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29/10/2014

Mailing list

To join the mailing list for your class, don't forget to email me your name and class.

27/10/2014

Top 10 Scariest Urban Legends

Some of the most famous and terrifying urban legends that scared us as kids, and have told them as though they are true. Which of course they're not. Right?

Ex-IMF head Rodrigo Rato told to pay €3m court bond in Spain bank fraud inquiry


Vocab:
- court bond: A sum of money paid as bail or surety
- IMF: International Monetary Fund
- lavish: extravagant; prodigal; wasteful

Ask the Madrid Department of Education to offer C1 and C2 certifications

Ask the Madrid Department of Education to offer C1 and C2 certifications

21/10/2014

What You Need to Know About Ebola

The facts about ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases that’s making a stand in West Africa.



Vocabulary:
-deadly: Causing or tending to cause death
- host: an animal or plant on which a smaller animal or plant is living as a parasite
-  Zaire [zɑːˈiːəʳ]
- outbreak: if there is an outbreak of fighting or disease in an area, it suddenly starts to happen
- fatality:  a death in an accident or a violent attack
- British English , diarrhea American English
- austere: plain and simple and without any decoration
- a glimmer of hope: a small sign of hope 
- W.H.O.:World Health Organisation
- breakthrough: an important new discovery in something you are studying, especially one made after trying for a long time

14/10/2014

COMPOSITION CALENDAR

 The first deadline is for the Mon/Wed class, the second is for the Tu/Thu class.
All the topics are from our text book.

- October  27th & 28th – Information on a museum or a sight. Writing Practice, p. 135
- November 24th& 25th – Description of a trend,  Writing Practice,  p.121
- December   15th & 16th - Opinion Essay on one of the topics in Writing Practice A, p.123
- January 26th & 27th  – Review of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.                Writing Practice, p.125
- February 23rd & 24th  –  Description of a process, Writing Practice,  p.127
- March 23rd & 24th  –  Covering Letter .Writing Practice C, p. 129
- April 27th & 28th  – Magazine article. Writing Practice, p.131
- May  25th & 26th – Wiki guide. Writing Practice, p. 133