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About whitefield

En Marc Blanco és professor d' anglès a l' IES Cubelles (Barcelona). És llicenciat en filologia anglo-germànica per l' UAB, va estudiar un post-grau sobre l' anglès medieval a la University of Manchester. Porta 9 anys ensenyant anglès, a gent de negocis, a l' ESO i al batxillerat de centres concertats i ara, amb les oposicions aprovades el 2005, a l' escola pública.

Headphones

When we begin unit 2 (1.03 in Digital Text), we will need headphones to practise the listening exercises. Please, make sure you bring a couple of cheap headphones (nothing fancy, nor sporty, please!!) to the classroom. They will be necessary. 😉

Article de Diari d’ Escola

Hello students,

As we have started working with computers, I have thought it could be a nice idea to include this article from Diari d’ Escola. Oh, by the way, I think our computers are not powerful enough to run Windows 7 (in case you were wondering…).

Congratulations 1 ESO E

Els alumnes de 1r E han començat avui el dia molt bé. A la classe d’ anglès han encès els ordinadors i s’ han posat a treballar de valent. Quan han preguntat, només ha estat per coses relacionades amb el tema que estem fent (el verb to be). Durant bona part de la classe, les activitats s’ han pogut fer en absolut silenci.

Així cada dia,

Mr. Whitefield

Countries and nationalities

Here are some exercises that you can include in your unit 1 dossier. They are exercises to practise the names of countries and their nationalities. You will only find countries, but you should also learn:

  • Andalusia – Andalusian
  • The Basque Country – Basque
  • Galicia – Galician
  • Catalonia – Catalan
  • Aran Valley – Aranese

The exercises can be found here: LIST OF ACTIVITIES

Occupations

Some of you are tired of completing exercises about the verb ‘to be’. Well, here you can practice this unit’s vocabulary: occupations. Follow the link to find a list of exercises, click on them and you will see that they are really easy. Don’t worry if some of the vocabulary there is new. Learn the new words, it’s good for your English.

CLICK HERE!!!

And the winner is…

… it seems that we’ve got the winner of the caterpillar contest. The moth -not a butterfly- is the death’s head hawk moth.

This spectacular moth had a ‘special’ role in a thriller called The Silence of the Lambs. Here’s a short clip from the film: