Good bye and Good luck to all of you

Our bilingual experience has come to an end. 

After six years working together, travelling together,  sharing experiences and learning together, we have to say Good bye. I really hope you will be as lucky as I have felt teaching you. You have been the first bilingual group, the group in which we put our hope, our expectations, our enthusiasm... You haven't let us down, but the contrary. You have followed and carried out every crazy project we "invented" in our "Bilingual laboratory" and most of the times succesfully. Thanks for being there, I'm sure we won't say good bye for long. This is your school and these are and will always be your teachers, whatever the future will hold....

Enjoy this video Cristina Olveira has prepared as a summary of what we have lived together.

 This is a collage of the dinner party of 2nd Bachillerato.

Proyecto Integrado final works

On this entry we will see the pieces of work that bilingual students from 2nd bach have done for Proyecto Integrado subject. Enjoy them

Nº 1: The fishbowl: Francisco José Pérez, Maribel Pedersen and Beatriz Fernández created this incredible animated video with figures made from modelling paste and their own voices.
Nº 2": This a dubbed video about Hitler: Voices: Marcos and Aníbal Ibáñez, Francisco Javier Carmona and Jose Daniel Verdejo. Fantastic!! Nº3: This is a hilarious short amateur film produced, performed and directed by Jose Antonio Reina, Emilio Beltrán and Juan Carlos Hernández. Nº5: This is a video recorded by our singers and dancers: Elena Alba, Marta Sirodey, Marta Sierra, Alejandra Criado, Andrea Luque, Helena Moreda, María Lorenzana and Charo Romero. Great fun! I have also added some of the trailers Elizabeth has prepared from your sketches in class: FAST FOOD. TRAILER THE RIGHT THING TO DO. TRAILER SALT. TRAILER

The World's Most Typical Person

The World's most typical person is a video made by National Geographic.
Watch it, it is quite interesting.

A very Merry Christmas with a song from John Lennon

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English course in Peterborough

Last 23rd June, 30 students from 4th ESO at our school had the great luck of enjoying a grant to attend a course in England. They went to Peterborough with the teachers Cándida Gallardo and Lola Aceituno. They lived with host families who were very nice to them and had lessons at World School. But what they enjoyed most were the activities such as travelling to London, Cambridge, Stamford or going to the cinema, to the bowling alley, to the swimming pool or visiting the cathedral or the museum at Peterborough. The best thing is that they have had the opportunity of speaking English and improving it a little bit.

End-of-year dinner.

Last 21st June we went for dinner to celebrate we have been together for four years. I think these four years of our bilingual adventure have been a success.
Thanks to your bilingual teachers, Esteban, Mª Jesús, Pablo, Juan José, Antonio for their enthusiam, hard work and dedication. Without them this wouldn't have been possible.
Thanks to our language assistants along these years, Greg, Sarah, Hilal, Geraldine, Antonietta, Mark, Chris, Jacqui and Julia. They have been great colaborators as well as friends.
Thanks to your French teacher, Diego, for his support and for having joined any suggestions and activities related to the bilingual project. Thanks to your tutor, Esther for being supportive and collaborative.
And a big THANKS to you for being wonderful students, enthusiastic, friendly, hard-working (most of the times) and patient. I hope next year we will be on board on a new boat: 1st Bach Bilingual. Those of you who are leaving, please, don't forget us. We will miss you a lot. Good luck in your new life!!

Goodbye to Julia (for now)

Julia, our amazing American language assistant has finished working with us. She has been absolutely great and we'll try to have her back next year.
Julia, we have recorded this silly song for you.

We hope to see you soon!!!!!!

The Mystery Celebrity Game

This is a very famous show that was broadcast on CSB television in 1950 and ran for almost 18 seasons. The show features a panel of four celebrities that had to try to guess the job or occupation of an invited celebrity. The mysterious celebrity in this video is the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. The video is funny because Dali performs his own role perfectly, the comments are quite witty and everything is very "civilised" . Watch it paying special attention to the questions used and we'll play it in class. (Seen at THE ENGLISH BLOG)

Mankind is no Island

Mankind is no Island is the title of a video recorded with a mobile phone by Jason Van Genderen. It won TROPFEST 2008 . Watch and write what it is about, please. You'll like it. (seen at Mar Gallego's blog)

Interesting cartoons for discussion

Have a look at these cartoons and try to think of a possible explanation of them to discuss in class. You can also write your comments if you wish. They have been taken from
THE
ENGLISH BLOG

Child Labour during the Industrial Revolution

We've been working on this striking topic in History and English classes. The students in groups have prepared some oral presentations. Here we can see some examples:

childhood at the Industrial Revolution: Child Labour

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Child labour at the Industrial Revolution

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Our own webs

As an activity for the English class, the students have invented their own business, they have written to a bank manager asking for a loan for their company and then our language assistant, Jacquie, acting as a bank manager, has interviewed them. After this interesting activity they have learnt how to make webpages in the technology class and have advertised their business there. Here we have the sites:
Fco javier Carmona, Marcos and Aníbal Ibáñez
Alejandra Criado and Setefilla Caballero
Maribel Pedersen, Helena Moreda and Paloma Maraver
Cristina and Marta García
Elena Alba, Jaime Vázquez and Marta Domínguez
Fco José Pérez and Carlos López
Charo Romero and Carolina Pino
Andrea Martínez, María Lorenzana, Marta Sirodey
Jose Daniel Verdejo and Alberto Raposo
Javier Rodríguez, Cristina Olveira and Eva Ballesteros
Pablo Spearpoint, Pablo Delgado and Bruno Pozo

We are back!!!! What a great trip!

We are back from our trip. It has been great. We've seen and done lots of things in only three days. These are the photographs:

Some mechanical toys made at the technology class by the students

We're Going to London in May!!!!

We are preparing our trip to London with different activities. We have sold Christmas cakes and lottery tickets to get some money. Then we have read a book called TRIP TO LONDON which has given us some idea of the city, its customs and curiosities. Finally we have a WIKI called "Going to London" in which ten groups of three student will be working on a specific topic, monument or place in this fantastic city. When they finish, they will record a presentation for the rest of the group as they will have to introduce their place, or monument when they are in London. Finally when all groups have finished, they will have to complete a QUIZ. It will be a competition.
To see in advance what you are going to visit, click on these links:
St Paul's Cathedral
Westminter Abbey
Natural History Museum
British Museum

Eratosthenes and the Measurement of the Earth's circumference

De Medición del radio de la tierra por 3º ESO Bilingüe

Last Thursday 26th March we did an experiment with our Bilingual teachers: we tried to measure the circumference of the Earth in the same way Eratosthenes did in the century II before Christ. He discovered then that the Earth was not flat.
We studied Eratosthenes's life in the English class, in Geography we learnt all the processes he followed until he calculated the radius of the Earth. In Maths we learnt some trigonometry, specifically tangents, to be able to measure the angle of the sun's shadow length. Finally, in the technology class we spent a week building a gnomon, or stick, to be able to measure the sun's shadow length every ten minutes when the sun rays were overhead.
We took the data and sent the results to an observatory centre in Barcelona.

International Women's day

To celebrate Women's day we are going to do a Treasure Hunt. You will find information about some British and American women and then will match their name to some facts about them. Click here to find the link.

25th November International Day Against Violence to Women

At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of pandemic proportions.
There is a campaign launched by UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) to sign your name saying NO to violence against women.

Listen to the video and then sign your name if you consider it necessary:



Add you name to an ever-growing movement of people who speak out to put a halt to this shameful human rights violation.

Every signature counts!

A Quiz for your holidays!!

Do this quiz. You'll find it interesting.