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December Exams

Dear students,

Here are the dates for the oncoming December exam.

Monday 13th: Reading, Listening and Writing parts
Wednesday 15th & Monday 20th: Speaking
Please click HERE to check information about the timetable for the oral exam and who is your exam partner.

World Aids 2010

The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day on December 1st is ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’. Although universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care is a human right, across the world 9.4 million people are still in need of life-saving antiretroviral treatment, and millions of people are denied access to HIV prevention and care.

6th December, Spanish Constitution

Dear students,

As you know on 6th December we celebrate the Spanish Constitution, "the fundamental law of the Kingdom of Spain. It was enacted on foot of the 1978 referendum, as part of the Spanish transition to democracy. It was preceded by many previous constitutions of Spain.
The constitutional history of Spain dates back to the Constitution of 1812. After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, a general election in 1977 convened the Constituent Cortes for the purpose of drafting and approving the constitution.
A seven-member panel was selected to work on a draft of the Constitution, these men came to be knownas the “fathers of the Constitution”. They were chosen to represent the political spectrum within the Spanish Parliament.

-Gabriel Cisneros (UCD)
-José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (UCD)
-Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (UCD)
-Miquel Roca i Junyent es:Miquel Roca (Convergència i Unió)
-Manuel Fraga Iribarne (Alianza Popular)
-Gregorio Peces-Barba (PSOE)
-Jordi Solé Tura (PSUC)

The constitution was approved by the Cortes Generales on October 31th, 1978, and by the Spanish people in a referendum on December 6th, 1978. 88% of voters supported the new constitution. Finally, it was promulgated by King Juan Carlos on December 27. It came into effect on December 29, the day it was published in the Official Gazette. Constitution Day on December 6 has since been a national holiday in Spain.” (Source: wikipedia)

And now let’s turn this into something of English interest:
HOW OLD WERE YOU?

WHERE WERE YOU?WHAT WHERE YOU DOING ON 6th DECEMBER 1978?Please write a comment with your answers to this question (2 or three sentences are ok)