MAKE PREDICTIONS WITH WILL

THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS

 

Mincemeat was a successful British disinformation plan during World War II. 

As part of Operation Barclay, the widespread deception intended to cover the invasion of Italy from North Africa, Mincemeat helped to convince the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective.

 This was accomplished by persuading the Germans that they had, by accident, intercepted "top secret" documents giving details of Allied war plans. The documents were attached to a corpse deliberately left to wash up on a beach in Punta Umbría in Spain. 
The operation started with the planting of false documents on the corpse but the use of the Enigma machine by the Germans helped double agents work for the Allies. In addition to technology, the use of double agents like Garbo was integral to Allied success in World War II.

The story was used as the plot in Duff Cooper's 1950 novel Operation Heartbreak, but revealed as a true story in the 1953 book The Man Who Never Was. A film of the same name was made in 1956.

BBC. online article

These videos tell the story of the grave of the man who never was

In part, this was possible due to the intervention of a Mathematician and a group of data researchers  and linguists working for the British Intelligence. This story has been told in a film called The Imitation Game

How an Enigma machine works

Enigma allowed an operator to type in a message, then scramble it by means of three to five notched wheels, which displayed different letters of the alphabet. The receiver needed to know the exact settings of these rotors in order to reconstitute the coded text.

The Germans were convinced that Enigma output could not be broken, so they used it for all sorts of communications - on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky and, significantly, within its secret services.

SEVEN YEARS. LUCAS GRAHAM

These are the sentences from the lyrics of the song that I gave you in the test:

You can try doing them at home for further practise. 

you can download the test and the corrections HERE       

Let's do some more Practise     following this link

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

1       (*0.5)	Once I was seven years old and my mother told me   “Go, make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely”
2       (*0.4)	“It was a big world, but we thought that we were bigger” he explained
3       (*0.3)	“Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker” he added
4       (*0.2)	“By eleven, we were smoking herb and drinking burning liquor” he complained
5      (*0.3)	“We were not rich, so we were out to make that steady figure”  (hacer cálculos continuos)
6      (*0.6)	Once, I was eleven years old and  my daddy told me   “Go, get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely”
7      (*0.2)	“I always had that dream like my daddy had before me” he told Sarah
8      (*0.2)	“So I started writing songs, I started writing stories” he explained
9      (*0.2)	“Something about that glory (just) always seemed to bore me” he complained
10    (*0.3)	“because, only those that I really love will ever really know me” he realised
11    (*0.5)	Once I was twenty years old, my story got told   before the morning sun when my life was lonely
12    (*0.2)	“I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure” he stated
13     (*0.3)	“Because I know the smallest voices can make it major” he explained
14    (*0.2)	“I got my boys with me, at least those in favour” he thanked
15    (*0.4)	“And if we don't meet before I leave, I hope I'll see you later” he added
16    (*0.2)	“Once, I was twenty years old, my story was told” he said
17     (*0.2)	“I was writing about everything that I saw before me” he said
18     (*0.6)	“Soon we'll be thirty years old, our songs have been sold  and I can tell them stories” he explained
19     (*0.3)	“We've travelled around the world and we're still roaming “(vagabundear/deambular)he added
20     (*0.3)	“I'm still learning about life” he says
21     (*0.2)	“My woman brought children for me so I can sing them all my songs” he told his sister
23     (*0.6)	“Most of my boys are with me, some are still out seeking glory and some I had to leave behind  (like)My brother (for whom) I'm still sorry” he said
24    (*0.4)	“Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one (when he died)” he said
25     (*0.4)	“Remember life and then your life becomes a better one” he suggested
26     (*0.4)	“I made a man (my father) so happy when I wrote a letter (to him only) once” he added
27     (*0.4)	“I hope my children come and visit, once or twice a month (when I´m old)” he hoped
28     (*0.6)	“Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is cold” he asked
29     (*0.6)	“Or will I have a lot of children who can warm me” he wondered

LISTENING TEST 4TH ESO

Listen to the clip at least 3 times.

CLIP

FOOD

This is a good way to practise food vocabulary
and more

HERE

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST WEB QUEST

This weekend we have seen, once more, how surprising a song contest can be. We have watched

 television all around Europe --and more--to see how a chicken song wins the contest.

Please, follow the links and answer these questions, write them in your notebook.

Who is Netta? Where is she from?

What language does she speak?                                                 
                                                                                                       

What is the title of the song?

What`s the meaning of the song ?

what is her opinion of the topic of the song?

 What is your opinion on the song  once you

know all about it?



first step watch this video
second step read this article
third step read this article
fourth step look for more information

Reported speech

REPORTED SPEECH

 Dear students her you have Some notes dealing with reported speech.

WEATHER FORCAST

What a terrible weather we have!!!!!!

How many words do you recognise?

Write them in your notabooks and describe them.

PASSIVE VOICE SPANISH

A petición de mis alumnos procedo a cambiar de idioma en la explicación de este contenidos. En cuanto os quede claro, volveremos a comunicarnos en la lengua de Shakespeare.



Apuntes

CONDITIONALS

Dear students, time to have a look at what you've learnt about the conditional sentences.

Do you recognise any of the structures you've been dealing with in the last units?

There's a BEAUTIFUL song by Whitney Houston, eternal, I recommend you to watch the video,

 where she talks about a hypothetical future and the things she thinks would happen in that future.

 Listen to the song because we will be dealing with this topic soon, but after that, watch this version

by GLEE where you can follow the lyrics and look for conditionals.

FUTURE TIME AND CONDITIONALS EXERCISES

Dear students, after downloading this PDF which you have seen in class these days, you can have a

look at the exercises I recommended you to practise on both future time and conditional sentences. 

You can check your answers with the corrections below

WILL, BE GOING TO, PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

FUTURE CONTINUOUS AND PERFECT

CONDITIONALS

CORRECTION 1 AND CORRECTION 2

Just in case you say that you don't have enough information about conditional sentences....

CONDITIONALS

download the PDF for grammar explanation

Time to practise conditional questions.
Click the wheel and answer the question:

Will you meet us at the concert if Mary buys the tckects for you?
If Mary pays me the tickets, I will go to the concert 

RECIPE CONTEST

If you are going to take part in the English and French Recipe Contest you can choose from one of

these.

Once you try your classmates' cakes you can vote which one has been the most delicious recipe.

You can vote for the recipes that you have tried during the School contest.

Give a thumb up to the one you have liked most.

FUTURE TENSES FOR FUTURE TIME

Dear students,

HERE you can practise the future tenses we have been dealing with during these few days.

Remember that it is your intention what is important when you choose a particular tense. The future

 is always unpredictable, we only try to guess.

If we have some kind of clue, a plan,  some facts to support our statements

we choose BE GOING TO

Susan is going to meet her lawyer Paula this week. (They have an appointment)

If the future is not clear, we may have an intention, something we have suddenly thought about, but it

 is not for certain; or maybe we try to guess without any fact, or maybe it is just a future statement,

we choose WILL.

We will go to the beach this weekend ( it is not clear, we haven't decided anything yet)


We use the present simple when we talk about timetables, schedules

I meet my friends on Saturday at  five o'clock in the afternoon  (we meet every Saturday, next included)


We choose the present continuous when there is a kind of plan, something we are thinking about with

 a strong intention and it is very near in the future, we almost "touch" the time.

We are leaving for the beach on two hours  ( when this two hours have passed, you and your friends

 are getting into the car and driving to the beach)


Future continuous, on the other hand, is used to express some future progressive action ( can be

planned, or just thought, but it will take a time and it will be happening in the future)

This time tomorrow we will be swimming in the ocean

CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHDAY

Charles Dickens was born on February 7th 1812

How many Novels do you know by him?

If you want to know more about this Author follow this link

EXPRESSION OF THE FUTURE

4TH ESO UNIT 1 FUTURE TENSE EXTRA EXERCISES

RIHANNA Where have you been?

Now that this unit is over, maybe you want to review some of the structures you've been dealing with up to now:

 Listen to this song by Rihanna and tell me which structures you recognise.

RELATIVE SENTENCES

You can download THE EXPLANATIONS SEEN IN CLASS  dealing with relative sentences HERE

You can download some extra exercises and the key answers HERE