DEAR STUDENTS. IT SEEMS MY DAYS OFF SCHOOL HAVE STARTED A LITTLE BIT SOONER.  

1ST A AND B ESO

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT GRADES AND PROJECTS. WE WILL DO THEM FOR NEXT EVALUATION. I HAVE YOUR GRADES ALREADY. YOU DO KNOW HOW THEY CAN BE. IN 1 A I AM HAPPY, ALTHOUGH YOU CAN DO BETTER... WITH 1 B YOU KNOW HOW THINGS ARE. TALK TO YOUR TUTOR.

LET´S STUDY

Let´s learn and practise relative clauses.

Relative clauses

You have exercises to review your understanding. You can go to the song when you are finished.


2ND ESO

Please, listen and read the text of the song. What happened to the person in the song? Did he have a happy Christmas? What was his/her problem? How are they going to be this year?

Write in your vocabulary section those words you didn't understand. Then answer all the questions above. 

Write about your plans for this Christmas. Are you going to travel anywhere? How do you celebrate Christmas if you do?

You will have to give a writing to me after Christmas about one of the best days during your past Christmas, and the best day this coming ones.

You can go ahead and watch a very common Christmas film. Enjoy it. 

Lyrics

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby do you recognize me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me

I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore him apart
Maybe next year,
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
Special, someone, someone
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special

Who'll give me something in return
I'll give it to someone, hold my heart and watch it burn

I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
I thought you were here to stay
How can love be for a day?
I thought you were someone special, gave you my heart

I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
You gave it away
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone

Written by George Michael • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

2ND BACHILLERATO

Hopefully we are going to have a much relaxed and quiet 2017. It will be your year... Please keep reviewing the link for grammar I gave you several weeks ago. And then read during these holidays, my online newspaper, choosing one article to talk about and to write about.

Write your opinion on any of the articles you are going to read.

THE NIEVES LOPEZ LINARES DAILY

Happy Christmas to everyone and a wonderful 2017

DEAR STUDENTS. FOLLOW ME FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS!

Hello everyone! As you can see, I haven't been at school this week. Do not worry! I am with you in my thoughts and hopefully in yours. So I have something for everyone.

2 BACHILLERATO STUDENTS

You have a Selectividad test to finish for this week. DO NOT FORGET!!!

Why don't you take advantage of these days to review verb tenses in the link you have with exercises? Come on and do it!!!

1 ESO A BILINGUAL

 This entrance is only for this group. Since you have almost finished this evaluation with me, I want you to fill the following rubric. What is a rubric? It is a document to evaluate this Term.

Do not forget about your presentations!!! You will have to do them all before Monday! So Thursday and Friday, presentations days.

Come on! You are almost there! Holidays will be your reward. 

IMPORTANT: You are going to have to read another book for next evaluation. You can start buying it, either through internet or talking to your best bookshop in town! Which one is it? 

I am sure you know the series. Know the author. He is a lot of fun!

1 ESO B BILINGUAL

Hi dear students. I have been told you complained a lot about your "Christmas Carol" exam. I have to tell you. If I tell two groups to do something at the same time, and one does it, the other some do not, there is something wrong but do not fool yourselves! It is not with the teacher in this case. Think about your performance in this evaluation. I am sure you find a lot of room for improvement. 

Well, since you haven't had time to read it, right after the Holidays I will redo the test for the following evaluation, Of course, the grade you got in the test on Monday it will be part of your poor grades in this first Term. The important thing to me is that you learn about this author, novel in this important period in history, and not so much your grades. You should be concerned about that when you study and you do not get your expected results. If you do not study, the results are what they have to be; BAD.

Besides that rereading task for these Holidays, you will have to start thinking about the one meant to be for the second Term. It is right in the entrance for 1st ESO A, but SPECIALLY FOR YOU, here you have. The book you have to read it is "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid", Jeff Kinney. You can take a look at 1ESO A entrance to see the author. Make sure you buy the first book of the series. There are many, nine or ten, I am not sure.

2 ESO D STUDENTS

Hello dear pupils. How are you? Patryk, make sure everyone reads this entrance, please!

You will have the test on Friday, but only on Unit 2. You know that next evaluation we have to put a bigger effort so we can keep up with the current syllabus. Make sure you finish all the exercises from your workbook, and you have your blog entrance. THAT IS FROM LAST WEEK!

In the second part of January, we will have a test on "King Arthur" book. Do not worry. We have already read part or most of it some of you. We will talk about Arthur's Legend and will be able to do a good test. 

See you on Thursday and for now I leave you this entrance so you can listen to some English speaking music. Enjoy!

DEAR STUDENTS 1 ESO BILINGUAL

The test you have on Monday is about:

- Mainly A Christmas Carol book.

- Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era.

If you have any problems, go back in the blog and look for the entrance to that presentation. 

Cheers!

DEAR 2º ESO D STUDENTS

As I told you, there are several things for you to do during this weekend.
The first thing you are going to do is an entrance in a blog. I am the one who writes in this blog, but a blog can be used to make it work as a diary. If you take a look at page 26 in your student's books, you can help yourselves by looking at the entrance in exercise 3.
These are some tips to write your blog entrance. You can choose any of the days of this long weekend, and write an entrance on what you did or what was special about that day. Go ahead and enjoy!

"The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead." William Zinsser

1. Be Short and Direct.
2. Write a Catching Opening Sentence or Paragraph.
3. Ask a Thought-Provoking Question.
4. Shorten Your Sentences, If Possible.
5. Use Simple, Yet Precise, Words.
6. Make Your Post Unique.

Take a look at the following video to understand what a blog is and how to use it.

When you finish going through my blog entrance, do exercises from your workbook, page 20. You are ready to write your own entrance to a blog. Cheers!!!!

DEAR 1 ESO STUDENTS (A & B)

The following is the link to A Christmas Carol´s book.

Have fun studying watching the film!

See you on Monday.

Meet Scrooge

If you want more information, here you have a different link from Facebook. It is not only good to chat with friends, you can find lots of knowledgeif you look properly in the social networks!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL FACEBOOK

BACHILLERATO

I GOT TO GO OUT FOR THREE HOURS. WHEN I AM BACK I WANT A COMMENT SO I CAN ENTER MORE THINGS.

Hopefully, you will!

SECOND OF BACHILLERATO STUDENTS

Dear people

I have been trying to send in a proper way the answers to all the book activities. I do not know what I am able to get from here, but I will do my best.

Good look and if you do not receive this, you have plenty of material to study with, besides the book, Use the blog. It is almost yours...

2º ESO D WHY AM I STUDYING ENGLISH?

Watch the video, and tell me what reason works for you better.

HOLA A TODOS MIS GRUPOS

Good morning and sorry for my absence, but a touch of fever took me down...specially sorry for those of Bachillerato.

But, Do not feel abandoned!

SEGUNDO DE BACHILLERATO

Tomorrow you are supposed to have a Selectividad test. If you do not mind, we will do it, hopefully on Friday. Today is Tuesday, so I hope this is going to be over by then.
Adriana E. Badea, sorry about standing you up with your test! I think you could do it on Friday couldn´t you?
If not, my email address is mnievesllinares@gmail.com THIS IS VALID FOR EVERYONE! We can discuss it over there if you want.

I do not have the Teacher´s book to include the solutions to exercises in the book for unit 2. I will as soon as I return to school. But good news. I am telling you as I told the six students that came yesterday to class: Listening on Monday next week. Reading about something related to what we have seen so far. And writing will be AN OPINION ESSAY. Easy right?😏

PRIMERO ESO A Y B

Hello my dear students. You have several things to do without me! If you have the Christmas Carol book in class, read it! Pay attention to the words you do not know and write them down in your notebooks.
Project. You can start working in your projects today! If you need access to internet through your mobile phones, you can show this to your Guarding Teacher (sorry for you too...).
Keeeping up with unit 2. Continue with Vocabulary section after the reading. Take a look at Relative Clauses in Grammar section and if you have any doubts, take note of them to tell me when I am back.
Have a great day!😃

SEGUNDO ESO D

Hi good fellas. If you do not know what I just told you google it! 😎
You had homework, remember. Pages from the Student's book on Present Continuous Used as Future exercises, and exercises from page 17 on the same.
Do them please! If you did not have time, of course.
If you did, read page 23, Culture Summer Camps. You cannot do exercises, they are listenings. But go to pages 126-127. I was for one month over there, so I can help you "To feel " the city!
Write the words you did not understand in your notebooks Vocabulary section!
If you finish, and you have your Workbook, do page 98, but the listening. We will check them when we review this unit. If you do not have your workbook, you should, homework..., but you have photocopies, ask a partner his or her Workbook and take a picture, with your Guarding Teacher's permission! You can show them this blog.

Have a good Tuesday!

DEAR STUDENTS FROM 1ST OF ESO

As I told you, I know it is late... Write the article and underline the words you do not understand. We will work with this article on Monday. Have a nice Sunday!

Good Fellas

1. Write the words in your vocabulary section from your notebook.
2. Ask yourself three questions on the article. You will ask Eileen on Monday.
3. Do not forget to bring your "Christmas Carol" books and your homework.

See you tomorrow!

ALL MY STUDENTS

Javier Fernández Panadero is a former coworker, and a friend. He works as a Maths teacher in a High School in Pinto, he writes science books for students, and he also participates with Nuria Roca in Melodía FM.

Yesterday, Monday 14th, he was on TV2 at 10. I forgot to watch him. So lets watch him both in the radio with Nuria Roca, and on TV2 in "La aventura del Saber".

¿Cómo se pone realmente el supositorio?

La -aventura del Saber TV2

SECOND OF BACHILLERATO

SPEAKING TEST IN PAIRS

As you can see in the following video, I want to have a conversation about your general lives, where you come from, things you like doing, routines, etc.

First Certificate

QUESTIONS TO PRACTISE

Warm-up

• Could you tell me your full name please?
• What shall I call you?
• Does your name have any special meaning?
• Why do so many people change their names?
• Is your name important to you?

Hometown or birth place

• Where do you come from?
• Where do you live?
• Can you tell me something about your hometown?
• Can you tell me some famous landscapes or scenic spots in your hometown?
• Can you tell me some history of your hometown?

Personal background and information

• Are you a student or do you have a job?
• What do you like most about your study?
• What kind of job do you prefer after graduation?
• What is your major, science or social studies?
• Could you tell me a typical day of yours?
• What kind of job do you prefer in the future?

Hobby or inclination

• What do you usually do in your spare time?
• Do you prefer to stay alone or with your friends?
• What do you usually do on weekends and weekdays?
• What do you usually do when you go out?
• What do you usually do with your friends?
• Do you like reading?
• What kind of books do you like best?
• Do you like English? Why or why not?
• What do you think of the importance of English?
• What are good hobbies and bad hobbies? Why?

Future plan

• What are you planning to do in the next five years?
• What are you planning to do in the next ten years?
• What is the first thing you will do when you arrive at the new place?

Travelling

• Do you like travelling?
• Do you like travelling alone or with your friends?
• Have you travelled to other places? Where are they?
• What do you usually do when you first arrive in a new place?
• What are the benefits of travelling?
• Why do so many people like travelling nowadays?
• Do you think it's true that travel broadens the mind?
• Do young people and older people benefit differently from travelling?
• How can you make sure you get the most from your trips?

Family

• Tell me something about your family.
• What do you like doing most with your family?
• Who are you close to in your family?
• In what way is your family important to you?
• In what ways have families changed in the last hundred years?
• Should we rely heavily on our families or is it better to try to be independent?

Friends

• Have you got many friends? Are they casual acquaintances or close friends?
• Do you prefer to stay with your family or with your friends?
• Do you prefer one or two close friends or many friends?
• Can you talk about your best friend?
• What do you usually do with your friends?
• Is the time you spend with your friends as much as that you spend with your family?
• What do you expect from a good friend?
• Are friends as important to you as family?
• Do you think friendships change as we get older? How?

Music

• Do you like music?
• What are the benefits of listening to music?
• What kind of music do you like best?
• Why do you like this kind of music?
• What is your favourite musical instrument?

Transportation

• Can you say something about the transportation in your hometown?
• What is the common means of transport in your country?
• Do traffic jams often occur in your hometown or in the city where you live?
• How to solve the problem?
• What changes in transportation have taken place in the past several years in your country?

Sport

• Are you good at sport?
• What sports do you play?
• What is the most popular sport in your country?
• What do you do to keep fit?
• What are the best ways to keep fit?
• Do you think most people consider exercise a chore or do they find it fun?
• What is the most popular form of exercise in your country?

SECOND OF BACHILLERATO

SPEAKING TEST IN PAIRS

As you can see in the following video, I want to have a conversation about your general lives, where you come from, things you like doing, routines, etc.

First Certificate

QUESTIONS TO PRACTISE

Warm-up

• Could you tell me your full name please?
• What shall I call you?
• Does your name have any special meaning?
• Why do so many people change their names?
• Is your name important to you?

Hometown or birth place

• Where do you come from?
• Where do you live?
• Can you tell me something about your hometown?
• Can you tell me some famous landscapes or scenic spots in your hometown?
• Can you tell me some history of your hometown?

Personal background and information

• Are you a student or do you have a job?
• What do you like most about your study?
• What kind of job do you prefer after graduation?
• What is your major, science or social studies?
• Could you tell me a typical day of yours?
• What kind of job do you prefer in the future?

Hobby or inclination

• What do you usually do in your spare time?
• Do you prefer to stay alone or with your friends?
• What do you usually do on weekends and weekdays?
• What do you usually do when you go out?
• What do you usually do with your friends?
• Do you like reading?
• What kind of books do you like best?
• Do you like English? Why or why not?
• What do you think of the importance of English?
• What are good hobbies and bad hobbies? Why?

Future plan

• What are you planning to do in the next five years?
• What are you planning to do in the next ten years?
• What is the first thing you will do when you arrive at the new place?

Travelling

• Do you like travelling?
• Do you like travelling alone or with your friends?
• Have you travelled to other places? Where are they?
• What do you usually do when you first arrive in a new place?
• What are the benefits of travelling?
• Why do so many people like travelling nowadays?
• Do you think it's true that travel broadens the mind?
• Do young people and older people benefit differently from travelling?
• How can you make sure you get the most from your trips?

Family

• Tell me something about your family.
• What do you like doing most with your family?
• Who are you close to in your family?
• In what way is your family important to you?
• In what ways have families changed in the last hundred years?
• Should we rely heavily on our families or is it better to try to be independent?

Friends

• Have you got many friends? Are they casual acquaintances or close friends?
• Do you prefer to stay with your family or with your friends?
• Do you prefer one or two close friends or many friends?
• Can you talk about your best friend?
• What do you usually do with your friends?
• Is the time you spend with your friends as much as that you spend with your family?
• What do you expect from a good friend?
• Are friends as important to you as family?
• Do you think friendships change as we get older? How?

Music

• Do you like music?
• What are the benefits of listening to music?
• What kind of music do you like best?
• Why do you like this kind of music?
• What is your favourite musical instrument?

Transportation

• Can you say something about the transportation in your hometown?
• What is the common means of transport in your country?
• Do traffic jams often occur in your hometown or in the city where you live?
• How to solve the problem?
• What changes in transportation have taken place in the past several years in your country?

Sport

• Are you good at sport?
• What sports do you play?
• What is the most popular sport in your country?
• What do you do to keep fit?
• What are the best ways to keep fit?
• Do you think most people consider exercise a chore or do they find it fun?
• What is the most popular form of exercise in your country?

ENGLISH TENSES REVIEW

Dear Bachillerato students.

The following link is going to be very useful to review all verb tenses on your own and in class.

English Grammar. Verrb tenses

Relative Clauses:

Songs with relative clauses.

Dear students,

We are going to use this in our classes.

MY NEWSPAPER

Take a look at it. Make it a current web page you visit, since I am going to write everyday...

ENJOY

SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES FOR REPORTED SPEECH 1st part

 Statements

1 a. Paul said that Atlanta is a wonderful city.

b. Ruth said that she goes jogging every morning.

c. Anna said that Jenny wasn’t studying for her exams.

d. Andrew said that he used to be very fat.

e. Jim said that he couldn’t swim.

2. a. Jane said that Mary worked in a bank.

b. Jim said that he was staying with some friends.

c. Mike said that he had never been to Russia.

d. Ella said that Tom couldn’t use a computer/Ella said that Tom can’t use a computer.

e. Jill said that everybody must try to do their best.

f. Rachel said that Jane might move to a new flat.

g. Bill said that he would stay at home that Sunday.

3. a. Miss Moore said that they would make a lovely couple.

b. Mister Smith that they were going to live in Brighton.

c. Mrs Jones said that the bride and the groom were very nice young people.

d. Mr Roberts said that the bride was wearing a beautiful wedding dress.

e. Mr Clarke said that the couple’s parents looked happy.

f. Miss Mayall said that the bride’s father had bought them a big flat.

4. a. I said to her that I had something to show her.

b. He said that he was going away the next day/ the following day/ the day after.

c. Rupert said that he’d been in London for a month but he hadn’t had time to visit the Tower.

d. She replied that he would come with me as soon as I was ready.

e. They said that they had a lift but very often it didn’t work.

f. He said that he had to go to the dentist the next day/ the following day/ the day after.

g. He said that he had found an old Roman coin in the garden the day before/the previous day and that he was going to take it to the museum that afternoon.

SECOND OF BACHILLERATO EXERCISES REPORTED SPEECH

Good afternoon. Here you have a link with notes and exercises for the test you have tomorrow.

Reported Speech. Exercises

I will send the solutions in a while.

Cheers!

SECOND OF ESO D

Tomorrow you will have the test.

This is a link to the solutions of the workbook. You have the exam of the Starter Unit and Unit 1.





If you have any doubts you can write email to the address I gave you long ago...

Study a lot and good luck!

DEAR STUDENTS

We are going to review how to write an email,

We will need it for your writing in the test you have tomorrow, so you can take a look at the following link to improve your skills to do it.

Let's start!

How to write an email

Good luck for your test tomorrow!

SECOND OF BACHILLERATO

Hello students. I know it is late but it is still time for you to be studying.
 Some tips on the text:

1. Make sure you read the instructions correctly. If you have any problem understanding, put the words in context.
2. Study tense changes with reported speech, changes with time and place expressions and reporting verbs rules. Don't forget the reported questions.
3. Study the vocabulary from the unit, both nouns and verbs and expressions.
4. Take a look at your student's book  and instructions on how to write an opinion essay.
5. Do not forget the photocopies with linkers and organizers, sequencing, introduction of opinions, summary

GOOD LUCK

1º & 2º ESO

Hi everyone. The mini-break is almost finished. I hope you had a good time and had also some spare room for your homework. I know it is late, but I also know you have the skills to look for MICHAEL JACKSON'S lyrics and fill the THRILLER blank spaces copy.

Just in case, I send you the link to the bilingual version of the videoclip.

See you tomorrow and enjoy your last hours...before school.

THRILLER SUBTITLED

Here you have a link to the making of the video, which was pioneer at the time... You can still see how well special effects were made. Enjoy and remember to find information about the song.

MAKING OF THRILLER

TIME EXPRESSIONS AND PLACE WITH REPORTED SPEECH

I am sorry it is so late, but we can see it together tomorrow. Take a look at the link on the changes these words suffer with reported speech.

Time and place in reported speech

Now we will do some exercises to practise.

Practise

Dear students from Bachillerato.

Tomorrow it will be the last day I gather option A exam.
You should do exercises from the book that I sent for today on Friday.
If you keep missing classes I am starting the "pérdida de evaluación contínua" procedure.
Sorry

Have a great week!

Reported Speech Information

Here you have a list of synonyms for the reporting verb "said" ("Bach). We will se some of them, but you can keep it for you to know there are more than two...

Said synonyms

You can see the blog it is very interesting and we could use it for more activities in the future!

Dear second of Bachillerato students.

This is the link to practise in a more fun way, REPORTED SPEECH with films. I hope you can find time to do it.
Have a great weekend!
The 25 most famous English movies quotes