Wishing all our friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a prosperous and healthy 2016!!!

Students have been working so hard to wish all our friends in Ireland, Italy and the United States a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!!!

OUR CHRISTMAS TREE

CHRISTMAS CARD TO IRELAND

CHRISTMAS CARD TO ITALY

CHRISTMAS CARD TO THE UNITED STATES

and enjoy these lovely Christmas Carols in Spanish and English sung by us beautifully.  

This is me!

During this term, the students have done a good job for their Speaking exam. They were asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on Google Drive about themselves following the instructions given by the English teacher as a part of the exam. Here you can see two good examples of them.

  

                                   

CELEBRATING HALLOWEEN WITH MY NEW STUDENTS!!!!

On October 30, as is now traditional, the English Department organized a contest to celebrate Halloween. Students were asked to design a comic or a poster and carve a pumpkin.  I also encouraged my 3º ESO students to take part in a mini contenst  among themselves. 

Thanks to Des, our English assistant, the following prizes were given, as shown in the pictures below.

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST!!!

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

GOT THE QUALITY LABELS ONCE MORE!!

Good news for those who took part in the eTwinning project EVERYDAY SITUATIONS. We have been awarded the National and European Quality Labels for the excellence of the work in our project. This means that our work, students and teachers, has been recognised at the highest European level.

CONGRATULATIONS, TEAMS!!!

Yesterday I attended a seminar on eTwinning projects in Mérida and I was invited as a speaker to inform about our project. 

I met D. Carlos Javier Medina Bravo (Jefe de Servicio de Proyectos Europeos del Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado), Ignacio Casado and Anette Westerop (SNA Servicio Nacional de Apoyo).

I was also so delighted to have seen Francisco Miguel García Barroso, a former student of mine, who works as an English teacher and works closely with eTwinning as an ambassador in Extremadura.

OUR HUGE ENGLISH POSTER

Let's start a new school year: 2015/16. I really hope my 3rd year Secondary School and 2nd year sixth-form students learn a lot and enjoy the English lessons.

Here is the big board we have on the 3º ESO D classroom wall. Apart from those posters designed by myself, the letters on it were chosen from the best ones created by the students.

REACHED OUR GOAL ONCE AGAIN, STUDENTS!!!

For the second year running, I have the honour to inform all the students and teachers who took part in the eTwinning project EVERYDAY SITUATIONS that we have been awarded with the Quality Label for the excellent work done.

Here is the email I got in July:

and this is the QUALITY LABEL:

Here are the teams and some of the teachers involved:

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT!!!

Another great news is that I have been chosen to participate as a speaker presenting our project in the III Jornada Regional de eTwinning in Mérida on 29 October.

OUR ENGLISH WALL

Another school year has successfully completed. My 4º ESO A and B students have done a really good job and taken part in a great variety of activities throughout this year. Part of them can be seen on our classroom wall and on the amazing blog which has been created for our eTwinning project: 

EVERYDAY SITUATIONS

CONGRATULATIONS, STUDENTS!!!!!

It has truly been a real pleasure to work with all of you!

TOP STUDENTS (School year 2014-15)

Some awards in recognition of their hard work were given to the very best students who got the highest number of stickers throughout the school year. The ceremony held during the English lesson was very exciting because it was the first time some students got the same number of sctickers. 

    First position:  Elena Casado González 
                            Laura Iglesias Fernández

    Second position: Teresa Gómez Cidoncha

    Third position: Cristóbal Carrasco Díaz

                            Manuel Mª Gallego Sánchez
                            Francisco Gómez López

THE BIG CHALLENGE 2015

On June 5th a ceremony was held to give the diplomas and prizes to those students who participated in the contest. Once again the English Department gave a voucher of 20€ to the students who got the first position at each level.

This year our students did a great work and four of them got a very good position in Badajoz. 

IÑIGO LÓPEZ MULET
First position in Badajoz
3º ESO

Teresa Gómez Cidoncha: Second position
Francisco Gómez López: Third position

Elena Casado González: Fourth position

4º ESO

I would like to finish by thanking our 4º ESO "A" and "B" students for taking part in the contest another year more.

A SWEET FAREWELL TO ALEXANDRA BOROSTEAN

Yesterday we said goodbye to our language assistant, Alexandra, after two years with us. Short speeches were made to thank her for her significant support in some activities carried out in our eTwinning project.

I would also like to mention her excellent work and enthusiasm to help our students improve their English. Finally, I wish to thank her personally for being a great friend and because I have learnt so much from her.

   GOOD LUCK!!! 

I'll miss you!!!

DON BENITO TRAVEL GUIDE IN ENGLISH

As mentioned earlier in this blog, the 4º ESO Bilingual Section students and I are involved in an eTwinning project called Everyday Situations this school year:

http://everydaysituationsproject.blogspot.com.es/

I should like to point out one of the activities carried out thanks to our tremendous efforts, a fact of which we are extremely proud. We have worked closely with the Tourist Information office in Don Benito and translated its guide into English, which is going to be published shortly.

As well as being translators, students have been photographers. Lots of pics of different parts in our town have been taken as they can be seen in our digital travel guide version below. Once again:

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EXCELLENT WORK, STUDENTS!!!

WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE!

Today, during the English lesson, the Bilingual Section students have been visited by someone very special for them, Erin Baskin. She worked as a language assistant here two years ago. She told us about her life in Madrid, the school where she works, her travels and her future plans.

Thanks very much for visiting us, Erin!

POTLUCK 2015

As usual in previous years, a POTLUCK was celebrated with a group of 32 students of 2º Bachillerato and six teachers on April 29th. On this special occasion, the decorations were related to Ireland and St. Patrick, as shown in the photos taken during the activity. 

Everybody was given a cute shamrock as a souvenir and enjoyed a superb lunch together.

THANKS TO ALL FOR TAKING PART -

IT WAS AGAIN A PLEASURE TO SHARE SUCH A LOVELY EVENT!!!!

Click on this photo to watch a video

HAPPY EASTER

I wish you all a HAPPY EASTER. It is time to take it easy and even get away from it all, but remember this:

Time flies and it is worthwhile to make a great final effort 

to achieve your goals!!

BEST PROJECTS: FRIENDS

Students were asked to write about two friends comparing their styles. The following projects were chosen and got on the classroom wall.

By Laura Iglesias Fernández

By Elena Casado González

By Teresa Gómez Cidoncha

By Manuel Mª Gallego Sánchez

By Cristóbal Carrasco Díaz

THIS IS OUR HIGH SCHOOL!

In this video the group of students from 4º ESO Bilingual Section wants to show our high school, Cuatro Caminos, to our European partners involved with us in the eTwinning project named EVERYDAY SITUATIONS. This video has been made possible thanks to the invaluable assistance of Marco Sosa Sánchez-Cortés, the Art & Design teacher, who has edited this excellent video and Dolores Ruiz Moreno, the PE teacher, who has directed most part of the choreography brilliantly.