Exchange with Norway

From January 18th to 25th ten 3rd ESO students travelled to Namdalseid (Norway) as part of a school exchange. The Norwegian school's name is Namdalseid skole and is located in Namdalseid, a town 159 km far from Trondheim, the third largest city in Norway.

The experience was amazing: we rode snowmobiles, learned about ice fishing, Sami costumes, saw moose, tried skiing, etc. And the most important thing: we lived as Norwegians and made friends for life.

Thanks a lot Namdalseid community!!!!!!

You can watch a video on our Facebook page.

ICT activity - January

New year, new destination: Seattle! Seattle is a coastal seaport city in the US state of Washington. It is the largest city in both the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the fastest-growing major city in the United States. 

The Seattle metropolitan area of around 3.6 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. Seattle is also the 8th largest port in the United States and the 9th in North America. 

Apart from this, Seattle is also famous for its musical history. From 1918 to 1951, there were nearly two dozen of jazz nightclubs in the city; and it is the birthplace of rock musician Jimmy Hendrix and the alternative rock style grunge.

For further info: www.visitseattle.org/Home.aspx 

New Year's Resolutions

Happy 2015

Season's greetings

Merry Christmas!

Just one week for Christmas holidays!

Speaking test - 2nd ESO

2nd ESO students will have a speaking test consisting of:

- two general questions.
- two questions about an advertisement.
- one answer to find an appropriate question.

Show & Tell

It's Show & Tell week!! 

Remember the topics:

1st ESO: physical education

3rd ESO: geography

4th ESO: technology

ICT activity - December

The term is about to end and the final exams are next week, so it's time to revise. Go to your book website and do all the activities in unit 3.

Happy learning!

Thanksgiving & Black Friday

Thanksgiving 2014: November 27th

A typical Thanksgiving Day menu includes:

- Roasted turkey

- Stuffing

- Cranberry sauce

- Mashed potatoes

- Green beans

- Sweet potatoes

- Sweet corn

- Brussels sprouts

- Pumpkin pie

The National Football League (NFL) on Thanksgiving Day is a traditional series of games played during the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Currently, three NFL games are played every Thanksgiving.

The morning of Thanksgiving Day all eyes turn to Manhattan and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual pageant of giant balloons, floats, cheerleaders, clowns, marching bands, Broadway shows and celebs. The parade begins at 9am and finishes three hours later at noon.

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the USA, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened very early and offered promotional  sales to kick off the holiday shopping season.

ICT activity - November

Enter the festive spirit with this activity about Christmas in London. You'll visit Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park and some other iconic places in this wonderful city.

www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com

www.londontown.com/London/christmas

ICT activity - November

The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world in 14,970.9 m² of exhibition floor space. It was established in 1946, as the National Air Museum and opened its main building in 1976. Located in Washington D.C., United States, it is a center for research into the history and science of aviation and spaceflight as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics. Almost all space and aircraft on display are originals or backups to the originals. It operates an annex, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, at Dulles International Airport, which opened in 2003 and itself encompasses 71,000 m².

For further info visit www.airandspace.si.edu

Happy Halloween

ICT activity - October

We have finished unit 1 and it's time to revise all the things we have learnt. Go to www.mac-english.com/mvc and do all the activities in unit 1.

Enjoy! 😃

ICT activity - October

The Volvo Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three years. Originally named after its initiating sponsor, British Whitebread brewing company, it today carries the name of its current sponsor, Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo. Presently, the Netherlands holds the record of three wins.

Though the route is changed to accommodate various ports of call, the race typically departs Europe in October, and in recent editions has had either 9 or 10 legs, with in-port races at many of the stopover cities.

Each of the entries has a sailing team of 9 professional crew who race day and night for more than 20 days at a time on some of the legs. They each have different jobs on board the boat, and on top of these sailing roles, there are two sailors that have had medical training, as well as a sailmaker, an engineer and a dedicated media crew member.

No fresh food is taken on board, so the crew lives off freeze-dried fare; they will experience temperature variations from -5 to +40 degrees Celsius and will only take one change of clothes.

For further info go to www.volvooceanrace.com