Hello students,

I’ve got a prize for the person who tells me the English name of this caterpillar (or the moth it will transform into). Some clues:

• It’s not an exotic insect. I found it here, in Cunit, in my vegetable garden.
• It eats tomato, aubergine and red pepper leaves.
• It is a very long caterpillar. It was about 11 cm long!!
• It is not a butterfly, it is a moth!
• It can drink honey!
• You should look up information in the library. Maybe a butterflies and moths guide?
• If you don’t go to the library, look up on the internet.

Good luck!

Remember that the United Kingdom is made of 4 nations:

1. Scotland (capital Edinburgh).
2. Wales (capital Cardiff).
3. Northern Ireland (capital Belfast).
4. England (capital London).

Do not mistake the Republic of Ireland for Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is an independent country.

Hello students, the following exercise counts as four exercises in your dossier. If you are in the intermediate level, you can do it:

• Exercise 1: from journalist to business person.
• Exercise 2: from doctor to taxi driver.
• Exercise 3: from bus driver to actress.
• Exercise 4: from firefighter to secretary.

For example,   Journalist : a person who reports news on TV, radio or newspaper.

Another activity (but it counts as only ONE exercise!) is this one.

The minimum number of activities for unit 1 is 30. You can do any of the activities included here:

• Download the activities from Digital-text: Exercicis-unitat-11
• Very easy exercise about the verb to be.
• Very, very easy exercise on the verb to be.
• Another activity about the verb to be.
• An activity for students in the intermediate level.
• 140 activities on the verb to be here!!!

(to be or not to be, that is the question)

Two questions for unit 0:
1. Define ‘colourblind’ in English.
2. Name numbers 11-20 in English and Icelandic.

You will probably need to look up in Google or the Wikipedia, but I am sure you will get the answers.

A continuació uns quants consells per a fer servir el vostre nou ordinador portàtil:
1. Recordeu de tractar-lo amb cura. Qualsevol cop i pot anar-se’n a no ris.

2. Feu servir l’ ordinador només quan els professors us ho demanem. Si no ho feu així, la bateria s’ esgotara de seguida i no la tindreu a punt.

3. Per netejar la pantalla: apagueu l’ ordinador i agafeu un drap de netejar ulleres. No apreteu, feu-ho amb delicadesa. Si no surt, mulleu el drap amb una mica d’ aigua destilada (la que es fa servir per planxar).

4. No atureu l’ ordinador de qualsevol manera. Heu d’ anar a Inici i pitjar on digui “Tanca l’ ordinador”. Podeu espatllar-ho si no ho feu així.

5. La majoria d’ ordinadors no tenen el corrector ortogràfic del català. Aquí el podeu trobar els següents productes totalment gratuïts: Corrector per l’ Open Office, Sinònims per l’ Open Office, paquet en català per Microsoft Office 2003, paquet en català per Microsoft Office 2007. Finalment, si et vols posar el Windows en català: windows XP, windows Vista.

Hola a tothom!! Estrenem curs i estrenem un nou bloc, aquesta vegada dedicat a les curiositats de l’ idioma anglès. Funciona de manera diferent del Whitefield’s Blog: en primer lloc, no s’ hi publicarà res directament relacionat amb cap institut, sigui el de Cubelles o el de Cunit; segon: els articles seran escrits en català, ja que no es tracta d’ aprendre anglès, sinó d’ aprendre SOBRE l’ anglès; i tercer: es penjarà un escrit cada setmana, o sigui que us recomano que l’ afegiu als favorits o us hi subscriviu.

Donèu a conèixer el bloc entre els vostres amics i amigues!

I just received volume 5 of Tezuka’s Phoenix and started reading it eagerly. It is entitled Resurrection and is set in a.d. 2483. The story begins with the protagonist’s death and his subsequent laboratory resurrection. However, this complicated operation does not work 100% right and his artificial brain changes his perception of reality. And this is only the first 20 pages of the story… Will I ever grow tired of reading Tezuka’s tales? I think not.

And in case you want to read more of it, amazon is probably your place.

The best non-fiction seller of this year’s Sant Jordi was Crònica de la Independència, by Patricia Gabancho, which describes what will happen when Catalonia breaks free from Spain in 2010. Scotland does not need a book, as its independence is everyday closer and closer. This week’s Panorama (the BBC equivalent of TV3 ‘Trenta Minuts’) explored the different options and attitudes in both sides of ‘the border’, as they call it.

If you want to read more, click on the following link.