

--WRITING AND READING SKILLS.- Wednesday from 18,00 to 19,00 in classroom B-2

-- LISTENING.- Wednesday from 19,00 to 20,00 in classroom B-2

-- SPEAKING.- Wednesday from 20,00 to 21,00 in classroom B-2

They start on 14 October

You shouldn´t miss this unique opportunity!!!

-- Workbook exercises on pages 4,5 and 6 were checked with special emphasis on the phrasal verbs.

--Grammar: more phrasal verbs in St book on page 144. As you seemed to be in trouble doing them on your own ,we did them all together helping each other.

-- Speaking :Section 1B ,p8.about your taste in music and here ,let me tell you, there´s no excuse for you to remain silent because you think the topic it not appealing or too difficult . As music is a universal issue, practically everybody has something to say.

--Reading: About the group Abba, very famous in the 70s, with a revival in the 90s. You went through it reading out ,I noted down pronunciation mistakes and then, you asked unknown words.

--Listening: St.p9. Questions to write down for a further interview.

-- Homework: Answer the questions of the listening exercises reading again the article about Abba.