INTEGRATED UNIT ON FUENGIROLA

Apart from the videos shown below, the final exhibition of a selection of projects done in the different subjects on the topic of Fuengirola is displayed at the hall of our school.
From the Statistics about the population of our town, to the description of different buildings and sites, the variety of international food available in our city and the study of the ecosystems of the area and the impact of the touristic activities on them. In this display there are also projects done by the Área Socio-Lingüística and Aula de Pedagogía Terapéutica, since the topic was also chosen as the axis of the CULTURAL WEEK.

WE ARE GOING TO HUNGARY!

As part of the ERASMUS+ project we are travelling with a small group of students to HUNGARY next month of MAY, from the 10th to the 17th, and the students selected for the experience of exchanging projects on science are:

EVA NÚÑEZ RYDMAN
PABLO LUQUE
SARA MENASSA
ALEJANDRO GISMERO

They will be staying with host families and will experience everyday life in a Hungarian school. The teachers will accompany them and join the other team of Hungarian teachers to study and discuss new methodologies for teaching science, so to make this field more appealing and attractive for young learners. Not all will be work, they will have a tight programme during their stay. We are looking forward to having this first contact with a Hungarian school. In the project there will also participate a Finnish school, which are taking some students too for the exchange. We will update information and surely we will publish news and photographs of the experience here.

INTEGRATED UNIT: FUENGIROLA

WATCH THESE VIDEOS... Part of the integrated unit on FUENGIROLA....

GRAMMAR LESSON WITH FUN : easygrammar4kids

You can revise the grammar of the past simple on the following webpage

Revise the regular verbs using this link  or find other exercises and games to practise and learn

A biography 

Read this biograhy about Hernan Cortes and answer the questions. Now can you write a simple biography about another famous person ?

Also here is a model of how to make a timeline.

HAVE FUN AND LEARN

WE ALSO TEACH FRENCH....

HOW TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS: SONIA THARANI

El Dpto. de Inglés ha organizado, dentro de su línea de trabajo de acercamiento de distintas trayectorias profesionales que resalten la importancia de los idiomas en la sociedad actual, una charla con Sonia Tharani quien, siendo de ascendiente indio ha nacido y sido educada en Málaga, pasando la etapa de primaria y secundaria en la capital malagueña para posteriormente marcharse a Reino Unido a realizar su sueño de dedicarse al mundo del Diseño de Moda, concretamente en Londres. Además de su formación académica inicial, ha seguido su pasión por el baile BOLLYWOOD y la ha convertido en su medio de vida, dedicándose en la actualidad al desarrollo de su empresa, tanto en España como en Reino Unido,  como Coreógrafa y Directora Artística, impartiendo talleres de danza en muchas provincias andaluzas y viajando con frecuencia con sus coreografías al Reino Unido.

The English Department has organised another talk about PROFESSIONAL CAREERS for our students of 3ºESO. We have had an excellent opportunity of meeting a young entrepeneur who, after studying her career as a FASHION DESIGNER in London, has tried a joint venture as Artistic Director of an Academy both in London and in Málaga. A passionate of Bollywood dancing, she is touring Andalusia to give workshops on this type of dancing connected to her background and family culture. Our students have described the talk and the experience as being an example, a "role model", "inspiring" and as a account of "never to give up on your dreams".  The main message given by Sonia was to encourage  young people "to step out of the confort area".

FUENGIROLA: Integrated Lesson

FOR THE SECOND TERM WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF OUR TOWN FUENGIROLA. One of the projects of 2º ESO, A Promotional Video of the city.

Hi again.
As promised, here is the link in case you want to revise (actually you should)
Regards.
JLRosas
CLIK HERE

Hi guys !
Here you are the text on NOMOPHOBIA we have seen in class.
Remember that you have to give a one minute oral presentation on the topic.
I recommend finding some more information and create your own opinion about it.

CLICK ON THE LINK

Keep up the good work !

MATHS IN ENGLISH

A sample of what our students do in MATHS where explaining the process of PROBLEM SOLVING is made part of the learning.

“If you really want to do something, you will find a way.  If you don’t, you will find an excuse”

El viernes 13 no fue el día de mala suerte para la clase pues nuestra invitada  invitada, Miryam Fernández , traductora jurada y empresaria , introdujo a nuestro alumnado en el mundo de la interpretación y la traducción con una animada clase interactiva. Queremos recoger en este blog nuestro agradecimiento a Myriam y compartir la opinión de varias alumnas que muestran el resultado del interés de este tipo de actividades en el aula : motivar a nuestro alumnado, conectar el aprendizaje en el aula con el mundo real, mostrarles la importancia que tiene aprender un idioma para su futuro, aprender sobre las diferencias de las culturas a través del idioma , mostrar ejemplos de mujeres emprendedoras .

¡Gracias Myriam !

SWORN TRANSLATION

On February 13th we had a talk by Miryam Fernández, a businesswoman and a sworn translator, who explained what her job is about and shared her experiences with us.

She told us many interesting things about the different types of translation, the kind she is specialised in and the different ways that translation and interpretation are present in our lives, even though we don´t always realise about it.

Regarding her personal experience she said that she has had both, funny and frightening moments during her career, but she loves her job and knows that bad moments are part of life too.

We have had a perfect hour, laughing and learning new things.

Sara Clare Menassa (3º B)

….. She also told us stories about her experiences in her  work , like interferences in the headphones with a taxi company ,or a very scary story about a mafia criminal that gave her a death threat if she said what she had heard.

I really enjoyed that talk and now I am thinking seriously about being a professional translator . I remember something she said and I liked the most :

“If you want to do it, you will find a way, if you don’t want to do it, you will find an excuse “

BLANCA GUTIERREZ  (3º B)

HELLO AUSTRALIA!!

 THE COOPERATION OF PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT FOR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. This time we have had the opportunity to enjoy a first-hand approach to life in Australia from one of our mums: Sonia Pensado, who has lived for decades in Australia and who was most than willing to share her experience with our students in 1º and 2º of ESO, in English of course.

Not only our students get to know about the culture in English-speaking countries, but also get in touch with different life experiences and enhance the importance of learning languages.

Contact with the real world in the classroom... that's our aim!!


THANKS TO SONIA PENSADO for this contribution

ERASMUS+ PROJECT

WE HAVE FINALLY BEEN GRANTED AN ERASMUS+ PROJECT... OUR PROJECT OF ASSOCIATION WITH A SCHOOL IN FINLAND AND ANOTHER ONE IN HUNGARY HAS RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE EUROPEAN ERASMUS+ GRANTS AND AFTER A FEW YEARS OF REPEATEDLY TRYING, WE HAVE FINALLY GOT THERE... SO THIS YEAR WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET TO WORK ON INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING AS A METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SCIENCE FIELD... Our bilingual team is working out how to improve learning in SCIENCE by a change in methodology and hopefully before the end of the year we will share our results with our school partners in Hungary and Finland. We will take some students to those exchange meetings, so it will be a fabulous experience both for teachers and for students. We will inform about the progress of this project in future entries...

CHRISTMAS CAROL

A group of students from 2ºESO under the direction of JAIME TORQUEMADA, coordinator of the School Library and member of the bilingual team, have represented a short chapter from CHRISTMAS CAROL by ¨Dickens. This is the second year  this activity is performed in the library as part of the efforts to promote reading. The students were assisted  by our Teacher Assistant Greta Murphy. Some pictures of the protagonists.

INTEGRATED LESSON: The Solar System

As part of the bilingual project, the subjects involved in the programme work together in a coordinated way to make a more meaningful and constructive way of learning. This term we have been working with 1º ESO on the Universe, the Solar System and to that aim we have collected several of the tasks and projects done on the topic, like the models of the planets, the connection with History with different posters showing the origin of the names of the planets, the importance of Maths in studying the Universe and a creative part with English and the compositions on a Imagined Planet, and with all that made an exhibition which is shown and introduced in this video filmed and edited by our Teacher Assistant GRETA MURPHY.

JOINT LESSON BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ENGLISH ON DIET

Using all the competences, this team of students show how to be creative and have fun at the same time as they learn about HEALTHY DIETS and LIFESTYLES: 3ºESO

3rd ESO Visit to the airport

A TRIP TO MALAGA AIRPORT

3rd ESO students are visiting the Airport on Wednesday. Some of the students are taken to the Airport museum and some others are going into Pablo Picasso airport to have an experience as a normal passenger.
If you visit the airport work in groups to give a solution to the different situations you may find there .If you go to the museum find the most interesting people and stories to present in the class .
We would also like to know your opinion about the trip . Did you find it interesting ? What was the best and the worst of the trip? Would you recommend it for next year? Write your comments here

What happened ?

How do you see this little hedgehog?  Is it sad? Is it just a cute look in his eyes? What's the story behind ?

Write your own ideas

 It must have ...................................................

4º ESO

WRITE A CAPTION 

 What´s going on in this picture ? You tell us!
We are looking for creative and well-written captions. Send your ideas individually or in groups.

photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor via photopin cc

HALLOWEEN-LIBRARY ACTIVITIES- A FUNNY WAY TO ENCOURAGE READING

Even if the recording is not edited and good enough to show in full the activity that took place in our school library, we insert the video to show the quality of our students as far as English is concerned. Every activity takes into account the promotion of our Bilingual Programme that goes on for FIVE YEARS now. Thanks to Jaime Torquemada and Ana Quijano for the organization of the activity, for promoting the artistic skills so needed in our students and for the promotion of this usually considered a boring place, THE SCHOOL LIBRARY as a place to enjoy and have fun. FRANKESTEIN ADAPTATION - LOS PACOS