BACK FROM THE 'ENGLISH WEEK' AT OS PEARES

Today the 25 students from 'Rafael Dieste' have already come back from their lingustic immersion "English Week" at Os Peares.

During their last day yesterday, they presented the projects they had been working on throughout the week on the topic of the environment and the 3R (reduce, reuse & recycle).

The last thing we've got to say is congratulate all the students that have taken part in this activity for their good attitude and involvement during the whole week and our thanks to the attending teacher (Leticia Ogando) and the staff at the residence.

Galician version @ RafaelDiesteBlog

25 'RAFAEL DIESTE' STUDENTS OFF TO AN 'ENGLISH WEEK' AT OS PEARES & ENJOYING IT

Our school has been selected to take part in the "ENGLISH WEEK", a language immersion activity for 3rd ESO students to practice and improve their oral skills in English with the help of native teachers.

The activity organized by the Consellería de Educación, takes place between the 10th and the 16th of November at the residential area in Os Peares (Ourense). 25 of our 3rd ESO students will be  off today, accompanied by one of our Physical Education teachers, Leticia Ogando.

Update Wednesday 13th: today we've received the photo above in which we can see our 25 students enjoying the "English Week" at Os Peares.


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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2019!

Photo: Torange.biz

Enjoy the long scary weekend of Halloween! 

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

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:

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.

#FRIDAYSFORFUTURE @ 'RAFAEL DIESTE'

As it had been announced, today Friday September 27th, our school gathered for @FRIDAYSFORFUTURE, together with others, following the call for a four-minute-fifteen- second protest demonstration, to show our awareness towards climate change and global warming.

Galician version of this post @ RafaelDiesteBlog & ArquivosDoTrasno.

WHO'S GRETA THUNBERG?

Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish student who one day school striked for a week to protest against the Swedish government and its inactivity against global warming.

But how did all this start? Before August 20th last year, Thunberg went to school like most Stockholm teenagers. Some things had happened in Sweden during that summer that woke something up in her and she thought she had to do something about it. Sweden had been affected by a heat wave which had brought 50 forest fires burning 20.000 hectares.

So on August 20th, instead of going to school she stood in front of the Swedish Parliament and said she wouldn't go back until she was heard. Since then she has become known worldwide. Last Tuesday she gave a speech at the Climate Awareness Summit in the United Nations in New York.

Video: Greta Thunberg @ UN New York 23/Sept/19:

Link to more on Greta Thunberg & Climate Change @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

'WHICH?' vs 'WHAT?'

+ INFO on questions with 'WHAT?'

THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Here's a mind-map of the historical evolution of the English language.

More information about the Great Vowel Shift (before and after 1500).

INDEFINTE ARTICLE - A(N)

+ info on 'A(N)'

DEFINITE ARTICLE - THE

+ info on 'THE'

PLURAL SPELLING RULES

This chart shows the basic spelling rules for plural formation of nouns in English.

For complete information on how to make the plural of nouns, click HERE to go to a previous post in this blog.

INTERJECTIONS

Charts with interjections and their meanings. More at previous post HERE.

QUANTIFIER BASIC CONCEPTS

All the posts about quantifiers in this blog HERE

TOP 20 PREFIXES

This chart shows 20 top basic prefixes. Extended list of prefixes HERE.

'BY'+TIME EXPRESSION

This chart explains preposition 'BY' in time expressions.

For more collocations/expressions with 'BY', click HERE to previous post.

MEN IN THE FAMILY

For complete family vocabulary link HERE.

WOMEN IN THE FAMILY

For complete family vocabulary link HERE.

GRADUATION 2019

Yesterday evening Rafael Dieste celebrated the Graduation of this year's 2nd Bac students. Once again students, teachers and families gathered together at the Andrés Gaos auditorium at the nearby Superior Music Conservatory to celebrate and later continued with at our school premises.

Good luck for their future to all of them!

Galician version @ RafaelDiesteBlog