JOB INTERVIEWS

Here are some important webs which include useful tips and model conversations for job interviews in English:

- Here's an example job interview, with useful tips for every phase.

- Here's another example.

- And here are some sets of basic interview questions.

- Finally, here's a video of a job interview:

HALLOWEEN 2011

Here it comes again,
HALLOWEEN !!

Spooky, kooky, creepy, and fun! Now it´s time for HALLOWEEN! Time for Ghosts, Gravestones and Graveyards, ghastly stuff, silly-fun tricks, witches and scary black cats and of course wicked pumpkins. Everything is permitted at this celebration.

I.E.S Drago has been working on this issue for years, trying this way to encourage students to get closer to English culture and at the same time to improve both, their English vocabulary in a natural way and enhance their imagination. On the occasion of this celebration, a contest is held in the hall of the high school with a big display of different scary stuff made by students of E.S.O

It is not essential to be a crafting expert to be able to make a huge number of wonderful homemade Halloween decorations that will make your time joyful but only some a little patience altogether with a bit of imagination. Some students have even been aware of the big problem of environment and have made their handmade things by the use of the 3Rs ‘ Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

This year the turnout of participation has increased and we want to congratulate everyone for his/her/their effort.

From the English department we especially want to make some honourable mentions to all the finalists:

- Maria Román (2ºB) - Violeta Latorre (2ºA) - Yaiza Dominguez (2ºA)
- Alicia Narvaez (2ºB)

This year the winners are: Emilio Delgado, Alejandro Junquera (4ºB) & Noelia Ortega (1ºB)

AN UNCOMMON CLOTHESLINE

To read the awarded poems, CLICK HERE.

MELISSA'S STORY

East Berlin, February,1983

I recognised my contact at about nine o'clock in the night, and it was already dark. She was smoking a long cigarrette in a corner of the bar, and drinking a Martini. A slow tune was played on the piano.
-Melissa?-I asked.
-Talk lower, Spaniard- said she in a whispering.
-But this bar is sure, isn't it?
-Yes, and the tune is wonderfull- she replied, smiling.

At quarter to ten she led me to a dark, dirty room on the first floor of the bar and paid the waitress. She kissed me in the chin and said goodnight with her beautiful, addictive smile. I saw her going out of the bar alone, and she saw me watching her. Our looks crossed and she got in again. When she finally went out of my room it was half past one at night...

I thought I was in love with her until next morning, when a thin man with a strong Irish accent knocked at my door and said:
-Melissa is dead. At nine o'clock I'll be with my car in front of this dirty pub- and he was gone.
I was trying to assimilate what the Irish man said and hurried up. I was dazed and confused at how fast a romance can start and how fast it can end too.

At nine I found a black car at the door and I got into it. The man said:
-I'm your new contact, you can call me Peter. Yesterday a woman found Melissa -my heart sank when I heard the name- dead with a shot between her eyes. There will not be any funeral but you can buy flowers, if you want, her family will be so pleased. No, I'm joking, we don't know anything about her family, probably she's not even called Melissa, I think she was a Soviet spy. But well, who are you?

I got on very well with Peter, and after this mission in Russia we kept in contact, until he sadly died in the early nineties. But that's another story, what I really want to tell you is how I investigated the death of the woman who died wearing a dark dress, the woman I was in love with, the woman who got my child in her...

Written by Tarik Martin

MY FAVOURITE PRIVATE EYE

Do you like detective stories? Tell us something about your favourite detective and the author who created him/her.

IT'S A PARTY

[4th ESO] WRITE AN E-MAIL TO A FRIEND TELLING HIM/HER ABOUT A PARTY AND ASKING HIM/HER TO COME. DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE:

- DATE
- TIME
- PLACE
- REASON OF THE PARTY
- WHAT YOU/PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WEAR

COMPARING PHOTOS

Two photographs of the same place. But obviously they are not alike. What would you say about them?

Here's an example, made up of two different comments of yours:

The pictures are very similar, they both show a city and it looks as if it is the same city but with a big difference, the pictures were taken in a different time, the first one nowadays while the second one may be from the late XIX century.

Because of that principal difference we can observe a lot more differences. The first picture is in colour and we can see that the city has a road for cars and a sidewalk for people walking. We can also notice that the picture was taken on a sunny day.

In the second picture we see an old city where there is a sidewalk and a "road" for carriages. As the people are walking with umbrellas we can tell that it was a rainy day. (Irene)

In picture A, people seem more nervous because life nowadays is more stressful, but in picture B it seems that people are more relaxed, as if they had no pressure for anything.

I think I'd raher live in picture A because I prefer life as it is nowadays. (Andrea)