How to make a delicious vegetarian Shepherd's Pie

READ and LEARN the glossary in the activity below. Then LISTEN to the video and FILL IN  the gaps. Remember you can ask for help in (?) or clicking on 'hint'

Shephered's Pie Listening Activity

Are you a car maniac? Check this out!

 The Presidential USA State Car: THE BEAST

The presidential state car is the official state car used by the President of the United States. A variety of vehicles have both officially and unofficially been acknowledged as the presidential vehicle. Since the late 1930s, the U.S. government has specially commissioned vehicles for presidential use, often specifying advanced communications equipment, special convenience features, armor plating, and defense countermeasures. American cars are traditionally chosen for the role. The most recent vehicle to be customized as the presidential car is a GMC Topkick-based, Cadillac-badged limousine often referred to as Cadillac One and occasionally as Limo One (a reference to the U.S. presidential aircraft, Air Force One) or as The Beast.

COMMISSION = encargar

CONVENIENCE FEATURES = comodidades

ARMOR PLATING = blindaje

DEFENSE COUNTERMEASURES = medidas preventivas de defensa

CHOSEN for the ROLE = escogidos a propósito

CUSTOMIZED = personalizado

 

Marta's murder.

A Seville court handed down a 20-year prison sentence to the murderer of 17-year-old Marta del Castillo, whose body has still not been found three years after the crime.

Miguel Carcaño, 21, was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend with an ashtray, then disposing of the body with the help of other people.

COURT = juzgado.............................................. .. ............GUILTY= culpable

MURDERER = asesino........................................................ASHTRAY= cenicero

HAND DOWN = pronunciarse, dictar sentencia.........................DISPOSE= deshacerse

Three other suspects in the case have been acquitted, including Carcaño's stepbrother and the latter's girlfriend.

Last spring, a court also acquitted Javier García — who was underage at the time of the crime — of murder and rape, but convicted him of covering up for Carcaño.

ACQUITTED = absuelto................................................ UNDERAGE= menor de edad

STEPBROTHER = hermanastro........................................ RAPE =  violación

THE LATTER = este último ............................................. CONVICT =condenar.....................COVER UP = encubrir

The prosecution requested 52 years for Carcaño for murder, rape and attacking the moral integrity of Marta's family.

The victim's father, Antonio del Castillo, said on Friday that the court's decision "makes no sense," as it acquits three out of the four suspects, making it seem as if Carcaño killed Marta and got rid of her body by himself(...)

PROSECUTION = abogado de la acusación, fiscal

GET RID = librarse de

(...) During the course of these three years, the main suspect gave wildly different accounts of the events of January 24, 2009. At first he confessed to the crime and said he and a friend threw the body into the Guadalquivir river, which led to an extensive but fruitless search by the police. In March, he changed his story and said he and a different friend raped and killed Marta, then threw her body into a trash container, leading to another fruitless search in the municipal dump. Yet later, he retracted on the rape element.

ACCOUNT= versión.............. FRUITLESS SEARCH = infructuosa búsqueda .............., DUMP = vertedero

.............................................. Marta's body has not been found yet

BECAS, BECAS, BECAS, BECAS, BECAS.......

BECAS y  AYUDAS
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INTERCAMBIO VERANO ESPAÑA-CANADÁ

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AU PAIR in USA for 1 year.

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Be AU PAIR IRLANDA, UK, USA
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One of our  students has received a prestigious grant from the Fundación Barrié- Fundación Amancio Ortega for the 2011-2012 academic year. He will study 1º Bachillerato in USA. 


...................................................................CONGRATULATIONS Iago!!
This is what he will do there:

Will you be the next?    http://www.becashighschool.org/

Unbelievable vandalism.

A Swiss woman was arrested and detained overnight by Spanish police after she reportedly drew a heart and her initials on a wall in the Golden Room of the Alhambra fortress in Granada.

The suspect was released on Tuesday charged with vandalism after she testified before a

judge.


ARRESTED and DETAINED OVERNIGHT = arrestado y retenido durante la noche

FORTRESS = fotaleza                                                   

SUSPECT = sospechoso

RELEASED = liberado

CHARGED = acusado

This was not the first time an incident of this type has occurred. In August, a military officer from Jordan was caught writing his name and the date of his visit on the wall of the Palace of Charles V. He was fined 120 euros and ordered to pay an additional 200 euros to pay for the damages he caused.

FINED = multado

DAMAGES = daño

According to authorities, the 18-year-old Swiss national was caught etching the heart with her nail on one of the stucco walls. After she was told to stop, she proceeded to finish her work. Inside the heart, she wrote the letter "S."

After she was taken to police headquarters, she refused to testify and was held overnight

ACCORDING TO = según

ETCH = grabar

NAIL = uña

HEADQUARTERS = sede, cuartel general

HELD OVERNIGHT = retener por la noche

The importance of correct punctuation.

Main Punctuation Marks.  From WAKISHWONDERZ

Symbol	Name
.	period or full stop
,	comma
;	semi-colon
:	colon
?	interrogation point or question mark
-	dash
" "	quotation marks
'	apostrophe

Welcome back to school!!

The good news is ....
 .............................................SUMMER IS GETTING CLOSER!!

......................Sooooo... STUDY, LEARN and... why not? ENJOY!!

.................WELCOME EVERYBODY!