Once again another school year has finished and we're about to start our summer holidays. It's the third time we end a school year from clickonenglish. We're closing down during summer, too. But we'll be back in September to bring English to you, but you can continue visiting us during the holidays if you want to keep on practicing. There's plenty of things here and links to other sites.
Throughout this weekend and until nest Tuesday, the United Kingdom has been celebrating the Diamond Jubilee: Elizabeth II's 60 years as Queen of the United Kingdom. To commemorate we're enclosing a link to an interactive timeline of her reign from 1952 to 2012 and videoS of her biography as Queen and the Jubilee celebrations along the river Thames in London this afternoon.
Video "THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE: 60 YEARS IN VIDEO":
As the 2012 Olympic Games are approaching, today there's another post with lots of Olympic information and trivia. To begin with, a video with the London Olympic Games in numbers...
This evening, once again at the end of the school year, IES "Rafael Dieste" will be saying goodbye to another group of students. The 2012 year students will have their graduation party at 8:30 at our assembly hall and later a cold buffet at the main hall with parents and teachers. We wish them all the best of luck in their new studies.
This past week has seen the death of two performers who played an important role in the success of disco music back in the 70s: Donna Summer and Robin Gibb, one of the members of the brother band Bee Gees. Here's some information about them and a song of each.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-timeGrammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States.
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry
Bee Gees were a musical group which originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.
It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' career record sales total more than 220 million,[2]making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They were inducted into theRock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Following Maurice's sudden death in January 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb retired the group's name after 45 years of activity.
Here's a link to check your knowledge about Europe: Toporopa. You can check if you know where each of the European countries are, European rivers, seas, regions, capitals, islands, flags... Have a go an see...
Can you imagine the Prince of Asturias forecasting tomorrow's weather on TV? Or even our Prime Minister? I suppose you would think it was a joke. Well, it isn't, at least in Britain, this afternoon Prince Charles has read the weather forcast for today in Scotland during a visit to the BBC studios there. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall turned their hand to forecasting when they visited BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow today. The British royals were touring the studios to celebrate 60 years of BBC Scotland television, where they were invited to read the weather in the 6 o'clock news studio. The prince warned of an unsettled picture with cold, wet and windy weather pushing northwards. "We are under the influence of low pressure and this weather front is bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain", he said. Here's the video to show it was true:
Video Prince Charles forcasts the weather for BBC Scotland:
Once again in May, hundreds of students throughout Galicia will be marching along different cities in favour of the Galician language.
Today it's the turn in Coruña, and a hundred ESO students from our school will be walking between Riazor sports centre and the Tower of Hercules to promote and defend Galician. They'll leave school at about 10:30 a.m. The students from our school, who go, have all taken part in the contest of designing the school's T-shirt to wear during this march. They will all dress with the winning T-shirt. Hope it doesn't rain a lot.
IES "Rafael Dieste" opened up its third cultural week 2012. This year's week is devoted to the Olympic Games and their history, because 2012 is an Olympic Year and the Games will be held in London from the 27th July to the 12th August.
Yesterday, we had our own Opening Ceremony at "Rafael Dieste" at 10:00, with an opening march, carrying the torch up to the lightening of the chauldron and a first exhibition of rythmic gymnastics. At 12:00, there was a judo exhibition.
The Olympic cultural week will continue from Wednesday until Friday, with more Olympic sport exhibitions: weightlifting, high jump, volleyball, acrosport. There are also the History of the Olympic Games workshops prepared by our students at the school's library in repeated sessions during the week so everyone will be able to go, a lecture about the effort needed to be an Olympic participant and the film "BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM" at the assembly hall.
Click on the links below to practical exercises on the past of the verb TO BE that you can do at home as extra homework. 1- WAS OR WERE?(Fill in the spaces with the correct form). 2- WASN'T OR WEREN'T?(Fill in the spaces with the correct form). 3- SIMPLE PAST OF TO BE. (Choose the best answer). 4- WAS / WERE / WASN'T / WEREN'T?(Complete the gaps with the correct form)
This Wednesday, we'll receive the actors of Face2Face Theatre company, who will perform a play for us called: "ACTION!".
The play shows the history of cinema. It's a visualand cinematographic show, wherevisual and verbal humour and the evocative power ofmusic from filmsare the toolsto represent and parodythe most famous film scenes.The actors createthe magic of movies by multiplyingcountless characters and causing many funnyand surrealsituationsthat make us get into famous action, love, dramaorsuspensemovie scenesthat everybodyremembers.
Today, 18 April, marks just 100 days to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. They're getting ready to welcome the world to the UK. And Rafael Dieste Secondary School is, too. In two week's time, we'll be celebrating our Culture Week 2012 devoted to the history of the Olympic Games. Watch out for more information about it here or on Arquivos do Trasno (our library's blog).
Here's a list of vocabulary of musical instruments. Students of 1st ESO can choose which one they want to do their individual project about. Be original!
15th April at 2:20 a.m. is exactly when 100 years ago the Titanic sank in the cold icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. So it's exactly 100 years ago, today. And here's a video where James Cameron, the director of the 1997 film about this story, tells us in a dramatic and precise way how the sinking of the Titanic actually happened. Take a look.
RMS Titanic was a Britishpassenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after crashing with an iceberg during her first voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. She carried 2,224 people.
Her passengers included some of the richest people in the world, as well as over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere looking for a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though she had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she didn't have enough lifeboats to accommodate all of the people aboard. She carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people – a third of her total passenger and crew capacity.
After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Cork in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm (ship's time). Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank. Passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly filled. A disproportionate number of men – over 90% of those in Second Class – were left aboard due to a "women and children first" protocol followed by the officers loading the lifeboats. Just before 2:20 am Titanic broke up and sank with over a thousand people still on board. Those in the water died within minutes from hypothermia by immersion in the freezing ocean. The 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats by the RMS Carpathia a few hours later.
The wreck of the Titanic remains on the seabed, gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m). Since its rediscovery in 1985, thousands of artefacts have been recovered from the sea bed and put on display at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by numerous books, films, exhibits and memorials.
Anger at the news of a massive forest fire in the Fragas do Eume nature park in A Coruña, north-west of Spain. A fire has been raging in the protected area since Saturday with reports of some 2,000 hectares consumed by the flames so far. The photos above show how the park was until last Saturday, the video below shows how the fire started. How such a thing can happen? How can anybody make start a fire in the best preserved Atlantic forest in Europe? How such an important environmental place like this doesn't have a better protection system? All these are questions that must be answered.
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