VOCABULARY OF THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

Peashooter: tube used to throw darts
Ambassador: accredited diplomant sent by a country as its representative in a forign country
Coffin: wooden box for putting a dead body in
Pray: ask a god for help
Sins: immoral acts

SELF-ASSESMENT

What can I do that I couldn't do before?
I do better the listenings
What do I like most?
I like most speaking

 What do I do well?
I think I do well the vocabulary and the readings
 
What do I need help with?
I need some help with some traslation 

What do I do in English outside the class?
I watch series in english
 
What do I need to improve?
I need to improve the writing

What did I learn about culture?
I learn about some writers

VOCABULARY UNIT 3 AND 4

Amusing: something that is funny

Upsetting: making you feel shy and uncomfortable

Misunderstanding: something that is not understood correctly

Squeeze: tap something with force

Afford : to be able to buy or do something because you have enough money 
Be worth : having a particular value
Brand : a type of product made by a particular company.
Waste : an unnecessary or wrong use of money or time
Borrow : to get or recibe something from someone with the intention of giving it back 
Save up :to keep money 
Sports gear : equipment

HOW IS IT BY SAMUEL BECKETT

How is it is a novel by Samuel Beckett frist published in French in 1961. The Grove Press published Beckett´s English translation in 1964
This novel is a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through endless mud, recalling his life separated into three distenct periods

The text is divided into three parts:

 “before Pim” : the solitary narrator journeys in the mud-dark until he encounters another creature like himself thereby forming a “couple”.

“with Pim”: the narrator is motionless in the mud-dark until he is abandoned by Pim.

“after Pim”:the narrator returns to his earlier solitude but without motion in the mud-dark.

In a letter (April 6, 1960) to Donald McWhinnie of the BBC Radio Drama Company, Beckett explained his strange text as the product of a " 'man' lying panting in the mud and dark murmuring his 'life' as he hears it obscurely uttered by a voice inside him... The noise of his panting fills his ears and it is only when this abates that he can catch and murmur forth a fragment of what is being stated within... It is in the third part that occurs the so-called voice 'quaqua', its interiorisation and murmuring forth when the panting stops. That is to say the 'I' is from the outset in the third part and the first and second, though stated as heard in thepresent, already over."
The novel served as inspiration for Miroslaw Balka's 2009 work, How It Is, in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. 

PROYECT PHISICAL EDUCATION

TO STRECH QUADRICEPS

The Simple Quad Stretch

1. Stand on your left leg, one knee touching the other. You can hold a chair or the wall to keep you steady if needed.

2. Grab your right foot, using your right hand, and pull it towards your butt.

3. Hold the position for 20 to 30 seconds, then repeat, switching from your left leg to your right.

The Kneeling Quad Stretch

1. Start the stretch in a high lunge position, with your left foot forward.

2. Carefully drop your right knee to the floor and take a moment to find your balance.

3. Once you’re ready, reach back with your right arm, and grab your ankle, or toes, depending on what’s easiest.

4. Hold the position for 30 seconds, keeping your body steady. Push a little further to get a hip flexor stretch as well.

5. Gradually come back into the starting position and switch from your left foot to your right.  

TO STRETCH THE HAMSTRINGS

FIRST EXERCISE 

1. You have to sit on the floor

2. Then stretch one leg, the one you prefer, and the other leg that you haven't stretched, you have to bend it.

3. And finally you have to get to touch the foot of the stretched leg, and when you are trying to get to touch the foot, you have to have your back straight, if not, you are not stretching anything.

SECOND EXERCISE 

1. You have to lean on some object, column or wall.

2. Lift one leg and stretch it, support the sole of the foot, the other leg is resting on the floor.

3. Get to touch the foot that is resting on the wall, column or an object.

 By: Noa Toledo Rodríguez y Víctor Gonzalo Astudillo

SELF-ASSESMENT 1ST TERM

• What can I do that I couldn't do before?

           I can talk about films usingthe vocabulary

• Can I understand information from LISTENINGS?

            Yes

• Can I write a brief paragraph?

            Yes

• Can I speak using vocabulary and grammar learnt this term?

            Yes

• Can I understand information from READINGS?

            Yes

• What do I like most?

           I like the classes when we do some speaking

• What do I do well?

           I do well the readings

• What I confused about?

           I think i´m not confused about nothing

• What do I need help with?

            Whit some speaking

• What do I do in English outside the class?

            Watch some series in english

• What do I need to improve?

           The pronuntation

• What did I learn about culture?

            I learn some culture about Australia and Ireland

IRELAND PROJECT

HISTORY OF IRELAND:

Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland faced considerable economic difficulties in the 19th century, including the Great Famine of the 1840s. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule. While legislation enabling Irish Home Rule was eventually passed, militant and armed opposition from Irish unionists, particularly in Ulster, opposed it. Proclamation was shelved for the duration following the outbreak of World War I. By 1918, however, moderate Irish nationalism had been eclipsed by militant republican separatism.

In 1919, war broke out between republican separatists and British Government forces. In 1920, the British Government partitioned Ireland into two semi-autonomous regions: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, intended to be co-ordinated by a Council of Ireland. Upon Royal Assent, the Parliament of Northern Ireland came into being in 1921. However, the institutions of Southern Ireland never became functional. On 11 July 1921, a ceasefire was agreed between the separatists and the British Government. Subsequent negotiations between Sinn Féin, the major Irish party, and the UK government led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which resulted in five-sixths of Ireland seceding from the United Kingdom.