BUILDING OUR FUTURE

It's a good thing to know our past in order to build our future!

HOW TO PREPARE MY INTERVIEW

INTRODUCTION
NAME AND SURNAME DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH RELATIONSHIP WITH ME HIS/HER FATHER'S NAME HIS/HER MOTHER'S NAME
CHILDHOOD	HOME	SCHOOLING
SIBLINGS KIND OF HOUSING FATHER'S AND MOTHER'S JOB AGE LEAVING HOME MEANS OF TRANSPORT PUNISHMENTS BEST MEMORIES REWARDS FAVOURITE GAMES RESPONSABILITIES	KIND OF DWELLING NUMBER OF ROOMS FACILITIES COST DESCRIPTION RUNNING WATER ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES	LEVEL MIXED SCHOOL DESCRIPTION SUBJECTS DISCIPLINE BEST SUBJECT BEST MEMORIES BEST READINGS
CAREER	FAMILY	FASHION
JOB HOURS PER DAY DAYS PER WEEK DESCRIPTION CONDITIONS WAGES	MARITAL STATUS NUMBER OF CHILDREN EDUCATION DISCIPLINE BEST MEMORIES	HAIR CLOTHES TROUSERS SHOES HATS
OPINION ABOUT NOWADAYS’ LIFE
FAMILY MEANS OF TRANSPORT RELIGION JOBS TECHNOLOGY MORALITY

	YOU'VE GOT TILL SUNDAY 2ND DECEMBER!!!!!!!
	(I'VE TAKEN PITY ON YOU!)

CCCB

Thank you for coming with us this morning, did hou have a good time?

Could you describe something from our short trip downtown?
and ...

What about the exhibitions?
What did you like best?

remember, you can also use:
present perfect and 'already', 'yet', 'just', 'for' and 'since'

APARTHEID

How R U?
ready to go downtown next Thursday?

Let's have a look at a couple of links before!


Why don't you try this quiz?
Then explore biodiversity, learn why race isn't biological!

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!

ANOTHER SONG FOR FREEDOM: BIKO!
sung by: Peter Gabriel

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

If you want to know who Steve Biko was.

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now

WRITING 02

THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!!!

zhao said...

It was night and Juan was going at his friends’ house but suddenly it began to rain and IT began to appear foggy and he began to run but he was cold and later he was freezing. He began TO run faster TOWARDS at his house.

Thirty minutes later he arrived AT his house and he WAS very happy. Suddenly and SOMEBODY switch off THE Light. He WAS SCARED and he BEGAN TO cry and the door closed suddenly WHEN he was going to HIS bedroom. When he was going to bed, but IN the bed THERE WAS ANother person and he screamed.

Later he was watching the bed and he saw his friends and his friends said happy birthday. He said It is fantastic but he was afraid, but he said IT IS an experience and they were going to the party. He said it was very incredible AND the door closed and the light WAS switched off. It was very cool, but they friends said That this time it wasn’t them!... (5/10) NEXT TIME TELL ME YOUR DOUBTS!

Yaiza said...

It was a cold morning and Hanna was running across the field. Every morning she was going out to run, she loved sports. The field was deserted but suddenly she heard a shout. The shout came from a house. She went to the house. She was frightened.

When she was near the house she looked through the windows. She saw a woman in the bed. The woman had a baby in her arms. The baby was crying but the woman wasn’t doing anything. Hanna was calling the police when she saw that the mobile phone didn’t have coverage. She entered to the room through the windows. The woman was dead. Hanna took the baby rapidly. On a table there was a baby bottle. Hanna was feeding the baby when a man appeared.

Hanna was scared. He said to her that he would not do anything to her. He told her that he didn’t kill the woman. She was sick and was living alone with his son. He was a hunter and had seen the dead woman. He couldn’t call the police because he didn’t have a mobile phone. Hanna, the baby and the hunter went towards the police station. But the man was taking them through a strange way. Hanna asked him what he was doing, he didn’t answer her.Nowadays noboby knows anything about them. (10/10) VERY GOOD YAIZA!

Sonia... said...

It was a hot night of summer, when Michelle remained in THE house of his friend Sasha, because his parents had gone away the weekend. They were eating delicacies and saw WATCHING a movie when suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

They opened the door and there was nobody, then they begun to BE scareD. They returned to the dining room and the phone rang. They decided to go out to ask for help. They didn't know where they were going. Suddenly they heard a few steps. Every time they were walking faster.

They came to a very solitary street, where they found a vagabond TRAMP. Michelle saw a shade and Sasha decided to go to the police. Michelle, with fear, agreed. Running they came to the police and there they met his parents, friends and others, giving them a surprise. (8/10) WELL-DONE SONIA!

Bye!!

laura said...

My story began on a Winter's Night. It was one of those nights WHICH was very cold and windy. At that time I was in my house makING a chocolate cake.

On the street don’t heard otherwise than wind, IN THE STREET A STRONG WIND WAS BLOWING fall a few began drops of rain A FEW DROPS OF RAIN BEGAN TO FALL DOWN. Suddenly there was nobody on the streets. That night I stayed alone at home. My parents and my brother had gone to see my grandmother.

Suddenly the light went OFF, I entered my room to get the phone and fOUnd a few candles. .Then, I heard some keys trying to open the door, I was paralyzed, Who could it be? NOT My parents because they were in house of AT my grandmother’S. I went running and suddenly the door was opened. In the end it was my mother who had forgotten the keys oF the car. (6/10)

SCARY MOVIE 3!

Albert Giralt said...

It was a stormy night and Reynolds was alone at home, bored and waiting for his girlfriend Ella to do anything interesting. There were only some people running to their houses in the streets and the storm was more and more heavy. Suddenly the doorbell rang.

Reynolds opened the door and there was not anybody. Then he went to the back of the house. He looked for somebody but he didn’t find anybody. While he was looking, somebody closed the door. He heard the sudden closing of the door and began to be frightened. Immediately Reynolds came into house and took a bat. Quickly he tried to call the police, but the pHone’s cable WIRE was cut. The situation was too frightening. Reynolds was going slowly upstairs when a man wearing black clothes appeared upstairs. Reynolds saw the man and after he fell downstairs.

Reynolds was unconscious for ten minutes. When he opened his eyes Ella was lying and crying beside him. He wake up suffocated and she stopped crying and began to shout absurd words. Then Reynolds began to be annoyed because he didn’t understand what was happening. He asked Ella and she, annoyed too, told him what was happening. The man who Reynolds saw wearing black clothes was a disgusting burglar. Reynolds fell downstairs because the burglar shot him a sleeping dart. The burglar stole all valuable things and surely he was laughing in someplace. Finally Reynolds began to cry, the burglar HAD stoleN his Play Station and so, he will be bored for the rest of his adolescence. (9/10)

michael said...

One day, Anne's parents were travelling and in order that she was not so alone, she invited a friend overnight. That morning she had watched news and she had listened that a murderer had escaped the previous night.

Her friend went to Anne’s house and they were speaking all night long but when they were in Anne’s bedroom they began to listen HEAR an open tap. Anne did not want to go downstairs because she had fear WAS SCARED but her friend WASN’T and went to have a look. Happened AFTER15 minutes her friend did not come back. ANother 15 minutes but she did not come back. In this moment Anne began to feel that her dog was sucking the HER hand because when dogs are afraid they suck their owners. When happened one hour more AND Anne went to downstairs. She went to the kitchen and found her friend and her dog dead on the floor. She began to cry while she was reading a text on the wall. Text said “You never think that is the dog who sucks you the hand”. Suddenly the murderer appeared and he stuck a knife to her.

The next morning when her parents came back to their home, they found Anne’s friend, the dog and Anne dead on the floor’s kitchen, the tap was open and all were wet. When the police arrived the murderer was far away in another house waiting for his next victims. (7/10)

Thank you for giving us more time! NOT AT ALL!

vero said...

Maria lived with her best friend Judith in a house, which was in the forest. That night it was raining hard and a cold wind was blowing. It was a dense fog in the road. Maria and Judith had been to a restaurant in the city for dinner.

Judith took the car to go to the restaurant, while Maria stayed at home. Judith, as she approached the car, heard a few steps behind her, but she gave them no importance. While Judith was driving, she saw that a car approached her, the lights of the car dazzled her. Judith wanted to stop and then realizeD that the brakes weren’t working and suddenly crashed. When Maria arrived at the restaurant she realized that Judith wasn‘t there. She decided to go home to see if Judith was there, and when she arrived home there wasn’t anybody. Then she called to HER mobile phone, but she doesn’t tell DIDN’T ANSWER. Maria went to the forest to look for her and saw the car with Judith inside. She called an ambulance and when it arrived, they took Judith to hospital.

Next week Maria went in search of Judith to hospital. Fortunately Judith had just ONLY suffered a blow on the head. Maria took her home and at night the ambulance boy appeared VISITED HER. Next year Judith married the boy. (7/10) A BIT DELAYED!!

Sabina said...

It was a summer night. Victoria and her lover David were newly married,and then they decided to go on a cruise in the Caribbean Sea. The ship was big, as in the dreams of the newlyweds. Everything was perfect.
That night the wind WAS BLOWING blew hard. Victoria had a presentiment (PREMONITION OR FEELING IS BETTER) that something was going to go wrong. That something bad was going to happen.

At dinner time Victoria and her husband David went to the restaurant, and heard that the captain of the ship informed the port that the ship was losing control. A few minutes later the captain of the ship informed the passengers that the boat was losing control as it was coming to the Bermuda Triangle. Passengers were nervous and just the propeller was hooked with algae. The ship couldn’t move. Then the captain decided to call the port and they sent assistance.They spent a few hours and the boat lost control completely.The assistance didn't arrive. So Victoria and David decided to take a boat and go back, because the situation was dangerous.

A week later Victoria and David heard the news that the boat in which they were was HAD disappeared and there wasn't any survivor. (7/10) A BIT DELAYED!

Nadya Waheed said...

It was a night that I was watching TV at night –W -W. I had just seen the "Madeleine case" on TV, and I was frightend Sp.
I was half an hour without being able to sleep, because I closed my eyes and I saw in my mind Gerry nad Sp Kate McCann with they`re Sp daughter Madeleine`s boddy Sp in their car, taking her to a mountain to burry Sp the ded Sp boddy Sp.
Finaly,I wa Sp able to sleep, because I thought it was just a silly TV gossip about Praia da Luz, and it was nothing to do with me.

I SAID THREE PARAGRAPHS NADIA, AND 100 WORDS, WRITE A LONGER ONE, PLEASE, IT SHOULD BE EASY FOR YOU TO DO IT MUCH BETTER!(4/10)

alex rivera said...

One night of 2000 in Ecuador, Where Ilived rained was stronger and thumder. 1 am Some curb noise. I haved lot fear and my brohers whit my parents, do not to knewed and the rained very stronged . They walk through our yard.We
ask me helping to the tenants and caming make that are desparting. was a experience incredible. Put also caned been very dreadful.

DEAR ALEX, TRY TO WRITE VERY SIMPLE THINGS AND LITTLE BY LITTLE YOUR WRITING WILL IMPROVE! (2/10)

Eliana Córdova said...

My history began during one night very cold WO. It was twelve o'clock of the WC night, it(she) was alone in house because my family had gone home of my premium(cousin). I was in the room seeing the televición a movie of terror, it was a question of a few ghosts. Tape-worm little fear. Depronto listens(listen) to a noise in my room, not wise if to enter or not, seconds but late the door was opened and listens(listen) to steps in the corridor. I covered myself with the blanket, it(she) was scared depronto I fight the foot and shout. And I realized that she was my small sister who had remained slept in my room. But scare very much.

HEY BEAUTY, THE STORY IS NICE, BUT...IF YOU USE THE TRANSLATOR I CANNOT HELP YOU!!!!! (1/10)

The Canterbury Tales

READING CALENDAR:

BY THE 30TH OCTOBER YOU SHOULD HAVE READ AND DONE THE EXERCISES FOR CHAPTER ONE AND TWO.

THEN, A CHAPTER A WEEK WILL BE ENOUGH:

4 NOV. CHAPTER 3
11 NOV. CHAPTER 4 (the longest: 17 pages)
18 NOV. CHAPTER 5
25 NOV. CHAPTER 6
30 NOV. READING COMPREHENSION TEST
(30 multiple-choice questions)

DOING THE EXERCISES WILL HELP YOU TO CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING YOUR VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES.

DON'T GIVE UP,
IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK AND THE STORIES ARE REALLY ENJOYABLE,
BELIEVE ME!

Unit 2 Writing Task: A Frightening Experience

It was a dark night and Linda was walking home by herself. It was raining hard and a cold wind was blowing. The street was deserted and Linda, who had always been afraid of the dark, began to walk more quickly.

Suddenly Linda thought she heard steps behind her. At first she told herself that she was imagining it, but after a few minutes she heard the steps again. She looked around and noticed a dark figure walking quickly behind her. Linda was terrified and began to walk faster, but the sound of the footsteps behind her became faster too. Linda could feel her heart beating as she began to run.

Then she saw the lights of a restaurant and hurried inside. A moment later, the door opened and a man entered. He was out of breath and didn't speak. As he took a step towards her, Linda opened her mouth to scream. At that moment, she noticed that he was holding her glove - the one she had dropped on the pavement while she was walking.



WRITING PLAN:

PAST SIMPLE,
PAST CONTINOUS,
TIME AND SEQUENCE EXPRESSIONS,
ADJECTIVES (-ED, -ING)

1st paragraph: OPENING
(It sets the scene with details of time, place, atmosphere and characters).

It was a dark night and Linda was walking home by herself. It was raining hard and a cold wind was blowing. The street was deserted and Linda, who had always been afraid of the dark, began to walk more quickly.

2nd paragraph: BODY
(It develops the plot with details of events and characters).

Suddenly Linda thought she heard steps behind her. At first she told herself that she was imagining it, but after a few minutes she heard the steps again. She looked around and noticed a dark figure walking quickly behind her. Linda was terrified and began to walk faster, but the sound of the footsteps behind her became faster too. Linda could feel her heart beating as she began to run.

3rd paragraph: CLOSING
(It ends the story with the reason for what happened or the consequences).

Then she saw the lights of a restaurant and hurried inside. A moment later, the door opened and a man entered. He was out of breath and didn't speak. As he took a step towards her, Linda opened her mouth to scream. At that moment, she noticed that he was holding her glove - the one she had dropped on the pavement while she was walking.

( 177 words)

Now, it is your turn to write about one of the following topics:
a frightening experience, a bad dream or nightmare or a strange happening.
minimum: 100 words
Remember to check the "writing plan" above!!!!

WRITING 01

Good Sunday afternoon

here we are again!
have a look at your writing corrections
see also Guide for correcting writing errors
if you don't understand the abbreviations

Zhao said...

Hello my name is Antonio and my best friend is called Manuel Malla but he likes to be called Lito. He is sixteen years old. His birthday is on 26th of September.He lives in Barcelona in Spain. He has got brown hair and black eyes. He has got a brother and his name is Jordi.
He is my classmate. He is studying at I.E.S. Barri Besòs. He likes football and he is a feminine football team’s coach. He doesn´t like economy as a subject. He hasn’t got any favourite music. He wants to become a Spanish teacher or a Catalan teacher but he says it is very difficult but I think he hasn´t got any problems.
I don´t know anything else. (121) (7/10)

Natàlia said...

One of my best friend is called Laia, she lives in Cerdanyola del Valles 14km far from Barcelona. She's 18. Every day, she goes to Barcelona by train, here, she studies in Barcelona. She likes children.
Laia is a very importatnt person for me, she understands me. She is a funny person.
She likes the cinema and surfing the net.
She loves discos. She hates false people. I like my friend :) (71) (7/10)

vero said...

One of my best friend is called Sabina. She lives in Barcelona, but she’s from Uzbekistan. She’s 16 years old. She studies first Batxillerat at IES Barri Besòs. I met her at primary school 6 years ago.
She lives with her parents, their names are Ilsiar and Stephen. She has got two sisters, Cris and Marta. They are younger that her. Cris is 6 years old and Marta is 2 years old. Cris and Marta study at primary school. Her family are very nice.
We go to the disco because we like dancing. We like talking about our things. She likes listening to music. She loves Maths this year and she hates English. (112) (8/10)

Sonia.. said...

One of my best friend is called Erik. He is 18 years old. He lives in Barcelona. He studied at our high school ,but now he studies at university.
His family is very nice. He lives with his parents(Vicente and Manoli)and his brother. His brother is called Alex.
He is 14 years old and he studies at our school too. His house is near mine,just some streets aways. His favourite hobby is martial arts(our hobby). He has practised it since he was 8.
He likes drawing and listening to music.
It is possible to trust him and he is very good!(100) (7/10)

Estefania(zulu) said...

One of my best friends is called Edu and he lives in Barcelona.He is 17 years old and his birthday is in March.
He studies first Batxillerat.He lives with his parents, he hasn't got any brothers.
His favourites hobbies are reading books and listening to music.
He likes the beach; moreover he has a house near the beach in Cubelles(this is the last town of Barcelona province)
He is a very intelligent person and always helps me to do my homework. His favourite subjets are Philosophy and English, he hates Economy. (91) (7/10)

isra said...

Hello
my best friend is called Oscar
He wishes to be an economist,
He lives in Equador, he is a teacher in a school for two tears.
His parents work in a company of hotels he likes to do gimnastics and cheerleading. (42) (6/10) TOO SHORT --> (5/10)

Yaiza said...

One of my best friends is Caroline. She is 17 years old. Caroline lives in Barbera del Valles, this is a town of Barcelona province, in Spain. I met her in the summer. She goes to the same village as me in the summer vacations. I have known her for 10 years! At this moment she is studying in the adults' school. She is looking for a job.
She lives with her parents. She has got two brothers, Carlos and Javi. They are older that her. Carlos is 26 years old and Javi is 21 years old. Carlos and Javi work. They are very nice.
We see once or twice a month because we live nearby. When we go out we go downtown. There we go windowshopping and speak about our life. She loves the discos and going out at night. She is very funny. She is really into fashion. Carolina is very beautiful. Her hair is blonde and short, and her eyes are brown. She is thin and tall. She can’t stand the swimming pools but I don’t know why. She hates sports. She smokes and I don’t like that (she smokes) because it is bad for her health.(207) (8/10) VERY LONG --> (9/10)

Anònim said...

Eliana Córdova said...My best friend is Byron. He lives in Barcelona,in Spain C.He's 19 years old. He's working in a mail company (POST OFFICE )??.
He lives with his sister and his brother, their names are Virginia and Nicolas. She's 36 years old, he's 31 years old.
Her house is small but beautiful.
His hobbies are playing football, listening to music and studying.
His interests are studying at university and learning many languages. (68) (4/10)

Laura said...

My best friend is called Jonathan, he lives in Fabra i Puig in Barcelona and he works at the port. He is 18 years old. Jonathan is a very good person and intelligent.
He lives with his parents. He has a small dog. He has 2 sisters, Carolina and Beatriz, Carolina is 28 years old and Beatriz is 31 years old. Beatriz has got 1 children and his name is Daniel and he is 1 year old.
I met him 2 years ago because he was one of my cousin’s friend. We always go out to the cinema, to buy, to dance etc. Jonathan loves music. He likes the beach and swimming in the sea. He plays football, we see once or twice a month. He hates people who smoke. (130) (8/10)

Michaeeeel!! said...

One of my best friends is Albert (we called him "Gina"). He's 16 years old and his birthday is in December. He's my friend and my neighbour too. I met him at school when we were children. He hasn't got any brother but he's got a dog called Terry. Terry is black and ugly too.
He likes listening to heavy music, and he loves PC games and Chopper motorbikes. His favourite hobby is making his own games. He hates going to school and going to gigs.
We always go together to the cinema and to the skating with some other friends. Last weekend we went to the fair and it was fabulous. I can't remember more things from him. He's a good friend! (123) (9/10)

Sabina said...

One of my best friend is called Vero, she lives in Barcelona, in Spain. She’s 16 years old. She studies at IES Barri Besòs. I met her at school 6 years ago.
She lives with her parents. She has a brother and a dog. Her brother’s name is Raul and her pet’s name Crispy.
She likes going to the disco and listening to pop music. Once or twice a week we go shopping. She hates English and she loves Maths. (78) (7/10)

Albert Giralt said...

One of my best friends is called Gaby, she lives in Barcelona in a street near my home and studies in the same college as me. I met her 13 years ago, when we begun to study at the same school and in the same class.
She lives with her parents and her brother in a flat where I have been a lot of times.
She has got a parrot and a nice cat which was found in our college 3 or 4 years ago.
She also has got a piano and she plays it very well, but it’s not the only instrument which she plays, she plays the guitar and the accordion too. I think she loves music and playing instruments because she talks a lot about music.
I don’t know the reason why we became friends, maybe because she has a great personality, she is funny, nice and the most important, she is a good person.
I love talking with her, because it is possible to talk about all topics and we never have arguments if I have a different point of view. (186) (9/10) VERY LONG --> (10/10)

-Gonzalo Salirrosas said...Richard +W one of my better Sp friends, Richard, +W has WC 18 years, right this week +W will turn 19 years BE 19. He lives in Barcelona, with his mother (Mercedes) and his brother (Pier), all of them of Peruvian nationality.
It WC studies electronics and works in a super market by WC the mornings, just next to the restaurant that WHERE I work. We see +W +W much and often it remains to sleep to my house.
It is a good boy P +W likes +W much to go to billiards, to drink a beer from time to time, to dance, to listen to music and to sleep. –ING!!!!!!!!
We now –W know since we are VT 4 years old and -W but we were without seeing us near HAVEN’T SEEN EACH OTHER FOR seven years, but the destiny allowed to us to be again together WO. (124) (0/10)

- jorge vc said...Two of my best friend is S/P called ruben C ,guille C
He –W Guille is 17 year old,he live S/P in barcelona C .he C studies first batxillerat in IES barri besos.
He –W Ruben is 17 year old, he live S/P in barcelona C. he C studies first batxillerat +W IES Barri Besos.
She live S/P with her parents,
They have go S/P one sisters S/P.
They have WC very important of WC my WC because whe are vey differents S/P (63) (0/10)
i don't kwow put

- pilar said...My best friend (is my boyfriend )called WO Andres.He's from Dominican Republic but actuallity WC he's Sp live S/P here in Barcelona .He is like an Sp child P +W is very jocker WC.
He hate S/P the –W shools Sp ,he prefers to work.
In his country +W played to –W baseball and it's WC like S/P to listening WO latin music .
His mother (Margarita) is very nice and him WF brother (Darvel) also WC.(59) (0/10)

- alex rivera said...Hi, my best friend is Danilo, he +W fron Sp Ecuador. He havening WC 17 years old and havening WC +W 3 brothers. +W Life WC in El Triunfo - Guayas. His parents havened Sp a finca WC.
these are olways us invited. Age very big and his parents very entertainer.
Was companed of class in 2 and 3 the secundaria.
He and My going to much place and discoteca.
Was a very friend. MNC (TALK WITH ME AND I’LL HELP YOU!!) (65) (0/10)

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Hi everybody, this is your unit 1 writing task: write 80-200 words, don't forget to follow the three-paragraph-plan and remember to use -ing after like and dislike verbs. From this very moment, you've got a week to send it .
Javi, one of my friends.
One of my best friend is called Javi, he lives in Valencia and he works in the 9 channel TV studios. I met him at school 16 years ago, he was one of my last-year students and he didn’t like English. He wasn’t good at it. Now he’s 35. He lives by himself in a small flat, and I think he is lucky because he enjoys a communal swimming pool. He’s got a sister, she’s older than him and she still lives at their parent’s home in Calpe.
We became friends because he loves taking and developing pictures and so do I. We hardly ever see each other but when we meet, we have always many things to talk about. He loves cinema and he likes travelling very much; he really enjoys eating out, you can ask him where to eat in Firenze or in Istambul. He can’t stand people behaving like hooligans and he isn’t really into fashion, he doesn’t mind smoking and he hates sport, perhaps he will become a coach potato in the future, who knows? (180 words)

The Canterbury Tales

Dear students,
Antonio and Lito gave the first,
and some of you (Albert, Sabina & Vero, Pilar, Sonia and Gonzalo, Yaiza, Laura and Miguel Angel, Alex, Estefanía, and Eliana) corrected them very well!
THANK YOU SO MUCH,
I've closed this topic post,
have a look and keep on reading!



THE LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER (5-8)
Complete these sentences:

Chaucer was born in 1340.
He was born in London.
He was connected with the royal court in London.
He was taken prisoner in France.
The Canterbury Tales was almost certainly based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Chaucer began writing it when he was about forty years old.
He hadn't finished writing it when he died in 1400.
The place he was buried in in Westminster Abbey is known as Poet’s Corner.

CHAUCER'S WORLD (10-11)
Answer these questions:
-Which three kings were in power during Chaucer's life?
There were three kings during his lifetime: Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV.
-Which country had a long war with England?
France
-What was the 'Black Death'?
An illness which killed great numbers of people in the Middle Ages
-Complete this line: 'God is ..... '
'God is deaf '
-Name three people from The Tales who work for the church.
The Pardoner, the Summoner and the Prioress.
-Where was Thomas Becket murdered?
In Canterbury Cathedral
-Why did the Wife of Bath visit Jerusalem?
Because she is an authentic religious person
-In which month did the pilgrims begin their journey?
In April the pilgrims began their journey

CHRONOLOGY: in Chaucer's times

Choose only one topic to research (don't forget to write your name), do the research on Internet and write 4-5 lines about it, add one or more pictures to make it nicer (write the link(s) and I will upload them for you)

the topics done (10 out of 18) are in red:

- 'Middle English' - 'The Hundred Years' War' - 'Black Death' - Dante Alighieri - Giovanni Boccaccio - Petrarch - Decameron -Westminster Abbey - Canterbury - Edward III - Richard II - Henry IV - What does a Parson do? - and a Summoner? - and a Pardoner? - pilgrimages
- Thomas Becket - the Middle Ages - the printing press - medieval medicine and astrology


Edward III
Was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, he went on to transform the Kingdom of England into the most efficient military power in Europe.
Reign: 25 January 1327 – 21 June 1377 Cononation: 1 February 1327
Born: 13 November 1312 Died: 21 June 1377
ANTONIO'S OR LITO'S


Richard II, born in 1367, was the son of Edward, the Black Prince and Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. Richard was but ten years old when he succeeded his grandfather, Edward III; England was ruled by a council under the leadership of John of Gaunt, and Richard was tutored by Sir Simon Burley. He married the much-beloved Anne of Bohemia in 1382, who died childless in 1394. Edward remarried in 1396, wedding the seven year old Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France, to end a further struggle with France. SABINA'S








Henry IV (3 April 1367 – 20 March 1413) was the King of England and France and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, "Henry (of) Bolingbroke". His father, John of Gaunt, was the third and oldest surviving son of King Edward III of England, and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Richard II. Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates. VERO'S




The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. It began in South-western or Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 million deaths in Europe alone.

The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population. ALBERT'S

The Decameron: is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical jokes, the moral degeneracy of the clergy and worldly initiation also form part of the mosaic. Many notable writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucer are said to have borrowed from The Decameron (See Literary sources and influence of the Decameron below). Laura Sánchez Bolivar
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) He was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women anf the Decameron. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals.Yaiza Montes Cebrián
St Thomas Becket: St Thomas of Canterbury (c. 1118 – December 29, 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. He engaged in a conflict with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Miguel Ángel Sánchez


Dante Alighieri
His masterpiece (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
He was born into the prominent Alighieri family of Florence, with loyalities to the Guelphs, a political alliance that supported the Papacy, involved in complex opposition to the Ghibellines, who were backed by the Holly Roman Emperor.
His mother was Bella Degli Abat and she died when Dante was five or six.
He married Gemma in 1921 and they had a lot of children. SONIA'S




Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century.
What with the passage of time ah changed and nowadays one does not speak equally the English. GONZALO'S


Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) " PETRARCH" in English.He was born in Arezzo (Italy) Petrarch was best known for his Italian poetry:The Canzoniere and the Trionfi. He was an enthusiastic Latin scholar and did most of his writing in this languag.Petrarch was often popularly called the "father of humanism".Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante and Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century. PILAR

Petrarch: Poet and scholar, born in Arezzo, NC Italy. He studied at Bologna and Avignon, where he became a clergyman. In 1327 at Avignon he first saw Laura (possibly Laure de Noves, married in 1325 to Hugo de Sade), who inspired him with a passion which has become proverbial for its constancy and purity. As the fame of his learnings grew, royal courts competed for his presence, and in 1341 he was crowned poet laureate at Rome. The earliest of the great Renaissance humanists, he wrote widely on the classics, but he is best known for the series of love poems addressed to Laura, the Canzoniere, written in vernacular Italian. The work mirrors the poet's internal struggle between reality and dream, spirituality and the pleasures of the flesh. He left Avignon in 1353 after Laura's death, and lived the rest of his life in N Italy. His writing proved to be a major influence on many authors, notably Chaucer. His chief inspiration lay, however, in his sonnet form, which was adopted, among others, by Surrey, Wyatt, and Shakespeare. Eliana Córdova

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(I haven't corrected anything, but colored only BIG "mistakes")

1. Antonio and Manuel said...
2. Yaiza,Laura y Miguel Ángel said...
3. Estefania(zulu) and gaby said...
4. Eliana c�rdova said...
5. Albert Giralt, Sabina & Vero said...
6. pilar said...
7. ...Sonia & Gonzalo... said...

- How much have people changed in the last six hundred years?
A. More, actually we have got technology, in 1400 only has war for country.
B. We think that the people have changed a lot.
C. we think that people have changed a lot because now to live is very easy,we have things that they facilitate to us to make different activities from the daily life
D. My opinion is that we have advanced very much, that everything is easier now because we have advanced technology, as television, telephones etc
E. The people changed a lot, nowadays we have more comfort and we have another views of the world.
F. Much , actuallity there is more violence between teenagers,we have another form of to see the live.
G. The last six hundred years, the people changed a lot.Now we have more technologies, more resources...

- Is friendship more important than love?
A. +W Is very difficult answer I think the both is very important.
B. Yes, it is because the friends always will be to your side but the love finishes
C. we think that the frienship and love are very important in the life.
D. I think that the frienship and love are very important in the life.
E. This question made we have an argument because Vero and Sabina think friendship is more important than the love, and Albert think+W is more important the love than friendship.
F. For my ,the two are very important
G. .The true friends always would be with you however the love is nor for always.
We think +W is more important the love than friendship(According to that friends).

- Do dreams have a meaning?
A. Yes, the dream help in future for me.
B. Yes, its do. We believe that the dreams are indicative , they inform us about something that is going to happen.
C. if I believe perhaps that they are as dejavu guide to us in the present and they make think the things us (?).
D. Yes, I believe that the dreams have importantly, because a veces the dreams are fulfilled.
E. Yes, because the mind do them and shows thinks which we can’t see when we are awake.
F. For my it haven't anything meaning
G. Yes, every dream has it meaning, the can mean fear, hope, happiness...

- Will men do anything for gold?
A. Yes, we do for gold because the people like gold and will pay.
B. Yes, he will. For example the thieves, who rob things to have more money
C. yes, everybody needs but money to him to live better or single by avarice.
D. Yes, the gold is important for the man, always they will be joined by the greed of the man.
E. Yes, men will can do a lot of things for gold because gold is expensive and the men always do something to be rich.
F. yes , for to be richs
G. Yes, the money, nowadays is very important. They will do everything possible for obtaining it.

- What do women most desire?
A. I don’t undertand you question.
B. We thought that they desire to have a family
C. All the women wish to have a family and to be happy.
D. All the women want to be happy and to have a better life with her family.
E. A women most desire suffer for her love and do all think to get his love.
G. I don't understand this question
H. To create a family and to continue forward.

- What makes a perfect marriage?
A. A perfect marriage is speak and know listen is very important.
B. The fidelity and the respect towards the loved person
C. the respect, the fidelity, the love, to be listened to mutually that makes a marriage happy.
D. To be happy, to speak the things with respect and very much love.
E.The freedom, because a marriage is perfect when both partners are free.
F. It doesn't exist because always there are jealousy, little freedom...
G. It is perfect, when there is complicities, love and they are free.

WRITING 00: INTRODUCING YOURSELF

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don't give up and keep on writing!!!!

My name is Yaiza , I am fifteen years old and I study first of Batxillerat at IES Barri Besòs.
I have a brother, his name is Yeray and he is five years old. My parents are called Juan and Lidia. They are forty-three and forty-five years old.
I have two pets,they are fishes.Their names are Anakin and DarthVader.
One of my hobbies is listening to music. I like lot of groups of music but my favourite group is "El Canto del Loco". Without music I don't live!
I also like going out with my friends and going to shopping.I love going to the discos. Dancing is one of my hobbies. Another of my hobbies is chatting with friends.
I hate tennis matches. I get bored seeing them. I don't like going to buy food, it is too boring. I also hate "heavy" music. 9/10

Hello my name is Israel, Isra for a friends.
I am 16 years old, I live with my brothers and my mother,
I have 8 months in Barcelona and study in IES Barri Besòs.
I like to enjoy my free time in celebrations, partys or with friends
I am very fanatic to the sport and the art 5/10

Hi, my name's Vero. I'm 16 and I study first of Batchillerat at IES Barri Besòs.
I live in Barcelona with my parents and my brother. My parents are called Juan Manuel and Montse and they are 39 and 37 years old. My brother's name is Raúl and he's five years old. I've got a dog, his name is Crispy.
I like listening TO music and going to the cinema. I love going with my best friend Sabina. My favourite subject is Maths. 9/10

Hi, my name is Sabina. I'm 16 years old. I'm from Uzbekistan, but I live with my parents in Barcelona. I've got two sisters, their names are Cristina and Marta. I like listening to music and going to the disco with my best friend, Vero. 10/10

Hello, my name's Sonia.I'm fifteen years old, but on Sunday twenty-three (in seven days) I WILL BE sixteen.
I live in Barcelona with my parents and my sister. My parents are called Cristina(42 years old) and Francisco(49 years old).
My sister's name is Marta, SHE is very naughty and very affectionate.
I study first of Batchillerat at I.E.S Barri Besòs. In two years I will go to selectivity and to the university also.
I love training martial arts. I like listening to music, going to cinema and to walk. 6/10

Hi! My name is Pilar but for my friends I'm Pili and I'm seventeen years old.I WAS BORN borned the three of JANUARY Genuary in Barcelona.Actuallity AT THE MOMENT I live with my grandmother Paquita in "LA MINA" district,the people think than my district is dangerous but it isn't true, IT'S only is fame.
I'm study first of Batchillerat in AN I.E.S .
ON The Saturdays and Sundays i'm I work in burger king .
My FAVOURITE hobbies prefer is ARE to listening and dancing latin music and blak BLACK music(hip-hop,r&b..)
I like much the pets like the dog,cats but the tigers is my FAVOURITE animal prefer.
I don't like much to goING out at night VERY MUCH I'm more of house. I PREFER STAYING AT HOME. 0/10

Hi! My name´s is Antonio. I live in Barcelona, in Spain, with my family. I'm 16 years old. I've got one sister and one brother. They nameS are Yani and Miguel. I haven't got ANY pet.
My favourite hobbies are playing basketball and listening to music. I've got some balls and CDs. Another WC I ALSO love going TO THE cinema, but I hate geography subjeCt, IT is very boring, and my favourite subject is technology, beacuse IT is very easy and I love doing work technOlogy . 4/10

My name is Albert. I’m 16 and I live in Barcelona.
I love my city but I think is too dirty, too noisy… but it's my city and it’s the best.
I have a brother, a great brother, but sometimes I don’t think so, only sometimes.
Nowadays I study first of “Batxillerat”, non obligatory education, and I want to finish this in two years.
I love listening to music. I like a lot of different types of music, international bands like Maximo Park or Peter Bjorn and John, Catalan or Valencian bands, house…
Music is very important.
Another thing I love is nature. I love nature more than music, and I’m so sad and worried when somebody destroys it, but it is very usual and only some people do anything to avoid the destruction of the environment.
I adore “Barça” and its players, its colours, its… I adore all about Barça and I’m so sad when it loses a match. All my family is “culé” and I’m “culé” too, of course, my blood is blue and maroon, :D 9/10
Good bye and be happy.

Hello my name is Laura. I'm 16 years old. I've got a brother, his name is Miguel Angel and he is 16 years old. I live with my parents in Barcelona in Spain.My mother is 49 years old and my father is 50 years old.
I study at the IES Barri Besos. I'm doing first of batxillerat.
My favourite subject is maths.I like listening to music but I haven't got ANY favourite group. I like dancing in the disco with my friends. 9/10

Hi! My nickname is Mike. I'm 16. I live in Barcelona with my family and I study at IES Barri Bèsos.
I spend my free-time reading books, drawing or listening to english C music (I like much RS)
There aren't much WC things which I don't like. But probably making the wash WC is the most I hate.
Finally I want to recommend a song: More than Words from Extreme
Good Weekend for you all!!! 6/10
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hello C, I am called manuel, I been WC 15 years old and I fulfill the -A 16 within two weeks. + study in WC the -A IES barri besòs of Barcelona, I am trainer of soccer 5 WC and I like music, the -A sports and to leave WC with the friends 2/10
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Hello P My name is Alex
I have WC 17 years I'm fron Equator but +W life WC in Barcelona with my mother end Sp my brother but +W have two brothers in Equator.
I'm studing Sp in WC the -A school IES Barri Besos WO.
I' ve must WC friends end Sp they are very entertainWC. My sport favourity WO Sp is the -A futbol Sp end Sp +W like listening to music end Sp too WO playing futbol in a equipo WC.
I've+W a rabbit. At school my favourity Sp subject are Historia end Economia Sp Sp Sp.
I like read WF bookS/P the WC filosofia Sp well I'm think MNC.
Well this in Sp the end. 0/10
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Hi! my C name's Gaby and I'm 16. I live in Barcelona with my parents and my brother (he's 20 and he's studying at University UPC WO).
I've got two pets, a cat (Mishu, I know that it's Sp name is not original) and a parrot (Lola).
I love the -A music, because I play the piano, the guitar (a little), + accordion,... etc. drummer WC and all WC percusion Sp too but, the piano is par excellence the more sublime of the instruments and it's fantastic. In my free-time I play the piano or other WC instrument, I spend a lot of time in WC the instruments but I'm not WC realize SP of - this. I think that this Art is very important :) 0/10

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hey C !my C name's Javi. I have WC 17 years IS, Im Sp from equator C but +W lifeWF whith Sp my family in spain C since 2000.
this C years S/P i C study Batxiller (trying to :)) in the most betterWF school of barcelona IES Barri Besos,
I love playing the guitar..yeahh, snowboard,playing basketball and reading ( I recommend the Dan Brown book's Sp angels & demons C)
My favourite music is salsa, hip hop , rock, and more:)
see C +W later 0/10
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Hi!
My name is Natàlia.I'm 17 and I live in Barcelona, i C like my city but there is too much contamination WC.
I study first of Batxillerat in the school; P I.E.S Barri Besos WO.
I live with my parents; P Montse and Ramon, and my older sister; P Raquel, and sometimes +W my grandmother.
I love to -W the -A animals, in my floorWC 6 cats and one dog live WO, all were gathered of WC the street or +W the camping.
I adore to go WF to the camping, there go to the party MNC and I dance, +W is a festival WC of WC Saturday night.
Also I like WO the -A theater, I am +A actrees of the group the theater of the school WO. 0/10