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"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling four balls in the air...work, family, health and friends. You will soon understand work is a rubber ball, but the other four balls are made of glass.ª



Do you know how old Coca Cola is? More than a hundred years! It was invented in 1886 by a chemist called John Perberton, who lived in Atlanta, in the South of the USA. (Its name comes from two of its ingredients- coca leaves and kola nuts.) Pemberton tried to sell Coca Cola as a medicine. He told his customers that it was good for headaches. They didn't believe him, and they didn't buy it.

After John Pemberton died,in1888, a man called Asa Candler bought the recipe for Pemberton's medicine He decided to sell it, not as a medicine but as a drink. In 1892, he spent $ 12,000 on advertising it. The Coca Cola advertising campaign hasn't stopped since then! And it has worked brilliantly. Coke has been the most popular drink in the USA for more than sixty years.




In 1941, when the USA entered Word War II, American soldiers began to travel all over the world .The President of the Coca Cola Company promised to send their favourite drink wherever they went, Five billion bottles of Coke were sent around the world to the soldiers! And that's why, since the War, Coke has been famous everywhere. if you look on a bottle of Coke you will find that one of the ingredients is called simply 'natural flavourings'. What are those flavourings? No one will tell you! The recipe for Coke has been a secret for a century. The Coca Cola Company keeps it in a safe in Atlanta. In 1985, the company made a small change to its famous drink. Millions of people complained. The company had to go back to the recipe in the safe!








Do you need to improve your listening skills? learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/ is an excellent web, with activities and videos for all levels, including listening practice. Click here and find out!
Listening Skills (Practice)



                                           

Hola, chicos!

Pues sí, ando de baja. Espero que no sea por muchos días. De cualquier forma, portaos bien y no dad mucha lata a mis compis, sí? Y sobre todo seguid mis instrucciones:


  • Se mantienen las pruebas fechadas para esta semana, ya que es materia trabajada recientemente, tanto en 3º como en 4º de ESO.
  • 3º ESO va leyendo y trabajando la unidad 5. Este módulo trata las Oraciones Condicionales (Condicional Cero, Primera Condicional y Segunda Condicional). Estas condicionales requieren exclusivamente memorizar su respectiva estructura. no cometer errores en el Presente Simple (en el caso de la  Condicional Cero y la 1ª Condicional) y manejar bien el pasado y los verbos irregulares (en el caso de la 2ª Condicional), No dan más problema. Leed los textos de la unidad, analizar los cuadros de gramática de Condicionales y haced los ejercicios correspondiente a este punto.
  • 4º ESO igualmente lee y trabaja el unidad 5, La Voz Pasiva. Leed los textos de la unidad, analizar los cuadros de gramática correspondiente a La Pasiva (el Causativo no) y haced los ejercicios correspondiente a este punto. La Pasiva requiere un buen dominio de la conjugación verbal (comprobad que construis bien cada tiempo activo que hemos dado, de lo contrario la Pasiva no os saldrá bien construida) y un buen manejo de los verbos regulares e irregulares, ya que requiere el uso de participios.



Esta tarde os subiré posts sobre ambos puntos gramaticales, para facilitaros el trabajo.

Sed buenos.....

Y por cierto...no olvidéis que se puede ir colgando cosas en el aula, en nuestra English Corner. Se acerca San Valentín y puede dar juego e ideas para ello.

See you soon!



Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by writing a six-word story. This is what he wrote:




Some microstories can be really descriptive, despite the fact that they are extremely short. 






"When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there"


Why don´t you try and write your own micro tale? We can put them on our English Corner pinboard. 
Send them to me by email.

Looking forward to reading them!!!




Yes, love at first sight exists.


Hi, guys! Ready for next Friday´s celebration? Have you bought a tube of grease for your hair, boys? What about you, girls? You´ll look amazing, no doubt. 

Silence! 4th Year Secondary groups rehearsing...




Motivation is the key to succesful learning. 

Always...

Set  achievable short-term goals
Praise achievements 
Reward positive behaviour 
Show your students you trust their capacity.



Zero Conditional
First Conditional Exercise
Second Conditional Exercise
Third Conditional Exercise
All type Conditional Exercise

(www.perfect-english-grammar.com)

USE 1 Completed Action Before Something in the Past


The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.

Examples:
  • I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai.
  • I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.
  • Tony knew Istanbul so well because he had visited the city several times.
  • Had Susan ever studied Thai before she moved to Thailand?
  • She only understood the movie because she had read the book.
  • Kristine had never been to an opera before last night.
  • We were not able to get a hotel room because we had not booked in advance.

USE 2 Duration Before Something in the Past (Non-Continuous Verbs)


With Non-Continuous Verbs we use the Past Perfect to show that something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past.
Examples:
  • We had had that car for ten years before it broke down.
  • By the time Alex finished his studies, he had been in London for over eight years.
  • They felt bad about selling the house because they had owned it for more than forty years.
Although the above use of Past Perfect is normally limited to Non-Continuous Verbs and non-continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, the words "live," "work," "teach," and "study" are sometimes used in this way even though they are NOT Non-Continuous Verbs.

EXERCISES
Click on the links:

Exercise 1 : Past Simple or Past Perfect?
Exercise 2: Past Simple, Present Perfect or Past Perfect?

(englishpage.com)
I liked your music and your extravagant elegance. Rest in peace, Bowie.


   

    










"On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. 
And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route." (Mathew 2, 11-12)


Useful vocabulary:

The Three Wise Men/Magi: Reyes Magos
Epiphany: Epifanía
Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar: Melchor, Gaspar y Baltasar
Bethlehem: Belén
Star: estrella
Gift/present: regalo
Gold: oro
Incense: incienso
Myrrh: mirra
Camel: Camello
To adore/ worship: adorar
To honour: honrar
To bow down: hacer reverencia




New year and new music video by Taylor Swift. Really beautiful.
This song usually comes with me when I drive to work every morning. It's like a tongue twister that I like to sing. 
Sometimes you have to lose something to find yourself.



Looking at it now
It all seemed so simple
We were lying on your couch
I remember
You took a Polaroid of us
Then discovered 
The rest of the world is black and white
But we were in screaming color
And I remember thinking...


     "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. " (Brad Pai)

Happy 2016 to all those who visit my blog and thank you for your support. I hope the new year finds you in a warm and happy place. 
Miss you, Scotland, where I left friends and part of my best memories.



"That´s life" is a sitcom for English learners. This story is about five young people from different countries who meet  to become flatmates and friends, and about all sorts of different situations that happen over a period of time, including comedy, drama and romance. 
This sitcom comes in 5 parts, one for each level. These are the parts published so far. Click on these links and find out.
1- Beginners (That's Life)
2- Elementary (That's Life)
3- Pre-Intermediate (That's Life)
4- Intermediate (That's Life) 
5- Upper-Intermediate (That's Life)

(From English Today Course, by Multimedia English) 
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