Short and easy reading material

Reading in a foreign language is difficult. One of the problems is finding texts that are short, easy, and interesting. This is a collection of texts written in English in the original. All the links take you to archives of stories or comics. You need to find the "<<" "previous" or "back" button to read the archives.

Don't try to understand all the words. If the text is a webcomic, find the joke. If you find the joke, good job!

Webcomics:

* Calvin and Hobbes is a classic. The protagonists are a little boy, his pet tiger, and his parents.

* "Peanuts" is another classic. I hate it, but it has lots of fans...

* xkcd is "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language". The protagonists are a couple of scientists, boyfriend and girlfriend. I recommend it if your English is good, and you like maths, science or computers.

* Count your sheep looks like a children's story, but it's not. The protagonist are a girl, her imaginary friend and her mom. The girl's dad died when her mother was pregnant. I recommend you click "First" and read in chronological order.

* Indexed, like xkcd, is also about maths. Absolutely recommended if you like maths; impossible to understand if you don't like diagrams.

Gossip:
* Postsecret is a very famous American website. People write their secrets in cards and send them to a man in the United States. Then, he puts the secrets on the website. He changes them every week: there is no archive.

Poetry:
* Haiku is a Japanese poetic form. Haikus are very short and descriptive. They show an image of nature, and it expresses a feeling.

Saga Crepúsculo: pdfs en inglés

Aquí tenéis la lista de la saga Crepúsculo, entera. El enlace os lleva a una web donde podéis descargar los libros.

Os recuerdo que el intercambio de enlaces no es piratería. Piratería sería vender esos pdfs.

1: http://depositfiles.com/files/23lz79pe8.
2: New Moon.
3: Eclipse.
4: Breaking Dawn.
5: Midnight Sun (una versión de Twilight desde el punto de vista de Edward Cullen; no disponible comercialmente).
6: Twilight series, books 1 to 5.

¡Que los disfrutéis!

Fomento de la lectura

Este curso, dentro del Plan de Lectura y Bibliotecas, vamos a probar a dedicar un ratito a la lectura voluntaria con unas normas sencillas:

* 15-20 minutos a la semana con un libro en inglés adecuado al nivel. Un libro distinto para cada alumno.

* Es totalmente obligatorio dedicarle ese tiempo seguido al libro que te toque, en silencio.

* Si el libro no te engancha, la semana que viene puedes coger otro diferente.

* No hay ninguna obligación de hacer un resumen después, aunque si quieres hacer un resumen o una presentación en clase contará como una nota positiva más.

Esto es válido para todos los grupos excepto 3º bilingüe, porque tenemos muy poco tiempo de clase. Allí probaremos algún otro método alternativo.