Classroom material

marker
whiteout
scissors
rubber / (eraser US)
pencil
flash memory / USB memory
propelling pencil (mechanical pencil - US)
leads
pencil sharpener
crayon
highlighter
colour pencils (color pencils - US)
cello tape (Scotch tape - US)
paper
glue stick
cardboard
notebook = binder

• ring binder
• spiral binder

diary
desk
folder

Classroom material

Stationery material

The Primary Sector

These are the materials we have in this blog for ESO-3 unit 6:

UNIT 6 - The primary sector
- the primary sector in the economy - Wikipedia 

- fishing

- farming
- Glossary

picture from Wikipedia

- Revision test
- Match these definitions
- Match the opposites 
- Crosswords
- Gap-fill exercise
- audio 1
- audio 2
- audio 3
- audio 4a
- audio4b 
- audio 5
- audio 6
- audio 7
- audio 8 

First class in ESO-4

These are the first resources for 4ºESO:

Graded readers sheet 2015-2016 from Ana Arias Castro

Pp4 unit 1 from Ana Arias Castro

New school year

Next Tuesday we will start our English language classes. These are the materials you will need:

3º ESO

• Notebook or blank sheets of paper
• Pen
• USB memory (advisable)
• Textbook (ask the school)
• 3º ESO: English in Use 3º ESO
• 4º ESO: Passport 4º ESO
• 4º PDC: Let's Go 2

4º ESO-PDC

4º ESO

CLIL A globalised economy

picture from Wikipedia

There are the resources we have about this unit:

UNIT 5 - A globalised economy

- Glossary

- Revision test

- Match these definitions

- Crosswords

- Gap-fill exercise

- audio 1

- audio 2

More materials in the CLIL page for 3º ESO in this blog.

Social studies CLIL resources for 3º and 4º ESO

These resources that we have been elaborating and revising for the last decade have been designed to meet the requirements of the 3º and 4º ESO Spanish syllabus.

We hope you find them useful:

• 3º ESO - geography
• 4º ESO - history

ESO-3 CLIL: Political organisation-the European Union

map by José Alberto Bermúdez - banco imágenes ITE

Reviste the materials we have for unit 3:

- European Union Constitution

- The European Union timeline 

- Glossary

- Revision test

- Match these definitions

- Crosswords

- Gap-fill exercise

- audio1

- audio2

- audio3

- audio4

- audio5

- audio6

These are other interesting links you may want to have a look at:

• European Union Webquest
• European Union Website
• Languages in the European Union-booklet (map on page 17)
• European Union symbols
• Money and the European Union
• European Union Trivia
• Toporopa quizzes about different aspects of Europe

ESL / EFL grammar revision for your exam

I you want to study for your 3rd term exam, here you are this revision test where you can check if you need some extra study for your final. If you realise you need some sort of extra explanations, exercises or practice about one specific point, tell your teacher.

• ESO-3
• ESO-4

ESL / EFL new eTwinning presentation about Father's Day

Our Polish partners have upload a new etwinning presentation about father's day at the eTwinning website. They celebrate it on the 23rd of June. We celebrate it on the 19th of March, St Joseph's day as he was Jesus's father. 

They have also uploaded some more materials about their partners Lucas Arruda and Patrick Austin. You can also have a look at an interview, and some presentations they have uploaded in connection with that. As an English as a second language teacher, I really recommend having a look at the presentation about Australia. Click here to have a look.

CLIL Templates for the map competition

Here are some templates to help you with your maps in the second edition of the map competition of CPI Tino Grandío. You can use any of them or draw it using your own means.

Map of Europe 

• Europe outline
• Europe in colour 1
• Europe in colour 2
• Europe in colour 3
• Africa outline
• Africa in colour 1
• Africa in colour 2
• Africa in colour 3
• America outline
• America in colour 1
• America in colour 2
• Asia outline
• Asia in colour 1

Good luck everyone!!!

Map competition - 2nd edition

Hi everyone,

This year we are also going to have a map competition so that you can show how you ability and help us illustrate the units for social studies that we are preparing for you. So, download the rules of the competition.

1. This competition is for historical and geographical maps in English.
2. It should depict aspects of the 20th century.
3. You can ask for a template or model to have a reference to help you.
4. You can do it by hand or digitally but it must be printable in A4 format.
5. You can submit as many drawings as you want to and give them to your teachers.
6. The deadline is the 13th of April 2012 
7. A prize will be given to the author of the best works.
8. There will be a final exhibition with all the works and they will be uploaded to this blog, which will also be used to illustrate the units under a Creative Commons licence.

CLIL Henry VIII and his six wives

As some of you asked about it I have prepared this text with some information about this English monarch. If you want to know more you can either have a look at Wikipedia.

You might also watch the TV series The Tudors, which depicts this historical period very well.

your English language and history teachers.

New Hot Potatoes revision units for ESO-4 history

Those of you who are going to study histoy as part of your Social Studies syllabus, will have the opportunity of testing your knowledge using the Hot Potatoes tests that have been uploaded at the Social Studies ESO-4 page in this blog.
Each test has been designed to cover the most important points in each of the units you will be studying this year. We hope they are useful and if you notice any mistakes or have any suggestions about them we'll be delighted to take them into account.
These are the tests:
- Unit 1 - The 18th century in Spain
- Unit 2 - The American Revolution
- Unit 3 - The French Revolution
- Unit 4 - The Directory
- Unit 5 - The Industrial Revolution
- Unit 6 - Imperialism and Nationalism
- Unit 7 - The Unification of Italy and Germany
- Unit 8 - Spain in the 19th century
- Unit 9 - The First World War
- Unit 10 - The Russian Revolution
- Unit 11 - The Booming Twenties

Department of history and geography-bilingual section

Map competition

These are the maps that were given in for the Bilingual Sections map competition. You can vote for the best map taking into account the following criteria:

• layout
• texts in English
• geographical and historial accuracy

If you are studying at CPI Tino Grandío tell Maite or Ana which is your favourite. If you are not studying in our school, write a comment at the bottom stating which map is your favourite.These are the maps:

MAP 1 by Elena Fernández (ESO-3)

MAP 2 by Edgar Ares (ESO-3)

MAP 3 by Alba Martínez (ESO-3)

MAP 4 (Second Carlist War) by Victoria González (ESO-4)

MAP 5 (Second Carlist War) by Laura López (ESO-4)

MAP 6 by Aine Rodríguez (ESO-3)

MAP 7 (Independence of American Countries) by Alba García (ESO-4)

MAP 8 (Unification of Italy) by Alba Rodríguez (ESO-4)

MAP 9 (Europe under Nappoleon) by Ángel Pérez

MAP 10 Out of the competition

MAP 11(Africa in 1914) by Lucas Lombardía

MAP 12 (Europe in 1830) by Adrián Balsa

MAP 13 (Independence of American States) by Sofía Díaz

MAP 14 -Out of the competition

ESL / EFL new revision exercises: tenses, comparatives and superlatives

There are new exercises in the school's Aula Virtual for you to have a look at. You can download any of these materials or ask your teacher for a printed copy. Then just show it to your teacher to have it checked. If you are interested in any of these printable sheets, go to the school's Aula Virtual or to the English Language pages in this blog. You'll find:

• summary of tenses
• tenses in detail
• exercises about tenses: affirmative, negative and interrogative
• different tenses
• comparatives and superlatives: grammar and exercises

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!

New units for Social Studies

The first 9 units for Social Studies ESO-4 have been already finished by the teachers in Seminario Permanente. All of them, together with a glossary with the most difficult vocabulary and a presentation, have been uploaded at the school's Aula Virtual. You can also download them from this blog. You'll find them at the Social Studies ESO-4 page. If you want to read a bit more about each of the units you can also read or download the text from Wikipedia. To make things easier you have a link to a pdf text from Wikipedia for each of the units. Of course, there are many other interesting pages and you can find some recommeneded books and websites at the end of each unit.

As these units are being used this year for the first time, we'd be grateful if you pointed out any mistakes that you may find so that they can be improved.

Several interesting materials

Here you have the links to those useful handouts that we always need when studying English at school.

• The summary of tenses for 3º ESO
• The summary of tenses for 4º ESO
• The summary of tenses for PDC
• And the Graded Readers Sheet for all ESO students

 I hope they are useful for you. And if you need a printed copy ask your teacher.