School trips in progress...

The English Department is organising two main activities abroad:

1-2 BATX: London Trip 2017
3 ESO: Dublin Language Stay 2017

In Sant Cugat:
2 ESO: 2-day Outdoors activities in English (together with the PE Dept)

We are sorry to inform you that the Student Exchange in Holland has been cancelled this school year. We hope we can see our Dutch partners next year.

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Sorry for such a long absence. Now that we are into the everyday school routine again, we'll try to update our blog. Welcome back!

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Just one week left!
Dear teachers of the English Department,
Enjoy your summer holidays and see you all in September.

READERS 2016-2017

In case you already want to get the readers for next school year:

LLIBRES DE LECTURA SEMINARI D’ANGLÈS CURS 2016-2017

	1r TRIMESTRE	2n TRIMESTRE	3r TRIMESTRE
1 ESO	Cyber Thief. Shirley Holmes. Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1. ISBN 9780194786119	Jake’s Parrot. Paul Hernan and Yetis Ozkan. Oxford Dominoes 1. ISBN 9780194247733	The Blue Diamond. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Oxford Dominoes 1. ISBN 0194243400
2 ESO	England. John Escott. Factfiles. Oxford Bookworms Stage 1 ISBN 978-0-19-423380-4	Titanic. Tim Vicary. Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Stage 1. ISBN 9780194236195	The Piano Man. Tim Vicary. Oxford Bookworms Stage 1. ISBN 9780194786102
3 ESO	Chemical Secret. Tim Vicary. Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 ISBN 978-0-19-479112-0	All about Ireland. Emily Winston. Burlington Books 3 ESO. ISBN 9789963511532	Two Worlds. Helen Everett-Camplin. Level 4 Intermediate. Cambridge. B1 ISBN 9788483235669
4 ESO	Strangers on a Train. Patricia Highsmith. Penguin Readers. Pearson.Level 4. ISBN 9781405879767	Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens. Macmillan readers.  5 intermediate. ISBN 9781405073011	A Kiss Before Dying. Ira Levin. Macmillan readers level 5. ISBN 9781405076746
1 BTX	Slumdog Millionaire. Vikas Swarup. Macmillan Readers. Intermediate. ISBN 9780230404717	In the Shadow of the Mountain. Helen Naylor. Level 5. Cambridge English Readers. ISBN 9780521775519	Frozen Pizza and other Slices of Life. Cambridge Advanced English Readers. Level 6. ISBN 9780521750783
2 BTX	Cry Freedom. John Briley. Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6. ISBN 978-0-19-479256-1	You will be given a list with some titles to choose ONE.

SHAKESPEARE IN LONDON COMPETITION

2nd YEAR BATXILLERAT

SHAKESPEARE IN LONDON COMPETITION

4th  year ESO Elective Subject

SHAKESPEARE IN LONDON COMPETITION

3rd year ESO Elective Subject

Playing Shakespeare

Optativa 3 ESO

Optativa 4 ESO

English 2 BAT

These three groups will be popular soon. Under Pilar's orders, they are playing some scenes of 3 Shakespeare's plays.

Coming soon....

Homage on Shakespeare

Específica 4ESO: Anglès 2a llengua estrangera.
Elective subject in 4th ESO: English as a 2nd foreign language. These days the students are shooting a scene of a Shakespeare's play. What for? Coming soon...

Homage on the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote’s famous beginning words go like this in the original Spanish:

En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo…

Twenty simple words that, seemingly, would offer no problem to a translator. Twenty words of common use, with a simple word order. Possibly the “no ha mucho” could be replaced by the modern “no hace mucho”… the rest is not convoluted or intricate; the syntax is understandable, the meaning plain. However, nine different translators give us nine unlike translations of those 20 words; 18 really because we must deduct La Mancha, which has no translation.

Now read the different versions and judge for yourself:

Thomas Shelton “There lived not long ago since, in a certain village of La Mancha, the name whereof I purposely omit, a gentleman…

Charles Jarvis: “In a village of La Mancha, in Spain, there once lived one of those gentlemen…”

John Ormsby: “In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long ago since one of those gentlemen…”

Samuel Putnam: “In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall, there lived not so long ago one of those gentlemen…”

Clifford H. Galloway: “In one of the villages that dot the Spanish plain of La Mancha –I have no desire to recall its name- there lived not long ago an hidalgo…”

Richard Emery Roberts: “At a certain village in La Mancha, there lived not long ago an hidalgo of the familiar type…”

Walter Starkie: “At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen…”

Gerald J. Davis: “Not long ago, in a village of La Mancha, the name whereof I purposely omit, there lived a country gentleman…”

Edith Grossman: “Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago…”

(source: By Delfin CarbonellPublished June 25, 2013Fox News Latino)

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Shakespeare 2016

2016 commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare; this special anniversary year is a truly unique opportunity to learn about his works and his time. Some of our students are working on some of Shakespeare's famous plays.

......more news coming soon.....

III STUDENT EXCHANGE SANT CUGAT- APELDOORN

We are waiting for our Dutch partners' visit. Everything is ready for you! See you in April.

JORNADA DE PORTES OBERTES 2016

US ESPEREM EL DILLUNS 29 DE FEBRER A LES 19.00 PER INFORMAR-VOS. (AULA 203)

JPO 2016