This blog has been created to share news, projects, videos and everything I may find interesting with my students. I will also upload their work and anything I consider useful for them to improve their English. Everybody is welcome. Formerly known as Englishasbarxas, I have now adopted the name of my new school: IES ROU. PALMIRA CALVAR
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I AM SO GLAD TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU THIS GREAT NEW BLOG. WE WILL BE USING IT FROM TIME TO TIME AND YOU CAN USE IT AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH. YOU WILL FIND IT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THIS HOMEPAGE. ENJOY IT!
Remember! interesting workshops in Moaña Music, theatre, comic, cinema during August. Every morning from 10 am to 2 pm More info Casa da mocidade or Concello de Moaña
"Furious Monkey House" is a band from Pontevedra, Spain, formed by Mariña, Carlota, Amaya, Irene and Manu in March 2014.
The band recorded a five-track demo before recording their debut album between February and March 2015 at Planta Sónica (Vigo), which some of our students from IES AS BARXAS, now in 1 BACH, visited two years ago, and Abbey Road Studios (London), the famous studios where The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and many other groups have been recording their albums.
So what is special about them? Their age! They are just teenagers like those of you who are in 1st or 2nd ESO so they have to go to school, do homework, take exams and on top of that they make great music! SO HOMEWORK FOR THE SUMMER: LEARN THE LYRICS, SING THEIR SONGS. A GREAT WAY TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH.
Hey girl your eyes are full of big fire that voice is screaming in your head
calm down 'cause everything is fine now... Hey girl you're not alone we are back now we're always singing in your mind we're always singing it out loud I miss your face every moment and all the little things that I have lost I have the same dream every morning I fly very high but I fall down
Hey girl your blood is boiling like water and you can fight like a tiger there ain't clouds on that black sky Hey girl stop weeping 'cause you're awesome you are the best thing in the world just close your eyes and please listen up I miss your face every moment and all the little things that I have lost I have the same dream every morning I fly very high but I fall down
I miss your face every moment and all the little things that I have lost I have the same dream every morning I fly very high but I fall down I miss your face every moment and all the little things that I have lost I have the same dream every morning I fly very high but I fall down
When I'm SleepingI look up and I can't breath in my room every dark night I can't dream about happy things
please turn on the light yes There's a picture on the wall and it's looking at me it smiles at twelve o'clock and (it) starts laughing When I'm sleeping in the darkness I find a demon in my closet When I am sleeping in the darkness there are monsters under my bed but I like them
My skin turns as white as snow when I hear the voices the shadows star to dance around and I follow that beat My heart is going more than fast I don't know if I wanna stop it come with us into my room dance with your nightmares When I'm sleeping in the darkness I find a demon in my closet When I am sleeping in the darkness there are monsters under my bed but I like them
When I'm sleeping in the darkness When I'm sleeping in the darkness When I'm sleeping in the darkness When I'm sleeping in the darkness
WE have all been really busy taking exams, correcting, marking, and so on. In this time some bad news have struck us. Yesterday we heard of the British MP Jo Cox shooting and death. A new example of hate and violence. Her husband paid tribute saying things like this. "She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her."
"My excessive act forced my son to have a painful time," Takayuki Tanooka said in an emotional news briefing outside Hakodate hospital, 30km (19 miles) south, where the boy was taken for checks.
Image captionThe boy's father Takayuki Tanooka apologised for abandoning his son
"I deeply apologise to people at his school, people in the rescue operation, and everybody for causing them trouble," he said.
"I have poured all my love into my son, but from now on, I would want to do more, together with him. I would like to protect him while he grows up. Thank you very much."
How Yamato survived
Search teams including the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) have been combing the remote area,home to brown bears, for nearly a week.
Image captionThe seven-year-old boy was abandoned in dense forest by his parents
They had found no trace of Yamato and hopes were fading.
But shortly before 08:00 on Friday morning (23:00 GMT on Thursday) he was found inside a building at the SDF base about 4km (2.5 miles) from where he was left.
Image captionThe base was not far from where Yamato went missing, but surrounded by dense woods
"One of our soldiers was preparing for drills this morning and opened the door of a building on the base, and there he was," an SDF member told NHK.
"When he asked 'are you Yamato?' the boy said, 'Yes'. Then he said he was hungry, so the soldier gave him some water, bread and rice balls."
It appears rescuers came tantalisingly close to finding him four days ago. The SDF said the base had been searched on Monday but no trace was seen of the boy, who says he reached the hut on Saturday.
The soldier who found him was not part of the search team.
NHK said Yamato had told rescuers he "walked through the mountains" until he found the shelter.
He was taken to hospital by a medical helicopter. A doctor later said he was in very good condition, despite only having had water during his six-day ordeal.
At Yamato's school in Hokuto, near Hakodate,his fellow pupils shouted for joy when it was announced at assembly that he was safe, the Japan Times reports.
10 writers and thinkers are writing letters to Great Britain before the referendum to decide whether they stay or leave the European Community giving their opinion about the issue.
Choose a couple of them and see if you understand the message.
Javier Marías
Spain
Dear Britain,
As Spaniards born under the Franco dictatorship (especially those of us who belonged to families on the losing side of the civil war) we were always aware that we might one day have to leave our country and go into exile. Whenever I imagined this possibility, my chosen destination was never France or Italy or some Latin American country, but Britain. This was perhaps because, early on, I acquired a reasonably good knowledge of English, but it was doubtless also because I had read so much British literature and seen so many British films that Britain seemed to me a familiar place and as undeniably European as my home town of Madrid. Indeed, I partly owe my vocation as a writer to...click to go on reading
Let me share with you today this idea and the video that comes with it. It is a commercial, a very good one. Can you guess what kind of company is behind? Don't forget to click to have the subtitles in English. You will find it easier to understand. Have a nice weekend!
I would like you to be a chef for a day and share your favourite meal with us. Watch this video of the popular Spanish chef José Andrés and do something similar with a recipe you know well. Well, not quite as similar, don't burn anything!
Yesterday was Aidan's last day at school. We are all sad and will miss her a lot but happy for her because she can start enjoying the summer. She deserves a rest and some time to spend with her family after a year abroad.
It was great to have her. She was a super assistant always wishing to learn and ready to help students.
In her last class yesterday we organised a farewell chocolate fondue party. It was delicious!
British historian and academic Mary Beard has won this year’s Princess of Asturias award, one of Spain’s top honours, in the field of Social Sciences for her "outstanding contribution to the study of the culture, politics and society of classical antiquity".
And this is what she wrote about the moment she received the good news in her blog "A don's life", from THE TIMES LITERARY SUPLEMENT
I had really good news this week. I was in my Faculty office on Tuesday at about 6.15 pm packing up to bike home, when the phone rang from (as the display flashed up) for a Spanish number. It turned out to be an extremely nice man from the Princess of Asturias Foundation to alert me that the jury had just decided to award me the 2016 Princess of Asturias Foundation Award for Social Sciences. It was to be announced the next day at 12.00 and I was to keep mum until then.
I knew something about these prizes before and was obviously extremely chuffed (you dont get phonecalls like that very often -- and I cancelled my decision to make it an alcohol-free day). But I hadn't quite realised how very grand it was until I looked at the previous laureates in my own and other categories, from David Attenborough, Tzvetan Todorov and Mary Robinson in my own category to Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen and Leonardo Padura in literature (that's Padura arriving above), Michael Schumacher in Sport and J K Rowling in Concord. That was all a bit humbling.
The award comes with a nice cash prize, but that wasn't what mattered most this week (I know people always say that, but it is true). It was the fact that people, not on your back door step, have recognised what you do. If I have had a 'project' over the last few years it has been to continue doing top flight specialist academic work, while also sharing the fruits of that with a wider public. I hate with a vengeance the kind of popularising history (or popularising anything) that assumes that that wider public can be fobbed off with some over-simplified, dumbed-down version of what academics really talk about. It has always seemed to me that you can remove some ofthe jargon, talk clearly and capture precisely the issues that are those under debate. So I was particularly pleased when I saw these words of the jury, referring to my 'talent for making specialized knowledge both accessible and relevant to the general public'. That's exactly what I have wanted to do.
It was also nice (an unworthy confession is coming up!) actually to win something. Now, I have been absolutely delighted with howSPQR has gone down with critics, and with the buying punters. I cant really imagine how it could have done better, thanks in part to the big efforts of others (it's a good book, I immodestly say, but lots of good books dont get attention or find buyers). And I have also been delighted that it has been shortlisted for all sorts of literary prizes. To me, shortlisting matters the most. It's a real vote of confidence in the product, after which the final winning choice must always be a bit random and depend on the unpredictable personal preferences of the judges (to put it another way, you could almost guarantee that a different group of judges would choose a different winner -- and that's certainly been the case on the panels I've been on). That said, I was beginning to get a bit of an 'always the bridesmaid' feeling and to wonder if, bauble as it was, it wouldn't be nice actually to win something one day.
And indeed, as I have discovered this week, it is nice. I am so very grateful to the judges for picking me, and really looking forward to going to Oviedo in October to receive the award. The aim for this summer has to be to get some conversational Spanish under my belt. I can just about read the language (especially when it is about Roman history), but I need to do a bit better than that in the autumn.
If you are still interested in some of her works, here you can watch the documentary about Pompeii. Her English is very clear and easy to understand andI have includedthe subtitles so it will be really easy to follow.
If you find it too long, watch a few minutes and in any case let me know what you have learnt. If you really like it, there a few more.
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