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Goodbye to our 2016 students

We wish the best to our 4th year ESO students this year. We'll certainly miss them next year:

Orla eso 2016 from Tino Grandio

Pallares 2016

Pallares xvi 2016 06_20 from Tino Grandio

Practise your English during the summer holidays

Now our school year is over we have to start thinking of how to keep our English alive.

1. If you have failed, you should follow the directions given in class and write to your teacher if you need.
2. If you have passed English this year there are many ways of keeping it alive without having to study grammar or read thick books during the summer. These are some of the  things you can do:

• Listen to songs in English, read the lyric and maybe even sing along. There are many websites where you can find the lyrics of your favourite songs in English.
• Watch our favourite TV programmes and films in English and even read the subtitles in English. this is a good option if we can't grasp much of what is being said.
• There is an interesting website where you can find short audio files to practise your English, audio-lingua.eu. Just choose levels A1 or A2.
• Read the news in English. Many newspapers have an interesting and easy to read website if we are learning English: USA Today, BBC English, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, etc. or choose a specific newspaper for English language learners, such as News in Levels.
• It's also a good occasion to have a look at the materials we've been making this year for our eTwinning project, Let's Cook Together.
• Try Duolingo to learn English or any other language autonomously.
• And finally, just pay attention of whatever you see around. There are lots of notices, instruction booklets, etc. in English and you can certainly understand more than you problably think.

If I were you...

What is Brexit?

WHAT IS IT?
The UK is going to hold a referendum to decide if they stay in the European Union or if they are the first country to leave it.

WHEN? 
The referendum will take place on the 23rd of June.
Polling stations will open between 7 a.m. and 10 p. m.
If they decide to leave, that process would probably take years.

PROS OF LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNION

• The UK would stop paying the fee they pay to the EU every year.
• Taxing might change as EU taxing regulations would not apply.
• CAP (The Central Agricultural Policy) is said to be very expensive and not very effective.
• The EU is thought to have a lot of "useless" bureaucracy.
• In the EU there is free movement of people so the UK has little power controlling immigration and immigrants are supposed to benefit from and even abuse the British welfare system.

CONS OF LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNION

• Free trade with the EU would be limited and about 50% of their trade takes place with the EU.
• If the UK keeps special agreements with the EU (as Norway does) they would still have to pay and their situation would not be very different from the one they have now.
• London is one of the most important financial centres and it might be affected.
• The EU is one of the largest world markets and access to it would resent.
• The EU has introduced legislation protecting workers: regulated working hours (limited to 48 a week),  paid parental leave and anti-discrimination laws.
• Many jobs depend of the current relation with the EU.
• Britons travelling to the EU would need their passports again.
• Most immigrants into the UK have a higher education level than Britons themselves.

FURTHER READING

• Video and activities for students
• Express.co.uk
• The Week
• Metro

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School trip to Burgos and Cantabria

In this link you can start editing a presentation about our school trip:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Oq48SXaB1Ir2X91mM7-APLNpgyiKPPSBIe61Mf_ykVc/edit?usp=sharing

Don't worry about th epictures. We'll add them later on.