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Let's sing
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
LAST CHRISTMAS
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
COMPULSORY READING BOOK
You can read the following book:
My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell.
(Dominoes Level 3. Oxford University Press).
We will talk about it in class after the Christmas Holidays.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
DREAM HOMES
Houses
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Watch the following piece of news:
Paolo Zampolli launches a Real Estate agency in New York City with high-fashion models as the agents. Agents include former Supermodel, Angie Everhart.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TRAVELLING
Reading comprehesion:
Test your vocabulary with the following quizzes
Can you recognize these mistery cities?
Try this quiz
Thursday, November 5, 2009
PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
Don't miss this opportunity and take part in the Photography Contest.
Click on the following link to access
Remember that the deadline to submit your proposal is the 30th November.
Good Luck!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
TRIP TO MALTA
Click on the following link to get further information about the trip to Malta organized by the Official Language Schools in Logroño and Haro from the
5th to the 8th December.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
PHRASAL VERBS
FACE UP TO PHRASALS:
- Listen to Fred and Betty and learn more phrasal verbs.
- Read Fred and Betty's script.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Listen to the following piece of news and say if the following sentences are
TRUE or FALSE:
- Susan Boyle is a long-established British superstar.
- Susan Boyle is a contestant on a TV talent show.
- A video of Susan Boyle has been watched by millions of people on the internet.
- Susan Boyle is a glamorous young woman.
- Susan Boyle is a favourite to win the TV show Britain’s Got Talent.
Look at the expressions below and match the idiom to their definition.
Now complete the sentences below by using one of the expressions above:
- Susan is very proud of her success on the show; in fact she is ... .
- Susan is a truly talented singer; in fact she is ... .
- Susan has been described as ... . However, this is one of her most appealing
qualities. - During Susan’s audition, people had to admit they were somewhat guilty of ... .
Why Susan Boyle inspires us: A story like 'a Disney movie'
After a week of hysteria about Scottish chanteuse Susan Boyle, it's time to pause and ask: What's that all about?
A psychological boost for a world battered by economic calamity? A spiritual moment for millions in search of transcendence? Maybe it's just a new reminder of an old truism: You can't judge a book by its cover.
"Susan Boyle is a Disney movie waiting to happen," says church worker Janelle Gregory, 34, of Olathe, Kan.
Boyle, for those who have been unconscious lately, is the middle-aged woman with frizzy hair who has been all over TV and computer screens for days, singing a Broadway show tune while millions wept and shouted and applauded wildly.
Ten days ago, Boyle — 47, unglamorous, unfashionable, unknown — faced down a sneering British audience and panel of judges on Britain's Got Talent, including the ever-sneery Simon Cowell. Then, in an instant, she turned jeers to cheers with her rendition of one of the weepier numbers from Les Misérables.
"All of us reveled in the fact that even in our image-managed world, we could still have the tables turned on us," says Terry Christopher, 40, a computer developer in Phoenix.
Last week, she was on TV from early morning to late night, telling her Cinderella back story (youngest of nine, learning-disabled and bullied as a child, caretaker for her dying mother, never been kissed, singer in the choir, possessor of big dreams) to all who trekked in person or by satellite to her Scottish village outside Edinburgh.
The common refrain in comments about Boyle: I watched her over and over, and I cried and cried. "Every time I watched it, I felt emotional," says Julie Carrigan, 47, a mother of five in Hemet, Calif.
But why?
• It's the vindication. "When they were making fun of her, I was getting annoyed," Carrigan says. "And inside I'm thinking, 'I hope she blows them away.' I was so happy when she just let them have it."
• It's the surprise. "If you have expectations of someone, you need to be prepared to be surprised by them," says Paul Potts, the chunky former cellphone salesman who was the Susan Boyle of Britain's Got Talent in 2007 and has since sold millions of records as an opera-and-standards singer. His second album, Passione, arrives in the USA May 5. "It's part of human nature to make judgments based on first impressions, but sometimes we allow ourselves to be misguided by first impressions."
• It's the guilt. Why the surprise? There's no correlation between appearance and talent, says Scott Grantham, 35, a financial analyst in Atlanta. "If she didn't look the way she did, would there be the same reaction? I don't think so," he says. "We make snap judgments based on appearance, and when we see those judgments were premature, we overcompensate by going so far in the other direction."
• It's the shame. Boyle forced people to recognize how often they dismiss or ignore people because of their looks. "Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we?" asked essayist Tanya Gold in Britain's The Guardian.
• It's the psychology. "There's an emotional state called elevation, characterized by a warm, glowing feeling, that we get when someone transcends our expectations," says Lynn Johnson, a psychologist in Salt Lake City. Boyle is "an elevator — we want to believe in something higher, that there's meaning in life and that the ugly duckling can become the beautiful swan."
• It's the hope. "She has truly touched my heart and soul and lifted my spirits," says Anne Jolley of San Jose, who describes herself as 47, unemployed, frumpy and "disheartened, disenfranchised, disillusioned and dis-just-about-everything-else in these bleak times." The messages of Boyle, she says, are that "there is hope still in this world; that dreams really can come true; that cynical people can be turned around; that maybe my best years are not behind me after all."
• It's the distraction. With everything going on in the world, "our economy in the tank, my husband and I worried that we will lose our jobs — this was a feel-good/underdog story, and I ate it up," says Lisa Sweetnich, 40, a CPA in Massillon, Ohio.
• It's empowerment. "What are we all crying about?" asked writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding editor of Ms. magazine, in her Huffington Post blog. "Partly, I think it's that a woman closing in on 50 had the courage to compete with the kids — and blew them out of the water."
• It's the authenticity. Unlike most of the contestants on, say, American Idol, Boyle clearly has not been groomed to be a pop star, so she is perceived as the real deal, says Ken Tucker, editor at large of Entertainment Weekly. "People want their idols to be authentic."
• It's the spiritual solace. "We're responding to someone who does not have the packaging expected of us, especially women, and in that moment of recognition, people got in touch with something so soulful and spiritual," says Laurie Sue Brockway, inspiration and family editor of Beliefnet.com. "People felt blessed by that."
For many, it all comes down to ancient wisdom. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
"Never has that proverb been explained more dramatically than in the case of Susan Boyle," Hasbargen says.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
In this blog, you will find useful information and different resources for you to go beyond the classroom boundaries.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
THAT'S ENGLISH: RESULTADOS MÓDULO 5
Los alumnos de That's English ya pueden consultar en el tablón de anuncios de la escuela los resultados del módulo 5.
Con el fin de evitar el desplazamiento al centro a los alumnos de fuera de Calahorra también lo podéis consultar a continuación.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
BRITISH CULTURE QUIZ
Test your cultural knowledge
British Culture Quiz09
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
RECUPERACIÓN Y EVALUACIÓN THAT'S ENGLISH
Los alumnos de That's English ya pueden consultar en el tablón de anuncios de la escuela las fechas de evaluación y recuperación.
Con el fin de evitar el desplazamiento al centro a los alumnos de fuera de Calahorra para ver dichas fechas, también os lo he colgado en el blog.
CALENDARIO DE EXÁMENES DE RECUPERACIÓN
CURSO 2008/2009
CALENDARIO DE EXÁMENES DE EVALUACIÓN
CURSO 2008/2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
EXÁMENES DE CERTIFICACIÓN
Los alumnos cursando 2º de Nivel Intermedio y el Módulo 5 de That's English! deberán realizar su inscripción para realizar las pruebas terminales de Certificación correspondientes, del 1 al 15 de Marzo 2009, en el centro donde se hayen matriculados.
La guía del alumno de las correspondientes pruebas de certificación donde consta información sobre el tipo de pruebas y las fechas de exámenes puede consultarse pinchando en los siguientes enlaces:
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
SUPER SIZE ME
Why are Americans so fat? Find out in Super Size Me, and look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food.
First-time director Morgan Spurlock takes a look at the subject of obesity in the United States, specifically zeroing in on the business and culture surrounding the nation's fast-food industry in this 2004 documentary.
In addition to studying the marketing of fast food to American children and unsuccessfully attempting to gain an interview with McDonald's executives, Spurlock attempts to become one of his own subjects by documenting a one-month binge during which he survived only on items from the McDonald's menu, forcing himself to eat three meals a day and try every offering at least once. Super Size Me premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
- Watch Super Size Me (Part 1)
- Watch Super Size Me (Part 2)
- Watch Super Size Me (Part 3)
- Watch Super Size Me (Part 4)
- Watch the following BBC documentary on food.
- Reading comprehension exercise on fast food.
THAT'S ENGLISH - RESULTADOS MODULO 4
Con el fin de evitar el desplazamiento al centro a los alumnos de fuera de Calahorra para ver los resultados del Módulo 4 en el tablón de anuncios. Os he colgado en el blog los resultados de los alumnos presentados al Módulo 4 de That's English.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
DO THE SHOPPING
- Watch the following basic video on partitives.
- Some more information on partitives and containers.
- Fill in the gaps with the most suitable partitive. Do not use capital letters. EXERCISE
- Revise some basic vocabulary related to food.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES: 
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
MODULO 4: RESULTADOS Y CONVOCATORIA ORAL
Con el fin de evitar el desplazamiento al centro a los alumnos de fuera de Calahorra para ver los resultados del Módulo 4 en el tablón de anuncios. Os he colgado en el blog los resultados de los alumnos presentados y la convocatoria al examen oral de aquellos alumnos del Módulo 4 de That's English que han superado la parte escrita.
RESULTADOS MODULO 4
CONVOCATORIA EXAMEN ORAL
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
DRIVING
Listening comprehension exercises:
Test your vocabulary:
Watch the following videos on different types of cars:
ROAD SAFETY
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Have a look at some pictures taken during the Christmas Party on the 18th December 2008. 
COOKERY CONTEST
AND THE WINNER IS ...
CONGRATULATION!!! THE GREAT CHRISTMAS RAFFLE WINNER
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