International Day of the Girl

Beyonce lends her voice to freedom for girls campaign

[Verse 1: Beyoncé]
Tryna rain, tryna rain on the thunder
Tell the storm I'm new
I'ma walk, I'ma march on the regular
Painting white flags blue
Lord forgive me, I've been running
Running blind in truth
I'ma rain, I'ma rain on this bitter love
Tell the sweet I'm new

[Pre-Chorus: Beyoncé]
I'm telling these tears, "Go and fall away, fall away"
May the last one burn into flames

[Chorus: Beyoncé]
Freedom! Freedom! I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose!
Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
Cause I need freedom too!
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

[Verse 2: Beyoncé]
I'ma wade, I'ma wave through the waters
Tell the tide, "Don't move"
I'ma riot, I'ma riot through your borders
Call me bulletproof
Lord forgive me, I've been runnin'
Runnin' blind in truth
I'ma wade, I'ma wave through your shallow love
Tell the deep I'm new

[Pre-Chorus: Beyoncé]
I'm telling these tears, "Go and fall away, fall away"
May the last one burn into flames

[Chorus: Beyoncé]
Freedom! Freedom! I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose!
Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
Cause I need freedom too!
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]
Ten Hail Marys, I meditate for practice
Channel 9 news tell me I'm movin' backwards
Eight blocks left, death is around the corner
Seven misleadin' statements 'bout my persona
Six headlights wavin' in my direction
Five-O askin' me what's in my possession
Yeah, I keep runnin', jump in the aqueducts
Fire hydrants and hazardous
Smoke alarms on the back of us
But mama, don't cry for me, ride for me
Try for me, live for me
Breathe for me, sing for me
Honestly guidin' me
I could be more than I gotta be
Stole from me, lied to me, nation hypocrisy
Code on me, drive on me
Wicked, my spirit inspired me
Like yeah, open correctional gates in higher desert
Yeah, open our mind as we cast away oppression
Yeah, open the streets and watch our beliefs
And when they carve my name inside the concrete
I pray it forever reads

[Chorus: Beyoncé]
Freedom! Freedom! I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose!
Freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
Cause I need freedom too!
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

[Outro: Kendrick Lamar]
What you want from me?
Is it truth you seek? Oh father can you hear me?
What you want from me?
Is it truth you seek? Oh father can you hear me?
Hear me out

[Spoken: Hattie White]
I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up. I was served lemons, but I made lemonade

Summer Songs

Dear students,
This is my favourite way to say Goodbye and Happy Summer!

 "Here comes the sun" The Beatles

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
(bis)

Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right

Although you might prefer this Playlist ;)

 

Music 2017: Playlist of Popular Songs (New Hit Music)

Enjoying the heat in the classroom

Let's continue with some poetry, what's a Haiku poem? Read the following one

A summer river being crossed

how pleasing

with sandals in my hands!

Golden beach

sandcastles touch the sky

childhood memories

The origins of haiku can be traced back as far as the 9th century. Haiku is more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence.

A haiku poem consists of three lines, with the first and last lines having 5 moras, and the middle line having 7. A mora is a sound unit, much like a syllable, but is not identical to it. Since the moras do not translate well into English, it has been adapted to where syllables are used as moras.

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Finally, we are going to play Box of Lies, Water Spray Roulette and Card Game War, Are you ready?

Now take turns trying to stump each other about what item is hidden inside your mystery boxes.


Besides, I would love to play the Egg Russian Roulette with you ...

But I can't, therefore we are going to play the Water Spray Roulette, pick one water spray from by basket and shoot your partner in pairs

I would enjoy to see you face off in a twist on the card game WAR, where the loser of each hand faces wet consequences, but we should go to the playground...; )

Jimmy and Zac Efron face off in a twist on the card game War, where the loser of each hand faces wet consequences.

This is why I ask you to use a dictionary instead of using google translator...

If you are a fan of Miley Cyrus you will enjoy this video in disguise in NY subway

You can practice her song Party in the USA with the following worksheet

Enjoy!

Government solution for classroom heat: homemade hand fan

3º E/1º F Last day in the ICT room - The inside scoop, an advice for how to survive my class next year

Today is your last day in the ICT room with me : (

Please remember you can use this blog along the summer to practice 

STEP 1

I would like to ask you a favour for my incoming classes next year. give them an advice on how to survive my class and grade. Post your comment as usual, for instance: 

My favorite lesson this year was…,

If you don’t want to make the teacher mad, don’t…,

One thing I wish I knew in September was… and more.

          

STEP 2  The following is a list of activities for your summer holidays, it is just a poster with ideas. Write your own list of activities for next summer in your notebook, take it home and tack it in your bedroom walls or put it on your fridge with a magnet so that you can read it frequently and tick it once you achieve each of your summer goals

STEP 3  SUMMER SCHEDULE
You might have some schoolwork assignments, design your summer schedule and discuss it with your family, you should have enough time to have fun, read, watch a movie, do chores, go to the swimming pool, hang out with friends and family, plus study those subjects you hate...

I am going to miss you all ; )

1º F 1st Conditional You Can count on me Bruno Mars

The formula for the first conditional is as follows:

If + present simple…, will + base verb…

OR

Will + base verb… if + present simple..

“If you make dinner, I’ll do the dishes.

“I’ll do the dishes if you make dinner.”

Note that both the IF CONDITION and the RESULT can also be negative.

If you don’t do the dishes, I won’t make dinner.

If you don’t do the dishes, I’ll be very upset.

I won’t make dinner if you want to go out to eat.

Listen for the first conditional in the following  two songs by Bruno Mars:

3º E Relative Pronouns

The Longest Sentence Game, How much do yous know about world-famous people? 

Instructions:

- Make two groups, your body will decide if you are A or B ...

- Watch some short biographies, pay attention and take notes 

https://www.biography.com/people/nelson-mandela-9397017

https://www.biography.com/tag/video

https://www.biography.com/video/adele-mini-biography-35740227647

https://www.biography.com/video/beyonce-mini-biography-12301891834

- In each round, two students will face off to find out who knows more information about a given person. Have the youngest person of the two go first and make a simple statement about a famous person. (For example, Albert Einstein was a scientist.) 

- The next person must then add a piece of information to the sentence (using a relative clause) without changing what the first person said. (For example, Albert Einstein, who discovered the theory of relativity, was a scientist.)

-  Play goes back to the first person who must add another piece of information to the sentence, and so on. When one player can no longer add a true piece of information to the sentence, the other person scores a point. 

Good Luck!

Do you get goose bumps watching Sarah Ikumu?

Do you get goose bumps watching Sarah Ikumu?

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"

And I am telling you

I'm not going

You're the best man I'll ever know

There's no way I can ever go

No, no, there's no way

No, no, no, no way I'm living without you

I'm not living without you

I don't wanna be free

I'm staying

I'm staying

And you, and you

You're gonna love me, oh ooh mm mm

You're gonna love me

And I am telling you

I'm not going

Even though the rough times are showing

There's just no way, there's no way

We're part of the same place

We're part of the same time

We both share the same blood

We both have the same mind

And time and time, we've had so much to see and

No, no, no, no, no, no way

I'm not waking up tomorrow morning and finding that there's nobody there

Darling there's no way

No, no, no, no way I'm living without you

I'm not living without you

You see there's just no way, there's no way

Please don't go away from me

Stay with me stay with me

Stay, stay and hold me

Stay, stay and hold me

Please stay and hold me, Mr. Man,

Try it mister, try it mister

I know, I know, I know you can

Tear down the mountains

Yell, scream and shout like you can say what you want

I'm not walking out

Stop all the rivers, push, strike and kill

I'm not gonna leave you

There's no way I will

And I am telling you

I'm not going

You're the best man I'll ever know

There's no way I could ever, ever go

No, no, no, no way

No, no, no, no way I'm living without you

Oh, I'm not living without you,

Not living without you

I don't wanna be free

I'm staying, I'm staying

And you, and you, and you

You're gonna love me

You're gonna love me, yes you are

Ooh ooh love me, ooh ooh ooh love me

Love me, love me, love me, love me

You're gonna love me

All Golden Buzzers 2017

Who was your favourite buzzer? 

Did you understand their comments and dialogues?

Did you learn new adjectives? brilliant, stunning, amazing,..

Just Try

Never let anything stand in the way of your dreams, just watch Mandy Harvey!

This is the Place by Tony Walsh + Don´t look back in anger by Oasis

'This Is The Place': Watch poet Tony Walsh's (1) inspirational ode to Manchester at terror attack vigil

Tony, who performs as 'Longfella' recited the poem in Albert Square, to rapturous applause 

(1) Tony Walsh also known as Longfella, is an English poet, performer and writer.

This is the place  -  'Longfella'

In the north-west of England. It’s ace, it’s the best

And the songs that we sing from the stands, from our bands

Set the whole planet shaking.

Our inventions are legends. There’s now we can’t make, and so we make brilliant music

We make brilliant bands

We make goals that make souls leap from seats in the stands

Tony Walsh recites This Is The Place at the Albert Square vigil

And we make things from steel

And we make things from cotton

And we make people laugh, take the mick summat rotten

And we make you at home

And we make you feel welcome and we make summat happen

And we can’t seem to help it

And if you’re looking from history, then yeah we’ve a wealth

But the Manchester way is to make it yourself.

And make us a record, a new number one

And make us a brew while you’re up, love, go on

And make us feel proud that you’re winning the league

And make us sing louder and make us believe that this is the place that has helped shape the world

And this is the place where a Manchester girl named Emmeline Pankhurst from the streets of Moss Side led a suffragette city with sisterhood pride

And this is the place with appliance of science, we’re on it, atomic, we struck with defiance, and in the face of a challenge, we always stand tall, Mancunians, in union, delivered it all

Such as housing and libraries and health, education and unions and co-ops and first railway stations

So we’re sorry, bear with us, we invented commuters. But we hope you forgive us, we invented computers.

And this is the place Henry Rice strolled with rolls, and we’ve rocked and we’ve rolled with our own northern soul

And so this is the place to do business then dance, where go-getters and goal-setters know they’ve a chance

And this is the place where we first played as kids. And me mum, lived and died here, she loved it, she did.

And this is the place where our folks came to work, where they struggled in puddles, they hurt in the dirt and they built us a city, they built us these towns and they coughed on the cobbles to the deafening sound to the steaming machines and the screaming of slaves, they were scheming for greatness, they dreamed to their graves.

And they left us a spirit. They left us a vibe. That Mancunian way to survive and to thrive and to work and to build, to connect, and create and Greater Manchester’s greatness is keeping it great.

And so this is the place now with kids of our own. Some are born here, some drawn here, but they all call it home.

And they’ve covered the cobbles, but they’ll never defeat, all the dreamers and schemers who still teem through these streets.

Because this is a place that has been through some hard times: oppressions, recessions, depressions, and dark times.

But we keep fighting back with Greater Manchester spirit. Northern grit, Northern wit, and Greater Manchester’s lyrics.

And these hard times again, in these streets of our city, but we won’t take defeat and we don’t want your pity.

Because this is a place where we stand strong together, with a smile on our face, greater Manchester forever.

And we’ve got this place where a team with a dream can get funding and something to help with a scheme.

Because this is a place that understands your grand plans. We don’t do “no can do” we just stress “yes we can”

Forever Manchester’s a charity for people round here, you can fundraise, donate, you can be a volunteer. You can live local, give local, we can honestly say, we do charity different, that Mancunian way.

And we fund local kids, and we fund local teams. We support local dreamers to work for their dreams. We support local groups and the great work they do. So can you help us. help local people like you?

Because this is the place in our hearts, in our homes, because this is the place that’s a part of our bones.

Because Greater Manchester gives us such strength from the fact that this is the place, we should give something back.

Always remember, never forget, forever Manchester.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tony-walsh-poem-manchester-vigil-13082050

http://www.lyricsgaps.com/exercises/view/5080/Expert

TEST DETAILS - BACHILLERATO PROJECT 3 DUE DATE MAY 29TH - APA STYLE

Dates for the review test

May 30th : Use of English, Reading Comprehension, 1984 questions and multiple choice literature questions (based on last term projects)

MAY 31st: Listening

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Project 3 Research and Writing Task; The 20^th Century literary periods:

• Victorian Literature
• Realism
• Naturalism
• Modernism
• Bloomsbury Group
• Existentialism
• Beat Generation

Provide an introduction, brief description, main characteristics, major writers for each period and a bibliography or reference list

1 page research for each period (both sides) or 2 pages one side

APA STYLE IS COMPULSORY 

Due date: Tuesday 30^th May, must be submitted in person and by email

Please use reliable resources for your research 

 https://www.fosi.org/good-digital-parenting/teach-your-child-identify-reliable-websites/

The first period  (Victorian Literature) is already done as an example and detailed below:

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Victorian Literature

Introduction

Dates: 1837-1901

The name given to the period is borrowed from the royal matriarch of England, Queen Victoria, who sat on throne from 1837 to 1901.

Major events during the Victoria era;

- Nearly every institution of society was shaken by rapid and unpredictable change.

- Demographic shift from; migrations from the countryside to the cities.

- A huge growth in population, from 14 million to 32 million.

- Significant improvements in technology. The Victorian era slightly overlaps with Britain's Industrial Revolution

- Changing world views. There were emerging scientific beliefs, like Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

- A lot of people were distancing themselves from the church because of the scientific advancements

- Poor conditions for the working class.

Victorian Literature - Main characteristics;

- Social consciousness: many intellectuals used literature to speak out against the injustices of this new world

- subject matter: real-world problems, labor conditions, poverty and women’s place in the world

- In the early years of the Victorian Period, poetry was still the most visible of literary forms. Both the purpose of poetry and its basic style and tone changed drastically during the Victorian Period.

- Victorian Novel was the dominant form in Victorian literature. It seeks to represent a large and comprehensive social world, with a variety of classes.

- Victorian novels are realistic

- Major theme: Place of the individual in society, the aspiration of the hero or heroine for love or social position. The protagonist’s search for fulfilment is emblematic of the human condition.

- It was a principal form of entertainment

Major Writers of the Victorian Period

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855) - Notable Work: Jane Eyre (1847)

Brontë, Emily (1818-1848) - Wuthering Heights (1847)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) - The most well-known Victorian writer. Notable Work: David Copperfield

Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)

Eliot, George (1819-1880) (Mary Ann Evans)

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) key forerunner of the Modernist Movement in literature

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)

Housman, A. E. (1859-1936)

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838)

Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

Tennyson, Alfred (Lord) (1809-1892)

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)

Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)

Reference List

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* IMPORTANT If you want me to send you this section in APA Style you just need to send me an email with your request. 
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APA -American Psychological Association style rules or guidelines is compulsory

How to write academic papers in APA style?

Formatting: A4 paper, margins should be 2,54 cm (1 inch) all sides, including top, bottom, left and right, Font preference and size - The preferred font is 12-pt Times New Roman. Line Spacing - Double spacing should occur throughout the document, including quotations of 40 or more words. Page Numbers - Page numbers should be located in upper right corner. Be sure to include a page number on the title page, too! . Paragraph Indentation- Paragraphs should be indented 5-7spaces or 1/2 inch.

You can find and download a template in the the following link;

http://libguides.css.edu/APA6thEd/APAFormatting

For further information https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

The following link might be helpful for other subjects (for this project you should use APA style)

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/centrostic/21700058/helvia/sitio/upload/NORMAS_PRESENTACION_A3.pdf

Pay special attention to works cited list; https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

for instance to cite kindle;

Stoker, B. (1897). Dracula [Kindle DX version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com

To cite an online enciclopedya or Wikis

Feminism. (n.d.). In Encyclopædia Britannica online. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/724633/feminism

OLPC Peru/Arahuay. (n.d.). Retrieved April 29, 2011 from the OLPC Wiki: http://wiki.laptop. org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.

For more information about all elements of APA formatting, please consult the APA Style Manual, 6th Edition.