My English Notebook

HALLOWEEN 2019

This year we have celebrated Halloween in the school again.
Jack-O-Lantern story

We had a horror short stories contest in the school this week. A lot of students participated in it and they wrote great scary strories. Here you are a link with a photo of the winners and the winning stories. Well done guys!

HORROR SHORT STORIES CONTEST

READERS

These are the readers for students in ESO 1A and Bachillerato 1 this year:

ESO 1A (Audios & activities) BACHILLERATO 1 (Audios)

ACTIVITIES ON THE ELEPHANT MAN 1
BACKGROUND OF THE STORY

AUTUMN TIME

Autumn is finally here and we are working on this woonderful season with plenty of different activities: vocabulary, poems, songs, projects and presentations.

Today students in 1ESO A presented their projects to Manny, our teacher from Texas. They did great and we have all learnt a lot about autumn, harvesting time, Halloween, Guy Fawkes, Thanksgiving Day and other traditions this time of the year.

The students in PMAR 1 have also made a nice poster to welcome the new season. They are studying new words and learning autumn poems.

Class rules

Students in 1A ESO wrote some class rules to be respected. They stuck all the rules on the walls of the class to remember the way we have to behave.

This is me!!

Students in 1A ESO introduced themselves in class today. They presented their own profiles to their classmates. They've learnt a lot of new things about their peers. It was fun and enriching!!

GUIDED TOUR IN PLASENCIA

Last April 25th some students of 4th ESO enjoyed a guided tour in English in the historic town centre of Plasencia. They discovered new places, facts and monuments. At the same time, they learned new vocabulary related to art and history. The whole visit was in English so the students could practice their oral skills. We thank the Tourism Department of Plasencia for this idea. Now when these students find foreign tourists in our town, they will surely have many things to say and, of course, in English!

Happy Easter!!

Easter is one of the most important celebrations in English speaking countries. Let's have a look at these videos and learn about how they celebrate it.

Easter in the UK
Easter in USA
Easter traditions with questions

Preparing Earth Day: a whole project

We have started working on environmental aspects that are worrying nowadays. Students in 2nd A have made a wonderful mural and developed projects with tips to fight pollution and environmental damage.

Describing a photograph

This week we have been describing pictures in magazines. Some magazines in English were delivered in the class and the students were given some hints to describe a phtograph. These are several of the pictures they chose:

People who changed the world

Students have been presenting their projects about people who changed the world in many different ways: politics, engineering, art, sports, fashion, music, technology, etc.

1st session:- Tomas Alva Edison,
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Coco Chanel
- Christopher Colombus
- Shigeru Miyamoto
2nd session:
- Michael Jackson

- Charles Chaplin
- Michelangelo
- Marilyn Monroe
- Karl Marx
- Galileo Galilei
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Walt Disney
- Caresse Crossby
- Frida Kahlo
- Susan Brownell Anthony

We are reading this book at the moment: ACTIVITIES ON THE BOOK

People Who Changed the World, Eleanor Sutherland, Burlington Books

April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day, is one of the most light-hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

April Fools' Day prank in Boston's Public Garden
warning people not to take photographs of sculptures.

April Fools' Day in the UK
April Fools' Day in the US

BBC Flying Penguins:
An amazing video where you will see flying penguins

How was the penguin prank made? Watch this video:
The making of Penguin April Fools' Day

Presentations about English speaking countries

The students of 3C have been working on the culture of done English speaking countries and have done excellent presentationsabout the UK, the Republic of Ireland, USA or Australia. They were a bit nervous because they had to speak in English before their classmates. It was really challenging for them but they did GREAT!!!

Celebrating Christmas

Christmas is a perfect time to feel the joy and warmth of friends. The students of 4A and 4C sang carols together to say goodbye to an intense term and welcome Christmas holidays. We are especially grateful to Alonso who played the bassoon. The rest did quite well with their voices and tambourines!!! Merry Christmas to you all!! Enjoy the carol!!

Snowflakes

We are all unique as snowflakes and so we have been learning adjectives to describe ourselves and see how different and special we are. Some of us are shy, charming or sweet, others are outgoing, friendly, determined, corageous... This is great!

The students cut out beautiful snowflakes and wrote adjectives to describe themselves and their classmates on them. It was an enriching and fun activity!!!

Lucy, we missed you so much!!

List of personality adjectives 1

List of personality adjectives 2

List of personality adjectives 3

Ángel, Nadia, Miriam, Carla, Paula and Carol

Carol and Carla

Playing Scrabble

We have been playing Scrabble in class!! We had to make up words with the letters given and use them in perfectly correct sentences to get the points. It was a tough game and a surprising victory of Team C. We had fun and learnt some new things!

And the winners are... Celia, Isabel, Sara and David!!

Last Christmas activities

Last Christmas activities were great. We learnt and had fun. You can have a look at one of the videos we made. Lucía, Carla, Miriam, Carol and Paula chose this carol to sing and wish everyone wonderful holidays.We hope you like it. We had to practise once and again for a whole week! It was hard work but it was worth the effort. They really enjoyed doing it!

Merry Christmas to you all!

PRESENTATIONS

Have a look at the latest presentations about English culture, history, geography, music and politics!

IRISH TOURISTIC ATRACTIONS (Javier Arias)
IRELAND POLITICS (Jaime Vaquero)

HALLOWEEN

https://iesgabrielgalanp.educarex.es/index.php/138-departamentos/ingles/319-halloween-2018