AND THE HALLOWEEN COMPETITIONS WINNERS ARE...

What a boo-tiful Halloween celebration! Our students have truly raised the spirits with their creativity, humour, and fang-tastic talent in this year’s Halloween Meme/GIF and Short Clip Competitions.

From hilarious memes that had us howling with laughter to short videos that were simply un-boo-lievable, the competition was full of spooky surprises and wickedly good ideas! 🧙‍♀️🦇

And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… 🥁

🏆 Congratulations to our spooktacular winners! 🏆

BEST MEME (and also one of the best GIFS): ADARA QUINTANA (1st Bach)

Why? Because we reckon we can totally relate to it, can't we? Such a beautiful building can become such a nightmare...

BEST SHORT CLIP: SARA COUSO (3rd ESO)

Why? Do we have to explain anything? Just watch it and agree with us...

Here you have them, with all the goodies they got for their spooktacular work:

To our winners: congratulations! You aced it!! 

And to all our participants, thank you for making this competition a success every year!

To our winners: congratulations! You aced it!! And to all our participants, thank you for making this competition a success every year!

🧟 A Little Word of Warning from the Crypt…

AI can be a handy little helper, but it shouldn’t be the ghostwriter behind your entire creation! 👻 Some entries seemed to have relied a little too heavily on artificial intelligence. Remember, this competition celebrates YOUR creativity, YOUR humour, and YOUR ideas—not just what a clever computer can conjure up! 🪄

So, next time, don’t let AI steal your brains… (zombie style! 🧠). Use it wisely, add your own personal touch, and let your imagination do the haunting. 

Be original, be creative, and keep it real — that’s what makes your work fang-tastic! 🦇

Happy Halloween, everyone! 

Have a fang-tastic time! 🧛‍♂️🕷️

2026 HALLOWEEN MEMES, GIFS and SHORT CLIPS

We can already enjoy all the fang-tastic and spooktacular students' entries for the English Department Halloween Competitions this year.

Get ready for a good scare and lots of laughs!

MEMES and GIFS COMPETITION

By Ainhoa Pulido (2nd Bach)

Both by Miguel Echevarría (1st Bach)

By Deva Alonso (1st Bach)

By Sonia Colado (1st Bach)

By Leo Durrer (1st Bach)

By Nerea Alonso (1st Bach)

By Pablo Díaz (1st Bach)

Both by Adara Quintana (1st Bach)

By Eric de la Puente (1st ESO)

Both by Eloy Larfeuil (2nd ESO)

Both by Julia Larfeuil (2nd ESO)

By Sara Couso (3rd ESO)

By Daniela Álvarez (2nd Bach)

By Ángela Fernández (2nd Bach)

By Vega Tarodo (1st ESO)

By Alberto Cándano (2nd Bach)

By María Inclán (1st ESO)

By Carlos Valle (2nd Bach)

By Iván García (2nd Bach)

By Diego Riesgo (2nd Bach)

By Pablo Castro (2nd Bach)

By Martín Cano (2nd Bach)

By Valeria Pérez (2nd Bach)

By Manuel Antonio Valle (3rd ESO)

By Jesús Fernández (2nd Bach)

By Noa González

SHORT CLIPS COMPETITION

By Hugo Feito (1st Bach)

By Avril Ruano (2nd Bach)

By Jorge Macías (2nd Bach)

By Sara Couso (3rd ESO)

By Carla Novo (1st Bach)

By Gonzalo Fernández (1st Bach)

By Pablo Martínez (1st Bach)

By Sara Prada (2nd Bach)

Now it's the Terrific English Department's time to decide who the winners are. 

Remember we'll announce them in the Award Winning Ceremony that will take place during the break next Wednesday 28th October, in the stairs that lead to the 300 classroom. 

Best of luck everyone!!

UNIT 1: MAKING MUSIC (4th ESO)

We are sure all students will like the topic of this unit: who doesn't like music? It brings so many positive things...

The WDYT? question is an interesting one: How can music bring people together? There are many answers and you will find out some while working with this unit. Let's see an example: in the following video you will see lots of famous artists who got together to sing the song "We Are the World"  written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie in 1985 to raise funds to help with the famine that was devastating Ethiopia at the time. 

To talk about music, we need to refresh some vocabulary. Here you have a matching activity to practise it:

Time to learn a new verbal tense: the PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS. Here you have some practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE 4

Need a break? Try this GAME, especially if you like pizza 😉!

Now, you should get back to work and make sure you know when to use the PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE or the CONTINUOUS FORM. Need more practice?

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

What about learning vocabulary related to FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS?

These FLASHCARDS will help you. 

Time to study something that may be new for many: QUESTION TAGS. Here you have some extra practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

Tired? Try this memory game:

Questions are quite tricky in English, aren't they? Well, imagine including prepositions in them, it becomes a nightmare! Don't worry, here you have some extra practice;

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

The writing of the unit is  A REVIEW (of a concert or music festival). If you need extra help, you can try this PRACTICE.

That was a lot of work, wasn't it? Let's finish with some music, the same way we started, to liven up,  things a bit 😉! Here you have a more recent version of the song we started this post with. This time the purpose was to help people in Haiti, who suffered a terrible earthquake in 2010. 

1ST ESO - UNIT 1: SCHOOL LIFE

Here you have a bunch of activities to practise and revise the contents of Unit 1:

1. DAILY ROUTINES: A MATCHING ACTIVITY

2. THE TIME: REVISION GAMES

3. PRESENT SIMPLE FUN GAME

4. PRESENT SIMPLE: ONLINE GAMES

5. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A SONG

6. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A MEMORY GAME

 

When do you do these activities?

Get some practice!

 

Activity to practice Present Simple affirmative and negative:

Third person singular-Spelling rules

Learn the school subjects:

 

Yes-no questions:

4th ESO STARTER UNIT: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

STARTER UNITS are always about revising what you learnt during the past school year. Don't worry if you feel a bit rusty after the summer, we all tend to disconnect 😉!

We will start revising some vocabulary related to HEALTH and WELL-BEING. Click on the words to get to a Quizlet to practise it. If that one is too easy for you, here you have a more demanding version of it: HEALTH and WELL-BEING 2.

Time to revise some grammar. Verbal tenses are essential, so you must make sure you know everything about them.

PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS 

EXERCISES

MODAL VERBS are used all the time. They all share some common characteristics and are a bit tricky, because they can have different meanings:

ABILITY (CAN/COULD)

OBLIGATION (MUST/HAVE TO/MUSTN'T/DON'T HAVE TO)

ADVICE 

Let's have a look at some more vocabulary, this time ADJECTIVES to describe PERSONAL QUALITIES. Here you have a matching game:

We also learnt about some tricky words: JOURNEY - TRIP - TOUR - TRAVEL. This video will help you understand these words:

Back to verbal tenses! 

PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES

You can also try this activity:

Then we revised USED TO (to talk about past habits and states).

EXERCISE

Need a break? Here you have a GAME to keep practising USED TO.

More verbal tenses, this time PRESENT PERFECT and PAST SIMPLE. 

EXERCISES

Again a GAME can help you learn and have fun at the same time 😉.

Thought you had finished? Unfortunately not! We also have to revise the main FUTURE TENSES. This chart can help you understand how to use them better:

You will need lots of practice, so here you have:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE 4

Now you will certainly need some fun:

If you work with all these activities,  you will be ready to start learning new things! Let's do it!

THE OZONE LAYER (1st ESO)

The ozone layer is a very important part of the atmosphere and it works as a protection for our planet. Do you kow why it is essential to preserve it? Watch this video and find out more about it:

Now, you can answer this questionnaire.

COMBINATORICS (4t ESO habLE)

 Here you have some activities to practise the mathematical terms you are working with.