20 YEARS GOOGLING

Our favourite search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday today. 20 years searching for information.

REMEMBERING PACO DE LA IGLESIA, FORMER ENGLISH TEACHER AT "RAFAEL DIESTE"

 The school community of the "Rafael Dieste" is very sad to learn that one of our most precious former teachers and member of the first English Department of this school from its beginning until 2007, Paco de la Iglesia. RIP.

In fact, Paco had been my tutor-trainer during my teacher training course previous to my official teacher exam and also coincidingly he left me his post at this school when retiring.

REMEMBERING PACO DE LA IGLESIA

All the members of the IES Plurilingüe "Rafael Dieste" school community are sad to know about the death of one of the dearest teachers here, PACO DE LA IGLESIA.
One of the first teachers of our English Department since the first years of this school up to 2007.
From here all our love and respect to his family and friends.
RIP, Paco.

BANNING MOBILE PHONE USAGE @ "RAFAEL DIESTE"

This course has started with new rules and regulations at "Rafael Dieste".

The use of mobile phones has been banned in all the school venues during all times, both classes and breaks. Mobile phones cannot be seen at any moment of the school schedule. If phones are brought to school, they must always be disconnected and kept in the school bags. Phones are not necessary at school. If there's an emergency, school phones can be used.

Another new regulation is that no ESO students can leave school if there's no class in the last session. Only BAC students can.

Galician version @ RafaelDiesteBlog.

WELCOME BACK TO THE 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR

Another September, another school year that starts... good luck to everyone!

NINE YEARS CLICKING ON ENGLISH!

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.

MOON IDIOMS

On the day of the moon eclipse, here are some common English idioms with 'moon'.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 2018

Closing down for the summer holidays, hope you all enjoy them!

Back in September. Bye!

MEANINGS & USE OF 'JUST'

Chart on uses and meanings of 'JUST'.
Previous posts about 'JUST': Confusing 'Just' vs 'Only' & 
Present Perfect common adverbs: 'STILL', 'ALREADY', 'YET' & 'JUST'

ENVIRONMENT: HOW LONG UNTIL IT'S DECOMPOSED?

EU wants to ban the use of plastic bags, plastic cutlery (forks & knives), plastic plates and cups and straws, taking a look at this chart the reason why is quite clear! It seems we should do so as soon as possible.

'RAFAEL DIESTE' 2018 STUDENTS' GRADUATION

This evening we said goodbye, once again, to another 2nd Bac year students from IES Plurilingüe "Rafael Dieste". It was the 2012-2018 group of pupils. The event was held at the "Andrés Gaos" Auditorium at the nearby Superior Music Conservatory. And like every year, speeches, videos, performances and memories reminded us of their years at our school.
Here are photos of the outstanding moments.

Congratulations and good luck to all!

Galician version of this post @ RafaelDiesteBlog.

Hosts of the show: Uxía Soneira & Jonathan Suárez.

The headmaster's speech, Fernando Gómez reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Spanish version of his poem "To all that love the far and blue".

2ºBac-A tutor's speech by Inma Mato.

2ºBac-B tutor's speech by Eloi Rodríguez.

Clarinet performance by Miguel Alcaide.

Speech by Carlos Blanco, 2ºBac Spanish Literature & Language teacher.

Speech by Paula Conde, representing 2ºBac-A class.

Performance by María Alcaide (voice) & Luisana Álvarez Monsalve (guitar).

Speech by Andrea Núñez & Iago Mora, representing 2ºBac-B class.

USE OF ARTICLE BASIC CHART

Posting today a basic chart about the use of articles in English, together with a practice exercise. All from the British Council web.
All about articles & determiners on this blog in this link: HERE.

ADVERBS OF TIME

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

ON NUREMBERG'S UNDERGROUND & TRAIN

[Photo of U2 underground train at Opernhaus station]

Nuremberg is a very extended city of the region of Franconia in the German state of Bavaria, with half a million inhabitants. So the underground together with trams and buses are important for the movement of the people. During our stay, students and teachers have frequently used the undeground or U-bahn,  as they call it. I used to get on the U2 line, which covered the route between Röthenbach and Ziegelstein or Flughafen (the airport), depending on the train. My stops were St. Leonhard, where I lived, and Rathenauplatz, the nearest station to the Willstätter Gymnasium. Miss the rides...

[Photo: U2 line train]

[Photo: St. Leonhard station, near my dwelling place]

[Photo: Rathenauplatz station, nearest to the Willstätter Gymnasium]

We also used the railway train to go to Bamberg, Regentsburg & Munich, leaving from Nuremberg's main railway station (Hauptbahnhof Nürnberg). This was our meeting point:

REMEMBERING NUREMBERG

After spending a week back home, there are still fresh memories of our stay in this German city. Sharing with you some videos of recognizable places we've been to.

Videos of Nürnberg:

PRIVATE VISITS AROUND NUREMBERG

The teachers, in our spare time, made some private visits, apart from the trips that had  been organized with our students. Here's a selection of photos of these visits.

(Thursday 12th April, evening)

- Attended the Willstätter Drama group performing "Woyzek". 

(Friday 13th April, afternoon)

- Visited the Germanische Museum at the Human Rights Street, Nürnberg.

(Saturday 14th April)
- Strolling Nürnberg's city wall fortifications, passing by the Opera House (Opernhaus) to the Railaway Station (Haupfbahnhof).

- Trip to Regentsburg.

(Sunday 15th April)
- Outside the Neues Museum, Nürnberg.

- Hiking trip along the Pegnitz river from Velden to Rupprechtstegen and back.

Sunday brunch @ Grenz-Zoigl, Ranna.

Neuhaus Burg.

(Monday 16th April)
- By the Pegnitz river @ Wöhrder Wiese, Nürnberg.

-  Visited the Nuremberg Process Memorial (Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse) 

(Wednesday 18th April)
- Last evening, auf Wiedersehen, Nürnberg!