EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

The European Year of Languages 2001, jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, was successful in involving millions of people across 45 participating countries. Its activities celebrated linguistic diversity in Europe and promoted language learning.Following the success of the Year the Council of Europe declared a European Day of Languages to be celebrated on 26th of September each year.

Did you know that...?

• There are between 6000 and 7000 languages in the world - spoken by 7 billion people divided into 189 independent states.
• There are about 225 indigenous languages in Europe - roughly 3% of the world’s total.
• Most of the world’s languages are spoken in Asia and Africa.

If you want to find out more interesting facts about languages and play some games, you can visit the official European Day of Languges.

European Day of Languages

Source: http://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

A cloud of personality adjectives

Look at how many adjectives to describe personality our 2ºESO students have learnt this week.

SCOTLAND IS PART OF THE UK

Scotland has decided against being independent. Does Scotland belong to Great Britain, the British Isles or United Kingdom? What's the difference between them? Have a look at the video below to find out.

WHAT'S GOING ON IN SCOTLAND?

Today people in Scotland will decide the future of their country.

They're being asked to vote yes or no to one question - should Scotland be an independent country? It's a vote that could change history. Scotland's been part of the UK for more than 300 years.

4.2 million people have asked for a vote. That means that 97% of the total number of people able to vote have registered. A record number of people have also registered for a postal vote, with the total reaching 789,024.

The result of the vote should become clear on Friday.

(Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/29237855)

Hoxe a xente de Escocia decidirá o futuro do seu país. Pídenlle que voten Si ou NON a unha pregunta: debería Escocia ser un país independente? Este é un voto que pode cambiar a historia. Escocia forma parte do Reino Unido dende hai máis de 300 anos.

Pedíuselle o voto a máis de 4.2 millóns de persoas. Isto supón  que hai un 97% do número de persoas con dereito a voto. Un número record de persoas tamén solicitou o voto por correo, chegando os 789,024 persoas.

O resultado da votación desvelarase mañá, venres.

WELCOME BACK!

Hello and welcome to a new school year!
Soon you'll find a lot of useful information for your lessons in this blog, but today we'll start with a song.