HERE AGAIN 2010

I finally remembered the passwords, isn't it great?

SCHOOLYEAR 2009-2010

News update!!
Next year, I will be teaching in EOI Bermeo too although I still don't know which level. I hope to see you there!!

TO MY A1 STUDENTS

Dear students,

This is my END OF YEAR LETTER FOR YOU.

It is not just a simple letter, but a complicated letter, you can use in summer, together with WORDREFERENCE to try to learn more words in English while you try to understand it.

This year, it has been a pleasure to be with you in class.

I would like to say thank you to all of you, especially to the ones who have come to class EVERY DAY. I know it is not easy to come to class after work and enjoy it (0n rainy days, 0n cold days, on days when you have many things to do, 0n crisis days, in ERE days etc)

I would like to add that I have laughed a lot with you in class, and that is a treasure that will go with me wherever I go. I heard of Lucas, or Look ass while we were learning phrasal verbs with the word LOOK, (lucas is the barber of Bermeo, they told me) and laughed about that for days... I still cannot avoid laughing when I remember.

Some words will remain in my memory for years even when I forget your names (you already know that my memory is like a sieve, which means I am forgetful for names) : Does the word "piscin" bring anything to your minds? Jon, let me tell you, I will never forget you writing "PISCIN" instead of swimming pool.!! It was such fun!!

I liked your effort in class, and your sense of humour. It has been the best of medicines for me, to cure my woes when I arrived home. I was really lucky to have you in my class.

For the next year, (regardless of where I am) I wish you luck, happiness and strength to continue learning English. And from time to time, I will continue writing in this blog. We can know about each other in summer too. (I am hooked on the Internet, now I can use it properly and this will serve me as a test to improve my skill in new technologies.)

Last but not least, I think that we didn't say goodbye in the proper way, so if you feel that you would like to talk for the last time over a beer, have fun for some minutes and do a proper farewell, I will be more than happy to receive your ideas about WHICH DATE and TIME we can do that. Please let's make it before the 20th of June!

We'll keep in touch

Ana

GOOD TEST!

tHANKS FOR COMING TO THE TEST, I AM DOING MY BEST TO CORRECT IT AS QUICKLY AS I CAN

EXAM DATES

Here you have the exam dates:

Written exam: June 1, 2009 (MOnday)
from 15:00 to 17:30

Oral exam: June 8, 2009 (Monday)
from 9:00 to 14:00

Wish you luck!

BETI ZUREKIN / ALWAYS WITH YOU

We may win, or we may loose. That is the essence of sport, and playing matches. But we never give up. Our Athletic and its lions always fight until the end, and this they proved yesterday, May 13th, 2009 in Mestalla football stadium, in the King's cup final 2009.

We support you, we are proud of you.

In Liverpool they say: "you will never walk alone",

in Bilbao we say :

"Aupa Athletic! Beti Zurekin!"

VISIT OF Mrs Irene Madarieta

Dear A1-s , Howdy!

On May 13th, we had the visit of Mrs Irene Madarieta, from Burns, Oregon (USA)

We learned about the life in United States, the education system, the jobs,

we talked about crisis and current affairs too.

We learned words such as "scaffold" or "crane"too.

We also learned an expression used to talk about very efficient secretaries that says:

"she's his bosses girl Friday"

We talked about respect towards teachers in education. (we don't seem to differ very much on this)

B2.2 students joined in too, and so did Izaskun , their teacher. I have been in Portland and Izaskun has been there too, so we could share our memories about the city of Portland, Oregon (4 hours away from Burns by car). Hey, as always the top one topic also appeared: favourite American food. We agreed that we loved clam chowder !

By the way, Athletic of Bilbao was playing the final of the King's cup in Valencia, for the first time in 25 years. We wanted to support them, so we brought the flag of the team to Bermeo. Jon wore the team's official t-shirt. In the end they were beaten by the Barcelona, by 1-4. Anyway, everybody in Biscay celebrated reaching the finals. Bilbao, and all Biscayan towns were crowded with people watching the match in super big screens installed in the streets. It was worth celebrating the pride of having a team, composed only by entirely Basque players.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, MRS IRENE MADARIETA FOR COMING TO BERMEO, TO SHARE A BIT OF OUR TIME. IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE.