The God's architect and awesome cathedral!!

 

We are about to leave the Spring season and get into the next season: SUMMER.

 

And that means that the Summer holidays are already here after a long exhausting school year, ready to recharge our batteries in spite of the heatwave. Remember "Any way you want it, that's the way you need it..." your English teacher will be always around!

 

Will our English teacher be back in Bachillerato? The ball is in the students' hands and efforts during this summer and we will keep record of all that in our... 

 

SUMMER SCOREBOARD

 

Learning English from the News:   World Cup excitment and concern  (BBC Learning English)  

 

Here are some articles for you to read and that may help you in the next Selectivity exam in 2027: 

• ‘Excited but wary’: fans in the 16 host cities share their hopes and fears before the World Cup (The Guardian)

• The World Cup is in desperate need of a vibe shift. The matches have arrived just in time (CNN)

• Can the US, Mexico and Canada set aside their differences as they co-host the World Cup? (BBC News)

  

 

A few days ago Pope Leo XIV was visiting Spain and he had the opportunity of blessing Sagrada Familia's final tower.

 

 

Here are some articles for you to read about this cathedral and the architect Antoni Gaudi, which may also help you in the next Selectivity exam in 2027:

• Crowds turn out in Barcelona for pope blessing Sagrada Família’s final tower (The Guardian)

• 'A place of legend': The ancient engineering marvels of the world's tallest church (BBC News)

• Sagrada Família, Gaudi’s eccentric homage to Catalonia – archive, 1983 (The Guardian)

• God's Architect: Antoni Gaudi's glorious vision  (Other videos: Real Engineering & BBC report)

 

 

 

Road towards success in the Selectivity exam.....

Here's another English exam our students have done this June:  2026_Admisión_Potlatch 

  

 

  Here's my musical hint for today:    Any Way You Want It by Journey. And here's the official video with the lyrics for you to sing along.  

 

 

 

 

Easy English Conversations:   What can you do?  (BBC Learning English)  

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• English in a Minute:  Phrases with IDEA  (BBC Learning English)

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  Real Easy English: Talking about HOT WEATHER  (BBC Learning English) 

• The English We Speak:  Wrap it up!   (BBC Learning English)

• Listening exercise for you to do:   How advertisers make us spend money  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

The Listening Room:   Do collagen supplements really work? (BBC Learning English) 

 

 

English with Lucy... Native English speakers NEVER USE these 16 phrases!! 

 

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Improve your English with  Tom Hanks  - Funny interview

 

 

 Muhammad Ali’s Journey from Louisville to World Champion  (English Listening Practice)  Muhammad Ali

 

 

Our students in Ireland in their study trip to the British-Irish Isles 

 

 

 

 

Cow juice ;-))))

What do your think 'cow juice' really means?

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Mind Your Language - Where do we get milk from?        

How to Milk a Cow By Hand (or goat)

 

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Ten words you are probably mispronuncing  (mmmEnglish)
  

• A listening exercise for you to do:  The technology of translation (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)   

• And talking about new experiences, this is what happens you start a new job  >> The English We Speak: Onboarding  (BBC Learning English)

• News Review:  Boris Johnson survives non-confidence vote  (BBC Learning English)

 

   

Our 2nd Bachillerato are done with their selectivity exams and so are the rest of our students at school, so here's my dancing musical hint for today: Blame it on the Boogie by The Jacksons 5. Here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing and dance along!!

 

 

 

 

Rafael Nadal: Top 5 shots | Roland Garros | Eurosport Tennis

 

 

 

... and his 22 Best Points of 22 Grand Slams Won 

 

 

Here's the Selectivity exam they have set this year in Selectivity: It's not easy to be green & Men earn more money than women in every country   (June 2022)  

The magic is in Madrid

When we hear the magic is in Madrid, we may think of Isco, the football player in Real Madrid, or we may be talking about a new show concerning the figure of Harry Potter. What can you tell me of this character, the book or its writer? What's the connection with Edinburgh? and with Wales?

Related articles you can read:

• Harry Potter studio tour: now everyone can go to Hogwarts (The Guardian)

• Harry Potter: How the boy wizard enchanted the world (BBC)

• Harry Potter: Take a tour of the fictional character's Suffolk birthplace (BBC)

You can now do this PEvAU (Prueba de Evaluación y Acceso a la Universidad) exam set in the school year 2015-2016 have Christmas dinner at Hogwarts & Parents' reactions to teen romance (You can now have Christmas dinner at Hogwarts & Parents' reactions to teen romance - June 2016)

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Revision for SELECTIVITY & 2º Bachillerato.
 

59. Read the following text and then answer the comprehension questions.

The  new  song  was a love song. It  has  probably  been forgotten  now;  but I knew it and I liked it. And I  liked the way Ted sang it.

           When other lips and other hearts

           Their  thoughts  of   love  shall  tell  ‑

The  audience  enjoyed  it,  too. I  wondered  whether  any secrets  showed  on my face. I knew a lot about other  lips and  other  hearts which told their thoughts of love. The song  was a sad one, but it was also beautiful. The  sounds of  the words were like poetry. For Marian and Ted  Burgess the  poetry had a power which I could not understand it, I believed  in  it. I did not know then that love might  ever cause  unhappiness. It was a good subject, I thought, for a  song  or for a poem. It was particulary good when the music was  played on a piano. It was certainly not connected with spooning.  At  the  end of Ted's song there were  tears  of happiness in my eyes.

The  audience applauded Marian and Ted loudly. She bowed slightly,  but he did not do anything. Everyone laughed and Lord  Trimingham  said:  "He isn't very polite to  her,  is he?"  The  man who was sitting beside me said: "What's  the matter  with Ted? He usually treats the ladies better  than that.  It's  because she is from the Hall, of course."  But at  last  he bowed to Marian and thanked her. My  companion said,  "That's  better.  She's a lady,I know, and  Ted's  a  farmer. But they look well together, don't they?"

When  Ted  came  back to his seat,  he  seemed  annoyed. Everyone  noticed this and enjoyed it. It added some fun to the  party. Ted at a concert was just as popular as Ted  on the  cricket  field.  The crowd laughed at him as  much  as they had cheered him before.

Before doing the activities, here's a video which could be connected with spooning:

 QUESTIONS:

 (a) Who sang the love song ?

 (b) What was the song like ?

 (c) Did the narrator enjoy the song? How do you know?

60. Write questions to the following answers (pay attention to what is bold printed) :

 (a) ____________ ?   The audience applauded Marian and Ted.

 (b) ____________ ?   The sounds of the words were like poetry.

 (c) ____________ ?   Ted is a farmer.    

61. Define the following words : AUDIENCE , POLITE & FARMER

   

62. Put the following sentences into the ACTIVE VOICE :

(a) Food won't be needed next year.

(b) The men were taken to Manila by the submarine. 
(c) The message had not been delivered. 

63. Write the following sentences in INDIRECT SPEECH:

(a) "What are these nasty boys doing here?", the Savage said.

(b) "Nobody believes it's going to happen. Everybody thinks it will pass away", he said.  
(c) "Don't think about it any more", he said.


Note that the text is an extract from the novel The Go-between by L.P. Hartley (here's a link to the book in pdf) Do you know what a 'go-between' is? Can you tell me what the story is about?

LINGOHACK  >>>

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In less than in a year's time... YOUR FUTURE!!!

SEPTEMBER EXAM SCHEDULE 2017

Click on the link to see all the times for the September exams of all the subjects 

SEPTEMBER EXAM for ESO (Albert's students)

We will be doing our English/French exams on Friday, 1st September   

1º Bach A - Time: 8.00-9.30  Classroom: 1º ESO A 

1º ESO   ENGLISH - Time: 10.30-11.30  Classroom: SUM   (Salón de Actos)

1º ESO C/D  Alberto   FRENCH - Time: 12.30-13.30  Classroom: LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT (Departamento Idiomas) 

In less than in a year's time you will have finished your Selectivity exams and you will be struggling to choose the university degree you want to study and therefore what kind of job and life you may have.

Related articles to the Selectivity exam (June 2017, option A. Mannequin challenge)  >>>

• Has the mannequin challenge come to a standstill? (The Guardian)

• 22 heavily armed men post mannequin challenge on Facebook, much to delight of cops (The Washington Post)

• Mannequin Challenge Is the New Viral Video Sensation You Probably Can’t Avoid (The New York Times)

 

English with Lucy: 5 ways to improve your English everyday!

 

Related articles to the Selectivity exam (June 2017, option B. Zodiac signs)  >>>

• How to Find Your New Zodiac Sign After NASA's Recalculations (Inverse Science)

• NASA Has No Time for Your Astrology Nonsense (Time Magazine)

• Panic in the zodiac: astrologers quash fears over 'new' 13th sign (The Guardian)

• Nasa isn't changing our beloved star signs – but the zodiac is still wrong (The Independent)

 

Still, it is time to rest, to sleep, to relax after a long tiring year full of emotions. So take your time and in a few days' time start your warming up for the most important and crucial school year of your lives so far.

Related articles you should read about the issue:

• How lack of sleep affects the brain (Health, BBC)

• Children struggling to concentrate at school due to lack of sleep, MPs told (Education, The Guardian)

• How dangerous is sleep deprivation, really? (CNN)

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 170628 / 28 June 2017   >>>  Expressions presented: brainpower, humorously & crowd-pleaser.

Congratulations to Clara Prados

La Junta homenajea a los 25 jóvenes de Granada con las mejores notas en Selectividad

 

Congratulations to Clara Prados for having achieved the second highest mark in the Selectivity exams in the province of Granada.

 

Read this article in EL IDEAL: El 92,64% de los estudiantes de bachillerato que han hecho la selectividad han aprobado y uno ha conseguido un 10 absoluto and you'll see: "La segunda mejor nota ha correspondido a la alumna Clara Prados Rodríguez, del IES “Mediterráneo” de Salobreña (Granada), con una nota de 9,950 en el Acceso a la Universidad."  

Furthermore, these 4 students also got excellent results: Ana González (9,37), Martín Fco. Martín (9,23), Marta Nieto (9,09) and Desiré Venegas (9,4).

And congratulations to all our students as they have all passed and they have obtained excellent results in the Selectivity exams, especially in English, whose mean (Albert's students) was 7,2 and whose mean in the Selectivity exam has been 7,3 (and in the province of Granada the mean is of 5,99).

And, as far as we know, again incredible results at the official language school in Motril: 

• 1º Bach A: Claudio López has obtained his B2
• 2º Bachillerato: Mireia González & Andrea Ligero have obtained their B1 
• 1º Bach B: Inés Palomino has obtained her B2 in French.

 

  Clara Prados in the press!!!!   

Other interesting articles about the issue:   1   2   3