INTERCAMBIO IES PRÁXEDES MATEO SAGASTA

LANCASTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL

2014-2015

El departamento de lengua inglesa del IES P.M. Sagasta ha organizando un nuevo intercambio con el Lancaster Royal Grammar School de Lancaster, ciudad de Lancashire en el noroeste de Inglaterra. El Lancaster Royal Grammar School, fundado en el siglo XIII, es uno de los centros educativos más antiguos del país.

Los alumnos riojanos viajan a Lancaster hoy 7 de marzo y estarán en Lancaster hasta el día 14.  Los alumnos británicos nos visitarán desde el 18 de enero hasta el 25. Los vuelos serán desde los aeropuertos de Bilbao y Manchester.

Tendremos oportunidad de visitar Liverpool, cuna de los Beatles, el Parque Nacional del Distrito de los Lagos que constituye el más grande de los parques nacionales del Reino Unido y una de las pocas regiones montañosas del suelo inglés.  El resto de nuestra estancia en Lancaster, los alumnos estarán con su familia de acogida o en el instituto atendiendo a clase como un alumno más del centro.

FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996- causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths- and the improbable group of people  who decided to fight back!

Thanksgiving is back!!!!  

Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football and family.  While today´s Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to attendees of the original 1621 harvest meal, it continues to be a day for Americans to come together around the table!

Its traditionsand celebrations, Colonists, Native Americans, puritans, Abraham Lincoln,parades, football, turkeys and families are all topics to be discussed!

Here you are, some interesting videos:

History of Thanksgiving

Although Thanksgiving celebration dated back to the first European settlements in America,it wasnot until 1860s that Abraham Lincolndeclared the last Thursday of November to be a National Holiday! 

http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving/videos/history-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday

Bet you didn´t know which traditional recipies weren´t served at the first 

Thanksgiving  celebration

http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-thanksgiving

 Tired of wrestling with Turkey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgcRikYCRL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XrfaRUkD2M

Short Stories  Sto Tomás  2014

We are proud to share with you these short movies our students have presented to our new Short movie contest here at Sagasta.  We are paying special attention, as it couldnt be in any other way, to the quality of the English our students ehibit in the video!
Enjoy the movies!!!!

The Phantom of Sagasta 

by Inés Sánchez Valer 

1ST ESO

Poor girls? 

by Mario Pinedo, Luis Cortés, Anneris Álava, Mar Clavijo ,

2ND BTO

Britney Learns Gangnam Style
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=8491

Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the US Armed forces, also known as veterans.  It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with  Armistice Day and Remembrance Day.  They all mark the end of World War I, as most hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.

A book review

Please visit the following websites for useful tips on book review writing.
A Book Review (Tim Warre).
Writing Book Reviews (Indiana University).

Below you will find an example of a book review. You can also use it to revise vocabulary related to diseases and health.
Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive (The Guardian).

Remember to bring your assignments on Friday (you will have to finish watching The World's End at home!).