New Zealand became the first country in the world to give
women the right to vote in 1893, but in Spain
women weren’t allowed to vote until … 1977!!!
And it has been only in 2005 that women in Kuwait have been given this right!
Incredible, isn’t it? But this was not the only discrimination […]
W e liked the love theme so much, that we played a bit of “Romeo and Juliet”, by Shakespeare.
We found the English spoken at the time quite old-fashioned,
and difficult to pronounce , but it was great fun anyway!
On Valentine´s Day people send gifts and cards.
These let others know that someone loves them.
The story began when a Roman emperor banned men from marrying. he wanted them to join his army instead.
St. Valentine was a priest who carried out weddings in secret. He was sentenced to death.
On his last day, he thanked his jailer´s […]
The History of Groundhog’s Day:
When German settlers arrived in the United States
in the 1700s,
they brought a tradition known as Candlemas Day.
Candlemas Day came at the mid-point
between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.
Superstition told that if the weather
was nice on that day, the second half of
Winter would be stormy and cold.
The weather […]
We were listening to this song in class on Friday. We quite liked it, or better said, we liked how it sounded, but we hadn’t paid much attention to the lyrics.
However, when we went through it in class we discovered we didn’t like the story it was telling.
We’re definitely against ill-treatment, and we […]
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
In England, they sing Christmas carols. Carols are special Christmas songs. It is an old tradition to collect money for charities.
In Tineo we sang some of these christmas carols
We even went on a SLEIGH RIDE
And it was all thanks to our languague assistant CONOR RILEY.
He played the keyboard and manned the sleigh.
It was great […]
Last Wednesday (24th November 2010) we went to Gijón. We visited a really enjoyable exhibition at “Laboral Centro de Arte”. Watch these videos to see some of the installations and artworks we saw:
We also took some nice pictures there. Click on the image to see the display.
Later on, we watched “Boy”, a very funny film made […]
Bonfire Night is celebrated in the United Kingdom on 5th November. The date marks the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Guy Fawkes was Catholic and practiced his religion in secret. He was really very angry with king James I because he passed many laws against Catholics.
In 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group […]
We celebrated Halloween in Tineo once again and we all had a great time, didn´t we?
It was a time to remember, wasn´t it?
We had Conor Patrick with us as the storyteller.
Click HERE
He told us frightening stories; we all got very scared.
We did a lot of things to put on display: skeletons, scary witches, banners, candy bags, Jack o´Lanterns, acronyms, […]
Once again, it’s Halloween time!
Fall has arrived, leaves are falling, we’re enjoying delicious apples, hazlenuts, … pumpkins…
And pumpkins are a synomym of Halloween, as we all know!
We’ve been talking about Celts, tombstones and jack-o’-lanterns all through this week. Here you have a brief account of all we’ve been learning (or, with some of us, […]