Xmas Ads Competition 2025 Edition

Christmas Ad Competition de Isabel María Quesada Gómez

Happy Valentine's Day (LOVE DAY)

Sending Love de Isabel María Quesada Gómez

Halloween Short Film Contest

Fridays for Future

Tomorrow, Fridays for Future strikes start again and we will analyse this video with Greta Thunberg explaining how everything began and how it has evolved. (Transcript to the Video).

TOP TEN ATTRACTIONS: CAMPILLO and NOALEJO

"TOP TEN THINGS" PROJECT (Remedial Lesson)

We are going to start a brand new Project to promote the School's Area in a MP4 format. Students will have to create a Promo Video focusing on:

• local delis and drinks that visitors can enjoy in the area.
• Top places or activities that cannot to be missed  by visitors.

Students will use their creativity to include both an appropriate intro and end to this video, so that different skills can be evaluated. They can target travellers on a budget, rural tourists, Heritage and History lovers...There is no limit to their possibilities.

ZOOM CALL with Davison School

Happy to announce this exciting SPEAKING ACTIVITY next Wednesday. Looking fordward to meeting virtually all the girls from Davison School from Worthing (England)

Year 8 Festive Calendar

We are creating a calendar that includes all the most relevant British festivities. To make it a bit more personal, we have included other special celebrations, such as our birthdays :)

Festive Calendar de Isabel María Quesada Gómez

CONCURSO DE ÁREA HALLOWEEN 2021

CONCURSO PARA ESO, BACHILLERATO Y FPB

• Para el concurso de cortos, se necesita una voz en "off" que narre la historia o bien incluir diálogos en el idioma elegido para participar en el concurso.
• Cartel de película o libro de terror. En una cartulina se incluirá una imagen o dibujo relacionado con la película o libro, una sinopsis de la historia y una opinión / recomendación.
• Micro relato de terror, máximo 150 palabras, en un folio de color, decorado o pegado en una cartulina para colgarlo.

 

HALLOWEEN CONTEST

At last!!! Some fun in the air...Muahahahaha If you want to have a TERRIFIC time, don't hesitate to participate in the English Department Halloween Contest in the two possible categories: 

*FACE MASK (individual option) 

or if the whole class is trying to win a nice group price ):

*CLASS DOOR DECORATION (group category)

Halloween Contest de Isabel María Quesada Gómez

Linguistic Area Awards

Recently, we have awarded our most gifted students with MFL as well as their mother tongue in a really gorgeous ceremony inside our little and cozy library. Everything was beautifully arranged with some freshly cut flowers decorating such a memorable moment.

The Head of the Area, Miss García conducted the brief event along with Miss Arcalá, who proudly and happily gave out all the presents and diplomas to our students. 

Happy to pose, let me share a picture with my awarded and delighted students of Year 8 and Year 9. Elena Vega got the first prizes in Love Tweet category (both in Spanish and English), while Mercedes Marchal, Lorena Morales and Lara Ballesteros got special mentions in that category too. On the other hand, Lara Ballesteros also obtained a special mention for her Calligram in French. Unfortunately, she could not attend the awards' ceremony and missed the group picture. 

AROUND THE WORLD!

Although still with many parts of the world enduring some kind of lockdown or restrictions, ESO1 is resolved to travel the world no matter what and here I am, trying to help. They will collect some information in a world map about those countries they are interested in explaining some key geographical features as well as the weather. Basically, they are trying to help out for a wise choice and enjoyment for future travellers, whenever that may be possible. You can comment and like their posts.

Happy Covid-Ween

It is one unusual halloween, for sure. Yet, we can make it special too. From our School, we wish you a very Happy Halloween and we would like to share our spooky Halloween Window made by year 1 FPB students (Vocational Training) and their teacher Raquel Ruiz Rodríguez. In order to practise your English, watch this funny Meg and Mog Video and click to access a SPOOKY-COOL WORKSHEET to check your listening skills 👂 For an adapted version of the Meg and Mog video, CLICK HERE

ESO4 Imaginary Land Project

After two weeks of work and fun combined, students came up with very creative and interesting new imaginary lands with their own flag, capital city, geographical aspects and peculiar laws. I made this video to show their group work and some of their creations. 

Imaginary Land IV Edition

It's been done before and WE LOVE IT. Using a collaborative and cooperative methodology, students will design their own country from scratch with the following info:

Passage Way to South Seas by

Zoltan Ducsai

1. Front Page: Name of the country and flag
2. Back page: Members of the Project
3. Index of contents:
3.1. Description of the country
3.2. Description of the capital city
3.3. Map including distinctive geographical aspects
 3.4. Flora and Fauna
 3.5. LAWS

This project is the perfect excuse to start a debate about the importance of a constitution, moving to ours in particular. Also, we will reflect not only on people's rights in general, but also on a personal level, including duties and responsibilities. Key aspects such as monarchy, presidency, religion and police forces will be questioned to be present or absent in each group's proposal.

Final Product Sample

This is Britain Project: Final Products.

"This is Britain" is a creative, fun-filled collaborative and cooperative project that includes research, reading, speaking and much more! I am pleased to present the final products here: leporellos about each contry. Students did a brief oral presentation and were tested with flashcards about the flags, symbols and main aspects of the countries. I would like to thank my workmate Rafa Vílchez and his PMAR students for joining us in this project :D

This is Britain Project (Refuerzo)

This project has been designed using some activities (texts, listenings and use of English practice) from the ESO 3 English World textbook by Burlington Books. 

By clicking on the link, you can download the Project's Worksheet .

Photo Credits

Nelson Mandela and The Apartheid

After studying in class the Apartheid in South Africa, students are invited to learn more on the subject through the life of  Nelson Mandela, the first black president. His active role in order to get over with an unfair racist system made him win the Nobel Prize in 1993 as well as spend many years in prison...He left us in 2013 and will always be remembered for the good man he was.

Happy Easter everyone!

My students love Peppa Pig videos! Here is a special one for the season :) 

Peppa Pig and the Great Egg Hunt

Contrast 1 Links: "Between Us"

"Between Us" is the name of unit 4 in my AS level students' book. It deals with relationships with people, either romantic, friendly or family-based. Given that 14th February is round the corner, we will set on the mood by reading about and listening to two amazing love stories.

READING: BBC News article Happy Ending for love letter pair. A true story.

LISTENING: Youtube video (with subtitles in Spanish) in which we are told how old Fred Stobaugh wrote such a sensitive letter to her wife, who had just passed away, that the moving words turned into the lyrics of the song "Oh Sweet Lorraine". Green Shoe studios were looking for a good songwriter. They definitely didn't get the singer out of Fred, but made the most out of his writing. Enjoy his story.