PRESENT SIMPLE&PRESENT CONTINUOUS

THEORY
explanation in Spanish
theory and exercises
Grammar explanation
explanation in Spanish
power point with explanations in Spanish
grammar explanation with exercises
grammar explanation
present simple/continuous
exercises
more exercises
LISTENINGS
The daily schedule
A typical day for a child in Britain
The present simple with the Simpsons
the present simple with animated cartoon sections
How well do you know the Simpsons?
describing a cat´s life
pronunciation of the final /Z/ and /s/ of the third person singular final S
VIDEOS
explanation of present simple versus present continuous
GAMES
famous people and characters
SONGS
Listen to the song and write the verbs in the PRESENT SIMPLE or CONTINUOUS

Early morning, she _______ (WAKE)up
Knock, knock, knock on the door
It's time for make-up, perfect smile
It's you they____ all ____ (WAIT)for
They go,
"Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?"
And they say,

She's so lucky, she's a star 
But she cry, cry, ______(CRY) in her lonely heart, thinking
If there's nothing missing in my life
Then why ____ these tears _____(COME) at night?

Lost in an image, in a dream
But there's no one there to wake her up
And the world ___________(SPIN), and she ________(KEEP) on winning
But tell me what ________(HAPPEN) when it _______(STOP)?
They go,
"Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?"
And they say,

"Best actress, and the winner is, Lucky!"
"I'm Roger Johnson for Pop News standing outside the arena waiting for Lucky."
"Oh my god, here she ________(COME)!"

Isn't she lucky, this Hollywood girl?
She is so lucky, but why ______ she _______(CRY)?
If there's nothing missing in her life
Why _____tears ______(COME) at night?

NOW  check your answers clicking on the the following address:
VIDEO WITH THE LYRIC

              "Fix You" by COLDPLAY

  Listen to the song and look up for the stative verbs

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I...

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your face
And I...

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIRONMENT

Global warming is a serious issue affecting the very home we all share.  Have you noticed the strange and unpredictable  weather patterns that are occurring around the globe? Does it seem as though winter weather seems to be shifting further in the season than usual?  Without taking the steps to reduce green house gases and pollutants entering our atmosphere, conditions will continue to worsen creating a world much different from what have experienced in our lifetime for the next generations to come.  Polar Ice caps are melting soon to leave many animals with no home.

Watch this  video about GLOBAL WARMING and look at the ways of brainstorming, taking notes and developing ideas.

A list of vocabulary items related to the environment( SOME OF THE WORDS HAVE BEEN TRASLATED INTO SPANISH):

Important environment issues, natural environmental disasters and other environment vocabulary.(taken from Jhttp://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/vocabulary-lesson-environment.php

acid rain(lluvia ácida)

rain which contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil.

biodegradable

able to decay naturally and harmlessly.

Biodegradable packaging helps to limit the amount of harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere.

biodiversity

the number and variety of plant and animal species that exist in a particular environmental area or in the world generally, or the problem of preserving and protecting this.

a new National Biological Survey to protect species habitat and biodiversity.

carbon monoxide

the poisonous gas formed by the burning of carbon, especially in the form of car fuel.

carbon dioxide

the gas formed when carbon is burned, or when people or animals breathe out.

climate

the general weather conditions usually found in a particular place.

The Mediterranean climate is good for growing citrus fruits and grapes.

climate change(cambio climático)

there has been a growing concern about climate change.

deforestation

the cutting down of trees in a large area; the destruction of forests by people.

Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.

desertification

the process by which land changes into desert.

disposable products(productos desechables)

describes an item that is intended to be thrown away after use.

disposable nappies

drought(sequía)

a long period when there is little or no rain.

This year (a) severe drought has ruined the crops.

Earthquake(terremoto)

a sudden violent movement of the Earth's surface, sometimes causing great damage.

endangered species(species en peligro de extinción)

endangered birds/plants/species animals or plants which may soon not exist because there are very few now alive.

energy

the power from something such as electricity or oil, which can do work, such as providing light and heat. There are different types of energy: solar, nuclear, hydroelectric...

The energy generated by the windmill drives all the drainage pumps.

energy conservation

the process of conserving energy

environment(medio ambiente)

the air, water and land in or on which people, animals and plants live.

Certain chemicals have been banned because of their damaging effect on the environment.

extinction

Many species of plants and animals are in danger of/threatened with extinction (= being destroyed so that they no longer exist)

Flood(inundación)

a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.

fumes

strong, unpleasant and sometimes dangerous gas or smoke.

Petrol fumes always make me feel ill.

natural resources(recursos naturales)

things such as minerals, forests, coal, etc. which exist in a place and can be used by people.

Some natural resources, such as natural gas and fossil fuel, cannot be replaced.

global warming(calentamiento global)

a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by polluting gases such as carbon dioxide which are collecting in the air around the Earth and preventing heat escaping into space.

greenhouse effect(efecto invernadero)

an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere which is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the Earth.

green peace

an organization that fights for the protection of the environment.

renewable energy(energía renovable)

describes a form of energy that can be produced as quickly as it is used.

renewable energy sources such as wind and wave power

oil slick(chapapote)

a layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea, usually because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container.

ozone layer(capa de ozono)

a layer of air high above the Earth, which contains a lot of ozone, and which prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the Earth.

Scientists believe that there is a hole in the ozone layer.

Pollution(contaminación)

damage caused to water, air.... by harmful substances or waste.

recycle waste(residuos reciclables)

to collect and treat rubbish to produce useful materials which can be used again.

sustainable development(desarrollo sostenible)

a development that is causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time.

A large international meeting was held with the aim of promoting sustainable development in all countries.

tsunami

an extremely large wave caused by movement of the earth under the sea, often caused by an earthquake (= when the Earth shakes)

unleaded petrol(petróleo sin plomo)

describes a type of petrol or other substance that does not contain lead.

use up natural resources( agotamiento de los recursos naturales)

The degradation of natural resources because of human pressure

volcano

a mountain with a large circular hole at the top through which lava (= hot liquid rock), gases, steam and dust are or have been forced out.

Erupting volcanoes discharge massive quantities of dust into the stratosphere.

Waste(residuos)

unwanted matter or material of any type, often that which is left after useful substances or parts have been removed.

Other related vocabulary: rubbish, garbage, trash.(basura o desechos)
MORE VOCABULARY
you´ll find some other interesting and helpful vocabulary in the following web site:environment vocabulary 

THE USE AND OMISSION OF THE ARTICLE

Theory

Sometimes the use or omission of the article is different in English and Spanish and  we don´t know how to use it properly.Here you are some interesting websites you can check out if you have any doubts.Try to do the exercises as well.
GRAMMAR
 Grammar explanation in English
indefinite articles
A,AN or THE?
grammar explanation in Spanish
grammar explanation in Spanish1
grammar explanation 2
grammar explanation3
grammar explanation4
tips from another blog to learn english
exercises
articles
grammar games with exercises
the article
A,AN,THE
Halloween
A,AN,THE GAME

QUANTIFIERS(some,any,how much,how many...,)3rd ESO STUDENTS

Hi 3rd ESO STUDENTS!
Here you are some practice to revise and reinforce the grammar point we have seen in class, good work!
GRAMMAR
uso de los cuantificadores en inglés
los cuantificadores en inglés
nombres contables e incontables
los cuantificadores
INTERACTIVE EXERCISES
a,an,some or any??
use of quantifiers
use of SOME and ANY
QUIZZ
containers
containers2
FOOD CROSSWORD
LISTENING
use of much/many/lots of/ a lot of
SONG 
Madonna Love profusion
Listen to this song and complete the blank spaces with:many,much,a,an,no.

There are too _______questions 
There is not one solution 
There is ____ resurrection 
There is so ____ confusion 

And the love profusion 
You make me feel 
You make me know 
And the love vibration 
You make me feel 
You make it shine 

There are too _____ options 
There is ______ consolation 
I have lost my illusions 
What I want is _____ explanation 

And the love profusion 
You make me feel 
You make me know 
And the love direction 
You make me feel 
You make me shine 
You make me feel 
You make me shine 
You make me feel 

I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 

There is ______ comprehension 
There is real isolation 
There is so ______ destruction 
What I want is ______ celebration 

And I know I can feel bad 
When I get in _______ bad mood 
And the world can look so sad 
Only you make me feel good 

I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 

I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 

And the love profusion 
You make me feel 
You make me know 
And the love intention 
You make me feel 
You make me shine 
You make me feel 
You make me shine 
You make me feel 

I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 
I got you under my skin 

And I know I can feel bad 
When I get in _____ bad mood 
And the world can look so sad 
Only you make me feel good
Some vocabulary from the song
profusion means abundance
The expression I´ve got you under my skin means I´m attracted to you.

English isn´t easy!!

THE WORD UP

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this ..

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is itUP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and thinkUP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. .A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!   To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can addUP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UPwith a hundred or more
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,for now my time is UP,
so.......it is time to shut UP!
Now it's UP to you what you do with this text.

Leftovers are the uneaten edible remains of a meal after the meal is over, and everyone has finished eating. Food scraps that are not considered edible.(restos de comida)
a topic comes up- un tema sale a colación
to be up to-afectar,interesar(it´s up to you)-eso depende de ti
If you are up to it-if you work on it.

FINE ARTS

This is the last Banksy piece, appeared in late April in central London. This is not a masterpiece but his social criticism is great.


BANKSY

Read about Banksy  in the following wikipedia link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
and answer the following questions.
1.What type of art is Banksy´s art?
2.Where can you find his piece of art?
3.When  did he become involved in grafitti?
4.What film was based on Banksy´s work?
LOOK at these graffittis and explain what Bansky wants to satirize or critizise:

  

Noma Bar

Avinoam Noma Bar, (born in 1973 in Israel) is a graphic designer. His work has appeared in many media outlets including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper* Bar has illustrated over sixty magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released two books of his work through Mark Batty Publisher: 'Guess Who - The Many Faces of Noma Bar', in 2008 and 'Negative Space' in early 2009.

Early life and career

Bar wanted to be an artist since he was a child.During the first Gulf War Bar discovered his interest in a unique combination of caricature and pictograms. While staying with his family in a shelter he sketched the likeness of Saddam Hussein around the radioactive symbol he found in a newspaper. After graduating in 2000 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with a degree in graphic design, Bar moved to London to pursue his career.He found his first commissioned assignment with Time Out London.

Bar was recently hired by BAFTA to illustrate the nominees for best picture of 2009 and his work is being shown at their Piccadilly headquarters.


ACTIVITY:
Look at these pieces of work.Try to give them a title and describe what you see in each picture.

Look at this blogpage to find more about his work:http://superbalanced.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/please-look-closely-at-these-fascinating-minimalist-illustrations-by-norma-bar-
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES by Renée Maufroid
ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

http://www.quia.com/pop/431094.html









MARY CASSATT

Mary Stevenson Cassatt ; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children


http://www.quia.com/rr/866804.html




COUPLES IN ART

http://www.quia.com/cz/446509.html?AP_rand=154632495































TOM WESSELMANN

Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.




http://www.quia.com/hm/791828.html

Famous People Painting Chinese Artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, 2006, oil on canvas

Click on the address below and you´ll see the picture in a bigger size,then move the mouse on each personality,their names will appear automatically .If you double click on them, you´ll go straight away to the wikipedia and will be able to read some information about them.
http://cliptank.com/ab/PeoplePainting3.htm

SONGS
Watch the video and identify as many famous paintings with their author as you can

70 Million by Hold Your Horses

If you couldn´t find all of them you may go to this blogpageshttp://rtfm.es/2010/03/05/de-viaje-por-la-historia-del-arte-con-hold-your-horses/  or  http://www.flavorwire.com/74342/hold-your-horses-name-that-painting where you´ll find more about each picture.
You can listen to the song again while you read the lyric:
And it hardly looked like a novel at all, 
I hardly look like a hero at all
And I'm sorry, you didn't publish this
And you were white as snow; I was white as a sheet

When you came down in this black dress
In your mom's black maternity dress
And so, 
Though it hardly looked like a novel at all, 
And the city treats me, it treats me to you
And a cup of coffee for you
I should learn it's language and speak it to you

And 70 million should be in the know
And 70 million don't go out at all
And 70 million wouldn't walk this street
And 70 million would run to a hole
And 70 million would be wrong wrong wrong
And 70 million never see it at all
And 70 million haven't tasted snow

And we dance dance dance like the children dance
Imply thought are we taking the chance?
With the light still on, and will we ever reach the tower

And after you came down in this black dress
I don't know what took so very long
And this, 
And this isn't a war, we don't have to ration
Now wave white flag, and you kept it at home
And words I wrote from a foreign land
You're holding my no longer foreign hand

And 70 million should be in the know
And 70 million don't go out at all
And 70 million wouldn't walk this street
And 70 million would run to a hole
And 70 million would be wrong wrong wrong
And 70 million never see it at all
And 70 million haven't tasted snow

Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land. 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now. 

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now. 

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you. 

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. 

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...