Prehistory mystery

Click on the picture to watch a fun video on prehistory:

Photo by  Reinhard Bruckner

As you already know,  prehistory is the timebefore the invention of written language, which is one of the reasons why it is so fascinating and intriguing. When we talk about prehistory, we tend to use a range of words. Let's find out how many of them you know.

PRUEBAS DE CERTIFICACIÓN DE IDIOMAS 2026 PARA ALUMNADO habLE QUE FINALIZA 4º ESO

 Se ha publicado en BOPA del 11 de febrero la convocatoria de pruebas de certificación de idiomas para el año 2026. Al igual que el curso pasado se contempla un procedimiento por el cual el alumnado que finaliza la etapa de ESO cursando el programa habLE puede participar en la prueba en su convocatoria de septiembre de forma gratuita.

La inscripción se realizará en el IES Selgas una vez los alumnos hayan titulado. En esta infografía tenéis un resumen de los pasos a seguir: 

habLE: Pruebas de certificación de idiomas (EOI) de Bloginglesselgas2

Podéis consultar toda la información y la estructura y fechas de las pruebas aquí:  

https://miprincipado.asturias.es/bopa/2026/02/11/2026-00845.pdf

https://alojaweb.educastur.es/web/eoiaviles/certificacion

3rd ESO LEARNING SITUATION: MY FITNESS WEEKEND

Students in 3rd ESO have been learning English at the same time they learnt about health and healthy habits. All this led to a learning situation in which they had to schedule a healthy weekend and tell us about it. Here you can see the results:

by Daniel Pardo

What about you? Are your weekends healthy? Hope your schoolmates' experience inspires you to get active!

BRAINBOX ABOUT AVILÉS AND NIEMEYER CENTRE - INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT 2ND ESO

After their trip to Avilés and Niemeyer Centre, students in 2nd year have prepared a set of BRAINBOX cards about the different places, monuments and interesting buildings they discovered during the visit. 

We used them in class to play and see what they had learnt and remembered. Would you like to test your knowledge of the town?  Click on the image and have a go at it!

Mind-boggling invertebrates!

Octopuses are widely considered the most intelligent invertebrates. They don't have a shell to protect themselves from hungry lurking predators, but they make up for this weakness  in the wittiest of ways. Check it out!

4th ESO LEARNING SITUATION: A VIDEO OF A MYSTERY SCENE

After working with UNIT 3, which was about mysteries of all kinds, students were ready to write their own script for a mystery scene and then recorded it themselves. They could adapt one that already existed or create a new one, which is what most of them did.

Do you want to have some fun at the same time you get a  bit spooked? Here you have their brief masterpieces.

by Hugo, Miguel A. and Aitor

by Claudia, Helena and Adamina

by Mencía and Alexia

by Miguel E., Leo and Luis

Congratulations on you excellent work 👏👏! 

UNIT 5: ENVIRONMENT (4th ESO)

 

The environment (and protecting it) is the main topic of this unit. We all have to take care of our planet and try to leave it in the best condition for future generations. Once again we will learn lots of English at the same time we learn many other useful things not only for us, but for the rest of the world.

Let's start revising some new vocabulary related to PROTECTING THE PLANET. You can use these activities to help you revise it:

FLASHCARDS  

MATCHING ACTIVITY

In this unit, we learn that we can protect the environment with things we may take for granted, such as the quantity of clothes we buy. Watch this video to learn more about it:

The main grammar point of this unit is THE PASSIVE voice, which is used a lot in English. Here you have some practice:

EXERCISES

To master the passive voice it will be essential that you master PAST PARTICIPLES and we all know that irregular verbs can be quite a nightmare. Why don't you try this fun practice? It includes the past simple forms too:

IRREGULAR VERBS: PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PARTICIPLE

You can also try this GAME:

Time to learn some new vocabulary, this time related to MATERIALS. Again you have some activities to practise:

We listened to a radio programme in which a young girl talked about a beach clean-up. Did you know that some former students at IES Selgas carried out a beach clean-up? Watch this video to learn more about their amazing work! 

We continued working, this time to learn how to use the verbs BE ALLOWED TO / MAKE / LET. You can watch this video to revise how they work:

And here you have some extra practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

Then we studied IMPERSONAL PHRASES, which are very much used when we are not interested in who did the action or we ignore it. Here you have some practice:

We finished the unit learning to write a post for a blog. Since the topic of the unit is the environment, the post was about an environmentally friendly product. This video shows why we should be more concerned about using them:

You can also check this website if you are looking for ideas: