Yesterday, we celebrated Thanksgiving Day. Apart form learning new things about it, our students have written letters for their teachers.

                         

                     YOU MADE OUR DAY, GUYS!

WOMEN WRITERS DAY

 19th OCTOBER

19th October is marked the Women Writers Day to commemorate women writers around the world.

• 12 Iconic Female Writers Througout History:

• Female Authors Who Made History:

 

TIPS TO SOUND MORE BRITISH

 

 

Time to relax, to enjoy, to discover, to make a...

        1. ✦ Go to an Amusement Park

        2. ✦ Attend an Outdoor Concert

        3. ✦ Have a Picnic

        4. ✦ Be a Tourist in Your Own City

        5. ✦ Go to the Beach

        6. ✦ Nap in a Hammock

        7. ✦ Do a Random Act of Kindness

        9. ✦ Do a Random Act of Kindness

        10. ✧ Run a 10k

        11. ✧ Make a Summer Playlist

        12. ✦ Read a book

        13. ✦ Watch the Sunset

        14. ✦ Watch the Sunrise

        15. ✧ Spend the Entire Day Barefoot

        16. ✦ Walk Barefoot in the Sand

        17. ✦ Make Ice Cream

        18. ✧ Get a Tattoo

        19. ✦ Learn to Surf

        20. ✦ Take a Boat Ride

        21. ✦ Visit a Historical Site

        22. ✦ Go Somewhere You Have Never Been

        23. ✦ Have fun with family and friends

        24. ✦ Stay up past midnight

        25. ✦go to some sort of festival

    

 CONFUSING WORDS

Let's learn about some confusing words with "El blog de Cristina"

https://www.cristinacabal.com/?page_id=5154

• Ache and Hurt
• Ancient, Old, Elderly and Antique       
• Arrive At and Arrive In + Exercises
• As(conj) and Like (prep)
• Actually and At the Moment
• Beat and Win
• Because and Because of
• Between and Among
• Can and Be Able to
• Classic and Classical
• Classic/classical, historic/historical, Economic/Economical
• Cook (a) and a Cooker
• Corner: In the Corner and On the Corner
• Could and Managed to
• Degree and Career
• Dream Of and Dream About
• End: At the End and In the End
• Especially and Specially
• Farther and Further
• Finally, in the end,eventually, lastly and at last  
• Finish and End Up
• Hang and Hunged
• Hard and Hardly
• Have and Have Got
• High and Tall
• Historic and Historical
• Ill and Sick
• Late and Lately
• Lastly, at last,finally, in the end,eventually
• Made of, Made From and Made By
• Maths or Math
• Near and Near to
• Old and Elder
• Pay and Pay for
• Roast and Baked
• Rob, steal or burgle?
• Stressed, Stressful and Stressing
• Teacher, Professor and Lecturer
• Teacher/Professor/Lecturer/Tutor/Instructor/ Coach/Trainer
• Think Of, About, On and  In
• Toothache or A Toothache?
• Travel/Trip/Journey/Voyage/Crossing/Flight/ Cruise
• Used to and Would
• Weekend : At the Weekend and On the Weekend
• Weigh, Weighed and Weight
• While and Whereas

 

 SONGS TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONOUNCIATION AND FLUENCY

(EASTER HOLIDAYS)

On Easter Day in the UK and EEUU there is the traditional Easter egg hunt in everycity and town.

Parents tell their children that the Easter  bunny hid many eggs in  the the grass, in a shrub or under a tree.

The children must find the hidden eggs. When the children find the eggs, they put them in colorful Easter baskets.

The child with the biggest number of eggs is the winner.

Here you can watch a real example on how a British family gets ready for the greatest tradition in Easter, Egg hunt.

IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH WITH SONGS

              Easy:

Memories by Maroon 5

Faded- Alan Walker

               Meddium

                                   7 years Old by Lukas Graham

     Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis

Love me like you do by Ellie Goulding

Waiting for love by Avicii

See You Again (Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa), Cover by One Voice Children's Choir

Lost Control by Alan Walker

               Difficult

                             

                                          The Nights by Avicii

Fast Car by Jonas Blue

 MADLIPZ 

- Instant dubbing and subbing- 

During the second term, our students in 3rd ESO have done their oral presentation dubbling videos with the app "Madlipz". Here you can watch most of them. We hope you enjoy them as much as they did dubbling them.

JORGE AND JUAN'S MADLIPZ

Alba and Adriana

                        SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. St Patrick's Day is March 17. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick's Day, Irish families traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon; People dance, drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. If you want to learn a bit more about this celebration have a look at the following links…

Saint Patrick Day history

Dublin and the World celebrate St Patrick's Day 2014

Irish Dance Group - Irish Step Dancing (Riverdance) 2009 

                         CULTURAL TALK ABOUT  USA

Lat Monday, thanks to Burlington Books we had an online meeting with the English native speakers, Mark. He talked to all the students in 3ºESO about history, culture and curiosities about USA and English language. 

                                            We all learned and had so much fun!

 

Be careful with literal translation:

MOLLY SCHUYLER, a competitive eater.

Watch her video here 👇

 

St. Valentine's Day

              St. Valentine's Day, February 14, is a day when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. The holiday has origins in the Roman period. A common legend states that St. Valentine defied the emperor’s orders that forbiden marriages among roman soldiers and secretly married them. It is for this reason that his feast day is associated with love.

Love Idioms:

February 11, International Day of Women and Girls 

in Science 2021

The Association of Women Researchers and Technologists wants to put an end to the absence of female references in textbooks and enocourage girls to take scientific careers breaking stereotypes and provinding them the example of many women scientists in history. This is the  'No More Matildas' campaign.

Play video here 👇

👉 "Matildas" biographies 👈

 

PEACE DAY ✌

This is how we worked in the Peace Day, celebrated the 30th January. Reflecting on peace makers and peace breakers. Let's make a better world!