ST JORDI'S AWARDS 2024

 PREMIS SANT JORDI/PREMIOS SANT JORDI/ ST JORDI'S AWARDS 2024

Send your creations before 23rd January in English to this email address: 

• 2eso.and23@gmail.com (2nd ESO)
• 4eso.and23@gmail.com (4th ESO)
• 2bac.and23@gmail.com (2nd Bachillerato)

Subject: St Jordi + Name + Surname + Group + Pseudonym. Example: St Jordi Ana Martínez 4C Unicorn

Format: Word Arial 12 (line spacing 1.5)

• Narrative: 2 pages (max 6 pages)
• Poem: 20 lines
• Drama: 3 pages (max. 6 pages)

Remember to invent a pseudonym! Be creative, do not use AI or translators for the whole text and enjoy the process! Im need of some inspiration? Check the following resources:

• Narrative.plot ideas: https://thewritepractice.com/short-story-ideas/
• Poetry-Rhyme dictionary: https://www.rhymezone.com/
• Drama: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-dramatic-screenplay
• Essay: How to Write a Critical Thinking Essay: Examples, Topics, & Outline (custom-writing.org)

PRIZE: You can win €300 and a diploma, your creation will be published in a book and, last but not least, up to +0.5 in the 2nd term in the English assessment!

CHECK THE WHOLE INSTRUCTIONS HERE: https://premiossantjordicemm.wordpress.com/

ALL: European Day of Languages 22-23

This year we have taken several actions to celebrate the European Day of Languages 22-23:

1st ESO: Map of Europe and languages

Atención Educativa: different linguistic apples on how to say Hi Bye Please and Thanks in different languages 

Teams divided into researchers and creators looking for several words in different languages, also beyond the European continent, as many people from abroad bring their languages to enrich the linguistic panorama

2nd ESO: stickers with greetings in several languages and spread among the school

3rd ESO - Digital Magazine: press accreditaions in several languages and coverage of the event

ALL: The tree of the linguistic families, 50 curious facts about languages and several quizzes about alphabets of the world.

We have also collaborated with the Spanish Department: they have translated several slogans into the languages present in our school-and we both have created the exhibition that can be visited at the hall of the secondary school.

We want to promote multilingualism, mutual respect and understanding and the appreciation of other languages and cultures.

Happy St Patrick's Day 2022

 Happy St Patrick's Day 2022

WATCH THE VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KNQ1xciMQ

1st ESO:

EXTRA ACTIVITY. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
1) READING: https://www.liveworksheets.com/tf985701qp

3rd/4th ESO/ Bachillerato:

 
EXTRA ACTIVITY. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
1) READING & LISTENING: https://www.liveworksheets.com/cr1695065zm
2) VOCABULARY: https://www.liveworksheets.com/yi2952819up
3) CULTURAL WORKSHEET: https://www.liveworksheets.com/gu5823bv

ALL:

EXTRA GAMES:
1) CROSSWORD: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ua5895vh
2) WORDSEARCH: https://www.liveworksheets.com/kk1656297bp
3) QUIZZ: https://www.liveworksheets.com/xx57421oa

ALL / 1ESO: Halloween. Pumpkin carving competition 2021. Tips! + healthy Halloween treats + games

HEALTHY HALLOWEEN RECIPES!

TRICK OR TREAT IN A HEALTHY WAY BEYOND CANDY/SWEETS AND CHOCOLATE!

https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g29490447/healthy-halloween-treats/

GAMES: VOC + READ + LISTEN

1) HALLOWEEN CRYPTOGRAM: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ng2552sp

2) WORDSEARCH: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ib1281029qc

3) QUIZZ: https://www.liveworksheets.com/xq1255831ds

4) LISTEN to the story! https://www.liveworksheets.com/up1197705dc

5) PRONUNCIATION: https://www.liveworksheets.com/ys27910cc

PUMPKIN CONTEST COMPETITION

VERY IMPORTANT!!! Remember: use the help of an adult for the cutting! 

LET'S READ! https://webcooltips.com/successful-halloween-celebration-guides-infographic/

Do you dare with more Arts and Crafts?

ALL: MERRY CHRISTMAS/SEASON'S GREETINGS!

Let's celebrate with music! Sure, you can identify this song but... Can you identify the different genres and artists?

Vocabulary, reading and culture:

ESO:

Levels A1/A2:

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/beginner-vocabulary/christmas

Bachillerato:

B1: 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/christmas

C1: 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/magazine/life-around-world/christmas-colombia

DIY hands on!

Cards + ecards:

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/how-make-your-own-christmas-card

Crackers: 

History: https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Christmas-Crackers/

DIY arts and crafts:

Songs:

All I want for Christmas is you (by M. Carey). Present simple.

Last Christmas (by Wham!): irregular verbs. Past tense.

LISTENING/SPEAKING. Films and videos:

• 3rd/4th ESO: Christmas Chronicles 1-2
• Nailed it Xmas edition (cooking programme)
• 1st Bach. Rent (musical)
• 2nd Bach. After the Dark (philosophical film)

WRITING: after commenting on the films/clips, write a review on your powerpoints.

ALL: Summertime 2020 edition!

Hello guys!
It's summertime! Here you have some activities for you to revise or go beyond to prepare for the next year! You will fins games, exercises to boost your skills and ideas to have fun with English!
Enjoy the summer, find opportunities to put your English in use and have fun!
Best wishes,
Humberto

REVISION: choose your subject (Grammar, Vocabulary...) and your level! http://a4esl.org/

• 3rd ESO: Easy
• 4th ESO: Medium
• 1st BACHILLERATO: Difficult

EXTRA ACTIVITIES: 6-minute English... have 6 minutes to spare a day? Try these!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english

SKILLS: reading, listening, real English... choose your device (mobile or computer) and let's go! http://www.manythings.org/daily/

GAMES: http://www.eslgamesworld.com/

DUOLINGO: And as always, you can keep playing and improving with duolingo wherever you go! How many points can you score this summer? https://www.duolingo.com/

PS. For teachers: Many many ideas to prepare for the next year! Enjoy the well deserved holidays and see you soon!
http://iteslj.org/games/

ALL: free apps such as DuoLingo. 15 minutes a day challenge!

Don't forget you can use apps such as DuoLingo to keep learning online for free... just 15 minutes a day! Let me know your progress!

 

Back to school 2019-2020

Dear students,

We are BACK TO SCHOOL! What were your holidays like? This year I travelled throughout Asia and I had an amazing time with plenty of stories too tell, which I hope I can share with you during the year. Tell the class about your holidays too and expectations for the year!

Just a reminder of the basics for the course as well, so that you don't miss anything!

ASSESMENT FOR ESO

TESTS: oral and written  70%
WORK: class and homework 20%
ATTITUDE: participation 10%


There will be a library available for those who want to read extra books, you can take one book at a tinme and then do a task to choose from to round up your final grade. Ideas: book tube, book review...

Textbooks for each level:

Macmillan INTERFACE
-Students Book
-Workbook

ASSESSMENT for BACHILLERATO

TESTS: oral and written  80%
WORK and ATTITUDE: class and homework + participation 20%


Textbooks for each level:

Macmillan INITIATIVE
-Students Book
-Workbook


The curriculum will be complemented with severeal projects based on collaborative learning, problem based learning, and enhancing compentences like entrepeneurship, learning to learn, cultural knowledge, and the like.




MATERIALS

CLASSROOM VISUAL AND CONTRACT

What rules shall govern our class to do the best of it? Work in groups and decide on what norms can be agreed among all of us, teacher and students. We can propose 5 DOs and 5 DON'Ts per group and then discuss and vote for the ones that will go to the viaual/poster that we will later sign.

Discussion: how should we deal with mobile phones in class?

What other visuals would you like to have in the English class? Let's work on them! E.g. question words, verbs, connectors, vocabulary...

TASKS

Let's make our poster for rights and rules and our timetable in English.

INTERNET SAFETY: 1st EducaInternet Contest

STUDENTS OF 3rd ESO:
This is our proposal for the first contest on Internet Safety. We love the Kahoot platform because it is easy and fun and you learn while you share knowledge with your colleagues. We think it is a language we understand, you can work in group, you can research and make the questions and challenge your classmates... and it's online and for free!

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/04514152-6715-416b-a521-26ad1701f4e5

We hope you find it interesting and useful!

Teacher's note: You can show and share. Your friends can learn on Internet Safety and vote for our resource here:

 https://educainternet.es/links/292

Remember you have more information about the contest and the modules on Internet Safety to keep learning about these issues. Good luck!

http://educainternet.es/home

ALL: Dear students

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Dear students,

WELCOME to the academic year 2015-16.

This year I will be teaching 2nd, 3rd and 4th of ESO.

Ice-breakers for our first day at school!
Activities to start using and improving your English in a fun way.

ESO1 and 2: 

• PASS THE BALL and introduce yourself. IN PAIRS: You can ask several questions to your classmate and then talk about him or her to the class.
• In groups, pairs or walking around the class stopping at any random time indicated by the teacher or another student. You can have a list with question words and complete them: Who is your best friend? What is your favourite food? When is your birthday?
• MY NAME + MY FIRST LETTER WORD
• Introduce yourself just saying your name and another word in English beginning with the same letter as your first name (you can choose a particular topic, i.e. animals), for example: I'm Ann Ant, I'm Bern Ball, I'm Carles Cat... Then, we'll try to remember these nicknames.
• GAME: End up with a game: stand up and form a circle, and each student say a word related to a topic (e.g. SUMMER). When a student says a word that does not fit or remains silent, sits down and gets eliminated. The last one standing up is the winner.
• An extra activity could be to introduce basic instructions in English and hang a poster with them, e.g.: How do you say ... in English? Excuse me I'm late, can I come in?

ESO3 and 4:

• ASK ATTACK: Draw a big question mark and let students ask you questions. Write them down to ellicit error correction (sentence structure)-, other students can help in the right word order/grammatical correction.
• LIE DETECTOR: You say three sentences about yourself, two are true, one is false. The class have to guess which one is the lie. The more surprising your true sentences are, the better! If you have proof of it, show them! E.g.:

1. I have been to Malaysia, Australia and Vanuatu this summer. 
2. I have learnt some Bahasa Indonesia language.
3. I have been parachuting.

• GUESS WHO: in this case, your teacher asks you to write an anecdote about your (e.g. this summer) or a hobby you have, and collects them from you. Then, they are read loud and the class have to guess who is the person who wrote it.

NOTE FOR TEACHERS: It is important to set the assessment criteria in the first day, too. Make it in a clear and concise way, but make all the information available. They can be asked to be the markers of a particular text (written or oral) to experience the way the teacher is going to mark compositions or oral skills.

Exemplify compositions with a good layout and a really bad one to exaggerate the contrasts and make clear what is the model to follow. 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
40% Procedures (what you do: compositions, speaking, listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary)
30% Concepts (what you know: written tests, oral tests)
30% Habits (how you do it: homework, dossiers/portfolio, punctuality)

Written compositions:           Speaking:                        Reading:
Pr. Presentation 20%                Pronunciation 20%             2nd ESO Short stories 
Acc. Accuracy 20%                  Accuracy 20%                   3rd ESO Short stories
Fl. Fluency 20%                       Fluency 20%                     4th ESO Romeo and Juliet
Str. Structure 20%                    Acting 20%                        + Voluntary reading
Or. Originality 20%                   Content/Ideas 20%

Specify rubrics for each task.

Materials:

• Blue and black pens for notes, green pen for self-marking, red pen for other purposes.
• Plastic pockets and paper sheets.
• Pencil, eraser, sharpener, ruler, scissors, glue for specific purposes.
• Headphones (for listenings)

Books: Readers/Original materials (plenty of them in our library). You can fill in the reading worksheet and grade them, plus write a recommendation (why did you liked it? or not...). Make a collective poster/lino.

Textbooks: 

• Digital Students Book MacMillan INTERFACE

You will work on the digital book and sometimes write theory and some exercises in your notes (at the end you will have a dossier per each unit).

• Paper Workbook MacMillan INTERFACE 

You can write on the workbook; then you will self-mark these exercises and bring doubts to discuss in class.
http://www.macmillanelt.es/series/interface-4/#.VfdTbNLtmko

We will use laptops for acccessing materials, eventually tablets and smart phones when the teacher says so.

Flipped classroom: you will study the theory at home and do the exercises in class!

Digital portfolio (ePortfolio): see this example... are you eager? You can upload your writing, learning reflection/diaries and oral skills productions easily!

Options for teachers to consider (and students!): https://eportfolioreview.wordpress.com/eportfolio-list/
https://www.foliospaces.org/

CONTESTS: Euroscola in the news, Curiosipics, Time Capsule

We appear in the news! Our Euroscola project with Senegal is on the news, have a look (headlines and from 11:40):
http://tvbadalona.xiptv.cat/noticiesteleb/capitol/6-de-maig-de-2015

These are the winners of 2015: http://www.euro-scola.com/
http://www.euro-scola.com/ganadores.php

Despite the fact we have not won this year I sincerely think you are real winners, you have done an OUTSTANDING job with your campaign SMILING STARS and I congratulate you for that.

Don't worry, there are more contests!:

CURIOSIPICS: http://www.cambridgediscovery.es/page/que_es
You are still on time to upload your pic and vote for the most curious picture!
Prizes:  trips to London and New York, professional cameras, mobile phones...
Deadline: 15 May 2015

TIME CAPSULE: http://www.oxfordculturemania.es/2015/03/05/a-personal-time-capsule/
Create a time capsule and make a video of the process: how do teenagers live in 2015? Let them know what's your lifestyle in 2015... for those who will open it in 2050!
Prize: a weekend in Oxford for your class!
Deadline: extended to 29th May (but voting starts on the 18th May!)
Registration and tips: http://online.oupe.es/ELT/OxfordCompetitions/secondary-competition/index.html?utm_source=Widget&utm_medium=CM&utm_campaign=OxfordCompetition


Good luck!

ALL: Halloween time!!

ESO 1: Short film "The friendly ghost".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sC3hNxcc8

True or False
1) The ghost's name is Caspian.
2) The boys receive candy after saying "trick or treat".
3) The boys didn't know Casper was a real ghost.
4) The girl's name is Mary.
5) There are two violinists and two guitarists at the party.

Extra: The girl isn't scared of the ghost. Why? Because...

VOCABULARY AND ACTIVITIES: http://www.xtec.cat/~ihidalgo/hallow/hallow.htm

ESO3 and 4: Short film "Selfie"

Choose the correct answer
1.What kind of fim is the girl watching?
a) Comedy  b) Horror  c) Action
2. What's not her hobby?
a) Puzzle games  b) Photography  c) Chess
3. What is she preparing in the microwave?
a) Pop corn  b) Chips  c) Nachos
4. What Halloween elements can't you see in the decoration?
a) Jack-o'-lantern  b) Bats and witches  c) Skull
5. What did she found in the last piece of the puzzle?
a) Nothing   b) A mask  c) A monster

Extra: Whats do these times refer to? 2:20  2:07
Were you scared? Why? Was the end expected or unexpected?

ESO3: Can you talk about her hobbies? Use the expressions you have learnt (she's into... she's a fan of... she's interested in...)
ESO4: What does she look like? Use the vocabulary you've learnt (She's wearing...)



Do you know any scary story? Share it!

And remember we have many mysterious books at the English Department library! Do you dare????
By the way, if you are into R.L.Stine's The Nighmare Room, i.e. "Pesadillas", here you have an episode you can watch (part 1 and 2): "Don't forget me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpa-FmQyNw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyXpTlVuvzc

More films: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=halloween+short+film+for+kids

-----------------Answers------------------------------------------
ESO1: F-T-T-F-F. Because she's a ghost, too!
ESO3&4 bcaba
ESO3: films, puzzles, cooking, photography, fashion/costumes...
ESO4: make-up, ring, piercing, black nail polish...