English Unit 2: Storytelling

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The lyrics of the right column are from the The Greatest of Sia, I really think is a very positive song because it tell about follow your dreams and don't give up! You can see all the lyrics (In English and Spanish) clicking here I love this page because you can hear the song and read the lyrics at the same time .



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WE START A NEW UNIT !! Yes! It calls Storytelling!

We haven't learn any vocabulary yet, but here are some tips in grammar I want you remember( Almost all are my mistakes in the exam)


When you ask a question meaning something you did in the past the verb of the action ( Do, read, sleep) Is always in the infinitive form because you use a auxiliary verb (DID) That it is already in the past so you don't have the necessity of add another verb.
Ex:
Did you caught the train?
Did you catch the train?

In the modal verbs form(Click here to see an amazing chart my English teacher did)

The negative form of To Have in the past is not Hadn't Is Didn't have to

Also remember all the -s in the third person plural!


Hope I help you!


So here is the new vocabulary!

The unit is about cinema and storytelling, two of my favourites topics!
Hereare the different genres in the cinema ( some you can use in  theatre and here are some expressions people usually say during, before or after a film!

Printer: The machine we use to print documents pictures etc

Get travel sick: While you are in a trip ( usually in a transport)You feel dizzy

Soon: Early ( in time)

Remember : Die- verb

                    Died- past simple verb

                    Death- Noun

                    Dead-Adjective

Double-Side: Two faces ( The tow - sides of a coin)

Characters: the person,/animal/monster etc) who is represented by the actors

UFO: Unidentified flying object

Review . The opinion of a person about something relationed with culture ( Theatre, cinema, books ) Is not a critic, is just the opinion.

Disappointing: That feeling when your expectations about someone or something were higher

Dramatic: Spanish people! This is a false friends . A false friends means that a word doesn't mean what you think because it is really similar with a  word in your language ( Ex. Carpet, career, library...) You use dramatic to express that something is great (but in some cases you use this to mean something sad Dramatic situation)

Dull. Boring

Enjoyable. Entertaining, good time

Enterteing: When the times flies cause you are having a great time

Predictable. When you guess what is going to happens

Hilarius. so funny

Realistic: You really feel the situation

Spectacular: amazing, awesome

Original: Different

Terrifying: Very scared

Stand: In a film the actors specialised in the most dangerous scenes.

Plot: argument

Light-har plot: the argument is too easy

Act out: act in a play

Cut out; Cut with scissor

Blockbuster: A boom, a successful film

Talented: A person whop is really goo at something

Script: the dialogues of then film

Profitable: That earns to you money and let have a good life( economical life)

Income: The extra money you get when you sell something

Headline: The top part in the news ( example)

Afterwards: Adverb that means after something 

I hate it: Detest  something

I'd rather that _____ than : I prefer to do this before this (Because you hate the second thing)

I really love: you like it a lot

Suggestion: Say an idea of per example what to do.

Physical Education

Hi guys!

Here are all the information I have to learn about P.E

Endurance and Flexibility

Basketball

Hope you like it!

And here is a PDF with the answer of the exercises! (Yes I know that my drawings are pitifully)

Geography : Unit 3 Population

Welcome back guys!

Did you start with exams?
We are doing them!

After our Geography exam we start a new one about the population in the countries. Is very interesting discover some factors like the birth rate or the general fertility rate. However , here is the new vocabulary

Development : How something is going on.

Droughts: An age were the is no rain.

Onwards: English expression that that means that after something another thing is going to happens

Unevenly: Not the same.

Famine: Starvation( Hungry, but it doesn't mean to Be hungry. Some people around the world can't eat any food for days , just because they are too poor and in their countries there isn't food)

Epidemic: When a virus expands and affect a lot of population.

As you know, the unit is about population,Here is a document about how to calculate the birth rate, death rate, etc, 


Here are some definition:


Birth rate:Total number of births divided per the total population per 1000

Death rate: The total numbers of deaths divided all the population per 1000  

Natural increase : The birth rate minus the death rate

Infant mortality rate: refers to deaths of young children (less than one year old)

life expentansy Statical measure of the average time a person is expected ti life

birth control allow us to prevent pregnancy 

dependent population group of people who of the reference date where in a situation

dependency ratio :Show the number of dependence people aged zero to 14 and over age of 65.

family planning controlling the number of children a family and the period of time before a son and another

population pyramids/ age-gender structures graphical illustration that shows the distributions of various aged group in a population which the forms which forms the shape population pyramids

replacement rate percentage of workers  pre-retirement

fertility rate is the number of live births divided the numbers of women ages 15-49

ageing population when the median age of a country increases the life expenstansy and declining the fertility rate 

population distribution measure of population density  

 population density the arrangement of people living in given areas 

a more economically developed country(MEDC)

Less economically developed country (LEDC) 

Geography: Our trip to Valladolid and Peñafil

Hey everyone!

How are you?

Guess what?

On Wednesday my grade made a trip to Valladolid!. Where is Valladolid? Valladolid is in Spain, in a region call Castilla y León. Valladolid is a very important city due to its historical an economic sector.

We travelled by bus .After cross all the city we arrived near Campogrande a very big park located in the centre of the cut.We walked to the Big Square and we had to cross a very long street call Santiago street, at the end of this street full of shops we found the Square. I have to say that it isn't as beautiful as our big square, but it wasn't horrible. 

 

             Big Square
Our teachers gave us some time to buy food or watch the shops. There are a lot shop you can find everywhere so if you go to Valladolid I recommend you to enter in that shops you never hear about.

After that we went back to the bus.

We arrived in front of the Miguel Delibes, a cultural centre very famous here. There we listened the most strange music I never hear! The concert was based in the classical contemporary music (Musician that composed brilliant pieces in the 19 century) The concert played with very strange instruments, dancers.. In summary an amazing experience. Some people didn't like it because it was so strange , I really enjoyed it but I'm not very fan of this style.

When the concert finished, we all were hungry, so we ate our meal in front of Jose Zorrilla stadium! We had a lot of time to visit shops in a near shop centre also.

Then we went to Peñafiel.

          Views


Peñafiel is a village half and hour far away of Valladolid. As I said before, Valladolid is a very historical city and Peñafiel is very famous too because of the amazing castle it has .

The castle is a defensive castle. That mean that it wasn't the palace were the nobles life. This castle was a fortress. The views were amazing and our guide really knew interesting facts about the castle. One of the thing that called my attention was the boat shape the castle has! it is really surprising. Also in the interior of the castle we can fine the Wine museum. it teach you all the process of the creation and the different type of grapes. I'm not very interested on it but people can really enjoy!.

After our visited we went back home again, exhausted and tired. but we really had a good time and that the best part of the trip.

Peñafiel castle:






Valladolid

          Campogrande

      Santiago street

    Santiago street

Santiago street

Geography: Describe a landscape

For this project, I have choose Gasadanlur in Denmark.



Gasadanlur is one of the most incredibles sea cliffs founded in Europe.

This amazing landscape is in Vága island , a part of the 18 islands, calls Faroe Islands that are located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, between Iceland and Denmark.

It's a maritime climate, specifically a maritime subarctic.

Temperatures aren´t as mild as the rest of Europe because of the proximity with the Polar circle.This difference also produce that in summer they have 19 hours of sunlight! And in winter only 5 hours! The highest temperature they once had is 29º Degrees Celsius. Summers are cool with an average of 13º degrees and winters are mild (3º) .

Precipitations are abundant and regular, but due to the differents variations in the altitude ,in a part of an island can rain and in the other snow!

Rivers have a high regular flow.(There are only 6 rivers in all the islands)

About vegetation the most of the low areas are grasslands (As you can see in the picture)



The most part of the islands are formed of arctic plants, like moos,lichen... etc.There are no native forest in Faroe Islands,(Some studies prove that a long time ago, before the humans settlements, there could be little forests of birch and hazel trees)

The few forest are due to introduced species.

Fauna:The island is plenty of seabirds and maritime animals.

The land mammals have been all introduce by humans. the more popular species are :



The brown rat                     The mountain hare and              the house mouse
                                                                                              (or common mice)
But also, the feral sheep, is one of the most common animals. Its  exclusive in the Faroe islands , and the faroe pony.

The marine animals are:



The grey seal                   The long-finned pilots whales




There are also some whales too.

At last only remeber that every year, in summer long-finned pilots whales are killed in a horriblle slaughter in this islands  that paints the sea red!

See you soon!