LISTENING OF HIGHLANDS

EL LAGO NESS

DEPORTES DE SCOTLAND

SPORTS IN  SCOTLAND

The most popular sports in Scotland

THE DERBIES IN SCOTLAND

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/pdf/2011/03/110317121235_110317_6min_english_football_rivalries.pdf

A derby, in the context of football, is a match played between two football teams from the same city, or near each other.

So, In Britain, famous derbies are games played between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, which are both in north London, Liverpool and Everton, or Celtic and Rangers - two football teams in Glasgow in Scotland. They have a bitter rivalry - and matches between the two often involve heated exchanges.

Alex Capstick, BBC sports reporter says:

"Matches between the Glasgow neighbours Rangers and Celtic usually involve heated exchanges, but the mayhem during the latest clash has been described as an embarrassment to Scottish football. Rangers had three players sent off. Celtic's manager, Neil Lennon, and Rangers' assistant coach, Ally McCoist, had to be dragged apart following an ugly confrontation after the final whistle."

On the other hand, the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, is setting up a summit to deal with the violence. He says the players are role models for society. Supporters will follow their example.

In addition to this, policemen in Scotland say that even cases of domestic violence increase when the two Glaswegian clubs play each other. Even people watching the match at home are more likely to become violent towards their families during or after the matches.

Curiously,  Les Grey, Scottish Police Federation claims:

" If the game hadn’t been on a Wednesday night, we’d have seen a lot more trouble had that been a Sunday lunchtime game or even a Saturday afternoon game. So we’ll be looking at when to play these games. We need to look at the licensing laws. We need to look at the coverage of the games, and by that I’m going to upset a lot people and say perhaps we need to stop televising one or two of them. There’s a direct correlation between what happens during the game and what happens after the game. If I tell you the latest figures just in - I was informed last night that domestic violence incidents jumped 70% on Wednesday evening after the game. That’s a huge jump."

INVENTOR ESCOCÉS

The most advanced students carried out three activities in English about Scotland:

1.- An inventor

2.- Sports

3.- The mystery of Loch Ness

Research is sought and it is in English as the school wants to be bilingual and is already preparing children to learn L2 in Scottish culture.

                                                          James Watt´s workshop (1924)
This is the workshop of James Watt, an inventor born in Scotland in 1736. He’s often credited with inventing the steam engine – though in actual fact, he improved on one which had already been developed. He’s seen as a key figure in the Industrial Revolution.
 Curators at the Science Museum in London have reassembled the workshop of 18th century inventor James Watt, so people can see what it was like.

 Here’s the BBC’s science correspondent, Tom Fielden says about Watt:

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/pdf/2011/03/110331095234_110331_6min_watts_workshop.pdf


"When Watt died in 1819, this workshop was locked up and its contents left pretty much undisturbed until the 1920s when it was more or less picked up lock, stock and barrel by the Science Museum and put into storage. It’s been a long wait, but the contents, a regular cornucopia of gadgets, tools, contraptions, you name it, have all been painstakingly reassembled here in the main hall of the Science Museum. I think, really, it’s its spiritual home if nowhere else."

In adition to this, the Curator of Mechanical Engineering at the Science Museum, Ben Russell, says:

" It’s an absolutely astonishing… it’s a treasure trove, really. We actually counted 8,430 objects, and it’s a complete physical record of Watt’s entire working life and interests, going back to the 1750s. So it’s unparalleled anywhere. But really what the workshop does, it shows the engine, and there are some fragments about the engine, but it shows a lot of his other projects as well, from chemistry to pottery, instrument making, even musical instrument making. So it shows how diverse a bloke he was." 

Besides,  Andrew Nahum, the Curator of Innovation Curator at London’s Science Museum, claims:

"He didn’t just do steam, he was a potter, he built bridges and harbours and canals. He was, if you like, a one man innovation centre."

Scotland

Este curso 2015-2016 voy a finalizarle con la realización de un Proyecto sobre Scotland.
La razón es porque hemos tenido auxiliares de L2 de ese país.
Los niños estaban muy interesados en todo lo relacionado con el país de donde practicaban L2.
- Canciones
- Poesías
- Mitos y leyendas: "El  monstruo del lago Ness"
- Geografía
- Economía
- Tradiciones y folklore
- Cine
- Artes plásticas
- Pubs
-Deportes
- Inventores