2nd ESO students pen pals

We are going to have an American pen-pal from a school called, St. Gregory school in Tucson , Arizona, the USA.
You should click on this link and choose a partner and answer to him. You have to introduce yourself and tell a bit about you.
We will have a class blog where you can publish all your writings as well as your oral productions.
I hope you like it.

2nd ESO: Means of transport.

Click on this link and do the exercises provided.
Homework: Prepare a wordlle WS similar to the example with the new words you learnt and hand them to your teacher on Friday 29th.

These are some of my students examples:
Erik Yagüe



vanessa trejo

Paula Vergés




Sergi Picart


Pau Riera

A name poem for ST Jordi.

We’ve started this 3rd term dealing with adjectives to describe feelings with our students from 2^nd ESO.

I was thinking about doing something different and meaningful to them when I came up with the idea to tell 2S3 students how wonderful they are. Eventually, the idea became much more interesting as long they could tell each other how great they were so as to create a good class atmosphere.

I took their photographs from our website, put them in bag, shuffle them and asked the students to pick up a picture. As soon as they got their partner’s name, they looked up for suitable adjectives to describe them in order to make a visual poem with their names. They were expected to use colours, printed letters, pictures…… they had to be ORIGINAL!

We hanged the poem in their classroom for a week and afterwards they kept the ones with their own names.

Here you have an album to look at. Enjoy it!

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2nd ESO ADJECTIVES.

Write meaningful sentences to you using the adjectives provided in the grid below. Later,
If you click on this link you can create lovely WS as this. You can prepare one according to
our textbook contents and hand to your teacher for an extra bonus mark!

2n BAT: Night life in NY

Here you have a link to a video about New York night life I've found out in an interesting video website.
Listen to the interview and do the suggested activities.

http://www.videojug.com/interview/new-york-city-nightlife-2

New York City Nightlife

1) Choose the best option

What is special about going out in New York?
New York has so much (1) history / story, class and panache behind the (2) hole /whole city. I mean, if you just look at "Sex in the City," you can see how (3) funny / fun it is to go out because you have people from all over the city, from artists and writers, and in a Mecca of entertainment, you never know who you're going to (4)bump /run into or meet. New York is just very fast-paced and very (5) chic / cheek . So it's fun to go out in New York.


2) Cross out the extra added word.

What are the coolest nightspots in New York?
Nightspots in New York also change extremely fast. If you have thought L.A. changed fast, New York nightlife also changes very fast too. Hotspots have included "Bungalow 8", "Pink Elephant", "Stereo", “Bread” "Butter"; the list goes on and on so on.

3) Order the sentences
What's the best way to get into a New York hot spot?
It works similarly to LA in that they want to keep the people outside so that it seems like it's really exclusive.

The best way to get into a New York hot spot is to know someone.

If you are an attractive girl and you go up to the front of the line, your chances of getting in are high

It probably is, and it's very good to know the door people and to know the venue owner or promoter.

.If you are a guy, take out your wallet because you're probably going to be using it to get in.

4) Fill in the gaps with the correct word
Can I get into New York hot spot by paying off the doorman?
A lot of times if you …………………….(1)l out money and try to grease the doormen, they don't care who you know sometimes, they don't care about anything. They will only ……………………….(2) their people in, especially if the capacity of the …………………………(3). is really low. Then they know they can only let in 'x' ……………………(4).of people. They don't care. They're not going to let you in. Your best ………………………….(5) is just to go home.

2nd BAT About American History

In our book, we have read an article about the USA but I'm sure you don't know that much about the history of this powerful country.
Watch the video and listen to it carefully and write a short paragraph writing down as many historic events you can.

2nd ESO: Quick project

Our American pals asked us to take part in a project saying a given sentence in different languages. Since Our mother tongue is Catalan we helped them with our collaboration.
Here you can find the short videos we recorded.

On the first one we have Anna Codina, Lidia Banús, Paula Font and Mari Pau Calm saying the quote in Spanish. Coral Descamps, Ariadna Barris, Alba Jofre and Marc Massegu in Catalan and finally Jasmeet Kaur, Lovepreet Kaur and Carolina Aguilera say the quote in English.


On the second one we have Claudia Vilarrassa, Aida Parejo and Paula Rivas saying the quote in Spanish. Paula Vergés, Sergi Picart, Pau Riera and Ricard Russinyol in Catalan and finally Eric Yagüe, Gurdeep Sing and Marc Sau say the quote in English.

2nd ESO: Let our pen pals know about our typical food

In our lesson we have been dealing with food and our students have made some typical Catalan or Spanish recipes for our American penpals in the USA.
Here you've got a selection of them.

Chefs: Alba Jofre and Paula Vergés.
Recipe: MACEDONIA (Fruit Salad)

Chefs:Marc Massagu, Pau Riera & Sergi Picart

Recipe: Bread with tomato and cold meat.

Chefs:Ariadna Barris, Coral Descamps and Vane Trejo

Recipe: Catalan Salad

Chefs:Lidia Banús & Anna Codina
Recipe: Catalan Salad

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.