tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241512522012-02-20T21:44:26.521-03:00Blog of the Elective Class of English. Liceo Domingo Santa Maria.Teacher Michael Rosselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403718302040351573noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24151252.post-3654157712547653272009-06-22T09:42:00.003-04:002009-06-22T10:20:27.540-04:00

Watch this video about Chile and make a short review about the following topics.Why do people come to Chile? Favorite Places Food Abundances Investments. Which ones? and Why? People What do people who lived in Chile feel about it?

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After watching the movie answer the following questions.1. What are the names of the characters and what are their activities or prefessions?2. What apisode during th emovie triggered the story told by John?3. The other characters did believe John's story? If you think that write in what moment they started to believe.4. What do you think about living eternally? DEADLINE: SUNDAY, MAY 31st at 9.00

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Goal Setting in SEVEN Easy Steps(BY Jacqueline Stahl of Success Books Australia)STEP 1. Develop a DESIRE to achieve the goal. The desire must be intense. How do you intensify desire? Sit down and write out all the benefits and advantages of achieving your goal. Once the list goes between 50 and 100 your goal becomes unstoppable.STEP 2. WRITE your goal down. Once it goes into writing it becomes

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Dear students,Welcome back to a new year of English.I hope this year is better than the last one and work hard to get all the goals.As always, this blog will be an important tool of communication and practice the language.Ready... Steady... Go!!! Let's work!!!

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http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-2797764621748822405&hl=esGreat memories from 2008. You did it awesome kids. I'm so proud of you. See ya next year for all that continues.

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1. According to you, give a reason that supports the artistic and musical education at school nowadays.2. According to a former student (at the end of the movie), what is the real Mr Holland's OPUS? Why the word "opus" is used in the title of the movie?3. What does the school principal -Mrs Jacobs- mean when she tells Mr Holland that a good teacher not only must teach knlowledge to the students,

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In an outstanding presentation the Team of Liceo Domingo Santa Maria obtained the Second place in the Debate in English Tournament.Leyla Cortés, Ruben Castillo, Constanza Flores, Lorena Sanchez, Evelyn Robles y Carolina Muñoz put the Liceo in a High place, showing everyone that our Liceo is a winner.Moreover, We had the honor of having in our team The Best Male Debater in English in the whole

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Here you have the video of the Metropolitan final in 2007. Enjoy and take your conclusions.

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On Friday 22nd, the Team that represented Liceo Domingo Santa María, participated in the first round of the Debates in English, activity organized by the program OPEN DOORS from the Ministry of Education.The members of the Team are: Constanza Flores, Ruben Castillo, Evelyn Robles, Leyla Cortes, Lorena Sanchez and Carolina Muñoz.It was amazing to see them in action. We went against Liceo A-1

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Estimado(a) estudiante:Gracias a CORFO, tenemos el siguiente test para que puedas medir/practicar(a modo de ensayo) tu inglés.Test de InglésNo te preocupes si los resultados que obtienes no son los que esperabas, ESTO NO AFECTARÁ tu postulación y participación en el English Winter Camp.BUENA SUERTE !!----------------------------------------------------------------Recuerda:• Miércoles 16 a las 16:

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English Winter Camp 2008Con el propósito de continuar impulsando el aprendizaje del inglés, durante enero del año 2008, el Programa Inglés Abre Puertas del Ministerio de Educación en conjunto con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, implementó un sistema de becas para estudiantes de educación media denominado: “Campamentos de Inglés”.En base a los resultados arrojados por la

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After watching the movie CONTACT. The class was separated in two groups that are going to debate about a topic:"THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HIDE INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE"GROUP A is against the statement.GROUP B is for the statement.You should write your opinion according to the position - group - you are.Your opinions will be evaluated and you will have to perform them in a real dabate returning from

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After watching the movie CONTACT. The class was separated in two groups that are going to debate about a topic:"SCIENCE SHOULDN'T BE INVOLVED WITH FAITH MATTERS"GROUP 1 is against the statementGROUP 2 is for the statement You should write your opinion according to the position - group - you are.Your opinions will be evaluated and you will have to perform them in a real dabate returning from

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This year the technology has come into the class. All the students decided to present their activity about Cooking using videos.This are the links for the videosCooking Pizza by Constanza Flores, Carolina Muñoz, Evelyn Robles, Lorena Sanchez and Ornella SepúlvedaA Delicious Barros Luco by Nicole Abarca and Stephanie ContrerasCook Alive by Alfonso Pinto and MindFreak ProductionsCesar Salad by

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Boys and girls,Con el propósito de continuar impulsando el aprendizaje del inglés, durante enero del año 2008, el Programa Inglés Abre Puertas del Ministerio de Educación en conjunto con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, implementó un sistema de becas para estudiantes de educación media denominado: “Campamentos de Inglés”. En base a los resultados arrojados por la primera

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The four groups created in class (Freaky, Lazy, Spooky and Stinky) must send their respective advices.The first advice is related to the problem presented by other group. The second piece of advice is related to the girl in the video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tAlc67hE4q4&feature=related ). In both, you'll have to write first the problem and then the advice or suggestion.The best, I mean, the

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This is just one of the best chat bots I've ever found. I want to share with you to practice especially you questions in English.*Just speak to Mary and she will answer you when you press "ASK".*To talk to Mary just click on the image and open a new window.

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Oh my Gosh! You are in troubles! They're deep problems!You don't know how to solve them!You need urgently an advice!!!That person is your only hope!!Write 2 situations that describe any kind of problem you have or any "friend of yours" have...IF YOU DON'T DO IT.... YOU WILL HAVE A REAL REAL PROBLEM!!HAHAHAHA!!!BWAHAHAHAHABWHAHAHAHA!!!(Sorry... that was a too overacting laugh)

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Instructions:1. Watch the video2. Post answering the questions below.Who is put into prison?Who tries to kill Superman?What are there in the laboratory?Where does the robot put the money in?What does the mechanical monster steals?Who tells us the true identity of Superman?Who was kidnapped by the monster?Does Lois know who is Superman?DEADLINE: MARCH 27, 2008

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Welcome everyone!2008: A new year that brings new expectancies for you.I want to introduce this blog, especially to the ones who don't know it.This site was biult as a compliment of the sessions in the classroom. Here you'll find information, activities and news that help you to improve even more your English skills. There will be homeworks, tasks, projects and pictures of the activities you do

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These are some of the students of the Elective Class who participated in the Latinoamerican Fair 2007 at Liceo Domingo Santa Maria. Their stands and the information of each country were worked, studied and shown with high quality.Congratulations boys and girls... this was your last activity and you did great.

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Last Thursday, November 23, the twelveth graders from the Elective Class of English visited the American Corner at the Universidad de Tarapacá.There the senior students could talk with 3 American students who belonged to teh Interchange Program of the University.The boys and girls had fun talking, telling jokes and even playing cards en English.We thanks to Larelai Parra to allow having these

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Last Wednesday, November 21 the students from Elective Class of English (11th graders) started the sessions of speeches en English. This year the theme was The most famous songs of all times.The activity consisted in choose one of these songs and read it like a speech, changing the rythm, entonation, stress and sometimes the pronounciation to become the song in a formal discourse.

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Last Wednesday, November 14th, the students from the Elective Class of English participated in an Experience Presentation given by the five Chilean Secondary students who traveled to the United States last January as Youth Ambassadors, an initiative that was organized in Chile for the first time by non-profit organization Partners of the Americas and sponsored by the U.S. State Department.Andrea

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This movie was used to make you think about your present, your future and your choices.1. What's your opinion about the movie?2. If, in the movie, the pirate radio was way used to "talk hard". Nowadays, which would be the way to say what you really think?3. The movie plot ran about the fight against the system. According to your sense about the system... what do you think it still wrong and how

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Questionnaire1. Why William was younger than his other classmates?2. How William got interested in rock & roll?3. For you, what’s the meaning of the phrase “IT’S ALL HAPPENING”. Who used it?4. According to what you understood, what was the real function of being a “Band Aid”, like Penny Lane?5. Why William’s mother was so overprotecting with him?6. According to you, was Penny Lane really loved

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According to the starting patterns to make a questionn given in class... Write 4 questions using each pattern.... are you...... were you...... do you ...... did you...... will you...... would you ...... can you ...... could you ...... have you got ...... have you been ...... have you ever been ...... are you going to ...NOTE: Write them soon

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Teenage angst finds a new voice in this drama. By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a quiet, studious student at an ordinary suburban high school in Arizona. But at night, Mark creeps down into his basement, fires up his pirate radio transmitter, and broadcasts to the community as Hard Harry, a sexually obsessed social commentator who passes along angry philosophy about the state of teenage

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1. According to you, give a reason that supports the artistic and musical education at school nowadays.2. According to a former student (at the end of the movie), what is the real Mr Holland's OPUS? Why the word "opus" is used in the title of the movie?3. What does the school principal -Mrs Jacobs- mean when she tells Mr Holland that a good teacher not only must teach knlowledge to the students,

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RULES OF CHARADES Charades is a game of pantomimes: you have to "act out" a phrase without speaking, while the other members of your team try to guess what the phrase is. The objective is for your team to guess the phrase as quickly as possible.Equipmenta stopwatch or other timing devicea notepad and pencil for scorekeepingblank slips of papertwo baskets or other containers for the

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Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 drama film in which Richard Dreyfuss plays Glenn Holland, a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while trying to compose one memorable piece of music to make him famous.The film features an orchestral score by Michael Kamen and many pieces of classical music. Kamen also wrote An American Symphony, the work Mr. Holland is shown working on

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Almost Famous is a 2000 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 2000. It tells a fictional story of a teenage journalist initially writing for CREEM magazine and then later for Rolling Stone covering the rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone.Despite

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Read the vocabulary given in class and write about them. Describe where they were said, who said them, why said them and, if it proceeds, give the meaning of them.InterviewNudity projection Giggle-loop Minute silence Appropriate Break up Funeral Date Corp Cremate Face cream Naked

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The death of someone is itself painful and sad. But a funeral is surrounded by many situations created not only by the friends and the friends' friends' friends of the family but also by the members of the family too.This exercise is not done to satirize or ridiculize the funeral ceremony, but to demonstrate that every sad situation in our lives have always another face: a funny one.Below, there

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If you want listen again the national final debate in English 2006.FINAL COMPETENCIA DE DEBATES EN INGLÉS 2006Then, answer the following requests.1. Write at least 2 arguments given for the proposition team, and explain them in your own words.2. Write at least 2 arguments given for the opposition team, and explain them in your own words.3. According to you... What team should have won the

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Boys and girls... The new assignment for this week (from August 6th to August 18th) is below the article about COOKING.Its name is THOUGHTS: "Loosing someone who close to you" (terceros y cuartos medios) Bye.

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The last activity of the first semester was to perform Songs for children, but... in English (duuh!)The groups that showed their performances did it excellent. Great creativity and much more enthusiasm. It's a shame that the other groups didn't participate because of many reasons... espacially beacuse of the end of the semester.Thanks boys and girls.The PerformersRow Row Row Your BoatIf You're

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The student from Cuarto Medio, made an excellent demonstration of cooking abilities.They chose the dish they wanted to prepared, Then they organized their speech and materials, and finally they prepared their dishes for the camera.A great moment and an excellent work. Congratulations.The Final ResultsRecipe IgredientsThe Lost VideoIf you thought I had forgotten the funny and embarasing pictures..

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To think of loosing someone close to us is something that we tries to avoid. Sometimes we cheat ourselves thinking that those people who we loved will be close to us forever. But one and the last step of every human being is to die. This exercise want to take you out all those feelings about the death, about loosing someone close to us. In few words explain your ideas about how you'd react, how

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The question of whether children should wear a uniform to school always makes for a lively debate, and not only among students! In some countries school uniform is normal and most schools make their students wear one.Britain is the most obvious example of this, but in many other countries with strong links to Britain uniform often has to be worn to school - examples include Australia, Ireland,

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Toronto Police and Chilean Soccer Players BrawlTORONTO (Reuters) - World soccer body FIFA said on Friday it was launching an investigation into a clash between Chile's Under-20 soccer team and Canadian police, while Chile's president called the police action "unjustified aggression." The brawl took place Thursday night, shortly after Chile suffered a bitter 3-0 defeat to Argentina in a semifinal

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Hello dear boys and girls. During the first semester I decided not to work with the blog focusing in other stuff inside the classroom. But it was just enough. It's time to read and to learn how to give opinions. Just imagine, you are the top students, relating to English, from the whole school (I mean, more than 3.000 students). You need to show that.I have already chosen some texts and articles

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This Wedenesday, November 29th we started with the first speeches and adresses session. The students get a more than expected performance with clear pronounciation and a good sense of rythm. I appreciate to those who worked hard to take their best english out.We'll wait for the other group of students next wednesday when it will be also our final class.See ya!Martin Luther King's Speech: "I have

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On Wednesday 22nd the group went to the beach to have one of the last practice sessions before the presentation day, that will be on Wednesdays, November 29th and December 6th.The idea of going to the Chinchorro beach was to find a personal place to practice aloud the text asigned. To read a text is not that difficult than to read it aloud, in front of an audience and with a speech format.I hope

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This is the link to the webpage you can practice with several exercises.http://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/go to exercises 1 or exercises 2 for practicing.NOTE: focus on the phonetic vowel exercisesGood luck

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In case you don't have yet your material I've uploaded the different text you have to speech soon. - In some of them there's a MP3 version fi you want to download-Kennedy's address Nixon's resignation speech Martin Luther King's speech: "I have a Dream" Star Spangled BannerGod bless AmericaGod Save the QueenWhitman's O Captain my Captain MP3Lennon's ImagineBeatles' YesterdayDenver's Conutry Road

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Dear students,If you are interested in the web page about phonetics... this is the address:http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/Others:http://www.omniglot.com/writing/english.htmhttp://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/http://www.learnenglish.de/Level1/Pronunciation/phoneticpage.htmhttp://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/mateescu/cuprins.htmBye

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These are some of the pictures I took in classes.Enjoy or suffer!

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A Birthday CakeA man wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday by throwing a party. So he went to order a birthday cake. The baker asked him what message to put on the cake. He thought for a while and said, "Let's put, 'You are not getting older, you are getting better' on the cake".The baker then asked, "How do you want me to arrange it?" The man replied, "Well, put 'You are not getting older', at

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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A million high school students returned to classrooms Tuesday after a three-week strike wrested new education money from Chile's socialist government.Many, however, said they were skeptical about official pledges to end inequalities in the schools.The return to school after weeks of rowdy sit-ins and sometimes-violent marches through the capital came after a long holiday

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This song belongs John Lennon. Appeared in the album Imagine in 1971 after Beatles' breakdown. This is one of the most beautiful songs Lennon wrote.First, read it, then, listen it and finally answer the questions below.JEALOUS GUYI was dreaming of the pastAnd my heart was beating fastI began to lose controlI began to lose controlI didn't mean to hurt youI'm sorry that I made you cryOh no, I

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Dear Students,I took this week off beacuse my baby was born on May 19th. So I thought I could have enough time to upload a new article for this week, but that will be impossible. So I recommend all of you that in this 'free' week send up all your massages about task 7 and 8.My new son's name is Philippe Michel Rossel Guzmán. I'm happy but at the same time very tired.This wednesday you will be

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Argentine Gas Cuts Force Businesses To Use Polluting Fuels(April 19, 2005) The government of the Metropolitan Region lifted its pollution warning Monday, saying the quality of the air had improved since a pre-emergency was declared the day before.But this warning could be the first of many this year, as Argentine gas cuts force more companies to use less environmentally friendly fuels.The state

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Argentina and Brazil have accepted Bolivia's moves to take state control of its gas industry but want talks on future prices and foreign involvement.The deal was reached at an energy summit which also included Venezuela.Earlier this week President Evo Morales took control of Bolivia's natural gas industry and told foreign firms to leave if they did not comply.Brazil and Argentina rely on cheap

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Boys and girls,This week -from May 1st to May 7th- there won't be articles to read and comment beacuse you'll have written tests and I prefer you have all time time necessary to study without having any excuses.Enjoy this free week without articles. I'll upload your marks soon, so stay tuned! See ya soon.

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The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.During this time many of the England's poor worked

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Durante cuatro clases Curso Electivo de Inglés trabajó en el Laboratorio de Computación para desarrollar un proyecto sobre el aumento del vocabulario de computación siguiendo y dando instrucciones orales.La primera clase fue teórica. Allí, los estudiantes revisaron una guía con vocabulario sobre Internet para conocer sus significados y fonética.La segunda clase ellos trabajaron en el laboratorio

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During four classes the Elective Class of English worked in the Computer Lab developing a project about increasing computing vocabulary following and giving commands. The first class was theoretical. There, the students checked a handout with vocabulary about internet knowing their meanings and phonetics. The second class they worked in the computer lab. The students have to follow oral

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Serious skin conditions affect around seven million of people in the UK alone. They can cause significant emotional distress as well as physical discomfort. What is it? Acne is an inflammatory skin condition that causes spots. Spots result from the build up of dead skin cells and grease that block the pores or hair follicles, typically on the face, upper arms, upper back and chest. It is not

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Mobile phone users in Japanese cities can now watch digital TV on compatible mobile phones for the first time.The service is not the world's first, but it has the potential to be the biggest, by reaching more subscribers than in any other country.Finding new phones in Japanese shops has proved difficult as only limited quantities have been produced so far.Japan's 90m mobile phone users can

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The telenovelas - Latin American soap dramas - are stereotypical, over the top and melodramatic - but, also, highly successful.In fact, they are possibly the number-one form of human entertainment on the planet.The facts are something to be reckoned with. This addictive formula has captivated audiences in Africa, Asia and Europe, and telenovela stars are mobbed at airports in Poland, Indonesia,

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Children who do daily exercises, mimicking a baby in the womb, have shown dramatic improvements in maths and English, new research suggests.The technique, Primary Movement, has been championed by Dr Martin McPhillips from Queen's University Belfast.Until recently, it had not been formally tested. But the first academic study has startled the sceptics.Primary Movement is based on the fact that

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Learn to play the piano. Join your school band or sing in a musical. Take some guitar lessons and start a rock group. If people wonder what you're up to, tell them you're doing something important. You may be making yourself a little bit smarter.A new study shows that young children who learn to sing or play a musical instrument may gain a slight mental edge over kids who don't take music

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Welcome students of this elective class of Communicative English.The main objective of the class is to increase your English developing the four basic skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.It's not an easy job, because we have only three hours a week to work in the classroom.This year a part of the final evaluation of the class will be based on the use of this Blog, your blog now.

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