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Hi! I'm 47. I teach English at the "Enrique Díez-Canedo" in Puebla de la Calzada

Wednesday 25 November 2009

ALL GROUPS Thanksgiving Day

Today, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, maybe their most important festivity throughout the year. Watch this short video on its origins.


Tuesday 24 November 2009

ALL GROUPS



White Ribbon Day was created by a handful of Canadian men in 1991 on the second anniversary of one man's massacre of fourteen women in Montreal. They began the White Ribbon Campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the IDEVAW and the White Ribbon has become the symbol for the day.

Almost 20 years ago, on December 6, 1989, a young man went looking for women at l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Here, in the middle of this highly civilised Western city, he wanted to find women and kill them. He killed 14 women that day.
The killer's name was Marc Lepine, though he was born Gamil Gharbi, an Algerian French-Canadian whose Algerian father believed women must be subservient to men.
He was 25. By the time he armed himself with a semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife and went to the local university, he had spent years accumulating grievances against women for deserting and neglecting their traditional roles in society.
Lepine walked into a classroom and, at gunpoint, separated the men from the women. Nine women were in the room. He shot every one of them, declaring he was ''fighting feminism''. Six of the women died. During the next 20 minutes he roved the corridors targeting more women.
He killed or wounded 28 people, mostly women, before turning the gun on himself.
Twenty years ago, we did not have a wider context in which to place this outrage. Now we do.

Watch now this video by ALANIS MORISSTTE . Read here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqvMFGYJKA the lyrics... and think it over.

Sunday 15 November 2009

ALL GROUPS

Do you like this e-poster? It's cute, isn't it? It is a glog, and we are going to make some in the classroom. It's sheer fun!

2nd Bachillerato

All about Modal Verbs. Have a look at this presentation on the topic.

Once you have read it, try the quiz below! Good luck!

Monday 9 November 2009

4th ESO & 2nd BACHILLERATO


BERLIN, 9TH NOVEMBER. A DAY TO REMEMBER.

20TH ANNYVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE WALL.

ALL GROUPS








Time for
FUN!!
Do you remember the TV show "Cifras y Letras"? Well this is it... though you are going to play only with words. Have a try!

http://subscription.echalk.co.uk/English/word%20power/countdown/countdown.html

Thursday 5 November 2009

2nd Bachillerato

BONFIRE NIGHT

Remember, remember the 5th of november.
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
There seems no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!