HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2020!

 This weekend would see the Halloween celebrations. But as many other celebrations this year, it'll have to be differently: carefully, following the advice of social distancing, hygiene and responsibility.

Put a mask on your pumpkin! Enjoy carefully!

- Link to other previous Halloweens @ ClickOnEnglish

IMPERSONAL PASSIVE

 

Link to PASSIVE BASICS

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBJECT & OBJECT QUESTIONS

Remember the majority of questions are object ones, so in English you'll have to use an auxiliary verb and follow the pattern. [ENGLISH QUESTION PATTERN]

Subject questions are less common, they ask about who has done the action and they are the same as a typical question in Spanish, with no auxiliary verb needed.

GIVING ADVICE WITH "HAD BETTER" vs "SHOULD" / "OUGHT TO"

 

"HAD BETTER" also written "'D BETTER" is used to express strong advice. Below the difference with "SHOULD" and "OUGHT TO"

ASKING & GIVING ADVICE. [CONFUSING 'ADVICE' vs 'ADVISE']

CONFUSING: 'WIN' vs 'GAIN' vs EARN

 

All three verbs have the same meaning in Spanish ('ganar') but there's a different in usage.

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To these three verbs we can also add: BEAT which has the meaning of winning against an opponent

BACK TO SCHOOL 2020: QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

 Here are the results of the questionnaire "BACK TO SCHOOL 2020" that was asked in a previous post on this blog at the beginning of this year's course.

-  HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT COMING BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN?

27 feel happy and good

11 feel strange

8 wanted to start school again

6 nervous

6 scared

4 insecure

4 needed to have a routine again

- HOW DID YOU FEEL DURING THE QUARANTINE?

20 stressed and bad

17 well

8 had difficulty to concentrate

8 lost routine & study habits

7 found it complicated to work from home

6 found it easier to work from home

5 bored

- USEFUL TIPS FROM THE COVID ADVICE VIDEO

39 to set a routine and schedule to work at home

6 follow the safety regulations

4 clean a lot

- WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS IN ENGLISH NOW?

19 improve speaking & pronunciation

13 revise grammar

11 practice writing

7 review everything

6 revise verb tenses

4 improve vocabulary

- WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES IN ENGLISH?

28 to improve

8 to get good marks

5 to learn more

5 to pass

JOAQUÍN, SOUL OF "RAFAEL DIESTE" IN MEMORIAM

 So sad to announce that Joaquín, the all-time caretaker of our school, has passed away today. The historical member of our community had been the caretaker from the very first day the school opened and also lived at the school. He will be missed. RIP.

GETTING READY FOR GOING BACK TO COVID TIME SCHOOLS

 Finally this weeks sees us all going back to school. Here's a video with some tips to prepare for this year's weird comeback. After the video you have a questionnaire to answer with your opinions about studying during quarantine, this year's school comeback and your views about what you need to do in English. I'd like all my students to take part in the questionnaire and send it back to me, so I can see how things are. Thanks. The results of the questionnaire will be shown on another post.

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At the beginning of another school year with many doubts and questions, what we surely know for certain is that until things get back to normal, if they ever do, we won't have subject classrooms any more. The students of a group will stay in their classrooms and the teachers will be going to them.

The picture shows what my subject classroom (ING3) had on the wall board with projects my students had done over the years. As this won't be my only classroom, the works have been all taken down and this post is a way to remember them.

Hope we'll be able to go back to this classroom system again some day.

This year I'll be teaching two 4th ESO groups, two 1st BAC groups and two 2nd BAC groups. Hopefully I'll already know a majority of students as we've worked together last year, so I'll already know how you are in English, which will help a lot when dealing with the new course.

Due to last term's lockdown, there will be changes in the order of lessons in some courses (1st BAC) to make sure we study things we didn't do in the last course. In 2nd BAC the book already puts in earlier lessons things that weren't seen in 1st BAC this last course.

Email contact: ramoneirateaching@gmail.com

Link to online videosessions: https://eduxunta.webex.com/meet/neirten

"ClickOnEnglish" TURNS 11!

Another September 13th. It's the eleventh September we continue clicking on English. 

STAY SAFE AVOIDING THE 3 C's

END OF 2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR

Today's the end of this strange crazy 2019-20 school year, although real classes have been off since March 13th. But that doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Most of us have been working a lot and adapting to a new way of learning via emails, online meetings...

You'll all get your marks soon and depending on what you get, you'll have to consider what needs to be done to face next year with possibilities. It's going to be another course with adaptations. We finish this one not knowing for sure what the next one will really be like... Everything is uncertain at the moment. But it won't be like before, that's true.

Meanwhile, enjoy the summer holidays and take care keeping safe.

STOP THE SPREAD. SOCIAL DISTANCING WORKS

BOOK DAY 2020 IN LOCKDOWN

"THE GREATEST", A SONG FOR THE LOCKDOWN HEROES

This song "THE GREATEST", by British singer-songwriter James Blunt, whose profits will be donated to Britain's NHS (National Health System) and worldwide to WHO (World Health Organization).

Lyric video:

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EASTER 2020: LOCKED IN HOLIDAYS

REMOTE WORKING FROM HOME DURING LOCKDOWN (MARCH-APRIL 2020) + GOOGLE CLASSROOM

I've been working and still am to provide the best ways to keep connected through this lockdown.

Apart from this blog ClickOnEnglish, which I've been using for over 10 years now, I have set up new Google Classroom groups for each of my classes to keep in touch with my students and share all the information with them. Any of my students who haven't registered and joined their group yet, can still get their class-code emailing me at:

ramoneirateaching@gmail.com

At this email address you can also ask me any question or doubt you may have throughout the lockdown.

I'm also updating the school's online pages (blog & webpage): RafaelDiesteBlog & RafaelDiesteWeb with all the general information of our school.

Google Classroom view for students:

MORE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

What is coronavirus?
 


10 key Coronavirus vocabulary you need to understand:
- SOCIAL DISTANCING
- SELF-ISOLATION
- HERD IMMUNITY
- HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS
- FLATTENING THE CURVE
- STOCKPILING & PANIC BUYING
- ZOONOTIC
- VACCINE
- CORONAVIRUS vs COVID-19
- BEST PRACTICE

[12th CW] CORONAVIRUS PREVENTION

Watch this video from the BBC with instruction to prevent Coronavirus or any other virus diseases. The telephone numbers mentioned in the video are for the UK only. In Galicia there's a free-phone information number 900 400 116 or 061.

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At the peak of the coronavirus histeria, it's worth reminding that the best way to prevent the spreading and protect ourselves is a correct personal hygiene, which includes washing your hands. Because hands are the main gateway to the widespread of germs and viruses. Are we washing our hands correctly? Watch the video below to check.

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"SO MUCH IN THIRTY (YEARS)": 'RAFAEL DIESTE' 30th ANNIVERSARY

This school year sees our school become 30. 

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.