COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY FOR ESO 4

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A VIDEO THAT PROMOTES THINKING AND DISCUSSION

3 ESO 2 STUDENTS RECORD INSTRUCTIONS

3 ESO 2 students recorded instructions using a screencasting program. The result was just great!

USING TOKVOX to record oral production

TokBox - Free video chat and video messaging

Our UB Master student, Zoya Aleksanyan, has created a wiki with students of 4th ESO C.
Take a look if you want to read about the most amazing inventions!!!.

INVENTIONS

Let's help the planet!!

UB Master student, Laura Timoner, has proposed to our students of 1st ESO D a series of activities on the topic "Our Earth; a greener and cleaner place to live in". Here you can see her blog with the guidelines for some of the activities.


Let's help the planet!!

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: I WISH...

ESO 4: ORAL PRESENTATIONS ABOUT DRUGS

Eso 4 students prepared very nice glogs to summarize the learning unit about drugs.

View some of them here.

ALCOHOL: by Gisela del Pulgar

AMPHETAMINES by Guillem Olmos & Javier Herraiz

LSD by Ander Martirena & Sergi de Manuel

CANNABIS by Claudia Herrera & Rebeca Garcia

CANNABIS by Rut Valls & Carlota Lainez

AMANITA MUSCARIA by Julia Mata & Maria Hurtado

TOBACCO by Carles Altman & Eric Lopez

AMPHETAMINES by Borja Mata & Nil Fernandez

NETLANGUAGES: A TOOL TO IMPROVE LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

We have been selected to test a new tool: Net Languages. It's an online, content-based course for students of ESO 1 and ESO 2, which follows the Catalan curriculum of competences, with an emphasis on active competences.

This course has been designed by International House and we are taking part in a trial test monitored by the Department of Education.

HEROES & HEROINES

Create Your Own Hero

TOKBOX:AUDIO & VIDEO FOR EFL

Tokbox is a great tool to record video and audio and share it with teachers ad students.

View the activity students of Batx 1 did here

ACCENTS OF THE WORLD

Long gone are the times when only the most perfect "Quenn's English" accent was accepted and expected of speakers,native and foreign, of English.

Nowadays, all accents are accepted and acceptable. View this amazing video as a proof of the diversity of the English language!

A RADIO PROGRAMME

3 Batxillerat 1 students recorded this radio programme. It's really funny and creative!

LEARNING SEQUENCE FOR ESO 4

Eso 4 students are doing a communicative learning sequence about DRUGS. This unit has been designed by UAB practicum students Shanti Arrieta, Albert Costan and Joan Palomeras, tutorized by M.R.Batlle

EXPODIDACTICA 2010: AULA TAC

For 3 days, AULA TAC features lectures, experiences and exhibitions about the use of ICT in learning contexts. Of special interest were the lectures by Catalan schools that are implementing the 1x1 project, the project that provides students with laptops and digital materials, setting up a new educational paradigm.

BATX 1: GLOGS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Batxillerat 1 students researched the topic of preserving the future of the planet and came up with very interesting ideas about what is going on and how we can help preserve the health fo our planet, which they expressed through images in their virtual posters and told the class about.
View the great glogs they made!
Deforestation
Deforestation
Greenhouse Effect
Recycling
More Recycling

GLOGGING THE PELE

GLOGGING THE PELE

View the GLOG that shows some of the actions we have taken and are taking in 2009-2010 in order to improve students' communicative competence

2009-2010 ACTIONS!

ESO 1: GREEN ID, PRESENTATIONS, COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITES EMBEDDED IN CLASS ACTIVITIES..

ESO 2: OPTIONAL CREDITS: USING AUDACITY TO RECORD ORAL PROGRESS

ESO 3: COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITES EMBEDDED IN CLASS ACTITIVITES. ORAL PRESENTATIONS...

ESO 4: PROJECTS (ENJOY THE MUSIC.....), COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES EMBEDDED IN CLASS ACTIVITIES

BATX1: STUDENT PORTFOLIO

GLOGGING THE BIOMES

ESO 1 students have made a glog (virtual poster) about different biomes and have told the class about them. Glogs are so visual! students design them with pictures, videos, sound.. that represent the topic they want to talk about. View some glogs here

TUNDRA

CONTINENTAL FOREST

TAIGA

MEDITERRANEAN FOREST

BANNED SONGS by Shanti,Joan & Albert

Three students of the EFL Teacher Training Masters Degree prepared an activity about banned songs for ESO 4. In webquest format, the students listen to 3 controversial songs, read the lyrics, search the web for information about these three bands and answer the questions in their blogs.
View it here: BANNED SONGS
by Shanti Arrieta,Albert Costan and Joan Palomeras

MORE ABOUT MUSIC....

A listening and slang activity using a wonderful song: GANGSTA'S PARADISE

Listen to it and do the listening exercise here

Use this webpage to help you with slang

Afterwards, you can read the lyrics here

A BAND PROFILE by Eva Gómez & Carme Cemeli

4 ESO students prepare a project about their favourite band. Music is a highly inspiring topic for teenagers, who engage in real interaction when given the opportunity to talk about their favourite bands or musicians.

A Band Profile