Blessed Virgin Mary of Fennel-Paradinas de San Juan´s Patron Saint

Blessed Virgin Mary of Fennel-Paradinas de San Juan´s Patron Saint
Maria Auxilium Cristianorum Ora pro Nobis!

THIS BLOG IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR ENDLESS LOVE TO ME

TRIBUTE TO MY DEAREST MOTHER-I THINK OF YOU EVERY DAY

TRIBUTE TO MY BELOVED EUGENE

TRIBUTE TO MOCEDADES (MAJOR SPANISH MUSIC BAND) AND MY BELOVED EUGENE

Matemático Puig Adam Secondary School

Matemático Puig Adam Secondary School
28901 Getafe-Madrid-Spain

IF YOU HAVE FAITH...by Julie Andrews( The Sound of Music)

IF YOU HAVE FAITH AND PERSEVERE,YOU CAN FOLLOW EVERY RAINBOW TILL YOUR FIND YOUR DREAM

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN,SEARCH HIGH AND LOW...from The Sound of Music and performed by Kiri Te Kanawa



I LOVE TO LAUGH_MARY POPPINS


I HAVE CONFIDENCE_THE SOUND OF MUSIC

I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF YOU!!!









ROCÍO DÚRCAL-ROCÍO´S MEXICO

TRIBUTE TO MARILYN MONROE

ROCIO JURADO (THE MAJOR SPANISH SINGER) IS FOR GAY PEOPLE

TO MY DEAREST MOTHER,GRANDMOTHER MARY AND EUGENE

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THAT´S ENGLISH-MODULE 6

Thursday 25 December 2008

Sunday 21 December 2008

My heart will go on by Celine Dion(Titanic)


Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you,
That is how I know you go on
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go till we're one
Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
You're here, there's nothing I fear,
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Tuesday 16 December 2008

JAIME HAS JUST BEEN BORN!!!...on Friday December 16th,2008
































Ana,compañera y amiga nuestra del I.E.S Matemático Puig Adam,acaba de ser abuela por primera vez.Su nieto se llama JAIME y ha nacido en la madrugada de este frío y nevado martes 16 de diciembre del 2008.
¡La madre y el niño están bien.....y toda la familia y amigos encantados!!!!
¡¡¡ENHORABUENA!!!

Our colleague and friend Ana at Matemático Puig Adam Secondary School,has just become a grandmother for the first time today.Her newborn grandson is called Jaime.He has been born in the early cold and snowy morning of this Tuesday December16th.Mother and son are fine....and all their family and friends are very pleased!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sunday 14 December 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2009!!!


























London Underground Map


Father Christmas(Br)-Santa Claus (USA)


http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs_10.htm

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0dsLH9Zck&eurl=http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs_10.htm
Introduction

Conventionally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled man in a red suit trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard. On Christmas Eve, he rides in his flying sleigh (pulled by reindeer) from house to house to give presents to children. During the rest of the year he lives at the North Pole, in Finnish Lapland at Korvatunturi, or Dalecarlia in Sweden (traditions vary) together with his wife, Mrs. Claus, and his elves who serve as his toy production staff.

Amongst virtually all adults the nonexistence of Santa Claus is a given, but many young children believe strongly in his existence. A majority of parents, at least in English-speaking households that celebrate Christmas, either actively attempt to convince their children of Santa's existence, or at least keep the source of their children's presents a secret from them and so fail to disprove the myth. Children who believe in the existence of Santa often tend to lose such beliefs by early primary school, as their ability to distinguish fantasy from reality improves and older children disillusion them.

There is an occasional controversy in parenting as to whether it is appropriate to perpetuate the myth of Santa Claus to children. Some parents are concerned that it is wrong to lie to children and that it can be traumatic to learn that there is no Santa Claus. Other parents believe that it is no more harmful than any other folk tale, and that it can help children gain confidence in their maturity in themselves to discover the "secret" of his non-existence. Furthermore, many children, upon being disillusioned, often maintain the pretense for younger siblings so they can enjoy the belief themselves for a bit longer.


Origins

The modern Santa Claus is a composite character made up from the merging of two quite separate figures. The first of these is Saint Nicholas of Myra, a bishop of Byzantine Anatolia (now in modern-day Turkey) famous for his generous gifts to the poor. In Europe he is still portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes. The second character is Father Christmas, which remains the British name for Santa Claus. Father Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him survive from that era, portraying him as a well-nourished bearded man dressed in a long, green, fur-lined robe. He typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, and was reflected in the 'Spirit of Christmas Present' in Charles Dickens' famous story, A Christmas Carol.

When the Dutch still owned the land that later became New York, they brought the Saint Nicholas' eve legend with them to the Americas, but without the red mantle and other symbols. The name Santa Claus is derived from the character's Dutch name, Sinterklaas. Note that in Dutch, the feast is called 'sinterklaas feest' and it celebrates the birthday ((Conflict: The Saint_Nicholas page states that it's his death day, not his birth day.)) of sinterklaas during sinterklaasavond ("sinterklaas's evening") on December 5th or in Belgium on December 6th.
In Washington Irving's History of New York, Sinterklaas was Americanized to "Santa Claus" but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Irving's book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of new York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention. Santa Claus appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card. His horse was converted to reindeer and a sleigh, the black peters (which were in fact Moorish slaves) were converted to elves, and, in an attempt to move the origin of the festivities away from their pagan background to a more Christian one, the date was moved forward a few weeks to the celebrated day of the birth of Jesus: Christmas.

In the United States, the tradition is to leave Santa a glass of milk and cookies; in Britain, he is given whisky and mince pies instead. British children also leave out a carrot for Rudolph, Santa's reindeer, and are told that if they are not good all year round, that they will receive coal in their stockings. Children following the Dutch custom for sinterklaas will "put out their shoe" — that is, leave hay and a carrot for his horse in a shoe before going to bed — sometimes weeks before the sinterklaas avond. The next morning they will find the hay and carrot replaced by a gift; often, this is a marchpane figurine. Naughty children were once told that they would be left a roe (a bundle of sticks) instead of sweets, but this practice has been discontinued.
Many postal services allow children to send letters to Santa Claus pleading their good behaviour and requesting gifts; these letters may be answered by postal workers or other volunteers. (Canada Post has a special postal code for letters to Santa Claus: H0H 0H0.)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has been immortalized in a Gene Autrey song, written by a Montgomery-Ward copywriter, which is frequently played at Christmas. As such, he is typically included as the sleigh's lead reindeer. The names of all the other reindeer were invented in the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (better known today as The Night Before Christmas) ascribed to Clement Clarke Moore, although there is some question as to his authorship. It is suspected that the names Donner and Blitzen come from the German phrase Donner und Blitz which means Thunder and Lightning. An alternative explanation is that Donder is the original name of the seventh reindeer, as Donder en bliksem is Dutch for Thunder and Lightning. The reindeer are traditionally pictured with antlers, although male reindeer shed their antlers in the winter. (Female reindeer keep their antlers until spring.)

Many Christian churches dislike the secular focus on Santa and the materialist focus that present-giving gives to the holiday. They would prefer that focus be given to the birth of Jesus, their nominal reason for the Christmas celebration. It should be noted that the festivities at this time of year are predated by the Roman Saturnalia and Yule festivals which were subsumed within Christianity. It should also be noted that the date of Jesus' birth is not known. The connection between Saturnalia and Jesus' birth was a clerical decision in order to introduce a religious element into the more carnal festivities that the Christian laity were indulging in during winter solstice. As an example of the still surviving pagan imagery, in Nordic countries there is the Yule goat (Swedish julbock), a somewhat startling figure with horns which however will deliver the presents in Christmas eve, and a straw goat is a common Christmas decoration.
Historically, one of the first artists to capture Santa Claus' image as we know him today was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist of the 19th century. In 1862, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in Harper's Weekly. It is believed the inspiration for his image came from a mythical German character called Pelznickel (Furry Nicholas) who visited naughty children in their sleep. The book A History of Santa Claus was written by L. Frank Baum, the same man who wrote the Wizard of Oz. In Scandinavia, the Tomte is closely associated with Christmas, kindness and generosity. This blend of Nicholas of Myra and North European folklore helped popularize the design of Santa. (Urban legend has it that Santa Claus in his current guise was in fact created by Coca-Cola, though this is highly unlikely.) To this day, Santa Claus still appears on Coca-Cola products each year around Christmastime.

The depiction of Santa at the North Pole also reflected popular opinion about industry. In some images of the early 1900s, Santa was depicted as personally making his toys by hand in a small workshop like a craftsman. Eventually, the idea emerged that he had numerous elves responsible for making the toys, but the toys were still handmade by each individual elf working in the traditional manner. By the end of the century, the reality of mass mechanized production became more fully accepted by the Western public. That shift was reflected in the modern depiction of Santa's residence—now often humorously portrayed as a fully mechanized production facility, equipped with the latest manufacturing technology, and overseen by the elves with Santa and Mrs. Claus as managers. Many TV commercials depict this as a sort of humorous business, with Santa's elves acting as a sometimes michieviously disgruntled workforce, cracking jokes and pulling pranks on their boss.

"Santa" in shopping centres

Santa Claus is also a costumed character who appears at Christmas time in department stores or shopping malls. He is played by an actor, usually helped by other actor(s) (most often mall employees) dressed as elves or other creatures of folklore. His function is either to promote the store's image by distributing small gifts to children, or to provide a seasonal experience to children by having them sit on his knee, state what they wish to get, and often have a photograph taken. The area set up for this purpose is festively decorated, usually with a large throne, and is called variously "Santa's Grotto", "Santa's Workshop" or a similar term. In America the most notable of these is the Santa at the flagship Macy's store in New York City - he arrives at the store by sleigh in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on the last float, and his court takes over a large portion of one floor in the store. David Sedaris is known for the diary he kept while working as an elf in the Macy's display, which he later published

Vocabulary:HEALTH




Vocabulary:FOOD




Suggestions/-ing forms/Conditional sentences

I.SUGGESTIONS

1.1 Shall + subject + verb
eg.Shall we go shopping?

1.2What + about + present participle
eg.What about going shopping?

1.3 How + about + present participle
eg.How about going shopping?

1.4 Why + don´t + subject + verb
eg.Why don´t we go shopping?
eg.Why don´t you go shopping?

1.5 Let´s + (verb without to)
eg.Let´s go shopping

II. -ING FORMS

2.1Gerund

The gerund is a kind of noun

eg.Working makes you happy
eg.I love flying

2.2The present participle

The present participle can be a verb or an adjective

eg.She´s working(verb)
eg.A working middle-age person(adjective)

III.CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

There are three main types of conditional.These are usually described as the First,Second and Third Conditionals.

3.1 The first conditional(probable)

The first conditional refers to the future.It is used when
there is a possibility that the if-event might happen

If + present simple - future
eg.If you drop it, it´ll break
eg.If you come at ten, we´ll be ready

or Future - If + present simple
eg.It´ll break if you drop it
eg.We´ll be ready if you come at ten



3.2 The second conditional(improbable/hypothetical)

The second conditional refers to the present or future.
The if-event is either:

a)hypothetical
eg.If I worked in that factory,I´d soon change things
(but I don´t work in that factory)

b)Unlikely
eg.If she left her husband,she might be happier
(but I think she´s not going to leave her husband)

If + past simple - would/could/might + infinitive
If I lived by the sea, I would do a lot of swimming
If they asked me to work for them, I might accept

or would/could/might + infinitive - If + past simple
I would do a lot of swimming if I lived by the sea
I might accept if they asked me to
work for them

3.3 The third conditional(impossible)

The third conditional refers to the past
eg.I´d have warned you if I´d seen you last week
(but I didn´t see you,so I didn´t warn you)
eg.If I´d passed my exams I would have gone to Art College
(but I didn´t pass my exams,so I didn´t go to Art College)

If + past perfect - would/could/might + perfect infinitive
If I had met you earlier, I wouldn´t have married Jo
If I´d worked harder, I would have passed my exam

or would/could/might + perfect infinitive - If + past perfect
I wouldn´t have married Jo if I´d met you earlier
I would have passed my exam if I´d worked harder

Order of adjectives


Adjectives-Pronouns


Irregular verbs-Fill in the following charts







Friday 12 December 2008

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Thursday 4 December 2008

DANIEL MARTÍNEZ-Winning Cyclist.He is one of Marga´s sons.Marga is one of the dearest members of our Secondary School



DANIEL,who belongs to Berrendero cycling team in Madrid,Spain, has just won  his first Master cycling race in Las Rozas, Madrid.CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first photograph shows you the time when he is the first cyclist across the finishing line.The second one is about the time when he went up onto the podium. He is standing between :Enrique Sevilla,who belongs to Penaca team and  David Rodríguez who belongs to Endesa Team.
http://www.fmciclismo.com/fmc3/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=513&Itemid=1