'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

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WOMEN IN THE FAMILY

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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!

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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.

Exchange 2019 / Tuesday 30th April: GERMAN STUDENTS' FIRST DAY @ CORUÑA

First day of the German students in A Coruña. This morning they visited the Domus (first two photos: German students and their teachers: Julia Westenburger & Christian Derendorf) and the Torre de Hércules.

These visits came after having been welcomed by the Spanish teachers and the school's vice-principal and having had breakfast at school.

In the afternoon, they even went for a walk along the beach shore... It's because they don't have a beach near in Kronberg.

KRONBERG STUDENTS @ CORUÑA

Fifteen German students from the Altkönigschule in Kronberg in Taunus and two teachers will be arriving this evening for their week stay in Coruña on the second part of the 2019 Student Exchange with 'Rafael Dieste'.

This is their planning for the week:

Monday 29th:

- Arrival at Alvedro airport at 19:55h. Families collect them there.

Tuesday 30th:

- 8:30h:  Meeting at school and attending first class.

- 9:20h: School welcome reception at classroom ING3. 

-10:00h: Visit to DOMUS & TORRE DE HERCULES. 14:10 meet their Spanish partners.

- 17:00h Visit to CASA PICASSO. Walk around the city centre.

Wednesday 1st: 9:00h Day trip to COSTA DA MORTE. All students will go. 

Thursday 2nd: 

- 8:30h: Attending first two classes of the day.

- 11.00h: Visit to CASA DOS PECES & fish market at Plaza de Lugo. 14:10 meet Spanish partners.

- 17;30h: Meet at María Pita: Walk around the old town.

Friday 3rd: Day trip to SANTIAGO. All students will go.

Weekend with families.

Monday 6th:

- 8:30h: Attending first class.

- 9:20h: Last farewell meeting.

- 10:00h: Departure to Alvedro.

[10th CW] CINEMA, THE ENGLISH EXHIBITION

 This morning we have opened the exhibitions and this is how the English works have been displayed in the school's central hall.

On the display you can find:

- "Cinema & teenagers", the survey.

- Cinema classics, description of five film plots.

- Actor biographies.

[10th CW] FILM SCENES

Other groups of students have worked performing different scenes from famous films.
We give our thanks to the performers: 






Here are the results: 


- MEDLEY OF FILM SCENES "Casino Royale"/"Harry Potter"/"The Fault in our Stars"/"Sleeping Beauty"/"Rings"/"The Hunger Games"/"Dirty Dancing" 
(1ºBAC-A students: Lorenzo Guillamón, David Sandoz, Jacqueline Ferrín, Zeltia Mira, Sonia Melón, Laura Canosa, & Sofía Suárez)
 


- "FORREST GUMP" (Students from 4ºESO-B. Eduardo Lian,Clara Sánchez, Claudia San Miguel, Marta Niño, Mauro Lodeiro):


- "BILLY ELLIOT" (Students from 4ºESO-B: Franklin Pérez, Ángela Soto, Inés Santiso, Lucia Castelos y Raquel Escudero)

- "BRAVEHEART" (Students from 4ºESO-B: Fernando Bazán, Nerea Lejo, Miguel Calvo)

- "BILLY ELLIOT" (Students from 1ºESO-A*):



- "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" (Students from 1ºESO-A*):



*1ºESO-A students: Fatou Sow, Iria Torre, Lía Carballal, Violeta Hernández, Hugo Suárez, Tatiana García & Alba Pérez.

- "STRANGER THINGS" (Students from 1ºESO-B: Tomás Alonso, Xoel Añón e Iago López):



- "CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" (Students from 1ºESO-B: Irene Doncel, Gema Cazón  & Carla Vázquez):

[10th CW] ACTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Another activity carried out in English for the X Cultural Week was to write biographies of famous actors or actresses. 
Here is the work handed in by students. Actors & actresses in alphabetical order.

- ANGELINA JOLIE by Amanda Trujillo (1ºBAC-A)

- BELÉN RUEDA by Laura Canosa (1ºBAC-A)

- CHLOE GRACE MORETZ by Jennifer Vaamonde (1ºBAC-A)

- CHRIS HEMSWORTH by Cristina Arcay & Antía Criado (4ºESO-C)

- EDUARDO  CASANOVA by Uxía Queijeiro (1ºBAC-B)

- JULIA ROBERTS by Zeltia Mira (1ºBAC-A)

- ROWAN ATKINSON & EMMA WATSON by Ana Pérez, Paula Iglesias, Marcos Castro, Carlos Galán, María Circureán & Adrián Mayán (1ºBAC-B & C)

- VIN DIESEL by Lucía Pérez (2ºESO-A)

[10th CW] CINEMA CLASSICS

As an activity for the X Cultural Week, Marta Souto (1ºBAC-A) has chosen some all-time CINEMA CLASSICS and made a poster describing their plot.  She chose: "The Phantom of the Opera", "Breaking Dawn", "Casablanca", "Grease" & "Dirty Dancing".

[10th CW] THE CINEMA SURVEY

RAFAEL DIESTE'S CINEMA

The following days, we'll be posting the different works prepared by students for the X Cultural Week in English. Today we start with the 'RAFAEL DIESTE'S CINEMA SURVEY'.

To take part in activities for the X Cultural Week, Candela Fernández & Raquel Torres (from 1ºBAC-A) have carried out a survey among students in our school to know their cinema favourites. Students were asked about their favourite genres, films, actors and also whether they prefer Spanish or foreign films and about where they prefer to watch films at home or at the cinema.

You can check the results on the poster and the link below:

SURVEY: CINEMA & TEENAGERS

[10th CW] THE CINEMA POSTER

In a week's time, our school will be celebrating the tenth cultural week, this year devoted to the CINEMA.

You can follow the complete information on our library's blog "ARQUIVOS DO TRASNO".

On this blog we'll be posting everything prepared for this week in English.

This year the cultural week will come together with a quiz on terror films. Instructions can also be found on the library's blog. 

Exchange 2019: BACK FROM KRONBERG IM TAUNUS

Today Tuesday 9th our students from the 2019 Exchange with Altkönigschule in Kronberg im Taunus are back to their normal classes again. It was a week stay in Germany. Collecting on this post group photos of students and teachers taking part in it. In the photo above, all the students at the top of the Main Tower in Frankfurt.

This second photo in Heidelberg, again, the whole group of Spanish and German students together with their teachers: Julia Westenburger, Hilda Fraga and Ramón Neira.

The third photo with the complete group and teachers at Kronberg castle.

This photo shows Spanish students and teachers on a bridge over the river Main with Frankfurt's skyline in the background.

The Spanish group at the school's welcome reception.

Spanish students at the airports: above, waiting in Santiago. Below arriving at Frankfurt-Hahn.