Merry Christmas!!

Dear students,

I hope you enjoy this season, May peace and love dwell in your hearts and in those of the people around you.

Here you have a funny Christmas video -- in English of course!

Recipes for Christmas

These are the videos we watched at the beginning of the schoolyear and with the recipes you can prepare both for the Christmas tea party and for enjoying at home.

Remember that temperatures are expressed in Fahrenheit degrees which you'll have to turn into Celsius!

Brownies

Cookies

Some animals to describe (2º ESO F)

Puffin: It is a seabird. It can fish and swim. It lives in Northwestern Europe (Great Britain, France, Norway, Iceland...). It lives mainly on coasts and islands. It eats little fish.

Walrus: It is a mammal that lives on the North Pole. It has big tusks and whiskers. It lives for about 20-30 years. It eats small marine animals -- shrimps, clams... It can weigh 2 tonnes and polar bears and killer whales (orcas) often hunt them.

Musk ox (pl. musk oxen): It lives on the North Pole and in Sweden, Norway, Siberia, Canada and Alaska. It has a thick coat that is used as wool. It has long horns and it is a herbivore.

Puffin

Walrus

Musk ox

More on Reported Speech (Answer Key)

1 "Have you gone to school?", they asked. OR: "Did you go to school?", they asked.
2 "Why have you come late today?", she asked him.
3 "Are you feeling well?", I asked him.
4 "When will you come to my house?", he said.
5 "Don't lie to your father", they said to my nephew.
6 "Mark has been (OR: was) very regular in his work", the teacher said.
7 "Is this the place we have visited before?", the boy asked me.
8 "Tell the truth", the judge said to the witness.
9 "I've just received the letter and I must go home at once", he said.
10 "I'll go to London tomorrow", he said.

NOTICE - 2º Bachillerato B

The exam will take place at the school hall ("Salón de Actos") next Wednesday.

Keep in mind that the exam will last 1 hour and a half so we will also need to take time from the break.

Below you'll find the exercises on Reported Speech that we didn't have time to do in class. I'll post the answers on Tuesday.

Have a nice bank holiday even though you'll have to study!

More on Reported Speech (2º Bachillerato B)

Rewrite the following sentences in Direct Speech:

1 They asked me if I had gone to school.
2 She asked him why he had come late that day.
3 I asked him if he was feeling well.
4 He asked me come when they would come to my house.
5 They told my nephew not to tell a lie to his father.
6 The teacher said that Mark had been very regular in his work.
7 The boy asked me if that was the place we had visited before.
8 The judge told the witness to tell the truth.
9 He said that he had just received the letter and that he had to go home at once.
10 He said that he would go to London the next day.