lunes, 19 de febrero de 2018
Spain in the Middle Ages (test: Tuesday, 27th February)
What do I have to know?
- Beginning and end of the Middle Ages 5th-15th centuries (Roman empire fall-discovery of America).
- Visigoths: 507 A.D. visigoths conquered the Peninsula creating the kingdom of Toledo. They were a Germanic tribe. Religion, language and economy (farmers).
- Muslims: 711 A.D. muslims defeated visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete. They came from the North of Africa. They were and emirate (dependent) and the became a caliphate (independent) with Abderramán III. Religión (Islam), cities (mosques, souk, alcazaba). Economy (merchants/irrigated farming). Monuments (Mezquita de Córdoba, Alhambra de Granada).
- Christians: Three society groups- clergy, nobles and peasants. New jobs (blacksmiths, artisans and millers). 722 A.D. Battle of Covadonga (Don Pelayo)- Kingdom of Asturias. Reconquista (8th-15th centuries): important conquests- Toledo, Jaén, Islas Baleares, Córdoba, Valencia, Sevilla, Granada (1492).
lunes, 5 de febrero de 2018
English test unit 3 (Tuesday, 13th February)
What do I have to know?
- Future: will and won´t (predictions and last minute decisions), might (uncertain plans and possibility in the future), to be + going to (plans and predictions with an evidence) and present continuous (arrangements).
- Numbers: Write large numbers (million, thousand, hundred).
- Vocabulary: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Júpiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, stars, astronaut.
- Writing: The house of the future.
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