VOCABULARY TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY

We've been learning and practicing vocabulary to describe people in class. Adjectives to describe appearance & personality-character and also clothes. Here are the pictures and texts used on the screen in class if you want to revise.

1) Above the pictures of people. Read below the descriptions and match each with the correct person.

a) He's in his 20s. He's tall and well-built with curly brown hair. He's got a beard and a moustache.

b) He looks about 50. He's short and a bit overweight. He's bald.

c) She's a teenager. She's slim and medium-height. She's got shoulder-length hair and a fringe.

d) She's in her 40s. She's quite tall and thin. She's got grey hair and it's short and straight. She wears glasses.

Link to more on DESCRIBING IN ENGLISH.

2) The exercises with the adjectives that describe personality.



Images taken from "English File", OUP.

How to order adjectives if there are several:

Here a video with vocabulary:





POLL: WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?

We start with a first poll about your opinion on starting school again. Vote!

What do you like about going back to school?
	Meeting my friends again
	Meeting new friends
	Learning new things
	Meeting the teachers again
	Meeting new teachers
	The new books
	I don't like going back to school
pollcode.com free polls

BACK TO SCHOOL (FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW)

To start off our second week, here's a picture that shows, very expressively, how going back to school can been seen from different points of view...

- a girl from Primary schools seems to go very happily laughing and jumping.

- a toddler doesn't seem to like his first day at nursery school very much and cries.

- a Secondary school student isn't happy at all and grumbles about it.

- a College student seems to be tired before he even starts because of all the work he has to do.

- and finally a mum goes wild because she doesn't have to cope with her children at home.

A CHINESE PROVERB

Here's a Chinese proverb so you can reflect about before you begin school...

HUMOUR: BACK TO SCHOOL WILL NEVER BE THE SAME WITH TWITTER

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL & TO THIS BLOG. 2012-2013

 

Today's the first day of the 2012-2013 school year. Once again we open up this blog to give students opportunities to keep in touch with English in context.

This course, I'll be teaching 2nd ESO and 1st BAC, so many entries will have focus on them, but you know that the blog is open to everybody.

So welcome back to school and to this blog, hope eveything goes well for you all.

9/11, ELEVEN YEARS AGO

Today's the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attack on NY Twin Towers.

ACADEMIC COURSE 2012-2013

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER. (End of 2011-2012 school year)

Once again another school year has finished and we're about to start our summer holidays. It's the third time we end a school year from clickonenglish. We're closing down during summer, too. But we'll be back in September to bring English to you, but you can continue visiting us during the holidays if you want to keep on practicing. There's plenty of things here and links to other sites.

Enjoy your holidays!

THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIAMOND JUBILEE

Throughout this weekend and until nest Tuesday, the United Kingdom has been celebrating the Diamond Jubilee: Elizabeth II's 60 years as Queen of the United Kingdom. To commemorate we're enclosing a link to an interactive timeline of her reign from 1952 to 2012 and videoS of her biography as Queen and the Jubilee celebrations along the river Thames in London this afternoon.

Video "THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE: 60 YEARS IN VIDEO":

MORE ABOUT THE ANCIENT & THE LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES...

As the 2012 Olympic Games are approaching, today there's another post with lots of Olympic information and trivia. To begin with, a video with the London Olympic Games in numbers...

Video "THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN NUMBERS" by the BBC:

To continue, click, and you can learn more about the Ancient Olympic Games.

Practice vocabulary related with all time Olympic Games sports.

All the information about it at the London Olympic Games official website.

Play games with the 2012 London Olympic Games mascots: Wenlock & Mandeville.

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE'S 75 YEARS

The well-known Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay is 75 years old. Here's some information about it:

Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County. It is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". [Wikipedia]

Video "THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE TURNS 75":



IES "RAFAEL DIESTE" 2012 2nd BAC SCHOOL YEAR GRADUATION

This evening, once again at the end of the school year, IES "Rafael Dieste" will be saying goodbye to another group of students. The 2012 year students will have their graduation party at 8:30 at our assembly hall and later a cold buffet at the main hall with parents and teachers. We wish them all the best of luck in their new studies.

70s DISCO MUSIC MOURNS THE DEATH OF DONNA SUMMER & ROBIN GIBB

(Donna Summer)

(From left to right: Robin, Maurice & Barry Gibb)

This past week has seen the death of two performers who played an important role in the success of disco music back in the 70s: Donna Summer and Robin Gibb, one of the members of the brother band Bee Gees. Here's some information about them and a song of each.

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-timeGrammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States.

Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry

Bee Gees were a musical group which originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' career record sales total more than 220 million,^[2]making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They were inducted into theRock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Following Maurice's sudden death in January 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb retired the group's name after 45 years of activity.

Video+lyrics "LAST DANCE", Donna Summer:

Lyrics | Donna Summer lyrics - Last Dance lyrics

Video+lyrics "STAYING ALIVE", Bee Gees:

Lyrics | Soundtracks lyrics - Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees lyrics

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON EUROPE

Here's a link to check your knowledge about Europe: Toporopa. You can check if you know where   each of the European countries are, European rivers, seas, regions, capitals, islands, flags... Have a go an see...

PRINCE CHARLES FORECASTS TODAY'S WEATHER IN SCOTLAND FOR THE BBC

Can you imagine the Prince of Asturias forecasting tomorrow's weather on TV? Or even our Prime Minister? I suppose you would think it was a joke. Well, it isn't, at least in Britain, this afternoon Prince Charles has read the weather forcast for today in Scotland during a visit to the BBC studios there. 
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall turned their hand to forecasting when they visited BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow today. The British royals were touring the studios to celebrate 60 years of BBC Scotland television, where they were invited to read the weather in the 6 o'clock news studio.
The prince warned of an unsettled picture with cold, wet and windy weather pushing northwards. "We are under the influence of low pressure and this weather front is bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain", he said.
Here's the video to show it was true:

Video Prince Charles forcasts the weather for BBC Scotland:

KEANE'S BACK WITH "STRANGELAND"

British band Keane are back with their fifth album "STRANGELAND", released today. 

Keane are an English alternative rock band from Battle, East Sussex, formed in 1997. The group currently comprises Tim Rice-Oxley (piano, backing vocals), Tom Chaplin (lead vocals,guitar), Richard Hughes (drums, percussion) and Jesse Quin (bass guitar, percussion).

Today we include the videos and audios+lyrics of three new songs from their latest album

Audio+lyrics "SILENCED BY THE NIGHT", Keane:

Video "SILENCED BY THE NIGHT", Keane:


Audio+lyrics "DISCONNECTED", Keane:


Video "DISCONNECTED", Keane:


Video "SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFÉ", Keane:


Audio "SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFÉ" Keane +lyrics:

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

"INNER SMILE", TEXAS [One of the songs from the film "Bend it like Beckham"] + SMILE IDIOMS

"Inner Smile" is a song by Scottish pop group Texas, originally released on their 2000 albumThe Greatest Hits and co-written by Gregg Alexander and Rick Nowels. It was released as the second single from The Greatest Hits album in the United Kingdom and peaked at #6 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also featured in the final sequence of the feature film Bend It Like Beckham, the film we saw last Friday at school ending our Olympics cultural week.

Video "INNER SMILE", Texas:

Audio "INNER SMILE" + film footage:

+ Smile idioms:

CORRELINGUA: WALKING IN FAVOUR OF GALICIAN

Once again in May, hundreds of students throughout Galicia will be marching along different cities in favour of the Galician language. 

Today it's the turn in Coruña, and a hundred ESO students from our school will be walking between Riazor sports centre and the Tower of Hercules to promote and defend Galician. They'll leave school at about 10:30 a.m. The students from our school, who go, have all taken part in the contest of designing the school's T-shirt to wear during this march. They will all dress with the winning T-shirt. Hope it doesn't rain a lot.