1 ESO. Noa talks about her family

This is the fantastic Noa's oral presentation. She used her mobile phone. Well done!

3 ESO. Adara is sharing some memories from primary school

Estela's memories from primary school

During the first term the students from 3 ESO prepared oral presentations about memorable moments at school. Listen to what Estela has chosen to share with us.

1 ESO Completa na copia en papel que che darán.

Lyrics              1 Eso A. Complete listening to the audio in the last post :

                        Englishasbarxas. Then check in the post from 4th december. Also blog.

                            Hopefully you will be given a copy to complete the text with the words missing.

I ............ want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I .............
I ...........care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas ...........
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my ........ come true oh
All I want for .................... is you

I .............   .......... a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I ............., and I
.............. care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the ....................
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas day

I just want you for my own
More than you could ever ................
Make my .............. come true
All I want for Christmas is you

I won't ask for much this Christmas
I won't even wish for .............., and I
I just wanna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe

I won't ............. a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won't even stay awake
To hear those .............. reindeer click

'Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Oh, Baby all I want for ................ is you

All the ................. are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the ........

And everyone is ................
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me
The one I really need
Won't you please bring my baby to me quickly

I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just wanna see my baby
Standing right outside my door

I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is you

All I want for Christmas is you, baby

1 ESO. COMPLETE THE BLANKS OF THE SONG IN THE PAPER WHILE LISTENING TO Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

Students from Saftas group Eramus + interview Miguel de Lira.

This interview was made during the Olloboi Festival this year. It was edited and subtitles added during the first term. Glad to share!

House Desaforado Entrevista Celso Parada

A group of students from  SAFTAS, ERASMUS+ have just edited the short documentary in which they interviewed Celso Parada, a Galician actor from Moaña.

Well done lads!

3 ESO

IMOS PASAR ESTAS IDEAS Ó INGLÉS. OLLO QUE O GALEGO TENDE A CONFUNDIRNOS NESTE TEMPO.

1. Aínda non falei con el porque ando moi ocupada.
2. Xa fixo as maletas e está lista para marchar
3. Acabo de achegalo a Moaña. - Ía andando?
4. Canto levas aí? Só uns minutos.
5. Ainda non perdeu ningún partido ata agora.
6. Levo aforrado toda a miña paga durante seis meses para mercar un móbil novo. Aínda non teño suficiente. Non me podo permitir un Iphone. 
7. Non o fagas! Eu pedinlle prestado a miña irmá para mercar un e aínda nun fun capaz de devolverlle  os cartos.
8. Cres que vale a pena mercalo? A verdade é que non. Hoxe en día tes gangas noutras marcas.
9. Non comín dende ás 12. Estou morrendo de fame pero deixei a carteira na casa. -Non te preocupes, podo prestarche. 
10. Aínda non tirei o vestido da voda así que o podería levar outra vez.

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE CHRISTMAS. YOU CAN START SINGING. All I want for christmas is you (lyrics)

Friends - The "I Hate Rachel Green Club" [ Brad Pitt ]

Maybe some of you are watching friends after lunch since they are showing the sitcom again. I used to be a fan long time ago. As I always tell you a great way to improve your English.



You Know how often I use Brad Pitt's name in examples such as:

I am meeting Brad Pitt for dinner. (Agenda plans)

At 10 I will be having dinner with Brad Pitt. (Something happening at an specific moment in the future. It must be in Spain. Nobody has dinner that late in USA)

etc.

So he is not having dinner with me but with THEM. Enjoy the scene. He was gorgeous!!! don't you think?

Shawn Mendes - There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back

THE BIG CHALLENGE TO PLAY AND LEARN

Remember you can practise for your exams using  the big challenge website. Look for it in USEFUL LINKS. On the right hand side.

A few senteces for you to translate. 1 Bach

1. Despois dun día agotador, quedei durmida inmediatamente. Pero durante a noite espertei varias veces.
2. Tivemos que enfrentarnos ó perigo e cruzar o bosque unha vez que quedamos sen gasolina.
3. Solía ter medo á moitas cousas. Aquel día superei o medo a escuridade.
4. Quedou fascinado pola historia do país.  Pouco despois mudouse a vivir alí onde leva xa  20 anos.
5.  Decidimos que iamos a aprender técnicas de supervivencia.
6. A miña avoa sempre quixo facer puenting, así que lle regalamos un salto. vai a facelo o próximo sábado.
7. Cando cheguedes a casa,  terei a carne cociñada (habré cocinada)
8. Non te preocupes, xa lavo eu o coche. 
9. A 10? Estaremos escalando "O galiñeiro" NOn nos levará máis de 2 horas.
10. Terás acabado para as 2,30. 

COSTA-GAVRAS

COSTA- GAVRAS received the CINEEUROPA AWARD  last Saturday in SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.
He will be the President  of our SAFTAS SPRING FESTIVAL IN LA FLECHE in April.
During the festival, apart from the Saftas awards for short film and theatre play, there will also be the Costa-Gavras award, chosen by him among all the short films and theatre plays shown by the six countries involved in the project.

Costa-Gavras being intervieweb by Isabel Cascante during the festival Premiers Plans in Angers 2017

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/cultura/2017/11/18/peliculas-habia-presiones-siempre-directas-indirectas/0003_201711G18P37991.htm

PRONUNCIATION. How to pronounce words ending in S

[s]
Voiceless sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced as [s] include:

[p], [t], [k], [f] 

[z]

Voiced sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced as [z] include:

[b], [d], [g], [l], [r], [w], [m], [n], [v], [y]

[ɪz]

The sounds that cause the plural “s” to be pronounced with an additional syllable [ɪz] include:

[tʃ] [dʒ] [s] [z]

The English of Everything - Describing pictures vocabulary

DESCRIBING A PICTURE

HAVE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND THE TIPS TO DESCRIBE A PICTURE

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/describe-photo-or-picture

IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE IT, GO ON READING

https://create.piktochart.com/output/5159053-untitled-infographic

WITH THE PICTURES GIVEN

Working in pairs, students  have a limited time (e.g. 30 seconds) to look at each picture. Student A takes the picture and asks questions to see how much Student B can remember. Repeat with a different picture, and this time Student B asks while student A answers.

Ondas do mar de Vigo

Known as "Pergamino Vindel" the manuscript of 7 poems/songs written by Martin Codax will be in Vigo till March 2018

This has nothing to do with English but with our history and culture. Some of the students from school will be lucky to go and see it at El Museo del mar in Vigo. Those who are not going to be taken should mention it at home and go with the whole family. This is your chance. If you miss it you will have to go to New York to the Morgan Library to see it. 

http://www.farodevigo.es/multimedia/videos/gran-vigo/2017-09-25-128946-pergamino-vindel-joya-literatura-medieval-gallega.html

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/09/22/actualidad/1506073950_705284.htmlhttps://elpais.com/cultura/2017/09/22/actualidad/1506073950_705284.html

President Obama Makes Historic Speech to America's Students - English ...

CATALONIA: the show goes on.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/30/inenglish/1509349808_516176.html

Past simple and past continuous

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.es/2017/09/the-simpsons-springfield-files-simple.html

SAFTAS-ERASMUS+ AS BARXAS

SAFTAS-ERASMUS+ AS BARXAS
A group of students from SAFTAS -ERASMUS + have been attending the theatre plays performed in Moaña (CIRCUÍTOS TEATRAIS) this month. Yesterday we went to the last play UBÚ REI by Talía Teatro and as they had done in the previous ones the team interviewed the actors. Very interesting play and amazing performance.

Spanish PM dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh elections

Catalonia. Unilateral declaration of independence. Article 155. Elections on 21 st December.

CHANGES IN THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM -ABAU

CIRCULAR NOVA PROBA DE INGLÉS ABAU 2018

HAVE A LOOK AT THE CHANGES IN THE EXAM MOST OF YOU WILL BE TAKING NEXT YEAR

https://englishasbarxas.blogspot.com.es/p/2-bach.html

Perfect by Ed Sheeran

Well, this is a PERFECT song to revise irregular verbs. What other tenses can you find apart from simple past ?

I  ............ a love for me
Darling just dive right in
And follow my lead
Well I  ............ a girl beautiful and sweet
I never  ............ you were the someone waiting for me
'Cause we were just kids when we  ............ in love

Not knowing what it was
I will not give you up this time
But darling, just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own
And in your eyes you're  ............ mine

Baby, I...............in the dark with you between my arms

Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
When you ............ you looked a mess, I ............ underneath my breath
But you ............ it, darling, you look perfect tonight

Well I ............ a woman, stronger than anyone I know
She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I'll share her home
I ............ a love, to carry more than just my secrets
To carry love, to carry children of our own
We are still kids, but we're so in love
Fighting against all odds
I know we'll be alright this time
Darling, just hold my hand
Be my girl, I'll be your man
I see my future in your eyes

Baby, I'............ in the dark, with you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
When I ............ you in that dress, looking so beautiful
I don't deserve this, darling, you look perfect tonight

Baby, I............ in the dark, with you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
I have faith in what I see
Now I know I have met an angel in person
And she looks perfect
I don't deserve this
You look perfect tonight

Everything Everything Part 1. 3 ESO BILINGUAL. READER

It may be very useful to listen as you read. You can improve pronunciation
 and you will surely read faster. I hope you enjoy it!

TRANSLATION 3 ESO C Revision. Starter Unit and unit 1

Can you translate these ideas into English for Monday?.  Have a nice weekend!.

1. San Martiño é a igrexa máis antiga no meu pobo.
2. A escola era  un pouco máis lonxe pero estaba agotado, así que parei a descansar. 
3, Como é o teu compañeiro? Moi traballador e seguro de si mesmo.
4. Non está permitido comer na biblioteca. 
5. Onte non tiven que facer deberes así que me fun a dar unha volta.
6. Encántanme ás hamburguesas. Que pena !Comer verduras é máis saudable.
7. Non sabía falar español antes dos 7anos porque nacera en Francia.
8. Cando viaxo nunca boto de menos á miña familia. Debería?

3 ESO BILINGUAL SECTION

Can you translate these ideas into English?. Some may be challenging. Don't worry if you can't translate them all. We will talk about your doubts on Monday. Have a nice weekend!.

1. Temos que mudarnos o antes posible. Non nos permiten quedarnos ata fin de mes.
2. Antes de deitarme sempre vexo un serie en inglés  durante media hora. Estupendo. Todos deberiades facer o mesmo.
3. O ano pasado pasei 2 meses fóra. Sentín moita morriña. Que mal!.
4. Non poderei viaxar con eles porque me acabo de romper unha perna. Que pena!
4. As zanahorias son moito máis crocantes e saborosas.
5. San Martiño é a igrexa máis antiga no meu pobo.
6. Por que estudar? Canto máis estudo, máis sei. Canto máis sei, máis esquezo. 
7.Era un pouco máis lonxe pero estaba agotado, así que parei a descansar. 
8. O seu temperamento está empeorando cada vez máis. 
9. Cando foi a última vez que tomache o sol? Hai un montón. Máis dun mes.
10. Non era necesario que gritaras. Podías falar tranquilamente.

BREAKING NEWS ON CATALONIA

BREAKING NEWS ON CATALONIA

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM/HER. 1ST BACH ORAL PROJECT

Last year I asked my 1st Bach students to prepare an oral project about a person who has done something relevant to humanity, who has managed to change the lives of others for better. People who surprinsingly may have been forgotten. I remember I gave them some examples. In that case I focused on women, as we know they are pretty often the forgotten ones. The outcome of that project had some  lights and lots of  shadows  with students talking about singers,  football players and even wrestling fighters.

This year I am planning to give you the same assignment and I am bringing here what could be a good example. 

Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. This video is the BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988.

He met people he had saved from death when they were kids 

during  a BBC Programme

There is a biographical documentary as well. Have a look at the trailer.

Have you got a talent?

I don't really like music shows such us "The Voice", "Operación Triunfo", etc. but you can also learn with them if they are in English, especially if you like the songs. There are lots of examples. This is one that surprised the jury.

More about. Catalonia

The king on TV and it is not Christmas time. Something big must be going on.

Catalan crisis

www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41475770

Jimmy Kimmel on Mass Shooting in Las Vegas

COLEGIOS DEL MUNDO- BECAS BACHILLERATO INTERNACIONAL

La Fundación Comité Español de los Colegios del Mundo Unido abre todos los años en el mes de septiembre la convocatoria de plazas (con beca total o parcial, o sin beca) para estudiar los dos cursos del Bachillerato Internacional en los centros de esta organización.

El número de becas convocadas podrá variar en función de los patrocinadores conseguidos al cierre de la convocatoria, que -junto con las aportaciones familiares- permiten que los alumnos españoles puedan ir a los Colegios del Mundo Unido. De la totalidad de las plazas con beca ofertadas, una de ellas se destinará a, como mínimo, un estudiante con discapacidad.

Todo el proceso de selección es idéntico con independencia de que se solicite Plaza con Beca o Plaza de Pago. Dicho proceso es anónimo, no pudiendo acceder el Comité de Selección a ningún dato de carácter personal. Una vez que se opte por el camino de Plaza de Pago no podrá cambiarse a la opción de Plaza con Beca, ni a la inversa. Lo mismo ocurre con la beca destinada a un estudiante con discapacidad; en el momento en que se elige esa opción no se puede cambiar a la beca del cupo general.

En la selección de los candidatos/as se valoran especialmente criterios como la madurez personal, el compromiso social, el interés y respeto por otras culturas, la iniciativa y creatividad, junto con la capacidad para convivir y entablar amistad con alumnos de todo el mundo.

• Posesión de nacionalidad española en el momento de la convocatoria o haber vivido en España los últimos 8 años.
• Haber nacido en los años 2001 o entre el 1 de enero y el 31 de agosto del 2002 (es obligatorio que los estudiantes hayan cumplido los 16 años en el momento de empezar el curso en un Colegio del Mundo Unido).
• Estar cursando 4º de la ESO o 1º de Bachillerato y, en ambos casos, tener aprobado el año anterior (si el alumno quedase seleccionado en la fase final no podrá tener ningún suspenso a final de curso).
• Tener buen expediente académico y conocimientos básicos de inglés.

http://www.colegiosmundounido.es/convocatorias/

Becas Fundación Amancio Ortega

El programa de Becas de la Fundación Amancio Ortega tiene el objetivo de facilitar el aprendizaje del inglés y la inmersión en la cultura extranjera a jóvenes de institutos y colegios españoles durante un año académico. Los alumnos seleccionados convivirán con una familia de acogida y cursarán Grado 11 (equivalente a 1º de Bachillerato). La beca cubre el 100% de los servicios necesarios para realizar un curso escolar en el extranjero: viaje, tasa de escolarización, convalidación de estudios, alojamiento y manutención en una familia de acogida, seguro médico y de accidentes, y apoyo continuado durante los diez meses de estancia; en ningún caso la beca supone la aportación económica del valor de estos servicios al beneficiario.

El Programa convoca 500 becas dirigidas a estudiantes de 4º de ESO de centros españoles, para estudiar Primero de Bachillerato en un High School en Canadá o Estados Unidos el próximo curso escolar 2018-2019.

80 becas dirigidas a estudiantes de centros de Galicia para estudiar Primero de Bachillerato en Canadá y Estados Unidos.

420 becas dirigidas a estudiantes de centros del resto de las Comunidades Autónomas para estudiar Primero de Bachillerato en Canadá y Estados Unidos.

El plazo de inscripciones está abierto desde el 2 de octubre hasta el 20 de octubre del 2017 (apertura y cierre a las 13:00 horas, horario peninsular)

Toda a información no seguinte link:

https://becas.faortega.org/#requisitos

GOOD LUCK!!!

Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon

So Monday 2nd October will be the first day to dedicate a period for reading time. 

My first lesson on Monday will be with 3 ESO bilingual so this is what we will start reading.

The White Room

I’VE read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read. I’ve read more. Believe me. I’ve had the time.

In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers—no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I would like to see the machine that does this. I imagine each book traveling on a white conveyor belt toward rectangular white stations where robotic white arms dust, scrape, spray, and otherwise sterilize it until it’s finally deemed clean enough to come to me. When a new book arrives, my first task is to remove the wrapping, a process that involves scissors and more than one broken nail. My second task is to write my name on the inside front cover.

PROPERTY OF: Madeline Whittier

I don’t know why I do this. There’s no one else here except my mother, who never reads, and my nurse, Carla, who has no time to read because she spends all her time watching me breathe. I rarely have visitors, and so there’s no one to lend my books to. There’s no one who needs reminding that the forgotten book on his or her shelf belongs to me.

REWARD IF FOUND (Check all that apply):

This is the section that takes me the longest time, and I vary it with each book. Sometimes the rewards are fanciful:

⁰ Picnic with me (Madeline) in a pollen-filled field of poppies, lilies, and endless man-in-the-moon marigolds under a clear blue summer sky.

⁰ Tea with me (Madeline) in a lighthouse in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a hurricane.

⁰ Snorkel with me (Madeline) off Molokini to spot the Hawaiian state fish—the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a.

Sometimes the rewards are not so fanciful:

⁰ A visit with me (Madeline) to a used bookstore.

⁰ A walk outside with me (Madeline) just down the block and back.

⁰ A short conversation with me (Madeline) discussing anything you want, on my white couch, in my white bedroom.

Sometimes the reward is just:

⁰ Me (Madeline).

SCID Row

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but you know it as “bubble baby disease.”

Basically, I’m allergic to the world. Anything can trigger a bout of sickness. It could be the chemicals in the cleaner used to wipe the table that I just touched. It could be someone’s perfume. It could be the exotic spice in the food I just ate. It could be one, or all, or none of these things, or something else entirely. No one knows the triggers, but everyone knows the consequences. According to my mom I almost died as an infant. And so I stay on SCID row. I don’t leave my house, have never left my house.

Brthdae Uish

“Movie Night or Honor Pictionary or Book Club?” my mom asks while inflating a blood pressure cuff around my arm. She doesn’t mention her favorite of all our post-dinner activities—Phonetic Scrabble. I look up to see that her eyes are already laughing at me.

“Phonetic,” I say.

She stops inflating the cuff. Ordinarily Carla, my full-time nurse, would be taking my blood pressure and filling out my daily health log, but my mom’s given her the day off. It’s my birthday and we always spend the day together, just the two of us.

She puts on her stethoscope so that she can listen to my heartbeat. Her smile fades and is replaced by her more serious doctor’s face. This is the face her patients most often see—slightly distant, professional, and concerned. I wonder if they find it comforting.

Impulsively I give her a quick kiss on the forehead to remind her that it’s just me, her favorite patient, her daughter.

She opens her eyes, smiles, and caresses my cheek. I guess if you’re going to be born with an illness that requires constant care, then it’s good to have your mom as your doctor.

A few seconds later she gives me her best I’m-the-doctor-and-I’m-afraid-I-have-some-bad-news-for-you face. “It’s your big day. Why don’t we play something you have an actual chance of winning? Honor Pictionary?”

Since regular Pictionary can’t really be played with two people, we invented Honor Pictionary. One person draws and the other person is on her honor to make her best guess. If you guess correctly, the other person scores.

I narrow my eyes at her. “We’re playing Phonetic, and I’m winning this time,” I say confidently, though I have no chance of winning. In all our years of playing Phonetic Scrabble, or Fonetik Skrabbl, I’ve never beaten her at it. The last time we played I came close. But then she devastated me on the final word, playing JEENZ on a triple word score.

“OK.” She shakes her head with mock pity. “Anything you want.” She closes her laughing eyes to listen to the stethoscope.

We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting. After it’s cooled, I apply an unreasonably thin layer of frosting, just enough to cover the cake. We are, both of us, cake people, not frosting people. For decoration, I draw eighteen frosted daisies with white petals and a white center across the top. On the sides I fashion draped white curtains.

“Perfect.” My mom peers over my shoulders as I finish up. “Just like you.”

I turn to face her. She’s smiling a wide, proud smile at me, but her eyes are bright with tears.

“You. Are. Tragic,” I say, and squirt a dollop of frosting on her nose, which only makes her laugh and cry some more. Really, she’s not usually this emotional, but something about my birthday always makes her both weepy and joyful at the same time. And if she’s weepy and joyful, then I’m weepy and joyful, too.