http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish Un nuevo blog en Educastur Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:13:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     In America, according to Kathryn Vanney, people sing lots of Christmas carols. Carols are special Christmas songs. In Tineo we sang some of these christmas carols. [youtube]Cme3j9el7uw&feature=g-upl&context=G2fe8630AUAAAAAAAAAA[/youtube] [youtube]Y51JyG7M3dw[/youtube] We wrote postcards, made wishes for the new year and decorated our own Christmas Trees in a very special way. CLICK on the CHRISTMAS TREE to see it all on ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2012/01/15/christmas-time-in-tineo/   Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside in the United States and Canada for giving thanks. People give thanks with feasting and prayer for the blessings that they have received during the year. The first Thanksgivings were harvest festivals, or days for thanking God for plentiful crops. For this reason, the ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/12/16/we-celebrated-thanksgiving/ 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 KATHRYN VANNEY this time with us to help us. She told us frightening stories and created a dark and stormy night by making body sounds; we all ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/11/20/halloween-2011-in-tineo/ We celebrated a party on Friday, May 27th, because Conor Patrick Riley   , our cool language assistant, was leaving us. He left us to go to PARADISE (as he says),to ILKESTON - his home village, in  England, for his summer holidays. He promised to come back to pay a visit to ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/06/20/conor%c2%b4s-farewell-party/ We've spent a wonderful week in Margate (Kent) and its surroundings ... again!!         This year, however, the trip was a bit different. We decided to focus on the figure of Charles Dickens, who lived and placed many of his works and characters in the area. Do you want to know what ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/06/05/margate-2011/            Were you thinking we hadn't gone on our London - Paris trip this year??   But of course we have!! And we've had a great time!!   We were boiling hot most of the time, with  really sunny  and marvelous weather , (amazing, isn't it?), but we did enjoy ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/05/05/london-paris-trip-2011/ Do you want to know what we did for St Patrick´s day? Read and you will be amazed. We tasted GREEN NON-ALCOHOLIC beer, prepared by LAURA (Conor´s cousin) and using ”green dye” . YES, YES, WE DID THAT, [youtube]lZTw3eWwqNg[/youtube] Could you believe it? Some of us really liked it… [youtube]A_DWaRc5190[/youtube] Click on the “drinking shamrock” below to check We listened ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/03/26/saint-patrick%c2%b4s-day-2011/ We had this show performed at our Secondary School on Monday, March 14th, and … WHAT A SHOW !!! Didn´t we all enjoy it??? Do you remember what it was about?: Bob´s Broadcasting Company was founded in 1921, (a year before the BBC that we all know and love), and has been 90 years ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/03/20/this-is-the-bbc-show/   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 ... http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/03/08/remember-march-8th-international-women-day/ 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!     [youtube]1kwkDWrwcaQ[/youtube] [youtube]RlVFWyNn6gA[/youtube] [youtube]EFF2TS6agbE[/youtube] http://blog.educastur.es/tineoenglish/2011/02/28/oh-romeo-romeo/