Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Monday, July 22, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Books for our next Reading Club session
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| The Ghost Teacher by Julie Hart |
THE GHOST TEACHER
This book is for 1º and 2º ESO students.
You can download the audio files here.
Summary:
THE CALL OF THE WILD
This classic novel is for 3º and 4º ESO students.
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| The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
You can download the audio files here.
This is an easier version.
This is the original ebook. You can select the type of file you need for your ebook, tablet or computer.
Summary:
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Free graded readers for EFL students
These websites have free graded readers for EFL students:- Teaching English. This website has a collection of stories and books for different levels, from 326 to 4200 words. The stories can be read online or be downloaded in a .mobi format for Kindle ebook readers.
- English Books has a collection of adapted works. The page has a summary of each of the works included, a list with the main difficult words and a list of formats for students to choose from.
- Lit2Go lets you choose by author, title or genre. The works are mostly adapted classical works that can be read online, downloaded and it also includes downloadable audio files.
- The British Council also has a page for Graded Reading. The page contains A2, B1 and B2 stories and articles to be read online.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
New School Year
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- Notebook or blank sheets of paper
- Pen
- USB memory (advisable)
- Textbook (ask the school)
- 1º ESO: New English in Use 1º ESO (digital edition-provided by the school)
- 2º ESO: New English in Use 2º ESO (provided by the school)
- 3º ESO: English in Use 3º ESO
- 4º ESO: New English in Use 4º ESO
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| 2º ESO |
Friday, July 8, 2016
Interesting links for students of English
Here you are some interesting websites you might want to have a look at:
NEWS & INFORMATION
GAMES
TEXTS
VIDEOS
GRADED READERS
NEWS & INFORMATION
GAMES
TEXTS
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| ESL Fast - level 2 books |
GRADED READERS
- Burlington Books (click on the book and you can download and listen to the text)
- Free Graded Books
- ESL Fast (Graded readers: online text and audio files classified according to their level of difficulty)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Shakespeare exhibition
This week our school library will hold an exhibition about William Shakespeare at the school library.- You will be able to see his works: original books
- graded readers and
- DVDs with some of his plays.
Each visitor will receive a bookmark to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Who was William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English author who wrote 37 plays and also 2 very long poems in his lifetime. He lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England. His plays are still performed today. He is often quoted in modern writing.By 1594 he was an actor in The Chamberlain's Men acting company.
His plays are of different kinds, or genres. There are histories, tragedies and comedies. These plays are among the best known in English literature and are studied in schools around the world. Shakespeare wrote his works between about 1590 and 1613.
Shakespeare has been credited for adding new words and phrases to the English language and for making some words more popular. He created over 1,700 English words.
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William Shakespeare in a nutshell
Life
He married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years older than he was. He had three children, Susanna (married John Hall), Hamnet Shakespeare (died at the age of 11 due to unknown reasons) and Judith (married Thomas Quiney). By 1592 he had become an actor and was becoming well known as a writer of plays. At the time of his death in 1616, only some of his plays had been published in single editions. The plays were collected and published in 1623, seven years after he died. There is proof that people in Shakespeare's time thought highly of him. After his death, even his rival Ben Jonson said,
"Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show,
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time!"
He was involved in the building of the Globe Theatre in 1599.
Marriage and children
Although Shakespeare was married to a woman and fathered three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith, people have debated his sexuality. Some people, such as Peter Holland of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham University, have argued that Shakespeare was possibly bisexual because of some of the sonnets he wrote that were directed toward young men.
Who wrote "Shakespeare"?
About 150 years after Shakespeare died, some writers began to say that the work called "Shakespeare" were not really written by William Shakespeare. They had various reasons for saying this. For example, the person who wrote "Shakespeare" knew a lot about other countries (especially Italy and France), but William Shakespeare never left England. Several other writers of "Shakespeare" have been suggested, such as Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Most scholars believe that William Shakespeare did write the works that bear his name.
List of Shakespeare's plays
Shakespearean tragedies
- Romeo and Juliet
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Titus Andronicus
- Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Timon of Athens
Shakespearean comedies
- The Comedy of Errors
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Measure for Measure
- The Tempest
- Taming of the Shrew
- Twelfth Night or What You Will
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Love's Labour's Lost
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Pericles Prince of Tyre
- Cymbeline
- The Winter's Tale
Shakespearean histories
- King John (play)
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Henry IV, part 1
- Henry IV, part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, part 1
- Henry VI, part 2
- Henry VI, part 3
- Henry VIII
Lost plays
- Love's Labour's Won
- Cardenio
text from Simple Wikipedia
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Reading Club: The Canterville Ghost
This is our next book in English for the Reading Club: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde.You can find out more about it at Wikipedia or read the following downlodable simplified text from Gobierno de Canarias:
The meeting will take place at the school library next Friday the 5th of February at 12:15. We hope to see you there.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Reading Club: The Woman in White
This Friday the 29th of January we are having a meeting of the Reading Club to speak about the famous novel by Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White.
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and one of the earliest writers of the mystery story. Although he wrote many books, he is best remembered for The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868).
He was a good friend of Charles Dickens and during his life he was a very popular writer in English, but after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has received for fifty years. Most of his books are in print, and all are now in e-text. He is studied widely; new film, television, and radio versions of some of his books have been made; and all of his letters have been published. However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction
The Woman in White
The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narrators (including nearly all the principal characters) draws on Collins's legal training, and as he points out in his Preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness". In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed The Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Links
Audios of the Graded book you have read
Links
Audios of the Graded book you have read
Thursday, January 7, 2016
New readings for our Reading Club members
This year we have two new recommendations for those of you who belong to our Reading Club:
- The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde. This book is recommended for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year ESO students. It is about a family who move into a house haunted by a ghost.
- The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, which is recommended for 3rd and 4th year students. It is a more complex story and is considered to be one of the first mystery novels in literature.
Both are engaging stories that you will surely love. Have a good read!
Thursday, April 23, 2015
World Book Day
World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day is a yearly event on 23 April, organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is recognised on the first Thursday in March. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995.
The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Catalonia as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes, who died on this date. In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors
SPAIN
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| Sant Jordi, Barcelona - picture from Time Out |
To celebrate this day, Cervantes's Don Quixote is read during a two-day "readathon" and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize is presented by the Spanish king in Alcalá de Henares.
In Catalonia, Spain, St. George's Day has been 'The Day of the Rose' since 1436, and involves the exchange of gifts between loved ones and respected people—it is analogous to Valentine's Day. Although World Book and Copyright Day has been celebrated since 1995 internationally, books were exchanged on 'The Day of the Rose' in Catalonia since at least 1926, in memory of Cervantes.
SWEDEN
In Sweden, the day is known as Världsbokdagen ("World Book Day") and the copyright aspect is seldom mentioned. Normally celebrated on 23 April, it was moved to April 13 in the year 2000 and 2011 to avoid a clash with Easter.
UNITED KINGDOM
In the UK, World Book Day is held annually on the first Thursday in March, as 23 April clashes with Easter school holidays; 23 April is also the National Saint's Day of England, St George's Day. Conversely, a separate event World Book Night organized by independent charity The Reading Agency is held on 23 April.
USA
In Kensington, Maryland the International Day of the Book is celebrated with a street festival on the Sunday closest to April 23rd.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
World Book Day
It's world book day today.
World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognised on the first Thursday in March.
Why do we celebrate World Book Day on the 23rd of April?
In 1923 booksellers in Spain decided to celebrate the date to honour Miguel de Cervantes who died on that day.
In 1995, UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on this date the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Josep Pla, and the birth of Maurice Druon, Manuel Mejía Vallejo and Halldór Laxness.
Although 23 April is often stated as the anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, this is not strictly correct. Cervantes died on 22 April and was buried on 23 April according the Gregorian calendar; however, at this time England still used the Julian calendar. While Shakespeare died on 23 April by the Julian calendar in use in his own country at the time, he actually died eleven days after Cervantes because of the discrepancy between the two date systems. The apparent correspondence of the two dates was a fortunate coincidence for UNESCO. (information from Wikipedia)
Interesting links
Sunday, November 24, 2013
25th November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Agains Women
On the 25th November we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. So, from the English Department we recommend reading this interesting book.Pay attention to both the contents and the colloquial register used.
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