R. M. Pidal Secondary School rmpidal.webnode.com/

1 What is the full name of the school? 2 How old are the youngest students of the school? 3 How do the students get to school?

4 What does ESO mean? 5 How old are students who do Bachillerato, or further secondary studies? 6 Which four kinds of curriculum does Bachillerato offer? 7 What subjects do all the students have to study? 8 What areas do the vocational studies at Ramón Menéndez Pidal Secondary School specialize?

9 Is Ramón Menéndez Pidal Secondary School bigger or smaller than Gymnázium Vysoké Mýto and approximately how many times? 10 How many classes are there at Ramón Menéndez Pidal Secondary School? 11 How many classrooms (including special classrooms, gyms, libraries, special workshops and halls) are there?

12 Name the sports facilities of the school? 13 What does the café sell?

14 What time do the lessons start and what time do they finish? 15 Why do some students finish school an hour later than the others? 16 Which of the two breaks is longer, the first one or the second?

17 What is the name of the school principal? Is it a man or woman? 18 What is the name of the street where the school is situated? 19 What number do you have to dial when you telephone the school (don't forget the country code).

20 What did Ramón Menéndez Pidal look like? (Describe his picture) How old was he when he died?

21 Can you translate this into Czech? Ramón Menéndez Pidal Secondary School was born in It was a school for girls. Its name was Instituto Femenino. Then in 1968 it changed its name. It is called after Ramón Menéndez Pidal. He was born in 1869 in La Coruña and died in 1968 in Madrid. He was an eminent philologist and also a very important historian.

He was the first to study the origins and the evolution of the Spanish language and he studied very closely the figure of EL CID, a medieval Spanish hero who fought the Arabs out of Spain. The school building has the shape of a capital letter H and there are three storeys plus the ground floor.