Global warming. Panic or reality?

1. What is global warming?
Global warming is the current rise in the average temperature of Earth's oceans and atmosphere.
2. What is the process involved in the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface, energy is transferred to the surface and the lower atmosphere. As a result, the temperature there is higher than it would be if direct heating by solar radiation were the only warming mechanism.
3. What signs warn us about global warming?
Increasing the temperature to the greenhouse effect and the disappearance of ice at the poles by increasing heat
4. Can you quote another term for global warming?
climate was warming; inadvertent climate modification, climate change
5. Watch the video and explain this idea: Global warming: panic or reality?
Global warming is real. We every day generate a lot of pollution and we contaminate the atmosphere a lot. The problem is caused by the oil, the fuel and gas because they generate a lot of pollution. They contaminate the air and also generate the greenhouse effect.
The temperature is increasing and a lot of plants and animals are dying for US.
But we can stop this problem, we can use renewable and clean energies like the wind, the solar power and the water.


THE BIG QUESTION: What can we do to stop global warming? Suggest five ideas.

-We can recycle
-We can use the public transport

-We can use the shower instead of bath
-We can use renewable energy
-We can use energy saving light bulbs

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The answers of the questions

Robin Hood summary

FILM 4: Robin Hood

Robin of Locksley, an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart in the Third Crusade, is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade Peter. Robin escapes, saving the life of a Moor named Azeem in the process. Peter dies while escaping and has Robin swear to protect his sister Marian. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who vows to accompany Robin until the debt of saving his life is repaid.

1. What were the crusades about?
Are a war between christians and musulmans.

2. How about the same period in Spain and Catalonia?
It was about medieval period

3. Where's Robin Hood at the beginning of the film?
Is in prison.

4. Why is Azeem with Robin?


5. Where do Robin and Azeem go?
6. Who are the outlaws? Where do they live?
7. What happened to Robin's father?
8. Who's Lady Marian?
9. Why do Robin and Azeem join the outlaws?
10. Why do they fight against the Sheriff of Nottingham?
Can you explain how the film ends?

How to write an email to an internet forum

Hi

My name's Francesc Rigau and I live in Banyoles in Catalonia. I like the area where I live, so I want to improve it.

In my opinion there aren't many youth clubs and open spaces in the area. Definetly there is a lot of traffic and polution. As a result, a lot of people don't go out because there isn't any site to visit or to go.

I think the council should do something about this. I was thinking this and I find a solution. We should find a land which local people can use for a park, or a garden. We need this quickly, we need an open spaces.

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Royal family

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Ferran: Hello my name is Ferran.
Francesc: And my name is Francesc. Today we are going to talk about Royal Family.
Ferran: first we are going to talk about the genealogical tree, next about Queen Elizabeth the II.
Francesc: Then I’m going to talk about the dead of Diana
Ferran: And finally Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

2nd

Ferran: Queen Elisabeth married with Duke of Edinburgh. Then they had four children: prince Charles, princess Anna, prince Edward and prince Andrew. Now we are going to talk about prince Charles. He married with Diana and he had two children: prince William and prince Harry.

3rd

Ferran: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Francesc: Elizabeth was educated privately at home. Her father, George VI, became King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India in 1936. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War. After the war and Indian independence, George VI abandoned the title of Emperor of India, and the evolution of the British Empire into the Commonwealth accelerated. In 1947, Elizabeth married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Elizabeth and Philip have four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.

4th

Francesc: On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car collision in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor.
There were two reasons for the accident: The accident was caused because there were a lot of papparazzi chasing them and also the chauffeur, Henry Paul lost the control of the car because he was under the efects of alcohol.
Then the dead of Diana. Charles married with Camila, duchess of Cornwall. Because he always loved her

5th

Ferran: When William was going to University, he met Kate. William asked Kate to marry him in November 2010 when they were on holiday in Africa. He gave Kate a sapphire engagement ring which belonged to his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. For asked Kate to marry Prince William says: “The ring is special to me” (because was the ring of his mother). On Friday 29th of 2011, they married. In this marry, Prince William and Kate invited a lot of kings around the world.

6th

Ok, this is our presentation

Fun with sand

Sorry, you can't sroke this cute dog... he's a sand sculpture! he is part of sandsculpting exibhition in Melboure, Australia. If you're bored on the beach this summer, try sandsculpting. It's fun, but you nedd patience!

Pirates of the Caribbean

On Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp is back as the world's favourite pirate, Jack Sparrow. IN the fourth Pirates film, Jack meets Angelica, a woman from his past, played by Penelope Cruz. He is not sure if she loves him or if she wants to find the Fountain of Youth. When Angelica takes Jack onto pirate Blackbeard's ship, Jack goes on another adventure. But who shhould he fear: Blackbeard or Angelica?

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The Royal British wedding

A ROYAL ROMANCE, an everyday love story???

The British Royal family


Part 1:
Read pages 6-7 I love English magazine.
1. Answer the questions in the photocopies: 9,10,11,12.
2. Prepare a new post in your blog:
Write a summary about the article in the magazine: Prince William and Kate Middleton and do the activities in the worksheet.

Part 2:

1. Prince William: He's the soon of the Prince Charles and Diana, the prince and princess of Wales. His mother died in 1997 in a car accident. The Prince William, should be the next king of U.K, not his father. His brother is the prince Harry.

2. Kate Middleton : His parents became millionaire selling party accessories on the internet. And they were able to pay for Katy to go to the best British schools. She went to St. Andrew University where she could meet Picne William.

3. The Royal wedding

4. Vocabulary

Can you name the members of the British Royal family?
Which of them is the most popular?
Which of them died in a car accident?
Who's Prince William stepmother?Who's got married this year?
Where did they get married?
Who was William's best man?
Who was Kate's maid?

How to write a dialogue for a story

Francesc- Ferran, Ferran! Can you hear me? I need some help!
Ferran- Francesc? Where are you? What's happened?
Francesc- Im dow here. I was saileng near the coast and a storm began. I hit with a rock and i think I've broken my arm.
Ferran- Are you OK? Can you return to the coast?
Francesc- No, I think the boat has broken. Also I can't move my arm and it really hurts. What am I going to do?
Ferran- Don't panic! Let's phone the police.
Francesc- OK, but hurry up! I don0t know how long I can stand here.
Ferran-OK, OK, hang on! I'm sure that someone will come soon.
Francesc- Ferran!
Ferran- Now what's happening?
Francesc- The boat is sinking. Help!

Robin Hood

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

a. Did Robin Hood really exist? No, I think didn't exist
b. What was he famous for? Because he was a great archer and he stole the money for the rich people and gave it to the poor people.
c. Where was he from? Sherwood forest.
d. Can you write a few lines about the story? Yes.




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How to organize an event

Francesc: Hey guys. What's going on here?
Ferran: We're trying to organize a superparty with a circus. We want to make 1000€ for the Catalonia independent club.
Francesc: Cool! Can I do anything?
Arnau: Yes, There's a lot to do. We need some animals
Ferran: Yeah, my dad's helping with that, because he is the chief of the zoo.
Arnau: And I think we should make some invitations
Francesc: I can do that, if you want
Arnau: OK thanks, Francesc.
Ferran: Then all we need is some food and drinks
Francesc: You should phone Adam - she's in a cathering
Arnau: OK. Great.

How to help when there's a problem

Francesc: Ferran, what's happened?
Ferran: No, I've think I've broken my shoulder
Francesc: Paco has been killed !!! How did that happen?
Ferran: It was an accident. I was jumping on the roof, when I fell off.
Francesc: Oh, really? Are you right?
Ferran: No, It hurts.
Francesc: Do you need help?
Ferran: Yes, I think I'm going to death
Francesc: OK, bye bye.

How to write a formal letter

FIRE BIKES


85 Rotas Road, Banyoles, Catalonia


Dear Sir or Madam 25th March

I am the captain of a cycling team in Banyoles, Catalonia. The name of the team is the Fire Bikes. I am writing to you because we are planning a competition and we are looking for sponsors.

the tournament will take place in May. Teams for 23 countries and more than 20,000 spectators are going to be in London for this big event, and I think that it will be good publicity for your company.

Please contact me if you are interested in sponsoring us or if you need any more information. I look forward to hearing from you.

Your faitfully

Francesc.Rigau

Francesc. Rigau
Captain

Rio

In this 3D computer-animated film, Blu is a blue macaw who can't fly. He lives with his owner and best friend, Linda, in Minnescota, USA. Linda thinks Blu sit the last blue macaw in the world. But then she hears of another macaw called Jewel who lives in Rio, Brazil. Blu and Linda go to Rio to meet Jewel and have lots of fun adventures!

Rio

Workbook

Today I did the first and the second
pages in the Unit 8 on my workbook.

Talk about plans and arrangements

Ferran: Francesc... Francesc!
Francesc: Yes? Oh, hi Ferran.
Ferran: Are you doing anything this afternoon?
Francesc: No, nothing special. Why?
Ferran: I'm going ot the cinema if you're interested.
Francesc: Oh, really? What time does it the film starts?
Ferran: It's on at 10 o'clock at the Girona's cinema.
Francesc: Great. Shall I meet you next to your home at about 9:30 0'clock
Ferran: Hmmmmm... OK. I'll see you there.
Francesc: See you later, Ferran.

SELF - EVALUATION

my learning:

1. DID YOU WORK HARD? Yes I did.

2. DID YOU ORGANIZE YOUR WORK WEEK BY WEEK? Yes I did.
Every day we had class. I upload 1 or 2 posts.

3. WHAT WAS MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU? The more difficult, I think it was doing the Oral and the transcription

4. WHAT DID YOU LEARN? I learned to use prepositions. I also learned a lot of vocabulary, grammar, the past continuous and others.

5. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE? I think I must to improve my expression in the Orals.

activities in the language room:

write about the different activities.

Use I like/don't like.. I prefer/ My favourite..

Magazine reading and activities

I like the writings of a different things. My favourite was the biography of a famous person.
I d'ont like to do the workbook activities because are very long, but are easy and necessary to learn English.
I like to do dialogues, but I prefer to read the magazine and upload posts in the blog.

How to speak about probability and the future

Francesc- Ferran, can I ask you a question? I'm doing a survey
Ferran- Yes, if you like
Francesc- Right, the question is, Do you think the humans will desapear in 2012 ?
Ferran- Let me think... Yes, defintely yes. I think it'll be destroy the planet.
Francesc- I disagree with you. I think we must be positive. It'll probably not destroy.
Ferran- OK. What's the next question ?
Francesc- The next question is...

Oral presentation

TRANSCRIPTION

Hi my name is Francesc and I'm 13 years old. Today I'm going to talk about Alexander the Great. First I'm going to talk about his early life. Then I'm going to talk about his empire and finally I'm going to talk about his death.

Early Life
Alexander was born on 20 July 356 BC, in Macedon and died on 10 June 323 BC in India. He was the son of Philip II, the King of Macedon. His mother was Philip's fourth wife Olympia, the daughter of another king of a northern Greek state.

His Empire
After the murder of his father in 336 BC in hands of Pausania a captain of his guard, Alexander became the king of Macedon at the age of 20. In 334 BC, he began a systematic conquest of the coast of Asia Minor. The first battle was given to Persia; he won and he could conquered it
But at he 331 BC he returned to Greece. The here he caught his boats and he began to conquer the territory of Egypth. After that he spreaded his army to the actual zone of Germany and Spain. Then at 326 BC he set his interest in India. He caught the army and went to India.

His Death
He could conquered India, and here was married with a girl called Roxana. An here was the site of accomodation during the final part of his life. He didn't have sons and he died in 323 BC. He was poisoned by a friend who wanted his empire


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Marina Casals- She talked about Brad Pitt. He's a very famous actor who did a lot of important films.

How to write a biography

Alexander the Great, was born 21 july 356 BC and died on 10 June 323 BC, was the king of Macedonia (336-323 BC), conqueror of the Persian Empire an one of o the most important military leaders of the ancient world. It is perhaps one of the most attractive figures of history.

He lives his early life in Macedonia, but when he conquered Persia live there and when he conquered India, lived here too. And he was the son of the king of Macedonia.

After the murder of his father in 336 BC in the hands of Pausania, a captain of his gurad, Alexander inherited the kingdom when he was only 20. All Greece subjected by Philip, stood up. But Alexander gave evidence of his military force: he toood and destroyed Thebes and was appointed general in chief of the Greeks, who had been given title to his father.

Then he became a poerful king. He had a very big an elite armey, so he began to conquer Asia. He began Persia and then to India.

Finally he was murder by a friend hye wanted to become the king of the land that Alexander conquered.

Potato People

Do you think poeple are like potatoes? That's what Lebanese artist, Ginou Choueir, thinks. He paints faces on potatoes. Thir skin has pores like ours. Its texture and colour is very similar, he says. Like humans potatoes come in different sizes and shapes. They grow, live and descompose. Yuck!

Tron: Legacy

This is the sequel to the 1982 science-fiction film Tron... and now it's in 3D! Sam Flynn is haunted by the disappearance of his father, Kevin Flynn. Kevin was the world's video game expert who disappeared 20 years ago. When Sam discovers a strange signal from his father, he is transported into the cyber universe. There, Sam sees his father and their incredible adventures begin...

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How to compare ideas for a present

Francesc: How long will you be, Ferran? Can we go now?
Ferran: No yet. I'm loking for a CD for my mother. She's into music.
Francesc: I can hear?
Ferran: Yes. What do you think of this?
Francesc: I like it. Who's it by?
Ferran: This one's by Jay Sean. It's called Down.
Francesc: That one's better.
Ferran: Do you think so?
Francesc: Yes, it has more pace. The other one's a bit slow.
Ferran: Yes, I think you're right. Thanks, Francesc.

How to express interest

Francesc: That's amazing! Is that your photo, Ferran?
Ferran: Yes, do you like it?
Francesc: Yes, I like it. When did you take this amazing photo?
Ferran: I was on holiday in Portugal. These people were doing tricks on their bikes.
Francesc: Really? It was a show?
Ferran: No it wasn't
Francesc: Did you try it?
Ferran: Of course. I try it.
Francesc: Amazing. Well done!

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The Chronicles of Narnia

In the third Narnia episode, Lucy, Edmund and their cousin, Eustace, return to Narnia. There they meet King Caspian and go on a long voyage on his ship, the "Dawn Treader". Their mission is to find the seven good lords who have been banished by Caspian's evil uncle. You can travel with them in 3-D to mysterious islands and to a river made of gold. You'll also meet magical creatures like the great lion, Aslan. What an adventure!

How to write a story about a rescue

The rescue happened while we were on holiday in Kenya last August. I was really amazing, scary and not funny. But I wasn't lucky to get a photo of it.
I was with my family an we were in the truck looking at the sunset. The guide was with us. But suddenly a lion appeared and we started running. Meanwhile the lion followed us and the guide caught his pistol and he shot the lion 3 times.
Finally we returned home an I thought it was a very scary adventure, so I don't want to return to Kenya for a long time.