12 December 2019

Climate change: Letters to Leonardo DiCaprio

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Letter Writing Assignment 

Write a letter to Leonardo DiCaprio. Thank him for making this movie – this is going to be a very important part of history, and hopefully it will prompt a change. Tell him what you’ve learned from the movie. Tell him about your favorite (or the most impactful) one or two examples from the movie of either climate change or what we need to do to stop climate change. Also, tell him what you plan to do to make change based on what you learned from the movie.


Dear Mr DiCaprio.
My name is Azucena Lozano; I am an English language student at The Official Languages School in León, Spain. Last week we watched in class your movie After the Flood which has deeply made an impact on me.
I would like to thank you for your generous gesture of investing your time and effort  in making this committed  documentary .Sharing it all around the world will make a difference for us to be concerned with global warming and act urgently to stop it.  Let me say that I only knew your work as an actor, I was pleasantly  shocked when I discovered you as an environmental activist talking to the most worldwide influential people in all fields: from politicians to researchers.
There are lots of impactful images in the documentary. If  I had to mention some ,I would choose for example, people in China wearing  breathing masks, or the huge lorries with palm oil; although the  whole documentary is shocking  and emotionally heartbreaking for me. We need to bring up new generations to preserve our planet, to support politicians who defend sustainable energies and to live and behave as eco-friendly as we can.
Thanks again for your time and generosity.
Sincerely,
Azucena.
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Dear Leonardo DiCaprio,

I would like to thank you for such an impactful movie. I think it will motivate people to change their mindfulness and be more conscious of the effect they have on the environment and the repercussions that this brings to our planet. After all, this is where we all live.

I loved the whole movie but above all there were two parts that drew my attention the most. The first when you were riding in a helicopter over a dilapidated area by the spills of the factories – you called that “Mordor” as in “The Lord of the Rings”, because that reflected the real impact of industry and the consequences of toxic spills on land, rivers, and so on. The second part when it showed that in India many people don’t have electricity or they are running out of water because it helped me appreciate my life. We are in the 21st century! I cannot imagine getting up in the morning and turning the tap on to discover there is no water to wash my face, make lunch, or have a shower. What would happen if I had to go to the river to draw water every morning to make the dinner?

I think we need to be more aware of climate change, put into practice the five R’s (refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle) and teach our children how important it is to protect the environment. We only have one planet “the Earth”.

Yours sincerely,


Ana Isabel


Education: Vocabulary revision

Dear students,
Please find below the  key answers for the handout I gave you to revise vocabulary about education.
 👉 Key answers


Comparative forms


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Page 140, student´s book. Key answers

Key answers

21 November 2019

Online tips for English pronunciation

Dear students,
Have a look at this interesting link one of your classmates suggested to me.
You can watch one of these videos every day to improve your pronunciation.
It´s highly recommended at this level.

Pronunciation tips with a native English pronunciation teacher


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Pronunciation: Long and short I


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14 November 2019

Global warming message board


Dear students, 
Here you are your work on global warming. 
If we all try to do our bit, we´ll get a better world.

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Global warming is real, we can observe it everywhere. If we do nothing, the world we know will never be the same.  Ángel López.

We have to struggle with global warming, because now we have noticed  the efects of the past. If we don't change anything, our future will be worse.  Mario Grande

We need to be conscious of the climate change and its dangers, but without the help of the big companies we won't be able to stop it. Diego González

I think de world is changing because of the global warning. We have good weather more days along de year, but when it changes as a beast out of control and natural disasters come to us.  Víctor Rubio

Some policy makers tend to make us believe that global warming is an exaggeration, nonetheless, we are dealing with stronger natural disasters, higher temperatures, disappearance of many species, etc. Global warming is real, we have to react and take measures to be friendly with nature and reverse the damage generated to the planet. Small changes can make the difference, so let´s try it!
Gabriela Garcia Saldivar

Since industrial revolution and demographic rise due to scientific advances,  the impact on our planet's surface is becoming more and more unsustainable. If the population keeps growing and spending the resources , the Earth will not be able to provide resources for all of us and we will have to change our lifestyles. 
 Adrián Murillo


I strongly believe that our planet is suffering from the last decades because of the human being. We can watch on the news every day that there are a lot of environmental problems such as the destruction of the ozone layer, poured in fresh water from the factories, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, forest fires and so on what, at the same time, entails other natural disaster like floods, droughts, tsunamis or heat waves.
This involves a terrible situation in our planet that contributes to what scientists and pundits call global warming. It is important to prioritize renewable energies like solar stations and wind power over coal. Our governments should impose more restrictive measures to control the factories.
On the other hand, we as simple citizens have to be aware of to taking care of our planet as well, by doing everyday actions such as switching off the lights, using public transport, saving on water, recycling our rubbish, reducing plastic consumption etc. In a nutshell, being environmentally friendly.  
 Ana Isabel Monge

In the last years, weather conditions and animals way of living have changed considerably. This is due to something and the answer is clear: it is our fault and our excesses. Paula García.

"Global warming is an important problem that we have to solve if we want to care of our planet".  Lidia Manceñido
We have noticed that nowadays we must have all our clothes (for summer and winter) available in the wardrobe because we could wear them at anytime of the year, that´s all due to climate change. Rafael Abella Carbajo.

If we pay attention to our surroundings we’ll notice the global warming effects all around the world: hurricanes, tsunamis, tornados, floods…among other extreme weather conditions. Let’s live as eco-friendly as possible!  Azucena

Cinema evening

13ºFestival de CINE en IDIOMAS, VO subtitulada
 del 11  al 28 de noviembre 2019



Dear evening C1 students,   

As decided in the classroom, we are going to the cinema this evening (Thursday 14th november)  at 20.00. Therefore, we will not have class at the EOI.

We´ll meet up at 19.45 at the hall of Van Gogh´s cinema. 
All current and old students from other years are welcome.

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Morning students will watch a film on Monday in class. Probably Green Book but there may be a change. 
Again, evening students are gladly received to join us.





6 November 2019

Reunión de la junta de delegados


REUNION JUNTA DE DELEGADOS
SALON DE ACTOS 
12 DE NOVIEMBRE 17:00 HORAS
13 DE NOVIEMBRE 18:00 HORAS

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Ciclo de Cine en VO subtitulada

13ºFestival de CINE en IDIOMAS, VO subtitulada
 del 11  al 28 de noviembre 2019



La mayor parte de las películas, premiadas en festivales, cuentan
historias familiares, tienen protagonistas jóvenes en busca de su
identidad, y hablan de conflictos sociales. Con un lenguaje muy fresco,
ideal para la inmersión lingüística que supone este ciclo de películas.

lunes, 11 de noviembre,              Sorry, We missed you (inglés)

jueves, 14 de noviembre            A Rainy Day in New York  (inglés).

miércoles, 20 de noviembre       Boy erased (inglés)

jueves, 21 de noviembre            La corresponsal  (inglés)

jueves, 28 de noviembre            Tell It to the Bees  (inglés) 

Short stories for Halloween

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Dear students, 
Here you are the stories you wrote in groups. Send a comment with your name and group (just morning or evening group) and a short comment about your favourite story (state the number of the story). You can´t vote for the story you began. 
The group that gets mores "likes" will have a treat in next class session. 
________________________________________1. 
It was midnight and I was walking with my friends.We were daring each other into doing weird things. Suddenly, we saw a big spooky house, it was the darkest one we had ever seen. As we were walking by, we realized that there was a strange shadow behind the window. However, it disappeared as soon as we turned around. Suddenly, this shadow appeared in the ceiling and started to spread all around the walls taking a goat shape with big horns and something that appeared  in the ground between my legs made me fall down.


María, Mireya and Gabriela.
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   2.  
       Last Halloween, me and my friends went to a haunted house. It stood in the  misty, dark, spooky forest. As we walked by, we started to hear an evil creature creeping into us. Then, we saw a house in the horizon and we thought that would be a safe place to stay that night. Inside this creepy house, we found a five yeard-old girl singing a hair-rising song, which said "you´re going to die tonight", but we were drunk so we just laughed and went upstairs. There, we saw a door at the end of the corridor, which we decided to open. Surprisingly, there was a coffin in that room. As soon as we saw it, we screamed and ran out of that horrifying house. 

Tamara, Lidia and Beatriz

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3.  
      Everything started in a cold winter afternoon, when a strange man invited us to visit the old mansion. There were a lot of corridors covered with wood and an old door where we could read the mansion’s legend. On the door, there was a bloody hand-print. That was a very bad sign. So, we decided to open the door and as soon as we did it, we felt an unbearable odor.
When we were in the hall, we saw a pool of blood. Then, at that moment, we expected the worst, and scared to death, we left the house running as fast as we could.
When we arrived at a place we considered safe, we went to report it to the police and tell them that someone had been murdered in that house. Then we told the police where the house was, and they went there quickly. They had a good time talking to the man and inspecting the house, but they found nothing, so they left the house and the case was filed because there was no evidence of such a murder.
Time was passing by and one day, the children were doing some searching online and it turned out that in that house there had been a murder, but it had been 150 years ago. So, as all this gave them such bad feelings, they stopped investigating and tried to continue their life as normally as possible.

Adrián, Javier y Sara.

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4.   
It was a dark and cold night. We were walking along a winding road when suddenly we saw an old mansion on the top of a hill.
Nobody seemed to live there and we decided to get in. There was a big hall with a huge chimney. We lit a fire with the logs we found next to the wall.
Suddenly, a high pitched scream was heard all around the house, we stood up as quickly as we could. We tried to find out where the scream came from. Then, we discovered a corpse in the bathroom. The bathroom was all covered with blood and there were footprints all over the floor. There is a killer among us and we are going to discover him.  Surprisingly, we saw a knife stabbed in somebody´s back. “Is it Bill the killer? Would someone blame Bill as the murderer? Abruptly, the light went out and when the light came back Bill was not in the house and we never saw Bill again.

Víctor, Ana and Darío.
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5.  During the summer camp we went out without permission to the forest while everybody was sleeping. It was a full moon night.
Suddenly, we discovered a big ruined house. We decided to go inside because the door was open. When we were inside, we heard the door slameed. We began to be scared. There were no lights and strange noises appeared.
It was a stormy night so a thunder illuminated and showed all the shadows. One of the shadows started to get closer and closer …..another thunder illuminated the wall, which was covered with blood.
We all screamed and ran away from the shadow. Unfortunately, we got separated. Jimmy was alone in a corridor and noticed that a shadow was following him. He realized that the shadow was a hound. Jimmy carried some biscuits and threw them to the hound to distract it.
He ran away and fortunately he could find his friends. They returned to the summer camp where everybody was dead. We were the only ones alive.

Susana, Ana and Ana María.

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6.

Five children were walking near an orphanage when their dog got lost. They started to run after the dog when suddenly, one of the children heard something strange near the orphan´s  home.
They decided to go into the asylum to see what was happening. The children tried to switch  the lights on but they didn't work. Suddenly, the dog ran away into the kitchen. The children followed  it and found Chicote stabbing their dog! They screamed and ran away. However, they could not find the exit so they got lost.
Suddenly, one of them disappeared into the darkness of the old orphanage, so the others tried to find him with no results. Blood still fresh in the walls and a big knife appeared nailed in a human head in the wall.
After that terrible situation, the children ran out looking for help, but what they didn't know was that Chicote was following them...
To be continued...

Jacobo, Lidia, Carlos and Paula.

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7.  
After a lot of time thinking about the perfect 'Family weekend' in a little village of Asturias they arrived there, four human beings and the dog.
At that time a big thunderstorm began, all the lights were swiched off and they had to stay in the darkness.
They were searching for some candles but they couldn't find them. Suddenly the door of the fence started to open and close . The telephone rang and my dad answered it. “Hello who is it?”
“Na, na, na, na....” (little girls singing)
“Hello who is there?” My dad repeated.
“Na, na, na, na ....(again singing) I'M GONNA KILL YOU !!!! “Said another scarifying and deeper voice.
The telephone rang again and when my father answered it he heard a voice saying:
“This is the new Halloween Vodafone advertisement, Na, na, na, na...Do you want to try our new Pumpkin phone model?”
Finally, the whole family started to laugh but the telephone rang again with a Na, na, na....song . This time all of them asked for one Pumpkin model for everyone.
At the end it was not a peaceful weekend but funny anyway.

Charo, Eva and Mario Guzmán.

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8. 

Two investigators called Mulder and Scully went into a haunted house. The  family were scared about strange noises in the house at midnight. 
An owl was heard. Scully went to the living room to check what was going on. Then, she found a bloody head in the middle of the floor. Consequently, she went back to knock in Mulder`s door. Noises kept sounding in the basement. They thought it could be a ghost inside the house and tried to catch it.
They called the local ghostbusters. When they arrived, they realized that the ghost was the worst that they had ever seen.
Their gadgets weren`t enough to capture it and the ghost cut the head of the ghostbuster leader, who became a new ghost, while everybody fled from the house.

But do you know who was the deceased leader?
He was Chicote!!  And that is the reason why he always appears on TV programmes fighting with restaurant owners. He wanted some revenge, because the ghost was a restaurant owner.

Written by the Chicotes