English Blog 6th year ORT

November!!!

2008-10-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

This is just a reminder for students of Química- Construcciones and Electrónica-Producción:
The AACI Final Written Exam is on 10th Novmber and the Oral Exam is on 12th November (and 17th if we don´t finish on 12th)

For students of Gestión, there will be an exam on the 19th November, which will be our last exam.

Gestión!!!!

2008-10-05T16:36:00.000-07:00

The test is on the 6th October. The date has not been changed.

Schedule

2008-09-28T18:14:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!
Here´s the schedule for October and November, at least the dates we have already fixed.

6th Advanced
QK
Test (Book Module) 29th September
Discussion of "Mr Loveday´s Little Outing" 20th October
Discussion of "Same time, same place" 27th October
AACI Final Exam:
Written 10th November
Oral 12th and 17th November

EP
Oral Presentation (Class) 29th September
Test (Book Module) 6th October
Discussion of "Mr Loveday´s Little Outing" 20th October
Discussion of "Same time, same place" 27th October
AACI Final Exam:
Written 10th November
Oral 12th and 17th November

Practice II

2008-07-06T15:29:00.001-07:00

Some extra exercises on Relative Clauses for 6th year Advanced

Practice

2008-07-06T15:22:00.001-07:00

Here are some extra exercises on tenses for 6th year Upper Intermediate

Schedule (July - August)

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6th Year Upper Intermediate (Gestión)
Class discussion of Dracula:
7th July

Test:
21st July (module 1)

6th Year Advanced (QK- EP)
Class discussion of Death in the Dojo:
14th July

Tests:
16th July (mid-year test)
13th August (book unit)

Would you like to join!

2008-06-24T06:01:00.000-07:00

I invite you to see the blog on translation. It´s an activity organized by the UB and we have been invited to join in the competition. Those who are interested can find further information in the blog.

olimpiadadetraduccion2008.blogspot.com

News

2008-06-24T05:43:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone!
Here´s the list of books each course must read and the deadlines for discussion in class:

6th year Gestión (Upper Intermediate)
# DRACULA (deadline: 7th July)
# Crime Story Collection

6th year Electrónica- Producción/ Química-Construcciones (Advanced)
# DEATH IN THE DOJO(Level 5)(deadline: 7th July)
# From the Cradle to the Grave

Games 3

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Games 2

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Have a look...

2008-06-16T17:51:00.000-07:00
Here´s a short video of some games organized by a group of students to cheer themselves up one Monday morning!

Next step

2008-06-16T17:47:00.000-07:00
Hello everybody!
I have already sent you an invitation to take part in the blog. You can now send the answers to the questions on "Six Feet Under"!

Six feet under

2008-06-11T07:02:00.000-07:00
Hello! Try these exercises based on the series Six Feet Under!

Who says the following parts of the film? What is the situation?

1) You can have anything you want.
It's yours for the taking.
But we've been conditioned to think that this isn't fair somehow.
That that's taking something away from someone else, right?

2) He must've hit his head on the bottom of the pool.

3) Today's the reading of Dad's will.

4) I never know when I'm gonna have to work, Keith. This is a busy time for us.

5) I'm just trying to find out where you're wounded(…)Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time, in us.

6) Great, I have to miss another day of school?

7) - Have you met someone else, Dave?
- Leave him alone.

8) Why are you still here anyway? Why don't you go back to Seattle?

9) -May I ask what kind of car your husband preferred?

-He drives a BMW.

-Do you know which model?

-The biggest, fastest one.

-I recommend the Titan Series.

10) First, to my wife, Ruth..I leave all bank accounts, stocks and bonds that are in my name. That's in addition to the life insurance.

Second, I bequeath the company, Fisher & Sons Funeral Home...and all real property and business interest attached as follows:

Fifty percent to my son David James Fisher...and fifty percent to my son Nathaniel Samuel Fisher Jr."

11) - Wow, I guess I don't even rate.
- No, he set up a trust for you.

12) -Should you decide not to go, the money will become available to you...when you're 25.
-So this is like blackmail from beyond the grave.

13) -You own half the business now. Start pulling your weight.

14) It's a good business. Steady.

15) I met your dad once. Remember, he buried my grandmother Alice.

16) Well, I thought I'd drop off the details...of our buyout offer so you could look it over.

17) - I have two sons.
- Really? I was only aware of one.

18) -My sister can't pick up Julio from school.
… Nate, you ought to remind your brother how many clients I have referred to you guys from here and tell him to cut Rico some slack.

19) I can certainly understand why you wouldn't want to get away from that.
Come on, just a glass of wine, 15 minutes. The dead guy won't mind.

20) - I'm not that guy with you.
- Who are you?
-I don't know, somebody new.

21) Well, there's a body that spent over two hours in a van...unrefridgerated, decomposing at a rate much faster than you could ever imagine.

22) You can touch him if you wear one of these. Believe me, he won't mind. He won't care.

23) The Swansons are con artists. They ran a franchise pyramid scheme. They have no money, and they're not gonna con us too.

24) -How much did you know about your husband?
Because he's been running up bad debts for some time.
-We were always moving. I thought it was...because he was making so much money.

25) -I think it's good you told your boys about me.
-Are you kidding? It was insane.

26) -I'm sorry. You're a very kind person, and you've been good to me.
I'm sorry.

27) Hey, is David any good...at racquetball? We used to play in high school...and he was pathetic, running into walls...

28) Your father knew. We had coffee once, and he told me...he understood why we couldn't be together.

29) - It's not your name.
-Yes, it is.
-You're not the only person named that.

30) -You obviously liked some guy enough to have his name burned into your flesh.
-I would have done a lot more than that for him.

31) - Do you have an eating disorder?
- What? No, Mom. I wish, but...

32) He wants a quality coffin. We happen to have one.

33) -You threatening to put us out of business?
-We look at it as a partnership. In the death-care industry now, it's consolidate or die.

34) -This is the bus.
-What bus?
-The bus.

B) Answer the questions below
1) Who are the characters in the story?
2) What is their relationship like?
3) Why are they together at the moment?
4) Why does Dave feel betrayed?
5) Does anyone else in the family feel the same? By whom?
6) Are there any mysterious characters? What does their mystery have to do with?
7) How do Dave and Nate feel by the end of the episode?

Welcome

2008-06-09T15:27:00.000-07:00
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Please, click on "comments" on this post and
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