19.12.11

Our Tiny Library

VISIT OUR TINY LIBRARY LOCATED IN THE NEW VIRTUAL ENGLISH CLASSROOM

Listening and Reading: Gee, you're so beautiful it's starting to rain






Oh, Marcia, 
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn that God
lives like music in the skin
and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord.
I want high school report cards 
to look like this:

Playing with Gentle Glass Things
A

Computer Magic
A

Writing Letters to Those You Love
A

Finding out about Fish
A

Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty
A+!

Listening and Reading: Bluebird by Charles Bukowski




there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

15.12.11

AULA VIRTUAL EOI LORCA

My dear students, by clicking HERE -AULA VIRTUAL EOI LORCA- you will have access to our new didactic space!

Your keyword as guests: wonderful

18.11.11

WORK AND JOBS VOCABULARY

Click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation I presented in class this week, enjoy!

The last slide of my presentation is devoted to Zadie Smith, a great British author. You can read one of her short stories published by The New Yorker.

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5.10.11

Revision-Extra Pages on Personality


Personality


Extra Vocabulary and Activities 1

Extra Vocabulary and Activities 2

Extra Vocabulary and Activities 3

Extra Vocabulary and Activities 4

Initial Reading Exam with Key

READING WITH KEY



VETERINARIANS TRY ACUPUNCTURE


As alternative approaches like acupuncture and herbal (0) REMEDIES (Example) have moved into the mainstream for humans, veterinarians have made those same techniques (1) INCREASINGLY available for pets.
Animal-care officials say pet owners have been convinced by their own positive experiences that their pets should also enjoy the (2) BENEFITS of alternative techniques.
“Seeing is believing,” said Ms Wortman, a pets hospital administrator, standing near a row of scented candles on the new clinic reception desk.
A Japanese fountain, soft lights and walls painted in soft tones increase the calming atmosphere of the clinic, which has a 24-hour-a-day (3) EMERGENCY room for pets.
The renovations have a (4) THERAPEUTIC effect on pets and it is just as important to create a setting where owners also (5) FEEL relaxed.
Still the push for the new treatments – also known as holistic or complementary medicine – has not come so much from vets, whose medical training is still acquired in the rigours of the Western scientific tradition. Despite broadening acceptance, alternative medicine for animals faces (6) SKEPTICISM.
The American Veterinary Medical Association said in recent guidelines on alternative medical techniques for animals that the organization is “open to their consideration.” But it stressed that the quality of research into different methods varies, saying some practices “may (7) DIFFER from current scientific knowledge.”
An animal acupuncturist said one positive experience with alternative techniques can be enough to convince (8) DOUBTERS. Ms Chartrand treats her cat with aromatherapy when she gets sick. “I do holistic things for my body. So I thought, (9) HOW exciting that they’re doing this for animals.”