Happy Christmas

John Lennon - Happy Christmas por Zerenodo

Human Rights & Spanish Constitution

The English and French Department of IES Mediterráneo have celebrated the Human Rights Day by designing posters with the articles of the Declaration of the Human Rights making a relation with these articles and the Spanish Constitution. The 2º Bachillerato students created several comics developing these articles to diffuse them among the other students at school. They also made a gymkhana with this topic that will be carried out on 21st December at our school.

See you in March, Carmen, Martin & David

We say goodbaye to our masters until March. It has been a pleasure to work with them. They have helped us in our daily activities and have given their impressions of it. It has been very useful to hear their suggestions and enjoy their presence. See you in March.

This video's worth watching

It is not only absolutely interesting but also funny. Watch it, you'll have a great time... and you will learn!

    

10 Heart Idioms

10 Heart Idioms explained to English as a Second Language.

English idioms or idiomatic expressions come in plenty in the English language. 

It is said that there are about 25,000 idioms in English. Many of these idioms, unfortunately, sound and look strange to most students of English as a Second Language.

Theatre in English

On 10th November we will attend a play in English at the Centro Cultural Ramon Alonso Luzy . All ESO is invited to participate, we hope your attendance.
You know that the play will be easy and fun and worth doing that immersion in English, 
You will learn while enjoying! 
Do not forget to bring the permission form filled by your parents on Wednesday to class!

Here you are the text we are going to prepare before the play.

Create your own voki

You only have to click on my voki and you will be sent to the page where you can create your own voki. Just follow the instructions, and it'll be done. Once you have created your viki you have to write the text you want him/her to say (your name and something else); you can also record your own voice with your description, to do so you only hve to click on the microphone and start recording. Then embed the code on your blog so that everybody can see it. Remember what I explained last Tuesday.

Sólo tenéis que pinchar sobre mi voki y eso os llevará a la página de Voki donde podéis crear vuestro propio voki. Sólo seguid las instrucciones y se hará. Una vez hayáis creado vuestro voki tenéis que escribir lo que queréis que diga (vuestro nombre y algo más); también podéis grabar vuestra propia voz, para ello sólo tenéis que pinchar sobre el micrófono y empezar a grabar. Incrustad después el código en vuestro blog para que todo el mundo pueda verlo. Recordad lo que os expliqué el pasado martes.

Here you are the video I have created to help you.
Aquí tenéis el video que he hecho para ayudaros.

voki por carmentorres

Design a poster for road safety in Europe

Poster Contest
     

The European Commission needs your creativity to spread a message about responsible driving among young people.

The winning poster will be translated into all 23 official EU languages, it ​​will be distributed in 27 European countries, and used in a campaign in Brussels, and possibly in similar campaigns in other Member States.

The winner will receive a prize of 2000 € and will be invited to the ceremony on November 24, 2011, in Brussels.

The contestants in the second and third place will receive a prize of 1000 € each, which will be notified by mail.  
If you are interested click here and Good luck!

Welcome again

Here we are one more time. This year we have some novelties: first of all we are in the Bilingüal Programme and this is a big challenge, on the other hand we are involved in two Comenius projects. One is about Solidarity and is called "Beleiving in Humanity" and the other is about the importance of harbour cities and their social, economic and cultural influence. That means we are going to be very busy.
Regarding the implementation of our bilingual section we have created a page on the website of our department for this section to meet the needs of the programme and, of course, to help our 1ºESO students who begin this experience. That is why I have dedicated a page within the previous one. We invite you to visit it and begin your journey now.

1ª A Bilingual

Bilingual Program for our school

Have a nice summer!

The classes are over and I wish you the best for this summer. I hope you enjoy it and you come In September with new energy to start a new year with new challenges. I have had a very good time with you all this year. Remember I will be here to answer your doubts and to help you in whatever you need.

Conditional Sentences Presentation

Conditional sentences

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Conditionals quiz

Conditionals » Quiz Maker

Reported Speech. 2º Bachillerato

My dear students, as you know you can download the presentation and work with it by yourselves, I hope you profit it and it helps you understand better this structure. See you on Friday.

Reported Speech

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A wonderful on line dictionary and thesaurus.

Thanks to an English teacher who is now following this blog, Joan Rubies, I have had the opportunity to know this wonderful tool. I also recommend to visit his blog, full of good ideas and tools for learning English.

Memidex is a free online dictionary and thesaurus.
Memidex reaches a new total of 12.5 million external reference links and 1.8 million etymology references.
Each audio reference has a button to play the audio directly from the Memidex web page.

Play with me!

Passive Voice

I hope this presentation will help you understand the Passive Voice. I did my best trying to make it easy.

Passive Voice

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1º ESO

We are going to practise "There is and there are " and some place prepositions with this exercise, click on it and...Start!

Here we are another exercise to learn the places in a town. Click on the picture below if you want to enjoy and learn this vocabulary

Resources for Ciclo Superior Educación Infantil

A wonderful site with materials for little children where you can find a lot of ideas to teach them.

Edmund Spenser

This week has been devoted to poetry in my school and I've chosen an Edmund Spenser's Sonnet to work with.
This is the presentation I have created for our Poetry workshop. The homework consists of the individual translation of this poem.

Poetry

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A new project with a new tool

You can go and see this new tool designed by Andrea Contino & Cristina Salanova, just click on the image. This has been an attempt to discover how it works and I think it has many possibilities.

Bee my Valentine!

Everybody can take part in St Valentine's contest. You can read the rules throughout the school walls.
If you want to know St Valentine's legend click on the picture and you'll see a video or read a text telling the history of St Valentine's Day. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

A new tool: Photo Peach

You can create your own quizz with your photos, here is an example I've just done.

Children's Rights Day on PhotoPeach

Click and learn

This is a famous painting with links on each person which leads you to wikipedia where you can learn about these famous people. I hope you enjoy and Learn!

Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante
Historical Painting with Wikipedia Links & Mouse Over Tagging
Chinese Artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, 2006, oil on canvas

Material for your DU

I've just uploaded some material that you can use to develop your Didactic Units, here we are an example. You can find this material and much more in our English Department site.
This is the video of a song to teach the means of transport.