NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: best pictures of April

Dear Students; have a look and select your favourite one.
Activities: share it!


http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/best-pod-april-2012/#/hiker-joshua-tree-national-park_50508_600x450.jpg

HEALTHY RECIPE TO GET FIT: SPINACH QUICHE

Dear Students;  as summer is getting closer, here you have a classical recipe to get fit and look perfect with your beachwear outfits!!
Traditionally we serve spinach as a side dish, make it the star of the meal if you don´t know what to cook today!

Please, go to the link, you will learn new useful vocabulary. Easy to read
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/health/nutrition/spinach-and-onion-tart.html?_r=1&ref=nutrition

Activities: what kind of vegetables do you prefer? Share your recipe with us. 


Have a nice and healthy Saturday!

Your teacher

IF YOU DRINK COFFEE, KEEP DOING IT

Dear students, read this interesting article published by theNew England Journal of Medecine about the benefits of drinking coffee: "Coffee drinkers may live longer" and enjoy your breakfast!!
Please, go to the link
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/coffee-drinkers-may-live-longer/?src=me&ref=health

USEFUL INFORMATION

Why don´t you consider learning English during July?....

BEFORE GOING TO THE BEACH.....

 listen to Boney M´s Rasputin single!!
Many of us were hardly 2 or 3 years old, but this song hit the charts and  for sure everybody knows it.

Proposed activities: listen while reading the lyrics: great, brief and witty summary of Rasputin´s life.
Link to lyrics: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/boney-m/rasputin.html

Have a nice Sunday and.....PLAY THE MUSIC LOUD!!!

and for homeworks: Show me the money!

MUST VS. HAVE TO

Dear Students; please click on each exercise to practice the difference between them.
Good luck!!!
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/musthaveto/menu.php
Your teacher

MOTHER´S DAY!

Dear Students;

Is it really a chiclé when we say my mum is the best cook? Really don´t know; but for sure, we always associate a dish which remains in our memory as the best one; when we think about our mothers.
Have a look at this funny article and pay tribute to you mother today by explaning your favourite dish!!!

Happy mother´s day!

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/09/opinion/05092010opart.html?ref=mothersday

MODAL MIX

Dear Students
Practice what you learnt with the following exercise. Click on each link to practice a different topic (modal exercise 1; modal exercise 2; .....)
Do not forget to share you scores!

and...have a nice Sunday!!

Your teacher
http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html

WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE

Anthropocene is the name of a new geological epoch, define by our own massive impact on the planet. As wiki explains: "The term was coined by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on the Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era"


Activities: 
1.- Complete the following extracts from the video, by filling the gaps: 


"....the great railways, then cars and highways ______________ people across ____  __________. Medical __________ saved millions of lifes, new artificial _________ meant we could always ________ more people.."






2.- Complete the gaps of this second extract: 

"temperatures are increasing, we ___ __________ a hole in the ________ _________...."




3.- Find the definition of Anthropocene: (minute 2:00 aprox)


"We´ve entered Anthropocene: ____________________________________________________"


If you are interested on this subject and want to get further information, find the following links avaliable: 
http://www.anthropocene.info/en/home (here you´ll fnd some pictures and explanations of the impact of Almeria greenhouses to the extent of cooling the atmosphere)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/age-of-man/kolbert-text

Have fun and discover new things!

Your teacher