new york

Our students from 4Th ESO have a pen pal in YONKERS high school, NEW YORK , the USA. whom they are writing to during this school year.
Together with my collegue Cristina, we decided to dedicate some lessons to discover a little bit about this huge but astounding city. We've found some videos in you tube we'll use as warmers.
Here you have them

Getting to NY




5 top things to see in NY




Discovering NY.

Listening Activity: Enjoy your flight

First of all, watch the video and enjoy it




Now, Copy and paste the following script into a word document, fill in the gaps and hand it to your teacher.

Fill in all the gaps 20 2007 3.00 4.00 45 5.00 7.00 75.63 airport attention breathe change Enjoy flight attendant information look masks mouth nose paid passenger peanut safety seat seatbelt snacks

Flight Attendant: Welcome aboard. It's........................, and we are more committed to your .......................than ever. And that's why we'd like you to pay special ........................to this important safety .........................
First, please make sure that your ....................................is securely fastened.
Seatbelts can be purchased for $......................................
To fasten, insert the metal fitting into the buckle and then pull the fitting away from you.
To release, purchase a release flap for $......................................
Now I know what you're thinking. We've never ...........................for seatbelts before! ...Once we've reached our cruising altitude, your ..............................may or may not go down the aisle with.......................... If she chooses to, each ........................will be given a single.......................... Lavatories are located at the front and rear...of the.......................... Please take a moment to ....................at your safety pamphlet.
The charge for looking at this pamphlet is $.....................................
The charge for looking at this pamphlet and putting it back quickly is $............................. Should there be a rapid change in cabin pressure, oxygen .........................will automatically drop from the compartment above your .......................free of charge.
Place the mask over your ...................................and.........................., and to start the flow of oxygen, pay your flight attendant $...........................
Passenger 1 : I can't...........................!
Flight Attendant: As always, exact ..........................is appreciated.
Passenger 2 :You got change for a.................................?!
Pass 1 : I have $..........................
Flight Attendant: Now I know that some of you are still concerned about getting there safely. ............................your flight!

President Obama's first day in the white house.

We've talked about the new elections in the USA and listened to Obama's oath. We've done a listening activity. I got the idea from a WS in the website called www. eslprintables.com.

Wh 1- What was on the President’s agenda on his first day at the White House ?

1. the Global Financial crisis
   
2. middle-east diplomacy
3. Education new rules
4. Guantanamo Bay
5. war in Iraq
6. the US economy recession

2- He had to take a little time out for ..

1. a new official ceremony
2. lunch with the First Lady
3. to answer the congratulations messages he received from world leaders

3- Why ?

1. the first oath couldn’t be recorded
2. there was a mistake in the words
3. the supporters and the TV viewers couldn’t hear the oath

III- Listen to Jonathan Turley

1. · Mr Turley’s job ?
2. · Number of words in the oath ?
3. · What does the constitution say?

Article 2 says “you MUST …………………………. And you MUST ………………………….

But the 20^th Amendment says “the administration comes into power at ………………… on …………

IV- Listen to the end

Œ Find WHO …

a. decides to have the oath retaken ?

b. were the few witnesses of the ceremony ?

c. was sitting in the room ?

d. who joked he wanted to do it again for fun ?

e. who took the oath of office again and very slowly ?

�V Write down Obama's oath.

2n ESO LEARNING FOOD VOCABULARY.

We are having a test exam on FOOD VOCABULARY on Friday 12th. You can go to the following links so as to practise for your exam.
1) Memory Game
2) Fruit (singular and plural)
3) Food to sort out.
4) Fruit quiz
5) Competition game
6) Hangman & others
7) All the food games
8) A FOOD crossword
9) Guess the word: drinks
10) Split words

Learning Adjectives

We watched this video paying attention to the adjectives we could understand. Afterwards, we did a fill in the gaps exercise so to understand the message of the song.
This song is called HANDS IN POCKET by Alanis Morissete.

"nd BAT About Sports

Listen to David Beckam and do the exercise provided.



“My name is David Beckham and this is my .....................
I still look back to ‘.......................,
.................I wish it hadn’t happened,
How I sort of reacted as ........................,
I think I cried for about 5 or 10 minutes ........................
I ......................death threats,
I never felt safe for ....................years.
It can ......................a person down so much that they just go under,
After I scored the goal against .......................,
All of the sports writers, they just .......................and started clapping me,
To have that from the harshest ........................,
That was a huge ..............................,
You will go ...................tough times,
It’s about coming ....................that.”

Our unit is about SURFING. We've
done a listening activity on this video.

Actitivities: a) Listen to the video, take a few notes so as to write a short paragraph with this title:
HOW CAN WE LEARN TO SURF?
b) There's a link where you can practise your vocabulary related to sports & equipment.

USING ENGLISH AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

A good friend of mine sent me this video and asked me to wonder about the use of it in class.

4th ESO Global Murals 0809

Like 2 years ago we've taken part in a Global Youth Murals exhibion designing a mural which illustrated our ideas for peace. This project has also been run toghether with Nuri Gussinyer, the arts teacher from the school. In fact she has done the most of it.
The Murals were exhibited at PTPI's annual global youth forum and other locations.

The process and its symbolism

We have done this project with students aged 15 years old at 4^th course from secondary compulsory education. They are all from a state school in Olot, Catalonia Spain.

We discussed the topic of PEACE in class so as to reach to an agreement on which icon symbolized peace on its global meaning.

The OPEN HAND was mostly chosen and we started to work on its elaboration having the open hand as our common symbol.

Each single student made his/her own and personal interpretation of what PEACE meant. There is one hand for every student who took part in the project. All of them form a global mural together with open white hands as well as peace messages and other peace symbols stamped on their hands so as to remember the different representations of peace.

Here you have an album of the process. Enjoy it!

PHONE CONVERSATION FROM 1CI STUDENTS

Our students from 1CI (International business) have to practise their speaking. This is the very first production they did regarding to a phone conversation. They were supposed to take and leave messages on the phone.

Listen and see how well they did it!

Jordi Quintanas, Jie Li & Marta Badosa

Pep Carreras & Marc Navarro

Ahlam & Patricia

Experience with St Gregory High school from Tucson

Our students from 2S3 in IES BOSC DE LA COMA are taking part in an exchange programme with students from st Gregory school in Tucson, Arizona in the USA. We are exchanging letters and pictures telling about ourselves. The students in the USA write in Spanish mainly but they also use English to answer the questions our students ask.
In our first letters students talked about themselves and sent some pictures which you can see in this album.

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4th ESO STUDENTS' BLOGS

There's a link on the left where you can look at my students productions in their blogs. They are writing in it every month and they are expected to upload their best compositions as well as their speaking productions.

Trip to Malahide!

Some of our students have taken part in the project we are involved. The aim of the project is to encourage students to speak English as much as possible. If you want to learn about it, just go to our school web site or click the link provided. You can also have a look at the Catalan programme we gave to their parents.

These group of students have spent a whole week in Malahide, Ireland so as to improve their oral expression. They have attented 20 hours speaking lessons in U-learn school in Malahide and have stayed with Irish families. Apart from that, they've done other activities such asplaying bowling in Cooloch leisure centre, seen HULK at the Pavillions Shopping Centre in Swords, visited Dublin, watched a greyhound race,

Here you'll find some of the pictures we took.

Remembering 4S3 from course 2006-2007

I've decided to store all those activities in English I've enjoyed doing with my students and I remember this one specially.

4S3 students took part in a project together with some students from IES Montsacopa in the same city of OLOT.

During the whole term the students exchanged some of their productions in English such as Identity cards, postcards, family trees, letters, posters ..etc. with some studnents from another High school from Olot. Everything was written in English using a NICKNAME. Nobody knew who they were writting to. In our class we had: Cristina Aguilera, Paulina Rubio ,Ronaldihno, Brad Pitt, Hilary Duff among others.

At the end of the term both High schools made a meeting in the countryside near home where the students were suposed to find out their pen pals. Here you can look at the pictures we took during their interviews.

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We also took part in a Global Youth Murals exhibion designing a mural which illustrated our ideas for peace. This project was also run toghether with Dana Carrillo, the arts teacher from the school.
The Murals were exhibited at PTPI's annual global youth forum and other locations.
We won an honorific price and our poster was not only exhibited with the others but also published in their magazine.
Here you've got a picture album of the whole process as well as its content.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY FORM

CLASSROOM GRADE LEVEL	4TH ESO STUDENTS
STUDENTS AGE:	14-16 YEARS OLD
TEACHERS NAMES:	DANA CARRILLO (ARTS) CARMINA MARTÍ (LANGUAGE)
SCHOOL NAME	IES BOSC DE LA COMA
SCHOOL MAILING ADDRESS	IES BOSC DE LA COMA C/ TOLEDO S/N 17800 OLOT CATALONIA (Spain)
EMAIL ADDRESS	iesbosccoma@xtec.cat (SCHOOOL E-MAIL) cmarti16@xtec.cat (TEACHER’S E MAIL)

THE SYMBOLISM OF OUR MURAL

TITLE: PEACE DOVE

This poster symbolizes the joining, the joining of the differences, the joining we need to work for a common aim : The PEACE AND RESPECT among villages, among people, in fact among cultures.

We’ve used a universal symbol like the dove holding an olive branch in its beak. This image figures the storm is over and the earth is again in calm.

Each student has worked on its own dove individually, then we’ve fit them in the mural so as to gather them all regardless of their size, their colour, their activity or their origin. Each dove longs for a peaceful world where everybody has the same rights.

The doves have been carved using the linoleum technique. Once they’ve already been printed, the students have stuck the letters in collage and finally the have splashed the background and the leaves using Chinese ink.

Their photographer sent images of the Global Youth Murals exhibit from November-December. A few are attached for our students to enjoy.

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We did have a great time while we learnt English using a different methodology. It's a pity I can't up load their comments because they were all written down in ink.

A good recomendation

School term is almost over and before leaving there's a recomendation I'd like to share with you. I hope you like it.



Activity:
I asked the students to tell me about Bill Gates. It was an speaking activity and after watching it, we commented his ideas.

Credit de síntesi

By the end of the second term we visited the airport of Barcelona because we were working on means of transport. The staff told us about the aeroport organization, how they worked, about security and so on. We took notes about it and we also interviewed some forereign people at the departures hall and others in the Ramblas of Barcelona.


These are Silvia Colom, Sïlvia Pujol, Anna Torres and Sergi Soler interviews. You can listen to them if you like.


The following are Cristina Trujillo, Kumba Krubally, Eva Reig and Carla Masó interviews.








The following interviews were realized by Paula Vilanova, Laura Codinach, Eric Duran, Adrian Molina and Cristian Bassols.

Eric Massegur, Michael Gil, Melisa Gil, Fatou Camara and Jefferson Dubon were the members of the fourth group and they made the following interviews.

Anisa Barrabah, Laura Ruiz, Pere Picart, Aitor Aguilera and Felix Garcia made the following interviews.

The following interviews correspond to Helena Roca, Judit Pujol, Lavinia Sofianu, Jonathan Toledano and Dani Mercader group.





In the afternoon we went to the port of Barcelona and we got on a boat to visit the inner parts of the harbour. We saw how the dockers loaded the vessels and other big ships and we learnt about the different tasks which were held at the port.


By 18'00 h we got on our bus and went back home. We had lots of homework to do on our dossier.

3S4 students' blogs

3S4 students' blogs

Why a blog?

I'd like making students learning the most personal as possible. I found the idea of portfolio extraordinary and I will encourage my students to make their own blogs so as to store some of their productions in English!

These are my students from 3rd ESO from IES BOSC DE LA COMA in OLOT. Their class group is called 3S4 and I'm both their tutor and also their English teacher.
Here I list their names and their blogs:

• Aitor Aguilera
  
• Anisa Barrabah
• Cristian Bassols
• Fatou Camara
• Laura Codinach
• Sílvia Colom
  
• Eric Duran
  
• Melisa Gil
• Kumba Krubally
• Eric Massegur
  
• Daniel Mercader
• Sergi Soler
• Adrian Molina
• Michael Gil
• Helena Roca
  
• Laura Ruiz
• Silvia Pujol
• Judit Pujol
  
• Carla Maso
• Eva Reig
• Lavinia Sofianu
  
• Jonathan Toledano
• Cristina Trujillo
  
• Paula Vilanova

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SONGS

Here I will list the songs they chose to listen during the course. You can listen to them thanks to you tube links and if you want to download the lyrics just click on the name of the song.

In order to practise present continuous we listened to Tom's Dinner.




Silvia Pujol is keen on Avril Lavigne and she suggested to listen When you're gone



We had an interesting listening class about Judit López experience with Billie Joe Amstrong from Greenday and we listened to one of her favourite songs: Boulevard of Broken Dreams.


Adrian Molina was very interested in listening to a song by Limp Bizzkit called Behind The Blue Eyes