Wednesday, September 18, 2019

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES SEPTEMBER 26TH

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES SEPTEMBER 26TH

WE AT VELÁZQUEZ HIGH SCHOOL ARE CELEBRATING IT!


HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT HOW MANY LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN EUROPE?

WHAT BENEFITS COULD YOU GET  FROM LEARNING  FOREIGN LANGUAGES ?

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EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES: 

BEING A TRANSLATOR AT THE EUROPEAN UNION.

Our colleague,Andrés Sanz, from the English Department, gave a lecture about his former job as a translator and what it implies. Here you have his presentation and a video about Greta, the Swedish Activist, with him translating it.



More to celebrate:

eTwinning project: 

European Day of Languages Making the case for Studying Languages!

To celebrate this special day, we took part in an etwinning project with 25 schools! We exchange postcards in our native language and English: a very special way to commemorate it: here you have some pictures:

From Our partners:


From Us:

Students from 4º ESO  along with their teacher Mr.Andrés Sanz carried out an interpretation workshop to celebrate the EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES.Watch the video and be impressed by their skills!