Saint Valentine's Day

Some love quotes

Friendship is Love without his wings! 

Lord Byron

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. 

Paulo Coelho

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 

Mother Teresa

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

François de la Rochefoucauld

Vocabulary you may need ...

A Valentine= 1. A decorative card which you send to someone you love. When you are popular you get a lot of valentines 2. A person, someone you love or would like to have a romantic relationship with. Fall in love= begin to love another person.  Love at first sight= The instant and extreme romantic attraction for a stranger the first time you see her/him. Flirt = (verb) you are playful with someone because you’re attracted to her/him and you want to show that you like her/him. Date= a romantic meeting, two people going out.  Romance= a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. Cupid= the god of love. Bow and arrow= Cupid's weapon, Secret admirer= A person who is too embarrassed or shy to tell you that he or she likes you and prefers to remain anonymous.  Have butterflies in your stomach, a Candlelit dinner... and so on.

Romantic films

                          

                  

Happy Groundhog Day!!!

          

                    (1886-2016) This year is the 130th anniversary of this particular festivity. 

That's our game for Groundhog Day.

Read the sentences and  number them in chronological order. then you'll find the story.

• If the Groundhog does not see his shadow and stays outside, warm weather is coming.

• People gather to watch the Groundhog on February second.

• Then he looks for his shadow.

• The Groundhog comes out of his hole.

• But if he sees his shadow, the Groundhog will run back into his hole.

• This means we will have six more weeks of cold weather.

Christmas Holiday by Beatriz Riaño 2ºA ESO

Bye-bye 2015, Welcome 2016

   Play this song, I'm sure you've heard it a lot of times.

More about the song and the lyrics.

      The song Auld Lang Syne is practically synonymous with new year's celebrations, and it is probably the world's best-known song after Happy Birthday. This song, whose Scottish title roughly means "long, long time ago", became popular in the 18th century by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, and his friend George Thompson who wrote the music.There are currently versions of Auld Lang Syne in all continents.

      Over the years, due to his Scottish title and perhaps because people only sing its first verse, the message of nostalgia for the passing of time and hope to meet in the future have become something that is not even clear to many English speakers. Besides being used in new year's celebrations,people sing it in many parts of the world as a common song in farewell parties.

THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving Day is a US national holiday. THANKSGIVING is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of NOVEMBER in the United States. Family members and friends are together on this day. It is time to thanks and express gratitude in general. It is also a day of feasting, football and floats.

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God and the Native Americans for helping the PILGRIMS survive the brutal winter. Half of the pilgrims who arrived on the MAYFLOWER had died, but many more would have died without the help from the NATIVES. They taught the pilgrims how to harvest food.

The traditional Thanksgiving menu is TURKEY, stuffing, sweet potatoes, PUMPKIN PIE and cranberries sauce.

BLACK FRIDAY is the day following Thanksgiving. Since the early 2000s, it has been regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US,  and most major retailers open very early (and more recently during overnight hours) and offer promotional sales.

       

                                I bet you didn't know about Thanksgiving history.
                 There are some interesting facts you won't probably know about thanksgiving.
                 Have a look at the video and find out which traditional recipes weren't served at first                                    tradition celebration.

Interesting English words that you probably say wrong

Interesting English words that you probably say wrong.

Have a look 

Goya in The National Gallery in London

The National Gallery in London hosts the most famous portraits by Goya, one of the bestknown Spanish painters
.http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/goya-portraits