Classes have been cancelled due to the State of Alarm introduced because of the Coronavirus outbreak. The grammar exams of all my groups have been changed to new dates you can check HERE. Detailed info about all the changes on the school's webpage.
This is what you should work on during the lockdown for these exams:
I've set up groups on Google Classroom to keep in touch with you. You need a code to entre your group. I've sent the codes by whatsapp & email to students of 4ºESO and 1ºBAC to pass on to others. My 2ºESO students or anybody who hasn't received it or has any doubts/questions can contact me at the email at the end of this message.
Keep calm down during the lockdown. There's a lot of time to do lots of things.
As clases foron canceladas debido ao Estado de Alarma imposto pola crise do Coronavirus. Os exames de gramática de todos os meus grupos foron cambiados a unhas novas datas que podedes comprobar AQUÍ. Información detallada sobre todos os cambios na páxina web do instituto.
Isto é no que podedes traballar durante o confinamento para estes exames:
Montei grupos en Google Classroom para manter contacto con vos. Necesitades un código para entrar no voso grupo. Enviei os códigos por whatsapp e email a algún alumnado de 4º e 1ºBAC para que o pasasen aos demáis. O meu alumnado de 2ºESO e calquera que non o recibise ou ten dúbidas/preguntas, pode contactar conmigo no email ao final desta mensaxe.
Mantede a calma durante o confinamento. Hai un montón de tempo para facer moitas cousas.
There hasn't been an official celebration like 5 years ago when we celebrated its 25th anniversary. You can remember what happened back then on our previous posts about RD25Years.
But our school's Dinamización Lingüística team has released a bookmark with a commemorative design by Victoria García-Rebull Cuiñas with this year's calendar on the reverse side. The slogan "TANTO EN TRINTA" ("SO MUCH IN THIRTY [YEARS]") was an idea by one of our Galician teachers Dores Castro Villar.
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:
On another September 13th, we're celebrating another anniversary of this blog, but this year it's a special one: it's the tenth anniversary of 'ClickOnEnglish'.
Ten years posting information on English learning, English-speaking countries, English related culture together with our school activities: projects, works and exchange trips.
Hope we can keep on with the job and that you'll follow. This is how it all started, the first post:
STARTING OFF A NEW COURSE: 2009-2010
We're about to start a new course. This course 2009-2010, we want to make this blog be a relevant teaching tool. A place where you will be able to find help, practice, and an opportunity to use, see, read, listen to English in context in a meaningful way. It starts as an experiment... let's see where we get to. Good luck to all!
On June 28, LGBTIQA Pride Day is commemorated worldwide. The march known as "Pride" is an exhibition of colours. However its origin is born among riots. The march seeks to claim their rights and celebrate diversity,
This year sees the 50th anniversary of the riots that happened on June 28 at the Stonewall Inn in New York. In 1969 the different sexual orientations were considered as a mental illness. In addition, in many cases people were arrested for "public indecency".
Bloomsday celebrates the date in which James Joyce's "Ulises" novel takes place: June 16th. It comes from the name of its main character Leopold Bloom, who on that day of 1904 travelled around Dublin in the novel. The book tells about what happens that only day. It's said that Joyce chose this day because it was the anniversary of the first time he dated with who would be his wife, Nora Barnacle. Joyce's fans get dressed up in costumes of the time during the Bloomsday Festivals (held every year between 11th & 16th June).
Celebrating today our 9th anniversary. Nine years clicking on English to get information about English learning. 11... posts about all the aspects of English. Starting another school year once again.
Today, this blog becomes 8 years old. On September 13th 2009, we started with it.
Eight years after,...
- we've published 1032 posts,
- we've collected 74 comments,
- we've got 24 followers,
- the counter says that more than 1.353.000 people have visited us,
- the most visited post is still the same onprepositions (with more than 51.000 visits),
- the top visiting countries are USA (259 thousand), Rusia (109 thousand) & Spain (101 thousand).
These are our updated statistics of these years. On Friday, we'll be presenting the new school year and on Monday, classes will begin. Here we'll continue...
The blog to help you learn English, which started back on a Sunday in mid-September 2009 with THIS POST, since then and up until today, posts have been published regularly and have only stopped during the summer holidays. Thanks for following and visiting us in all these posts.
On the day that commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's (and Cervantes') death, we're bringing to you two links with short biographies of his life and works.
Above, the official 90th anniversary photograph, Queen Elizabeth and the three heirs to the British thrown: Prince Charles, Prince William & Prince George. Today one of the symbols of what's British becomes 90 years old. Queen Elizabeth II's birthday is today and here's a link to her 90 years of life in pictures, a photo for each of her years. 90 years old and 64 of them as the Queen: living history of the XXth century.
Yesterday, January 15th Wikipedia, Internet's free encyclopedia, celebrated their 15th birthday. It's been working since January 15th 2011. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created it.
It was born as a webpage in English, but nowadays it has articles written in 287 languages. 28 of them have more than 300.000 articles each. Only in Spanish there are more than one million articles. Totally there are more than 38 million pages about every topic you can imagine inside it. Only between 2005 and 2015 the number of articles were multiplied by 10, as there are more than 700 new pages created every day. Each month the web receives 500 million visits.
Last year Princess of Asturias International Cooperation Prize was awarded to it for making universal knowledge accesible to everybody.
Remembering John Lennon on the 35th anniversary of his murder in New York, with some of his famous quotes. John Lennon was killed 35 years ago at the dorrstep of the building where he lived in New York
For many people, October 21st 2015 might be an insignificant date. However if you've seen the film "BACK TO THE FUTURE II", you'll know the day is here. Yes, the date when Docand Marty McFly got into the DeLorean car converted into a time machine and travelled into the future.
No doubt, the film starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd has been a hit and has created a great number of fans interested in seeing which things have become true in real life and which not.
"Where are we? When are we?" Driving along a motorway in the sky and Doc shows McFly the time calendar in the DeLorean. "We're in the XXIst century, in Hill Valley, California. It's 4:29 of Wednesday 21st October 2015" "We're in the future!". That's how the second part of "BACK TO THE FURURE" (1989) starts. A film that has become an icon in pop culture and a marketing success selling related memorabilia.
The future is here: this Wednesday is the day. By chance. Because in 1985 when the first film was premiered, no sequel had been planned. But the great success of this first film became a trilogy. With the second film they travelled to the future and Zemeckis, the film-director, fantasized about how the world would be like in 2015.
Videocalls, digital binoculars, multiple TV channels, online shopping, digital fingerprints to open doors, flying cars and roller skates, total climate control, neon bars on road sides, biofuel... Many of Zemeckis inventions in fiction have become or will soon be true.
Others stay as simple crazy ideas or wild dreams...
About to start a new course, this blog celebrates today 6 years of posts to help you learn, practice and use English. Here we are collecting posts day after day, thanks for following! And remember you can always look back on previous posts... Check here how we've started all these school years since 2009:
Others that are celebrating their 25th anniversary are the Simpsons. The TV-cartoon family are celebrating exactly today, December 17th, the anniversary of the broadcast of their first ever episode on American TV, since then they have become a worldwide TV phenomenon.
Two photos showing the difference in 25 years: upper photo 1989, lower one, the same place Brandemburg Gate, Berlin in 2014
25 years later, the 15km long siluette of the wall throughout Berlin is marked with thousands of illuminated balloons which have been lit this weekend to commemorate it.
Today marks another 25th anniversary celebration yet. It's also 25 years of the fall of the wall, the one which divided Berlin and Germany in two parts, and even the whole world. The wall built in 1961 was also known under the name of the Iron Curtain separating Europe from the communist Eastern side.
It's the anniversary of the "RAFAEL DIESTE" Plurilingual Secondary School. The 25th anniversary of our school is to be celebrated. Today, November 6th at 18:30 pm, a commemorative ceremony will be held at the nearby "Andrés Gaos" Auditorium of the Conservatorio Superior de Música of A Coruña.
Programme:
- Opening speech by the School Director.
- Speech by school teacher Miguel Mato Fondo, "Rafael Dieste: a name for an educationl project".
Musical performance by students from our school.
- Lecture by the Rector of the University of A Coruña. Xosé Luís Armesto Barbeito, "The Secondary School, the University and the right to be educated".
- Musical finale: La Importancia (1933), poem for voice and piano.
Lyrics: Rafael Dieste.
Soprano: Susana de Lorenzo
Music: Miguel Brotóns
Piano: Beatriz López-Suevos
We're also premiering today our new logo designed by Isabel López Viñuela, our drawing teacher.
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