USEFUL EXPRESSIONS

A pain in the neck	pesado
After you	Para ceder el paso
Again and again	Una y otra vez
Are you kidding me?	¿ me estás vacilando?
As clear as day	Tan claro como el agua
As soon as possible	Lo antes posible
Ass licker	lameculos
Better late than never	Mas vale tarde que nunca
bullshit	Una mierda
By chance	Por casualidad
By heart	De memoria
Carry on	continúa
Count me in	Cuenta conmigo
Doesn’t matter	No importa
don’t get me wrong	No me malinterpretes
don’t pull my leg	No me molestes
don’t worry	No te preocupes
Enough is enough	Basta ya
Fair and square	Como dios manda
Feel like (más gerundio -ing)	Apetecer (do you feel like dancing?)
For sure	Por supuesto
For the love of it	Por amor al arte
From A to Z	De pe a pa
From now on	De ahora en adelante
From time to time	De vez en cuando
Fuck off!	A la mierda!
Get lost!	Pierdete!
Get off!	Aparta!
Get out of my way	Aparta!
Give it to me straight	Dimelo claro
Go fly a kite	Vete a la porra
Guess what?	¿sabes qué?
He gets on my nerves	Me saca de quicio
He is on his way, I am on my way	Esta de camino
Help youself	Sirvete tu mismo
Here you are	Aquí tienes
High five/ give me five	Choca esos cinco
Hold your horses	Para el carro
Holy crap!	Puta mierda!
Holy shit!	Joder!
How come?	¿cómo es eso?
How embarrasing!	¡ qué vergüenza!
How you doing? How you going?	¿cómo lo llevas? ¿qué tal?
I do like it	De verdad que me gusta
I don’t give a fuck	Me la suda
I don’t care	Me la trae floja
I don’t feel like doing it	No me apetece hacerlo
I don’t give a damn/shit	Me importa un carajo
I don’t mind	No me importa
I don’t think so	No creo
I think so	Creo que si
I guess so	Supongo que si
I have no idea	No tengo ni idea
I mean	Me refiero
I see	Ya veo
I wish	ojalá
I’m fond of	Soy aficionado a
In fact	De hecho
It’s finger licking good	Esta para chuparse los dedos
It’s on me	Invito yo
It’s on the house	Invita la casa
It’s up to you	Depende de ti, como quieras
Feel free to	No te cortes en
Just in case	Por si acaso
Keep an eye on	Vigila a
Keep dreaming	Sigue soñando
Give or take	Mas o menos
Last but one	penùltimo
Last night	anoche
Look out!	¿cuidado!
Make my day	Alegrame el día
Make up your mind	decídete
Make yourself at home	Sientete como en casa
maybe	A lo mejor
Me neither	Yo tampoco
Me too	Yo también
meanwhile	Mientras tanto
Never again	Nunca más
Never mind	No importa
No bother	No te preocupes
No way	Ni hablar
No wonder	No me extraña
No worries	Sin problema
Not at all, you are welcome, it’s ok	De nada
Not bad	No está mal
it`s not my bissiness	No es asunto mio
it´s not my cup of tea	No me va
Not worth a penny/ a shit	No vale para nada
Oh dear! Oh my God! Oh my Gosh!	Oh Dios mio!
Once in a lifetime	Una vez en la vida
Once in a while/ from time to time	De vez en cuando
Over and over again	Una y otra vez
Paint from the same brush	Mismo perro con distinto collar
Piss off	A la mierda
Pleasure/bless you	Jesús
Really?	¿En serío?
Did you not?	¿De verdad que no?
Say when	Di cuando paro
She/he turns me on	Me pone
Shut the fuck up!	Callate de una puta vez
Shut up!	cállate
So bad/ so badly	Un montón
So do I	Y yo igual
So long	Hasta la vista
Some other time	Otra vez será
Start from scratch	Empezar de cero
Stop messing around	Deja de hacer el tonto
That's life	Asi es la vida
Take it easy	Tómatelo con calma
Talking of the devil	Hablando del rey de Roma
Thanks in advance	Gracias por adelantado
That's what I mean	A eso me refiero
That's what matters	Eso es lo que importa
The more the merrier	Cuantos más mejor
The sooner the better	Cuanto antes mejor
Think twice	Piensalo dos veces
To be high	Estar colocado
To be over the moon	Estar feliz
To chew the carpet	Tragarse el orgullo
To feel blue	Estar deprimido
To get rid of	Librarse de algo
To give somebody a lift	Llevar a alguien que hacía dedo
To hang around	Andar por ahi
To chill out	Relajarse, descansar
To have a finger in every pie	Estar en misa y repicando, en todos lados
To have an argue	Tener una discusión
To make a point	Dejar claro algo
posh	Pijo
Train bound for	Tren con destino a
Northbound, Southbound, Eastbound...	Con destino al norte...
Upside down	Boca abajo
Watch out!	¡cuidado!
Mind the...	Cuidado con...
We are even	Stamos en paz
What a pity!	¡ qué pena!
What a rip off!	¡Menuda estafa!
What a shame!	¡qué vergüenza!
What the fuck?	¿qué cojones?
What on Earth?	¿qué carajo?
No doubt	Sin duda
You are on thin ice	Estas jugando con fuego
I'll do my best	Haré lo que pueda

Excursion With Students from IES El Paso:

What a delight it was for me to go on excursion all day with students! We went to Fuencaliente then stopped in Montes de Luna where the teachers picked up some typical cookies, Almendrados for all to enjoy. The students were very well behaved and practiced their English (for the most part) while hiking down to our end goal - the beach! We went down from Montes de Luna stopped and had lunch after strolling down for about an hour.  Our lunch spot was near ancient caves and we saw aboriginal inscriptions in barranco hondo. After lunch we continued down a steep cliff and much like the goats that live in the area we carefully climbed down the intimidating cliff to boca barranco. Finally after more steep goat walk we arrived at “El poris de Tigalate” where we learned that “chochos” are treated in sea water to make them less bitter and more edible. Finally, after walking through lava rocky landscape, much to everyone's relief and pleasure we arrived to “El rio muerto” and to the appropriately named “Playa de Los roquitos”. Forty or so students bravely and uninhibitedly swam from one beach to another against breaking waves and deep waters and jumped from overhangings playfully egging each other on and splashing the teacher with their fearless dives. It was a well deserved day and thoroughly experienced and enjoyed.

OUR WORLD

LESSON ONE (draft)

MOVING

BY MIRANDA, ISABEL, DIEGO, JONAS, MARCOS, DANIEL, AND KILIAN.



ORIENTATION
To move you first need to know about orientation. There are two ways:
In a map -> up north, down south, right east, and left west.


On the ground: if we look at the sun in the morning we have the East, then the West in on our back, the South is to the right and the North is on our left hand side.


The North, East, West and South conform one thing: The Cardinals Points.


But what happens if you can't see the sun? Easy, you only need a compass, this is a little machine that always tells you where the Cardinal Points are.


ACTIVITIES
1. Translate the text and speak about it.
2. Explain how to find the cardinal points.

How to find the north pole star(copy)

This information is only applicable if you are in the northern hemisphere, which means you are to the north of the equator.  You can't see the pole star at all if you are south of the equator, very close to the equator or in the southern hemisphere. The pole star or Polaris is directly above the North pole of the Earth and stays there all of the time.  All other stars appear to move slowly from east to west as the earth rotates, but the pole star stays stopped at due north. There are two distinctive star pattern constellations to look for when attempting to identify the pole star.  The first constellation looks like a pan with a handle, and is called the Great Bear or the Big Dipper.  The end two stars are called the pointers and these two stars aim you towards Polaris or the Pole star.  On the other side of the Polar star is a constellation that looks like a W.  This is called Cassiopia.   If you can see this Cassiopia constellation then you need to look for the pole star going upwards from the top of the W.

La Palma Island has become an open air Interpretative Centre with a network of the astronomical viewpoints. It is formed by several information panels which make the most of the dark places and some viewpoints located at every municipality.
This network develops a different topic on each place, including constellations, planets or the Moon, and other aspects such as the simulation of equinoxes and solstices. So the users are invited to move around the Island just to discover them. There is a slat-sign located in some viewpoints to permit us to find the Pole Star, the Great and Little Bear.
It will be easy to follow the “longest path in the Universe”, if you pay attention to the time of the year when spinning the disc.


Homework: search the web for a picture of the contellations and the Polar Star and copy it in your notebook.

Explanation of Latitude and Longitude (copy)

Latitude and Longitude are how your site location is defined on the surface of the earth


Latitude­-
Latitude is used to express how far north or south you are, relative to the equator. If you are on the equator your latitude is zero. If you are near the north pole your latitude is nearly 90 degrees north. If you are near the south pole your latitude is almost 90 degrees south.
Conventionally latitude is expressed as degrees north or south. For inputting to the satellite dish pointing calculator, south latitude figures need to be input as negative numbers.


Longitude
Longitude shows your location in an east-west direction, relative to the Greenwich meridian. Places to the east of Greenwich (such as Middle East, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) have longitude angles up to 180 degrees east. Places to the west of Greenwich (such as the Atlantic and North and South America) have angles up to 180 deg west. For inputting to the satellite dish pointing calculator, longitude west figures need to be input as negative numbers.



COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE WAY?
-Hello boy!
-Hello!
- Do you know how far the museum is?
-Yes, you have to walk two kilometers to the south to reach the village and then you will find it on your left hand side just after going over the bridge. It it opposite the cathedral.
- Thank you, I will use my compass on the way.
- oh, sorry to disturb you again, could you please recommend us a good place for having lunch? Is there a good restaurant nearby?
- Absolutely, when leaving the museum walk northward as far as the traffic lights and then turn right, go straight at the roundabout and you will find the best restaurant in town behind the church.



(copy)GPS: The global Positioning System (GPS) is a global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. The GPS system operates independently of any telephonic or Internet reception. It provides critical positionning capabilities to military, civil and commercial users around the world.


ACTIVITIES


1. Explain what the GPS is.



(copy) GOOGLE MAPS: It is a web that provides services made of maps of all the world. It offers images of scrollable maps, as well satellite photos of the world and even the route between different locations or at street lever images with Google street view.

ACTIVITIES


1. Explain what Google Maps is.



(copy)GOOGLE STREET VIEW: It was created in 2007. It's an app where yo can see photographs “360” taken at street level, and move around them. It provides from Google Earth and Google Maps. All the photographies are always changed before their publication.


1. Explain what is Google Street View and its function.






(copy)ORIENTEERING: Is a group of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations.
Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering. For the purposes of this article, foot orienteering serves as a point of departure for discussion of all other variations, but almost any sport that involves racing against a clock and requires navigation with a map is a type of orienteering.


ACTIVITIES


1. Do you like orienteering? Explain this sport.



(copy)MEANS OF TRANSPORT
There are many types of transports to travel around the world. They are developing as time passes and society grows. They help solve problems that people face.
There is a great interest of society to improve the air, ground and water transports. It is necessary to have accurate knowledge to know how take advantage of the wind force, the advantages that the transport thought the water offers or how to overcome the resintance of the ground.
The increase of the speed and the power of this means has been remarkable. So we can transport large amounts of goods and people to places that are very far with a lot of speed. Also weight isn´t a problem.
But not everything are advantages. They are producing many problems in the environment with their gases that affect plants, animals and us. The circulation requires the construction of highways, ports, airports,... Producing the perforation of mountains, the course of rivers is varied,… Another problem is the numbers of deaths in accidents.
Most used means of transport are the car, the plane, the ship, and the train.

Find your way around

Would you walk more if you thought you could find your way around London? There's no excuse, thanks to Legible London street signs.
Legible London signage, Croydon
Legible London is a system of map-based street signs designed to make London that little bit easier to walk around.
It means that, for shorter journeys, you can swap your usual route for a healthy, and often quicker, walk instead.
Our maps give you useful information about the local area, with realistic times it might take you to walk to places in a five and fifteen minute range.
Our maps and signposts are easy to spot with their distinctive navy blue and yellow design. You'll find them on streets, in bus shelters and at Tube and mainline rail stations.
So far, we've put signs in nearly every London borough, and we're aiming to implement 3,000 signs in total by 2021.
Legible London is demand-led and mainly delivered through borough funds.



VOCABULARY
Boat, ship, train, car, bus, bike, motorcycle, balloon, rocket, truck, subway, plain, jeep, limousine, van, taxi, yatchs.


ACTIVITIES

1. Speak about the text for one minute.

2. Speak about your favourite means of transport.



TOURISM
Tourism is the voyages and stays that the people do in places that aren’t their usual environment.
There are many types of tourism: individual tourism, mass tourism, cultural tourism, natural tourism, active tourism, business tourism, scientific tourism, space tourism, etc.

ACTIVITIES

1. Explain what  tourism is.


2. Name some types of tourism.


EXPERIENCES

My last holiday was horrible! I was in Venice. On the way back I flew by plane and something terrible happened. There were strong turbulences and I was scared. In addition an old man started screaming and I felt into the panic. After landing my parents had to calm me for two hours. It was horrible. I will never again travel by plane.


VOCABULARY

scared, scream, landing


The best trip I have ever gone on was my fifteenth birthday’s trip. I chose Europe as a destination and so could visit many cities in just a few days. It has been ten years since that unforgettable experience and I can remember every minute of it as it had happened only yesterday.
We arrived at Madrid and took a two-days tour of the city. We visited the Museo del Prado, the most important museum in Spain. We also walked up and down La Via Street, the main avenue in Madrid, where we could see some gorgeous buildings.


VOCABULARY

Ever, since, unforgettable, gorgerous, buildings


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We swapped with a five-bedroom villa right opposite the marina and even traded cars. The weather was beautiful and the kids loved it. It was just an amazing holiday and we saved close to £17,000 over our 8-week trip.
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Swap simple
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While people like reading about your home, pictures really sell it. All you need is an iPhone or digital camera. If not we can send round a pro.
Keys are key
It's the most frequent question we get - 'How do we hand over the keys?' It's easy. Just leave them with a neighbour or pop a spare set in the post.

AVENUE, ROAD, STREET, LANE. ...

• A road has no special qualifiers. It connects point a to point b.
  
• A street connects buildings together, usually in a city, usually east to west, opposite of avenue.
  
• An avenue runs north south. Avenues and streets may be used interchangeably for directions, usually has median
  
• A boulevard is a street with trees down the middle or on both sides
  
• A lane is a narrow street usually lacking a median.
  
• A drive is a private, winding road
  
• a trail is usually in or near a wooded area
  
• a highway is a major public road, usually connecting multiple cities
  
• a motorway is similar to a highway, with the term more common in New Zealand, the UK, and Austrailia, no stopping, no pedestrian or animal traffic allowed
  
• crossing is where two roads meet
  
• alley a narrow path or road between buildings, sometimes connects streets, not always driveable
  
• esplanade long open, level area, usually a walking path near the ocean
  
• square open area where multiple streets meet, guess how its usually shaped.
  
• walk historically a walking path or sidewalk, probably became a road later in its history
  
• driveway almost always private, short, leading to a single residence or a few related ones
  
• laneway uncommon, usually down a country road, itself a public road leading to multiple private driveways.
  
• channel usually near a water channel, the water itself connecting two larger bodies of water,
  
• park originally meaning an enclosed space, came to refer to an enclosed area of nature in a city, usually a well decorated road.
  
• bypass passes around a populated area to divert traffic
  
• roundabout or traffic circle circle around a traffic island with multiple connecting routes, a roundabout is usually smaller, with less room for crossing and passing, and safer
  
• drive shortened form of driveway, not a driveway itself, usually in a neighborhood, connects several houses
  
• parade wider than average road historically used as a parade ground.
  
• Fork is when the road splits in two
  

OUR WORLD

LESSON O

LEARNING WITHOUT A COURSE BOOK

(A1)Not using a textbook is a new opportunity to learn more English in less time with more pleasure. This is because we will put a part of ourselves in our own book and also put part of our energy and creativity.

With more information about the world in our book, we´ll learn Geography and History and maybe more words in other languages too.

The possibilities are infinite, that´s why it´s better to create our own book instead of using a course one.

(B1) In our opinion If we work without a course book we feel lost, for example, when we want to study for a test, we haven´t anything that we can study except for our notes, and some people don´t take their notes, so they come crying to the teacher saying things like, “oh we haven´t anything to study” and all these things. However it also has good things, just like: the classes are less dull and the topics are more interesting and fresh, and this also helps you to learn faster, so this helps you if you go abroad to study, and finally we think that not having a course-book is a good idea.

(A2)We think that it is a good idea to make a book for our English classes because if we try to speak about things which are interesting and important we learn more. In our opinion the book shouldn´t have many activities because if that occurs it will be boring. We also think that the book has to deal with important things.

(A3)We think that the idea is very interesting because we are going to learn general culture and it is very creative, too. When we work without a book, we can make the class more dynamic. The course book is boring and the topics and the exercises aren’t very interesting. We can learn more because we make our own book.

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(B3)- we think that not using a course-book and making our own book is a good idea because it will be easier to study and understand the things we dream about and we will do it our way.

With this way of learning we will be aware of what we know and what we ignore.

It´s more interesting than a normal course book.

We´ll have the capacity to speak with freedom and without fear of making mistakes.

It´s a new experience that could scare us but definitely it will be good for our education

(A4)We think that making our own book is better because we will learn more. We don´t like the course book because it isn´t funny, the activities are so boring. Besides it is very entertaining making it and it is a different and creative way to learn. We will improve our level because with this project we will learn new expressions and words. We will know other cultures too.

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(B4) in our opinion making our own book could be a good idea. We think that in the course book, we only learn to write some verbs tenses. We want to have a good conversation, without problems.

Making the book lets us to have less problems when we speak English.

Also, we can put in our book, what our imagination can reach. Interesting things like real stories, or stories made by us.

But the most important thing, is the process to create the book.

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(A6) We think that working without book is better. The classes become more fun, we aren’t boring and then we are more attentive. We learn to use English in real context. We don’t spend much money. It will help us to learn about our world.

However, in our opinion if we don’t organize well and we will lose a lot of time. We believe that if we had a book we would organize better.

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(B6) Our group thinks that now we don´t waste money on books. There is more contact between students. The schoolbag is less heavy. There isn´t worry to finish the book.

A8

Last year, we were bored with the book because It had many text and activities that were stupid. Our book is more interesting because it has information that we like and the activities are for our level. We prefer making our book because we understand everything and we will not be bored. We won’t have a book because we want to learn our things and we don’t like being with the same activities and text. And we don’t need to buy the new book.

IT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE LAST USED THIS BLOG....

There is good news; during this school year you will find some interesting materials here. 4ºESO is making a project called

OUR WORLD

                      find it here next week!

 SCHOOL KITCHEN GARDEN MARKET

 HUERTO ESCOLAR ECOLÓGICO IES EL PASO

Este año ha arrancado con fuerza el Huerto Escolar gracias al legado de los alumnos del PDC del curso pasado; el huerto quedo sembrado de boniatos y chayotas que ahora se están cosechando.
Ahora el huerto es bilingüe; se habla inglés en ocasiones cuando se trabaja en la huerta y se habla solo inglés en el mercadillo. Es una experiencia divertida y provechosa para todos: verduras ecológicas muy frescas y comunicación auténtica en inglés.


  Agradecemos a toda la comunidad escolar su colaboración.

El miercoles dia 16 de diciembre celebraremos la primera actividad extraescolar del Huerto Escolar: "English in the Woods" caminata desde el IES hasta el refugio del Pilar con actividades en inglés y música con artista invitada y Sweet Potatoes