MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

LET'S PRACTICE ABOUT YOUR DAILY ROUTINES!

Here you are some games to practice daily routines. I hope you enjoy them!

LET'S CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING DAY!!!

Today, our 1st ESO students have learnt a lot about Thanksgiving Day with Angelica, our language assistant, and her partner, Andrew. She has taught them how to celebrate this festival like a real American (a bit of historical background, customs and traditions, food, shopping, sport, etc.). And finally, to round it off, we have tried THE BEST APPLE CRISP EVER!!!!

Thanks for everything!!!!! 

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THANKSGIVING DAY

Americans are about to celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday which is a kind of pre-Xmas due to the gathering of family and friends. However, its original purpose was to give thanks. Get to know this celebration better with the following video.

HALLOWEEN CONTEST 2018

Here you are a short film about our Halloween contest 2018! I hope you enjoy it!

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HALLOWEEN FUN!!!!

Today, our language assistant has taught our 1st and 2nd ESO students about the traditions of Halloween in the United States.

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BOO!!!! HALLOWEEN 2018 IS COMING!!!!

Ready for this year spooky celebration at school? Once more we need your collaboration and participation to make this Halloween special. The countdown has started!!!!

Remember that you can sign up in any, if not all!!!, of the categories (jack o'lantern, poster or spooky food). 

The contest will take place next Wednesday (31st October) and on Tuesday (30th October) our language assisstant, Angélica, has prepared a big surprise for our 1st and 2nd of ESO students.  Ask your English teacher for more details.

Lots of fiendish fun guaranteed!!!!!

MEET YOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

Hey There!

My name is Angelica Padilla. Right now, I´m 27 years old.  However, my birthday is November 29th.  So, I will be 28 years old in one month.  My favorite color is green, blue, orange, and pink.  I like to dance, read, hike with my dog, sleep, and eat.

I am from The United States of America. 🇺🇸  More specifically, I am from the state New Mexico. New Mexico is a state in the United States southwest region. We border Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. We are the only place in the United States to border 4 states at once.  You can visit the top left corner of my state and be in 4 places at once!

• New Mexico was founded by Spanish Conquistadores in 1598 they called the newly discovered land, New Spain. 🇪🇸 
•    In 1821, we became a part of the Mexican territory and our name changed to New Mexico. 🇲🇽
• We became an official state of the United States in 1912 but we never changed our name. 🇺🇸

I was born and raised in a city named Santa Fe.  Santa Fe is the Capital City of New Mexico.  My family lives there and I will always call Santa Fe my home.

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Asisi during Christmas.

The full moon shines and rises over the mountains.

Deer is a common occurrence in the backyards of some homes. 

Every first week of September, we celebrate the Santa Fe Fiestas. We start off Fiestas with The Burning of Zozobra. Zozobra is a 28 meter (93 feet) puppet.  We stuff the puppet with our year´s gloom (divorce papers, speeding tickets, etc) and we burn it and hope to start anew for the year.

A VIP view of Zozobra

Video of our Zozobra Event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WHhlJ08L4

My parents still live there. Here is a picture of my family and my dog. My dog's name is Penny. I miss her very much. I have two sisters. My older sister's name is Anita and my younger sister's name is Andrea. I have a fiancée named Andrew. He actually asked me to marry him in the Rioja region of Spain last summer.

I went to the University of New Mexico which is located in Albuquerque. It's about a 98 kilometer (60 mile) drive south of Santa Fe. If New Mexico skies don't have sunsets that make the sky look like it's on fire, than it's filled with hot air balloons of different special shapes. 

Videos of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAMTlI6XxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPe6JtL7bA

In 2015 I lived in Chile and taught English in a municipal school. Chile was incredible!  

OUR 1ST ESO STUDENTS INTRODUCE THEMSELVES!!!!

Our 1st ESO students have already designed their own blogs and have posted their first entry so, if you want to learn something else about them, have a look at the "students' blogs" section and click on their names.

Nuestro alumnado de 1º de ESO ya ha creado su blog y ha publicado su primera entrada. Si quieres saber algo más sobre ellos ve a la sección "students' blogs" y pincha sobre sus nombres.

CLASSROOM LANGUAGE POSTER

Here's a poster with some useful vocabulary to use in your lessons. I hope you like it!!!!

WELCOME TO OUR BILINGUAL BLOG!!!

Bienvenido al blog de bilingüismo del "IES Acebuche" en Torredonjimeno, Jaén. Este espacio quiere ser un instrumento que permita al profesorado implicado compartir recursos de interés, mostrar trabajos de los alumnos e informar sobre temas relacionados con nuestra enseñanza bilingüe.

Nuestra experiencia bilingüe acaba de comenzar, este es nuestro primer curso de implantación de la enseñanza bilingüe y desde aquí queremos animar a nuestros alumnos de 1º de ESO para que sigan tan creativos y participativos como hasta ahora.

Welcome to our bilingual blog for " IES  Acebuche" in Torredonjimeno, Jaén. This space aims to be a tool that allows teachers to share resources and links of interest, display student work, and report on issues related to our bilingual studies.

Our bilingual experience is just beginning, this is our first year of implementing bilingual studies and from here we want to encourage our students of 1º ESO to continue to participate as enthusiastically and creatively as always.