BLOOMSDAY

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).

INDEFINTE ARTICLE - A(N)

+ info on 'A(N)'

DEFINITE ARTICLE - THE

+ info on 'THE'

WHERE DO NEW WORDS COME FROM?

Presenting a video that explains where new words come from into the English language.

Video:

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.

PREPOSITION 'ON' + DAYS & DATES

Basic: preposition ON + day of week or date, but with no article.

TYPES OF ARTICLES

INTERJECTIONS

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

TEACHERS: MASTERS OF MULTITASKING

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

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PHRASAL VERBS: EDUCATION

Exchange 2019 / Friday 3rd May, TRIP TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Second day trip of the whole group of students to Santiago de Compostela, where we visited a Cidade da Cultura Gaiás, Santiago's old town: the market, the Cathedral, parks and University campus.

Here are group photos taken at Obradoiro square by the Cathedral.

Santiago views:

From Gaiás,

From Alameda
Obradoiro square:

Exchange 2019 / Thursday 2nd May: SECOND DAY @ CORUÑA

Third day of the German students' stay in Coruña. They spent some time at school and later visited the aquarium and the fish market at Plaza de Lugo.

In the afternoon the complete group toured the old town, as you can see in the photo above, taken at the Colegiata.

Exchange 2019 / Wednesday 1st May: TRIP TO COSTA DA MORTE

Today, although it was a holiday, Spanish & German students met to go on their first day trip of this second part of the exchange programme.

The trip's destination was a Costa da Morte with stops at Vimianzo, where we visited its castle and its craftwork exhibitions. (Photos below with students at top of the castle tower)

The second stop was at Cape Fisterra, Europe's continental land's end, seing its lighthouse. (Photos below and the first photo of the whole group and teachers above).

Third stop at the falls of the river Xallas into the ocean at Ézaro.

Last stop for lunch and relax at the beach in Louro. As you can see the weather showed four season in one day from a misty, even rainy morning at times, to a sunny afternoon at the beach.