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

X-MAS PROJECT

A communicative activity about X-mas around the world
Christmas Project09

ACTIVITIES IN THE WIKI

Some of the oral activities are in the wiki VirtuallyReal. Check it out for communicative activities of BATXILLERAT 1

ESO 4: LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS

We are all the heroes of our lives: we have achieved great things in our daily life. You don't think so? Students did this activity and discovered that indeed, they had achieved more than they believed.
The Present Perfect Tense

ORAL ACTIVITY: TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS

This activity precedes the one below about inventions. The aim is to get students to think about the technology that surrounds us and to make some choices..
Passive Voice Lets Talk About Technology

ORAL ACTIVITY ON INVENTIONS

Inventions

ESO 4: ACTIVITIES THAT ENHANCE COMMUNICATION

We are implementing the PELE with ESO 4, designing even more activities that enhance rea communication and interaction than we even used to!
Emotions

ITWORLDEDU AWARD

The wiki VirtuallyReal has been awarded the IT WORLD EDU award at the 2009 conference held in ESADE on 28, 29 and 30th of October.

The award consists of an interactive whiteboard and software and licences for several applications and programs.

Catalunya Radio interviewed me about the project and I was thrilled to explain what we do.

I would like to thank the board for this award which just will keep me going for more!

SUPPORT TO AUDIO-ORAL COMPETENCE:ROSETTA STONE

We have started a pilot programme using Rosetta Stone software for three months. This project is part of an innovation program launched by the Catalan Department of Education where teachers and students test the digital software of Rosetta Stone,a company that has provided online language learning materials for many years. The software has voice recognition software, so the students can interact with the computer, "talking" to it and getting feedback. We will publish the results of the project when it is over.