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 is 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 is 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.
Now our school year is over we have to start thinking of how to keep our English alive.
If you have failed, you should follow the directions given in class and write to your teacher if you need.
If you have passed English this year there are many ways of keeping it alive without having to study grammar or read thick books during the summer. These are some of the things you can do:
by Ángel Hernández Gómez-ITE
Listen to songs in English, read the lyric and maybe even sing along. There are many websites where you can find the lyrics of your favourite songs in English.
Watch our favourite TV programmes and films in English and even read the subtitles in English. this is a good option if we can't grasp much of what is being said.
There is an interesting website where you can find short audio files to practise your English, audio-lingua.eu. Just choose levels A1 or A2.
Read the news in English. Many newspapers have an interesting and easy to read website if we are learning English: USA Today, BBC English, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, etc. or choose a specific newspaper for English language learners, such as News in Levels.
It's also a good occasion to have a look at the materials we've been making this year for our eTwinning project, The Voice of Europe.
And finally, just pay attention of whatever you see around. There are lots of notices, instruction booklets, etc. in English and you can certainly understand more than you problably think.
There are lots of websites that contain good, easy songs for English language learners. These are some of the sites that you can have a look at if you want to listen to good songs and try to understand the lyrics or learn some English through them:
Lyrics Training, activities while watching the videos, recommended by Sam
Mike Rosenberg, Passsenger, is an English folk-rock singer who has become famous with his song, Let Her Go.
QUESTIONS:
how does the narrator feel?
what has he/she recently experienced?
LYRICS
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies
But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much
And you dived too deep
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
And you let her go
Well you let her go
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
More songs and activities for English as a Foreign Language students.
If you want to keep your English alive this summer but you don't feel like studying it, these websites might be helpful. Just have a look at them:
News in levels - Read the news at your lever as an English language learner. There are three levels from very easy to almost real English.
Isabel Pérez - There are all types of ESL activities for class but also interesting texts, topic and links.
BBC Learning English - An excellent website with activities for learning English. In many cases these activities are connected with new from the BBC.
ESL america US - You'll find a variety of sections with audios and texts about different topics. All the sections are graded into different levels, so that you can find the one you need.
ESL Lab - Great audios and activities for you to do after listening to the audio files. The listening quizzes are classified are according to the level of difficulty.
News in Levels is an interesting website for students of English as a second language as you can read the latest news at your own level. Texts are written at three different levels so that any student can find a version that matches their proficiency in English.
This is a great recommendation to keep your English alive this summer as you read the news.
They describe themselves this way:
We write news for students of English. We help students to learn and understand English.
Easy English news can help everybody who wants to understand better. We have been teaching English for many years. After many years of teaching we started to do a new thing. We knew that many students wanted to read news on the internet. They wanted to read something easy. We were looking for short news in easy English on the internet. We found many news sites but we did not find a lot of news with easy reading and listening.
We started to prepare short English articles. We started in March 2011. We wanted to help students understand more and have a chance to practise English. We wanted to give them some news for their level of English.
Now we prepare short articles every working day. Everybody can use them. All students can use them. All teachers can use them. We believe that these articles will help you have better English and understand more.
If you like listening to music on your phone, this application is for you. Musixmatch will let you read the lyrics as you are listening to your favourite songs. It will download the lyrics for each song and store them so that they can be read even offline. Musixmatch's searchable database contains more than 7,5 million lyrics in more than 32 languages (many of them in Spanish). Find out more at Wikipedia.
Hi students! My name is Taylor and I will be your new "auxiliar de conversa" for the next year. I'm 22 years old and am from the city of Durham in the state of North Carolina. I have also lived in the mountains in a small town in the state of Virginia. Both North Carolina and Virginia are in the south-eastern US. I went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and love my school's team, the North Carolina Tar Heels. My favorite Tar Heel sport is basketball. I also enjoy watching and playing baseball. In college, I studied sociology and linguistics. Last summer, I studied at the university in Sevilla. I traveled a little bit, but this will be my first time in Galicia! Since I have never been to Galicia before, do you have any advice for me before I arrive? What are your favorite and least favorite parts about your village? I'm so excited to meet you all!
- Taylor
Here are a few pictures of where I'm from:
^This is Durham, where I was born and lived for a long time.
^Here's a map of the US with North Carolina highlighted.
^Like I said before, I love my university's basketball team. This is a picture of one of the most famous Tar Heels, Michael Jordan, when he went to school and played basketball for UNC.
^ Finally, here's a picture of me with my parents and younger brother on the day I graduated from college. My brother decided to be funny and wear my graduation hat for this picture.
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