Wooden Houses in Salem,Ma.

Eduardo, one of our readers, has sent us this beautiful picture taken in Salem (USA) recently. It´s just a pity you can´t enter our competition as you are not a student at our School, maybe next year?

Thank you very much for sharing your picture with us and for reading us!!

Hello everybody,

I´ve come up with a new idea for our blog...

I´m going to put your mind to the test with some riddles and brain teasers every week. So, browse around and test yourself with these mind puzzles.

An easy riddle to start with.

The part of the bird
that is not in the sky,
which can swim in the ocean
and always stays dry.

Question: What is it?

Now, try this brain teaser.

You're driving a bus that is leaving on a trip from Pennsylvania and ending in New York. To start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus. At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on. At the next bus stop, 2 people get off and 2 people get on. At the next bus stop, 12 people get on and 16 people get off. At the next bus stop, 5 people get on and 3 people get off. Question: What color are the bus driver's eyes?

Come on, send your answers before next Thursday!!

Good luck.

Carmela.

March 25
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year.
March 25, Lady Day, was New Years' Day in many European implementations of the Julian calendar, preceding by exactly nine months Christmas Day.

Holidays & Observances - March 25th:
Palace Theatre opened, 1913
The first color TV was manufactured by RCA, 1954
The new $100 bill goes into circulation, 1996
Waffle Day (In Sweden, the feast of the Annunciation, Our Lady's Day, has come to be known as Waffle Day and traditionally falls on March 25, nine months to the day before Christmas) www.swedishkitchen.com/sk_other_holidays.html

Celebrity Birthdays - March 25th:
Anita Bryant, 1940 (Singer)
Aretha Franklin, 1942 (Singer)
Elton John, 1947 (Musician)
Jim Lovell, 1928 (Astronaut)
Sarah Jessica Parker, 1965 (Actress)
Cristina Galindo, 1972 (Teacher)

The Emerald Isle

OK, it's out of competition, but I wanted to join our photographers with this picture taken in Ireland (St Patrick's hangover lingers) some time ago.

I hope to see more of your pics soon!

Alex

The Language School celebrates Saint Patrick's Day

To all the Language School students,

Thanks for participating!!!!

Your teachers.

And....... St.Patrick´s Day Poem

by Sara, Sandra, Laura and Azucena

(Monográfico Pre-intermedio A2)

Leprechauns are green
Using their green hats
Can disappear behind the rainbow
Know where the pot of gold is
You can track them down among the shamrocks

Great job girls,

Carmela

Concurso de Fotografía (II)

Rogamos a los participantes en el concurso de fotografía que, además de la foto y su título, incluyan el nombre y curso del alumno en el mensaje que nos envíen.

¡Gracias por participar!

CONCURSO DE FOTOGRAFÍA

Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de
Navalmoral de la Mata
Concurso fotográfico “Pasaba por ahí”

1. Objetivo del concurso: fomentar entre los alumnos el intercambio de experiencias a través de sus viajes y el conocimiento de diferentes culturas.

2. Participantes: todos los alumnos matriculados en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Navalmoral de la Mata en el presente curso escolar 2008-2009.

3. Pautas: cada participante podrá mandar un máximo de tres (3) fotografías realizadas en sus viajes, que serán originales e inéditas. El alumno debe ser reconocible en la fotografía. Cada fotografía será acompañada por una frase que transmita la experiencia que desea compartir.

4. Presentación: fotografía digital, sin comprimir. Cada fotografía se enviará a la siguiente cuenta de correo: eoinavalmoralconcursos@gmail.com

5. Plazo de presentación: este concurso comienza el 9 de marzo y acaba el 23 de abril.

6. Criterio de valoración: se tendrá en cuenta la originalidad en la forma de captar y transmitir el espíritu viajero de los participantes.

7. Sistema de votación: las votaciones se realizarán a través de los tres blogs de los departamentos, en un enlace creado al efecto.

8. Plazo de votación: desde el sábado, 25 de abril hasta el miércoles, 6 de mayo (ambos inclusive).

9. Premios: se premiarán las tres fotografías más votadas.

10. Entrega de premios: jueves, 7 de mayo, con motivo del Día del Centro. Se efectuará en la Casa de la Cultura de Navalmoral de la Mata.

11. Protección de datos: el nombre de los participantes y las fotografías enviadas podrán ser objeto de comunicación pública, siempre que dicha comunicación esté relacionada con su participación en este concurso.

12. Direcciones de los blogs:
www.eoinavalmoralfrances.blogspot.com
www.eoinavalmoralingles.blogspot.com
www.eoinavalmoralportugues.blogspot.com

13. La participación en este concurso supone la plena aceptación de estas bases. La Escuela Oficial de Idiomas se reserva el derecho a modificar estas bases sin previo aviso.

WEAR GREEN ON SAINT PATRICK´S DAY!!

It´s St. Patrick´s Day this coming Tuesday and we´re planning to celebrate it at our school. How? Wearing something green!!

But, why celebrate it?

St. Patrick is Ireland´s patron saint, and March 17th , St. Patrick´s Day, marks his Roman Catholic feast day.

He is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, and there probably never have been.... Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to pagan practice. While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it´s St. Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the "Holy Wells" that still bear this name.

Saint Patrick´s Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck and it is celebrated all around the world. Parades worldwide are decked out in colourful green and it is a day when everyone aspires to be Irish, and there are festival parades in all of the major cities of the world on March 17th, most particularly where there is an Irish diaspora.

HAPPY ST. PADDY´S DAY TO ALL YOU GUYS THAT CELEBRATE IT!!!

If you don´t, may you have the luck of the Irish anyway!!!

Your teachers.

Hi!

A new issue of Speak Up is on the shelf, waiting for new readers. With the usual mix of information and entertainment, this month's magazine features articles on Cambridge University, St. Patrick's day parades around the world and many more...

...plus a terrific film starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana: "The other Boleyn Girl." Mean, mean (but lucky) Henry VIII...

Have fun!

Alex

new horsesshoes

Nailing the nails

Wearing it shoes to horse Melendy

Carnival in Navalmoral

My friends and me, saturday night