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)

CLIMATE CHANGE

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, was held in Paris, France, from 30 November to 12 December 2015. Nearly 200 countries got to a historic agreeement on climate change: humanity has to start transforming  the era of high dependency on fossil fuels into a new era based on renewable energy.

Is there anything I can do about it? Yes, you can reduce your carbon footprint.
How?  Watch the video

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

I am a bit delayed in wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New year,  but as they say, "better late than never.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.  (Neil Gaiman)