The 60's Project (Remedial Lessons)

Fantastic, thrilling and fun-filled project about the decade of the 60's. Using this graded Info available here, students will have a wide range of choices to share with the school everything they have learnt about the fashion, music and history of this amazing decade. 

• “I LISTEN TO YOUR IDEA PROJECT": Tell me what you and your group want to work on. 

• "WALL WORK PROJECT": Display work with the content information you have read about (fashion, music and history). You can use drawings, pictures and captions of key ideas and moments of the decade.

• "MUSIC PROJECT":You are a band from the 60’s and have just launched a new album. Choose two activities from the list to promote your band. 

1. Make an album Cover and a photoshoot of the band.
2. Invent a magazine article presenting all the band members (names, biographies) 
3. Interview the band and record it (live).
4. Record a song in English. 
5. Design a poster advertising a gig and write fan’s reviews of the previous gig on "GigAdvisor". 
   

Book Day 2021

My students' contribution to celebrate Book Day next week are these two graded readers' reviews. Elena Vega's review: Juan Fran Figueroa's review:

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

Recommended Readers III

Last recommendations for this academic year are :

The White Mountain by Alejandro Cabrera

The Canterville Ghost by Rocío Gómez

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

Restaurant Menu Task (PMAR)

Recommended Graded Readers II

THE MYSTERY OF THE TOMB (Burlington Books)

GRADED READER LEVEL 1

Contrast 2 Links: Think Green

We have read about the controversial activist Tim DeChristopher. You can learn more about him and his cause.

Reading 1: Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher arrested again.

Online Dating: Reading, Writing and Speaking Tasks

Here you are an article about Online Dating from The Telegraph Newspaper.

In GROUPS, you will have to:

1) Read the article and write a summary.

2) Do research about the most popular online dating webs or apps that you know.

3) Share your findings with the class.

4) Present a "new online app" you propose.

PROJECT RESULTS:

GROUP 1: Online Dating Presentation and Example of Profile

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.

Contrast Links: Unit 1

Here you are the link(s) from this unit:

THE LONG WALK TEXT: Ed Stafford walks the Amazon river (BBC article)
SCOTT OF THE ANTARTIC (You tube video)
PHUKET, PARADISE ISLAND (You tube video)

Idiomatic Expressions: The real way to sound authentic

Do you want to use proper British expressions? Are you trying to insert Spanish idioms in your English lessons? Probably, you are making a few mistakes...Here you are my "Silly the Bean" blog" to help you out with some tricky translations:

Click HERE to get redirected to the Idioms' blog.

Recommened Graded Readers

This post is the result of an extended-in-time activity. PMAR students have been reading and working on a chosen book and now that they are finished, they are willing to share their impressions in a video message. Listen to ther recommendation and opinion ;)

Warrior Society: Blood of the Kings

Blood of a King WORKSHEET

Results of VISUAL THINKING after listening to the audio by Maria José Ballesteros and Ana Delgado. They have used a comic format to tell you about the story the grandfather tells the boy. Do you like it? I found it rather complete and well done.

ESO1 Happy Hour: MACBETH

Click Here to watch MacBeth Play

Happy Hour

Today's Happy Hour includes playing with songs using LYRICS TRAINING

Between Us Links

"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.
Here you are an alternative perspective of romantic love, or should I say romantic-free chemistry-based reality? THE SCIENCE OF ATTRACTION ;)

An Updated Guide to Recent Fashion (ESO3B Project)

ESO3B are about to start one more year the amazing Fashion Timeline Project! covering fashion trends from the 60's to 2010's. They will work cooperatively and collaboratively in a more than astounding way. After 5 sessions of intense reading and investigating via the Internet and a bookelt provided by the teacher, they will have to come up with a consensual display to illustrate each decade's key milestones putting a special focus on music and fahion!!!

Fashion Timeline Booklet  "A guide to Recent Fashion"
Fashion Timeline STUDENT Answer Sheet