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GOODBYE TO NUREMBERG EXCHANGE STUDENTS

(Photo: Students at Santa Cruz Castle last Tuesday)

This morning the sixteen Nuremberg students participating in this year's students exchange have returned home. It has been a ten-day non-stop trip living with the Spanish host families and taking part in different activities.

Wednesday 14th: Visiting: Domus, Bellas Artes Museum (the visit to the Old Town was cancelled due to heavy rain), and official welcome reception with Coruña's mayor at María Pita in the afternoon. (See here).

Thursday 15th: Trip to Santiago de Compostela (Cidade da Cultura-Gaiás, Museo do Pobo Galego, Cathedral & Old Town).

Friday 16th: Visiting: Casa dos Peces and Torre de Hércules.

Free weekend with the host families.

Monday 19th: Visiting: Casa Picasso and the Plaza de Lugo food market.

Tuesday 20th: Trip along Golfo Artabro coast. Stops at Santa Cruz Castle, Sada, Pontedeume-Cabanas beach and Betanzos. Farewell family buffet at the school.

Wednesday 21st: Visiting: Monte de San Pedro park and Bellas Artes workshop.

Thursday 22nd: Departure to Oporto airport at 6:30h.

Good journey home! We'll see you in Nuremberg in April.

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SHORTENED WORDS

Some common abbreviations used to make words shorter

St. PATRICK'S 2018

Today's Saint Patrick's Day, the Patron of Ireland. Everything will turn into green today.

Check on all the other St. Patrick Days here @ ClickOnEnglish previous posts.

PERIODS OF TIME

PHRASAL VERBS: SHOPPING

CORUÑA MAYOR'S OFFICIAL WELCOME TO 2018 EXCHANGE STUDENTS AT CITY HALL

The German students from the Nuremberg Willstätter Gymnasium are already with us. They arrived yesterday afternoon. Today they visited the Domus and the Bellas Artes Museum. Tomorrow they're going on a trip to Santiago.
This afternoon we had an official welcome reception at the Coruña City Hall, where all the participating students, the German and Spanish teachers were welcomed by our mayor Xulio Ferreiro and the Social Justice councillor Silvia Cameán.

Galician version of this post @ IES Plurilingüe 'Rafael Dieste' Blog

LOSING STEPHEN HAWKING

Foto: ojo.pe

Today we learnt about the death of prestigious scientists Stephen Hawking. In the day of his loss we want to pay tribute to him. Here are some links to know more about him.

"LOOK UP AT THE STARS AND NOT DOWN AT YOUR FEET" Professor Stephen Hawking

- Stephen Hawking @ Wikipedia.

- His death on the newspapers @ 'The Guardian'

Video "THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING", film trailer:

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno

PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE USES

This chart shows uses of the PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE.

THE WEEKEND

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

This chart shows the use of the possessive pronouns versus the adjective forms.

Previous post of possessive adjectives HERE.

WOMEN'S DAY 2018

No classes today because the Council of A Coruña decided to declare a holiday on the International Women's Day. But also it's a day of social protest all around the world as women have decided to go on strike and demonstrations for their rights.

We're celebrating this day, remembering previous posts on this blog for this day: WOMEN.

Here's also the link to the English version of Emma Clit's comic:

- "YOU SHOULD'VE ASKED"

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno

MODAL VERBS: CAN, MAY, MUST (HAVE TO), NEEDN'T, SHALL

CONFUSING: 'LIKE TO+infinitive' vs 'LIKE+-ing'

This chart shows the difference in meaning between these two structures with the verb LIKE.

STUDENT EXCHANGE 2018: WILLSTÄTTER GYMNASIUM, NUREMBERG / IES "RAFAEL DIESTE", A CORUÑA

Our school has been working together with the "Willstätter Gymnasium" in Nuremberg, Germany, for eleven years now on the student exchange programme. Since then we've held nine exchanges and this course will see its tenth edition.

From 2007 to 2014, the exchanges have been carried out annually but since this last year, it's every two years. This year's exchange will take place between March and April. In March, the German students will be here and in April ours will go to Nuremberg.

Students will be staying with their guest families and will attend some class activities in each of the schools and will have visits and trips organized to interesting surrounding places.

You can link to fotos of previous years HERE.

We'll be updating.

Galician version of this post @ IESPlurilingüeRafaelDiesteBlog