WRITING

Paleokastritsa, Corfu

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945),

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939),

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage (1912 - 1992)

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch (1304 - 1374),

NI2A/C

• Homework: grammar, units 110, 111. For NI2C two photocopies about adverbs.
• Grammar: Exercises on the position of adverbs. Some more extra activities: adverbs 1 and 2
  
• Vocabulary: Review of phrasal verbs.
• Vocabulary: review of unit 1. I´ve realised you have to study more, a lot more the vocabulary and other items. Coming to class isn´t enough and inspiration in an exam doesn´t come spontaneously but having studied a lot before.
  
• EE: I gave you a set of activities as a guide to write letters: formal and informal, all aimed at Certificación . Here you have the guided writing for certificacion guide (thes activities come form "Successful Writing Intermediate") and rules for writing formal letters. We did several activities and stopped at the end of letters applying for jobs.
• Homework: a composition for Wednesday , 17 of November and ,of course, study a lot for the exam next Monday.

NB1A/C

• Homework: Two Photocopies about a/an; thes/those/that/this.
• Grammar: Review of this7that/these/those with a power point. Review of a/an with another power point. these actities took us a long time until it was fully understood.
• Practical English: On a plane. St.B.p. 12.
• Vocabulary: drinks. e.g. milk, mineral water, orange juice...
• CO. St.B.p. 12. On a plane. Asking for a drink. Answer questions. complete the dialogue.
• EO:St.B.p.12. Role play. Asking for a drink on a plane.
• Social English: Listen and circle the correct answer. Answer questions and useful phrases.
• Homework: a review of unit 1 on p. 14,15 with the answers.

Remember that the exam is next Tuesday.

CLOWN FISH & ANEMONE

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher,

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

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NB2
homework: Wk. p. 37,38.
Reading: St.B.p. 46. About cities , we had done it the week before but as it was the starting point of the activity we did it again.
Listening: St.B.p. 47 tim Moore talking about the test he had done in London. there were 9 questions to answer.
Writing: St.B.p. 49 "Describe where you live" An activity to name the paragraphs , complete the missing words and correct mistakes.
Video: St.B.p. 48 "Giving Directions" Order the directions, complete the dialogue, repeat and practise the dialogue and social English
Speaking: I gave you a map and you followed the directions , besides I wrote on the blackboard those expressions I thought to be useful.
NI2
Homework: St.B.p.67. Some photocopies about "Have sth done"
Vocabulary: St.B.p. 154. A review of animals.
Grammar: Present perfect simple and continuous. As a warm up we did some activities to state the basic differences between these two tenses , infer the rules and do some exercises. Grammar ,units 9,10 with more exercises.
Listening: st.B.p. 71 . A very interesting listening about a journalist and an ecologist talking about animals and people.
Speaking: St.B.p. 71. We started working in a debate , the sort of "For and Against" activity, in this case we focussed on animals.
Homework: Grammar, units 20,21 (future tenses). Wk. p. 44,45,46.

SALAD CORAL

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott,

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862),

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999),

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich (1886 - 196

NB2
WARNING: You were very talkative on Monday in spite of my warnings. Please , remember you´re here to learn English and since this is not a bar or a café ,you have certain duties and one of these is that you have to remain silent when the teacher is speaking. I wouldn´t like to take serious action , so take notice of this.
- Homework: Grammar, unit 14, wk: p.15
- Reading: A photocophy titled "It was a cold, dark, night".A predicting story using the simple past and the past continuous.
- Listening and reading: As you had problrms with the last listening we had done on Thursday , we did it again. St.B.p. 19 . "The lovers of La Bastille". First, we read the introduction and then the listening activity.
- Vocabulary: St.B.p. 19. Prepositions in, at ,on. for place and time. Vocabulary Bank, St.B.p. 148. Here we saw the prepositions in detail.
- Speaking : I gave you a really important photocopy with the instructions to describe photos. It´s essential for you to learn how to describe a picture and you have all the steps in that paper. We saw it in detail.
- Homework: A drawing for you to describe (you can star on Tuesday and the deadline is Thursday, this means everybody have to do it that day) ,grammar , unit 106.

NI2
- Grammar: Grammar, units 38,39,40 about conditionals and the structures "Iwish; if only". We just did the activities I was most interested in , the remaining exercises were left for homework. This activity took us longer than I expected because of the writing and speaking practice. More conditional exercises and their answers.
- Listening: St.B. p. 25. People talking about alternative medicine with a matching exercise and a note taking and summarising one. As they spoke quite fast , in the end we listened to it with the script on p.124 at sight.
- Homework: Reading.St.B.p. 22 and finish the exercises on conditionals.

Celine Dion . I love you

OCTOPUS AND MOOD

It´s hard to make out where the octopus is and her lies one of its stengths: it´s ability to change colour and texture to adapt itseflf to the environment nearby.I had the chance of watching one behaving this way and its one of the most exhilarating experiences as it was first hand and not in a documentary .

How do I change?
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
-Og Mandino, “The Greatest Salesman in the World”

NB2A/C
- Homework; workbook, pg 67,68Grammar, units 83, 84
- Phonetics: St.b. pg 91 /^/,/u:/,/ai/,/e/
- Listening: 2 listenings from previous exams so that you can have some practice for the June exam.
- Speaking: Picture description with all the structures you´re supposed to have learnt.
- Grammar: a handout with exercises with quantifiers.
- Homework: More pictures and topics to develop . Grammar ,unit 91,92 with more quantifiers and two compositions, samples of previous exams to be handed in on Thursday.

REMEMBER THAT THERE´S NO CLASS ON TUESDAY FOR NB2A/C

NI2E
- Grammar, unit 96 ,more non defining relative clauses , We saw the rules and did the exercises
- Phonetics. St. B. pg 79. Silent letters like : listens plumber, autumn....
- Writing: An opinion about a topic , St. b. pg 82 . We saw this activity in detailand set a topic for a future composition: Should death penalty be abolished in some states of the USA?
- Grammar: A handout with relative exercises of all sorts. We just did a few of each type .
- Speaking: Picture description and topic. I must say that although you´re definitely improving you need more practice, so ,please , do your best because there´s no time to waste.
- Homework: the handout with relatives, picture description and the composition for Thursday

MASKED PORCUPINEFISH

All That Jazz (1975)

· It's show time, folks.
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon

· No, nothing I ever do is good enough. Not beautiful enough, it's not funny enough, it's not deep enough, it's not anything enough. Now, when I see a rose, that's perfect. I mean, that's perfect. I want to look up to God and say, "How the hell did you do that? And why the hell can't I do that?"
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon

· Sometimes I don't know where the bullshit ends and the truth begins.
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon

· If I die, I'm sorry for all the bad things I did to you. And if I live, I'm sorry for all the bad things I'm gonna do to you.
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon

· I don't get married again because I can't find anyone I dislike enough to inflict that kind of torture on.
Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon

Annie Hall (1977)

· That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

· I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories.
Woody Allen as Alvy Singe

NB2A/C

- Homework : Workbook,pg 60 ,61 and we worked a lot describing pictures. This is very important for your exams and from now on we´ll do it practically everyday.

- Reading: St. book, pg 80. About Mick Jagger when he was at school . We checked the vocabulary and focussed on a structure"used to do" for a past habit.

- Grammar. Unit 36 where we saw the rules more in detail . We also worked this in a handout about changes of two people.

- Listening. St.B. pg.81 .About a young lady called Melissa talking about her school days . True-false statements.

- Pronunciation of "used to" in sentences.

- Vocabulary : subjects at school ,stress and pronunciation.

- Speaking: What did you use to do when you were a teenager or 10 years old? pg.81

- Song: It´s all over now.

- Homework: Grammar. Unit 36 the exercises. Wk. pg 62,63 and another description of a photo.

NI2E

- Homework: Workbook,pg 44,45, 46

- Listening: I picked up two of the last year tests ,which was tough with an awful sound recording. I definitely understand your complaints. I hope this year you´ll be luckier.Anyway ,it was just the first go you had, so don´t worry. Your marks will be ready for Monday.

- Vocabulary and word building: St. book pg.72. A number of words to be classified into groups of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and then and exercise to check it.

- Grammar: Quantifiers . Grammars units 86 with negative quantifiers such as no, none, any, nothing, nobody... and unit 88 with all, all of, most, most of, no, none of.

- Homework: the exercises of units 86 and 88 and the reading activity in St. book pg,73.I know it´s a lot but you must make a final effort.

DOLPHINS

How are you doing? I hope to see you soon.

The African Queen
- Dear?... Dear?... What is your first name?
Katherine Hepburn as Ross

- One thing in the world I hate: leeches. Filthy little devils.
Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut

- A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut


- "Nature,” Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above.
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer

· Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative
Dianne Wiest as Peg Boggs

- I'm not finished.
Johnny Depp as Edward

- They don't want the classic horror films anymore. Today it's all giant bugs. Giant spiders, giant grasshoppers. Who will believe such nonsense?
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi

- This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in.
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi

- Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
Vincent D'Onofrio as Orson Welles

- You know, you're, you're much scarier in real life than you are in the movie.
Johnny Depp as Ed Wood

- Take my word for it. If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see "Dracula".
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi

From: theotherpages.org

LION FISH

# Bach died from 1750 to the present. - from Student Bloopers

# Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel ws half German, half English, and half Italian. He was very large. - from Student Bloopers

# Bang, boom, pow! he hissed. - Leo Rosten

# Barking dogs don't bite people they don't know.

# Before I start speaking, I'd like to say something.

# Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

# The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. - from Student Bloopers

# The blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg and up the other. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things

# The book was so exciting I couldn't finish it until I put it down.

# The bowels are a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y.

# The bride was wearing an old lace gown that fell to the floor as she walked down the isle.

# Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. - from Student Bloopers

# The chief is inclined to believe that a crossed wife might be the cause of the fire. - Leo Rosten

# A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things

# A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then forcing it through an aviator. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things

# The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. - from Student Bloopers

# A closed mouth gathers no feet. (does this one really count?)

# The Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. - from Student Bloopers

# Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. - from Student Bloopers

# Comfortable apartment. Short walk to beach. Affordable germs. - Leo Rosten

# Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and ran into a tree that I didn't have.

from:www.theotherpages.org

GROUPER

Coined for Mrs. Malaprop, a character in the play The Rivals by Sheridan (ca.1775). A malapropism is an accidentally inappropriate (usually that means 'humorous') choice, omission, or alteration of words. The best known practicioner is perhaps Yogi Berra, who elevated the practice to a high art, and is well represented here.

1.Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra
2. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. - from Student Bloopers
4. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name. - from Student Bloopers
5. Although the patient had never been fatally ill before, he woke up dead.
6. The amount of education you have determines your loot in life.
7. An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
8. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head. - from Student Bloopers
9. Anteaters are generally found at picnics.
10. Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
11. Arabs wear turbines on their heads.
12. Are you any relation to your brother Marv? - Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, to Steve Albert
13. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair. - from Student Bloopers
14.At least half their customers who fly to New York come by plane.
from:www.the otherpages.org

ALICIA KEYS

LOVE, ALWAYS LOVE AND FISH

You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store
makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.
And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides.
-Garth Brooks, song "The River"


IMPORTANT EOI NEWS

CONCURSO “DEFINICIÓN BREVE DEL AMOR”

BASES
1.- Las definiciones no deben sobrepasar las 3 líneas de longitud. Estarán escritas en el idioma extranjero que estudie cada alumno en esta EOI.

2.- Tras ser revisada y corregida por su profesor, el alumno escribirá su definición a mano, bien legible, u ordenador, en un trozo de cartulina roja en tinta negra que le proporcionará el centro para que resalte en el rojo. Por la parte de atrás el alumno escribirá su nombre, idioma y curso.

3.- El plazo de presentación será la semana del 9 al 12 de febrero de 2009, inclusive.

4.- Las definiciones que se presenten a concurso se publicarán en el tablón de anuncios de esta EOI el dia 16 de febrero (lunes), o se pondrán, si no caben en el tablón de anuncios, en la pared, por lo que los recortes de las cartulinas serán pequeños, justo para la definición de 1, 2 o 3 líneas. Numeraremos las definiciones de cada departamento para que los alumnos de cada departamento voten los dos números, en orden de prioridad, que más les han gustado. Las definiciones de las tres lenguas, alemán, francés e ingles, quedarán lo suficientemente separadas y señalizadas para que no haya lugar a confusión y los alumnos vayan directamente a la sección de la lengua que estudian.

5.- Los días 17 y 18 de febrero (martes y miércoles) se efectuarán las votaciones en el aula por cada uno de los alumnos del grupo de clase. El profesor bajará un rato con cada uno de sus grupos de clase para realizar las votaciones, pero los alumnos ya pueden leer con calma las definiciones el lunes día 16, para que ya tengan una idea de lo que van a votar.


6.- Habrá 3 ganadores, uno por departamento, y la entrega de premios se efectuará el 19 de febrero, en la fiesta y jornada gastronómica que la EOI organizará en una sede aún por determinar.

7.- Se dará un premio por idioma, que consistirá en un cheque-regalo por valor de 25€ a utilizar en la Librería Campoamor, de Sama o La Felguera. Igualmente se dará un pequeño libro de regalo.

8. Por supuesto, las definiciones y nombres de los tres ganadores se publicarán en la página Web de la escuela.

9. ALGO A TENER EN CUENTA: CUALQUIER PERSONA DE LA COMUNIDAD PUEDE PARTICIPAR, YA TODAS LAS ACTIVIDADES EXTRAESCOLARES REALIZADAS EN EL CENTRO SON PARTE DEL PROGRAMA DE “Apertura de Centros a la Comunidad”.

A SHIPWRECK: THE THISTLEGORM

A trip around Thistlegorm today is like traveling through time and many visitors experience high emotions during the dive. It is after all a bombsite with highly visible signs of great destruction and loss. It's also a giant underwater museum, a war grave, a unique piece of military history and an opportunity to step into the past during a period when the free
The Thistlegorm set sail on her last voyage from Glasgow on 2 June 1941 destined for alexandria She was carrying supplies to relieve the British Army . As Germany controlled the Mediterranean sea during this period, the ship had to sail in a convoy around the Cape to the Red Sea In September, Captain Ellis anchored north of near Ras Muhammad National Park.
The Thistlegorm was a sitting target for two German bombers returning from Crete . They dropped two 450 kg bombs directly onto the ship. The explosion killed nine crew members and was so forceful that it launched two railway locomotives stacked on deck into the air. Thistlegorm sank immediately, leaving no time for the crew to operate thelifeboats . Instead, they jumped into the water and were later rescued by another British ship moored nearby.
In the early fifties J Yves Cousteau discovered her by using information from local fishermen. He raised several objects from the wreck, including a motorcycle, the Captain’s safe, and the ship´s bell.
In the early 1990s the ship was rediscovered and has become a well-known dived wreck. The massive explosion makes the wreck very accessible to divers. The depth of around 30 m is ideal for diving without the need for special equipment and training.
The wreck is rapidly disintegrating due to natural rusting. Many divers have taken items as souvenirs from the wreck ; it came to such extent that in December 2007 the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation began work on installing permanent mooring buoys and drilling holes in the wreck to allow trapped air to escape. The aim of this conservation work is to prevent further damage to the wreck.
Extracts from wikipedia.
If you like diving it´s a must.

Today´s Quotations. Please, let me know what you think of these witty remarks by Oscar Wilde.
- I´m not young enough to know everything.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are somebody else´s opinion,their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- To disagree with the three fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.


NB2A/C
--Homework: A photocophy about the simple past tense with expressions like: to have a shower, to have lunch, to have a swim.. and some explanations about countable and uncountable nouns.
--Vocabulary: irregular verbs in student´s books, page 155. This time we checked pronunciation and meaning of the list up to the verb to send. We also saw the differences between SAY and TELL,e.g. Mary (said to ) me that she was fed up with some people, and Mary told me that she was fed up with some people. Initial s- in verbs such as :sleep, spend,stand,steal.
--Listening: Holidays, 2nd part. The remainig exercises were done; a bit more difficult ,tough.
--Speaking: Student´s books, page 17. This activity is very important because it´s a common topic for conversation. So, following the clues ,we built up the basis for a speaking activity to be developed on Thursday. Don´t write a composition of what you´re going to say; just with a few words you have to make a well developed and logically organised speech.
--Homework: Grammar, chapter 44 , the notes for the speaking activity and the irregular verbs.

NI2E
--Homework: to make sure you had studied the vocabulary for homework , I gave you some strips with the sequences of the process when you start feeling sick until you get over an operation. They were all scrambled and you had to be logical and order the sequence.
--Vocabulary: a fill in the blanks exercise to review the Health and Medicine expressions and vocabulary.
--Speaking: a pair work activity .Student a had to read silently and remember the information of page 114 and student B had to do the same but on page 119, then you had to retell the stories about hypocondriacs.
--Speaking: a questionnaire to see if you are a hypocondriac or not and some questions about the topic.
--Listening: Going to the Doctor ,from another text book with some vocabulary related to illnesses ,symptoms and cures. The most common sentences doctors say and the listening itself :two patients go to the doctor ,one suffers from food poisoning and the other has a virus that makes him sneeze.
--Homework: Grammar ,unit 38. I didn´t say much about first and second conditional; however I think it´s better for you to read and do the exercises and back in class I´ll provide you with the necessary explanations and solve your doubts; otherwise we won´t have much to develop other practical skills such as listening and speaking.