Brenes Brains : 2014

Tuesday 2 December 2014

A BIZARRE MIXTURE OF THE WIRE AND MALVIVIENDO

Don't watch if you are a grown up.

DREAMING OF DREAM JOBS

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Joaquín Pérez Rengifo, Sara Ruiz Magro and Rosario Navarrete Rodríguez nominated to best actors, directors and editing.

Wednesday 26 November 2014

2º ESO TEST. UNITS 1 AND 2. NOV 13-14th

Grammar: Present Continuous, Present Simple, Present Simple or Present Continuous
Vocabulary: School subjects
Reading: School Discipline
Listening: Extreme Sports
Writing: Photo descriptions

Moreton Hall. Shopping at School
The Dubai Mall
Dinner in the Sky
Ithaa Restaurant

2ºESO, UNIT 3, REVISION AND ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Vocabulary: Family
Grammar: Past Simple, regular verbs;Past Simple, irregular verbs; there was/were
Reading: Queen Elizabeth II

Listening: My dad.

Writing: Past Simple compositions.

Tuesday 30 September 2014

ANOTHER SUCCESS OF OUR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Carmen Bretones presented her first book of short stories in La Carbonería in front of dozens of friends, co-workers, and good literature aficionados. You can buy it in Birlibirloque Bookshop in Amor de Dios street and in Gusanito Lector in Feria Street.

Some of the stories will make you laugh, others will make you feel sad and all of them will make you think.

Thursday 12 June 2014

What Does The Fox Say I.E.S. Jacarandá de Brenes 1ºbach.X

A new X-File in Brenes

What does 1ºX say?

Sunday 1 June 2014

2ºESO. UNIT 9

Vocabulary: Action Verbs Game, Emotions Game.
Grammar: Can, Must, Should; Revision of Verb Tenses.
Listening: Ordering Food in a cafe.
Reading: Shopping for Electronics.
Writing: A postcard from Scotland.
Speaking:

Saturday 31 May 2014

2ºESO, MAY 15th TEST. UNITS 7 AND 8

Grammar: Present Perfect Simple, for-since, there is/are, Possessive Pronouns, A, an, some, any, many, much, a lot of
Vocabulary: Appliances, Musical Instruments, Types of Music,
Reading: Music.
Listening: Band audition.

Friday 30 May 2014

2º ESO, UNIT 6, COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES.

Speaking: Sleepy Hollow. Listen and Read along.
Listening: Describing people

Reading: Shopping for Electronics

Vocabulary: Adjectives Quiz
Grammar:The easiest exercises HERE and the most helpful video below in order to listen to real English conversations.

The video below is probably easier and has got further explanations.

1ºESO. UNIT 9. JUNE 12th

Come on. This is the last push.

Vocabulary: Geographical Features, clothes.
Grammar: Going to and Present Continuous with future meaning.
Reading: Planning a Holiday
Listening: Paris City beaches.
Writing: Trains and Travel
Speaking: Holiday Conversation Questions

Thursday 29 May 2014

Listening: Food, glorious food!

HAPPY WE ARE FROM 2ºE.

The boys and girls from Brenes are getting crazy!

Wednesday 28 May 2014

1ºESO. UNIT 6. TEST

Vocabulary: Adjectives. Memory game.
Grammar:Comparative Games.Subject and Object Pronouns
Reading: My town
Listening: At the library. giving personal information.
Writing: A Film Review

Tuesday 27 May 2014

1ºESO. TEST UNITS 4-5 plus MATILDA. FEB 14

Vocabulary: Sport vocabulary games
Grammar: Present Simple vs Present Continuous basic exercises, can and must exercises.
Listening: Directions, prepositions and places around town
Reading: Nurse Matilda interactive exercises.

I'll ask Nurse Matilda for some help one of these days.

Monday 26 May 2014

1º ESO TEST. UNIT 3.

Vocabulary: Animal games and jokes, Routine words.
Grammar: Present Simple, "Job Mixer", Adverbs of frequency game.
Reading: My favourite day-Christmas.
Listening: Pets
Speaking: The zoo.

A routine routine song

Sunday 25 May 2014

1ºESO UNITS 1 AND 2 TEST. NOV 13th

Vocabulary: Parts of the Body, descriptions,food, countries, human body.

Grammar: To Be, have got, saxon genitive, There is/are, a,an,some,any,the,How much-how many.

Reading and Writing: Best Friends

Listening: My dad

Describing people

Friday 23 May 2014

ANOTHER BLOG ENTRY ABOUT THE WEEKEND

My last weekend was very special, my parents went to the Madrid for see two musical: the lion king and the hole 2.
Me and my brother the weekend we slept in the house of my grandparents.
The saturday for the morning we went to collect the trophy of tennis, the category cadets was second and the category junior was third. After of this we went at the six o'clock, with francisco, carlos, alberto, my brother, maria jose, laura escamilla and angela marchena. The more important of the saturday the video of happy we are from brenes has got 1,550 visits, is amazing!
The next day, sunday, was the "rosario de la aurora" at the seven o'clock, me and my friends went to the rosario de la aurora but the mobile phone rang the alarm i want sleep more for this, i say was wrong for the alergy, after my friends they were went to the burger for this i dressed and i went, for the afternoon we play at volleyball and for the nigth my parents arrived of Madrid.
You can see images of this weekend:

Pablo Grimaret 1ºQ

Tuesday 20 May 2014

1ºESO. TWO GOOD COMPOSITIONS ABOUT A VERY RELEVANT EVENT.

Eduardo’s blog

I had a really great day on Wednesday. My family and I came to Goleta’s bar and here we saw the match: Sevilla- Benfica, the match was spectacular and very exciting and in the end the winner was Sevilla, Sevilla won the Europa League. This day was a good day and exciting.

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Eduardo González Moreno, 1ºQ

Last wednesday was an amazing day! I was looking forward to that night for a long time. It was the Europa League final and my team won the cup. Sevilla beat Benfica to get the UEFA's trophy. I saw the match in my house with my family but my brother wasn´t with us, he saw the match with his friends. My mum saw it in the living room, my dad in his room and me, in my room. When the penalties arrived, I went to my dad's room to see them with him. My heart was very fast when Gameiro shoot the last penalty. The football match was amazing and I was very happy.

Pablos Sánchez Arroyo 1ºQ

Monday 12 May 2014

HAPPY WE ARE FROM BRENES, WE ARE FROM 1ºESO.

These kids are amazing. Good job!

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

― Gabriel García Márquez

Finding Nemo- MINE (full version HQ). POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

MINE, mine,mine,MINE,MINE,mine, mine, MINE, MINE, mine, mine

Monday 5 May 2014

III EUROLENGUAS FESTIVAL. OLDIES BUT GOLDIES.

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Mary Kings is strong enough to sing this song

Shiny Happy People

This is what I call "Maneras de Vivir"

If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

Bonnie Bedelia

Noelia Pérez Denia , the Star of the Rising Sun

The Sign Language skills of my students have no parallel.

Thursday 1 May 2014

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (2003)

Bilingual fourth formers, it's time to start reading the book. You can watch the whole film here in case it can give some extra motivation.

Wikipedia information about the novella

Sparknotes, extremely helpful and a bit swindling, to be honest.

Tuesday 8 April 2014

VERY SOON THE VIDEO "HAPPY WE ARE FROM BRENES"

The world premiere will be soon. Don't miss it!. Meanwhile, you can watch the video carried out by our friends in Seville.

There are so many picturesque places to show in Brenes.

Tuesday 1 April 2014

28 DIFFERENT ENGLISH SPEAKING ACCENTS.

Is he really speaking the same language?

Friday 28 March 2014

JUST A PERFECT DAY! NO MORE EXAMS FOR A FEW WEEKS.

Just a simple conventional romantic song? In any case, one of Lou Reed's greatest songs.

WE'RE DONE WITH THE SECOND TERM. R U HAPPY?

I can't stop listening to this song

Tuesday 25 March 2014

OLIVER TWIST IS OVER. I'M GLAD YOU LIKED IT

It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.”

Brilliant project by Ángela Bonilla

Differences between the book and the film by Polanski (Esther Bravo)

I have just read a book called Oliver Twist. Also I have watched the film based on the book and I have noticed that there are some differences between the book and the film. I'm going to say some of them. When Oliver scapes from the undertaker's house and he goes to London, in the film there is a good woman that helps and gives him food. In the book, he doesn't receive help from anyone. Also, in the film Mr. Grimwig says that he will eat his head if Oliver doesn't come. In the book, he doesn't say this. In the film, Oliver robs Mr. Brownlow's house and in the book he robs Mrs. Maylie's house (it doesn't appear in the film). When Oliver robs the house, in the film, he goes with Fagin but, in the book, the men leave him in a field. And the last difference I noticed is when Bill is killed, in the book, he dies alone on a roof, and in the film, he brings Oliver with him (of course, Oliver doesn't die). Teacher this was a difficult essay. I have done my best. Hope you like it.

Thursday 20 March 2014

MISERABLE OLIVER RODRÍGUEZ ASKING FOR MORE

Had I not found a flashy car in the "workhouse", I would have thought that it was a documentary about England during the Industrial Revolution.

Friday 7 March 2014

A PLANETARY EVENT: 1º,2º & 4º STUDYING COMPARATIVES AT THE SAME TIME.

Comparatives and Superlatives in Songs.

Cher's "Strong Enough"

Jethro Tull's "Too Old to Rock'n'Roll Too Young to Die"

Friday 21 February 2014

TWO MORE COMPOSITIONS

An Optical Illusion

Optical illusions are confused images and very funny too.

For example, in this photo we can see two people hugging, and it’s very strange. Probably, the first thought you have had is that the woman has a very weird neck. It looks like it’s inside her body. But if you look it slowlier, you will see that’s not her head. That’s the head of the other person, her actual head is behind the other one.

Really, this picture is awesome and can explode your brain.

Be careful with optical illusions because things aren’t what they seem!

MANUEL GÓMEZ MORENO 4ºA

BUS LEVITATION

Dynamo is a famous English magician. He usually does magic tricks in London places. He does his magic tricks when the people are not expecting him and with things of the street, like a bus or on the River Thames.

If he didn’t do his magic tricks in the street he wouldn’t be so famous.

In the next video Dynamo puts his hand on a bus and it starts rising. When the bus starts, he takes a stroll throughout London while he levitates next to the bus. If he didn’t have any fastening he would fall, so… Is he floating in fact?

When the people see him they look very surprised and they take pictures of him. They think that it couldn’t possibly be real.

I think that it would have to be a good set-up. There may be a harness but I don’t know where it is.

That’s why Dynamos is so famous, because you can’t imagine his magic tricks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G06xdAEYcjM

José Manuel Barea

Sunday 9 February 2014

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. A FEW GOOD ESSAYS

MY OPTICAL ILLUSION

I'm going to talk about my best optical illusion. A truck that I saw during my travel in United States.

I was in a freeway of California, inside of my car and a truck overtook me. But it wasn't an usual track, it was a Mars snack truck!!! At first sight it looked a real and big snack and I thought that the caramel was going to fall on the floor. After several seconds I understood what was happening, it was an optical illusion because it couldn't be a real snack... I was very impacted but I liked it very much.

Well it has been my favorite optical illusion of all my life and I remember it like aN amazing anecdote.

This is a photo that I took with my camera that incredible day.

Carlos Salgado

Yesterday I went to a museum and saw a picture that was amazing. It impacted me so much. In this picture, at first sight you can see a man, but if you see well, you will see a woman taking a coffee and reading. It's so strange.

In this kind of picture you must see very well and know that it is an optical illusion and must have a lot of secrets hidden. Another thing that you might get impressed with is the video. In this video appears a magician called Dynamo. If you saw some videos of this magician, you would know how his tricks work.

But if you don't see his tricks you should see them. So, Dynamo is a magician that plays with you brain because you see things that don't happen, for example IT is impossible that he can put one coin inside a bottle only by hiting it. That's why all his tricks must have some trap.

Beatriz Rodríguez

One of the most things in world I like are the optical illusions, it's truth I'm very surprised with them because you can see amazing things. I have seen many when I was little and I was bored, I was looking for in internet and I found a lot of pages and explications of every one.

I'm going to talk about two:

The first is an optical illusion where you can see two colours, black and white. You have to look at the picture during 30 seconds without wink or the less possible and later you look at a wall and you wink very fast, if you do it well, you will see to Jesus, for me it's surprising, I was very frightened when I saw it.

The second it's sensation of movement, the principal colours you see are orange and purple or pink, they are forms more or less geometric shapes like a circle or a sphere, in the first image there are different distorted forms and these form the whole sphere/circle, and in the second there are little squares or rectangles forming the sphere/circle. You should see how the images are in moving all the time!! They bother me when I'm looking their a moment and makes me feel like I was falling down in a hole.

There are a lot of optical illusions and all the possible kinds you can't imagine, they are a lovely invent in my opinion, I'm not never tired of look at them!!