First Benefit Show at IES Isidra de Guzmán: Summary

Last Thursday, June, 17

the First Benefit Show

at IES Isidra de Guzmán took place at the Meeting Room of the High School at 17:30.

All the tickets available were sold among students, friends and relatives and everybody enjoyed a funny afternoon. Thank you everybody for joining us and congratulations to the artists! Special thanks to Miguel Ángel and other teachers and relatives who took photographs and videos. The following is a brief summary of the event:

The Conductors.
The Audience.


An English Chorus: Alba Rodríguez, Marta Pérez, Irene Salido, Clara Sarro and Andrea Moreno, 1st ESO students, interpreting AN IRISH BLESSING, a popular Irish song and EVERYBODY SINGS FREEDOM, a spiritual song.

TELEPHONE: HELP HER, a show based on the song Telephone, by Beyoncée, interpreted by Tania Martínez, Julia Nemes, María Ocaña, David Moro and Jennifer Cocera, 1st ESO students. The song talks about a woman in jail and the dancing tries to transmit that everybody needs help sometimes.

Flamenco Dancers: Jessica Durán and Elena Antequera, 4th ESO students.

A Four Hands Piano Performance, by Sara Gañán and Mª Nieves Robledo, 2nd ESO students, interpreting Czerny´s Staccato.

MIXING IS POSSIBLE, a dancing show created by 4th ESO students Estefanía Ayala, Celia López, Elena Antequera, Jessica Durán and Lissa Dockli, in which different styles are mixed. Jazz, classic dancing, reggaeton, funky and hip-hop are combined to show that mixing is possible thanks to respect and tolerance.

A GLASSES SYMPHONY, rythms with plastic glasses on desks, an original way of showing imitations, repetitions and canons. The interpreters are 2nd ESO students Esteban Cevallos, Yulia Shcerba, Laura Sopeña, Diego García, Laura Sánchez, Sara El Korchi, Lorena Descalzo, Diego Gallego, Cristina Cubillo, Cecilia Rubio, Nerea Álvarez y Miguel García Romeral.

YOUR BROTHER IS A MAN, a Spanish parody by Isabel Agüero whose aim is reflecting on women equality.

Sound: Fernando Melenchón; lights: Jesús González; dress: Roxana Comán, Desy Valerieva and Cristina Bolaños; scenery: Javier Robledo, Jesús Castro and Dyna Alexandrova; prompter: Víctor Castaños; father : Alberto Moreno, mother: Soraya del Fresno, son: Sergio Vivo, daughter: Justina Strauss. Directed by Amelia de la Prida.

COEDUCATION: María Guzmán, Paloma Gil-Ortega, Estrella Márquez, Andrea Pérez, Irene Hernández, Sara Gañán and Andrea Hernández, 2nd ESO students, dancing in favour of equality.

TRICICLAOS, a particular trio of 4th ESO students Javier Robledo, Alberto Moreno and Jesús Castro, interpreting a parody of Julio Iglesias´hit parade Soy un truhán, soy un señor.

Amelia´s students thanked her for her efforts.

Terry´s students thanked her for her help.

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Thank you!

First IES Isidra de Guzmán Benefit Show

These photographs were taken at the

GENERAL SHOW REHEARSAL

of the

FIRST ISIDRA DE GUZMÁN BENEFIT SHOW

which will be held on June, 17, 2010

at our I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán

The conductors.

Glasses Symphony.

Flamenco dancers.

Part of the English Chorus.

"Telephone: Help Her", a modern dancing performance

based on the song "Telephone" (Lady Gagá & Beyoncée)

"Mixing is Possible"

4 hands piano performance

"Theatre: Your Brother is a Man"

Two of the TRI-TRIO

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The First I.E.S. ISIDRA DE GUZMÁN BENEFIT SHOW

will be held on June, 17, 2010, at 17:30.

With such event funds and public awareness will be raised for the benefit of

HOSPITAL DE ANTEZANA (widely known as Hospitalillo),

in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

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Why for this entity?

Our students looked for information about different charity local entities, and they themselves decided this one to be raised the money for.

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Who will be the show performed by?

The show will be performed by the IES Isidra de Guzmán students, with the help of their teachers Amelia de la Prida (Music), Teresa Cancelo (English) and Idoia Muñoz (P.E.).

Consuelo Marazuela (Religion) also helped with the coordination of the show.

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This activity is part of our REDYNETED PROJECT.

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Tickets are being sold at the price of 2 euros.

They can be bought at the English Department (teacher in charge: Teresa Cancelo)

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The previous photographs were taken at the SHOW GENERAL REHEARSAL, last Wednesday.

We would like to give special thanks to other members of the staff who have been helpful in the develpment of this show and its rehearsals.

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A second GENERAL REHERSAL will take place next Wednesday, June, 16, in the afternoon.

Ask Amelia or Teresa if you can join it, with permission of your corresponding teachers.

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Thank you very much and ENJOY THE SHOW!

I Want to Be with You Tonight

The verbs in red are written in the passive voice.

As you can see, the passive voice is widely used in English.

Sometimes, songs are popular because they have been used in advertising.

Some other times songs are used in advertising because they are popular.

This song is popular and it is used on a TV advertisement.

The lyrics can be followed on this site.

If you know the music, it can be sang along on this karaoke.

A translation into Spanish can be found here.

If you click here an original video will be played.

WRITING A REPORT: useful vocabulary and grammar

I´ve found this interesting piece of news about a School Science Fair in Plymouth,

published at The Bristol Press.

This article talks about the Fair, how it was organised, who won the first prizes and explains some of the students´experiments, providing some of their comments and reactions.

This site includes a list of blogs on the right, with a topic sentence summarising each blog´s contents.

It also has a section below where comments can be submitted.

Now, I have selected a paragraph to focus attention on some items which might be useful for you when writing your own reports.

Pay attention, take notes and stop before the explanations to think on your own

Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:42 PM EDT (1)

By Freesia Singngam

Staff Writer (2)

PLYMOUTH —(3) Their experiments ranged from analyzing plant growth to making their own batteries, but all the 7th-grade students (4) from Bonnie Doughty-Jenkins’ class (5)used the scientific method for their entries in the third-annual Eli Terry Jr. Middle School Science Fair Wednesday (6).“They had to come up with a question they wanted to test,” Doughty-Jenkins said (7) About 80 students from her classes entered the fair, but in the end (8), one student won it all. Spencer Pilarski won the first place trophy with “The Effect of Various Liquids on a Nail.” In a wooden box, he placed cups of several different liquids including ammonia, ginger ale, lemonade and salt water. Then he put one nail in each. He found that salt water rusted the nail the most.“I thought I wasn’t going to win it,” he said (9)

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BEFORE LOOKING AT THE NOTES BELOW,

FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

1. READ THE FULL TEXT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT.

2. THEN, FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE COLOURED EXPRESSIONS TRYING TO GUESS THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE BEEN HIGHTLIGHTED.

3. WRITE YOUR CONCLUSIONS ON YOUR INTERNET-SHEET

4. ANSWER THE FINAL TWO QUESTIONS AT THE END OF YOUR WORK ON YOUR INTERNET-SHEET AND AS A "COMENTARIO" HERE. REMEMBER TO WRITE YOUR NAME!

NOTES:

(1) Date: Notice one of the ways of writing the date.

(2) By: Used to introduce the author of the report --also used for films or books, i.e. directed by; written by. Notice the structure BY + NAME OF THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE ARTICLE + WHO HE/SHE IS.

(3) PLYMOUTH: This is the place where the event took place.

(4) Los estudiantes de 7º grado

(5) De la clase de Bonnie Doughty-Jenkins. An example of the use of the Saxon Genitive form. Notice the structure NAME OF THE TEACHER + ´S + CLASS

(6) La Feria de Ciencias del Colegio Eli Terry. Notice the order of elements in English --DETERMINER + NOUN.

(7) Dijo Daughty-Jenkins. Notice the order SUBJECT + VERB and the use of the verb say --said, to report someone else´s words.

(8) al final

(9) dijo. Notice the use and order of SUBJECT + VERB, though in Spanish the subject is not needed. See (7)

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1. Has this post been useful to you?

2. What did you appreciate most?

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Learn & Enjoy

Live & Feel

A site providing examples of how to summarize the contents of a blog

Eli Terry students explore science through experiments

is the title of a piece of news I´ve found by chance.

http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2010/04/01/news/doc4bb555e4f2b08317208857.txt

Interesting as an example of how to write a headline on what a blog is about (column on the right)

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It is also a resource for vocabulary

which might be used by my students in their reports.

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It´s also interesting because it talks about a group of students and their work,

as well as the way they share it.

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Have a look at the instructions for "submitting a comment"

-- Go to the SUBMIT A COMMENT section.

Do you understand them?

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Has this link been useful?

What have you learnt?

Did you like the experiments?

Submit a comment here or e-mail to

englishwithterry@hotmail.com

if you want to write a larger report.

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Enjoy your visit!

I REDYNETED meeting at Alcalá de Henares

Yesterday, the I REDYNETED meeting

took place at I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

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What is REDYNETED?

It is a project which joins people from four schools in Spain who want to share their work.

These schools are:

C.E.I.P. Jovellanos, Gijón

I.E.S. Schaman Josefina de la Torre, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

I.E.S. El Rincón, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán, Alcalá de Henares

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Meeting Hall at I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán


Welcome at the Town Council


Back to I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán.

An Exhibition on Outstanding Women Through History


Students from Las Palmas showed their works.


And students from I.E.S. Isidra de Guzmán too


A group of students played a flute version of Pachelbel´s Canon

And a peculiar trio

representing a parody of Julio Iglesias hit parade

"Soy un truhán, soy un señor"

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On-line Local Press reporting this meeting:
Local News at Portal Local

A2 Prensa
La Quincena.es
Madrid Informativo
Tribuna Municipal
El Portal de Alcalá de Henares
(all of them offer the same report
and a similar photograph at the Town Council)

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More photographs here.
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REDYNETED entry on this meeting here

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Dear friends,
Enjoy your visit and thank you for coming!

Where is the love?

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc

Lyrics and a different video (recommended):

http://www.musica.com/video.asp?video=214

TITLE: Where is the love?

AUTHOR: Black Eyes Peas

SINGER/GROUP: Black Eyes Peas

NATIONALITY: USA

STYLE: R&B, pop and hip-hop

MAIN MESSAGE: A song to meditate on our world

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Found and Sent by:

Ruth Arranz