27th September 2020
¡Hola a todos! Empieza un nuevo curso y queremos dar la bienvenida a todo nuestro alumnado de 2º de ESO! Recordad que además de libro de texto y las explicaciones de vuestros profesores, podéis consultar en este blog posibles dudas que os encontréis durante el curso, y encontraréis diversas actividades para practicar los puntos gramaticales o el vocabulario estudiado en clase.
INTERESTING WEBS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH
A continuación te sugerimos algunas webs donde puedes encontrar explicaciones gramaticales, ejercicios, juegos de vocabulario, etc. Entra en ellas y aprende por ti mismo...
1.- http://www.saberingles.com.ar/Resources for students of English of all levels, teachers and translators. A good way to learn or improve your English in an entertaining way.
2.-http://www.woodwardenglish.com/ Interesting website where you can find grammar, vocabulary, interactive games, explanations about confusing words…
3.- Learn English Feel Good: on this web you can find lots of excercises to practise grammar and the ke
4.- Perfect English Grammar is another interesting web where you can practise tenses and many other grammar points.
BILINGUAL PROJECT: THE FOOD PYRAMID
Nuestros alumnos del grupo bilingüe 2º ESO B/C han demostrado que el trabajo en grupo no terminó con las reuniones para elaborar su proyecto bilingüe que giraba en torno a la nutrición; la exposición de éste en clase ha sido para todos sus compañeros y compañeras una lección de organización y cooperación y ha servido para transmitir que los contenidos aprendidos no se quedaron en una cartulina o en un pen drive . ¡Enhorabuena, chicos, WELL DONE!
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Lectura graduada para el 2º trimestre:
A Ghost Collection
The Ghosts of Dodson Hall
Sally Brown: a 12-year-old girl. Miss Dodson: an old woman. Nancy: the ghost of a young girl. Tim: the ghost of a young boy.
The Priest Hole
THE MAGIC PEN
Nuestros alumnos del grupo bilingüe 2º ESO B/C han demostrado que el trabajo en grupo no terminó con las reuniones para elaborar su proyecto bilingüe que giraba en torno a la nutrición; la exposición de éste en clase ha sido para todos sus compañeros y compañeras una lección de organización y cooperación y ha servido para transmitir que los contenidos aprendidos no se quedaron en una cartulina o en un pen drive . ¡Enhorabuena, chicos, WELL DONE!
Lectura graduada para el 2º trimestre:
A Ghost Collection
List of Characters:
Sally Brown: a 12-year-old girl. Miss Dodson: an old woman. Nancy: the ghost of a young girl. Tim: the ghost of a young boy.
The Priest Hole
Harry York: a 13-year-old boy at a boarding school. Simon and Paul: Harry’s roommates. Priest: a ghost at the school. Mr Field: the headmaster.
Sarah’s New House
Sarah Miller: a young girl. Mr and Mrs Miller: Sarah’s parents. Annie: the ghost of a young girl. Mr Ross: the previous owner of Sarah’s new house.
Plot summaries (Resumen/Argumento de las historias)
The Ghosts of Dodson Hall:
During World War II, Sally leaves London and goes to live with Miss Dodson in a big old house in the country. One day, while Sally is exploring the house, she sees a girl and a boy. The girl says “Mee Lee” and then disappears. Sally tries to learn more about the children, but according to Miss Dodson, there are no other children in the house. Sally sees the boy and girl a few more times and realises that they are ghosts. One night, the children are in her bedroom. Sally is scared, but she decides to question them. The girl tells her they’re looking for a locket, and then she disappears. Miss Dodson hears Sally shouting and comes into the room. Sally tells her about the ghost children and the word “Mee Lee”. Miss Dodson identifies the ghosts as her childhood friends, Tim and Nancy, because Mee Lee is what they called her. Miss Dodson has still got Nancy’s locket. Many years before, Nancy broke it and Miss Dodson wanted to repair it for her. But Nancy and Tim died in a fire and Miss Dodson couldn’t return the locket. Sally and Miss Dodson leave it on the kitchen table for Nancy to find. In the morning, the kitchen table is empty. Tim and Nancy never visit the house again.
The Priest Hole
Harry goes to study at a boarding school. Every night, a priest comes into Harry’s room and asks him to “Pray for the priest”. Simon and Paul can’t see the priest and they think Harry is crazy. Soon, all the boys at the school are laughing at Harry. One night Harry argues with the priest. Simon and Paul hear Harry shouting. Then, a prefect sends the boys to the showers. When they return, the room is in chaos and there is a message on the mirror: “I’m here! Why don’t you help me?” According to Harry, the priest wrote it. The next morning, Harry tells Mr Field about the priest. Mr Field believes Harry’s story because he slept in the same room in the past, and also saw a priest. Harry, Simon and Paul move to another room and Mr Field decides to turn their old room into a television room. Builders come to decorate it. They find a wooden panel under the wallpaper. There’s a skeleton in the space behind the panel. Two forensic scientists examine the skeleton and they also discover other spaces in the walls. The spaces are “priest holes” and the skeleton in the wall was probably once a priest. Mr Field decides to give the skeleton a Catholic funeral and Harry becomes famous in the school because he saw and spoke to a ghost.
Sarah’s New House
Sarah and her parents move to a new house. Sarah finds the key to the attic inside a chest of drawers. In the attic, she finds many boxes and an old mirror. Inside one box is a beautiful dress. She holds the dress in front of her and looks in the mirror. She sees a strange girl in the mirror with her. Sarah is frightened. The girl has got a cruel laugh. Sarah doesn’t tell anybody about her. Later, Sarah and her father visit Mr Ross. Mr Ross tells them about the house’s history. His grandmother lived there for many years. She had a sister named Annie, and Annie died at the age of 14. Sarah returns to the new house and is shocked because Mrs Miller has put the mirror from the attic in Sarah’s bedroom. Sarah sees Annie’s ghost in the mirror and covers it with a blanket. She decides to go to the attic and talk to Annie. They argue. Annie is angry because Mr Ross sold the house to Sarah’s parents. Suddenly, Sarah feels herself transforming into Annie. Sarah is very frightened. Then, she hears her mother’s voice and opens her eyes. She’s in her bed in her old house. Sarah is happy because it was just a bad dream. But then her mother shows her a lovely dress. She found it at the new house, in the attic!
THE MAGIC PEN
LIST OF MAIN CHARACTERSDavid Barnes: a 13-year-old boy from Durham, England. Alan Reed: Jimmy’s 14-year-old brother.
Mrs Carter: David’s history teacher. William Reed: Jimmy’s father.
Ann Collins: a student in David’s class. James Reed: Jimmy’s grandson.
Jimmy Reed: a student at David’s school in 1906.
P L O T S U M M A RY
One day, David arrives late at school for a history lesson. Someone is sitting in his place, so he goes and
gets an old desk from the storeroom. Mrs Carter asks everyone to write about life in Durham in 1906.
David uses an old pen and some ink he finds in the desk, and is very surprised when the pen starts to write
by itself. The pen writes the title My Life by Jimmy Reed in David’s notebook. Then it begins to write about
the life of a boy who lived in Durham in the year 1906. In the story, it is Jimmy Reed’s 13th birthday.
Jimmy’s brother, Alan, is starting to work in a coal mine with his father. Jimmy doesn’t want to work in the
mine. He wants to be an artist. When the school bell rings, the pen stops writing.
In the next history lesson, David uses the old pen again and it continues to write by itself. It writes about
Jimmy’s day at school and begins to draw a picture of the Wright Brothers’ flying machine.
Mrs Carter is
very surprised when she sees the picture. David tries to explain that he isn’t drawing the picture himself,
but Mrs Carter doesn’t believe him. Ann Collins sits at the desk in front of David and hears the
conversation. She believes him.
Suddenly, the pen begins to write about an accident at the mine and in the
following history lesson, it continues the story. Jimmy’s father and brother were in the accident and Jimmy
was worried about them. The pen then draws a picture of Mr Reed and Alan. Mrs Carter is very pleased
when she sees the story. She decides that she’s going to enter it in the school writing competition when it’s
finished.
That night, David dreams that he’s in the mine when the roof starts to fall. He wakes up suddenly.
The next day, David celebrates his 14th birthday.
Ann finds a painting of William and Alan Reed in an art
shop and she gives it to David as a present. That night, David has another dream about the accident in the
mine. In the morning, he is very impatient to discover what happened to Alan and Mr Reed. He tries to use
the magic pen again, but there isn’t any ink in the bottle.
After school, David and Ann buy a bottle of ink at
the art shop and return to the classroom. The pen still doesn’t write, so they go to the library to find
information about the accident in the mine. They learn that Mr Reed and Alan survived. They also discover
that Jimmy became a famous artist. They find original paintings by Jimmy Reed in the Durham Art Gallery.
When David returns to the classroom, he doesn’t notice that the new bottle of ink isn’t closed. It falls and
the ink covers Jimmy’s story. David writes the story again and adds an ending. He wins the writing
competition and the local newspaper publishes the story. James Reed reads the story and visits David at
school. David learns that Jimmy Reed was a student at the school and they find his name inside the old
desk.
At the beginning, Jimmy’s pen wrote in David’s notebook, but in the end, David wrote the story
himself. The magic pen inspired him.
Mrs Carter: David’s history teacher. William Reed: Jimmy’s father.
Ann Collins: a student in David’s class. James Reed: Jimmy’s grandson.
Jimmy Reed: a student at David’s school in 1906.
P L O T S U M M A RY
One day, David arrives late at school for a history lesson. Someone is sitting in his place, so he goes and
gets an old desk from the storeroom. Mrs Carter asks everyone to write about life in Durham in 1906.
David uses an old pen and some ink he finds in the desk, and is very surprised when the pen starts to write
by itself. The pen writes the title My Life by Jimmy Reed in David’s notebook. Then it begins to write about
the life of a boy who lived in Durham in the year 1906. In the story, it is Jimmy Reed’s 13th birthday.
Jimmy’s brother, Alan, is starting to work in a coal mine with his father. Jimmy doesn’t want to work in the
mine. He wants to be an artist. When the school bell rings, the pen stops writing.
In the next history lesson, David uses the old pen again and it continues to write by itself. It writes about
Jimmy’s day at school and begins to draw a picture of the Wright Brothers’ flying machine.
Mrs Carter is
very surprised when she sees the picture. David tries to explain that he isn’t drawing the picture himself,
but Mrs Carter doesn’t believe him. Ann Collins sits at the desk in front of David and hears the
conversation. She believes him.
Suddenly, the pen begins to write about an accident at the mine and in the
following history lesson, it continues the story. Jimmy’s father and brother were in the accident and Jimmy
was worried about them. The pen then draws a picture of Mr Reed and Alan. Mrs Carter is very pleased
when she sees the story. She decides that she’s going to enter it in the school writing competition when it’s
finished.
That night, David dreams that he’s in the mine when the roof starts to fall. He wakes up suddenly.
The next day, David celebrates his 14th birthday.
Ann finds a painting of William and Alan Reed in an art
shop and she gives it to David as a present. That night, David has another dream about the accident in the
mine. In the morning, he is very impatient to discover what happened to Alan and Mr Reed. He tries to use
the magic pen again, but there isn’t any ink in the bottle.
After school, David and Ann buy a bottle of ink at
the art shop and return to the classroom. The pen still doesn’t write, so they go to the library to find
information about the accident in the mine. They learn that Mr Reed and Alan survived. They also discover
that Jimmy became a famous artist. They find original paintings by Jimmy Reed in the Durham Art Gallery.
When David returns to the classroom, he doesn’t notice that the new bottle of ink isn’t closed. It falls and
the ink covers Jimmy’s story. David writes the story again and adds an ending. He wins the writing
competition and the local newspaper publishes the story. James Reed reads the story and visits David at
school. David learns that Jimmy Reed was a student at the school and they find his name inside the old
desk.
At the beginning, Jimmy’s pen wrote in David’s notebook, but in the end, David wrote the story
himself. The magic pen inspired him.
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