GOOD-BYE KALISTA!

Sadly Kalista, one of our Language Assistants, had to go back home in the States. She had an operation in her ankle after a fall and the recovery process is going to be long. It is such a pity but the important thing now is that she gets better.

Unfortunately, we will get no substitute for her so we only have Leah. That means that some of the teachers and groups who had Kalista in their lessons will be now assigned to Leah and some groups will have no language assistant at all.

ON-LINE DICTIONARIES

English dictionaries de José Antonio Alcalde López

IMPROVING LISTENING

When learning a foreign language listening is usually one of the most difficult skills. Why? Well, there are many reasons for that:

- On many occasions we have no visual support like face expressions, pictures, video, etc.
- The speed is so fast we cannot understand so well
- We generally are embarrassed to ask for repetitions

This is why it is so important to listen to native people speaking the foreign language.

Here is a useful link to a website with plenty of audio recordings (in many languages) and they can be searched according to different criteria like level of difficulty, gender and age of the speaker, duration, etc.
www.audio-lingua.eu


As an example here is a B1 level audio about baseball:

ARKANSAS BY KALISTA

Kalista has prepared a beautiful and informative bulletin board about her home state: Arkansas, the Natural State.

CLICK HERE for more information about Arkansas.
And here is a short video with the top 10 places to visit in Arkansas.

BECAS CURSOS EN EL EXTRANJERO

En ocasiones algunas familias nos preguntan si hay becas para que sus hijos puedan hacer cursos académicos en el extranjero. La respuesta es sí pero solo en el ámbito privado como hace la Fundación Amónico Ortega o la que presentamos hoy.
Se trata de iEduex (Enternational Education Exchange). Este organismo ofrece cursos en el extranjero y según algunos criterios pueden llegar a becar parcialmente a los mejores alumnos.

ENLACE para más información

PREPARATIVOS INTERCAMBIO CON ALEMANIA

Este miércoles 10 de octubre celebramos la reunión informativa para las familias interesadas en que sus hijos/as de 1º Bachillerato participen en la 5ª edición de nuestro Intercambio Escolar con el Gymnasium Gerabronn del suroeste de Alemania. La reunión será a las 6 de la tarde.

El jueves 11 acaba el plazo de solicitud de participación y posteriormente haremos un sorteo para determinar los 17 participantes que puede ir a Alemania. Seguiremos el proceso de desempate que la Junta de Andalucía tiene para estos casos (usando el coeficiente 0,2808).

BECAS FUNDACION AMANCIO ORTEGA

Hoy hemos celebrado una sesión informativa entre el alumnado de 4º ESO interesado en esta beca que ofrece la fundación a 600 alumnos españoles para cursar 1º Bachillerato en EEUU o Canadá.
Nuestro alumno de 2º Bachillerato Víctor López ha hablado a los chicos de su experiencia en Canadá el curso pasado así como de varios aspectos relacionados con el proceso de selección, los requisitos, plazos, tipos de pruebas, etc.

Muchas gracias a Víctor por su colaboración y suerte a los próximos candidatos.

ENLACE a toda la información de la convocatoria 2019-20.

ENGLISH SPEAKING CLUBS

Since this year we have two language assistants we can offer TWO different Speaking Clubs to our students.
Kalista will lead the more advanced one on Mondays and Leah the beginners on Fridays.
We would like to thank them because this is time outside the hours they must be at school.

AUXILIARES DE CONVERSACION 2018-19

Yes, in the plural form because, at last, this year we will host TWO language Assistants for our bilingual lessons.

This year our Language Assistants are Leah and Kalista and both of them come from the USA. Shortly we will post her more information about them.

Here they are in their first day at school.