2º ESO And the winners are...

It's been reaaally difficult to decide!! I loved all your stories. Believe me, you did an amazing job!! These are the winning stories in 2º ESO. CONGRATULATIONS!!

2º ESO A - CLAUDIA FERNÁNDEZ MORALEJA

It was Halloween night. I looked out the front window at my house and saw… Oh!!! They were Juan and Aitana, they wanted to scare me! “Hi guys!” I said. “Come on Claudia! We can't be late!” Aitana said. “Ok, just 2 minutes.” I lied…

After 10 minutes.... “Clauuuuuudia! Come down!” “I'm almost ready!” Aitana, Juan and I went to the party where we were meeting the rest of our class (2ºESO A). When we arrived, all the class was there. The music wasn´t ready! At eleven o'clock, music started and we all danced. The songs we danced were: La Gozadera (because Diego proposed it), How deep is you love, Lady Madrid, The mordidita, I just wanna break the rules, La bamba, Deep down low, Outside, Ain´t nobody, Marry the night, Total eclipse of the heart, Ginza, Play my music... We were dancing until 1:00AM because, suddenly, many vampires and witches appeared!!! “Oh God! The witches are catching Raquel, Pablo, Alex, Juan, Clara and Jimena!!” Alejandra said. “And the monsters are eating them! They're going to die!” Noelia added. “Quickly!!!!!!! Follow me” Adela proposed. All the class followed Adela, because she knew a hiding place to be safe. We were all so excited and speaking at the same time so I said: “Shut up everyone! Thanks. I have an idea; we are going to go out of this place, ok? Because I'm listening to noise near this hiding place and I think vampires are coming, but, keep calm please.” “Ok, perfect!” Héctor said “It´s seems a very good idea” Ana, Carmen and Johnny said. “I'm so scared” Gema said. “Don´t worry! Be happy!” Diego told her. And he hugged Gema. “Okay, let´s go!”

Finally we were in the street; we ran a lot because vampires ran very quickly. “Oh my god!!! Where are Gabriela, Adrián, Adela, Jorge, Gabriel and Claudia?” “There!!! They're flying!?” Inés said. “Nooo!! They´re becoming vampires!!” Carmen said. “And their bodies are exploding” Ana said. “We must go on or we are going to die!” Eva said. “Auchhh! I want to dance! //♪and gozadera is here...♪//” Diego was singing. “Shut up!!!!” everyone said at the same time. “You´re so annoying Diego!!” Aitana told him. “And you so pretty honey!” Diego replied. “Stupid...” everyone said again. The 2ºA survivors (until that moment) went to eat something to a McDonald´s. They were thinking about everything that had happened in the last hours of their lives when a bomb fell and all 2ºA survivors died. It was the worst Halloween night ever. Nowadays, nobody knows why 2ºA CLASS died that awful night. People think that the person who organized everything was their school tutor, Noelia García.

2º ESO B - ISMAEL CARBALLAR DEL VALLE

It was Halloween night. I looked out the front window at my house and saw a light. It was a mild light, and the street was very dark. I lived in a village with my two brothers and my parents, but that night my grandparents came. I was a little bit scared, so I thought “be calm, it is a funny night, put your costume on and...” Ti-ti ti- ti. The light was trembling. Now I was a little bit more scared. After that, I turned around and... “Aaaaah!” There there was my mother and she said to me: “Shhh! The dinner is ready. Your grandparents are waiting for you, and now, go to the living room.” When she turned around, I saw a spider running on hes neck. I shouted, but when I blinked again there was nothing. “What is wrong with you?” said my mother. “No..No...Nothing, sorry.” “Ok, now go to the living room.” “Ok, I´m sorry mum.” When she disappeared, I thought: “Something is wrong here.” At that moment I was really scared and nervous. After that, I went to my bedroom, but my lovely cat wasn’t there. I started looking for him, but it was not there. Suddenly, the light turned off. Tu-tum Tu-tum Tu- tum. I turned around, but I could not see anything. Tu-tum Tu-tum Tu-tum. Someone was walking. Tu-tum Tu-tum Tu-tum. When the light turned on, I jumped and shouted, but there was my little sister laughing. “Oh, you are silly, Marta, don´t scare me.” “After that, we went to the living room. All the family was there. They were very serious and calmed. All of them look at us, and after that they did not say anything and continued eating a strange soup... with... eyes? I looked around but my sister was not there. I was really scared, sweaty, and nervous. “Marta? Marta?” “Who are you talking to?” said my father. “To your third child, of course.” “I only have two children, you and Alice.” “Ok, it does not matter.” My voice was trembling, and I was really scared and very sweaty, because when I looked at him he had a bit of blood in the hands. I sat on the chair and, suddenly, there was a sound. Tin! The chicken was ready. When I looked around my mother was not there, but I thought: “It does not matter, they are your family and they love you” but in my head I was thinking that they were crazy. “The chicken is ready!” said my grandmother with a crazy face and smiling. After that, all the people started laughing and smiling. I made a nervous smile, but I was terrified. When she put the chicken on the table it was not like a chicken. “Eat it dear, it is delicious.” she said smiling. “O...O...O...Ok.” I ate it, but it was very disgusting. Suddenly... I heard a shout from Marta and after that my mother appeared smiling with a lot of blood, and all the people stood up and started smiling and laughing. “What is this?” I was terrified, very nervous and sweaty. “Roast cat…” said my grandmother. Everyone started laughing very loudly. I spat ... that thing, and I saw a lot of spiders running on the wall. I started crying... and I saw that my mother had a knife with a lot of blood on it. Then I asked: “How can you have done this?” I was crying a lot, and my grandma said: “We like roast cat, and now... we want to eat you, so you are the next.” I started shouting, crying and...

2º ESO C - PATRICIA GARCÍA BORDES

It was Halloween night. I looked out the front window at my house and saw a group of children asking for candies in the street in front of me. "Trick or treat! Trick or treat!" They were wearing costumes. One of them was a vampire, another one was a pumpkin, another was a skeleton and a little girl was a witch. At that moment an enormous dark cloud appeared over them. They looked at it frightened. I heard a terrible noise and, suddenly, the vampire disappeared! The children screamed. I was terrified. I tried to leave my house to help them but I couldn´t open the door. It was closed. I run to the window and just at that moment the pumpkin disappeared too. The skeleton and the witch were running towards my house. I opened the window and shouted: "Come in! Come in!" But there was only the little witch. She was alone. She was crying. "Where are my friends?" she said. I took my hand out of the window to hold the little girl. Suddenly, I heard a voice saying: "You can´t do anything to help her now. She´s mine". And before I could hold her she disappeared too! I've never seen them since then. But every year on Halloween I can hear them laughing and saying "Trick or treat! Trick or treat...! If you don´t give us any candy, you´ll come with us".

Halloween contest

Halloween is just around the corner and I want you to participate in a contest. The instructions are very easy: starting with the sentence I give you, just use your imagination and write the most frightening and scary story that you can think about. Use the forms below to send your stories. The best one in every class will have a special prize!!

Due date: October 30th

Good luck!

Evolution of Music

Last week we were talking about music in our 2ºESO classes. We learnt about instruments and also about the different types of music.

Watch this video to make a "tour" of the evolution of music with the awesome Pentatonix guys. They are incredible! And remember what I told you: "You have to expand your music horizons!" :D

Enjoy!

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Dear students,

first of all, I hope you all have a wonderful Easter break. Just in case you get bored, find nothing to do and feel like doing something to improve your English, here you have a book worth reading (it's the whole book in .pdf format)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Christmas Haikus (2ºESO)

Paula and Marta 'reciting' their Haikus :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

And the winners are...

Judith Chicharro Sanz. 1º ESO A 

It was a cold Halloween night when I saw a haunted house .The house was very awful. In the house lived four ghosts and one witch. The witch told me: 'come here', and I came in. The witch put me in a jar and she put her black cat around me. The ghosts came to the jar and said to me: 'you can't escape', and I fainted. 

When I woke up I saw a little black cat in front of me. The witch put me in a very big candle and to turn me into a WAX STATUE. The people said if you come to the hunted house... YOU TURN INTO A WAX STATUE and you torment the rest of the people... HELP ME PLEASE !!! I'm a WAX STATUE ... 

THE END...I think so but...the history doesn't finish here... 

Beatriz Luis Magdaleno. 1º ESO B 

It was a cold Halloween night when I saw an old cemetery. There were many open tombs. I was scared because in the holes of the open tombs there were dead people. I walked around the cemetery to investigate this strange place but, suddenly, I heard a noise and I ran to it. I saw something that moved in the hole of one tomb and zombies began to go out of all the tombs. They were green frightening creatures, dressed with old clothes and full of blood. I ran to the forest next to the cemetery but the zombies ran behind me. I arrived at a mysterious mansion, I entered in it and I closed the door behind me. I was in an old room; there were a lot of pictures and strange statues. Then, I heard the zombies outside and when I thought that the zombies were going to kill me, I woke up. Everything had been a terrible dream of a scary Halloween’s night! 

Pablo Cardo Culebras. 1º ESO C 

It was a cold Halloween night when I saw a boy going to a party where he meet a lovely girl. He asked her to dance, the girl accepted, and they continued dancing and talking all night long. The party was almost over so they decided to go home. When they went outside they realized that it was really late, the girl dind`t have a jacket. So the boy lent her his jacket. The next the day the boy went to the girl's house. He rang at the door. The old man told that his daughter died one year ago. And the boy didn´t belive it. So he went to the tomb where he found his jacket... 

Juan Carlos Cano. 2º ESO A 

If I could be whatever I want I would like to be an invisible man. It would be great, because you could do anything you have ever imagined: you could have a really interesting job, a spy, because nobody could see you; you could slip in many places, like football stadiums... but the best part is that you could do as many jokes as you want. 

Marta Pérez Villarrubia. 2º ESO B 

I think I would be a terrifying and bloody clown, I guess like a clown and a zombie together because I like the mix, I would be a "clownbie", why not? I would scare a lot of people around the world. The first place that I would go would be my house to scare my sister because it would be very funny! That would be great! I think I would live on the moon and on every 31st of October I would scare thousands of people! 

Diana Briceño Montoya. 2º ESO C 

I would like to be Marilyn Monroe Zombie, because I want to teach how to act in the scene. I would be dead so a lot of people would be scared, but it's Halloween so some people would think that it's a costume. I would go to Madrid because is the capital of Spain and there I would go to Gran Vía because there are a lot of musicals and I would act in my last performance, which I couldn't do before because I was dead. 

Nerea Oñate García. 1º Bachillerato A 

Hi, today I'm here to write the best story of Halloween ever. 

On 31st of October 2010 I was thinking what I could wear to make the scariest costume. I thought about a skeleton, that's scary but not enough; or a zombie, but this is very common so I surfed on the internet and I found a really great idea... So I decided to make this but it was very complicated and I spent a lot of time... but the result was really awesome. My costume was an Old Woman Witch. Then, some friends went to Tato’s house and when we were watching a terror film, we started to hear strange noises. We thought that it was Tato’s dog but then Tato called her dog and it stayed with us watching the film but the strange noises continued louder and louder near the window. I looked at the window and I saw a strange figure that moved to the other side but I thought that it was just my imagination. But five minutes later, Maria said that she had seen something like that. We thought that it was only a shadow of the street. The strange noises continued and we decided to find what was making that. We came out to the terrace but there wasn’t anything so we continued searching for it and when we were going to the kitchen we saw it. It was a tall black figure like a man. We stayed in silence and when this thing was starting to say something I didn’t understand, Tato’s parents came and the strange figure vanished. We’ll never know what the strange figure was… 

Alberto Campos Santamaría. 1º Bachillerato B 

My best Halloween dates from 1823. I remember it very well, because it happened something really horrific. 

I was in London, it was cold and foggy, I was going to a party, a costume party, but this party turned into a nightmare party. When I arrived everything was going very good, the people were very happy, dancing and joking, but a strange noise came from the street and we went out to see what happened. In the street there was a man on the floor, without his head, full of blood and the innards out of his body. We were shocked and we tried to call the police, but the police was in another town, because some people were fighting, and they had to go there. We were alone. Sam, who was very brave went next to the man, took him and threw him into the river Thames, it was the worst mistake in his life. We tried to continue with the party, but it was impossible, of course. Sam was very strange, he was cold, and with high fever. Tim, his best friend, went near him, but Sam attacked Tim one time, and other time, and another, and another until Sam killed Tim. And then he attacked all the people, and they became like Sam. It was because the strange dead man was a zombie, and he infected Sam, and Sam infected all the people. I was in danger and I ran all I could, but it wasn't enough. They caught me, but a man frightened them away. He was a zombie-haunter, and my salvation. He took me away, to a safe place, and he gave me a shotgun, he told me that the zombies will be there in a few minutes, and we had to fight. The zombies arrived and we started to shot them and kill them, until the man without head arrived. He was a superzombie, and we couldn't kill him because he was immortal. First he killed the zombie-haunter and then............. 

BOOOM!!! I woke up and went to school. It was only a dream. A bad dream.

Back to work

We're back! I hope you all had a great summer, but now it's time to get back to work. You still have a few more days before you start school and I'm really looking forward having you there again.

Here you have a video with some of the work that the students in 2ºESO made last year. I don't have them in my class this year and I will miss them. That's why I want to share this video with you, to remember them and all the great work they did.

Hope you enjoy... and... WELCOME BACK!!!

Improve your grammar skills

Hi! I hope you had a wonderful Easter break but now it's over and we have to get back to work. I promised you I'd post some web links with grammar activities for you to review and improve your grammar skills. Here you have some of them to dig up your abilities after the time off.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/

http://www.ego4u.com/

http://a4esl.org/

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-english-grammar-exercises.html

http://english-zone.com/index.php

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/

Enjoy! :D

Do you like music?

It's been a long time since I wrote the last entry, but here we are again to keep on learning English.

This time it's all about music! In the following website you will find tons of songs to listen to and, at the same time, to practice your listening skills while you complete the lyrics of your favourite songs. You will find different levels of difficulty so you can improve your English depending on your needs. Enjoy!!

Lyrics training

Merry Christmas!!

The students in 2º ESO wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with the Christmas carol Maria taught them. 

Enjoy your holidays!!

Music Glogs (2º ESO)

These are the music glogs that my students in 2º ESO made about their favourite bands or singers. I hope you like them.

2º ESO A
Ne-Yo - Javier Abad
Rihanna - Andrea Alegría
Elvis Presley - Marco Alonso
The Rolling Stones - Álvaro Berdasco
Michael Jackson - Sandra Cáceres
Eminem - Arturo Carrera
Eminem - María Crisol
Beyoncé - Claudia de Dueñas
David Guetta - Jose Fernando Duque
The Wanted - Athena Escalante
David Guetta - Jesús Escribano
Rihanna - Laura Espín
Rihanna - Ana Frías
Katy Perry - Sonia Gómez
Avril Lavigne - Shelia Gonzáles
Rihanna - Irene González
Snoop Dogg - Geovany Linero
Jessie J - Valeria Medina
Maroon 5 - Rosángela Navarrete
Jennifer López - Irene Plaza
Remi Gaillard - Daniel Sánchez
Green Day - Alejandro Tajahuerce

2º ESO B
J. Alvarez - Jonatan Aguilar
Arcangel - Diego Arce
LMFAO - Sergio Arpa
Beyoncé - Josselin Vanessa Carrillo
Rihanna - Sara Fuente
Tokio Hotel - Julia Gómez
Pitbull - María Mateos
Alicia Keys - Lucía Ortega
Ska-P - Gema París
The Black Eyed Peas - David Peña
Pitbull - Andrés Pinza
U2 - Alejandro Pola
Coldplay - Mercedes del Pozo
Bruno Mars - Paula Sánchez
DJ Tiesto & DJ Kilian - Javier Sánchez
The Strokes - Carlos Sanz
Madonna - Ángela Saralegui
Rihanna - Beatriz Serrano
Lady Gaga - Marta Somavilla
Eric Saade - Belén Valdivieso
David Guetta - Diego del Valle
Katy Perry - Andrea Vallejo
Florida - Jaime Vecina
Daddy Yankee - Alfredo Zúñiga

2º ESO C
LMFAO - Cristian Dumitru
The Black Eyed Peas - Manuel Escribano
Michael Jackson - Alberto Gil
Bob Marley - Andrés Gómez
Simple Plan - Ignacio González
Jennifer López - Kimberly González
David Guetta - Pablo González
Celine Dion - Héctor Gutiérrez
Katy Perry - Alberto Guzmán
Lilly Allen - María Herrero
Rihanna - Claudia Hormaechea
ACDC - Miguel Jiménez
Emily Osment - Ruth López
The Black Eyed Peas - Cristina Llorente
Demi Lovato - Lorena Marca
Michael Jackson - Marina Marsá
Katy Perry - Raquel Martín
The Beatles - María Martínez
The Black Eyed Peas - Pedro Moncayola
Lady Gaga - Esther Moreno
David Guetta - Patricia Navascuez
Amy Winehouse - Alba Parra
Maldita Nerea - Victoria Ramos

Glogster tutorial (2º ESO)

I found this very easy Glogster tutorial on YouTube. Here you have this little help in case you missed something yesterday when we talked about how to use it and how to create our music glog.

Remember that you can't use only pictures and videos and that you have to write some text about the group, band, singer or type of music you choose. Be original! We will vote and post here the best ones.

Welcome back!

Tomorrow is the day. A new school year is about to begin for all of us. Some of you already know this place from last year and you know what we're going to use it for, more or less.  The 'new' ones, my new students in 1º ESO and 1º Bachillerato, don't worry because you will get used to it in just a minute.
Feel free to use the blog as much as you want, write comments, give ideas, ask questions to me and to your classmates... and many more things. I really hope we can get a lot out of this.
Let me start the year with a funny video about why it's important to speak a second language.

I hope you have a great start tomorrow and, of course, a great great year.

PS. Students from last year are also welcome to keep visiting and using the blog. I'm not going to be your teacher but I'm still here for you :P

London WebQuest for 2º ESO

Hello there!

Yeah, yeah, I know... we don't start school again until tomorrow... but I have some time now... so here you (2º ESO) have your project for this term. You are going to make a WebQuest!

And you will wonder... what is that?? Well, it's like a treasure hunt on the Internet, where you have to find the information that you are asked to in order to achieve a goal. You will find all the information that you need in order to complete this activity in the document below these lines.. You just have to download it from SlideShare.  As you will read, the final purpose of the whole thing is to do a presentation in class. And... who knows? Maybe we can post some of your presentations here!

Oh, I forgot... DEADLINE: June 6th. You have an entire month to do a great job! And, of course, to have fun doing it!!

C u 2morrow!

Londonwebquest

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