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

ASKING AND GIVING DIRECTIONS

Look  at language you can use when asking for and giving directions. Practise it with the quizzes too.

BBC learning English

Halloween in the library

HALLOWEEN IN THE LIBRARY

Yesterday we had a scary reading session of the legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving . Jaime, our enthusiastic librarian, read it for 1ESO . Here are some pictures of the activity although the quality  is not very good  as the light of the library was not very bright to create the right atmosphere.



HALLOWEEN IN THE CLASS

Our language assistant also presented some information about Halloween in the USA to the students in class. Many of them will have disguised on the weekend but we hope that they know better about this Celtic tradition to scare the evil spirits.


HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

Terrifying Sleepy Hollow in Los Pacos school library

WILD WEATHER

Why is the sky blue? How do tornadoes stop?

We recommend you  to visit Weather Wiz Kids® ( by Crystal Wicker) to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. 

What type of cloud is so lazy, because it will never get up? 

Find the answer in the weather jokes and have fun ! 

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OUR VOLUNTEER GUESTS IN THE ENGLISH LESSONS

A lo largo de este curso el departamento de inglés ha organizado visitas y charlas de diversas personas

de habla inglesa ,sobre diversos temas y enfoques que ponen al alumnadoen contacto directo con el 

idioma ofreciéndole la oportunidad de crear situaciones de comunicación e interacción.

Queremos agradecer desde aquí la generosidad de Maureen y Brian Jeffrey,José Perez , Marta 

Moreno, Paul Mrocek y Lorenzo Hernández, que han compartido con nuestro alumnado su experiencia

y su tiempo y esperamos se hayan llevado la grata satisfacción de que su mensaje ha llegado a una parte

de los jóvenes que serán los adultos de la sociedad el día de mañana. 

 
Después de cada actividad el alumnado hacía una redacción sobre la experiencia.

Recogemos aquí una muestra de algunas aportaciones de nuestras alumnas con su punto de vista sobre 

la colaboración recibida.

Eliana Chamoun 

nos hace volar con la imaginación después de la visita de Maureen y Brian 

Jeffrey, un mago profesional y una profesora de primaria en Escocia. 

Gabriela V. Fernandez y Sonia López 

nos dan su visión sobre el voluntariado después de haber disfrutado de las charlas del Sr y la Sra 

Jeffrey,  José Perez, voluntario en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012, y de Marta López ,Paul 

Mrocek y LorenzoHernández profesorado y alumno de la escuela oficial de idiomas participantes en el 

proyecto Europeo Sen-Vol. También queremos recomendar que leáis la revista Collage de la Escuela 

Oficial de Idiomas, sin duda una comprometida publicación con la cultura que nos demuestra como 

aprender un idioma sirve para algo más que hacer una redacción y aprobar el exámen. 

Brian

 

A MAGICIAN AND A TEACHER IN MY CLASS

I wish a had a magician as a teacher, and a teacher that taught Maths,English,Art...

Maureen Jeffrey

He/she could be a great person to have in my school. I wish my class could have the magician teacher and the normal teacher in the same classroom,because, first you have maths then maybe English and in the break,the magician teacher can do some tricks. The magician teacher could also teach the students some magic after school,as a hobby.

                                        Eliana Chamoun (4º A)

 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Volunteering consists on doing something without getting paid, your only benefit being the satisfaction of helping others and the experience you gain.The human race is good by nature, we don't like to see others suffer when we know we can help.

 Even if it is a small act, we try, we always try.

Volunteering is an altruistic act and the world needs more volunteers, especially with the current  situations we are living. Everyone should do something, even if it is the simplest of actions, we can all add our own bit . When times are worse some people become selfish but others become more aware of others, of other people ' s needs, and they decide to do something about it.

Volunteering can offer exciting experiences. In the Olympics people volunteered from all over the  world and you could meet different people from different cultures and learn new things. You can  volunteer at the age of eighteen or send your application at sixteen but when the event is set you  will have already turned eighteen. If you want to volunteer in a big event like the Olympic Games there are usually a lot of volunteers who send their applications and it is highly recommended to send it a couple of years before the actual event. They look through the applications and depending  on the number of volunteers they select the ones they need and inform the selected ones. And don't be impatient it may take them a few months before you know that you have been selected.

Volunteers are important because it is not always possible to pay someone and it is important to know that you can get help from people that do not expect anything in return.

 I have never volunteered nor have any relatives of mine but I've spoken with those who have and they've all talked about how it's life changing and that even though you don't get paid you gain a lot of things, experiences and gratitude. So if you have the possibility of volunteering and are interested do it, you're always going to be needed.

Gabriela Valentina Fernández Radics 

 

Students from 4A -B

VOLUNTEERING

There are a lot of people who are volunteers but with busy lives it can be difficult to find time to volunteer and the volunteers work for free, so a  lot of people don' t find it interesting.

However, there are a lot of benefits of volunteering. For example, volunteering connects you to others and it can help you make new friends or meet people with common interests. Volunteering helps you to connect to your community and make it a better place and, while you are helping your community, the environment or other cause, you are also helping your own health because when you are a volunteer you are doing good for others so you can feel good and satisfied with yourself.

Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practise important skills used in the workplace, such as teamwork, communication or organisation. And you can teach your skills to others .

Thanks to volunteering you can find and explore your interests. Volunteering also provides you with renewed creativity and motivation. It also helps you to get work experience. If you are a volunteer you will receive more than you give and it is good for you, and your help is good for the community and other people .

I know a lot about volunteering thanks to my cousin and some talks that some  volunteers gave us in our class. My cousin has been volunteer in some sports events, because she loves sports. For example, about three years ago, she was volunteer in a marathon organised by the association against cancer, so the money raised was used for the fight against cancer.She told me that she likes to be a volunteer because it is a good experience and she made a lot of new friends. She is very happy because she met one of her  best friends in the marathon. She also feels very well with herself and she thinks that  volunteering is very interesting and thanks to her I think the same and I would like to be  a volunteer too.

Sonia Lopez Gomez

Marta Moreno

Lorenzo Hernandez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Mrocek , Marta Moreno