Christmas Time

Christmas is here

Funny Stuff I

Welcome!!  Exams, holidays...

Thanksgiving 2013

Today, I'm thankful for....

It's almost Thanksgiving! 
People in the USA celebrateThanksgiving 
on the fourth Thursday of November. Tell me, 

What are you thankful for? :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

25th November

November 25 International Day
for the Elimination of Violence against Women

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is an occasion for governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to raise public awareness of violence against women.

November 25 International Day 

for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Let's  listen to this Song and do the following activities:

1. Have you seen the video for “If I Were a Boy”? “What is Beyonce’s job in the video? What is her boyfriend’s job in the video? Where do they see each other? What do they argue about in the middle of the video?”  Beyonce is just imagining being in her boyfriend’s position.

2. Let's read and translate the lyrics into Spanish.

3. Writing: Complete the sentences “If I Were a Boy” and “If I Were a Girl”...  Obviously, boys will write “If I Were a Girl” and girls, vice versa.

4. Brainstorming: differences about boys and girls.

Visit to Minas de Riotinto

Last Thursday, 7th November, the English Department and some students went to Minas de Riotinto to visit Bellavista District. They spent a great time and learnt many things about Riotinto Mining Museum and a Victorian House.

The town of Las Minas de Riotinto has always been based around, and dependent on, the mines themselves which give it its name. Las Minas reached its peak of prosperity and importance in the late 19th/early 20th century, when the British were running the mines.

Riotinto is also famous for the local poet and writer Juan Cobos Wilkins. His bestselling novel El Corazón de la Tierra (The Heart of the Earth),  based on the story of a popular uprising at the mines in 1888, was recently made into an Anglo-Spanish film.

An English Letterbox 

Victorian House 21 

 

The House was inaugurated in 2005 and it gives you the opportunity to do a flash-back journey to the Victorian times and taste a flavour similar to the one that you can see in legendary films like Out of Africa and a Passage to India.

This semidetached house of 540 m2 presents the following disposition:

• GROUND FLOOR: Daily live area (dinning room, living room, hall, front and  back garden). Service area (kitchen, pantry, woodshed and servants bathroom).
• FIRST FLOOR: (bedrooms, office and bathroom).
• SECOND FLOOR: (servants’ room, lumber room and play room).

Apart from the main rooms, two display spaces have been installed. The first one has been set up in the office and was designed to show why and how the district was built, how many construction stages were needed to complete it and how many buildings compose the neighbourhood: dwellings, Presbyterian Chapel and the English Club). The second display room is situated in the old play room and shows through pictures the daily life of the British inhabitants during eighty one years of presence in the town (reference link.)

Do you recycle?

What do you recycle?

How often do you recycle?

Let's recycle taps!!!

When you lift a tap... 
Do not forget to recycle it!!

Funny stuff

Do homework

Halloween 2013 (2nd Part)

Halloween 2013 (1st Part)

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween 2013 is coming and 

the English Department has organised 

The I Don Bosco Horror Photographs Competition

or if you prefer, take part in the

Halloween Stories Competition

Blow the cobwebs away, 

wake your imagination up

and start moving!!

Your English teacher will be waiting for your works.

Do it before Monday, 28th October!!!

World Smile Day

Have a nice day!

Today is  World Smile Day!! 

Have a happy day!! 
Did you smile in your English Class? I hope so :-)


"Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too."
~Author Unknown

Remember: Laugh while you learn.

T- Shirt Day Project .... At last!

Whose is it?

At last!! Here it is....our project.  Better late than never hahaha :p

Thank you everyone  for collaborating. Sorry, but I was not allowed to upload more than 30 photos (I had 70 photos) to this slideshow. Every photo after the 30th is not displayed.

Back to school!!

Sh!!

(Picture in the hall)

It's school time again! September is the start of the new school year. For those of you who don’t know I am an English teacher so if you wish you can find me here  :)  I’ll look forward to meeting to you.

If it is the first time you come to our school.... You will probably feel excited and maybe a little sad because summer is over. New teachers, new friends, and maybe experiences. Luckily, these "new" worries only stick around for a little while. Don't worry,  I am sure we will have a great time.

If it is not the first time you come to school....

  Welcome back to school!!! 

IES Don Bosco

Hello September!!

Here we are again

Happy Summer!!!

University Entrance Exams in Huelva

Here we are.... Good Luck!!

El péndulo de Foucault  

«Omnia mutantur nihil interit» Todo cambia, nada desaparece. 

"Sapere Aude" Atrévete a aprender.

Miss Manoli. It's me

Relax Room 

Nuestra Señora de la Peña Crags

A picture is worth a thousand words.....

Fermi Model United Nations

The Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Fermi" is pleased to host the XII edition of the Fermi Model United Nations that will take place on 17,18,19 April 2013 in Nuoro (Italy) and our high school, IES Don Bosco,  has been invited to participate in this new edition again. 

The topics which are going to be debated this year are:

1. ECOSOC:

Human actions are dismantling Earth's natural ecosystems, resulting in species extinctions at a much faster rate than previously predicted. Over the last two decades, strong scientific evidence has emerged showing that the loss of the world's biological diversity reduces the productivity and sustainability of natural ecosystems and decreases their ability to provide society with goods and services like food, wood, and fertile soils.

Without a full understanding od the fundamental ecological processes that link biodiversity, ecosystem and human economic sustainable growth an irreversible decline and perhaps destruction of human an animal habitat will be almost inevitable. How can the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other international enviironmental agencies slow down or even stop this process?

The United Nations Environment Programme

2. HRC:

"Millions of women and girls around the world are assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated or even murdered in wht constitutes appalling violations of their human rights... We must fundamentally challenge the culture of discrimination that allows violence to continue." (Secretary- General Ban Kimoon for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2012).

What measures can the UN and the State Members adopt in order to raise public awareness and increase political commitment for preventing and ending all forms of violence against women and girls in all parts of the world?


International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November

PS: Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world

A visit to Huelva

 

This is our best student

 

Last Friday, 22nd February, my students and I went to Huelva to visit the university. We spent a great time in the city and we learnt many things about the University of Huelva. Our students were guided by university students and were given access to a variety of information (brochures, videos, texts) covering general and more specific issues about  Undergraduate Degree Programmes.

If you need any futher information, please contact them.