Sunday, October 25, 2009

Nobel Laureates (1)



Now you know more about Alfred Nobel's life. Do you think he had an interesting life? According to his will, Alfred Nobel's enormous fortune was to be used to establish prizes to award those who had done their best to benefit mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

In this exercise you should choose a Nobel Laureate that died, and find information about his or her life. Click on this link and choose one. You can find that person's own autobiography. Other good source is wikipedia (in English, of course).

The first step is to fill in the table that you can download from scribt and then, share with me (Google Docs)

Nobel Laureate

Thursday, October 22, 2009

On the day I was born ..


Here you have some webpages to find information about what happened on the day you were born. If you find something interesting, it could be a good idea to write a post about it.






"On the day I was born, 15th of March, 1967, the Beatles recorded this song "Within you without you" for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Here you can listen to the song.






Some of my students' productions:
Itziar's

Thursday, October 15, 2009

How to insert a post with a video


Now it is your chance to insert your own post in English in your blog. Do you know how to do it?
  • You click on "Nueva Entrada".
  • In "Título" you should write: Kipper "the rescue"
  • With the tab "Edición de HTML" insert the embed code (insertar) of the video from Youtube.
  • Now you can write the story kept in Google Docs.
  • Don't forget to write your name or names at the end.
  • In the small window "Etiqueta" or tag, you should write: English
  • When you finish, send me your blog address (to my e-mail)
Good Luck