This blog has been designed to provide information about the activities held at the social studies bilingual sections in CPI Tino Grandío (Guntín,Spain). The English language and Social Studies teachers have elaborated most of the resources you can see but our "auxiliares de conversa" also have their own page and posts. Therefore everyone is invited to have a look .
Nelson Mandela has been one of the most relevant leaders of the 20th century and probably the most significant African one.
He was one of the most important statesmen of the 20th century because of his struggle to replace the apartheid (=racist) regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.
Timeline from BBC News
He was also called Madiba, his clan's name.
He was in prison for over 20 years because of his struggle against apartheid and soon afterwards he was elected the first black presidents of South Africa, a country with a majority of black population.
Thanksgiving is celebrated this week in the USA. If you want to learn a bit more about this celebration, you may have a look at this presentation Taylor has made for our classes:
In today's classes we have been talking about how Halloween is celebrated in the US and how Día de los muertos is celebrated by the Mexican community in the USA.
Halloween at Chapelhill - picture from Wikipedia
chocolate and pumpkin cake - cookiteasy.com
Halloween at Chapelhill - socinnovation.worpress.com
children in a corn maze - www.denver.org
girls dressed up at Chapelhill - tarheel-blog.blogspot.com
día de los muertos, Mexico -from Wikipedia
You can see the Halloween party at Chapelhill, Taylor's city in North Carolina. The street full of people is Franklin street.
These last weeks we have been studying comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
Malala is a Pakistani girl who was shot in her head because she is an activist for women's rights. This is the speech in the United Nations that we have listened to in class.
The IPA or International Phonetic Alphabet was designed to represent the pronunciation of languages and therefore it consists of many different symbols but only some of them are used to represent each language.
Different dialects may have other sounds but the ones in these sheets are the most common ones in English language dictionaries.
Be organized: set a specific time for your daily work.
Listen and watch as much authentic content as possible. Immerse yourself in the language you want to learn: TV, YouTube, songs and subtitled films will be helpful.
Express yourself in English whenever you have the opportunity
Practice makes perfect. Write in English and have your texts revised by a speaker of the language (i.e. your teacher)
Your classmates. They can help you and you can help them.
Internet is really helpful as you can find lots of texts, videos, newspapers or podcasts but don't rely on tools such as "Google translator-2 for good translations from your language into English.
Take notes of the new words or expressions you've heard.
Get
interesting Apps related to English language learning in your Smartphone or computer.
Most secondary school students in Spain are enjoying their holidays at the moment. If you want to learn some vocabulary about holidays, travel and accommodation, try this quiz from the BBC Learning English website.
In English there are many common prepositional phrases (phrases that start with a preposition followed by a noun phrase). If you want to learn some of them, you might try this quiz from the BBC Learning English website.
Some verbs have many different uses and meanings in English. "get" is one of the commonest. If you want to learn some of its uses, try this quiz from the BBC Leaning English website.
If you want to learn some common collocations in English, try this quiz from the BBC Learning English website, where you'll have to guess six common noun and adjective collocations (nound and adjectives which are usually associated in speech).
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