HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2019!

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Enjoy the long scary weekend of Halloween! 

Vocabulary & activities in English on Halloween on previous post in this blog CLICK HERE

NOUN SUFFIXES

24th-OCT: LIBRARIES DAY

October 24th is Library Day in Spain. This year our school library has celebrated it with several exhibitions, which you can see on a post on our library blog clicking HERE.

- An exhibition of photos of the best world's libraries, and as you can see not of them are in  luxurious buildings. Some libraries are in the strangest places: a beach, a donkey's back... or, as in the UK, in old telephone boxes, which have been recycled into mini-libraries where bookcrossing is practiced. In this video you can see an example:

Video:

DAYS OF THE WEEK & MONTHS OF THE YEAR

LISTS OF ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS

AMERICAN SLANG

SALMAN KHAN, THE 2019 PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Today October 18th 2019, Salman Khan receives in Oviedo the 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Salman Khan appears on our current 1ºBAC textbook  in an interview about his online education project The Khan Academy (page 89, unit on Education).

More info about him and the award in these links below:

- THE KHAN ACADEMY

- THE PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Videos:
LET'S TEACH FOR MASTERY

KHAN ACADEMY: THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION?

ENGLISH QUESTION PATTERN

ENGLISH QUESTION PATTERN

(Qword) + AUX.VB + subject + MAIN VERB +... ...(prep)?                                           DO (simple tenses) + infinitive                                           BE (continuous tenses) + -ing form                                           BE (passive tenses) + past participle                                           HAVE (perfect tenses) + past participle                                           HAVE (possession) + GOT                                           MODAL verbs + infinitive

Only exception, when asking for a subject. No auxiliary verb is needed: Who wrote “Hamlet”? Shakespeare did. How many people came to the party? 20 people came.

- Check you know all the question words at this previous post on this blog HERE.