HAIKUS

• A haiku (俳句 high-koo) is a short three-line poem that uses sensory language to capture a feeling or image. 

• Haiku poetry was originally developed by Japanese poets. They are often inspired by nature, a moment of beauty, or a bad experience. 

• To write a haiku, start by brainstorming ideas for the poem. Then, write the poem with strong details and detailed imagery. Make sure you polish the haiku and listen to how it sounds out loud so it is at its best.

'A Haiku must paint 

a mental's image in the 

reader's mind.'

Follow the rules:

Examples

                                                                                                    Taken from https://m.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem
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FUTURE TENSES

All of the following ideas can be expressed using different tenses:

• Simple prediction: There will be snow in many areas tomorrow.

• Arrangements: I'm meeting Jim at the airport.

• Plans and intentions: We're going to spend the summer abroad.

• Time-tabled events: The plane takes off at 3 a.m.

• Prediction based on present evidence: I think it's going to rain!

• Willingness: We'll give you a lift to the cinema.

• An action in progress in the future: This time next week I'll be sun-bathing.

• An action or event that is a matter of routine: You'll be seeing John in the office tomorrow, won't you?

• Obligation: You are to travel directly to London.

• An action or event that will take place immediately or very soon: The train is about to leave.

• Projecting ourselves into the future and looking back at a completed action: A month from now he will have finished all his exams.

There are four future verb tenses in English.

Simple future tense
Future continuous tense
Future perfect tense
Future perfect continuous tense

There are also several other ways to talk about the future without using a future verb tense.

Using the present continuous to talk about future arrangements
Using the simple present to talk about scheduled events
Using "going" to talk about the future
Future obligations
The immediate future



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Taken from                
 https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/future/

Idioms about Personality

New Year's Resolutions - 2019

A New Year's resolution is a tradition in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behaviour to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life. 

SOME EXAMPLES

1. Get in shape

2. Start eating healthier food, and less food overall
3. Stop procrastinating
4. Improve your concentration and mental skills
5. Meet new people
6. Become more active
7. Become more confident and take some chances
8. Earn more money
9. Become more polite
10. Reduce stress
11. Learn to be happier with your life
12. Get more quality sleep
13. Give up cigarettes
14. Watch less TV
15. Read more

If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you’ll be sure to find tons of useful information here.

VOCABULARY

Christmas is Fun

Fake News. Listening

Listen to the radio interview about how false information spreads and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org

The Twelve Days of Chistmas

What are the 12 days of Christmas?

• They are the days between the birth of Christ and the coming of the Magi, the three wise men. 
• It begins on December 25 (Christmas) and runs through January 6 (the Epiphany, sometimes also called Three Kings' Day). 

                   

On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me
a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

On the Second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Follow the pattern

12. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me

Twelve drummers drumming

11. Eleven pipers piping

10. Ten lords a-leaping

9. Nine ladies dancing

8. Eight maids a-milking

7. Seven swans a-swimming

6. Six geese a-laying

5. Five golden rings

4. Four calling birds

3. Three french hens

2. Two turtle doves

1. And a partridge in a pear tree.

Traslation

Una perdiz en un peral

Dos tórtolas

Tres gallinas francesas

Cuatro pájaros piando

Cinco anillos de oro

Seis ocas empollando

Siete cisnes nadando

Ocho sirvientas ordeñando

Nueve damas danzando

Diez señores saltando

Once gaiteros tocando la gaita

Doce tamborileros tocando el tambor