17.2.20

St. Patrick's Day Quiz

In some days we're going to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and we challenge you to tell us how much you know about this festivity. 




If you answer correctly to these questionnaires you'll get an extra half mark for your term's assessment, so we encourage you to participate!!

To provide you with some help, you'll find some of the answers looking at the posters hanged on the English Corner board. 





4.11.19

Short horror stories


It's been Halloween, but it doesn't mean that fear is gone. So now we are expecting you to tell us about those scary and frightenig facts that you can imagine. We encourage you to participate writing the scariest, the most thrilling and breathtaking short horror story you can imagine. Your story must contain between 120 and 150 words. Send your story in Google Classroom. The best stories will be published here and will get a special award! 


11.4.19

Penguin's April Fools Month

As you may have noticed, our previous post about the flying penguins was just a prank on April Fools Day! 

Here we leave you the making of the prank. 



And here we start the April Fools Month, during which we will show you some other pranks, jokes, ideas for pranks and we also encourage you to contribute showing or practicing with your pranks... But don't mess it up with the teachers. This is, for sure, forbidden!!










18.3.19

Women in poetry (Emily Dickinson)


I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –  
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –  
To an admiring Bog!


Women in poetry (Sylvia Plath)



Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful---
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.




Women in poetry (Gwendolin Brooks)



We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000

                 THE POOL PLAYERS.
                  SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.



We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.



Women in poetry (Diane Z. Shore)



Get Out of Bed!
by Diane Z. Shore
"Get out of bed, you silly fool!
Get up right now, it’s time for school.
If you don’t dress without a fuss,
I’ll throw you naked on the bus!"
"Oh, Mom, don’t make me go today.
I’m feeling worse than yesterday.
You don’t know what I’m going through.
I’ve got a strange, rare case of flu.
"My body aches, my throat is sore.
I’m sure I’m knocking on death’s door.
You can’t send me to school—achoo!—
’Cause everyone could get it, too.
"Besides, the kids despise me there.
They always tease and always stare.
And all the teachers know my name.
When something’s wrong, it’s me they blame."
"You faked a headache yesterday.
Don’t pull that stuff on me today.
Stop acting like a silly fool—
The principal cannot skip school!"


Women in poetry (Rupy Kaur)


"Our work should equip
the next generation of women
to outdo us in every field
this is the legacy we'll leave behind" - Rupi Kaur