HAPPY EASTER!

During these days our 1º ESO  A bilingual students have been learning about the different celebrations of Easter and Holy Week both in The United Kingdom and Spain:

And here you can see some of their homework and tasks:

SAINT PATRICK´S DAY

If you'd like to know more about St. Patrick's Day, check out these activities by the British Council, read all about it in their magazine or  watch this video:

CELEBRATING SAINT DAVID-DATHLU CYMRU

Welsh people celebrate their National Day on the first of March amd this is the Day of Saint David , their Patron Saint.

As a university student and later on I used to go on holiday to Mumbles, quite near Swansea, in Southern Wales .That is why I will always have fond memories of wonderful sandy beaches and  Norman castles (as you can see in some of my pictures).Not to mention the excellent people I have found in this part of the world, in fact some of my relatives and best friends live there.

To find out  more about this lovely part of UK take a look around this site. Explore the brand new interactive map to see how Wales connects with the rest of the world in 2015, get inspired to try some traditional Welsh recipes and so much more!

PLURALS IN ENGLISH

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

WEBQUEST

Click here to see some of the cards with poems my 1º A students have decorated their class with.

ALL ABOUT BRITAIN

I hope that with this padlet about the book they have to read, my 2nd  ESO students can find more useful resources that will help to complete their final projects during this term.

Good luck guys! 

SHORT STORIES FOR BEGINNERS

Do you like listening to and reading stories in these winters evenings while you are warm at home?  If it is so, I share you these links where you can find lots of great stories for you to watch and listen to.

 You can also read from the Oxford Owl Ebooks collection or see some  the Stories playlist on YouTube for videos of some of the most popular short stories for kids.

CHRISTMAS TIME

It´s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in our school

Ho ho hooo!

Watch my dancing Santa video e-card 

 

 And here you are some of the activities we can do these days: 

1.-Get into Christmas Land 

2.-Learn about Christmas is in  this Xmas book

3.-Design your own cards in English  

Here are some guidelines to consider while creating them.

    -You can participate with different designs.

    -Your cards must be given to your English teacher

    -Deadline is December 18th.

We will value: good written messages, creativity, presentation, use of different languages, originality etc

THANKSGIVING in 1º ESO A

One more time my students have been learning about this important North American celebration. This year they have started by singing this rap:

 After that , we have done many other tasks in English, such as:

 1.-Learning about this important tradition in USA with Madeleine (our American Language Assistant).
2.- Finding people they were grateful for and writing down good messages.

3.- Adding their sentences to colourful turkey crafts.

 Here you can see some of their productions:

HAND GESTURES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES

Have you ever wondered yourselves if some of the most common hand gestures are international?

Watch this curious video showing some cultural differences that may help you to understand and use them correctly.

 
Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

ABROAD IN LA ROSALEDA

 Last Wednesday 5th of November, some of our bilingual classes from 1º, 2º and 4º of  ESO and  teachers have assisted to a Musical in English in La Rosaleda.

We thoroughly enjoyed this activity as you can see by the look of our photos:

You can also find here some of the  LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES about the musical ABROAD we are going to revise in class these days.

HALLOWEEN MONSTERS

 For many years supernatural creatures became associated with All Hallows. That is the reason why    nowadays false vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, mummies, demons, fairies and above all, monsters are numbered among the legendary creatures who roam on Halloween scenes and get so popular in fancy dress parties all over the world.

No doubt our students from 1º and 2º ESO  have enjoyed a lot describing their monsters while they have also been learning some more English about:

1 -Vocabulary and traditions
2- Drawings and decorations
3- Stories
5- Games
 

And these  were some of our top class results and winners of  Halloween activities

WHY DO WE LEARN ENGLISH?

What are you interested in? Is it science? Music? Computers? Health? Business? Sports? Contact people from all over the world? A good job in the future? etc.Whatever your answer is here,  English well may be the best thing you can do to improve your life in a near future.

 

Watch this short video about some of the most important reasons for learning English. After that make a list with all the good tips given in it.

   

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

My first post of this school year is just to say hello and welcome you back to school one more time. Some of you I probably already know and some of you I'll meet for the first time but I wish you all the best.

I hope all of you had a lovely time and enjoyed a lot your holidays as much as I did myself !  However at this moment I am just looking forward to working well together and learn a lot from each other.

SUMMER IS ALREADY HERE !

Weeks ago we were celebrating summer in my classes and my students wrote very nice messages as you can see in this photo:

 I  also want to share here this cheerful and happy video filmed by University students of Pedagogy while completing their Training Course at our school.