Casablanca is a 1942 American wartime romanticdrama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play.
Today the USA celebrate their own great tradition of THANKSGIVING that is followed tomorrow by their great merchandising export BLACK FRIDAY. But this year both activities will be conditioned by the COVID pandemic.
We're including a link with guidance for a safe Thanksgiving celebration, which we could adapt to our Christmas celebrations in a month's time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Video:
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.
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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.
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