martes, 27 de abril de 2010

SPEAKING TEST 1º ESO BIL THIRD TERM


Hi everyone!
As you know, this term you have to describe a painting or a picture for your Speaking Test.
This is my favourite painting. It’s Lady with an Ermine, by Leonardo da Vinci.


You can see a beautiful young woman with an ermine (a wild animal!). She is tall, she has got long hair, brown eyes and is very pale. She is wearing a red and green velvet dress, a black pearl necklace and a veil on her head. She’s holding the ermine carefully and looking at something outside the picture, maybe her lover. I think she is a bit worried but she’s smiling too. The ermine was her pet and it was a symbol of intelligence. What about your favourite pictures?
Please leave your comments here. See you in class!
Maria Oliva

jueves, 22 de abril de 2010

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Competition of the month: April 2nd course.

Let´s make a map.




You have to make a map of the School. You have to draw the gym, the courts, the Silo and the grounds.

You have to measure the width and the length of these places with your steps and then, to translate this into metres.

You must do this all on squared paper.

you must write the LEGEND, (for example, trees, gates, fountains...) and the SCALE that you will use (for example one square: two steps), and can use colours if you want.

You must hand it in before the end of April.

Good luck!

Baseball

let´s play baseball.-




Objetives:
Students must learn the rules and routines to practise the game.
Baseball is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases, placed at the corners of a ninety-foot Square, or DIAMOND. Players on one team take turns hitting against the pitcher in the other team.
The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.


History.
An early form of baseball was played in England by the mid-eighteenth Century. This game was brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth Century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United Stated. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels, is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East and Southeast Asia.


Rules and gameplay.-
The game is played between two teams, each composed of nine players, that take turn playing on offense (batting or hitting team) and defense (fielding or pitching team). A pair of turns, one at bat and one in the field, by each team constitutes an INNING; there are nine innings in a game. One team (the visiting team) bats in the first half of every inning; the other team (the home time) bats in the second half of every inning. The goal of a game is to score more points (runs) than the other team.
The game is played on a field where the primary boundaries, the foul lines, extend forward from home plate at 45- degree angles. The 90-degree area within the foul lines is referred to as fair territory; the 270-degree area outside them is foul territory.
There are three basics tools of baseball: the ball, the bat, and the glove.
At the beginning of each half-inning, the nine players on the field team arrange themselves around the field. One of them, the pitcher, stands on the pitcher´s mound. Another player, the catcher, squats on the far side of home plate, facing the pitcher.
Gameplay starts with a batter standing at home plate holding a bat. The batter waits for the pitcher to throw a pitch ( the ball) towards home plate, and attempts to hit the ball with the bat. The catcher catches pitches that the batter does not hit, and returns them to the pitcher. If the batter hits the ball into the field of play, he must drop the bat and begin running toward first base, at which point he is referred to as a runner. If the runner successfully reaches first base, he is said to be safe there and is now on base.

miércoles, 21 de abril de 2010

English Day 2010


This year, we will welcome Ceip El Lince and Ceip Dunes de Doñana for English Day which will be held here in school on the 3rd of June 2010!!

Fun activities will include:

An international breakfast with typical food from America, Sweden and Ireland.

Orienteering around the school grounds.

A running dictation.

ICT activities.

A baseball game.

For those of you who don't know the rules of baseball, here they are :)

-There are two teams: the batting team and the pitching team.

-Players have to hold the bat with both hands.

-The teams change their positions when three players in the batting team are out (in other words, they are eliminated) because they have made three strikes or haven’t reached the bases successfully.

-Each player has three turns to bat (three strikes).

-If the ball is fouled (batted outside), this is considered one strike.

-There are five bases and the last base is different to the batter’s box (home plate in the U.S) to avoid any impact.

-If the pitching team doesn't have three outs after fifteen minutes the teams change their positions.

The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.


Here is the link to Ceip Dunas de Doñana's English Day webpage:
CEIP Dunas de Doñana

viernes, 16 de abril de 2010

SPEAKING TEST THIRD TERM FOR 2º ESO


The instructions for the speaking test are ready. This term it is "Show and tell" . Here you have a funny episode where some children at school do show and tell. But what is show and tell? Watch the episode and leave your comments.
We hope you enjoy it!!!!