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GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

Yesterday, we read an article about The White House and we found it so interesting that we decided to learn more. I promised you I would give you more info about this particular house.

As you know, The White House is the official residence and workplace where the President of the United States and his family live. It is placed in Washington. The first President to live here was John Adams, in 1800 (pronounced: eighteen hundred).

*SOME FACTS WE SHOULD KNOW*

• It's got six floors, more than 130 rooms, 36 bathrooms, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 7 staircases and 3 lifts (ascensores).
• The White House receives about 6,000 visitors every day.
• There are 5 full-time (a tiempo completo) chefs and the kitchen can serve dinner to more than 140 people.
• It's got a tennis court, a jogging track, a swimming pool, a cinema, a bowling alley and a billiard room.
• Before the Civil War, The White House was the biggest building in the USA.
• George Washington never lived in this house because he thought that it was too small and simple for a President! He ordered to remodel it and make it bigger. 
• In 1940, some people entered the house to kill President Truman. There were some assistants killed, but nothing happened to the President. Wasn't it so safe?
• Do you want to buy the White House? Well, you only need more than 200 million dollars. If you've got them...what are you waiting for?

This photo was taken from the official page www.whitehouse.gov

It's really interesting and I'm sure that you want to go deeper (profundizar), so here you have the official webpage of The White House, where you can tour inside and discover amazing facts. Come on!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

To finish this entry, I want to dedicate this to my student Desirée. She always comments this blog, she is a good pupil and tomorrow Sunday...it's her birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DESIRÉE!!!!!!!!

***THE BASEBALLS***

Oh no! I can't believe you don't know anything about this amazing music band!

The Baseballs is a German rock and roll group of music. They started their career in 2007, in Berlin.
They are really famous because they make versions of modern songs like Poker Face (Lady Gaga), Hot N Cold (Katy Perry), Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis), Umbrella (Rihanna)...and so on.

Have a look at their webpage and their videos. I'm sure you will love them. Their songs are awesome and you never get tired of listening to them...They add a new rhythm (ritmo). So, do you like this group? What's your favourite song?
My favourite song is Umbrella, so I'm leaving you the official video. Enjoy it!

HAPPY EASTER!

HAPPY EASTER!!!

What are you going to do these days? Anything special? We've got 10 days off!

DID YOU KNOW?

• Easter comes from the word "Eastre". It was a goddess (DIOSA) who symbolized hare (liebre) and egg.
• Easter is always celebrated between March 22 and April 25.
• The egg is a symbol or rebirth (renacimiento)
• When someone eats a chocolate bunny, the first parts that the 76 % eat are the ears.
• Every year, the Pope (now, Pope Francisco I) sends his "Urbi et Orbi" to the world.
• The 1st chocolate Easter egg dates from 1873.
• In a year, 90 million of chocolate is sold (se  vende) in UK. At Easter, they sell a lot of chocolate, as you may imagine!

And now, it's time to prepare a delicious recipe for Easter. It seems really easy. Will you try to do it?

                                HAPPY EASTER!!!

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

This week, we have started a new unit in 1ESO. It deals with the topic of housing and furniture (recuerda: furniture NUNCA lleva plural!!!). In Spain, most people live in a block of flats (pisos) or in houses with several floors. Today, I want to show you the most typical types of houses in UK.

The first one is the detached house. It is a separate house. In fact, the word "detached" means "separado".

The second one is the semi-detached house. It means that the house is joined (unida) to another house by one side. They share a wall that separates them. 

There are two different houses, two different front doors. Can you see them?

The next one is the terrace. These houses form a row (fila) of similar houses. I've seen many of these in Zaragoza :).

Of course, the flats (or apartments), like the flats we live in. They are not the most typical houses, but they really exist.

There are so many other kinds of houses that we couldn't finish enumerating them, but the types I have shown you are the most typical and the ones you'll probably see when you travel or when you watch some images from the UK.

And now, my question is...
Which type of house do you prefer?

1ESO WEDNESDAY WORK

DID YOU KNOW THAT A WOMAN PIERCED HER BODY 151 TIMES?

Well, this is one of the discoveries that all the students from 1 ESO D found last Wednesday.

Samuel brought to class three books about World Guinness Records (Thanks a lot, Samuel!They were so heavy to carry!) and all the students were searching the most amazing records. They worked in groups and they elaborated some posters like the ones you can see on the photo.
We enjoyed a lot because most of the records seem impossible, but they are real. 
Perhaps, you can do something different or special and some day you might appear on this book. You never know.

Congratulations, kids!!!

PD Thanks Jorge P. for the colour paper ;)

AMERICAN vs BRITISH ENGLISH

Hi everyone!

We live in an American world but we learn British English. Isn't it shocking?

At school, we try to study British English both writing and speaking. 

However, films (or movies), some of our favourite series and most songs we listen everyday use American English.

Apart from vocabulary, it is important to differenciate their pronunciation. Can you make any differences?

I'm leaving you a poster with some words in both varieties and I invite you to click the link from youtube, where two people compare some words. They speak really clearly, so I'm sure you'll understand. You can also find this video in the right column "My favourite videos" on this page.

I hope you like it!

Have a great week! :)

* However: Sin embargo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9PS1JUv8g