A CHRISTMAS GAME FOR THE CLASSROOM: "GUESS WHO?"

"HOME ALONE" (December 2023)

Before the Christmas holidays, we'll be watching a part of a film in English with English subtitles in the last classes. The film we'll be watching is "HOME ALONE". Here's a summary of the plot and the video trailer.

"HOME ALONE" is the story of an 8-year-old bot called Kevin. He's the youngest of five and is frequently bullied by his older brothers and sisters. After some problems between Kevin and his family, he wishes for a new family when his mother punishes him for what he considers unjustified reasons. His mother warns him to be careful with what he wishes for. The next day he wakes up to discover he's the only one left in the family home. Kevin thinks his wish has come true and that he's finally alone without anybody of his family around. Actually, he was left back home by mistake. All his family are on their way to Paris on a family Christmas holiday. While his parents realize their mistake and want to go back to the US, a pair of thieves try to rob the family house and Kevin has to defend it. His advneture begins...

Video trailer:

VIDEO: BRITISH SCHOOLS EXPLAINED

As we are learning about schools and subjects. Let's have a look at how British schools are.  The kind of schools, the ages you go to them, the timetable... Here is a video and with the information from our student's book, we will see the differences between British and Spanish schools. Once we've worked in class, you can feedback with a sentence about Spanish schools as a comment to this post. (Comments will be published if they are correct and not repeated).

This video appears as a warm up activity to Unit1 of the 1st Bac student's book to introduce the topic on Education. It explains the British school system comparing it with the American one.

Video "Schools in Britain"

THE (SAXON) GENITIVE

 

[13th CW] BASIC URBAN VOCABULARY, IDIOMS & TIPS TO DESCRIBE CITIES

Basic vocabulary related to towns & cities, below some tips to describe a city.

For more vocabulary, click on to a previous post here.

DAYS OF THE WEEK & MONTHS OF THE YEAR

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

[9th CW] AMERICAN BRUNCH @ 'RAFAEL DIESTE'

To close the events of our 9th Cultural Week on Gastronomy, the English Department prepared for the 1st ESO groups several American Brunches. Students teachers and our language assistant worked to set up a traditional American Brunch. Here are some photos of how they enjoyed preparing and eating it.

HOW TO SAY YEARS IN ENGLISH

PERIODS OF TIME

CLASSROOM LANGUAGE: ACTIVITIES & OBJECTS

TYPES OF DETERMINERS

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

This chart checks on the possessive adjectives.

More on possessive in this previous post on this blog HERE.

CLASSROOM RULES SUMMARY

CLASSROOM VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Practice: name the different numbers with the correct word.

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CHARO PITA & SOPHIE HEYDEL, TODAY @ "RAFAEL DIESTE"

Updating with some photos of Charo Pita & Sophie Heydel today at our assembly hall telling traditional stories in both English & Galician.

Students from 2nd & 1st ESO have been listening to them as a final activity before the Christmas holidays.

So now that the holidays have started, enjoy them!

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to everyone!