Dr JEKYLL AND MR HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson

What can a person do when he is pulled between the good and the bad inside him? Dr Jekyll, a scientist, uses chemistry to divide himself into two different bodies: good Dr Jekyll and evil Mr Hyde. But this does not make his life any simpler. Instead the conflict between the two parts becomes more and more violent. Which part will win?


Here is the audio material of the reading book:
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde




Worksheets to print: 14 th December

             


Test:     16th December

THE SWAN AND THE HITCH-HIKER by Roald Dahl

"The Swan" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It tells the story of Ernie, a teenager who receives a rifle for his birthday, and his friend Raymond. Ernie and Raymond go hunting in the countryside with the new gun. There they encounter Peter Watson, a 13-year-old whom the two boys often bully in school. Ernie and Raymond want to kill a swan sitting on her nest. Peter defends the bird and ...

In "The hitch-hiker", the narrator is driving a brand new BMW car, when he picks up a hitch-hiker. The hitch-hiker says that he is going to Epsom for the races because it is Derby Day. The hitch-hiker does not reveal why he was going there but says that he is not going to bet on horses.

Here is the audio material of the reading book:
The Swan and the Hitch-hiker


Worksheets to print:  12th December

               

Test:     15th December


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Roald Dahl was born on 13th September, 1916 in Llandaff, South Wales. Dahl's parents were Norwegian. His father died while Roald was still a child.

THE MYSTERY OF THE TOMB by Marisa McGreevy

Jack, Tom and Danny have to write a scary story for their teacher, but they don't know what to write about. So one night, they decide to go looking for ghosts in the cemetery. They find their "ghost", but they also find much more than they expected.


Here is the audio material of the reading book:
The mystery of the tomb


Worksheets to print : 9th December


Test : 16th December

THE GHOST TEACHER by Julie Hart

West Hill School is just an ordinary school, but one day a new teacher arrives and some very strange things start to happen. The teacher comes to work in a car that has no driver. He carries a newspaper dating from 1935. And he always seems to punish the same boy. What is going on?


Here is the audio material of the reading book:
The ghost teacher



Worksheets to print : 13th December


Test : 15th December

PET 3º ESO

Part 1

1 C             2A              3B             4A          5C

Part 2

6 F            7 D             8 B            9 G         10 H

Part 3

11 A        12 B         13 A       14 A       15 B       16 A       17 B        18 A        19 B       20 A

Part 4

21 D            22 A           23 B         24 C                  25 D

Part 5

26 B        27 A       28 C         29 D        30 B         31 A        32 D         33A       34 B          35 C


WRITING
1  than            2 since       3 only        4 doing/who/that (can) do             5 was directed

PALENCIA'S CAMP 2016

11 students of 1º ESO spent a week in Palencia from the 18th to the 22nd of April. They took part in a programme that offered the chance to spend five days immersed in English, with a variety of workshops, sports and other activities in the company of native speaking teaching staff.
Do you want to have a look at what they did there? Play the video then.

ANOTHER KIND OF BLUE

Here you have another of those videos from Britain's got Talet that you can't stop watching. Enjoy it as much as I did!

María, thank you for sharing this link .

OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens

One of Dickens’s most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who escaped from the dark  workhouse where he was born. Oliver is a charming innocent in a dishonest world.

Here is the audio material of the reading book:     Oliver twist 

Worksheets : Chapters 1-11  11th May

                       Chapters 12-23  25th May

Test : 26th May

STRANGE TALES by Martin Sinclair

This book is guaranteed to shock and scare with its collection of grotesque and ghostly tales from Britain. Ancient myths and forgotten ghosts are brought back to the life in this thrilling collection of strange tales. I warn you not to read this book late at night!


Here is the audio material of the reading book:

Stange tales

Worksheets : Worksheet 1  4th May  (This worksheet refers to The Ghosts in the Tower of                                                      London, The Ghosts of Glamis Castle and Borley- A haunted Village)
              
                           Worksheet 2 11th May  (This worksheet refers to The Soldier Ghost, The story
                                           of Mary Gibson  and The Loch Ness Monster)


Test  : 18th May

THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox is ten, her parents die of cholera and she is sent to her uncle's mansion to the English countryside. Mary is  bored and lonely. One day, she discovers a hidden door to a secret garden, but is afraid to go inside. Then Mary meets a strange boy, Colin, who has a mysterious illness. Together they visit the secret garden ...


Here is the audio material of the reading book:
The Secret Garden

Worksheets : Chapters 1-3  4th May
                           Chapters 4-8  11th May
                           Chapters 9-13 18th May


Test : 20th May

3º ESO PRESENT PERFECT/PAST SIMPLE

I hope you have been working on the handouts I gave you last week (Unit 13 and 14) . These are review exercises and we will not check them in class, so here are the answer keys. If you have any questions, please let me know.


Units 13 and 14

CHRISTMAS IS OVER

The Christmas tree has been taken down, you have opened lots of presents and you have eaten a bit beyond your capacity. All that means it's time to go back to work. I hope you have had a good time and  recharged the batteries as you have to stick to the New Year's resolutions you have made. By the way, is one of them to improve your English? If the answer is yes, you are lucky because it will be a piece of cake. All you have to do to learn English is to keep in touch with the language. One way to fulfill that task succesfully is to listen to music in English. So, here's a pop song of the 90's that seems to have been written to revise the days of the week.

WHAT A FEAT!

In the mid-80's two young English climbers attempted to reach the summit of Siula Grande in Peru; a feat that had previously been attempted but never achieved. With an extra man looking after base camp, Simon and Joe set off to scale the mount in one long push over several days. The peak is reached, however on the descent Joe falls and breaks his leg.  Joe however survives the fall and was lucky to hit a ledge in the crevasse. This is the story of how he got back down: Touching the void (2003)