November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

There are several types of violence against women: Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Harmful Traditional Practices, Trafficking in Women and Girls, etc. Some of them are more frequent in underdeveloped countries, but all of them may occur in developed countries as well, and very close to where we live.

Read some of the information linked below and then comment on what you learned or thought about this problem when were reading these pages. The following questions can help you with your comment:

- What was surprising for you in the information you have read about violence against women?
- Have you ever been a witness of this kind of violence? In that case, how did you feel?
- Do you think a "violence perpetrator" can change his behaviour?

Links:

Unifem Facts & Figures

Domestic Violence: What is it?
Imagine what it is like

Read about some of Myths and stereotypes about domestic violence.

Respect's philosophy

A collection of posters selected by my colleague Pablo

have a nice week

Past Tense Revision

Let's do some exercises to revise the "Past Simple" and the "Past Continuous" tenses.
To do this, go to the link http://del.icio.us/iesmariana_ip/past_tenses. You can do all or some of them, but use the order from "a" to "g".

You don't have to do any comment about this activity, but you are welcome if you feel like telling us something about it.

Water Planet

These days everybody seems to be concerned and worried about CLIMATE CHANGE and other environmental issues. Politicians and many other famous and public people such as singers or actors express their opinions about those problems. They invest money and time on it. A good example is the ecosite of Leonardo DiCaprio. There you can find a lot of information including some videos where he details the situation about "Climate Change" and "Water Planet".

Your task here is:
1st: watch the video about WATER once, if you watch it on the YouTube version posted on this blog you will be able to control it and go backward and forward as many times as you need.





2nd Take a note of the main words and ideas that appear on the video

3rd Watch the video again and read the transcript by clicking on this link.

4th write a comment on this blog to tell us:
- a) Your opinion about this video.
- b) Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of our planet? Why?

To get to know more about climate change go to this page where you can watch several videos about this topic. Greenpeace Videos

a questionnaire

Hi everyone,

the first activity you have to do is to complete the following questionnaire http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2272SUJW4TJ. This way you will learn useful vocabulary to use the Web.

Go ahead, read the questions and, when you are sure about your answers complete and submit the questionnaire.

Then, write a comment here to tell me which words you learnt while you completed the survey.

Our blog

Dear students,

this is the first post of our blog. The idea is to make it a space for you to read and listen to English. Normally, your contribution will be to do a reading, watching and/ or listening task and then post your comments on the blog.

I'm sure you will enjoy the experience of using a blog for the English classroom.

Pay attention to the following rules:

1. before you click on the link/s, check you have understood the task
2. always use English,
3. be careful with spelling and punctuation.
4. use the dictionary, but don't look for every word you don't know (use the context to guess the meaning).

And that's all for now!

As a welcome message watch this video of the song by Mika. We are doing the exercises by the end of the week.









and the "a capella" version