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LOCKDOWN - WEEK 27th APRIL: CLASS VIDEO MEETINGS

On the 7th week of lockdown, I'll be starting video meetings with each of my classes. The hours to meet will be hours in which we normally had one of our classes. The set time for each class, the video tutorial so you know what you have to do and the link are all shown on each of your Google Classroom groups. So go there to see.

It won't be exactly a class, just a moment to get in touch with you, talk a moment, you can ask any questions and doubts that you have. Hopefully, we could speak in English so it's also a practice.

Hoping to see you during the week.

AGRUPs 2ºAB & 2ºCD: TUESDAY
4ºESO-B: MONDAY
4ºESO-D: THURSDAY
1ºBAC-B: THURSDAY
1ºBAC-C. WEDNESDAY

Na 7ª semana de confinamento, empezarei a ter encontros por video con cada unha das miñas clases. As horas dos encontros serán horas nas que normalmente tiñamos unha das nosas clases. As horas fixadas para cada clase, o video tutorial para que saibades o que hai que facer e a ligazón as tedes en cada un dos vosos grupos de Google Classroom. Así que ide ali a ver.
Non serán exactamente clases, so un momento para manter contacto con vos, falar, podedes facer preguntas ou consultar dúbidas que teñades. Espero que poidamos falar en inglés así que tamén sería una práctica.
Espero vervos durante a semana.

BOOK DAY 2020 IN LOCKDOWN

DATES FOR 2nd TERM EXAMS CANCELLED

ALL THE RESCHEDULED EXAM DATES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO PROLONGED LOCKDOWN

If we finally go back to classes, we will see the possibilities of doing any exams. Keep revising and working on Google Classroom.

Todos os exames reporgramados foron cancelados debido á extensión da cuarentena.
Se finalmente volvemos ás clases, veremos qué posibilidades de facer algúns exames. Seguide repasando e traballando no Google Classroom.

"THE GREATEST", A SONG FOR THE LOCKDOWN HEROES

This song "THE GREATEST", by British singer-songwriter James Blunt, whose profits will be donated to Britain's NHS (National Health System) and worldwide to WHO (World Health Organization).

Lyric video:

Video:

3rd TERM STARTS TODAY STILL UNDER LOCKDOWN

Welcome back after the Easter holidays. We're still waiting for the instructions from the Education Authorities for the following weeks depending on if we can go back to school or not.

Up to now, we've been told to keep reviewing and reinforcing the lessons

we've worked in class before the lockdown. Any questions or doubts you have, please contact me through email.

On Wednesday there might be new instructions.

Keep in touch with your Google Classroom group to see all the information and assignments.

Benvidos despois das vacacións de Semana Santa. Ainda estamos esperando instruccións da Consellería para as vindeiras semanas dependendo de se regresamos ás aulas ou non.

Ata o momento, dixéronnos que sigamos a repasar e reforzar as leccións

que traballamos nas clases antes do peche escolar. Calquera pregunta ou dúbida que teñades, por favor contactade conmigo polo correo.

Quizais o mércores haberá novas instrucións.

Mantede contacto co voso grupo de Google Classroom para seguir toda a información e tarefas.

EASTER 2020: LOCKED IN HOLIDAYS

ANSWERS TO EXERCISES & EASTER HOLIDAYS 

This morning I've posted the answers to the set exercises I gave you at the beginning of this week. You can find them on each of the groups of my Google Classroom.

Today we start our Easter holidays, although we'll have to spend them at home. I'm not assigning any more exercises in this time. Try to enjoy them as much as possible.

During this time, I'm expecting new instructions to see if the lockdown is prolonged and what the educational authorities tell us to do for the 3rd term depending on what happens. I'll let you know in following posts. Keep in touch. Keep calm and take care.

RESPOSTAS AOS EXERCICIOS E VACACIÓNS DE SEMANA SANTA.

Esta mañá publiquei as respostas aos exercicios que vos marquei a principios desta semana. Podedes encontralos en cada un dos meus grupos de Google Classroom.

Hoxe empezamos as vacacións de Semana Santa, ainda que teremos que pasalo na casa. Non vou marcar mais actividades neste tempo. Intentade pasalo o mellor posible.

Durante este tempo, espero novas instruccións para ver se o peche se prolonga e o que nos indican as autoridades educativas para o 3º trimestre dependendo do que ocurra. Informareivos en próximas entradas. Mantede contacto. Mantede a calma e coidádevos.

REMOTE WORKING FROM HOME DURING LOCKDOWN (MARCH-APRIL 2020) + GOOGLE CLASSROOM

I've been working and still am to provide the best ways to keep connected through this lockdown.

Apart from this blog ClickOnEnglish, which I've been using for over 10 years now, I have set up new Google Classroom groups for each of my classes to keep in touch with my students and share all the information with them. Any of my students who haven't registered and joined their group yet, can still get their class-code emailing me at:

ramoneirateaching@gmail.com

At this email address you can also ask me any question or doubt you may have throughout the lockdown.

I'm also updating the school's online pages (blog & webpage): RafaelDiesteBlog & RafaelDiesteWeb with all the general information of our school.

Google Classroom view for students:

LOCKDOWN ACTIVITIES FOR 3rd WEEK (30th March - 3rd April)

New activities have been uploaded on the Google Classroom platform today for my groups. Remember that YOU WILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO DO THE 2nd TERM GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY EXAM ONCE WE'RE BACK AT SCHOOL. The content has been taught in class and you have all this time to study and check on it and ask me questions if you have through the platform. Remember previous post.

The new activities I'll be uploading weekly (except during Easter holidays) are for you to keep learning until we go back to classes BUT THESE NEW CONTENTS WILL NOT BE IN THE MENTIONED EXAM, AND WON'T BE ASSESSED UNTIL LATER ON IF WE HAVE CLASSES. But you should still work on them and complete the activities.

Hoxe subironse novas actividades á plataforma Google Classroom para todos os meus grupos. Recorda que DEFINITIVAMENTE TEREDES QUE FACER O EXAME DE GRAMÁTICA E VOCABULARIO DA 2ª AVALIACIÓN CANDO VOLVAMOS ÁS CLASES. A materia foi toda explicada nas clases e tedes todo este tempo para estudiar e repasalo e consultarme dúbidas se tedes a través da plataforma. Recordade entrada anterior.

As novas actividades que se subirán semanalmente (excepto durante as vacación de Semana Santa) son para que sigades aprendendo PERO ESTES NOVOS CONTIDOS NON ENTRAN NESE EXAME, E NON SE AVALIARÁN ATA MAIS TARDE SE TEMOS CLASES. Pero deberíades traballar neles e completar as actividades.

Agrupamentos 2ºESO

Unit 5 - NUMBERS, MEASURES AND PERIODS OF TIME. Números, medidas e periodos de tempo.

4ºESO

Unit 6 - VOCABULARY: PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES / REFLEXIVES PRONOUNS

Vocabulario: Adxectivos de personalidad / Pronomes reflexivos

1ºBAC

Unit 6 - VOCABULARY / WRITING: A DESCRIPTION

Go to your Google Classroom group

WHAT YOU SHOULD CHECK FOR GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY EXAMS (O que deberíades repasar para os exames de gramática e vocabulario)

Here in details you have the vocabulary & grammar information content for each of my level groups with links to information on this blog.
Aquí tedes en detalle a información sobre o contido de vocabulario e gramática para cada nivel dos meus grupos con ligazóns a información neste blog.

Any questions/doubts or if you want to receive the code to enter your Google Classroom group, contact me at:
Calquer pregunta/dúbida ou se queres recibir o código para entrar no teu grupo de Google Classroom, contactade conmigo en:

ramoneirateaching@gmail.com





Agrupamentos 2ºESO (Units 1-4)

Vocabulary: Family / School / Places / Free time activities / Communication-phones / Adjectives / Adverbs / Movement verbs 

Grammar: 
- Verbs BE / HAVE (present & past) 
- THERE IS / ARE / WAS / WERE
- Question words
- Prepositions 
- PRESENT SIMPLE 
- PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- PAST SIMPLE
- PAST CONTINUOUS

4ºESO (Units 1-5)
Vocabulary: Social media-internet-digital technology / Frequency expressions / Memories / Descriptive adjectives / Decisions / Expressions with GET / Money-marketing-shopping / Emotions / Discovery / Suffixes
Grammar:
- PRESENT TENSES (Simple & Continuous)
- QUESTION TAGS
- QUESTIONS (Subject & Object)
- PAST TENSES (Simple, Continuous & Perfect)
- PRESENT PERFECT (Simple & Continuous)
[For / Since / Ever / Never / Yet / Still / Already]
- FUTURE TENSES
- ARTICLES (A(n) / The / Zero article)
- MODAL VERBS (Possibility / Certainty / Ability / Advice / Obligation)
- GERUNDS & INFINITIVES
- CONDITIONALS

1ºBAC (Units 1-6)
Vocabulary: Topic vocabulary from each unit / Prefixes-suffixes / Personality adjectives / -ED vs -ING adjectives / Phrasal verbs / DO vs MAKE collocations / Prepositions (after adjectives)
Grammar:
- PRESENT TENSES (Simple & Continuous)
- PAST TENSES (Simple & Continuous)
- PERFECT TENSES (Present & Past. Present perfect simple & continuous)
- FUTURE TENSES (Will, Be going to, Present continuous)
- GERUNDS & INFINITIVES
- RELATIVE CLAUSES
- CONDITIONALS
- MODAL VERBS

MORE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

What is coronavirus?
 


10 key Coronavirus vocabulary you need to understand:
- SOCIAL DISTANCING
- SELF-ISOLATION
- HERD IMMUNITY
- HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS
- FLATTENING THE CURVE
- STOCKPILING & PANIC BUYING
- ZOONOTIC
- VACCINE
- CORONAVIRUS vs COVID-19
- BEST PRACTICE

[12th CW] CORONAVIRUS PREVENTION

Watch this video from the BBC with instruction to prevent Coronavirus or any other virus diseases. The telephone numbers mentioned in the video are for the UK only. In Galicia there's a free-phone information number 900 400 116 or 061.

Video:

At the peak of the coronavirus histeria, it's worth reminding that the best way to prevent the spreading and protect ourselves is a correct personal hygiene, which includes washing your hands. Because hands are the main gateway to the widespread of germs and viruses. Are we washing our hands correctly? Watch the video below to check.

Video:

"SO MUCH IN THIRTY (YEARS)": 'RAFAEL DIESTE' 30th ANNIVERSARY

This school year sees our school become 30. 

There hasn't been an official celebration like 5 years ago when we celebrated its 25th anniversary. You can remember what happened back then on our previous posts about RD25Years.

But our school's Dinamización Lingüística team has released a bookmark with a commemorative design by Victoria García-Rebull Cuiñas with this year's calendar on the reverse side. The slogan "TANTO EN TRINTA" ("SO MUCH IN THIRTY [YEARS]") was an idea by one of our Galician teachers Dores Castro Villar.

[12th CW] WHAT IS THE CORONAVIRUS?

Photo: Wikipedia

All international media is full of news about the incidence of the Coronavirus. here's a video with some basic information about it.
To know more about how to prevent it, click HERE.

Video 1:

Video 2:

14-FEB, VALENTINE 2020: WHY WE LOVE & THE SCIENCE OF ATTRACTION

Photo: Ted-Ed

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, we bring you philosophical and scientifical approaches on why we love and how we are attracted to others.

Video:

For all the previous posts on Valentine's Day LINK HERE.

GIVING DIRECTIONS 2

+ ON GIVING DIRECTIONS ON PREVIOUS POST HERE

TODAY'S PALINDROME DATE + SOME PALINDROME WORDS

Today's date is quite peculiar. It's a palindrome date, that is, the group of numbers of today's date can be read the same from left to right and viceversa.

It's an uncommon phenomenon which depends on the calendar's numerical combinations. It happens three times in a decade. It will happen again next year and the following and then won't occur again until ten-year-and-a-day's time (03/02/2030).

Apart from all this, it's the 33rd day of this year and there's 333 days left to the end of it. The most supersticious people associate these kinds of dates with good luck and often choose them for special celebrations.

WRITING: FOR & AGAINST ESSAY BASICS

BASIC BLOGGING TERMINOLOGY

[Info taken from: freetech4teachers.com/a-glossary-of-blogging-terminology.]

Post: “Post” can refer to an entry on your blog as in “a blog post.” “Post” can also be used as a verb as in “I am going to post a new entry on my blog.”

Page: A page on a blog is different than a post because a page is designed for static content. Pages are good for posting information that you want visitors to your blog to be able to quickly access. For example, my classroom blog had pages for curriculum outlines and review guides.

Theme: WordPress (Wordpress is open-source software that powers many blogging tools) and many other blogging platforms use “themes” to describe the look of a blog. The theme can include the color scheme and the placement of elements like calendars and margins on a blog. Changing the theme does not change the content of your blog posts.

Template: Blogger and some other blogging platforms use the term “template” to describe the look of a blog. The template can include the color scheme and the layout of elements on the blog. Changing your template does not change the content of your blog posts.

Tag: Tags are applied to WordPress (Kidblog, Edublogs) blog posts to identify the key ideas or purpose of a post. Tags make it easier for people to search and find older posts on your blog. For example, if you write a post about your Revolutionary War lesson, tag it with “revolution” or “revolutionary war” so that at the end of the school year when you have 150 posts on your blog your students can quickly click on the “revolution” tag and jump to the post that have that label. It’s a lot easier to locate older posts by tag than it is to click through archives by date.

Label: Labels are applied to Blogger blog posts to identify the key ideas or purpose of a post. For example, if you write a blog post about your Revolutionary War lesson plan, label it with “revolution” or “revolutionary war” so that at the end of the school year when you have 150 posts on your blog your students can quickly click on the “revolution” label and jump to the posts that have that label. It’s a lot easier to locate older posts by label than it is to click through archives by date.

Tag Cloud and Label Cloud: Tag and Label clouds can be added to your blog’s homepage to make it easy for visitors to see the tags or labels that you use, click on one of them, and jump to a list of all of the posts that have that particular label.

Categories: In WordPress-powered blogs you can use categories for broad descriptions of posts in addition to using tags. For example, on iPadApps4School.com I use the categories “pre-K,” “elementary school,” “middle school,” and “high school.” I assign each post to a category and use tags for describing the academic topic of the post. This way if someone visits my blog looking for math apps appropriate for elementary school he or she can click on the “math” tag then click on the “elementary school” category to find all of my posts meeting that search criteria.

Embed: To display a video, slideshow, audio recording, Google Calendar, Google Map, game, and many other multimedia elements in a blog post you will use an embed code provided by service hosting that media. Embedding media into a blog post does not make you the owner of it and as long as you follow the guidelines set forth by the hosting service you are not violating copyright by embedding something you didn’t create. For example, when you find a video on YouTube that you want your students to watch you can embed it into a blog post and ask students to comment on the blog post. If the owner of that video decides to take it offline the video will no longer play through your blog post.

Embed Codes: An embed code is a piece of code, often HTML, that media hosting services like YouTube provide so that you can easily display the media that they host in your own blog posts. On some services like SlideShare.net an embed code will be clearly labeled as such next to the media you’re viewing. On other services the embed code will be one of the options that appears when you click on the “share” option. YouTube, for example, currently requires you to open the “share” menu before you see the embed code option.

Widget: A widget is a small application that you can include in the posts and or pages of your blog. A widget could be a game, a display of Tweets, a display of RSS feeds, a tag cloud, a calendar, or any other application that offers an embed code.

Gadget: Gadget is the term that Blogger uses for a widget. A gadget and a widget do the same things.

Plug-in: A plug-in (sometimes plugin) is a small application that you can add to the software that powers your blog. Unlike widgets and gadgets plug-ins operate in the background and visitors to your blog will not see them working. A plug-in can add functions to your blog such as suggesting related posts to your visitors or detecting the type of device a visitor is using to view your blog then automatically displaying the mobile or desktop version of your blog’s layout.

Permalink: Each blog post is assigned its own separate URL this is known as a permalink (permanent link). This URL is the one that you would share if you wanted someone to directly access a post rather than going to your blog’s homepage then searching for the post.

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