Clothes from Ana Arias Castro
Sunday, September 28, 2014
How to describe people
If you follow the indications in this sheet you will be able to describe most people. Remember that it is important not to change the position of adjectives. However you can omit any aspects that might seem irrelevant.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
European Day of Languages 2014
The European Day of Languages is celebrated every year on the 26th of September. The European Commission has prepared some activities for schools to promote awareness of the richness of knowing several languages and being able to communicate with as many people as possible. This is part of our European cultural heritage.
This is the official site where you can find more information about this date.
And if you want to learn a lot more, the European Commission has elaborated a number of documents that highlight different aspects about multilingual diversity in Europe. Just have a look.
Here you are some interesting games and activities:
Here you are some interesting games and activities:
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Reading Comprehension text: Internet access in the UK
TEXT
Original text by Greg Sterling Marketing Land
In a new global Mobile Media Consumption report, it is said that, outside the US and UK, mobile media time spent now exceeds TV. However in the US, TV is still first. The Mobile Media Consumption research had aboout 14,000 respondents in 14 countries.
In emerging and especially less affluent markets, the report also confirms that mobile media time exceeds the PC internet. That’s now also true in the US.
Also consistent with other data, it is said that 61 percent of mobile internet users are on their devices while watching TV. The figures for the US market are even more pronounced: “84 percent of smartphone and tablet owners say they use their devices as second-screens while watching TV at the same time.”
According to this research this second screening is dominated by social activity, including social networking and texting.
Outside the US and UK smartphones are preferred for conducting most types of internet activities except for “shopping,” which in the report includes all purchases, banking and travel.
The report also finds that globally people are going online primarily via mobile or spending the same internet time using the mobile and the PC. Those who go online “mostly via computer” are now a small minority:
- Mostly via Desktop — 11 percent
- Evenly split between both mobile and PC — 28 percent
- Mostly via mobile — 37 percent
- Only via mobile — 23 percent
More significantly, outside the US and UK markets, the report says that mobile media now have a greater influence on shopping decisions than TV. TV was second followed by the PC internet.
The final portion of the report is about mobile commerce, with the assertion (excluding the US and UK) that “83 percent of consumers plan to conduct mobile commerce in the next 12 months, a 15 percent increase from where we are today.”
So, in general, mobile internet time is now greater than PC internet time. Many audience segments prefer mobile to PC internet access and mobile commerce is growing.
QUESTIONS:
- Do people spend more time watching TV or using their smartphones? Is it the same everywhere?
- Look at the first infographic. What does "the media" mean?
- What is a "device"?
- Where do more people watch TV and use their smartphones at the same time?
- What is "second screening"?
- What type of smartphone use is made while watching TV? reading books, shopping, social-media, writing emails...?
- Are mobile media relevant for shopping decisions?
- Do many people plan to buy goods via internet in the next 12 months? Is that your case?
- Finally, how has internet changed our life?
Friday, September 19, 2014
ESO-3 unit 1: GEOGRAPHY TOOLS
These are the resources and links that we have for this CLIL unit.
UNIT 1 - Geography tools
UNIT 1 - Geography toolsThursday, September 18, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Scotland and the United Kingdom for CLIL students
HISTORY
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| map from the BBCwebsite |
- 1603 - Elizabeth I, England's virgin queen, died childless and her heir was James VI of Scotland. He moved his court to London.
- 1605 - Some Catholic men tried to murder the King and blow up the Parliament because they feared their religion was threatened by this Protestant king. Guy Fawkes and the rest of the conspirers were executed. Nowadays Guy Fawkes night is celebrated with bonfires all over Britain.
- 1650 - The limits to Scotland's freedom, and its ability to lord it over its southern neighbour, were radically re-defined during the period of religious ferment thrown up by the English Civil War. Oliver Cronwell became a very powerful man. Eventually, Charles I was executed and many Scots backed his son Charles II but they were defeated by Cromwell's forces at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The age of the Stuart kings was dead and buried. The puritan Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland had arrived.
- 1707 - Scotland's century of semi-detachment, sharing a monarch but chaving its own parliament, came to an end in a period of poor harvests. A union of the Scottish and English Parliaments was reached and power moved to Westminster, in London.
- 1745 - Many Scots missed their independence and these Jacobites tried to restore the Stuart Monarchy but they were beaten.
- 1797 - Curing the Enlightenment period there were many prominent Scottish intellectuals such as Adam Smith, David Hume and James Hutton.
- 1820 - There was social struggle over economic hardship, led by Andrew Hardie and John Baird but they were executed and the rising was over.
- 1885 - The post of Secretary of Scotland was re-established and the Scottish Office was created to administer central government functions in Scotland. Scotland had its own identity, recognised by the state, but firmly part of the United Kingdom.
- 1922 - Culture was meant to create a Scottish identity and there was a revival of Scottish literature. Hugh MacDiarmid became, in 1928, a founding member of the National Party of Scotland, the forerunner of the present Scottish National Party.
- 1979 - The idea of getting higher levels of independence from the Union led many to think of a referendum on devolution.
- 1997 - Tony Blair's Labour Party let the Scottish electorate decide on having their own parliament. Two years later, the parliament was a reality. Scotland had its own distinctive voice within the United Kingdom.
- 2011 - In 2011 under the proportional system used to elect members of the Scottish Parliament, the SNP won an overall majority.
- 2014 - The Referendum to vote for or agains independence will take place on the 18th of September.
text adapted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16649184
REASONS FOR AND AGAINST THE INDEPENDENCE
and http://www.independentscotland.org/content/voting-yes-for-scottish-independence.htm
MAIN SCOTTISH INVENTIONS
- criminal fingerprinting (1880, by Surgeon Dr Henry Faulds)
- fax machine (1843 to 1846, by Alexander Bain)
- flushing toilet (1775, by Alexander Cumming)
- golf (1672)
- penicillin (1928, by Alexander Fleming)
- radar (1892, by Sir Robert Watson-Watt)
- raincoats (1824, by Charles Macintosh)
- telephone (1876, by Alexander Graham Bell)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Writing topics for ESO-4
Here you are some advice to help you write your essays for EFL classes:
and you can choose your topics from this list:
and you can choose your topics from this list:
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