WELCOME KATIE!

We are very proud to host another international student this year in our school. This time she is a student from the other end of the world and she is in ESO Year 4. Read below to know more about her...  Welcome Katie!!


"I'm Katie and I am from New Zealand. I am in Spain for 2 months learning Spanish. I have previously been learning Spanish for one year in my high school (Epsom Girls Grammar- there are 2,200 girls at my school).

Right now its summer holidays for all of my friends and family. In New Zealand we have Christmas and New Years in summer, going to the beach etc, It is very different to here. New Zealand only has 4 million people all together, school is also very different. I have a school uniform and i choose 4 of my subjects each year (excluding English, Maths, Science etc). The school schedule is also quite different. I start school at 8:30 then have a class meeting till 9, then i have 2 classes then a 20min break, one more class then lunch at school. After lunch we have 2 more classes then we go home. New Zealand and Spain have very different eating times, I would usually have dinner around 7:30, but here it is a lot later. There are also many typical dishes here, but in New Zealand we don't have a specific dish but the most common is steak and vegetables. Normally i don't get to eat all meals with my family in NZ because we are busy at different times. I hope to one day be fluent in Spanish, so i have a lot of work to do!"

Here is a link to Katie's school in New Zealand

Watch this video to get to know more about New Zealand.

SHOPPING TIME!

As everybody is these days shopping like crazy, we thought it would be a good idea to talk about shopping around the world.

This month we devote our "Tore de Babel" board to compare prices of different basic items like coffee, milk, etc. in several countries.

ESO Year 1 SURVEY

Just about to start our Christmas Holidays but first... here are the results from our traditional survey we carry out after the first term with our ESO  Year 1 students.
Thanks to all who kindly participated...

Cuestionario1 Alumnado Bilingüe dic_2014 from José Antonio Alcalde López

MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYBODY

It is the end of the first term and the end of 2014. Many things have happened and many more are yet to come. We would like to wish a Happy New Year and all the best for 2015.

Here is a famous TV commercial in the UK made by a well-known supermarket chain. In it we can see that the Christmas spirit can survive really hard times like a war.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!

Finally, here are the winners of our Christmas Card Competition.

This first picture is for the best Christmas Card in ESO Year 1. The winners are:

1. Luisa Álvarez de 1ºA
2. Celia Macias de 1ºB 
3. Ana Congregado de 1ºD

 The second picture is for the best Christmas Cards in ESO Year 2.

1. Rafael Malmagro  de 2ºD
2. Alejandro Díaz de 2º C
3. Natalia Delgado de 2º C

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the participants. See you in our next edition 2015!!

Here are the basic rules students had to follow to participate.

GETTING READY FOR GERMANY

Finally 20 students from Bachillerato Year 1 and 2 teachers will visit Gerabronn (Germany) in April 2015. We will stay there for 10 days visiting cities like Sttutgart, Munich or Nuremberg.
Here is a tourist video that shows the most beautiful places in this country.

CRIME ENGLISH

This kind of vocabulary is not very common in English lessons until we get to higher levels. As this year we are teaching Bachillerato students, it is high time we deal with this specific vocabulary.
Below is a simple list with the crime involved and the person who commits it. We hope we only have to know it to understand TV shows like CSI or movies and not in our real life...