Speaking time with students of 1st and 2nd ESO

The students of 1st and 2nd ESO have performed "Greetings and Introductions" and some dialogues of Present and Past. They are working hard. So, come on! Don't be shy and participate in all  oral activities.

Somebody is helping us in class,  a future teacher, Clara, we told you last Friday in "SG Informa"So, you can watch two videos and some groups practising.

The United Nations Project 2nd ESO Session 1 and 2

In my first week with 2nd ESO students I also presented Greece and the Greek alphabet along some Greek words. The introduction is the same with the 1st ESO, we talked about Greece, the students talked about the things they like in Spain and I answered their questions about me, creating a friendly relationship between us. I also explained them what the SDGs are and what are they trying to achieve. With them we focused in SDG 1 - no poverty, a.k.a. the most important one. After conversating about poverty in general I told them about the situation in Greece with refugees from Syria. I tried to make them feel how these people are feeling by showing them some poor people and their sad stories. The students read their stories and answered some general questions about the pictures I showed them. After that they are going to present to the class who is the person in their picture, some information about them and answer the questions I gave them to the rest of the class. These questions are made in a way so the students understand how the poor people feel like, what they have gone through in the past and how hard is for them to survive. Pretty much that is the second week with the 2nd ESO and we will see what will follow in the final week.

Lazaros

The United Nations Project: Presentation

My name is Lazaros, I am 19 years old and I come from Greece. Studying business in the University of Macedonia an opportunity appeared so I came to Barcelona as a volunteer to share my thoughts about sustainable development with young people. Using activities and projects I am trying to make students aware about the problems our earth faces at this moment and motivate them to do something about it. The most important thing for me is for the students to understand how serious this is and how it will affect people in such a sort time period. For me, if they understand this they will feel like the need to do something, because this is what happened to me. In this case i will try to get them familiar with organisations like AIESEC who encourage and guide people who want to be part of the campaign designed to change this planet once and for all.

In my first 2 weeks here i met 3rd and 4th ESO's students. 

Science Blogs

During this school year, the students of 2^nd ESO, in the optional subject of Science, have been learning the different systems that form the human’s body.

To make the classes more dynamic, we separated the class into different heterogenic groups. Each member of each group, had to research different contents about a specific system, like how it works, the main organs or the most important diseases. Then, each person takes responsibility for a specific role in the group. When we had researched the information, we put it in a web page that we had created by ourselves. When all the groups finished the web page, we presented it to all the schoolmates.

We have learnt and enjoyed a lot with this optional subject!!!

If you want to see one of our projects, here you have the link:

https://hi514.webnode.es/

Laia G. C.

2nd ESO B

Sportfolio

Hi bloggers!

Do you like basketball? Here you have a review of the class that we prepared for our partners in Sports class. It includes what we have learnt, and what we liked the most. Enjoy!!

6th English Day

Last Friday we celebrated the 6th English Day at school. There were many workshops and activities to learn and have fun!

1. Sherlock Holmes' Activity

Pupils became investigators in this workshop. They could choose one of the four games to play together thanks to their visual perception which was determining factor in all of them. Some of the activities were: spot the difference, test your memory, the power of obervation or handwriting analysis.

2. Watson's Activity

Who is the murderer??? And the victim? Was there any witness? Help Dr Watson to solve the crime.

3. Queen of Hearts' Activity

Are you ready to find the correct card? Remember that if you failed, the Queen can get angry and then it could be possible that she says:  OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!

4. Alice's Activity

You must be very clever to complete this activity because you have to solve some of the most famous English riddles. 

“If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?” A secret.

5. The Time Traveller's Activity

We use his time machine to travel to the Victorian era. What did we know about it? We just needed to complete a Kahoot and compete to be the winners!

6. The Monkey's Activity

We become actors and actresses in this activity and we role-played some scenes of the Victorian novels.

7. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's Activity

Science is very powerful!!! That is what Dr Jekyll taught us with some experiments. We made invisible a coin, we could blow up a balloon without blowing, and we did many incredible things just like real scientists.

8. The Maid's Activity

It was time for Arts&Crafts, so we developed our artistic skills. We used the collage technique to fill the characters' silhouette.

9. The Bennet's Sisters' Activity

One of the most popular ways of having fun during the Victorian Era was dancing in balls. It was not easy to follow the steps but Elisabeth and Jane helped us a lot!

9. The Writer's Activity

The Writer was a gentleman and he explained us how to play French Criquet. It was very funny and we felt as if we were in the British landscape for just some moments.

11 and 12. Dracula and his Victim's Activity

That was the most dangerous activity as Dracula was trying to create an army of vampires to destroy the world. If we didn't want to be a new victim, we need to run very fast.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!! NEXT WEEK THE VIDEOS!!!

Football in Sports Optional Subject

In Sports (an optional subject) classes, a group of students of 2nd ESO have been planned a football lesson for the rest of their classmates. We must take into account the physical equipment, how to give instructions in English. We have been teachers during 1 hour!
First, we have started by warm up activities, moving the joints, and then two exercises to practice the precision with the ball.Related to football we have practised the precision, the shot, the strategies and the coordination. To finish the lesson, we have prepared a tournament with four teams. The team who wins, it stays in court.

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Solve the crime

The students of 2nd ESO have been preparing a Cooperative Project about different types of crime.

The first part of our project consists in completing many warm-up activities to learn crime vocabulary and reading some texts about stories of crimes. Then, we listen to the dialogue of a robbery in a jewellery. All these warm-up activities have been a model to follow to prepare our final product.

You can see a robbery, a murder, a kidnapping…etc. We are very good actresses and actors.

We hope that you’ll enjoy our films!

Laia E., Marina I. and Yara Virac 2^nd ESO B 

Literary Contest 2nd ESO

Here you have the compositions!!

Enjoy them!

The 5th English Day

Hi bloggers!
The 5th English Week was held from 6^th to 10^th February in our school. The topic was Harry Potter and we transformed the school in Hogwarts the last day.

All the students were divided into the four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, so they have to compete to win the Cup of the Tournament. To achieve this objective, they had to complete some activities with the best punctuation. Here you have them:

-       Voldemort and the Dark Mark.

-       Bellatrix and the Spells.

-       Prof Trelawney and Prof Lupin with the cryptic messages.

-       Prof. Lockhart and the crosswords.

-       Moaning Myrtle and the role-plays

-       Prof McGonagall and Prof Sprout in the Transfiguration class.

-       Sirius Black and Azkaban

-       Hagrid and the Magical Creatures

-       Madam Hooch and the soundtrack

-    Dolores Umbridge and the decorations

-       Rita Skeeter and Mad-eye Moody with the news

-       Cedric and Dumbledore with Quidditch

We really had fun, it was an amazing and magical day! We’re waiting anxiously for the 6^th English day next year!!!

Jack's, the Game

Hi bloggers!

The students of 2nd ESO are learning the rules of some traditional games in "Sports" classes. Here you have one of the games we have been working with.

Playing Cards

The students of 2nd ESO have practised the Present Simple and Present Continuous playing cards. They had fun and learnt a lot !

Welcome to the New Course!!!

Hi everybody!!

Welcome back! We're here again!

We're eager to share our new projects and we hope you enjoy them a lot!!

To open the season, today, we have had some Culture Classes, with Cristina. She is a girl from New York, who has explained to us lots of things about the English speaking culture. There's no better way to begin our blog that having fun in English!!!

See you soon, bloggers!!

The Fonix 2016

Hi bloggers!

The Ninth English Competition for Catalan Schools (THE FONIX 2016) is designed to promote the use of English among schools students through a fun and educational competition.

The competition has been very hard in school this year, because some students had the same punctuation and we had to raffle of their names to choose the winner. 

Here you have the names of the winners (in capital letters the person who went to the local exam representing the school).

1st ESO:  EMMA G. C. (A)

2nd ESO: MARIA A. P.  (A) 

3rd ESO:  Aina L. P. (A), Andrea S. C. (B) and DAVID P. G. (B)

4th ESO: Félix M. C. (B) and CLAUDIA M. G. (A).

Unluckily, Maria wasn't in the picture because she was ill, and she couldn't go to the exam on Saturday. We wish her a fast recovery, and we are looking forward to seeing her in school again.

Here you have the winners of the local stage in the school before the exam on the 27th February!! We are sure they did their best!!!