Halloween time

Halloween is a Celtic-origin celebration that is particularly popular in the USA as Sarah has told us in class this week.
If you want to know more about it you may:

•  Read the history of this celebration-adapted

• Read the article in Wikipedia

• Sarah Adams's presentation

• Try this easy test 

• Read Sam Donnelly's presentation

Etwinning final task

This is the final task  for our project International Calendar 2011-2012. If you want to have a look at all the materials made, just visit the Twinspace. Our Polish and Lithuanian partners have made lots of incredible materials for everyone to learn from:

• final task - Calendar
• Twinspace
• Twinblog

Work for the first week of June

During the first week of June, if you have the opportunity of using the computer room, you should try to complete your e-PEL (your electronic Portfolio) with your English Learning information:

• This is the presentation that tells you how to do it
• This is the e-PEL site

Then you can also have a look at the eTwinning website to see what has been done in the preoject this year and you are invited to write your comments.

Etwinning from Poland: Fat Thursday-Spring-Easter mini-party

These are the latest presentations from our Polish eTwinning parties. I hope you all like them.

• Fat Thursday
• First Day of Spring
• Easter Mini-party

ETwinning Easter wishes from Lithuania

Our eTwinning partners, Neringa Lemeziene, and her students wish you a good Easter. Click here to watch the video.

ESL / EFL Easter time

by Alfonso Pardo Martínez- ITE

Next week we will celebrate Easter. It is one of the major celebrations in Europe and particularly in Spain. If you want to know a bit more you can watch this video and do the quiz about it.

You can also have a look at the presentations made within our eTwinning project by our Polish and Lithuanian partners.

• Easter in Lithuania
• Easter in Poland
• Easter in Spain
• This video about Easter in Spain

ESL / EFL Our school - eTwinning document

Denisse Abel and Andrea López have prepared this document about our school for everyone to enjoy. It's at the eTwinning site. Click here to have a look.

Thanksgiving Day

Today it's Thanksgiving Day in the USA.

If you want to know more about this festivity try reading Teresa's version of the festivity or Samuel's presentation. It will let you know about the most important aspects of this celebration. I hope you like it.

Then you can also read or do some of the activities Isabel Pérez has gathered for you.

Have a good Thanksgiving Day!

Etwinning presentation

Hi everyone,

One of the groups has already finished their first etwinning presentation about San Fermin. You are all invited to have a look at it and write your comments. Click here to have a look.

And why don't you read our Polish partners' profiles?

Your etwinning profile

If you are one of the students in the ESO-3/4 bilingual sections at CPI Tino Grandío you are invited to send in your profile for the eTwinning project, International Calendar 2011-2012.  This way our Polish and Lithuanian partners will know you. Besides some of them want to know you because we are trying to find pen pals among them.

• So you can write about:
• You: describe yourself, your family and friends
• What you like and don't like
• Your village
• Your school
• Your free time
• Important events in your past and what you want to do in the future.

And you can also upload some photos. Remember that the folder which contains our profiles won't be made public.

Our new eTwinning project: INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR 2011-2012

This year a new project will be the sequel to last year's International Calendar. It is called International Calendar 2011-2012 and we are going to learn about festivities and celebrations in Lithuania, Poland and Spain. 

We are going to comment on each others festivities and the way we celebrate. I hope we all enjoy the experience.

End of our etwinning project - International Calendar

Our Project this year, International Calendar, has already finished. All the members in our project have uploaded the final activity in our project. Therefore, as the work done this year and the cooperation with our partners has been very good, we want to congratulate all the students that have taken part. If you want to have a look at the materials produced, go to the page we have in this blog for the project.

etwinning poster

Yesterday we started making the poster that will summarise the project that we have been working at this year. Each student chose a festivity (or two in some cases) and tried to say why that festivity is relevant, important or funny. Then they wrote a card containing this information and stuck it on the large poster that we designed for this activity.

Finally all the cards will be on the poster and it will be displayed so that everyone in the school community can see what we've been doing lately.

As soon as it is finished we'll upload a picture of it. We hope you like it.

ETwinning project - festivities in Poland

Today we have watched the Polish presentations in class. They are all different and incredible. We cannot do anything but praise them both for their layout and their content. We have learnt a lot about Poland, how similar and how different we are:

• The 1st of May is a holiday here but not many people celebrate it. For most people (unless you're involved in politics) it's just a holiday before the final exams. So it's great for studying a bit. Besides ,the weather is usually good and some years you can already go to the beach. We don't feel identified with the marches and demonstrations. This presentations let us realise that most of us don't really think of it a "workers' day".
• Teachers' Day was my favourite because I'm a teacher. I cannot imagine having a day for being proud of being a teacher, and even less for students giving me a present. My students even laughed at the idea. I told them that I might move to Poland. Definitely my favourite.
• Independence Day. For my students it sounded like the title of a film. We were all surprised to see that yours is such a young country, because Spain was a Roman province and has been a country since the Middle Ages. Many of the students didn't really like the historical part as they don't know much about European history. However, the presentation was very good.
• Women's Day. We also celebrate here as it's an international festivity but nobody knew the exact date. Sometimes we show a film or mention it in class but it isn't as important as it seems to be for Poles. Another reason to move to Poland!!
• New Year's Eve shows a festivity which is very similar in Spain. We don't go to bed that night (we sleep the next morning or afternoon) and eat twelve grapes at midnight but the rest is very similar.  In some cities they also have fireworks, but not here. The presentation was very good.
• The Patron Saint of your school was funny as we don't have patron saints in schools as religion is no longer connected with official society. Villages have patron saints but schools are named after writers or painters (such as ours, Tino Grandío). Besides your patron saint's name is unreadable for us.
• World War II is much more serious and historically interesting. Our history teacher said she might use it in class in June (when ESO-4 students are going to study this historical period). We didn't suffer the war as Spain had just left its own Civil War but we know how much your country suffered at that time. In fact, some Spanish republicans joined the French resistance and died in concentration camps in Poland. Most of our students didn't know about that.

As you can see we worked a lot and probably some of the students in our school will write their own comments in the next few days at the Twinspace. It was also interesting to see that their pen pals were the authors of these presentations.
Congratulations to our Polish partners!