READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
In 1960, Dr Bolin warned that a gradual warming of the earth, or global warming, would lead to dramatic changes in its climate. An increase of 2ºC may seem insignificant, but its effects on our planet are already being felt. Polar icecaps are melting at an alarming rate, winters are shorter and not as cold as they used to be, and summers are longer, hotter and drier. Scientists predict that the greenhouse effect will cause the level of the sea to rise by 1.5 metres by 2050. This will affect low-lying areas around the world, which could be flooded.
For people living in cold areas such as northern Europe, this warmer weather may be a blessing. Higher temperatures may allow longer growing seasons but there is also likely to be increased rainfall. For warm regions such as the Mediterranean, this change may mean hotter summers and even less rainfall.
Experts seem unable to predict how long global warming will last or what its precise consequences will be. What is clear, though, is that we will all have to get used to progressively changing weather conditions.
**Read the text and answer the questions.
1 Write some of the changes that the global warming of the Earth is going to bring about.
2 What is the opinion of experts with reference to the future at the end of this text?
**Read the text again and decide if the statements are true or false.
1.There is much less ice at the poles.
2.Sea levels will have fallen by 1.5 metres by the year 2050.
3. It�s very difficult to predict the results of global warming.
** Find words in the text that mean the same as:
1 all over the world (para. 1) _____________________________________
2 say what will happen in the future (para. 1) ________________________
3 covered by water (para. 1) _____________________________________
4 results (para. 3) ______________________________________________
** Find words in the text that mean the opposite of:
1 quick (para. 1) ______________________________________________
2 decrease (para. 1) ____________________________________________
3 important (para. 1) ___________________________________________
4 reassuring (para. 1) __________________________________________
**Rewrite the sentences using the words given.
1 Don't put the bottles in that container, said my brother. My brother __________________________________________________.
2 They recycle plastic and glass in special recycling plants.Plastic and glass ______________________________________________.
3 It is advisable to use cars as little as possible.We should ___________________________________________________.
4 I don�t eat meat now but I did years ago.I ___________________________________________________________.
WRITING.- Write a short article of about 180 words for your school magazine describing how students can help protect the local environment and why it is important to do so.
viernes, 19 de septiembre de 2008
miércoles, 17 de septiembre de 2008
a British assistant at our school
This year we are gfoing to have a british assistant at our school. His name is Joseph Hopkins and he will be here from Octber to May, helping the English teachers with conversation in 4th year of ESo and 1st Bachillerato.
I am very happy about it. M.H.
I am very happy about it. M.H.
miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2007
OUR SCHOOL
OUR SCHOOL IS CALLED 'PEDRO CERRADA' SECONDARY SCHOOL
BUT WE ARE A GROUP OF BACHILLERATO STUDENTS.
BACHILLERATO IS WHAT WE DO AFTER SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR UNIVERSITY. WE ARE 15 STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ANCIENT CULTURE. AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON 'DEMOCRACY AT OUR SCHOOL':
** Our main means to do a complain or a suggestion… at school is choosing a representant who is called ‘Delegate’. This student can talk straight away to the Head teacher in our name or attend a Meeting suggested by the director. However, every week there is a period dedicated to talk to our tutor in order to show up our problems or worries or incidents with different teachers .... as every class has a ‘tutor’ who can intercede in favour of his/her pupils. (Amaya & Juan)
** The organization chart would be: Delegate& Subdelegate – Tutor- Head teachers – Director- Education Commission- School Council – Unions- Education autorities- Autonomous Region Government – State Governament. ( Miriam & Cristina G.A. )
** All the Departments have a chief and these chief teachers have a month meeting with the Headteachers (3) and the Director of the school, in order to summarise all the different suggestions but, have no power of decision because at every school the decisions are taken in the ‘School Council’. Here, there are some teachers, some pupils, some parents, people from the local Council and one person representing the non-education workers as the receptionists, secretary room, cleaning..... (Natalia & Berta)
** Of course, the Directors of every school take up all the problems to the Education authorities called ‘ inspectors’. ( Leticia & Cristina G.H.)
** The teachers have lots of different union who support their suggestions and take them to the Region Government in a political democratic way. But also the sudents have a ‘student Union’ although it is not an ordinary thing to happen. Some of us don’t even know that it exists. They are not worried about Politics. But We think that there should be somebody in every school from this Union in order to inform the pupils about whatever they consider interesting for us to know like scholarships, new laws, rights and duties, summer camps, extracurricular activities and we lack that in this school. So if we need any information we just go to the ‘Orientation Department’ where we have also a psychologist who can help on requirement. ( Ainhoa & Ainara)
** Recently, because of continuous problems of bullying, racism and violence, in some schools, it has been created a group of mediating or dealing, formed by students and teachers in order to help whenever there is a conflict or incident as I said before, and it may work quicker and more efficiently than following the ordinary process or investigation. ( M.A. Gayoso)
** Every region or as we call them ‘Autonomous Community’ like Aragon, Andalucia, Basque country... woeks differently, following of course the mail Laws of Education but they have certain autonomy to decide the way in which they want to carry out the law in the schools. And then, every public school has some decision too, in things like to have a cafeteria or not inside the school, to have one break or two smaller ones....
( Virginia & Elena)
BUT WE ARE A GROUP OF BACHILLERATO STUDENTS.
BACHILLERATO IS WHAT WE DO AFTER SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR UNIVERSITY. WE ARE 15 STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ANCIENT CULTURE. AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON 'DEMOCRACY AT OUR SCHOOL':
** Our main means to do a complain or a suggestion… at school is choosing a representant who is called ‘Delegate’. This student can talk straight away to the Head teacher in our name or attend a Meeting suggested by the director. However, every week there is a period dedicated to talk to our tutor in order to show up our problems or worries or incidents with different teachers .... as every class has a ‘tutor’ who can intercede in favour of his/her pupils. (Amaya & Juan)
** The organization chart would be: Delegate& Subdelegate – Tutor- Head teachers – Director- Education Commission- School Council – Unions- Education autorities- Autonomous Region Government – State Governament. ( Miriam & Cristina G.A. )
** All the Departments have a chief and these chief teachers have a month meeting with the Headteachers (3) and the Director of the school, in order to summarise all the different suggestions but, have no power of decision because at every school the decisions are taken in the ‘School Council’. Here, there are some teachers, some pupils, some parents, people from the local Council and one person representing the non-education workers as the receptionists, secretary room, cleaning..... (Natalia & Berta)
** Of course, the Directors of every school take up all the problems to the Education authorities called ‘ inspectors’. ( Leticia & Cristina G.H.)
** The teachers have lots of different union who support their suggestions and take them to the Region Government in a political democratic way. But also the sudents have a ‘student Union’ although it is not an ordinary thing to happen. Some of us don’t even know that it exists. They are not worried about Politics. But We think that there should be somebody in every school from this Union in order to inform the pupils about whatever they consider interesting for us to know like scholarships, new laws, rights and duties, summer camps, extracurricular activities and we lack that in this school. So if we need any information we just go to the ‘Orientation Department’ where we have also a psychologist who can help on requirement. ( Ainhoa & Ainara)
** Recently, because of continuous problems of bullying, racism and violence, in some schools, it has been created a group of mediating or dealing, formed by students and teachers in order to help whenever there is a conflict or incident as I said before, and it may work quicker and more efficiently than following the ordinary process or investigation. ( M.A. Gayoso)
** Every region or as we call them ‘Autonomous Community’ like Aragon, Andalucia, Basque country... woeks differently, following of course the mail Laws of Education but they have certain autonomy to decide the way in which they want to carry out the law in the schools. And then, every public school has some decision too, in things like to have a cafeteria or not inside the school, to have one break or two smaller ones....
( Virginia & Elena)
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