FILM OF THE MONTH: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

One of the American classical films for Christmas,

Miracle on 34th Street

(De ilusión también se vive)
wil be projected on December 22nd at 11.45 in Room A027 for 1st and 2nd year of ESO students.

Tras la proyección de la película, nuestra lectora Maggie nos contará algo más sobre la figura de Santa Claus y aprenderemos algunos villancicos americanos. Si estáis en 1º y 2º de ESO, no os lo perdáis. You will have fun and practise your English at the same time!!

THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION

Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving Celebration at our school last Thursday. As you can see, we cooked lots of food to taste on this traditional day: stuffing, cramberry sauce, apple sauce, pumpkin pie, carrot pie, and mashed potatoes. Maggie explained to us the history and the importance that this day has for the Americans and then, all of us could eat the typical food of the day.

As for the Thanksgiving Quiz, the winners were Estrella Jiménez Arroba, Michelle Rabadán de Sousa, Aitana Fernández and Mar Sánchez Domenech in 2º year of ESO . Alba Benito Kaesbach and Azahara Layna in 1st year of ESO. Most students in the bilingual group of 3º ESO did it quiet well too (Martín Gómez Terol, Sergio García, Roberto Granda..). The prizes were some American sweets and some rubber bracelets. ¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores y gracias a todos por asistir!

Y ahora, una pregunta para ver si habéis aprendido cosas sobre el día de acción de gracias: What is the last float of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Esperamos vuestras respuestas como comentarios a la entrada.

CINECLUB: 12 ANGRY MEN

On Wednesday November 24th, the classical film 12 Angry Men, translated into Spanish as Doce hombres sin piedad, will be proyected in our cineclub.

It is a film released in 1957 and directed by Sidney Lumet. The protagonist role is played by Hery Fonda and the film was nominated for 3 oscars and won 16 awards.

Es una apasionante película del género de juicios, en la que vemos como un jurado debate sobre la inocencia de un joven asesino que a todas luces parece culpable. One of the jurors, Henry Fonda, encourages the rest of the jury to think for themselves instead of trusting appearances.

La película está basada en una obra teatral y toda la acción transcurre en la sala de deliberación del jurado. Sin embargo, su ritmo es trepidante. ¡No os la perdáis! Don't miss it!

Remeber: November 24th at 5 pm in room A027

Recordad: El 24 de noviembre a las 5 de la tarde en el aula A027

THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION

Come celebrate Thanksgiving on November 18th. This year you will also have the opportunity to taste American food. And those who know a lot about this traditional day can get some prizes and surprises. Lo vamos a pasar muy bien con Maggie, nuestra lectora y las estupendas delicias que nos ha preparado ella y los profes de inglés. ¡Os esperamos a todos!

Remember: November 18th, at break time in room A027

Recuerda: El día 18 de Noviembre en el recreo en el aula A027.

MEETING WITH MAGGIE FOR STUDENTS IN BACHILLERATO AND 4º.

Students in Bachillerato and 4º ESO. Next Thursday (October 21st) you have a meeting with Maggie at break time in room A027.

Habrá sorpresas y practicaremos inglés con Maggie. No faltéis, ¡os esperamos!

Y para todos: recordad que podéis hablar con Maggie los miércoles y jueves en el recreo en el aula A110.

Remember : Wednesdays and Thursdays in room A110, conversations with Maggie.

MAGGIE'S PRESENTATION

Our new language assistant, Maggie Kelly, was oficially introduced to all the students in the school last Wednesday. She prepared a presentation about her, her family, interests etc.

There was also a quiz about her presentation and all the people attending the event received a nice bracelet as a gift from her.

Queremos agradecer a Maggie lo bien que lo pasamos el miércoles y la oportunidad tan amena y divertida que nos dió de practicar nuestras estrategias de listening y speaking.

Thank you very much!!

COME TO MEET MAGGIE, THE NEW LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

Come to meet Maggie Kelly, our new language assistant on WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13TH
at break time in room Ao27.

Sabremos de dónde es, cuántos años tiene, sus aficiones, intereses etc. y habrá más sorpresas.

And if you want to practice your English you can talk to her every Wednesday and Thursday at break time in room A110 at the English Club.

Recuerda, podrás conversar con ella en el English Club los miércoles y jueves en el recreo en el aula A110.

Ven a conocer a Maggie el 13 de Octubre en el recreo. ¡ Te esperamos!

MORE PICTURES FROM SCOTLAND

BACK FROM SCOTLAND

Welcome to the new school year 2010/2011. As usual we start the year and the English activities with the trip to Scotland the English Department organizes every year.

Este año 21 alumnos de nuestro centro, acompañados por las profesoras Amelia Ortega y Olga Álvaro, volvieron a repetir la experiencia del intercambio con el centro escocés "Dollar Academy" situado en la localidad de Dollar.

All of them came back delighted with the experience and looking forward to repeating it next year. They are also looking forward having their Scottish friends at home in Spain, which it is going to happen on October 20th when the Scots will arrive in Guadalajara.

Para que veáis lo bien que lo pasaron , aquí van unas fotos de muestra de las actividades realizadas en Escocia.

END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

The last English activity we planned to finish the school year was the performance of the play The Bully on June 22nd.

Entre el público asistente se encontraba la Delegada Provincial de Eduación ,Reyes Estévez, y la Asesora Provincial de Plurilingüismo, Susana Urueña, quienes felicitaron a todos los miembros del grupo de teatro por el trabajo realizado.

The performance was a success, and after it, some of the school students, who had seen the play, asked questions to our actors and actresses about the drama group, the play etc.

Queremos agradecer a nuestras dos invitadas que encontrasen un hueco en su apretada agenda para ver nuestra representación. Para nuestro grupo de teatro representó muchísimo que la máxima autoridad provincial de educación y la asesora de plurilingüismo reconocieran el trabajo realizado por nuestro grupo de teatro.

The two English teachers in charge of the drama group ,Rosa Pinilla and Olga Alvaro, would also like to thank their colleagues of the English Department as they gave them a wonderful bunch of flowers. They have been very nice supporting us in all the activities we have organised.

Después de esta bonita despedida de curso, queremos desearos a todos un feliz verano y esperamos volver a reencontrarnos en septiembre. So, enjoy the summer holidays , don't forget your English and we hope to see all of you in the activities we will organise next year. SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!! ¡FELIZ VERANO!

THE BIG CHALLENGE PRIZES

The Big Challenge prize giving ceremony was held on June 10th. All the participants received a diploma and an English magazine and the winners of each level also received other prizes such as DVDs or dictionaries in English.

Cabe destacar la buena posición a nivel regional y nacional de los alumnos de 2º Bilingüe, donde Sergio Sánchez García quedó por segundo año consecutivo el segundo clasificado a nivel regional en el nivel de 2º de ESO.

This is the list of the rewarded students:

1º ESO: Marco Benito Kaesbach (1st highest school score and 25th highest regional score) , Mar Sánchez Domenech (2nd highest school score), Alejandro Marco Cortés ( 3rd) , Santiago González-Carvajal (4th), Alvaro Gómez Martínez ( 5th) and Michelle Rabadán de Sousa .

2º ESO: Sergio Sánchez García (1st highest school score and 2nd highest regional score) , Javier Cuevas Padín (2nd school score and 11th highest regional score), Martín Gómez Terol (3rd highest school score and 29th highest regional score), Víctor Alcolea Calles ( 4th at school and 32nd highest regional score), Pablo Peña Romero ( 5th at school and 44th highest regional score) and Pablo Alba Ladrón de Guevara ( 6th at school and 47th highest regional score).

3º ESO: Aránzazu Ortíz Ortega (1st highest school score and 90th highest regional score), Valentina Tsvetanova Zarkova ( 2nd at school) and Silvia Moreno López ( 3rd).

4º ESO: Diana Alina Cornea (1st highest school score and 25th highest school score) , Alejandro Paniagua Tineo (2nd highest school score and 55th highest regional school score).

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the participants. We expect to continue counting on your participation next year!

PERFORMANCE OF THE BULLY

On June 22nd, our drama group will perform the play THE BULLY for all the school in the school hall (salón de actos) in building C at 1.00 pm. (13 horas)

Our drama group has won the 1st Drama in English and French Regional Prize with the performance of this play.

Don't miss it!!

SCHOOL TRIP TO ALMAGRO

On May 19th, the students of the school drama group, ganadores del primer premio regional de teatro en lengua extranjera con la obra The Bully, went to Almagro to see the classical Spanish play Don Juan Tenorio en el famoso Corral de Comedias de la ciudad manchega.

This outing was the prize for the enormous effort our students have done, rehearsing during break periods and some Friday afternoons and adding to their homework the extra task of memorizing their roles in English.

A pesar de que el viaje fue un poco largo y de que nos tocó un día muy caluroso, all the components of the drama group spent a wonderful day visiting the town, watching the performance and talking to the actors at the end of the play.
For our actors and actresses: En nombre de Rosa y mío (Olga) , esperamos que esta visita, organizada como premio a vuestro esfuerzo en el grupo de teatro, la recordéis siempre y que os ayude a seguir manteniendo vivo el gusanillo del teatro.

THE BIG CHALLENGE: PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY ON JUNE 10TH

The Big Challenge prizes will be given on June 10th at break time in room A027.

THE QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK : PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY

On April 29th, the winners of THE QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK received their prizes. Miguel Villegas, the head of the Department of Physics and Chemistry was in charge of giving the prizes. The two people winning the first prize Coral Manzanera and Manuel Orihuela ( 4º B) got a 40 euros voucher to spend on books, sport or school materials, the second and third prize winners, Noelia de Blas ( 4º A. Appearing in the picture) and Patricia Sotodosos (4º B) had their vouchers too, whereas the following best classified down to post 10, got a small gift to remember their participation in the contest.

Todos los participantes mostraron su satisfacción por haber tomado parte en este concurso y comentaron que les gustaría participar otra vez el próximo año. Desde aquí, os animamos a todos a participar en este concurso de cultura general en inglés y queremos agradecer su esfuerzo y trabajo a Miguel Villegas, el creador y alma del concurso, que desde el Departamento de Física y Química colabora con esta actividad a fomentar el carácter bilingüe de nuestro centro.

THE QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK : FINAL SCORES

These are the answers for the questions of the 4th and last week:

1-42000 ohms
The colour bands are read from left to right. First band denotes first digit, second band denotes second digit, and third band denotes subsequent number of zeros.
2-Spanish
3-Epimenides was a Cretan. Therefore, If he is lying, then the statement must be true. But if the statement is true, he must be lying.
4-Salt
5-Gold. The lyric is from “Blue Moon". It was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934.
6-Agora 7-A circle 8-Moon 9-37.0 ºC and 310,15 K
10-The traveller is Camilo José Cela, “Journey to the Alcarria”ç


So, our final score would be the following:

1	Manzanera Ruiz, Coral	4B	38
2	Orihuela Arévalo, Manuel	4B	38
3	Blas Gutiérrez, Noelia de	4A	37
4	Sotodosos San Clemente, Patricia	4B	35
5	Paniagua Tineo, Alejandro	4B	34
6	Douas Maadi, Mohamed Jihad	4B	32
7	Oñoro Salaices, Nerea	1A	32
8	Benito Kaesbach, Marco	1A	31
9	Vicente Ángel, Ángel	4B	31
10	Soporan , Adrian Ioan	4B	30
11	Jiménez Arcoba, Estrella	1A	28
12	Glez-Carvajal Centenera, Santiago	1A	27
13	Fernández Arroyo, Aitana	1B	25
14	Herrero Vega, Oscar	1A	24
15	Martínez Gotor, Alejandro	4B	24
16	Espinosa Martínez, Marina	4A	19
17	Martínez Sanz, Jaime	4A	19
18	Cornea , Diana Alina	4A	17
19	Ovaco Guamán, Diana Gisella	4A	16
20	Salgüero Gómez, Sofía	1BCH	16
21	Rabadán de Sousa, Michelle	1A	16
22	Shaffhauser Mermoz, Nicole Ailen	1B	15
23	Herreros de Miguel, Cristian Daniel	1BCH	14
24	Schaffhauser Mermoz, Brenda Denise	1BCH	14
25	Chasquibol Aguilar, Waldir Harolt	4B	12
26	Abad Abad, Adrián	1BCH	9
27	Daoudy , Issam	1BCH	8
28	Martínez Fernández, Laura	1BCH	8
29	González López, Luis Antonio	1BCH	6
30	Chamero González, Ana Belén	1BCH	6
31	Alexandru Marcu, Ioan	4A	5
32	Rico Mena, Cristina	1B	4
33	Blas Parra, Sergio	1B	3

Congratulations to the winners, Coral Manzanera and Manuel Arévalo, both in 4ºB, who did extremelly well in spite of the difficulty of some of the questions, They were followed by Noelia de Blas ( 4º A) and Patricia Sotodosos ( 4º B) . We would also like to congratulate the 1º ESO students to be classified: Nerea Oñoro and Marco Benito. Some of the questions had a higher level of difficulty than most contents in 1º ESO, so, they have done a very good job with these questions.
Haremos una entrega de premios próximamente . ¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores y a todos los participantes y esperamos contar con vuestra participación el próximo año!

QUESTIONS OF THE 3rd WEEK: SCORES

Here you are the answers for the 3rd week's questions:

1-Pandora 2- Touch, Smell, Taste, Sight, Hearing 3-About 1.28 secs

4-Stratosphere. The stratosphere contains ozone, so “ozone layer” could be a right answer as well.

5-The properties of magnetism. 6-That’s just enough! 7-La Coruña

8-The Camino de Santiago (Saint James's Way) 9-Iribú, Irene Burgos

10. The answer is: the surface of the lighter liquid in the left side of the U-tube will be above that of the water in the right side of the tube because the fluid in the left side of the U-tube is lighter than water. A taller column of the lighter liquid will be required to create the same pressure at the bottom of the U-tube.

As you can see, some of the questions were really difficult, but most people managed to answer them in the right way. Here you are the scores and remember, there is only one week left!!! ¡¡Solamente queda una semana para terminar el concurso!!

	Student
1	Benito Kaesbach, Marco	1A	25
2	Herrero Vega, Oscar	1A	24
3	Glez-Carvajal Centenera, Santiago	1A	24
4	Jiménez Arcoba, Estrella	1A	23
5	Oñoro Salaices, Nerea	1A	22
6	Rabadán de Sousa, Michelle	1A	16
7	Fernández Arroyo, Aitana	1B	20
8	Shaffhauser Mermoz, Nicole Ailen	1B	15
9	Rico Mena, Cristina	1B	4
10	Blas Parra, Sergio	1B	3
11	Blas Gutiérrez, Noelia de	4A	27
12	Espinosa Martínez, Marina	4A	19
13	Martínez Sanz, Jaime	4A	19
14	Cornea , Diana Alina	4A	17
15	Ovaco Guamán, Diana Gisella	4A	16
16	Alexandru Marcu, Ioan	4A	5
17	Manzanera Ruiz, Coral	4B	28
18	Orihuela Arévalo, Manuel	4B	28
19	Paniagua Tineo, Alejandro	4B	26
20	Douas Maadi, Mohamed Jihad	4B	26
21	Sotodosos San Clemente, Patricia	4B	26
22	Martínez Gotor, Alejandro	4B	24
23	Vicente Ángel, Ángel	4B	23
24	Soporan , Adrian Ioan	4B	23
25	Chasquibol Aguilar, Waldir Harolt	4B	12
26	Salgüero Gómez, Sofía	1BCH	16
27	Herreros de Miguel, Cristian Daniel	1BCH	14
28	Schaffhauser Mermoz, Brenda Denise	1BCH	14
29	Abad Abad, Adrián	1BCH	9
30	Daoudy , Issam	1BCH	8
31	Martínez Fernández, Laura	1BCH	8
32	González López, Luis Antonio	1BCH	6
33	Chamero González, Ana Belén	1BCH	6