On your marks!

Hey you! Are you ready for this year's exchanges? Stay alert on the news and prepare for the new projects!!!! Good luck if you applied to participate! This is Dorset-Jaén World Heritage Comenius Project's closure year. Let's make it count ;)

New Year, New Life!

Hello Everyone! Tomorrow, back to school! I wish you a good start in this second term and a HAPPY 2012. Fingers crossed, this will be a year to remember! Ideas for new year resolutions? Here's a couple of them! Listen to them closely ;)

Listening and Speaking practice

Looking for a site to improve your Speaking a Listening skills?

missisabelonlineblablabla
is your blog! It's got clearly separated sections with those areas you want to work on: Specialised listening links. Podcast Corner with assorted levels. Speaking practice Section. Links to easy Phonetics to improve your pronunciation. Movie Corner to watch trailers of popular movies in English. If you are trying to work in a more relaxed way: click on the music videos and listen to songs while reading their lyrics.It's simple, free and without a timetable. What's your excuse now?

Imagine?

Do you remember our first Comenius Project? It was an absolutely unforgettable experience. Now we can boast two Comenius Projects running: Dorset-Jaén World Heritage Bilateral Project
and Different but Similar Multilateral Project
and the Exchange with the Heinrich Heine Schule. Info
We don't have to "Imagine". It is true and it is happening in our School!

Why are YOU studying English for?

Click here
to see the presentation.

Proyecto Integrado Bilingüe: Tipología Textual

Let's get started with Trinity students. Bilingual Year 11 groups have a challenge ahead preparing to sit Trinity Tests. You'll see it is easy, but we need to be ready. Here is a presentation with the exam's parts, requirements, marking percentages and tips. TRINITYss

Welcome back!!! It is time to get started. Meeting classmates, teachers and yes!, back to work. Different posts will be published after this summer break. Good year everyone!

Shakespeare and The Sonnet

Shakespeare and The Globe

Shakespeare Project

Click on the presentation to choose your COMEDY, TRAGEDY, HISTORY or LATE ROMANCE from Shakespeare's plays. Remember it is your last PILI project. You can do this!
Shakespeare Project

Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath"

Read the other Tales and do a summary of the story. We will compare and share our findings next week.

PILI: Medieval Literature. G. Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales

GChaucer-TheCanterburyTales

PILI Revision

Overview of Periods of Early English History

Carnival Project Costume competition

For more info, CLICK ON THE LINK above

King Arthur Legend

The Legend of King Arthur

Whether vs If

Click for more info and exercises on the title.
(taken from http://menuaingles.blogspot.com)

Fantastic Projects on Beowulf: ESO4A

Congratulations for your excellent work and final products!!!

Bilingual Gamba ;-)

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Rewriting Practice (AS Level)

Here you are the sentences:

1. Sam finished his homework during the film. (while)
2. We stayed home because of the rain. (was)
3. They can’t find their dog. (look for)
4. I started eating before he arrived. (when)
5. These aren’t my jeans. (belong)

Second part of the III Exchange with the Sir John Colfox School. =)

III Exchange The Sir John Colfox - Santa Catalina September 2010

Beowulf, The poem

Beowulf the Poem INTRO

Welcome again Angels!!!

De Class Pics

Guardian Newspaper (PI)

ESO4B Magazine

Open publication - Free publishing - More magazine

End-of-Year Magazine Project. Some people need to send their sections and I will update this initial version. I hope you'll like. This is the result of your last week work!

Passive voice (BILINGUAL ESO3)

Open publication - Free publishing - More voice

Reported Speech Grammar Info

Open publication - Free publishing - More speech

Comenius Posters

Carlos Catena
Paula Reyes
Ana Belén Santiago
Clara Santiago
Elvira Santiago

Indefinite Pronouns Practice

Speaking Session: "Alcohol, Is it all fun?"

You can see the consequences of drinking alcohol from a comic perspective in this video clip. But I am sure you can tell me a long list of negative consequences of such a habit. Let's talk about it!

Posters to be created

Palm Reading to practise WILL

The 60's The Decade of Peace and Love

ESO4B students have done a 60's timeline and we made a special reference to the figure of Martin Luther King and his famous speech "I have a dream"



Malcom X, who was assasinated 45 years ago, was also a paramount figure against racism and has to be remembered. Here you are a video in which he mentions the problems that the black community endured at the time and their reactions.

To my Valentines in ESO3A class

Dear Class,

I still feel like a million dollar after your nice Valentine's surprise. I am definitely happy for your sweet present and nice words to me. I decided then to say thanks in our blog and post a picture of a happy teacher! I also decided to post our "love" song, which you can listen to clicking on the title. Enjoy and sing it out loud!!! Happy Valentines Day, angels.

Better Studying Tips

Our colleague and French Teacher at School, Ana Torres, has suggested this web to improve your studying skills. There are some tips to bear in mind!
Isn't this a good help for New Year's Resolution: "I'm going to study More..."

HAPPY 2010!!!

Xmas VIDEOS

Video made by Ángela Olivares Rubio.

Whole class video for the activity "My Special Xmas" Part1

Whole class video for the activity "My special Xmas" Part2

Bilingual ESO1 class Xmas Cards competition

At last! Haiku poetry!

Another beautiful project worth publishing... You have shown yourselves as surprisingly moving poets...Here is the compilation of the best haiku poeems, also included within the Comenius Project web.
Haiku Poetry

Family Tree Project

Sample work of Family Trees designed for the Comenius Project. (Click on the title)
Leave your comments or send more samples, thanks.

Halloween Competition

Students! Here you are an opportunity to get some candy! This competition is very easy. If you want to win the prize, follow the instructions:
1) Get a scary costume for Halloween night and take a picture of yourself !
2) E-mail the picture to missisabelonline@yahoo.es
3) When all pictures get published on the blog, vote for the best costume.
Good Luck and have a spooky time!

CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO SEE THE PICTURES. YOU CAN START VOTING!!!

AND THE WINNER IS..... PICTURE NUMBER 4: MARÍA MARTÍN SARMIENTO!!!!

Multilingual Me Project Work

ESO 3A students are happy to present their digital and hand-made self portraits.
Click on the title and give your opinion if you please.
Thanks!

Keeping Promises: Suitcase Project

Before I finished last academic year, I promised my Bilingual ESO2A students a post with their suitcase project. Hope you'll like it.
I take this opportunity to inaugurate this brand new academic year hoping great achievements and results like in the past.
Welcome back!

Suitacase Project

II Exchange The Sir John - Santa Catalina

Dear Families hosting students from Santa Catalina School,

This is a message to thank you ALL for your participation in this year's exchange. We had already experienced the local hospitality, but we feel we need to write to express how grateful and lucky we are to have had you as host families. My students have returned to Spain with the feeling they left behind real parents and brothers/sisters and are looking forward to their partners' visit to Spain. They had a fabulous time, enjoyed the activities and above all they felt like at home. They miss you loads and speak volumes of you. As a group leader, I have to say that I could happily see great connection between you and the kids and I especially want to thank you for trying so hard to make them feel comfortable. They had caring and warm families to look after them. Let me make a special mention to Richard, Amanda and George for their preocupation, extreme kindness, great help and incredible support to deal with Alvaro's incident. I want to thank them in the name of the School, the family and my own. I couldn't ask for more!
Leaving that aside, I am sure it was a good (and exhausting!) experience for you all and ,hopefully, we will be able to continue this lovely project together in the future. I would like to put a special emphasis in the fact that involving families in this type of activities made the whole project much more special,interesting, enriching and worth it.
I find it hard to express with words our gratefulness.... Rest assure you were absolutely fantastic and made a strong impression on us all. A big THANK YOU! ¡GRACIAS!
Looking forward to your visit in Spain!!!!
You can have a look at the pictures taken during our stay on the link under the exchange heading on the left menu.

Updates on coming trips abroad: Exchange to Bridport and Comenius Project Meeting.

Dear Students,
Two important dates to jot down on the school's calendar!
*From 15th-19th June, eight students form our school are going back to the "Heinrich-Heine Schule",Dreieich, Germany, to contiue working on our Comenius Project calendar. This third meeting will host a spectacular Fashion Show in which participants will design, make and show their costumes. You will be able to follow the activities either on this blog or on the project's website.
*From June to July, fifteen students from the school ejoying a grant from the Junta de Andalucía, will visit our partner School in Bridport, The Sir John Colfox School, participating on the second Students Exchange that the school organises. Congratulations to all of them!!! You will see what a great experience it is!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE STUDENTS GOING ABROAD TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY OF THESE TWO THRIVING ACTIVITIES. ENJOY YOURSELVES!!!

The HHS visits Santa Catalina!!!

It was high time I wrote a post about the special visit we enjoyed last 20th March for some days. Eight German students came to our school to work on a digital project carried out by the German Art teachers Sabina and Bernd. The project consisted on adapting digitally, using gimp, a celebrity face so that it fitted to the student in question. I personally tried to be Arwen from Lord of the Rings, but no chance I could come up to her standard.... All students, both Spanish and German, have treasured the experience as a special activity in which they have not only improved their English skills, but also their social skills making new friends, learning from such a beautiful cultural exchange and have also learnt about their heritage with a view to transmit it to the visitors. Our guests participated in our Book Day celebrations hosting Gerome and Alessandra, who perfomed on a stage with two songs, as special guests in the show. I would like to publically thank Lorena and Carlos for their WONDERFUL performance in the adapted play from Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet". I was soooo proud of you! People loved it and you deserved the audience ovation! Thanks to Andrés too!, of course.
Fianlly, We also made a visit to our beloved Alhambra. Hope you like the pictures and send me more to enlarge the album! Click on the title link.

Happy St Patrick's Day

Have a happy Saint Patrick's day. Here you are a brief history explanation of this holiday: Click on the title.

Visit to Dreieich (Germany) due to our Comenius Project

Last 28th January three students from school: Isabel Salazar, Isabel María Herrera and Mª Paz Siles participated in the second mobility of our Comenius Project "Identity" (You can see pics on your left menu). This trip was to show the materials we have been working on along the first term to our European colleagues and we can be very happy of our results. They all show our dedication and interest in the subject. Thank you all for your work. Very soon, you will be able to see those results in the project's web, which has recently been launched. It is OUR web and we will fill it with those projects and much more very soon. We also had time to have some fun and we visited Heidelberg and Frankfurt. For those who are thinking in working for the project, don't think twice and get fun out of work!!!

My students from ESO2A presented a Fashion Calendar.


Calendar

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Brochures & Catalogs calendar

Year 11 Students made a wonderful work on urban tribes regarding fashion:

Year Eleven Identity Collage Presentation

HAPPY 2009!

HELLO EVERYONE! A NEW YEAR STARTS AND WE COME BACK WITH
RENOVATED ENERGY!!! The Comenius trip to Frankfurt is round the corner! and we can't wait to visit Germany and share our work with our European colleagues!


Today is a special day for you! The Three Wise Men visited your house and you are lucky to have what you asked for! Hope you enjoy your presents.

Finally, I wanted to look back to 2008, which said goodbye not that long ago. A student made a poster about what 2008 meant for him in different aspects.

Xmas BITS

First of all, I am pleased to post the winners from the 2008 Xmas Card Competition. You can click on the following link to see them.

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/centros-tic/23002413/helvia/sitio/index.cgi?wid_seccion=16&wid_item=76

Finally!!! Here you are some funny Xmas ads that may be familiar to you as they inspired some that appeared in Andres' documentary! Have a laugh!

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=uOsOvnsg3-0

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=D-l6-hBKyBQ

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=bmB0sB2VwnA

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBGsJOt6QM

The Sir John Colfox- Santa Catalina Exchange

Hello Everyone and my apologies for posting soooo late about the exchange. It has been a great 10 days experience and all the students and the teachers have fully enjoyed the activity.
There is a specific entry int he top left corner related to the exchange activities. I started with simple pictures, but I plan to include videos and other relevant issues. I hope you can have a taste of what those days have meant for all of us.
The following link is for the Spanish kids involved in the exchange. I am certain they will love the following video links because they will be able to see people they know and the school presented by students from Colfox.

http://www.colfox.org/content/view/247/

( I recommend videos 1 (Jesus' and Angela's partners speaking!!!!) and 2 to have a general picture of the School - nice music by the way!)

End-of-year projects

Now that our textbook is coming to an end, we will work in three different projects to raise marks while having fun:
i. WebQuest Going to London
You will get instructions for this and work on it during teaching periods.
ii.Music project
Choose a song and translate its lyrics to understand the message.
Create a cue card including the following aspects: 1)why you chose it among the options, 2)explain the message to your classmates and 3) give your personal opinion on the subject.
Here are the singers/band links available:

• To Zion (Lauryn Hill)
• Crazy (Simple Plan)
• One (U2)
• Last Kiss (Pearl Jam)
• My Sacrifice (Creed)
• Beautiful (Christina Aguilera)
• Frozen (Madonna)
• Stole (Kelly Rowland)
• They dance alone "Cueca solo" (Sting)
• Where is the love? (The Black Eyed Peas)
• On the Edge (Tokio Hotel)
• Shame on you (Andrea Corr)
• Innocence maintained (Jewel)
• Spineless (Alanis Morisette)

The best way to work on the music project is that you use Google search engine to find the lyrics and listen to the songs, for this last option youtube.com is a perfect choice!.

iii. My holiday photo album
Check instructions at page 101 on the textbook.

Book Day: ESO 4 Students from B and C groups have participated in a HAIKU workshop and have produced very nice pieces. Hope you will enjoy them :-)

Exchange information

Hello Students!!!
This is a message for those participating in the school exchange next June. We have super-duper news!!! We are in the provisional list to get funding for the trip and activities. That will make you and your family happy and even more ready for this thriving experience! CONGRATULATIONS.

Check Dorset County wiki entry for further information about the area we will be visiting.
My next post will be about the Sir John, including pics.

Listening Activity ESO4. Topic 6: Teen Consumers

Watch the advert and answer the following questions:

1.What is the advert about?
2.To whom is it addressed?
3.Do you like it? Why? 4.What did you value most in it?
5.Would you be interested in the product? Why?

Welcome to Jaén by Jose Manuel Rocha

ESO 1 PROJECTS "SUPER SCHOOL" with unusual timetables, subjects and teachers. Thank you all for your interesting ideas!

'Tis a season to be jolly!!!

Yes!!! Xmas time is here again and one can feel it in the air. Students are a bit anxious, teachers are exhausted with marking and language lessons are filled with carol singing and filling the gaps activities!!!
I just wanted to WISH EVERYONE MERRY CHRISTMAS! Good trip to Emma and Carly! Have a safe journey home and please! bring back some sweets!

Finally, as some students seemed to enjoy this, LITERALLY, breath-taking Xmas carol, here you are and practice to boredom. (South Park-styled video!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpPxKmrzCW8&feature=related

Have a fab. holidays, loads of presents and above all, be extremely happy!!!

Visit to Dorset (UK)

For those who may not know, the school is establishing close links with a British school: The Sir John Colfox School in Bridport, Dorset. My visit will mark the beginning of a partnership to work together so that you and the British pupils can work in projects together, do an exchange in this academic year and unite efforts in common activities. You can read a bit more about this piece of news published last 5th October in the local newspaper "Diario Jaén".

BBC Radio Player. Alicia Keys interview

BBC Radio Player

I listened to this interview to Alicia Keys on the radio! Click on the Jo Whiley show: Alicia Keys in the live lounge. She has a slow and sweet voice, worth listening. At the end, she sings her own version of "How to save a life" by "The Fray". You can try other possibilities from the list if you fancy!.
Let me take this opportunity to tell you about a really cool music web! http://www.musicovery.com/ in which you can click on the style you want AND choose the song you like from the display offered. Have a go and enjoy!!! By the way! Thank you Miguel for sharing it with us!

INTRODUCING...

Hello everyone! I am writing today to introduce you to my ESO1 student Jose Manuel Rocha, who has worked really hard to produce this artistic presentation. Very well done J.M.! Keep on working like this!

Blind Date!!!

This is an example of a funny Blind Date! This is what ESO 4C have been trying to do but they need more practice and this will surely help to get some fresh ideas!!! Hope you enjoy Mr. Bean, he is definitely something else! Watch and Learn!

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7BBD-2NB1kQ

The continuation to this Blind Date can be seen by cliking on Mr. Bean- Blind Date2 on the right top corner. Do not miss it, it is simply hilarious!

Declaration of Independence.

We all have just one life. Making the most of it is our duty and most important job ever. Be whatever you dream of yourself and work hard for it. This is a song of strong feelings by Styles and Pharoahe Monch. Hope you'll like it as much as I do.

Hello to all my ESO students for this academic year!!! I started today with ESO1's presentation and I will meet the rest of students along the week. I invite you to visit the blog and get started with your English subject choosing from the activities proposed. Feel free to suggest anything that might improve the blog. Remember you can always contact me on my e-mail address missisabelonline@yahoo.es
WELCOME AGAIN!!! and see you around.

Welcome to my blog!!!! . Hope you can enjoy this virtual meeting from which you and I will be able to benefit. Feel free to add any comments, suggestions and helpful links. I'll start with these ones myself!

http://www.betchabottmdolla.blogspot.com/ This is a personal blog with lots of different kinds of materials such as songs, recommended films, interesting links. Worth having a look!!!!

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/ This link allows you to watch documentaries, tv programmes and films about assorted topics, just choose the one that inerests you for example
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/scratch.htm is about Hip Hop culture
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/super_size_me.htm deals with how junk food affects your body.