Happy Halloween!

I hope you have enjoyed the video. I have two different activities and you can do one of them, or both!

-option A: write the words you haven´t understood from the video with the translation and explain what a      Jack o´lantern is.
-option  B: send to my e-mail a photo of yourself in your halloween costume (your face must be shown), I´ll publish it on the blog!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Accidents

Even for the Spanish, cutting a good slice of air-cured ham, one of their popular traditional delicacies, can be a risky business.

One Spanish medical foundation claimed last week that 57,000 domestic accidents involving ham knives – which have blades over a foot long – take place annually.
But maybe not for long: as Christmas approaches (when the largest percentage of the 4.5 million ham legs purchased every year in Spain are sold), Juan Carlos Gomez, the Spanish National Champion of Hamcutting, has been touring Spain giving master classes in how best to tackle a jamon serrano.
Mr Gomez most recently showed up in Malaga, revealing to the winners of a competition organised by Navidul, one of the country's biggest Serrano producers, secrets of the trade such as whether to hang the leg with the hoof pointing up or down when cutting and which part of the ham to cut first.
For those unable to attend his classes, Mr Gomez, has even written a bluffer's guide (rather more cruelly called a "guide for the clumsy" in Spanish) to ham, as part of a popular series of self- education books covering everything from childbirth to wine tasting to, somewhat less predictably, neurolinguistics.
Apart from eager and rookie cutters having an injury-free ham-eating experience, the ultimate aim of his classes and book is to carve out the perfect slice of serrano.
This apparently is 3cm to 5cm long – "not so big that we have to fold it over or so small that it doesn't taste of anything," Gomez told the newspaper Ideal.
In: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/postcard-from-malaga-8224140.html


We are not surprised about it, are we? I´m sure we know someone who has had this accident while trying to produce a wonderful dish of this delicious food, but I want you to write 200 words about any other accident you have had or another member of your family, or, why not? a friend. Remember this is a narrative and you will have to use past tenses and connectors of sequence.Go on!

New record for world's oldest man Jiroemon Kimura

Do you remember that selectividad text "The world´s oldest woman"? I do, in fact I have worked it  with 1º Bachillerato this year. The curious thing is that I was looking for some news to write here and I found this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-eUmY0sSg , I would like you to watch the video and answer this question with 200words:


"Would you like to live so long? Write advantages and disadvantages.

Yujuuuuuuuuuu! Here we are again!!!!!!!

Yes, and so very happy to have the chance to meet so many new students eager to learn English!
I think that if this is going to be a tool to help you with your English you´d better know it well from the beginning so I´m proposing you some questions whose answers are in the blog, at the beginning of it, here they are:
1. Why did I choose this name?
2.What is the date of the first post?
3.Why did I decide to begin the blog?
4.Do you know the name of one of my favourite songs?
5.Which health problem did I have when I began the blog?