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martes, 2 de febrero de 2016

THE VIOLIN ON THE CORNER

A short story by Mª Angeles Jiménez, illustrations by Beatriz Cañas.
Read the story

viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2015

THE GHOST TEACHER

THE GHOST TEACHER

PLAY OUTLINE

LEVEL 3- 1 ESO

SYNOPSIS

A new teacher called Mr Brown comes to Tony´s class. He wears old fashioned clothes, drives an old car and teaches contents based on the 1940´s. Besides, he dislikes Billy, Tony´s friend, who is punished by making him stay in the classroom after school.

Tony, who tries to find information about the new teacher, returns to the classroom where Billy is doing exercises and notices that Mr Brown is reading a 60-year-old newspaper. Later he follows the teacher, who goes into an old department. There he manages to read Mr Brown´s paper, which shows a news describing a crime in a school, where a teacher and a student had died in a fire in 1945. The fire was started by the student, Billy Reed, according to the police.

Suddenly, Tony smells smoke and tries to find where it comes from. In the corridor he finds Mr Wilson, the caretaker, who carries some matches. Tony realises that there is fire in the classroom where Billy is. Then he tries to save his friend unlocking the door and setting off the fire alarm.

Billy is saved and the police discover that the Mr Wilson was the boy who had started the fire in 1945 and the man who has just done it. He had been beaten by Mr Brown and therefore, he needed his own revenge. Nevertheless, Mr Brown´s ghost had returned because he thought that Billy was the student who had done it.

CHARACTERS

Tony

Mr Brown (the teacher)

Billy

Mr Wilson (the caretaker)

Susan Smart

Steven Dobson

The headmaster

The rest of students will play different parts:, either pupils, firemen or police officers.

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

Tony : A smart student in class 2b at West Hill School. He is curious about the new teacher, since he behaves in a strange way.

Billy: Tony´s friend. He is also in class 2b. For no apparent reason, he is punished twice by Mr. Brown. He wants to know the truth about Mr Brown

Mr Brown: He is the new teacher and is very violent . He wears old –fashioned clothes and smokes a pipe. He has it out for Billy.

Mr Wilson: He is the caretaker. He walks around the school with an oil lamp looking for ghosts.

Susan Smart: A bookworm who tries to answer Mr Brown´s strange questions.

Steven Dobson: A naughty student who misbehaves in the classroom, making Mr Brown get angry.

SCENE BREAKDOWN

Scene 1

It is set in the classroom where the students waiting for the teacher. The new teacher asks some questions related to an old car and an old song by Sinatra while he is hitting the table with his stick. The children are scared and Billy is punished.

Scene 2

It is set in an empty department with a lot of newspapers on a table. Tony reads an old article about a crime in a school. There is smoke and he tries to save his friend Billy. Meanwhile, Mr Wilson is holding a box of matches.

Scene 3

It is set in the hospital, where Billy is recovering. He explains Tony what happened in the classroom , how Mr Wilson came into to throw the oil lamp. They come to the conclusion that Mr Brown is a ghost who thinks Billy is responsible for the fire in 1945..

Scene 4

It is set in the police station. Mr Wilson tells the police everything about his time in the school and how Mr Brown had hit him. He was responsible for the fire now and then.

Scene 5

It is set in the classroom. The students are coming into when there is something written on the blackboard, he is apologizing to Billy .

jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2015

ADVERTISING ACTIVITY- 2º BACHILLERATO

In this activity you are going to prepare a written report on an advertisement that you have chosen. To carry out this task, try to include the anwers of the following questions in your writing (they can be used as your guide):

•Which technique has been used to create the advertisement?

•How does the advertisement attempt to get your attention?

•What is it an advertisement for?

•Who is the target audience for this product?

•List the information the advertisement provides about the product.

•How does the advertisement try to convince you to buy this product?Does it get it?

•How is the name of the product significant?

•What images has the advertiser chosen to use? Why?

•What information do you think has been left out of this advertisement? Why?

• Personal opinion

Hand in your assignment in the classroom. Deadline 15.11.2015

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miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2014

CONNECTORS

Don´t forget the use of suitable connectors in your compositions.

LINKING WORDS - CONNECTORS

ADDITION And Also As well as Besides Moreover, Furthermore, What is more, In addition, Too Additionally Not only…but also Another point is that Equally important	COMPARISON Similarly Comparable to In the same way Likewise As with Equalyy Just as…so too A similar… Another…like Compared with Comparatively To balance this	CONTRAST But However, Although Despite In spite of Nevertheless, On the contrary, On the one hand…on the other hand, conversely Whereas While In contrast, Even so Notwithstanding At the same time Instead Nonetheless Though Conversely Instead of Unlike alternatively	CAUSE/REASON Because As Since As a result, This is why Because of Due to Owing to For this reason, because of due to owning to	EFFECT/RESULT So Therefore Thus Consequently, Hence As a result Accordingly Thereupon In consequence then	PURPOSE To So as to In order to So that For+-ing
NARRATION (SEQUENCING) First (of all) At first At the beginning In the beginning Then Next Before After After that Afterwards When While During Soon Prior to Immediately Once Suddenly As soon as No sooner..than Hardly ..when Finally Eventually At the end In the end At last To begin with In the first place Firstly/secondly Lastly At last Meanwhile First/second/third.. Subsequently In the meantime In the past	SUMMARY/ CONCLUSION To summarize To conclude After all In the end To sum up In brief In conclusion Overall In short Throughout Summarizing In summary On the whole All in all In other words Anyway	ILLUSTRATING For example, For instance, In other words Such as In the case of Take To show that This is shown by This includes Illustrated by As revealed by This can be seen in An instance of this e.g(for example) i.e. (that is)	EMPHASIS Especially Particularly Above all In particular Specifically Exactly because	OPINION I would say that In my opinion, I think (that) I believe (that) Personally Apparently,

martes, 17 de diciembre de 2013

2º Bachillerato

2nd Term - Oral test
STORYTELLING
You have to invent a story based on four pictures. Please, take into account that in the plot you have to develop:
- a beginning or introduction of the story
- a problem or conflict
- a solution to that conflict

Click this link to do the activity Storytelling