HAVE YOU ALREADY CHOSEN YOUR EXPERIMENT?

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html

This entry is opened for you to say what experiment you have chosen... it's interesting that you don't repeat them.. so please, write a comment explaining your choice! These are the ones you told me in class! 

- Madison, Chloe and Alison: making music
- Alex, Mia, and Mary C: volcano
- Carol: tornado in a bottle
- Joseph and Victor: oil and water
- Angel and German: Make an easy lava lamp

WASHINGTON IRVING'S THE MOORS' LEGACY

TRAILER: SLEEPY HOLLOW

WHO WAS WASHINGTON IRVING?

Writer. Perhaps best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783 in New York City, New York, USA. He was one of eleven children born to Scottish-English immigrant parents, William Irving, Sr. and Sarah. He was named Washington after the hero of the American revolution (which had just ended), George Washington, and attended the first presidential inauguration of his namesake in 1789.

Washington Irving was educated privately, studied law, and began to write essays for periodicals. He travelled in France and Italy (1804–6), wrote whimsical journals and letters, then returned to New York City to practice law -- though by his own admission, he was not a good student, and in 1806, he barely passed the bar. He and his brother William Irving and James Kirke Paulding wrote the Salamagundi papers (1807–8), a collection of humorous essays. He first became more widely known for his comic work, A History of New York (1809), written under the name of "Diedrich Knickerbocker."

In 1815 Irving went to England to work for his brothers' business, and when that failed he composed a collection of stories and essays that became The Sketch Book, published under the name "Geoffrey Crayon" (1819–20), which included ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. In 1822 he went to the Continent, living in Germany and France for several years, and was then in Spain (1826) and became attache at the US embassy in Madrid. While in Spain he researched for his biography of Christopher Columbus (1828) and his works on Granada (1829) and the Alhambra (1832).

He was secretary of the US legation in London (1829–32), and later returned to Spain as the US ambassador (1842–6), but he spent most of the rest of his life at his estate, ‘Sunnyside’, near Tarrytown, NY, turning out a succession of mainly historical and biographical works, including a five-volume life of George Washington. Although he became a best-selling author, he never really fully developed as a literary talent, he has retained his reputation as the first American man of letters. Irving also advocated for writing as a legitimate career, and argued for stronger laws to protect writers from copyright infringement.

In 1999, director Tim Burton released his film Sleepy Hollow based on Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The film starred Johnny Depp as police constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders by a mysterious Headless Horseman

FORTUNE TELLER SCENE: THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO

In this scene from The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao [featuring Tony Randall attempting to play a Chinese man], an old spinster* is dealt a lethal fortune-telling, transcribed below: "Apollonius of Tyana reads your future" From The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney, 1935.
The widow Mrs. Howard T. Cassan came to the circus in her flimsey** pink dress and her low shoes and went direct to the fortuneteller's tent. She paid her mite*** and sat down to hear her future. Apollonius warned her she was going to be disappointed.
*an old single woman, **light, ***little sum of money.
" and see Apollonius of Tyana: he sees all, tells all...Nothing but the truth. It's the chance of a lifetime, ladies and gentlemen, a jar of mysteries unfolded. A step right up. Only 15 cents. (...)  a step right up, only 15 cents! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"
"Oh, you've frightened me!", exclaims Mrs. Cassan.
"You wish your future told?", asked the fortune teller.
"You look like Howard, my poor dear (...) husband".
"You know he did not die?", asked the fortune teller. " He simply walked out of your life years ago".
"Yes. You know everything, don't you? If you know my past so well, let see if you can really tell my future!"
"Be seated." said the seer. "5 cents, please".
"Oh god. Shall I ask questions?"
"If you wish".
"Oh, this is so exciting!...Let me see now... I know... How soon will I extract oil on that 20 acres of mine?" said Mrs. Cassan.
"Never," said the seer [who is blind in the film].
"But I paid a fortune for that land" gasps Mrs. Cassan.
"You wasted your money. Next question," said the seer.
"I can't hear you."
"You must listen".
(...) "It's just a game after all!  All right. You naughty man! You see..what I really want to know is... when shall I be married again? "
"Never," said the seer.
"Well, what sort of man will next come into my life? Let's put it that way."
"There will be no more men in your life," said the seer.
"Oh really? really?, what is the use of my living then, if I'm not going to be rich, not going to be married again, no more men for heavens' sake?"
"I only read futures. I don't evaluate them."
"That's utter nonsense," barked Mrs. Cassan.
"The future is always nonsense, until it becomes the past," replied the seer.
"Oh go on! Do your job!.I paid you. Read my future," commanded Mrs. Cassan.
"Tomorrow will be like today, and day after tomorrow will be like the day before yesterday," said Apollonius. "I see your remaining days as a tedious collection of hours full of youthless vanities. . You will think no new thoughts. You will forgetg what little you have known. Older you will become but not wiser. Stiffer but not more dignified. Childless you are, and childless you will remain. Of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth, of that strange simplicity which once attracted  men to you, neither endures, nor shall you recapture any of them," the prophet predicted.
"Ugly, ugly man!" snapped Mrs. Cassan.
"Mirrors are often ugly and mean. When you die, you will be buried and forgotten. And that is all. And for all the good or evil, creation or destruction your living might have accomplished, you might just as well never lived at all. I am sorry. You see, it is my curse to tell the absolute truth."
Mrs. Cassan ran away  sobbing.

SCIENCE WEEK IS COMING...PREPARE YOUR OWN EXPERIMENT!

 Click on this link to choose your experient and become a scientist for a while!!

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html

HALLOWEEN: GHOSTS

HALLOWEEN: TALKING ABOUT FEAR

Do you know how to express fear? Learn some new expressions!

THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII

The people of Pompeii ignored the warning signals from nearby Mt. Vesuvius. When the volcano finally erupted, it devastated the entire city, encasing Pompeii in ash for nearly 1500 years. 

Here we've got the trailer of the film POMPEII where a slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

REMIND OR REMEMBER?

 

Remember means to 'have the memory of something', 'not forget something'. Remind means 'make somebody remember something'.

Remember significa tener el recuerdo de algo, no olvidar algo. Remind significa hacerle acordar a alguien de algo.

• remember
  I don't remember you address.
  Remember that you have an appointment with the doctor today.
  I remember reading that book in school.
  
• remind
  This place reminds me of home.
  Remind me that I have an appointment with the doctor today.
  That reminds me, I have to go to the bank.
  
• Related words and expressions
  remembrance (n): object that makes you remember something, souvenir reminder (n): note or object that prevents you from forgetting something
• LET'S PRACTICE! 
•  REMINDREMEMBER

WAIT, EXPECT OR HOPE?

WAIT, EXPECT OR HOPE?

Although they are translated the same way in Spanish, these verbs have different meanings:

Wait means that you do something until something else happens.
Expect means that you think that something will happen.
Hope means that you want something to happen.

Aunque se traducen igual en español, estos verbos tienen diferentes significados:
Wait significa que haces algo hasta que otra cosa suceda. Expect significa que piensas que algo ocurrirá. Hope significa que deseas que algo ocurra.

• wait
  I'm waiting for the bus.
  Wait for me!
  I will wait until she comes back.
  
• expect
  I expect to arrive in a week (you think you will).
  We didn't expect her to stay so long.
  They expect to finish the work next month.
  
• hope
  I hope to arrive in a week (you are not certain but you want to).
  I hope everything goes well.
  I hope you come
•  
• NOW, HAVE A LOOK AT THESE EXERCISES TO SEE IF YOU'VE REALLY UNDERSTOOD! 
•  WAITEXPECTHOPE
• WAITEXPECTHOPE2 

ENGLISH IDIOMS FOR PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? CHOOSE THE IDIOM THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOU!

COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH: FUNNY VS FUN

The words "fun" and "funny" seem like they could be the same, but they have different meanings. A person or event can be fun but may not be funny. Check out this graphic from Woodward English to learn the difference between the words fun and funny. 

Do you think learning English is fun?

SCOTTISH REFERENDUM EXPLAINED FOR NON-BRITS

An animated explanation of some fundamental questions prior to the referendum on Scottish independence. Where is Scotland, what is Scotland and what does it mean to be Scottish? And what is the history of Scotland's relationship with England? But the real question is, will Scotland be better off as an independent country?Click on this link to know more...

SCOTTISH REFERENDUM

JUST ADORABLE!

From: Ifuckinglovescience

There's no official word for baby platypuses, but they are often called puggles or platypups. They are monotremes- that is to say, they are mammals that lay eggs. They are also one of the few venomous mammals... the male is capable of delivering enough venom to kill a small dog! 

I thought of Mr. Colin when I saw this picture...Aren't they cute?

FIRST CONDITIONAL

This is a mindmap to understand the first conditional. If you want to practice it with a game click on this link;
First conditional game

SURPRISE PARTY

 

We're preparing a surprise party!!!!Are you going to meet to buy something? Here is the link to talk about the party, and Rachel, I'm sorry, it must be in English!!

BOOK DAY AT SCHOOL

To celebrate Book Day we did these great page corner bookmarks. The idea was really good but the outcome has been simply amazing! Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm! I love all of them... what is your favourite?

BOOK DAY 2014

A VERY NICE DAY

Two weeks ago, we went to an exhibition called "Once upon a time: the speech" organised by La Caixa. It was a very interesting insight into human speech, mainly on how it happened for the first time and what parts of our human body had to change (throat, brain, ears...) to produce the first sounds. 

We also had a great walk along La Rambla, and took some nice pictures. Here are some of them!

IES AL-ANDALUS EASTER EGG HUNT

These are some of the pictures of the Egg Hunt that took place in our high school last Friday morning. The children had fun and they ate lots of chocolate eggs. 

The winners were Mia, Ava, and Lucy...Congratulations, girls!!

EASTER

As soon as 2 January arrives, shops remove the Christmas product lines from their shelves and the Christmas decorations from their windows. What fills the empty spaces? Chocolate Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and Easter chicks, despite the fact that Easter itself doesn’t come along until a few months later. This year Easter Day is on Sunday 16 April. Easter also means we have public holidays, Good Friday and Easter Monday, it’s the longest public holiday after Christmas and people sometimes take the opportunity to take a short break away from work . Cheryl from Liverpool said, ‘I use the Easter break to visit relatives and socialise with friends, the chocolate giving and receiving is a good bonus!’

Easter is a spring festival. In the Christian festival, it celebrates the resurrection of Christ. In the European pre-Christian tradition, it celebrates the return of nature and greenery after the cold, snowy winter. Both the Christian and pagan versions of Easter celebrate life and rebirth. The Easter chick symbolises new life, the rabbit represents fertility and the egg symbolises both. That is why painted eggs or chocolate eggs are given as gifts at Easter.

  

Chocolate Easter eggs are sold in larger numbers every year in the UK. The British people consume more than any other country in the world! That's not even per head; that's per country! Of course, it depends on the amount of givers, but the average child in the UK receives 6 – 10 large chocolate eggs and that’s not including the small ones.
text from: www.teachingenglish.org.uk

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO AN EASTER EGG HUNT AT SCHOOL?  IF THIS ENTRY GETS 20 COMMENTS WE WILL DO ONE NEXT FRIDAY!

Have a look at this link if you don't know what an egg hunt is!

EASTER EGG HUNT 

OUR HOMAGE TO KURT COBAIN

Today it's the 20th anniversary of Nirvana frontman's death. The music of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain has remained timeless over the past two decades influencing an entire new generation of artists. This is our homage to this great artist. 

 

TotOTomorrow (April 5, 2014), will be the 20th anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death. The music of Nirvana has remained timeless over the past two decades, influencing an entire new generation of musicians.

Read More: Kurt Cobain News | http://loudwire.com/tags/kurt-cobain/?trackback=tsmclip

Tomorrow (April 5, 2014), will be the 20th anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death. The music of Nirvana has remained timeless over the past two decades, influencing an entire new generation of musicians.

Read More: Kurt Cobain News | http://loudwire.com/tags/kurt-cobain/?trackback=tsmclip

HAPPINESS IS EVERYWHERE!!!

Grammy winner Pharrell Williams has teamed up with the United Nations Foundation to help promote the second International Day of Happiness with 24 different videos set to Pharrell's Academy Award winning track "Happy."

The International Day of Happiness was first celebrated on March 20, 2013 as a core part of the United Nation's resolution to recognize happiness as a "fundamental human goal" and call for "a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes... happiness and well-being of all peoples."

This year, the UN Foundation enlisted the help of Pharrell and his catchy song "Happy" to help spread happiness around the world.

They created a countdown of 24 Hours of Happiness and have been releasing a new video version of Pharrell's song every hour all day. 

You can watch in these links some of these videos, London, New York, Dublin, and even our town, Almería! 

HAPPY: LONDON

HAPPY: NEW YORK

HAPPY: DUBLIN

HAPPY: SYDNEY

HAPPY: ALMERIA

15 SONGS WITH COMPARATIVES

15 SONGS WITH COMPARATIVES

Visit this amazing blog to listen to fifteen songs related to comparatives and superlatives! Which one is your favourite? 
 

APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKES 2014

HERE YOU'VE GOT SOME OF THE FUNNIEST JOKES FROM THE PRESS AND THE WEB. WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVOURITE? WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BELIEVE? 

source: www.theguardian.com

 
Atlanta Magazine reports that one of the city’s beloved chefs, Ford Fry, has signed up to be Justin Bieber’s personal chef.

Fry says he was initially hesitant to work with Bieber, but later convinced himself that the experience would be worth it. “I have kids myself,” Fry says. “They’re Beliebers. I guess I’m one now, too.”
The spirit of Bieber’s personal menu, according to Fry, will channel “adolescent sentiments” and “general angst.” Think dark chocolate cotton candy made with Peruvian cocoa powder, Lil’ PB&J brownies, deep-dish pimento cheese pizza, and “Gangnam Style” charcuterie. (Fry would not elaborate on this dish.

 

LET'S TALK ABOUT FILMS!

What is your favourite animated film? why?

LOL!!

FUNNY LOOK-ALIKES!

Watch this funny video about celebrities' funny look-alikes! what is your favorite?Can you write some sentences describing them? 
 

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Comparatives and Superlatives by Dylan, Lucy and Mia

This is the slideshow that Dylan, Mia, and Lucy did in class last Tuesday! It's great, thank you so much! 

LIVE YOUR DREAM!

If you had to choose a sentence of this video, what would it be?

THE MOST AMAZING BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD

Though it looks like some sort of painting by a drunk painter. But this is a real house located in Rezydent Shopping Center in Sopot, Poland. It is claimed to be the most photographed building in Poland. It is spread to an area of 4,000 square meters. Designed by Architect: Szotynscy Zaleski

1.The Crooked House

2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building

Architect: Heinz M. Springmann
This is a residential building complex located in Darmstadt, Germany. The building has a unique façade which doesn’t follow a regular grid pattern and the windows appear as if they are dancing out of line and appear out of order.  It was designed by Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finally planned and implemented by architect Heinz M. Springmann. It contains 105 apartments, an inner courtyard, a small artificial lake and also a playground for children. The building has 12 floors.

3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)

The first things you notice are the giant egg sculptures along the roofline. Then it hits you that the Salvador Dali Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, is no ordinary building. The museum’s tower, Torre Galatea, was named for the surrealist artist’s deceased wife, and Dali himself lived there until his death in 1989. Interestingly, the museum sits next to the parish church where Dali was baptized in 1904; he is buried in an unmarked crypt in the museum’s main exhibition hall.

4. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

This may look like a picnic basket kept in the park. But this actually is a 7-story building which is Longaberger's Home Office located in Newark, Ohio. This monument is in-fact world’s largest basket. Its 192 ft. long by 126 ft. wide at the bottom, spreads to 208-ft. long by 142-ft. wide at the roofline.

5. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)

This installation is permanent, on a much larger scale, and is designed to conceal the library’s car park. Here the public were asked to nominate books that they felt represented Kansas City. The library was founded in 1873 A.D, and is the oldest and the third largest public library in Kansas City area.

6. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)

Cheval began the building in April 1879. He claimed that he had tripped on a stone and was inspired by its shape. He returned to the same spot the next day and started collecting stones.

For the next 33 years, during his daily mail route, Cheval carried stones from his delivery rounds and at home used them to build his Palais idéal, the Ideal Palace. First he carried the stones in his pockets, then a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.

7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
  
WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge, TN will intrigue, excite and inspire you from the moment you see it! This attraction was built as "An Amusement Park for the Mind". It is perhaps the most educational family attraction in town.
Your imagination will start working overtime as soon as you lay eyes on it. You'll begin to wonder why the three-story, 82-foot-tall building is turned upside down.

8. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

Architect: Moshe Safdie

• Habitat 67 is a one-of-a-kind housing complex located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• The building was realized as the main pavilion and thematic emblem for the International World Exposition and its theme, Man and His World, held in Montreal in 1967.
• It is built as a part of Expo-67.
• It was designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building.
• The project was designed to create affordable housing with close but private quarters, each equipped with a garden.
• The building was believed to illustrate the new lifestyle people would live in increasingly crowded cities around the world.

9. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Architect: Piet Blom

This is a housing designed on top of a pedestrian bridge. The main idea behind this is to create a forest of cubes (abstract trees) as each cube represents an abstract tree.
The cubes are tilted and sit on hexagon-shaped pole structures. The cubes contain the living areas, which are split into three levels. The triangle-shaped lower level contains the living area.

10. Hang Nga Guesthouse (Crazy House), Vietnam

• This fantastical place is like a journey into the world of Alice and Wonderland. Designed by a woman artist who hangs around the grounds, it is one of wonder.
• The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.
• It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.

11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)

This beautiful Roman Catholic church is literally built into the rock. The views from outside are unbelievable but the serenity inside is awesome.

12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)

Designed by: Architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot.

• The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
• A modern, glass building surrounded by historic architecture.
• The top floor of Dancing House is home to one of the city's leading restaurants, Celeste Restaurant.
• Diners can enjoy delightful cuisine and magnificent views over the river and up to Prague Castle.

13. Calakmul Building Or La Lavadora (The Washing Machine), Mexico

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