Going Green

Test you Eco IQ with this quiz.
There's a lot you can do to help reverse global climate change and live and eco-friendly life.


Some vocab you might need.:

PV= Photovoltaic
CFL = Compact Fluorescent Light (= bombilla de bajo consumo)
EPA = Environmental Protection Agency
hemp = cannabis

Check out the National Geographic website for more information about the environment and of natural disasters.

Second Explosion at Japan Nuclear Plant

This is the text we saw in class this week. Without looking ;) do it now as a cloze. Later, check your answers with your worksheet.

Can you understand the meaning of the underlined words and expressions?

 

Second Explosion at Japan Nuclear Plant (14th March, 2011)

A second explosion has (1) ____ at the nuclear power plant that was damaged in Friday’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Nuclear reactor 3 from the Fukushima plant suffered a (2) ____ explosion to that which hit reactor 1 on Saturday. Officials say the blast did not damage the casing which houses the uranium fuel rods in the reactor’s (3) ____. Experts believe the latest explosion was caused by a build-(4) ____ of hydrogen in the building that covers the core. Japan’s prime minister Naoto Kan has told people there is no danger of a radioactive (5) ____, but warned the situation to cool the reactors is still critical. He described recent events as "the biggest crisis Japan has (6) ____ in the 65 years since the end of World War II".
Japan is beginning to understand more details of its tragedies. The death (7) ____ is slowly rising. Police found over 2,000 bodies on the (8) ____ of Miyagi prefecture on Monday and at least ten thousand people are missing in the port town of Minamisanriku. Tens of thousands of people have been (9) ____ from a 20-km radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plants – many fear they will never see their homes again. More than 22 Fukushima (10) ____ are being treated for the effects of exposure to radiation. The whole of Japan is extremely concerned about the ongoing crisis at the power plants. Experts say a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl is highly unlikely. Nevertheless, the quiet fear and panic experienced by the Japanese raise questions about nuclear safety.

Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

1.	(a)	occurrence	(b)	occurs	(c)	occurring	(d)	occurred
2.	(a)	similar	(b)	alike	(c)	identical	(d)	same
3.	(a)	bore	(b)	core	(c)	lore	(d)	pore
4.	(a)	in	(b)	out	(c)	up	(d)	down
5.	(a)	leaky	(b)	leaks	(c)	leak	(d)	leaking
6.	(a)	recoiled	(b)	encountered	(c)	dispirited	(d)	undaunted
7.	(a)	doll	(b)	poll	(c)	moll	(d)	toll
8.	(a)	coastline	(b)	fault line	(c)	beeline	(d)	inline
9.	(a)	excavated	(b)	evacuated	(c)	elevated	(d)	estimated
10.	(a)	residence	(b)	resides	(c)	residency	(d)	residents
11.	(a)	affects	(b)	affective	(c)	effects	(d)	effective
12.	(a)	scale	(b)	limit	(c)	grade	(d)	ratio

Wear sunscreen

Class of '99:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young, written by Chicago Columnist Mary Schmich.

Japan’s Quake, Tsunami and Atomic Alert

News from the 12th of March

Japan is beginning the cleanup after Friday’s (1) ____ earthquake and tsunami. The death (2) ____ is currently at 573 with hundreds more people missing. Most of the people died in the (3) ____ tsunami, which was up to ten metres high. Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency says the number of destroyed buildings has (4) ____ 3,400, but that is expected to rise. In the quake-hit areas, around 5.57 million households (5) ____ have no electricity, while more than one million homes have had their water supply cut (6) ____.

The mega-earthquake is the seventh largest (7) ____ recorded. It hit northeast Japan at 2:46 p.m. with a magnitude (8) ____ 8.9 on the Richter scale. It was felt as far away as Beijing, China. The following tsunami has completely (9) ____ away large parts of Japan’s north. The damage is      (10) ____ tens of billions of dollars. Fifty-three countries in the Pacific Rim were put on tsunami alert. Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said his        (11) ____ focus now is to stop a nuclear power plant from overheating. Scientists released (12) ____ steam from the plant to reduce the pressure inside it.

Put the correct words from this table into the article.

1.	(a)	death	(b)	dead	(c)	deadly
2.	(a)	toll	(b)	doll	(c)	roll
3.	(a)	largish	(b)	massive	(c)	tiny
4.	(a)	reaches	(b)	reached	(c)	reaching
5.	(a)	current	(b)	currant	(c)	currently
6.	(a)	off	(b)	on	(c)	in
7.	(a)	ever	(b)	never	(c)	even
8.	(a)	by	(b)	at	(c)	of
9.	(a)	washing	(b)	washed	(c)	washes
10.	(a)	on	(b)	to	(c)	in
11.	(a)	main	(b)	mainly	(c)	mains
12	(a)	radio	(b)	radioactive	(c)	radiate

If I were a boy

With the help of the lyrics, what happens in the video?
Is there anything you consider typical/ unusual/ a stereotype/ sexist / a cliché?
In what way are their behaviours usual or unusual?
What changes in roles can you find?

Movies to borrow

The student union of the EOI (AAEOIL) has kindly donated 11 DVDs to our library for you to borrow. Here's the list of films: 

THE SHINING- EL RESPLANDOR (1980)

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY -  SENTIDO Y SENSIBILIDAD (1995)

THE MISSION - LA MISIÓN (1986)

THE DEPARTED – INFILTRADOS (2006)

BABY BOOM– BABY TÚ VALES MUCHO (1987)

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) – 2 discos

THE HUNTING PARTY – LA SOMBRA DEL CAZADOR (2007)

CABARET (1972)

OCEAN’S ELEVEN (2001)

THE FIRST WIVES' CLUB- EL CLUB DE LAS PRIMERAS ESPOSAS (1996)

FLASHDANCE (1983)

Curso Monográfico de FRANCÉS

The School of Languages of Lorca is organising a French course at the school in Águilas.

FROM THE 28th March to 30th May

EXTENSIÓN DE ÁGUILAS

EDIFICIO EL PLACETÓN

MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS 19-21h

TOTAL HOURS: 30

Course Fees: 80 EUROS

For more information:

http://www.eoilorca.org/ 

http://eoiaguilas.blogspot.com/

TEL: 968 109 401 / 661 725 298

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE AN EOI STUDENT TO REGISTER

Days like this

On a rainy, grey and depressing day like today, your classmate Encarna suggests this other wonderful song by "The Lion of Belfast":



When it's not always raining
there'll be days like this
When there's no one complaining
there'll be days like this
When everything falls into phase
like the flick of a switch
Well my momma told me
there'll be days like this

When you don't need to worry
there'll be days like this
When noone's in a hurry
there'll be days like this
When all the parts of the puzzle
start to look like they fit
Then I must remember
there'll be days like this

When you don't need an answer
there'll be days like this
When you don't meet a chancer
there'll be days like this
When you don't get betrayed
by that old Judas kiss
Oh my momma told me
there'll be days like this
When everyone is upfront
and they're not playing tricks
When you don't have no freeloaders
out to get their kicks in
When it's nobody's business
the way that you wanna live
Well my momma told me
there'll be days like this

When noone steps on my dreams
there'll be days like this
When people understand what I mean
there'll be days like this
When you bring out the changes
of how everything is
Well my momma told me
there'll be days like this

Oh my momma told me
there'll be days like this
Well my momma told me
there'll be days like this
Oh my momma told me
there'll be days like this
Oh my momma told me
there'll be days like this

Spain, last in the queue.

Read this interesting article published yesterday in ABC about English in our country in comparison with the rest of Europe.

http://www.abc.es/20110322/sociedad/abci-nivel-ingles-201103221826.html

Food for thought!

Exit through the Gift Shop

Next Thursday 24th March, Asociación La Azotea in Murcia is showing

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

A documentary about the controversial graffitti artist Banksy

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. He fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. An eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Includes footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed."




ASOCIACIÓN LA AZOTEA
C/ de la Estrella 2 (junto pza. San Juan). 30003 Murcia
facebook /Asociación La Azotea
Tel. 652 75 01 70
asociacionazotea@gmail.com

Moondance

Breakfast at Tiffany's VOS

MAÑANA 23 de Marzo 

CLAUSURA de las proyecciones en el CINECLUB PARADISO en el Teatro Guerra de LORCA.
La pelicula que proyectarán es Desayuno con diamantes en versión original.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

ENTRADA GRATUITA
21h
23 de Marzo
TEATRO GUERRA

Lorca

Matrícula libre para Exámenes de Certificación

Hoy 21 de marzo se abre el plazo de presentación de solicitudes hasta el 28 de marzo inclusive. Se tendrá que rellenar la solicitud online entrando en el siguiente enlace: https://www.eoidigital.com/preinsmurcia/alumnos/    o se podrá formalizar también en la secretaria del centro , de lunes a jueves de 16.00h a 20:00h , y los viernes de 10:00 a 14:00h.

·   SE  ADJUDICARÁ UN Nº DE RÉGISTRO DE ENTRADA CONSECUTIVO CONFORME AL ORDEN DE RECEPCIÓN.
NOTA: PARA SOLICITAR PLAZA EN DOS IDIOMAS O NIVELES SE CUMPLIMENTARÁ UNA SOLA SOLICITUD.

CONDICIONES DE MATRICULACIÓN:

·   TENER 16 AÑOS (cumplidos en el 2010)  o más de 14 (cumplidos en 2010) SÓLO de idiomas que NO cursen en la ESO.

·   Se podrá formalizar la matrícula en cualquiera de los niveles convocados sin que se precise la superación previa de los niveles anteriores. La obtención de un certificado posibilitará, en su caso el acceso a las enseñanzas en el primer curso del nivel inmediatamente siguiente.

·   La matrícula en régimen libre es incompatible con la matrícula en régimen presencial o no presencial en el mismo idioma en cualquier escuela oficial de idiomas, dentro o fuera de la Región de Murcia; cuando se trate de un cambio del régimen educativo oficial al régimen de libre se procederá a formalizar la anulación de la matrícula oficial, debiendo abonar de nuevo las tasas y precios públicos que correspondan.

·   Podrán matricularse en cualquier idioma impartido en una escuela oficial de idiomas distinto de los oficiales del país cuya nacionalidad ostente, entendiendo como tal aquella que conste en su documento de identidad (DNI o NIE).

·   Los candidatos que ostenten doble nacionalidad deberán hacerlo constar en la solicitud de matrícula, no pudiendo matricularse en ninguno de los idiomas oficiales de los respectivos países. La ocultación de esta condición o la apertura de distintos expedientes académicos haciendo uso de ambas nacionalidades será objeto de invalidación de la matrícula y pérdida de los derechos que ésta genere, sin derecho a devolución de las tasas abonadas.

ADJUDICACIÓN DE PLAZAS

? El 29 de marzo los centros publicaran la relación de solicitantes, ordenados numéricamente conforme al orden de recepción de solicitudes. Se dejará un plazo de 48 horas para que los solicitantes puedan formular alegaciones en la secretaría de la escuela oficial de idiomas o extensión correspondiente.

?   En las especialidades y niveles donde haya menos solicitudes que vacantes serán aceptadas todas las solicitudes. Los listados de solicitantes de las especialidades y niveles donde se dé esta circunstancia se publicarán el 4 de abril de 2011.

?   Si se diera  el caso de idiomas/niveles donde haya más solicitudes de matrícula que vacantes, éstas se asignarán por sorteo público.  El listado de solicitantes admitidos y no admitidos resultante de dicho sorteo se publicará no más tarde del 6 de abril de 2011.

?  Para los no admitidos la Dirección General de Formación Profesional y Educación de Personal Adultas asignará  de oficio una vacante en otro centro de la región. La relación de solicitantes y vacantes asignadas será publicada el 7 de abril en el portal educativo de la Región de Murcia (http://www.educarm.es/regimen_especial),  y en la página web de la escuela (www.eoilorca.org).

calendario  PRUEBAS DE CERTIFICACIÓN curso 2010-11

JUNIO DE 2011

	NIVEL BASICO	NIVEL INTERMEDIO	NIVEL AVANZADO
FRANCÉS	2 junio-tarde	8 junio-tarde	16 junio-tarde
INGLÉS	1 junio-tarde	7 junio-tarde	17 junio-tarde
ITALIANO	3 junio-tarde

SEPTIEMBRE DE 2011

	NIVEL BASICO	NIVEL INTERMEDIO	NIVEL AVANZADO
FRANCÉS	2 septiembre-tarde	5 septiembre-tarde	9 septiembre-tarde
INGLÉS	1 septiembre-tarde	7 septiembre-tarde	16 septiembre-tarde
ITALIANO	2 septiembre-mañana