MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

ADULTS FAREWELL PARTY

YOU CAN´T MISS IT!

Caroline Gwatkin is in Argentina testing Green Hills Adults

Caroline Gwatkin
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
theplace@sinectis.com.ar
Caroline Gwatkin has trained teachers, lectured extensively and published in Argentina since 1981, when she arrived there from the United Kingdom. In 1990, she opened "The Place," offering general English for adolescents and ESP courses for adults. Ms. Gwatkin is also the co-founder of the "Advanced Studies Centre," a teacher development centre which offers internationally validated courses for teachers, including distance in-service and online e-mail modules in Argentina and abroad. She has worked as an examiner for both the Cambridge Examinations Syndicate and the British Council. Ms. Gwatkin has a Dip. Ed. and an R.S.A. in TEFL.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GREEN HILLS?

IN NOVEMBER WE HAVE THE GREEN HILLS SCHOOL QUEST
GET READY AND WIN SWEET PRIZES!

FINAL ORAL EXAMS TIMETABLE

WEDNESDAY 16TH 8.00 PM ADULTS 4 (MERCEDES PIAZZA)

MONDAY 21ST 8.00 PM ADULTS 3 (DOLORES ORTEGA)

TUESDAY 22ND 8.00 PM ADULTS 1 (CECILIA OJEDA)

WEDNESDAY 23RD 8.00 PM ADULTS 2 (VANESA HERNANDEZ)

THURSDAY 24TH 8.00 PM ADULTS 5 (HERNAN PATANE)

THURSDAY 24TH 9.00 PM ADULTS 2 (JOE BAILEY)

SPEAKING TIPS TO DO GREAT IN ORAL EXAMS

SPEAKING TIPS

+ Organise your ideas before speaking. Don’t rush.
+ Keep it simple.
+ Ask for explanations if you don’t understand a task, question or statement.
+ Use full sentences.
+ Try to finish the task.
+ Try not to use Spanish. Think in English.
+ Keep speaking.
+ Look at your partner when you talk to each other.
+ Sit properly.
+ Relax and enjoy the experience. Remember that when doing the oral exam you are learning and practising ENGLISH.

IN NOVEMBER IN SINGING...

IN NOVEMBER IN SINGING WE ARE LISTENING TO A SONG BY BLACK EYED PEAS

WHERE IS THE LOVE?

FINAL ORAL EXAMS COMING SOON!

ADULTS ARE SITTING FOR THE FINAL ORAL EXAMS IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.

START SPEAKING ENGLISH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CLASSES!

In October in Singing

IS IT ANY WONDER? BY KEANE

READ SCARY URBAN LEGENDS

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/tp/top10scariest.htm

In October we celebrate Halloween

The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year. One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living. Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach. Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth. The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was assimilated into celebrations of some of the other Roman traditions that took place in October, such as their day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might explain the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween. In Greek mythology, goddesses of the underworld were often used to invoke the Samhain translated as "summer's end. Popular Greek Goddess costumes portray Hecate and Medusa. Hecate was the most favored goddess by Zeus, and wandered the emptiness between the worlds of life and death looking for souls of the dead. Both were considered serpent goddesses, and their ancient dark legends spawned myths such as vampires, who fed off the living using venom and snake-like fangs. Ritualistic dress includes snake adornments and three headed masks. Today, Hecate is often referred to as the goddess of witches. The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role. The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates. The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven. The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree. According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer. The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember. So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.

In October in Singing

Stand by me by Ben E King

BLOG CONTEST WINNERS...

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

1 JUAN DRAGHI ADULTS 2 JOE

2 VALERIA TORCHELLI ADULTS 2 VANESA

3 VICTORIA SPANO ADULTS 4 MERCEDES

CONGRATSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

ADULTS 5 AND ADULTS 1 OUTING AT FIGLIO

This Thursday 29th last day to complete the BLOG CONTEST

DON´T FORGET TO COMPLETE THE BLOG CONTEST BEFORE THURSDAY AND WIN NICE PRIZES FROM MR. BOOK.

ADULTS 2, 3 AND 4 OUTING AT ANTARES

THESE PEOPLE REALLY HAD A WONDERFUL SPRING DAY!

HAPPY SPRING TO ALL OF YOU!

TOMORROW ADULTS 2,3 AND 4 ...

... ARE GOING TO ANTARES TO WELCOME SPRING HAVING SOME DRINKS AND DOING SOME FUN ACTIVITIES !

FIGLIO OUTING NEXT WEEK

ADULTS 1 AND ADULTS 5 ARE GOING TO FIGLIO NEXT WEEK TO HAVE SOME COFFEE AND SPEAK ENGLISH.

HAVE FUN PEOPLE!

SPEAKING GROUP

DON´T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!

PRACTISE YOUR GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ONLINE

VISIT THIS NEW ENGLISH FILE WEBSITE AND PRACTISE YOUR ENGLISH. ALL THE LEVELS ARE INCLUDED! GOOD LUCK!

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/;jsessionid=52145CFE722FEA085B8D4C27E478B9D8?cc=ar&selLanguage=en

Could you be loved by Bob Marley

Marley wanted to break into the American market ahead of a big tour in The States. He figured that his Reggae music would not be easily accepted among mainstream black audiences, so he wrote this with a faster (almost Disco) beat. The song was a hit and so was the tour.

START THINKING POSITIVE, SPRING IS ALL AROUND!

VIRGO: SIGN OF THE ZODIAC

WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR PERSONALITY?

TRY THIS WEBSITE AND FIND OUT ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY:

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/quiz.jsp?quizId=/templatedata/bhg/quiz/data/whatsyourcolorpersonality_10232003.xml&catref=cat4270151&_requestid=288227

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

THIS MONTH IN SINGING WE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO:


WITH OR WITHOUT YOU BY U2

Improve your listening skill_Listen to the radio in English

Click here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

CONGRATS!

CONGRATS TO ALL THE STUDENTS WHO SAT FOR THE MID TERM EXAMS. YOU HAVE MADE A BIG EFFORT!

SPANGLISH?

Spanglish is a hybrid "language" made up from Spanish by introducing English terms instead of translating them or by using wrong translations. With more than 35 million of Latin Americans, the United States is one of the most important region of Hispanic origin population in the world. Through the coexistence of Spanish with English is born spanglish.

Incorporated in the mass media (radio and television programmes, magazines and newspapers), as well as in films and music, and becoming an authentic literary movement, spanglish is any more only an oral phenomenon.

The impact that has supposed spanglish has aroused numerous controversies with respect to if Spanish or English can lose their purity and if spanglish is a legitimate language.

In a meeting celebrated in Spring 2001 in the Cervantes Institute of New York, Odón Betanzos, president of the North American Academy of the Language, described spanglish as "deformed and altered mixture", whereas Ilán Stavans, of the Amherst College, presented it as a "new language", result of the creativity of a demographic sector in transition between cultures and languages.

THIS WEEK MID TERM ORAL EXAMS AT GH

THIS WEDNESDAY 10 AND THURSDAY 11 DOLORES MARTINEZ, ROXANA COSTA AND LAURA CRAVEA WILL TEST ALL THE ADULTS GROUPS. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LESSONS AND SPEAK ENGLISH AT ALL TIMES.

THIS WEEK IN SINGING...

SINGLE LADIES BY BEYONCÉ

SPEED DATING AT GH

Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people.The first speed-dating event took place at Pete’s Café in Beverly Hills in late 1998.
Men and women are rotated to meet each other over a series of short "dates", usually lasting from 3 to 8 minutes depending on the organization running the event. At the end of each interval, the organizer rings a bell or clinks a glass to signal the participants to move on to the next date. At the end of the event participants submit to the organizers a list of who they would like to provide their contact information to. If there is a match, contact information is forwarded to both parties. Contact information cannot be traded during the initial meeting, in order to reduce pressure to accept or reject a suitor to his or her face.

ADULTS 1 AND 5 GATHERED TO HAVE A SPEED DATING SESSION AND PRACTISE THEIR ENGLISH.

FRIENDS

Go to this website and complete the questionnaire:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

WINTER HOLIDAYS ARE COMING SOON!

REST, RELAX AND HAVE FUN!

This Week at GH...

+ Some of the adults groups are sitting for the MID TERM EXAMS. Good Luck!

+ The teachers are making adults practise for the oral exams. Make the most of your lessons and speak English as much as possible.

+ Single Ladies by Beyoncé will be played and sung in the SINGING LESSON. Have fun!

+ WINTER HOLIDAYS are coming soon! Relax and get ready for the second part of the year.

JAMES BLUNT

Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is a British musician whose debut album, Back To Bedlam, and single releases — especially number one hit You're Beautiful — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of jazz and Northern soul, and comparisons have been made between him and early Elton John. Along with vocals, Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba, and mellotron.

He is signed to Linda Perry's American label Custard, and became the first British artist to top the American singles chart in nearly a decade when his song 'You're Beautiful' reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. The last British artist to do so had been Elton John in 1997.

STAY THE NIGHT

Wooooah, Wooooah, Wooooahh, hey!

It's 72 degrees outside, zero chance of rain
It's been a perfect day
We're all spinning on our heels, so far away from real
In Californ-i-a

We all watched the sunset from our car, we all took it in
And by the time that it was dark, you and me had something, yeah!

And if this is what we've got, then what we've got is gold
We're shining bright and I want you, I want you to know
The moon is on it's way, our friends all say goodbye
There's nowhere else to go, I hope that you'll stay the night

Wooooah, you'll stay the night, wooooah yeah

We've been singing Billie Jean
Mixing vodka with caffeine
We've got strangers stopping by
And though you're out of tune
Girl you blow my mind, you do
And all I'll say is I don't wanna say good night
and if there is no quiet corner to get to know each other
then there's no hurry I'm a patient man
As you'll discover, ah!

Cause if this is what we've got, then what we've got is gold
We're shining bright and I want you, I want you to know
The moon is on it's way, our friends all say goodbye
There's nowhere else to go, I hope that you'll stay the night

wooooah, you'll stay the night, wooooah yeah

Just like the song on my radio said,
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
But it's a different tune that's stuck in my head
And it go o oes...

If this is what we've got, then what we've got is gold
We're shining bright and I want you, I want you to know
The moon is on it's way, our friends all say goodbye
There's nowhere else to go, I hope that you'll stay the night

If this is what we've got, then what we've got is gold
We're shining bright and I want you, I want you to know
The moon is on it's way, our friends all say goodbye
There's nowhere else to go, I hope that you'll stay the night

Speak in English!

LIST OF SONGS 2011

1 WITH OR WITHOUT YOU BY U2
2 STAND BY ME BY OASIS
3 NOVEMBER RAIN BY GUNS AND ROSES
4 ONE BY U2
5 WIND OF CHANGE BY SCORPIONS
6 COULD YOU BE LOVED BY BOB MARLEY
7 STAY THE NIGHT BY JAMES BLUNT
8 SINGLE LADIES BY BEYONCÉ
9 EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL BY COLDPLAY
10 IS IT ANY WONDER ? BY KEANE
11 LIGHT MY FIRE BY THE DOORS
12 WHERE IS THE LOVE? BY BLACK EYED PEAS

Do your best and get COUPONS

Try your best in class to get lots of coupons and trade them in the kiosk. You have awesome prizes!

+ photo frames

+ keyrings

+ earrings

+ sweets and chocolates

+ glasses

+ torches

+ pens and pencils

+ pocket mirrors

+ cards

+ mugs

+ wallets and a lot more!

GOOD LUCK!