WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas : Lyrics

We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here

We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

PENGUINS' COVER

The Penguins of Madagascar The Twelve Days of Christmas

THE RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION.

NO RECORTES NO!!

This is the flashmob Un corto recortado  by  pupils  and teachers of CEIP Vicente Ferrer Ramos de Valderrobres, Teruel, standing up for public education.

ONE WEEK FOR CHRISTMASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.......

GOOD BYE MADIBA. REST IN PEACE.

Nelson Mandela was born in 1918. He spent 27 years in prison (from 1962 to 1990) for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government. After he left prison, he worked to achieve human rights and a better future for everyone in South Africa. He became President of South Africa in 1994, and retired in 1999. Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013 following a lung illness.

OVERTHROW =
ACHIEVE = LOGRAR, ALCANZAR

 Nelson Mandela became famous for his long fight against bad government and racial prejudice. He became a hero to people all over the world. As South Africa's President, he was respected for his courage and wisdom in bringing people together to live in peace.

COURAGE = VALOR
WISDOM = SABIDURÍA

Nelson Mandela is known as "Madiba," which is the name of the Xhosa tribe to which he belonged. It is considered an act of honor to refer to somebody by the name of his tribe.

A South African chain store has laid on one of the most touching tributes to Nelson Mandela we've seen in the past week – and it was in the form of a flash mob.

Woolworths teamed up with the Soweto Gospel Choir, who posed as shoppers and store workers at the Parkview store in Johannesburg. 

This song was written during Mandela's incarceration as a call for his freedom. 

Asimbonanga [we have not seen him]
Asimbonang' uMandela thina [we have not seen Mandela]
Laph'ekhona [in the place where he is]
Laph'ehleli khona [in the place where he is kept]

Asimbonanga
Asimbonang 'umfowethu thina [we have not seen our brother]
Laph'ekhona [in the place where he is]
Laph'wafela khona [in the place where he died]
Sithi: Hey, wena [We say: hey, you]
Hey, wena nawe [Hey, you and you]
Siyofika nini la' siyakhona [when will we arrive at our destination]

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

................................................................................................................   NELSON MANDELA

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HAVE YOU WRITTEN YOUR LETTER TO SANTA?

BE POSITIVE.

TRIVIA WINNERS

BACH: Who did what with a hammer, chisel and nails, why?

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012

Jorge Piedra, 2º BACH B:

 Dashrath Manjhi built a passage on a hill, to reduce the distance from his village to the nearest town 75km because his wife died due to the fact that there wasn't any hospital in their village.


 Steffi Lomba Vrouenraets, 2º BACH A:

This is the story about Dashrath Majhi.

Dashrath Majhi was married with a woman who got ill and died. She died because she couldn´t go to the doctor. The nearest town with a doctor was 70 Km away and it was very difficult to go there because there was a hill between his village(Bihar,India) and his town.

So, Dashrath,frustrated,began to cut the mountain with a hammer,chisel and nails,working every day for 22 years. He decided to make a road cutting the hill to prevent more deaths in his village.

ESO: What famous Spanish fortress was victim of a crime last year? What happened?

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012

Berenice González Diz, 3º ESO A:

The victim was the Alhambra fortress in Granada.

A swiss woman drew a heart and her initials on a wall in the Golden Room.

 CONGRATULATIONS, you have won an extra 0'25 points in your term grades!!

DANCE!

Dance Off Between Kid and Usher at Detroit Pistons Game

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND, EVERYONE!

Fourth Thursday of November: THANKSGIVING DAY.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

HARVEST FEAST = fiesta de la cosecha
ACKNOWLEDGED = reconocido, declarado

ESO STUDENTS

BACH STUDENTS

FUNNY THANKSGIVING with 'Friends':  Thanksgiving Flashback - Joey and the Turkey

TWENTY THINGS WE SHOULD SAY MORE OFTEN.

B&B PARROTS CLUB has arrived in A Guarda.

Welcome to B&B (Bobby&Bachillerato) Parrots Club. 

If you are studying Bachillerato at IES A Sangriña, you can practise your spoken English every Friday or Saturday night and help Bobby practise his Spanish in return. We wish to thank the owners of As de Copas for their kind contribution to this project.

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TRIVIA WINNERS.

BACH: Why is it important for you not  to lose self-confidence as a student?
  
Adriana Martínez: Because you must never give up as Alejandro Arévalo Ramos, a boy who achieved his dreams, never did.  If we always do our best and we have self-confidence, we will be able to achieve our goals.



ESO: Who collected materials in a local scrapyard and what for?

Ruben Cividanes Baz: The answer of the trivial is: William Kamkwamba colleted materials in a local scrapyard to build a  windmill to power few electrical appliances.

.....................................CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS. 
.............................................YOU HAVE GOT EXTRA 0'25 IN YOUR TERM GRADES

BEAUTIFUL BUGS

A FORMAL LETTER.

IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY

HAIYAN DISASTER

Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) -- No food. No water. Houses and buildings torn to pieces. Bodies scattered on the streets. Hospitals overrun with patients. Medical supplies running out.

SCATTERED = DESPERDIGADO

OVERRUN = SOBREPASADO

SUPPLIES = SUMINISTROS

As Typhoon Haiyan barreled across the South China Sea on Sunday, getting set to bring more destruction to Vietnam, many Filipinos grappled with devastation on a level they'd never seen before.

BARREL = IR DISPARADO

The Philippine Red Cross estimated at least 1,200 people were killed by Haiyan, but the full death toll could be significantly higher as officials make their way to remote, nearly inaccessible places pummeled by the storm.

DEATH TOLL = NÚMERO DE MUERTOS

PUMMEL = GOLPEAR

Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez told CNN it is "entirely possible" that 10,000 people may have died in the storm in Leyte province.

"People here were convinced that it looked like a tsunami," Romualdez told CNN.

"I have not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone, a relative close to them. We are looking for as many as we can," he said.

'This is really, really bad, worse than hell'

Carrying all they could from their devastated lives, a steady stream of typhoon victims kept arriving at Tacloban airport, looking for food, water and escape

(...)

Haiyan may be the strongest tropical cyclone in recorded history, but meteorologists said it will take further analysis to confirm whether it set a record.

The typhoon was 3.5 times more forceful than Hurricane Katrina, which hit the United States 2005.

But Haiyan's wrath has caused much more than tremendous loss of life and epic destruction -- it's also ruined the livelihoods of many survivors.

"This disaster on such a scale will probably have us working for the next year," said Sandra Bulling, international communications officer for the aid agency CARE. "Fishermen have lost their boats. Crops are devastated. This is really the basic income of many people."

WRATH = IRA

LIVELIHOODS = SUBSISTENCIA

CROPS = COSECHA

BASIC INCOME = SALARIO 

Rise and Shine

Check out this motivating video recommeded by Miguel Martínez Baz, 3º ESO 

Are you ready to win?

What does the fox say?

Foxes have the reputation of being cunning and deceiving — a subject for both admiration and loathing throughout history.

CUNNING = astuto
DECEIVING =  taimado, engañoso
LOATHING = aborrecimiento, odio

A female fox is called a “vixen.”  

Two Norwegian talk show hosts, Bård Ylvisåker and Vegard Ylvisåker produced and sing what is likely to have become the hit of the summer — love it or hate it. The song has reached as high as No. 6 in the Billboard charts and a lengthy article in the NYTimes has been dedicated to Ylvis.

TALK SHOW = programa de entrevistas
HOST = anfitrión, presentador
WHAT IS LIKELY = lo que parece
........................................................................................................................................................From: Rock Genious

Now listen to the song and try to sing along. ENJOY!

What is it you're looking for ?

FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS

Welcome to the 2013/14 Academic Year . FIGHT for YOUR DREAMS!

Alejandro Arévalo Ramos: ejemplo de superación.

(...) Otro amigo, Pepe Mendoza, estupendo articulista en El Diario de Cádiz, me escribe para contarme la historia de su sobrino, Alejandro Arévalo Ramos. Alejandro tiene 18 años; nació con un 84% de discapacidad física (o de diversidad, que es la palabra que prefieren usar las personas pertenecientes a estos colectivos) y a los dos años le amputaron las dos piernas. Iba a decir que psíquicamente es igual que cualquiera (el año pasado terminó segundo curso de Bachillerato), pero es obvio que no es igual que cualquiera, sino muchísimo mejor: mucho más centrado, más fuerte, más maduro, más valiente, más sabio. Además de cursar los estudios que le corresponden, Alejandro se ha hecho un as de la natación. Hoy, pese a su juventud, es un reconocido deportista en el mundo paralímpico y ha ganado un buen puñado de medallas autonómicas y nacionales (...)  Es una historia conmovedora y asombrosa, y lo más increíble es que en el mundo hay muchos más Alejandros de lo que nos creemos. Heroicos luchadores que cada día se ganan a pulso su existencia. Ver este rap enseña más e infunde más ánimos que media tonelada de libros de autoayuda. Porque para autoayudarse no hay como confiar en tu propia fuerza (...)  O, como dice mi amigo Pepe Mendoza: hay que borrar del lenguaje la frase 'no puedo', “como nosotros hemos hecho desde hace 18 años”.
 .....................................................................................................ROSA MONTERO EL PAÍS SEMANAL, 13 SEP 2013 

.......................................................................................NEVER GIVE UP!

THE END. Good Luck, everybody!!!

Are you up all night  to get lucky?

Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy_Manuel de Homem-Christo and  Thomas Bangalter.

They are also famous for their live shows, with visual elements and effects. Daft Punk is also known for its use of disguises, particularly the ornate robot costumes.

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SELECTIVIDAD EXAMS!!

ISTANBUL: it all started with a tree

UPRROT = desarraigar, arrancar de raíz.....TEAR GAS = gas lacrimógeno........  .......CHASE= perseguir
REMAINING = restantes.......................... AKP = Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Partido de la Justicia y el Desarrollo)
DESERVE = merecer................................SOCIAL MEDIA = redes sociales......... ....SMOG = niebla tóxica
HIGHWAY = autovía.................................PM = Prime Minister (Erdogan)......... .......BROTHEL = prostíbulo
REPLACE = sustituir.................................STRIVE = luchar, esforzarse......................STRAY DOG = perro callejero
SHARE = compartir...................................IRON FIST= puño de hierro......................COMMUTER = viajero hogar-trabajo
RAID = asalto, redada............................. YEARN = ansiar, anhelar............................DELUSION = engañar


DEMONSTRATION = manifestación...................................TAKE CREDIT = ponerse la medalla
MESS = follón, caos............................................................AWAKENING =  despertar
CLASH = altercado.............................................................FOR FREE = gratis, sin cobrar
WHATEVER IT TAKES = lo que haga falta........................TOPPLE DOWN = derribar
TRACES OF TARNISH = rastros de manchas......................IT IS WORTH A TRY = merece la pena
GREED = avaricia
FORTER = fomentar

Have a nice weekend, everybody!

Did you know that she got rich because of one sentence?

SCRIPT:

I woke up to go get me a cold pop (=gaseosa), then I thought somebody was barbaqueuing. I said Lord Jesus, it's a fire! Then, I ran out, I didn't grab no shoes or nothing, Jesus... I ran for my life!. And then the smoke got me, I got bronchitis! Ain't nobody got time for that!

If you want someting... GO and GET it! Period.

WILL SMITH's  secret for SUCCESS

"Don't ever let somebody tell you... you can't do something, not even me, all right? If you've got a dream, you've got to protect it. You want someting... GO and GET it! Period."

Describing faces.

ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS in real life: Oklahoma tornado.

Terrified cildren, hero teachers:

(CNN) -- It was the end of the school day. The kids at Plaza Towers Elementary School were stuffing their backpacks, looking forward to going home, playing with friends, eating snacks. But the tornado warnings changed that. When the twister came barreling in Monday afternoon, terrified young students huddled together in the hallways, screaming as walls and roofs caved in. Chairs and backpacks swirled above them. The winds and blaring sounds enveloped them. Cars from the parking lot landed just inches away. Teachers dove onto groups of kids to protect them from falling debris.(...)

STUFF = meter rápidamente.....................................CAVE IN= desplomarse
BACKPACKS = mochilas............................................SWIRL= girar
LOOK FORWARD TO = desear..................................BLARING = tremendo (ruido)
WARNING = advertencia, aviso.................................ENVELOPE = envolver
TWISTER = tornado...................................................INCH = pulgada
BARREL = salir disparado..........................................DIVE ONTO = tirarse encima
HUDDLE = acurrucarse..............................................DEBRIS = escombros

 By the time it was gone, so was the school in Moore, Oklahoma. In its place was a huge pile of rubble, trapping teachers and children. And seven students were dead.(...)

RUBBLE = escombros     

 First responders and volunteers rushed to the scene to begin the treacherous work of searching for survivors. "We had to pull a car off a teacher and she had three little kids underneath her," one first responder, in tears, told KFOR. "Good job, teach." "I was on top of six kids," one sixth grade teacher said, working her way across the rubble. "I was lying on top. All of mine are OK." Teachers helped tear through several feet of rubble to rescue sobbing students, some of them injured. Rescue teams successfully pulled several kids from the leveled school. But with each passing hour, the hope began to fade.(...) The devastation is palpable throughout Moore.

RUSH = darse prisa ...............................................INJURED = herido
TREACHEROUS = traicionero, movedizo..............SOBBING = sollozante
SEARCH = buscar.................................................SUCCESFULLY = con éxito
TEAR = arrancar, rasgar.........................................FADE = desvanecerse

Our body.

Zero Conditional.

CONDITION (If clause)	RESULT (Main clause)
If + Present tense	Present tense
If you freeze water,	it turns into ice.

Go teenagers!

HARRASS = ACOSAR

BILL = FACTURA

2º Bach: Crime vocabulary in real life. Unfortunately.

ESO/BACH QUIZ: extra 0'25  this term for the first one who's able to complete and translate the speech below (ESO students are allowed 5 mistakes) . Please send the full text and translation to romoreirafdez@gmail.es

LISTEN and try to complete the prosecutor's speech:

Based on the.......... I fully intend to seek ............... for each and every act of ............  ................., ................., each day of .................., every felonious .................., all his attempted ........................... and each act of aggravated .................. he comitted by terminating pregnancies that the .................. perpetuated against the hostages during this decade long ordeal (...) ............... ........................ must be reserved for those crimes that are truly the worst examples of human conduct. The reality is that we still have brutal .......................  in our midst, who have no respect for the rules of law or human life (...) In the meantime I ask for everybody's patience to avoid ................... the investigation or the victims (...)

ORDEAL= prueba dura

IN OUR MIDST= entere nosotros

And we turn again to the shocking story in Cleveland of three women held captive and abused for a decade. Today the man accused in  the case appeared before a judge...

Are you a succesful person?

Pendientes 3º ESO - 6th May, 8:20 - ROOM 40

Happy Mother's Day.

Let's learn from Japan.

Read this beautiful Information about Japan

1 - Did you know that Japanese children clean their schools every day for a quarter of an hour with teachers, which led to the emergence of a Japanese generation who is modest and keen on cleanliness.

LEAD, led, led = conducir, llevar a
EMERGENCE = aparición, surgimiento
KEEN ON = aficcionado a

2 - Did you know that any Japanese citizen who has a dog must carry bag and special bags to pick up dog droppings. Hygiene is part of Japanese ethics.

CITIZEN = ciudadano
PICK UP = recoger
DROPPINGS = excrementos

3 - Did you know that hygiene worker in Japan is called "health engineer" and can command salary of USD 5000 to 8000 per month, and a cleaner is subjected to written and oral tests!!

COMMAND = reclamar, ordenar
USD = US dollars
To BE SUBJECTED TO = estar sujeto a

4 - Did you know that Japan does not have any natural resources, and they are exposed to hundreds of earthquakes a year but do not prevent her from becoming the second largest economy in the world? -

RESOURCES  = recursos
EARTHQUAKES = terremotos
PREVENT = impedir

5 - Did you know that Hiroshima returned to what it was economically vibrant before the fall of the atomic bomb in just ten years?

VIBRANT = brillante

6 - Did you know that Japan prevents the use of mobile in trains, restaurants and indoor public spaces?

7 - Did you know that in Japan students from the first to sixth primary year must learn ethics in dealing with people?

DEAL WITH = tratar con 

8 - Did you know that the Japanese even though one of the richest people in the world but they do not have servants. The parents are responsible for the house and children.

EVEN THOUGH = incluso aunque,  a pesar de que
SERVANT = criado

9 - Did you know that there is no examination from the first to the third primary level; because the goal of education is to instill concepts and character building, not just examination and indoctrination. -

INSTILL = inculcar

10 - Did you know that if you go to a buffet restaurant in Japan you will notice people only eat as much as they need without any waste. No wasteful food.

WASTE = malgasto/ malgastar

11 - Did you know that the rate of delayed trains in Japan is about 7 seconds per year!! They appreciate the value of time, very punctual to minutes and seconds.

RATE = tasa, índice
DELAYED = retrasado
12 -. Did you know that children in schools brush their teeth (sterile) and clean their teeth after a meal at school; They maintain their health from an early age -

13 - Did you know that students take half an hour to finish their meals to ensure right digestion. When asked about this concern, they said: These students are the future of Japan


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