St Andrew's - Nov 30th

Some links to illusrate Javier's speech

Who was St Andrew

A few saltires

And some pictures of St Andrew

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St. Andrew

Today is the day of St. Andrew patron of Scotland and other countries like Russia. It is celebrated on 30^th November with concerts and festivities.

There are two historical legends that tell the relation between St. Andrew and Scotland.

The first legend is the eighth century when an angel told to St. Regulo in dreams that he had to carry the relics of St. Andrew at the end of the earth and he left it where actually is the city of San Andrew.

The second legend is the ninth century. The Scots were surrounded in a war against the Angles and San Andres appeared to the King and promised him the victory. The next day morning in the blue sky was a white cross.  And encouraged by the appearance, Scots won the battle.

There is a curiosity and in the Scotland's flag, it is blue with a white X, and an X cross is where St. Andrew was crucified.

Thanksgiving

Here you have some of the contents we saw following Adrian's talk.

Most typical Thanksgiving dinner, delicious!

Happy Thanksgiving from Kristin Gerhart on Vimeo.

"You are hereby pardoned"

Remembrance Day

Following Mercedes' talk, find here:

In Flanders fields, the poem. And the poem made into a song.

And a more up-to-date tribute to Canadian soldiers.

A rather significant cultural difference, isn't it? If you want to know even more, a BBC video explaining it.

José Luis

Remembrance Day - November 11th

Remembrance Day, also known as Poppy Day, is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I. This date marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War. Hostilities formally ended at the 11^th hour, of the 11^th day, of the 11^th month in this 1918.

This day it´s the time of the year when we wear a red poppy in memory of those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars.  Each year this countries observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts.

Merche de Cáceres.

Pronouncing common endings

Election Day (US) - Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November

• Election Day in the United States is the day set by law for the general elections of public officials

• Presidential elections are held every four years

• Congress: House of Representatives and the Senate are held every two years
• midterm elections are held within a presidency 

  

• It occurs on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November
• The earliest possible date is November 2 and the latest possible date is November 8
• Election day occurs only in even-numbered years

• Terms for those elected begin in January the following year

• Many state and local government offices are also elected on Election Day as a matter of convenience and cost saving

Election Day is a civic holiday in some states. Some other states require that workers be permitted to take time off from employment without loss of pay.

José Luis

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Profesor: dícese por algunos del prototipo de moda de chivo expiatorio y paria privilegiado

Welcome to our collective blog for the intermediate level

Any student in class can now publish his or her stuff in English, for the whole world to see! Or just for a few other classmates and students, which is far more likely :)

From time to time we'll use it for assignments and shared publication, much in the fashion of a class bulletin board!

To publish a post you just have to send an email to jlmoises.skyline.intermediate@blogger.com, and it will be published automatically. Keep two things in mind, though:

1) Include you name the bottom of your post, otherwise we won't know who you are!

2) Attachements are not published. If you want to publish an image (which would be very nice), you have to paste it in the body of your email.

Happy posting!

José Luis