The power of music is inexhaustible, also in language learning .
Here you have an English activity with a song by Nirvana: Come As You Are.
Flickr Photos
Country Music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s.[1] It takes its roots from Western cowboyand southeastern American folk music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles such as violins, and harmonicas (Wikipedia)
Here you have an example:
Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus
And the lyrics of the song
Now sing with the Karaoke version.
Ask Dr Love
Love, 
love, love…
My students were very imaginative. I asked them to invent a radio programme. A listener calls Doctor Love to ask for advice for his or her love problems. Funny!
You can listen to the radio programmes here.
Posted in Practical English
Charles Dickens
2012 marks the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth. He is one of the greatest English writers of the Victorian period.
Our students had to read Great Expectations, one of his most famous books. He was a prolific writer.
Many of his works have been made into films: Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Scrooge, David Copperfield, etc
If you are interested, you can read more here.
Dickens believed that enriching people’s life with knowledge and enjoyment of the arts was key to building a fair society and creating opportunities. I agree with him.
You can read more about this celebration on this website
Job Interviews
English has become important, let’s say essential, in order to get a job nowadays. 80% of the job offers requiere a knowledge of English.
My students had to make job interviews to a teacher and to a student from La Foia High School. Special thanks to the teachers and students who collaborated with my students.
CLICK HERE FOR THE RESULT
http://youtu.be/U5QqSZYffF4
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Let’s Get Romantic!
Posted in 4th ESO, Digital Radio, Uncategorized
Oral Presentations
Oral presentations are an excellent way of practising English. It is good to loose embarrassment, to learn to speak in public, to improve your ITC knowledge. In the last weeks, my students from Practical English (1st Bachillerato) and 4th ESO have don a great work! Here you have some photos of some presentations and some more photos of my class, working seriously.
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Pancakes
Pancakes are typical in the US and Americans usually have them for Sunday breakfast or for brunch!
Here are some photos of my students making pancakes. They are really good at cooking!!!
Many hands make the work lighter!
And here’s some country music.
Posted in 4th ESO, Practical English
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is an American celebration. Sometimes we put too much emphasis on promoting other Anglosaxon celebrations, so, for a change, our department decided to explain this festivity to our students.
We saw the TV series Friends: The one with Chandler in the Box, which is set in Thanksgiving time. you might want to watch it. It’s fun!
Here’s is some of the material we used that some colleagues kindly sent me.
If you pity turkeys, here’s a funny poet, in solidarity with them:
Benjamin Zephaniah Talking Turkeys
Posted in 4th ESO, Practical English
Three Promises: Casting
Here are a couple of pictures from the casting for the theater
play.
All the 1st ESO PEV students did very well!
A big applause!
Posted in 4th ESO, Practical English
