EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

On 26 September 2009, the European Day of Languages will be held in Europe to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote
language learning.

Let's celebrate linguistic diversity!

Click here to read more about this day.

SCHOOL YEAR 2009-2010

Welcome back to school!.

I hope you had a great summer vacation.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

School starts September 16

GOOD BYE, CONNOR

Connor, our Language Assistant, finished working at our School on May 31. It´s been a pleasure to have worked with him. I would like to thank him for his dedication.

Connor, enjoy your time in Spain before you go back to the United States.

We´ll miss you a lot!. Good luck!

The students wrote some goodbye messages

POLL #8: WHAT´S YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF BOOK / FILM?

Results:

New question (Poll # 9): Have you got a pet?.

SELF-PORTRAITS

Here are some of the self-portraits you drew in your Art class.

Bárbara Lorenzo

Carmen Valverde

Cynthia Clemente

María Ángeles García

María Chocano

Paula Molina

Sara Pérez

TO OUR NEW FRIENDS IN BLY, OREGON

A group of students from Bly, Oregon,wrote to us a few days ago. They would like to be our friends. In their letters they told us about themselves, their school and their town. We are very exited about having some friends in the United States, so we wrote them back yesterday morning. This is our letter:

Dear new friends,

Thank you for your letters. We liked them a lot!. We would like to know you better and continue writing letters back and forth.

We are a group of 12-13 year old students in 1º ESO (this is the 7th grade in the USA). There are 31 students in our group, 19 girls and 12 boys. The name of our school is “IES Francisco de Quevedo”. IES means “High School” so you know. There are 600 students and around 60 teachers. We are in a special class called “The European Section” , which means that we study 3 subjects in English: Physical Education, Art and Geography & History.

Our school is in Villanueva de los Infantes, which is a small rural town in the province of Ciudad Real, in the middle of Spain. There are 5,000 people in this town. Not everybody lives in the same town. Some of us come from nearby towns by bus. This year we have an American teacher, Connor. He helped us with this letter.

We can´t wait to hear from you!.

Talk to you soon!

Your Spanish friends.

P.S. - Alfonso, our English teacher, took these pictures while we were writing this letter:

ACTIVITY: What do you know about Oregon?. Take this quiz and find it out?.

UP

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened yesterday, May 13th, with UP, a 3D Pixar movie. It is the first time that an animation movie opens this prestigious film festival in the French city of Cannes.

UP tells us the story of Carl Fredricksen, a 78 year-old widower, who fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of ballons to his house and flies away to South America.

ANTONIO VEGA

Antonio Vega, one of the most important Spanish singers and composers, died this morning of lung disease at the age of 51. In 1978 he founded "Nacha Pop" with his cousin Nacho García Vega. This legendary band was one of the most influential bands in Spanish Pop Music.

Nacha Pop released seven albums before they broke up in 1988. In 1991, Antonio Vega launched his solo career. He released nine albums and was nominated for one Grammy in 2000.  As a composer he wrote La chica de ayer, which is considered to be one of the most important Spanish Pop songs.

May he rest in peace

Gigolo Aunts, a band from Boston, USA, heard the song in Spain in 1999. They liked it and decided to translate it and sing it in English.

"THE GIRL FROM YESTERDAY"
(Antonio Vega)

One day you don't even know what time it is
You lay by my side but still you don't know why
The empty streets have seen you grow and change
But I know in your heart you might be crying again

I look out of the window for the girl I knew yesterday
Smiling in the flowers of my favorite garden
Too hard to understand too late to comprehend
While you and I can never be together again

The early morning light that slowly fills the room
Makes your golden hair shine like the sun
And late up in Penta I'm still listening to
Every song that ever made me fall for you..fell for you

I look out of the window for the girl I knew yesterday
So hard to understand there's nothing I can do
Now I'm going out of my mind following you
Going out of my mind following you...

Other important songs by Antonio Vega are:

El sitio de mi recreo

Se dejaba llevar...

The death of Antonio Vega in the media (in Spanish):

TVE (Televisión Española)

EL PAÍS

PÚBLICO

CUATRO

www.cuatro.com

A TRIP TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

Last month Irene went on a trip to the Rocky Mountains. Her backpack was full of things.



ACTIVITY: Do you remember what she packed?.

Yes  No

POLL #7: WHAT´S YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF WEATHER?

Our seventh poll expired days ago and 18 of you (58% of the class) took it. The question was: "What´s your favourite type of weather?".

Results:

- Hot: 28%
- Warm: 22%
- Snowy: 22%
- Cold: 5.6%
- Rainy: 5.6%

- Sunny: 5.6% 

- Foggy: 5.6%

- Windy: 5.6%

New question (Poll#8): What´s your favourite type of book / film?.

EARTH DAY

Dear students of 1º ESO-Sección Europea,

It was Earth Day last Wednesday, April 22nd, and to celebrate it I proposed to wear something green to school that day. Many of you accepted my proposal and wore one item of green clothing. I am happy to know that I have a lot of "green" students.

Thank you very much.

Connor (left) and me (right) with the class.

From left to right: David Pacheco, Jesús Arias and Lidia Mata.

From left to right

Front Row: Paula Molina and Irene Talavera.

Middle row: Cynthia Clemente and Sara Gómez.

Back row: Ismael Torres and David Vélez.

From left to right

Front Row: mª Ángeles García and J.Javier Pacheco.

Middle row: Mª Paz Montalvo and Verónica Romero.

Back row: Bárbara Lorenzo.

From left to right

Front Row: María Chocano and Sara Pérez.

Second row: Rafael Serrano and Inés Fernández-Yáñez.

Third row: Guillermo Jiménez and Alberto Villar.

Fourth row: Sergio Segundo.

Fifth row: Pablo Marco

Back row: Celia Navarro and Carmen Valverde.

Part of the class.

From left to right

Front Row: Sara Gómez and Cynthis Clemente.

Back row: Irene Talavera and Paula Molina.

Back: Verónica, Mª Paz, J.Javier Pacheco and Mª Ángeles.

David Pacheco (left) and Jesús Arias (right).

Celia Navarro (left) and Carmen Valverde (right).

Back to front: Celia, Carmen, Pablo and Sergio.

From left to right

María Pozo, Gonzalo Martínez and Juan Fermín Zopeque.

David Vélez.

1º ESO - Sección Europea.

ACTIVITY: 
Make a list of the possible ways in which we and our school might celebrate "Earth Day" next year. What things might we do?. What events might we organise?. Write your ideas here.

BOOK DAY

April 23 is a symbolic date for world literature because on this day in 1616 two very important writers died: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. This date was established by UNESCO as the "World Book and Copyright Day" to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property.

It´s also St.George´s Day, England´s National Day.

EARTH DAY

Wednesday April 22nd is Earth Day. To celebrate this day and to make it different from other school days wear something green to school tomorrow. It can be anything: a green sock, a green sweater, a green t-shirt, a green scarf, a green hat, a pair of green shoes…

Have a nice and green day!