Summer!!

Hi everybody !!!
As you all know, we will have summer holidays in a few days.
Last tuesday our teacher Cristina play some music in the computer, to be more precise 60's 70's and 80's music. I remembered I saw a film called "Walking on sunshine".
This film is a musical about this kind of music. I like so much this film and it's always awesome to hear song that you have sang in your young years, in my case, I heard some of them when I was a child.
Here you have the trailer of the film.
I think if you like he music you will enjoy this film for sure.

Our last project!

Hi again guys!
The emoji project is our last English project at "I.E.S.O. Tomás Bretón".
First in my opinion this project was an amazing one. People love music and emojis are nowadays so used by everybody who has a smartphone, so if we mix everything, the result is the emoji project.
I like everysong you chose and eve the story:
-Ed Sheeran - Thinking out loud by Rocío García and me.
-Bon Jovi - Have a nice day by Carlos Muñoz and Calos Pérez.
-Avicii - Hey brother by Elián Viña and Javier Tendero.
-Victor - I'm a renegade by Diego Armenteros and Pablo Martín.
-Maroon 5 - Payphone by Elisabeth Dopazo and Alba Montiel.
-Queen - We are the champions by Pablo Honorato and Marco Periañes.
-Green Day - 21 guns by Javier Vicente and Nacho Morales.
-One Direction - 18 by Lucía Villoria and Vega Polo.
-Pherrell Williams - Happy by Óscar Martín and David Delgado.
-Bruno Mars - Uptown funk by Julián Cuadrado and Miguel Silleros.
-Adele - Set fire to the rain by Vega Martín and Eva Herrero.
- The miller, his son and the donkey by Elena Andrés and Belinda Blanco.
I have really good memories about these four years at the high school and I have passed so many awesome times with my friends doing english projects, so thanks because you (my english teachers) forced me to do this kind of projects. I'll never forget about our English lessons at school.
Thank you so so so much to everybody, my mates and my english teachers.
I hope you'll have great memories too and I'm glad to participate in, at least, one of them.
Bye bye. Xx Xx Xx

Modal verbs

Hi everybody!!!
There has been a lot of time since I last write an entry... so here I go again.
I was having a relax time in my bedroom when I realised that some of the songs I was listening to are about the topic we are dealing with in our lesson: Modal verbs, so I decided to share them with you mates.
I hope you like these songs.

It must have been love - Roxettte

Do I have to say the words? - Bryan Adams

Should I stay or should I go? - The clash

The show must go on - Queen



GOOD BYE FRIENDS!

COOL CREATURES

Hi everybody!
Here you have a video about 10 of the most amazing extinct animals, which are:

• The Dodo bird.
• Aurochs
• Woolly mammoth 
• Quagga
• Thylacine
• Caspian Tiger 
• Smilodon
• Cave lion
• Irish deer
• Tyrannosaurs rex

Hope you like it. Xx

Hard Holidays...

Hello guys.

As you all know, many people died in the plane crash because the copilot wanted to kill himself and he slammed the plane into the Alps Mountains.

If you take a minute and think about their families and friends you have to recognise that this holidays are unbearable. I can't imagine my easter holidays without my family and friends....

I'm sorry because of these families.

The Phantom of the Opera: Fact or Fiction?

Hi everybody!!
I was interested in this topic so I decided to look for an answer:
DO THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA REALLY EXIST?
The anwer is probably yes but not as Leroux said in his book. I have found some information about the real life of the phantom, here it goes......

CHRISTINE DAAÉ

There have been studies about this character and there are SO MANY coincidences. There was a girl called Christine Nilsson who had the same features as Christine Daaé.

1.Christine Daaé was born in Skotelof, Suiza. Nilsson was born in Sjöabol, Suiza.

2. Both of them traveled around the world singing with her father.

3. Both of them acted in Ópera characters like Ofelia (Hamlet), Margarita (Fausto), Reina de la noche (La flauta mágica)...

4. Both of them had a rivarly with another soprano.

5. Both of them had a governess called Valerious.

6.Both of them were married with a Viscount.

Christine Nilsson.

ERIK

About Erik... There was a deformed boy and he used to wear a mark because he didn't want to scare people.

This boy also was in love with another actress.

The Phantom of the Opera.

Now guys, is your choice to believe it or not.... Maybe one day when you are at the Opera House in Paris you will remember this story and the time we were reading the book....

See you tomorrow guys :)

Vocabulary from the book

CHAPTER 8

Arouse: to stir up.
Hars: Not gentle or pleasant.
Sob:To weep with a catching of the breath or in sudden, short gasps.
Thud:A dull sound, as of a heavy blow or fall.

CHAPTER 9

At stake: Something is at stake if it is something you care about and it's in risk.

Grasshopper: A plant-eating insect having large hind legs used for leaping.

Gunpowder: An explosive mixture, as one made of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, and for blasting.

CHAPTER 10

Mahogany: A tropical American tree giving hard, reddish brown wood.

To practice with pasive sentences.....

Hi everybody!
Here you have a song with lyrics I found about pasive senetences.
I hope it helps you to understand and learn better all pasive sentences... Here it goes.... :)

VOCABULARY FROM THE BOOK

CHAPTER 4

Betray: To be unfaithful or disloyal

Eerie: strange and mysterious, so as to inspire awe

Inn: a small hotel

CHAPTER 5

Curse: The expression of a wish that misfortune happen to someone

Distressed: Affected with or suffering from distress

Musty: having an odor or flavor that suggests mold

Whisk: To move, remove, carry, snatch, etc., with a rapid brushing or sweeping stroke

CHAPTER 6

Summon: To call for the presence of somebody.

CHAPTER 7 

Clatter: To make a loud, rattling sound, such as that produced by hard objects striking one another

Drain: To empty by drawing off liquid

Scamper: To run or go hastily

Slump: To fall heavily

EDGAR MÜLLER

Edgar Müller was born in 1968 in Germany. Is considered by at least one author to be "one of the world's top 3-D illusionist streets painters. It's one of the best known street painters in the world thanks to his YouTube videos. And he has been featured as "Maestro Madonnaro" at the Sarasota Chalk Festival.

At the Avenida de colores, Inc. Müller created a 100' x 40' 3-D street painting that is the first known contemporary street painting that metamorphosed from one image to another with the change from day to night because the painter used photoluminescent paints.

At the Sarasota Chalk Festival, the featured artist, Vera Bugatti, and Müller, created a 3-D street painting that made history as well. For the first time in history a street painting was designed to metamorphose, the image changing from day to night from a giant into a fetus in the uterus, through the use of photoluminescent paints. It measured 100’ x 40’.

Some of his paintings are: 

VOCABULARY FROM THE BOOK

Chapter 1:

Cobblestone: A stone used in paving.
Unfold: To be spread or opened out.

Chapter 2:

Bow: To bend the knee or body, or to incline the head, so as to show respect or greeting.

Frown: To wrinnkle the forehead, such as when one is displeased or in deep thought.

Mere: Being nothing more than what is specified; minor or unimportant.

Chapter 3:

Blaze: A bright flame or fire.

Dim: Not bright.

Gasp: A sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.

Mist: A mass of tiny drops of water, resembling fog.

Rehearsal: A session of exercise, drill, or practice, or performance, in preparation for a public performance, ceremony, etc.

Vessel: A ship or boat.

To practice with conditionals...

Hi everybody!
Here you have a song from Enrique Iglesias. It's the english version so with this song you can practice conditionals and at the same time improve your english.
I'm sure almost everybody know about Enrique Iglesias so.... Here is his song:

Thanks. Bye :)