THE HISTORY OF 'BLACK FRIDAY'

Black Friday, USA's marketing invention after Thanksgiving, is now a common feature in other parts of the world, this video tells you the history of this event.

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Previous posts about 'Black Friday' on this blog HERE.

25th NOV'19: INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN @ RAFAEL DIESTE

25th November 2019, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

To commemorate this day, we had a protest gathering with students and teachers at 12:00 at the central hall to hear an announcement made by 1st Bac students.

Photos of the protest gathering and the wall banner poster prepared by 'BiblioDieste' below.

Galician version @ ArquivosDoTrasno

NOT ONLY... BUT ALSO...

BACK FROM THE 'ENGLISH WEEK' AT OS PEARES

Today the 25 students from 'Rafael Dieste' have already come back from their lingustic immersion "English Week" at Os Peares.

During their last day yesterday, they presented the projects they had been working on throughout the week on the topic of the environment and the 3R (reduce, reuse & recycle).

The last thing we've got to say is congratulate all the students that have taken part in this activity for their good attitude and involvement during the whole week and our thanks to the attending teacher (Leticia Ogando) and the staff at the residence.

Galician version @ RafaelDiesteBlog

CONFUSING GET & ARRIVE

CONFUSING: THERE / THEIR / THEY'RE

WHAT'S YOUR LOOK?

Teenagers like to express their identity they do this by choosing 'a look'

They are free to do this, they don't like to be the same as everyone else.

They often grow out of this phase and dress more conventional.

25 'RAFAEL DIESTE' STUDENTS OFF TO AN 'ENGLISH WEEK' AT OS PEARES & ENJOYING IT

Our school has been selected to take part in the "ENGLISH WEEK", a language immersion activity for 3rd ESO students to practice and improve their oral skills in English with the help of native teachers.

The activity organized by the Consellería de Educación, takes place between the 10th and the 16th of November at the residential area in Os Peares (Ourense). 25 of our 3rd ESO students will be  off today, accompanied by one of our Physical Education teachers, Leticia Ogando.

Update Wednesday 13th: today we've received the photo above in which we can see our 25 students enjoying the "English Week" at Os Peares.


Galician version of this post @ RafaelDiesteBlog

A STORY WITH PHRASAL VERBS

Here's a narrative full with phrasal verbs. Can you explain the meanings of all of them in English?

-SET OFF

-BREAK DOWN

-END UP

-GET OFF

-BUMP INTO

-BRING UP

-FIND OUT

-COME INTO

-SET UP

-SORT OUT

-TAKE ON

-TURN DOWN

-CLOCK IN

-HAVE A GO AT

-TELL OFF

-GET OVER

-MAKE UP FOR

-TURN OUT

-BLOW UP

-FALL THROUGH

-PULL OUT OF

-GET AWAY WITH

-LET DOWN

-GO ON

-RUN OUT OF

-ANSWER BACK

-PUT UP WITH

-LAY OFF

-GO AHEAD

-STORM OUT

-PUT THROUGH

-TAKE UP

-WORK OUT

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2019!

Photo: Torange.biz

Enjoy the long scary weekend of Halloween! 

Vocabulary & activities in English on Halloween on previous post in this blog CLICK HERE

NOUN SUFFIXES

 All posts about SUFFIXES.

24th-OCT: LIBRARIES DAY

October 24th is Library Day in Spain. This year our school library has celebrated it with several exhibitions, which you can see on a post on our library blog clicking HERE.

- An exhibition of photos of the best world's libraries, and as you can see not of them are in  luxurious buildings. Some libraries are in the strangest places: a beach, a donkey's back... or, as in the UK, in old telephone boxes, which have been recycled into mini-libraries where bookcrossing is practiced. In this video you can see an example:

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DAYS OF THE WEEK & MONTHS OF THE YEAR

LISTS OF ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS

AMERICAN SLANG

SALMAN KHAN, THE 2019 PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Today October 18th 2019, Salman Khan receives in Oviedo the 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Salman Khan appears on our current 1ºBAC textbook  in an interview about his online education project The Khan Academy (page 89, unit on Education).

More info about him and the award in these links below:

- THE KHAN ACADEMY

- THE PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Videos:
LET'S TEACH FOR MASTERY

KHAN ACADEMY: THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION?

ENGLISH QUESTION PATTERN

ENGLISH QUESTION PATTERN

(Qword) + AUX.VB + subject + MAIN VERB +... ...(prep)?                                           DO (simple tenses) + infinitive                                           BE (continuous tenses) + -ing form                                           BE (passive tenses) + past participle                                           HAVE (perfect tenses) + past participle                                           HAVE (possession) + GOT                                           MODAL verbs + infinitive

Only exception, when asking for a subject. No auxiliary verb is needed: Who wrote “Hamlet”? Shakespeare did. How many people came to the party? 20 people came.

- Check you know all the question words at this previous post on this blog HERE.

ENGLISH VERB TENSE PATTERNS

SIMPLE TENSES

Affirmative Present Verb from without any change. Except 3rd person singular (HE/SHE/IT): verb form + -(E)S Past Regular verbs: verb form + -ED Irregular verbs: second column of irregular verb list.

Negative Present We need auxiliary verb: DO+NOT (DON'T) + verb form Except 3rd person singular (HE/SHE/IT): DOES+NOT (DOESN'T) + verb form Past We need auxiliary verb in the past: DID+NOT (DIDN'T) + verb form

Interrogative We need auxiliary verb: DO + subject + verb form? We need auxiliary verb in the past: DID + subject + verb form?

CONTINUOUS TENSES

Affirmative BE (in any tense) + -ING form of verb

Negative BE NOT (in any tense) + -ING form of verb

Interrogative BE (in any tense) + subject + -ING form of verb

PERFECT TENSES

Affirmative HAVE (in any tense) + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

Negative HAVE NOT (in any tense) + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

Interrogative HAVE (in any tense) + subject + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

MODAL VERBS

Affirmative MODAL VERB + verb form in infinitive (without to)*

Negative MODAL VERB+NOT + verb form in infinitive (without to)*

Interrogative MODAL VERB + subject + verb form in infinitive (without to)*

* except OUGHT TO and some semimodals: HAVE TO / BE ABLE TO

PASSIVE TENSES

Affirmative BE (in any tense) + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

Negative BE NOT (in any tense) + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

Interrogative BE (in any tense) + subject + PAST PARTICIPLE (reg: -ED / irreg: 3rd column verb list)

#FRIDAYSFORFUTURE @ 'RAFAEL DIESTE'

As it had been announced, today Friday September 27th, our school gathered for @FRIDAYSFORFUTURE, together with others, following the call for a four-minute-fifteen- second protest demonstration, to show our awareness towards climate change and global warming.

Galician version of this post @ RafaelDiesteBlog & ArquivosDoTrasno.

WHO'S GRETA THUNBERG?

Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish student who one day school striked for a week to protest against the Swedish government and its inactivity against global warming.

But how did all this start? Before August 20th last year, Thunberg went to school like most Stockholm teenagers. Some things had happened in Sweden during that summer that woke something up in her and she thought she had to do something about it. Sweden had been affected by a heat wave which had brought 50 forest fires burning 20.000 hectares.

So on August 20th, instead of going to school she stood in front of the Swedish Parliament and said she wouldn't go back until she was heard. Since then she has become known worldwide. Last Tuesday she gave a speech at the Climate Awareness Summit in the United Nations in New York.

Video: Greta Thunberg @ UN New York 23/Sept/19:

Link to more on Greta Thunberg & Climate Change @ ArquivosDoTrasno.