domingo, 2 de febrero de 2020

Solar Panels

Los paneles solares son dispositivos que aprovechan la luz del sol para generar calor o electricidad.

Para funcionar, los paneles solares necesitan unas células solares compuestas de silicio en la que la radiación recibida del sol se convierte en energía eléctrica. Estas células se encuentran en la estructura de aluminio que forman los paneles solares.
Los paneles solares producen energía solar que es un tipo de energía renovable. Las energías renovables son ilimitadas, es decir, no se gastan por más que se usen.
Los días de sol que hay al año dependen de cada sitio. En Extremadura, tenemos 130 días de sol al año. Es la segunda región (después de Andalucía) con más horas de sol, concretamente 3.106 horas al año.

En los colegios gastamos mucha energía para poder tener luz en todos los lugares y calefacción / aire acondicionado durante el invierno / verano
 






¿Y si ayudamos a nuestro cole con paneles solares?







viernes, 4 de octubre de 2019

Would you rather...?

Hi dear students!

The week is getting over so it is time to take a break and just talk with our classmates a little bit.

What are we going to do? In this post you can find different questions attached. Please read them, ask me any doubt and ask and answer with your pair all of them.


Skills: reading, listening and speaking

Happy!

Hi everyone!

Do you remember the film we watched last week? Exactly! Minions!

Now it is time to focus on one of its song (Happy) and try to understand what it says. In this activity you will have to play the song and try to fill the gaps in the lyrics. Please do not watch the video while doing the activity, wacth it at the end just to check your answers.


Happy
It might seem ........ what I'm 'bout to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to ........
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way
Huh, because I'm .........
Clap along if you feel like a room without a .......
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like ........ is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Here come bad ........, talking this and that
(Yeah) Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back
(Yeah) Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine
(Yeah) No offense to you, don't waste your ......
Here's why
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a ....... without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the ........
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm .......
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Hey, come on, uh
Bring me down, can't nuthin' (happy)
Bring me down
My level is too high to bring me down (happy)
Can't nuthin', bring me down (happy)
I said, let me tell you now, unh (happy)
Bring me down, can't nuthin', bring me down (happy, happy, happy)
My level is too high to bring me down (happy, happy, happy)
Can't nuthin' bring me down (happy, happy, happy)
I said
Because I'm .......
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like ........ is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm ........
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm ........
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what ........ is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Come on, unh bring me down can't nuthin' (happy, happy, happy)
Bring me down my level is too high (happy, happy, happy)
Bring me down can't nuthin' (happy, happy, happy)
Bring me down, I said
Because I'm ........
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like ......... is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you, eh eh eh
Because I'm ........
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm ..........
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what ........ is to you, eh hey
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do, heh come on

Skills: listening

The boy who cried wolf


Hi students!

In this activity we are going to work with the story “The man who cried wolf”. Please, read the story very carefully and complete the following tasks:

The boy who cried wolf

Once upon a time, there lived a shepherd boy who was bored watching his flock of sheep on the hill. To amuse himself, he shouted, “Wolf! Wolf! The sheep are being by the wolf!” The villagers came running to help the boy and save the sheep. They found nothing and the boy just laughed looking at their angry faces.

“Don’t cry ‘wolf’ when there’s no wolf boy!”, they said angrily and left. The boy just laughed at them.
After a while, he got bored and cried ‘wolf!’ again, fooling the villagers a second time. The angry villagers warned the boy a second time and left. The boy continued watching the flock. After a while, he saw a real wolf and cried loudly, “Wolf! Please help! The wolf is chasing the sheep. Help!”
But this time, no one turned up to help. By evening, when the boy didn’t return home, the villagers wondered what happened to him and went up the hill. The boy sat on the hill weeping. “Why didn’t you come when I called out that there was a wolf?” he asked angrily. “The flock is scattered now”, he said.
An old villager approached him and said, “People won’t believe liars even when they tell the truth. We’ll look for your sheep tomorrow morning. Let’s go home now”.


1.- Read the text and search for any word you don’t know the meaning. You can search for the word in this link: Word Reference

2.- What is the title of the story?

3.- Who is the protagonist?

4.- What happens to him?

5.- Did people believe him at the beginning?

6.- And at the end? Why/why not?

7.- What is the moral of the story?

8.- Write your opinion about the story.


Skills: reading and writing

My day


Hi everyone!

This activity consists on organizing the following pictures in sequence and writing the story about them.

The pictures show the daily routine of a boy of your age, so if there is something else you want to include, you can do it in the proper place of the sequence.

Best,

Teacher Marta

 Skills: writing

First activity: let's create our menu!


Hi dear students!

We have been studying in this unit different types of food. Now it is time for you to practise and create your own menu!

You will find a "Weekly meal planner template" attached in this post. Think about the different food items we have studied and complete your day on it.

Once everybody has finished with their day, we will put in common all our days and we will create our own weekly meal planner.

Enjoy the activity and feel free to ask me any question!

Best,

Teacher Marta



Here you are a link in order to remind you different kind of food items: Food items

Skills: writing
Clarification: the class will be divided into 7 different groups so that each group can be in charge of one day of the week.  

jueves, 3 de octubre de 2019

Welcome on board!

Hi everyone!

I am very glad to welcome to the new blog "Learning English: such an experience!"

We will be using this blog along the English course and it is very important that we all together do our best in order to have it really up-date. How are we going to do this? No worries!

Every week there would be one person in charge of posting any activity, video, pictures, or just to tell us about his or her weekend in the blog. By the end of the course, we will have a brilliant blog full of all our memories! Will you join us?

This is everything by the moment so let's start!

Regards,

Teacher Marta


Solar Panels

Los paneles solares son dispositivos que aprovechan la luz del sol para generar calor o electricidad. Para funcionar, los paneles sol...