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.

FIFA WORLD CUP

I bet we will watch the Football World Cup this month. So, get ready to learn this vocabulary in English!

SHARING OUR READINGS

This third term some of my 4º  ESO students have been reading classic books on their own choices from the school library.
Then they had to complete their questionnaires and inform their mates in class, besides sharing their favourite parts by reading aloud as you can see in these photos below.

Later I taught them how to use a new tool called PowToon and they have been doing really nice animated presentations with it.  Here you can see an example created by Pablo:

 

Have a look at other presentations in Mario,Andrea,Gema,Noelia,Daniel and Salvi´s blogs:

The Three Musketeers

David Coperfield

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Alice´s adventures in Wonderland

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

Oliver Twist

LONDON PROJECT

My 1º ESO students have been designing educational board games about London during this last week.The main goal was to know more places and people from this important city.

Here you can see more about our project

BEST TIME TO STUDY

As time goes by, students are getting more and more nervous because their final exams are just here.

You can read on the following link a piece of advice and learn how to make the most of your studying these months:

So it is real time to effort yourselves learning and enjoying it afterwards, as  Gema and Irene, from 4º ESO, suggested in their project about creating a comic this week:

CORRECTING COMMON MISTAKES

This week my students are revising and correcting some of the most common mistakes in English usage.

 First at all they were given a list with the most frequent problems referred to word concordance, spelling, syntax etc from their own compositions.Then they worked in pairs and corrected them on the blackboard.
Finally they had to show the results digitally in order to upload these products on their own blogs.

Here you can see some final presentations done by Noelia and Gema using slideshare and prezi

 

  (Congratulations girls ! you are always the winners ;-) 

ACTIVE STUDENT BADGE

This badge is to show that you have participated in class and experienced deeper learning through the course.

Criteria to receive the Badge:

To receive it , you should show that you experienced deeper learning about:

• Critical thinking and complex problem solving
• Collaboration 
• Effective communication in writing and speaking in English
• Learning how to learn
• Creativity 
• Use of new tools and applications

You will need to have completed all your  tasks or  blog to demonstrate that you have one or more of these skills.

CREATE YOU OWN COMICS

For over 70 years, Marvel Comics has been home to the most memorable characters and engrossing stories on the planet. With a library of over 5,000 characters, there’s always someone—or something cool to discover! The Marvel Universe is filled with incredible creations – mutants, aliens, armor-clad super-geniuses, thunder gods, super-soldiers and more!

Some of our most popular characters include Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man and Thor. Check them out!

You can also create your own comic strips and learn English online by clicking on this MARVEL site.
Come on !Have a try and enjoy it!

PORTADA MASTERCHEF SWEET RECIPES

Three weeks ago some of our students had to complete this webquest in order to: 

1) Learn a list of English vocabulary: nouns,verbs and main ingredients used in cake making.
2) Explain the way of cooking,baking or preparing their own recipes in English.
3) Write down the instructions using modal verbs and sequence connectors.
4) Present their products in a creative way inspired by many recipes from the internet.
5) Record their video with  their instructions or still pictures on it.

6) Update a post on their blogs including recipes presentations and videos or photos.

 

 And these have been their products ........

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Valentine's Day is about giving from the heart and meaning it; saying I love you and meaning it.

Celebrate the day of hearts with us by completing some of these activities:

 1   -VALENTINE´S DAY VOCABULARY, QUIZZES, WORKSHEETS AND SONGS

 2-  LEARN TEN ENGLISH LOVE IDIOMS




3- LOVE AND LOVELESS STORIES PROJECT

SONGS FOR PEACE

 Next week we are celebrating Peace Day in our school with many activities done both by students and teachers.

 For our English classes I suggest this webquest by Antonia Macías Márquez to enjoy learning many things about some Songs, Peace and English as a second language.

EL-T-FUNK (ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING FUNK)

"Don´t you know it ? " is first song and video from EL-T-Funk (English Language Teaching Funk). Pay attention and listen to it ,I am sure you are going to love it!

How many verbs did you know?
After watching the video several times you can write down your own list. Fluency is all about the 3Rs: Relax, Repeat Remember!

NEW YEAR´S RESOLUTIONS

Happy New Year! 

I hope you all had a good break. Have you made your New Year´s Resolutions already? 

These are some of the most common ones among teenagers:

British Council had very conveniently posted this lesson plan by Helen Hadkins on their facebook page and I think it is perfect to practise some more.

 However I want my students to tell me their resolutions just for the English class and here you can read some of the things they are going to do to improve this language.

• I’m going to spend more time speaking in English
• I’m going to do exercises every day
• I will try to think in English more
• I will watch some tv programmes or films in English
• I am going to start private classes with a British native speaker
• By the end of the academic year, I’m going to have read at least three books in English