Some students' projects in Barranco las lajas' walls

Celebrating Halloween in our library at school

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Two great mystery writers

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, historical novels and humours ('Exploits of Brigadier E.Gerard').

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Work sessions

 Our pupils in ordinary class and in medusa classroom,  trying to create our own blogs. Well done!!!

Anglicismos, words we use from English

Canary words from English. (palabras del ingles que usamos): ANGLICISMOS

  

Papas “Chinegua”= King Edward

Papas “autodate” = Out of date

Cambuyón  = “Can buy on” (cartel que se ponía en los barcos: “Puede comprar a bordo”)

Cambuyonero = Que vendía de estraperlo lo que compraba a bordo.

 Fonil = embudo (del inglés funnel)

 Chusos (despectivo de zapato viejo) = shoes (en inglés zapatos)

Sorchi (despectivo de soldado) = soldier (soldado en inglés)

Choni (despectivo, hacer el ridículo) = Johnny (Juan en inglés), turistas de la casa Yobart (barcos ingleses que venían con frecuencia)

Flis (líquido y aparato para matar las moscas) = Flyes (moscas en inglés)

Piche = Alquitrán (del ingles pitch)

Empichar = Asfaltar

Fotingo (coche pequeño) = “Ford -T goes!”  (del slogan el Ford-T marcha)

Tinglado = zinc glade (cubierta con plancha de zinc)

Igueste de San Andrés/ de Candelaria = highest (parte alta de)

Canción infantil: “Mambrú” se fue a la guerra = Lord Malborough

Jugar a Guirgo (escondite) = ¡Girls, I go! (¡Chicas, ya voy!)

Cap = Combinado de bebidas blancas (Cup = taza en inglés, porque se servía en tazas de cristal)

Picú = Tocadiscos (del inglés pick up)

 Guachimán = Guardián  (del inglés watching man)

 Orsay = fuera de juego  (del inglés off side)

Bistec = trozo de carne (del inglés beefsteak)

Váter = retrete (del inglés water closed) 

Boliche = canica  (del inglés ball age)

Fos = asco, peste (del inglés faugh)

Winche = molinete o elevador eléctrico (del inglés winch)

Moni = dinero (del inglés money)

Queque = bizcochón (del inglés cake)

Tique = entrada, billete (del inglés ticket)

Trinque = beber / algo nuevo (de inglés drink)

Nife = cuchillo (del inglés knife)

Cachanchán = torpe, vago (del inglés Can John jump?)

Cáncamo = una chapuza, un arreglo (del inglés Can come on?)

Bisne = negocio (del inglés bussines)

A joke to start

Situation:   
  English class:
  Canción THE WHEELS ON THE BUS pronunciado [de uils on de bas]:   http://youtu.be/6kUmwI54Zu8

  22 alumnos de 3 años. El profe desmelenado (yo) cantando y esforzándose al máximo para que entraran en ambiente. Todos con cara de “¿De dónde se habrá escapado este?”. A ver repetimos:
Profe THE WHEELS!!!!!!!!
Locos bajitos  THE WHEELS!!!!!!!
Profe ON THE BUS!!!!
Locos bajitos ON THE BUS
Observo entonces que uno de ellos no repite esta última parte, y que se levanta un momento, como con dudas, así que me acerco y en voz baja le digo a verrrrrrrrrr  ON – THE – BUS [ondevás]
Mirándome muy serio me responde "A HACER CACA"

Contest in our library at school

Have a look at the news in biblioteca de las lajas' Blog on the right side. you may be interested in it:

CONCURSO DE PORTADAS DE LIBROS DE LECTURA

http://biblioteba.blogspot.com/

To be happy

It's the simple things in life that make it good!

WELCOME to this new blog

Our students are learning to use a blog as a way to edit our classworks and projects. 
We hope this is a motivating excercise to improve our interest in communication by using the English language.
Congratulations!!!

We´ll show the students' blog directions on the right side of this blog,  as soon as we are having them started.

English language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

English
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Spoken in	(see below)
Native speakers	First language: 309–400 million Second language: 199 million–1.4 billion Overall: 500 million–1.8 billion
Language family	Indo-European ·                    Germanic o                                    West Germanic §                                                     Anglo–Frisian §                                                                      Anglic §                                                                                      English
Writing system	English alphabet (Latin script)
Official status
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
Countries where English is an official or de facto official language, or national language, and is spoken natively by the majority of the population   Countries where it is an official but not primary language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria.

Following the extensive influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century, it has been widely dispersed around the world, becoming the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions. It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. It is the most widely spoken language across the world.

Geographical distribution

Pie chart showing the relative numbers of native English speakers in the major English-speaking countries of the world

Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However, when combining native and non-native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world, though possibly second to a combination of the Chinese languages (depending on whether or not distinctions in the latter are classified as "languages" or "dialects").
The countries with the highest populations of native English speakers are, in descending order: United States (215 million), United Kingdom (61 million), Canada (18.2 million), Australia (15.5 million), Nigeria (4 million), Ireland (3.8 million), South Africa (3.7 million), and New Zealand (3.6 million) 2006 Census.
Of those nations where English is spoken as a second language, India has the most such speakers ('Indian English').