Bye 2014! Welcome New Year!!!

Hi guys!

How are your holidays going?

Did you have time to rest? Are you bored? Or are you getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party?   Are you going out on New Year’s Eve (31^st December)? Will you have the ‘Lucky grapes’ at home? In ‘Puerta del Sol’, any other place? You can write something on the blog telling us how you are spending these days… Did you decorate your houses? I did.

This is what I’ve done so far (for the moment).I went to my parents’ house in the village to spend Christmas Eve (24^th December) and Christmas Day (25^th December). I went by train on 23^rd December.

It was foggy and chilly in the village. 2 degrees Celsius!!

 I set ‘The crib’ or ‘Manger’ (this is the Nativity Scene; typical Spanish decorations at Christmas).

Here is a picture.

Do you like it? Do you set ‘The Crib’ in your houses? Post a picture and show it to me! And tell me what you are doing these holidays!

 On New Year’s Eve (31^st December) I’m going to the village again. I’m going to have dinner with my parents and my partner. After dinner, we’ll have the grapes at home and then, we’ll go out for a drink with some friends.

What about you? What are your plans for the last night of the year?

On this video you can see some Christmas traditions in the UK!

On this one you can see some Christmas traditions in the USA!

I would like to remember what we did in our last class of the year.

We listened to the song that Natalia had prepared previously. ‘You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone’. Natalia chose this song because we were talking about trips and transport. In her opinion, the song was connected to our topic because it was about a girl setting off (starting a trip) to change her life.

Very good, Natalia.

Then, we went on (continue) with our end of term project.

We had a ‘Quiz Show’ competition. We had to make some changes as (because) neither Paula - our presenter - nor Rodrigo - one of our contestants- didn’t come to class. We also missed the questions related to geography and food, because they were Paula and Rodrigo’s commission.

It ended up like this: Almudena was the presenter. She read the questions and checked the answers so as to give the points. Our contestants were Team1 formed by Jorge and Natalia; and Team2, Noelia and Laura.

It was a close contest (similar forces) but in the end (finally), Team 1 won the quiz!!!

 But the winner of our Academy Games’ Awards was… Almudena!!! Congratulations!!! Well done!!!

And… that was all! Enjoy the rest of your holidays! Don’t choke with the grapes and … I’ll see you on 7^th January! Just after Twelfth Night (Reyes)

Have Fun!!!