A SONG TO PRACTICE EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES

Here you are a video to practice the vocabulary related to everyday activities.

A new academic year starts

Back to school again!

Are you ready for a new year of learning and fun? I hope so because........

I am fully prepared!

The past simple exercises

Aquí van unos ejercicios extras de Past Simple

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Fonética

Os dejo un video que os permitirá pronunciar las vocales en inglés un poco mejor.
Espero que os sirva

Saint Valentine's Day

14th February. Is this date familiar to you?

Aquí os dejo un texto acerca de la celebración del día de San Valentin.

Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. It was deleted from the Roman calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI, but its religious observance is still permitted. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

In the second half of the 20th century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts in the United States. Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving jewelry.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than husband or wife, usually to children. When you include the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities the figure goes up to 1 billion, and teachers become the people receiving the most valentines. In some North American elementary schools, children decorate classrooms, exchange cards, and are given sweets. The greeting cards of these students sometimes mention what they appreciate about each other.

The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards. An estimated 15 million e-valentines were sent in 2010.

While sending cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts is traditional in the UK, Valentine's Day has various regional customs. In Norfolk, a character called 'Jack' Valentine knocks on the rear door of houses leaving sweets and presents for children. Although he was leaving treats, many children were scared of this mystical person. In Wales, many people celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen (St Dwynwen's Day) on January 25 instead of (or as well as) Valentine's Day. The day commemorates St Dwynwen, the patron saint of Welsh lovers.

TALES OF ARABIAN NIGHTS

Como ya sabéis este curso tenemos como lectura obligatoria TALES OF ARABIAN NIGHTS adaptado por Alyson Philips. Aquí tenéis un pequeño resumen del libro (in English of course)

PLOT.

In King Shahriyar's opinion, all women are bad. Every night, he marries a new woman and then he kills her the next morning. But one day, he marries Sheherezade and she's different. She starts to tell the king some stories and the king likes them. the next morning, the king doesn't kill her, and she continues to tell her stories for a thousand and one nights. Here are three of the stories: The Dream, the Donkey and The Fisherman and the Genie. but will the king kill Sheherazade in the end?

Seguro que has leído alguna de las historias que Sheherazade le cuenta al rey Shahriyar. ¿Os suena Simbad el marino, Ali Baba y los cuarenta ladrones, o Aladino y la lámpara maravillosa? Todos ellos son cuentos incluidos en los Cuentos de las mil y una noches. Si os gusta leer, os lo recomiendo.