ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh.
He studied at the universities of Stonyhurst and Edinburgh.
From 1882 to 1890 practiced medicine in Southsea (England).
The first of the 68 stories in which Sherlock Holmes appears, "Study in Scarlet" was published in 1887.
He was brilliant in detective stories, and he became a rich person in only five years, so he left the medical profession to dedicate all the time writing.
He died on July 7, 1930 in Crowborough.
All his characters were brilliant, since the creation of Sherlock Holmes, to the characters who accompany him: his friend, Dr. Watson, who is the narrator of the stories,the criminal Professor Moriarty... The author based their creations on a teacher he met at university with good deductive reasoning.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes is a private detective tall, thin, not very emotional, ironic, witty and intellectually restless. Sometimes he's dirty but he is polite to women. In the daily routine he smokes a pipe, plays an Stradivarius violin very well, an excellent boxer, and an excellent chemical. When he is bored because he doesn't have any intellectual challenges, he use cocaine in a solution of 7%, that worries his mate and friend Watson.

The best characterist of Sherlock Holmes is the use of the reasoning to solve the most intriguing cases. He can arrive the most surprising conclusions and details, thanks to the extraordinary power of concentration.

Sherlock has an older brother, Mycroft Holmes, who has powers of observation and deduction greater than his, but he can't apply their skills to the detective work, and he hasn't got any ambitions and energy.

Speaking: give respond to advice

Speaking: talking about experiences

HALLOWEEN

When was Halloween originated?
Halloween was originated 2000 years ago.

Is it a religious tradition?
No, it isn't, but it has a little in common at first.

How was it celebrated?
Children make the treak or treat, making illuminated pumpkins, and eating apples without hands helping.

What does the word Halloween mean?
The originally word is All-Hallows-Even (Night before All Hallows Day) and Hallow Mass.

Halloween typical games

Children asking house for sweets (trick or treat) , making illuminated pumpkins, and eating apples without hands helping.

When did it become a dangerous celebration?
When it was relacionated with bandalisoum (stealing thinks and destroying things)

How do people celebrate it today?
They dress and go to ask for sweets, they make illuminated pumpkins, and eat apples without hands helping.

Where is celebrated?
It's celebrated in English countries (like UK, Canada, USA...), but all over the world it's celelebrated a bit.

MAGAZINE

Lucky popcorn

This is the world's biggest box of popcorn! It was dropped near Tower Bridge, in London, buy the phone operator Orange. It celebrates "Orange Wednesdays", when Orange customers can buy two cinema tickets for the price of one. The box had a tonne of popcorn inside and €10,000 of prizes for lukcy customers.

TODAY in English

The new magazine!

SPEAKING: EXCHANGE OPINIONS

SPEAKING: INVITE SOMEONE OUT

WRITING: UNIT 2

ASK FOR ADVICE ABOUT RELATIONSHIP

Hi Manolo,
We've been on holiday here in USA for two weeks and I've met a lot of people, for instance, Sara.
She is very happily and gorgeous, and I'm not sure how I feel about her. I need your advice.

I met her on a park yesterday and she talked with me for a while. We were happy together and then we had lunch together. Then said me that he had to met a boy and she ignored me.

I've thinking about that but I don't know what she did with that boy. I'll probably see her later but I'm not sure about her. What do you think?

Guillem

magazine

YUMMY USB KEYS

Hamburgers, pizzas, hot dogs...fast food is everywhere! And now you cn even get a USB key in forma of your favourite meal. It will make you hungry when you are on your computer



WE LOVE SCONES!

Tea time! It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon in England, time for scones with jam and cream.
But scones are not normally this size! This is the world's biggest scone, made by a bakery in Devon, England. The scone weighed 45 kg and had 16 kg of cream and 9kg of jam. Can we try?

oral presentation: SUMMER HOLIDAYS

4th of ESO

Hi to every body, and thanks to read.

It's my first postos 4th of ESO. In this one and like the others, I'm going to post all readings, writings, dialogues, speakings, and summaries of the books that we're reading, i can post films, music and everything related to the English. I will be it doing.

ENJOY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3RD TERM REFLECTION

1. DID YOU WORK HARD?

Yes, I did. I work on it more than in the lasts terms.

2. DID YOU ORGANIZE YOUR WORK WEEK BY WEEK?

Yes. I worked every week on it, but I had to work more on the lasts week.

3. WHAT WAS MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU?

For me, the most difficult was the oral presentation, because I had to prepare it a lot.

4. WHAT DID YOU LEARN?( new grammar, vocab..)

I learnt a lot of things. New vocabulary, and I advanced in grammar.

5. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE?

I need to learn to use more applications of the blog.


CONCLUSION

WHAT'S YOUR BEST ACTIVITY/ACTIVITIES THIS COURSE?

I liked to make the video of the recipe, and prepare the recipe.

LINK:

RECIPE

DID YOU LIKE WORKING IN THE LANGUAGE ROOM? Yes.
WHY/WHY NOT? Because it's different. You learn more, because you can use the theory that you learn with the books.

Writing: Describing a building

WRITING SAGRADA FAMÍLIA

MY ORAL PRESENTATION VIDEO

Writing: A formal letter

Writing Formal

Writing: Giving advice

Writing Giving Advice

MY ORAL PRESENTATION AVALUATION

Oral Presentation

MY ORAL CRYTICS

Name: Sergi Feliu and Tania Omedes
Title: Avatar
OPINION: I think that they prepared the oral a lot. They explained everything very well, but I knew this film.

Name: Blanca Duran
Title: Dance
OPINION: She talked about dance. She had a good explanation but she was quite nervious. The theme it isn't interesting for me.

Name: Eugeni
Title: Facebook
OPINION: He talked about Facebook. Interesting theme, but he was nervious and this was a problem, because he didn't explain very well

Name: Sílvia
Title: Lady Gaga
OPINION: Silvia's talk obout Lady Gaga. Good presentation, but problems with the power-point. Finally I think that's a good presentation.

ADRIAN AN WILLIAM'S RECIPE

Recipe: “crumbly shortbread , a typical Christmas biscuit” (POLVORONS)

Ingredient:

- Half cup of vegetal butter
- Half cup of butter
- A cup of sugar
- Two yolks
- A spoon of vanilla
- Three and a half cups of of flour

Steps:

* Put the grill on the second level of the oven to avoid burning the crumbles

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease with butter the two grills.

2. Mix the two types of butter, the sugar, the egg yolks and vanilla extract until they be creamy. Then add the flour slowly and gradually.
3. Do balls with the mix. Put it in the grill, and then do balls with your fingers, or with a round mold. Press the centre of each ball and place in the centre of each crumbly sugar dusted, of your choice, because it's optional. Put everything in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Then cool the crumbles, and finally eat them.

VIDEO:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

THE WRITER:

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851, britanic)

She wrote the book in a perfect summer for her, when she was pregnant. He spent it in a lake in GENEVA (Switzerland) . The book was published in 1818.


PLOT:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein begins on the north pole, where polar explorer Walton's ship hits an iceberg. The crew then picks up a man travelling the icy polar regions, who reveals his name as Victor Frankenstein..There Frankenstein meets Professor Waldmann, who once performed experiments similar to those of Frankenstein. When Waldmann is killed in a hospital, Victor takes the Professor's records in order to continue his works. He begins to assemble his creature using the body of Waldmann's murderer. Victor intends to preserve the brain and spirit of the brilliant scientist. In a giant laboratory of his house he puts the creature into an aquarium filled with amniotic fluid and animates it with electricity produced by eels. When the creature finally comes to life, Victor saw that he wasn’t brilliant. Victor immediately abandons the work. In his journal he writes, "Massive birth defects. Greatly enhanced physical strength but the resulting re-animant is malfunctional and pitiful, and dead." He secretly supports a family by bringing in potatoes from their fields and learns reading by watching the mother teaching her daughter. The people of the town, accused Justine and she dead. At this moment neither knows that the Monster is still alive, and he killed his brotherVictor Frankenstein first meets his creature after the lynching of Justine. The Monster only says, "I will meet you there, on the sea of ice." and disappears. Later the Monster demands a female companion and Victor initially agrees to build a new creature. He immediately begins to work but suddenly he changes his ideas. The Monster then kills Elizabeth by ripping out her heart. Now Victor likes to make a female with the body of Justine and Elizabeth's head and brings her to life. This female creature, as ugly and deformed as Frankenstein's first creation, and she fires his own.


Characters:

Victor Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh
Elizabeth
Helena Bonham Carter
Henry Clerval
Tom Hulce
The Creature
Robert De Niro
Robert Walton
Aidan Quinn
Professor Waldmann
John Cleese
Baron Frankenstein
Ian Holm

THE FUGITIVE

PLOT SUMMARY:

A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble makes up his own investigation to find who really killed his life, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

• Harrison Ford -- Dr. Richard Kimble
• Tommy Lee Jones -- Deputy Samuel Gerard
• Jeroen Krabbé -- Dr. Charles Nichols
• Andreas Katsulas -- Frederick Sykes
• Joe Pantoliano -- Agent Cosmo Renfro
• Sela Ward -- Helen Kimble
• Julianne Moore -- Dr. Anne Eastman
• Daniel Roebuck -- Agent Robert Biggs
• L. Scott Caldwell -- Agent Poole
• Tom Wood -- Agent Noah Newman
• Ron Dean -- Detective Kelly
• Joseph F. Kosala -- Detective Rosetti
• David Darlow -- Dr. Lentz
• Eddie Bo Smith Jr. -- Copeland
• Jane Lynch -- Dr. Kathy Wahlund
• Nick Searcy -- Sheriff Rawlins

* Click on pink words to see their own biographies

MAGAZINE

Street Art

Meet street artist Edgar Müller. Edgar has the new Guinness World Record for creating the world's biggest 3-D pavement art... with animals from the film Ice Age. The art is outside a London shopping centre. To see more of Edgar's work, visit www.metanamorph.com

Here you have some of his paintings.

ICE AGE.





HOTEL OF CARDS

In many hotels, it is common to use key cards to enter in your room. Now a designer in NY has made an entire hotel out of key cards! The carpets, the tables, the toilets and also the bed linen are made from 200000 hotel key cards. The idea was to improve the hotel's image. But this bed doesn't look very comfortable!

DIALOGUES

INFORMAL INTERVIEW

A: Hi. My name's Adrià Salvador. I've come about the job.

G: Oh, hi, Adrià. Pleased to meet you. I'm Guillem. I'm the manager here. Take a seat.
A: Thanks.

G: Right, let's see. Have you ever worked in a restaurant before?

A: Yes, it's my vocation

G: And why would you like to work with us?

A: Because reviews here so friendly.

G: And you? What kind of person are you?

A: Well, I think I'm sociable and friendly.

G: Right. Let me tell you a bit about the job...






GIVING ADVICE

A: Hey, Guillem, what's the matter? You look worried.
what's the problem?

G: Yes, it's, my brother. I think he's stealing things.
I found ten new DVDs in his room.

A: Wow! That's serious! What are you going to do?

G: I don't know. What do you think I should do?

A: Well, if I were you, I'd speak to him.

G: I tried that, but he didn't listen..

A: Then you have to try again. Come on - I'll come with you.

G: Ok. Thanks Adria






DIRECTIONS IN A BUILDINGS

A: Excuse me. Do you work here?

G: Yes. How i can help you?

A: Can you tell me the way to the café please?

G: Yes, of course. It's on the next floor. Can you see those steps over there?

A: The steps next to the shop?

G: Yes. Go up the steps and turn left. Then walk through the Starr Auditorium and you'll see it.

A: Ok. Thanks very much.



G: You're welcome.

3RD TERM!

WRITING:a composition, a formal letter, giving advice, a description of a building
SPEAKING/wb dilaogues: an informal interview,giving advice, directions in a building.
Write and podcast the dialogues in your portfolios.
WORKBOOK: WORD BANK ACTIVITIES. UNITS 1-10
DVD UNITS 1-5. 1.Watch the dvd units and do the exercises. 2.Correct the exercises.3.Write the summaries in a new post in your portfolios.
READING.
The fugitive.
Write a summary.
Main characters.
Vocab section:Copy 15 new words.
Add a scene or trailer.
2. THE MAGAZINE.
Write 2 posts about 2 different sections
and do the exercises in the notebook.

ORAL PRESENTATION.
Prepare a 2 minutes presentation. Optional powerpoint.
ROLEPLAY:
Choose 1 dialogue you've prepared and roleplay it.
Record and upload the scene as a new post in your portfolios.

MAGAZINE

MINI-CHESS

This is the smallest chess set in the world! It is 3,2 cm by 3,2, and it's magnetic so the pieces don't fall off when you play. It was made by Jaspal Singh Kalsi, from India, who makes other miniature models. But how can he see the King and Queen when he plays?

ROBO-CHEF














Imagine coming home for school to find a robot cooking your dinner! Well, that's possible now in Japan.
The robot stirs the ingredients in a bowl, pours them into a pan and servers your food. It also asks you what sort of sauces and condiments you would like. But if you want to understand, you'll have to learn Japanese



THE WORLD IS SICK!

REFLECTION: 2ND TERM PORTFOLIO

I think that blogs are good. You can learn a lot!

The activity which improves me a lot, was the recipe, because you had to write, translate, prepare, record, and make a video. This activity was the best. The activity was very funny, but the best thing was that, then you could eat your recipe.
It was difficult but it doesn't matter!

The most difficult activity was WRITING. You had to prepare what do you like to say, who do you say, correct the spelling mistakes and record it.

I think that my last term objectives are to improve my speaking and writing.



The best blog of my class is made by SERGI, because they have all the tags.

INVICTUS, THE POWER OF SPORT

1. WHERE DOES THE ACTION TAKE PLACE?

IT TAKES PLACE IN SOUTH-AFRICA.

2. WHO'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY?

NELSON MANDELA IS THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH-AFRICA.

3. WHAT'S HE FIGHTING FOR?

HE'S FIGHTING FOR THE EXTINTION OF THE APARTHEID, AND THE RACISM, TOO.

4. WHAT DOES WOUND AND HEAL MEAN?

IT MEANS 'SANAR LA FERIDA'.

5. CAN YOU FIND SENTENCES IN THE TEXT USING THESE WORDS?

6. WHAT'S APARTHEID?

Apartheid was a political sistem of racial segregation conducted between 1948 and 1990 during the National Party government in South Africa. The first mention of the word is that it is a speech by Jan Smuts in 1917, the then prime minister. Means "separation" or more literally "apartment"

7. WHAT DOES THE COLOUR GREEN IN THE T-SHIRTS MEAN?

8. WHAT WAS MANDELA'S INTENTION WITH THE RUGBY MATCH?

THAT BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE BE ONE IN THE MATCH.

"MONGETES AMB BOTIFARRA" (Beans & Sausage)

"MONGETES AMB BOTIFARRA"

You should say:
- What it looks like
Like a big sausage, with white beans.

- What it tastes like
It tastes like a sausage with beans (they are soft), and everything is salty.

- When people usually eat it
Most of people eat it when they are in villages, in the mountain, because in big cities it's not typical.

And say if you like it or
I like it so much, and sometimes I eat this dish with bread. It's healthy but I think that you can't eat it very often.

"HAMBURGER"

3. Describe a food you really like: "HAMBURGER"
You should say:
- Why you like it
Only for one think: I DON'T KNOW BUT IT'S DELICIOUS.
A lot of people eat it, and in U.S.A it's very typical, but it isn't healthy.


- How you prefer to eat it
I like to eat it with a salad and with ketchup and maionase.

WRITING: "AN EMAIL"

Hi John,

I'm writing from USA. The weather was the hottest that I have felt in all my life. We were at 40 degrees!! But all the other was fantastic. We were in the beach most of the days, because the water is very good. However there are sharks!! But they are controlled.

We're driving around the west of USA. Right now we're in Salt Lake City, in Utah. We're visiting the salted lake there, and, the deserts. The only bad experience was that the sun is too hot!!

Tonight we're staying in a hotel in the middle of the desert!! Out of the hotel we're going to be 40 degrees, but inside, we're 20!! I think that the route that we're going to do with a Jeep through the desert will be fine!!

MAGAZINE

DID YOU KNOW??????????????????????????????


Coca-cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it!!





PLAYING WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scottish artist David Mach loves playing with fire.
He makes animal sculptures with matches. The sculptures cost more than 20000 euros, but some people buy them and ask David Mach to burn them. "It's over in a few seconds", he says.
Some people have money to burn!

WRITING

WRITING: "Healthy Club"

Welcome to the WE'RE SPORT AND SPORT IS WE club!!

At our club we have many differents sports that you can practice. You can start playing tennis, football, rugby, soccer..., and finish riding a horse, motocross.
BUT OUR BEST TRACK IS OUR SKI TRACK-INDOOR.

WE'RE THE BEST 2008 SPORT-CLUB IN THE WORLD!!

Our hotel is a five stars, and our restaurant has 3 michelin's stars. All our facilities are the most advanced in technology and esthetic.

We also have personals trainers for every sport, and a lot of professional riders and players come here to stay for a few days.

YOU CAN TRY THE MOST EXCITING AND ENERGYCAL SPORTS HERE, AND BE HEALTHY!!

NARNIA'S SUMMARY

THE CRONHICAL OF NARNIA: "the lyon, the witch and the wardrobe"

10 NEW WORDS:

BEAVER (castor)
CRONHICAL (croniques)
HANKIE (mocador)
NIGHTFALL (posta de Sol)
BLAMING (culpant)
PROPHECY (profecia)
KNIGHT (cavaller)
PRISIONER (presoner)

SUMMARY:
During de second world war, four children are sent to the countryside. In the new house, they found a magical wardrobe wich lead them to Narnia. There they met the witch, and Edmund was keednap, but he could scape, and be with Aslan, the real king of Narnia. There, there were a lot of fantastic animals, and their brothers, too.
The witch liked to do the traiter profecy, but Aslan prefer to be killed, before to kill Edmund. But the witch didn't do fine the profecy, and during a war of the Aslan's side versus the witch's side, Aslan relive.