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CORALINE: Movie Trailer - More bloopers are a click aw

Coraline who thinks her life is not exciting, finds a secret door in her new home that takes her to a parallel world where she  has a brand new perfect life (or so it seems).After some time she learns that things  in this universe are not so cool but quite sinister.

Carolina's great omelette

INGREDIENTS: 

1 Kg of potatoes, 4 eggs, 1/2 l of cooking oil, Salt, 1 onion. 

UTENSILS:  

Frying-pan, Dish, Bowl, Knife. 

WAY OF COOKING

1-Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut, then put the potatoes in the frying-pan with cooking oil and onion, and warm. Then add some salt.

2-Beat the eggs in a bowl and mix with the potatoes.

3-Put the eggs and the potatoes with a little cooking oil in a frying-pan and turn it with a dish.

4-Serve warn or cold.                                             

Enjoy your meal!   
Thanks for this traditional Spanish omelette, the most famous and well known Spanish dish.
And now a game: How many  flags can you identify? 

See you soon, Jack

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Jack has been our assistant teacher of English during this school course, we've enjoyed very much his lessons, we've learnt a lot about Ireland and rap music and many different things, and it was really fun! We want that you will come to visit us next year.
As you like tongue twisters, here you have some.
Posted by some pupils from different classes.
Have a nice summer!

Ana's cake

Look Ana's fabulous cake right out of the oven.

ingredients:

150 gram of sugar

150 gram of flour

4 eggs

100 gram of butter

1 teaspoom of baking powder.

preparation:

Put the eggs in a bowl with the sugar and beat them. Later, melt butter and add the eggs, the yeast and the melt butter. Grease the baking mould with butter. Put the mixing in the baking mould and put the cake in the oven for 22 minutes at 180ºC. Them let it get cold and serve.Good appetite!
Many thanks, Ana.
Learn the names of some vegetables, just follow the link and switch on the sound  of your computer, moving your mouse on the pictures you will listen to their names in English.

Pumpkin creme

Alex has cooked a great creme for us, here you have the recipe:

You need  2 carrots, 1 potato, 1 pumpkin and 2 leeks.
First put one litre of water on the fire.Peel the carrots and cut them. Add them to the pot.Peel the potato, cut it and add to the pot when the water is boiling. Cut the leeks and the pumpkin and put in the pot too.When the ingredients are cooked, take off the water and add two cheese portions and mix. It is better to serve the creme warm. 

Thanks Alex, that's a delicious and easy to cook recipe.
Click to learn about cooking verbs.

Revision: Be going to

There are lots of dark clouds, it's going to rain

If you have problems with the "Be going to" form, explore the following links:
Isabel Perez has a great web to learn and practise different grammar topics, check her page and read the explanation if you need it, then you can do the exercises.
Follow the link for some more exercises. And some more here.
Finally try this link, I'm sure you think that the be going to form is as easy as a pie!

A chocolate mousse from Sara

Ingredients:

· 200 g of chocolate in pieces

· 1/2 cup water

· 2 tablespoons butter

· 3 egg yolks

· 2 tablespoons castor sugar

· 1-1/2 heavy cream

Way of cooking:

1- In a microwave or double boiler, heat the chocolate, ¼ cup water and butter until the chocolate and butter are melted.

2- In a small saucepan whisk the egg yolks, sugar and remaining water. Cook and stir in the oven at a low heat until the mixture reaches 70 ºC, about 1 to 2 minutes.

3- Remove from the oven whisk in the chocolate mixture. Set the saucepan in ice and stir until cooled, about 5 to 10 minutes.

4- Add whipped cream. Put in dessert dishes.

5- Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

6- Serves to 8 or 6 people.

Enjoy your dessert!
Great mousse, Sara, thanks a lot!

If you like cooking, I`m sure you will enjoy surfing the picture dictionary.
And explore the activities on the left side of the site.

Yummy doughnuts from Irene

Irene hasn't sent us a picture so this one comes from photos8

Irene has sent this recipe of yummy doughnuts for a party. Thanks a lot!

Ingredients:

1 egg, 6 tablespoons of oil, 4 tablespoons of milk, 6 tablespoons of sugar, 3 tablespoons of anise, 2 tablespoons of baking powder.

Utensils:

1 bowl, 1 mixer, 1 pan.

Method:

1st. Beat the egg in a bowl.

2nd. Add the oil, the milk, the sugar, the anise and the baking powder. And mix all well.

3rd. Add the flour slowly.

4h. Leave to rise for twenty minutes.

5th. Make the doughnuts.

6th And fry in boiling oil.

Now you can eat them, they are great!

And while you eat, you can try the Dining Etiquette Quiz

Sara and Tatiana's chocolate cake

 

Sara and Tatiana love chocolate and want to share this cake with us. It looks really tasty, don't you agree?

Here you have the recipe:

INGREDIENTS

-2 eggs,150g of sugar, 150g of butter, 300g of flour, 1 glass of milk, 100g of cocoa, 1 bit of yeast, a pinch of salt.

 STEPS

1- Heat the oven.

2- Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl, starting with the flour, eggs and butter.

3-Grease a cake mould with a little butter and pour the mixture.

4-Then, put in the oven to bake for 30 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.

5- (optional). Once cold, it can be cut horizontally and spread with melted chocolate.

Follow the link and visit a cacao farm in Costa Rica or watch the fair trade trailer of a documentary about cocoa farms.

Some more fair trade videos here.

And watch this video in case that you don't know what fair trade means:

I spy ...

Are you fond of Bingo?Read the instructions, click and play.

Come and visit the wizard's lab, listen and play, you just have to click with your mouse to find the hidden objects. You need shockwave installed in your computer, but don't panic, it is free and you can download it here.

Follow this link to find the hidden objects in a picture (no audio this time). First choose the picture you prefer.

Then select the level you want. The aim of this play is to find different objects hidden in a picture. Enjoy!.

Follow the link If you want to revise your conditional sentences

 

Time for revision, tests, nervous, stress...click on the picture and explore the exercises on conditional sentences. There are many different exercises, be sure you choose your level. Feel free to explore .  I hope  they are a great help for your test next week. Good luck!

Vincent's bedroom in Arles

This is a jigsaw puzzle from a painting by Van Gogh, it is his own bedroom in Arles (this is a town in South France) and some of you have seen it reproduced in your book of English.

Just click and play.

Almond cake for dessert

 

Aitana's almond cake 

This is Aitana's post, and she has sent us a delicious recipe of her favourite dessert, the picture looks delicious. Would you like to try it? just do as she explains:

To do an almond cake you need the next ingredients:

- 250 gr. of almonds

- 250 gr. of sugar glass

- 6 eggs

- a little stripped lemon peel

- a little cinnamon in powder

- a little butter for buttering the mould

Utensils you need:

- 2 bowls

- a whisk

- a mould (for the oven)

WAY OF COOKING:

First you must beat the yolks, the sugar, the cinnamon and the stripped lemon peel until it remains frothy. When it's ready, add the grind almonds.  In another bowl beat the whites of the eggs stiffly beaten, and add to the other mix quickly in order that they don't go down. Once the mould is buttered with the butter, put the mixture on, and put it into the oven for around 40 minutes, more or less, to 200ºC. When it's done, take it from the oven and when it's cold put some sugar glass above, now you can serve it. 

I hope you like.

Thanks, Aitana.

Pollution

Do you agree with Gandhi?
Follow the link and take your time to explore the pictures.