Dear students, I have already allowed you to add your comments on the blog. You might have received an automatic message inviting you to take part, but I am not sure. Next week I'll give you a task to do on the blog, but just to see if it works, could you please try to write something, like " I got the message" or just say hello and write your name? Thanks See you on Tuesday
Sorry, dear students, the video about a British school that I wanted you to see has been taken out from you tube and I haven't been able to find another one yet. Anyway I have found this nice video that has been made by some American high school students.
The language is difficult to understand except when the people who speak are the teachers, no wonder...! and the sound at our school's computers is dreadful. I'm afraid you'll have to listen to the video at home.
Don't worry too much about the sound anyway, and just watch it, see how different this school is from a Spanish school, how different the students are as well and start getting used to the American accent.
Watch it again and take notes about the following: 1- The different school areas that are shown in the video. 2- The different people that appear in the video.
Get ready to talk about the school and the students and teachers that appear in the film.
This is our new class blog. As your teacher I will of course be the blog master, but in the future I will learn how to give you access to it and you will be able to edit your own texts on it. I hope we will manage to record ourselves, too. Have a look around the things I wrote when I was learning how to set up a blog at the end of last year. Some of the things are a bit silly because they were just exercises, but others are nice, like the preliminary work I prepared for my 1st year students last year before our visit to the cinema to watch "Gran Casino" , the film by Clint Eastwood. You must also have a look at the video I found in You tube about a group of British schoolgirls who are showing us around their school and their neighbourhood. You will start getting an idea of what a British school and British kids are like. This is all for the moment. Enjoy the blog, it's yours
Watch this video from a group of schoolboys and girls in a British School. They are quite "typical", and..... "yes".... they wear uniforms. They always do in Britain. I guess they may be around 14 or 15 years old. They are a bit noisy, but quite polite and nice on the whole. Watch the video and don't worry if you don't understand too much. The witing on the video will help you. But I'm sorry to tell you this: this is the way young people speak, and it can only get worse, so we still have a lot of work to do.
After viewing it once, read about the task you have to carry out.
Watch it again and get as much information as possible about the following: -Dates of the filming. -Reasons why they are filming -Names of the different students that you may pick up -Different spaces they show from the school, classrooms, etc... -Lessons they attend -Teachers that appear in the video
And again, and this time take notes on the following and describe them. -The neighbourhood, while the girls walk to school. -Uniforms -The classroom where the final Christmas party takes place
Write all your answers on a sheet of paper and end your work with a composition of about 100 words explaining the differences between a typical British school and a typical Spanish school. And there are many, as you have seen.
Watch the video. It's an interview with Susan Boyle, a rising music star recently discovered in the program Britain's got talent". Get used to hear a Scottish accent ( very thick in Susan's case, very mild in the case of the interviewer) and see a typical British kitchen where the kettel is a real icon.
I recommend you to look for her first performance in Youtube. They don't allow anybody to embed it anywhere else, that's why I didn't show it myself
I'd like to turn this pages into a useful tool for me and my Bachillerato students. I'll try to do it with the help of my tutor, Juan Ignacio Castro and the rest of my colleagues.
