Monday, January 30, 2017

LEARN ENGLISH WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

National Geographic is an institution in the world of science, nature,  environment, photography, etc., and now it also offers people the chance to learn, practice and improve their English level.

Using their massive archive of articles, videos and pictures, they offer multiple activities and exercises for free.

If you want to give it a try go HERE.

LA JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA IMPULSA EL PLURILINGUISMO

El Plan de Fomento del Plurilingüismo nació en 2005 y desde entonces ha ido perdiendo fuerza cad curso escolar (especialmente por falta de dotación económica a causa de la crisis que que se inició en 2008).
Este mes la Consejería de Educación ha presentado un muy reivindicado y necesario Plan de "Relanzamiento o nuevo Impulso", oficialmente llamado PEDLA (Plan Estratégico para el Desarrollo de las Lenguas en Andalucía)  para la educación bilingüe.
Como siempre, está lleno de buenas intenciones. Falta por ver cómo se irá plasmando en la realidad.

Pincha AQUI para ver el contenido completo.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

PROGRAMA DE INMERSIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA

Nuestro IES va a participar en el proceso de selección para el Programa de Inmersión Lingüística que el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte español ha convocado.


El objetivo es proporcionar al alumnado de 2ª ESO una actividad de inmersión en lengua inglesa con un claro enfoque comunicativo donde, a la vez, se profundizarán conocimientos relevantes de otras áreas y materias del currículo. 
La temática incluye los siguientes puntos: Desarrollo sostenible, Reducir, reutilizar y reciclar, Energías renovables, El entorno natural y cultural, La aldea global y Diversidad cultural. Este curso de inmersión en inglés se realizará con alumnado de otro centro educativo de otra comunidad autónoma en territorio peninsular para fomentar el intercambio.
La estancia de una semana (con inicio un domingo por la tarde y salida un sábado por la mañana) es en régimen de internado con pensión completa a realizar entre finales de abril y principios de junio. Los gastos de transporte entre el centro educativo y el centro de inmersión (siempre fuera de Andalucía pero dentro de territorio peninsular) NO están incluidos en la ayuda y deben ser asumidos por las familias.

El grupo irá acompañado por dos profesores de nuestro centro: uno de inglés y otro con conocimiento de la lengua inglesa y serán responsables del alumnado en todo momento.
El grupo estará formado por un mínimo de 20 alumnos y un máximo de 25 de 2º ESO. En caso de una demanda mayor, realizaremos un sorteo para determinar participantes y una lista de espera para posibles renuncias, cambios, etc.
Quienes estén interesados deben presentar su solicitud al Coordinador Bilingüe del centro.


Wednesday, January 25, 2017

JOB INTERVIEWS IN ENGLISH

Soon our Bachillerato Year 2 students will prepare an interesting project: how to conduct a job interview in English. Firstly, they will write an Application Letter, then they will attach their Curriculum Vitae or Resumé and finally, they will have a Job Interview with Marcie about the job they are applying for. To prepare the Interview section here are some typical questions that usually come up:
* Tell me a bit about yourself 
* What do you like doing in your spare time? 
* What things are you interested in? 
* How did you hear about the job position?  (Newspaper/ internet/ through a friend) 
* What interested you about this job? 
* What do you know about the roles and responsibilities of the job? 
* What are your strengths/weaknesses? 
* How would your friends describe you? 
* How do you feel working as part of a team? 
* Previous job experience 
* Responsibilities in the job 
* Where do you want to be in 5 years time? 
* What is your dream job? 
* Why should we hire you? 
* Would you be ok working in a different city? 
* When would you be able to start? 
* Do you have any questions about the job?

Finally, here is a video with 10 tips for more help.

BECOMING NEWSREPORTERS

Our bilingual ESO Year 2 students are wosking on an interesting project:making a newspaper first page. In groups they have to think of newsarticles that happened in medieval times, find pictures, important people, even an ad!!

On this video they can get some ideas on how to write a newsarticle.

Monday, January 16, 2017

MARCIE IS HERE

Este año hemos conseguido a través del programa Erasmusintern contar con otra auxiliar de conversación extra. Se trata de Marcie Robertson y viene de Escocia. Ya ha llegado a nuestro IES para quedarse hasta fin de curso.
Marcie ayudará en las clases de inglés para trabajar Listening y Speaking en pequeños grupos. Esperamos que nuestro alumnado se pueda beneficiar positivamente de esta ayuda extra que les ofrecemos.
Además estamos preparando alguna actividad sorpresa para realizar en algunos recreos... Ya iremos informando...

De momento, aquí está su propia presentación:

¡Hola!
My name is Marcie and as you may know I’m going to be joining the school as a language assistant this week. I arrived in Huelva on Saturday and after only a couple of days here I already love it. 

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life so I am very used to cold, grey, windy days with lots of rain. The last few days of blue, sunny sky have been very welcoming and it is already a lot warmer than most of our days in summer! I have spent the last 3 months in Italy studying Italian in a small language school in Verona and I have already embarrassed myself many times since getting here as I keep speaking Italian instead of Spanish… hopefully I will get into Spanish mode soon!

I study Italian and Spanish at the University of Edinburgh and the question I get asked constantly is “Do you get the 2 languages confused sometimes?” The answer is yes, yes I get confused all the time, especially now after speaking only in Italian the last few months… please be kind to me! In my spare time when I’m not studying or working (I work in a supermarket to pay the bills) my main hobbies are acting, singing and dancing, basically anything to do with the theatre. I love being in shows or going to see them and dancing has always played a big part in my life. At one point I considered doing this as a profession but decided to follow the path of languages instead and I’m very pleased with my decision as I get to travel to lots of new and exciting places! 

I am really looking forward to meeting everyone and taking on the role of a language assistant in your school. It will be a learning experience for me as well and I hope to acquire new teaching methods and skills while I am here. When I return to Scotland in the summer I hope I will leave knowing that I have contributed something new to the school and that I will have helped as many students as possible with their English. I am convinced that I will love every moment of my stay here and I can’t wait to spend the next few months with you all.

¡Hasta luego!
Marcie J

Saturday, January 14, 2017

SAY SORRY

Here is a useful document with expressions we can use in English to say "Sorry"