CALATALIFA 2019-2020

WRITE A LETTER TO CELEBRATE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP! At IES Calatalifa we want to celebrate the 14th of February by writing letters to our beloved ones. So don't miss the opportunity to tell that special person that you love, admire or worship them. You just have to write a letter with clear handwriting and address it to your special friend or sweetheart. Then, hand in your letter so that your teacher puts it into our mailbox, and on Valentine's Day all letters will be handed out to their corresponding recipients. Whether you sign your letter or not.... is up to you! VALENTINE'S DAY COUNTDOWN

Watch a short clip by Roy Purdy if  you want to smile and walk into the new year in the right mood 😁

Happy New Year!!! At the beginning of the year, many people resolve to change some aspects of their lives in order to improve them or to accomplish personal goals. If this is your case and you need some ideas, click on the  LINK  to find 50 New Year's Resolutions and some advice to succeed in achieving them.

This year Thanksgiving Day occurs on Thursday, November 28. It is a national holiday in the United States, and people travel great distances to be with their families for this occasion. The tradition started with the Pilgrim Fathers, the founders of a colony in North America. in 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. Today the traditional Thanksgiving meal is similar to the first. People eat roast turkey with cranberry sauce, potatoes, corn and pumpkin pie. New York City celebrates with Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This department store organized its first parade in 1924. This parade is very famous...

It's one of America's favorite holidays, but what's the real story behind the tricks and treats of Halloween? Watch this   video   and find out about the true story behind the ancient origins of Halloween. Click   here   for a presentation about Halloween Origins (1st and 2nd ESO) Click  here  to listen to the song  "This is Halloween"  from Tim Burton's film  "The Nightmare Before Christmas"  and do the  QUIZ .

CAMBRIDGE WRITE & IMPROVE WEBSITE Write & Improve  uses new technology developed at the University of Cambridge to mark English writing accurately, in seconds. Submit your work and  Write & Improve  will score it on the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) scale, giving it a level from A1 (lowest) to C2 (highest). Write & Improve  also shows you the parts of your text that may need improvement. So you can work more on these areas and keep improving. Click HERE to start improving your writing skills.