Creative writing

Hi there,

after practicing structures and connectors in the English lessons, I gave an interesting homework to my students. They had to choose three important personal objects and they had to introduce them in a writing activity. 

I had the opportunity to listen to a group of 26 students this morning and the experience has been very cool. All the students have been engaged by homework and they said that they enjoyed doing it. Amazing, fantastic and wonderful. ;D

I think that my students produce and interpret their mates' compostitions in a properly way. The production of a text requires the application of higher order skills (HOTS), following Bloom's taxonomy and that is what we promote in our lessons through topics that engage and motivate them. That's the way that it works.

A long the school year, and always giving some language support, they have written about:

1. Personal descriptions.
2. Their best friend.
3. Their school.
4. Daily routines.
5. Important women in their lifes.
6. Mobile phones and teenagers.
7. BioPoem
8. Three personal important objects.

For tips on encouraging children in creative writing, take a look at creative writing page. Worthy to visit it!

Recommended Cafe in Barcelona

There is a Pudding coffee in Pau Claris Street in Barcelona. It is a place where you will feel like Alice in Wonderland, thanks to its decoration, with giant mushrooms and colored slates. This place goes beyond a traditional café, because you live an experience in which you feel like a child. You can play board games, you can read a book or you can work with your laptop as well.

However, I went this morning with my family and we did not do anything of the activities I mentioned before. Not at all. We decided to enjoy delicious homemade cakes. Personally, I asked a hot chocolate with a homemade carrot cake.

An important Fair in our City

The 8th edition of "Som Clicks" is dedicated to the wonderful world of CIRCUS. If you decide to visit the Fair this next weekend, you will visit more than 15 large dioramas related to characters in the Circus, pirates, the west and many more surprises creating beliavable worlds in a small scale.

It will be a paradise for everybody because this small toy is one of those toys for which no time passes. By the way, did you know that male dolls are named clicks and female are name clacks?

A good movie

Hi there,

I want to share with you a short movie that works friendship, joy, loneliness and solidarity among others. Nice to share it in our lessons. The storyline is so creative and the animation itself is so smooth.

Basic Competences exams

Hi there, the basic competence exams will be on May the 7th, 8th and 9th.
Here you have some examples. 
They can be useful mainly for practising listenings with our students.

English exam 2011. Listenings

English exam 2012. Listenings

English exam 2013. Listenings

English exam 2014. Listenings

English exam 2015. Listenings
English exam 2016. Listenings

English exam 2017. Listenings

English exam 2018. Listenings

My eTwinning tools

Hi there, european projects need interactive digital tools.

Here you have the ones I use.

Ready for St. George Day

Hi there, St. George Day is a very important tradition for catalan people. You can find books and roses everywhere. But do you know why Catalonia celebrates this important day every year? It comes from a legend, which says that, once upon a time, there was a dragon who scared people who lived in the same town. People decided to choose a person among them to stop the dragon fearsome force and hungry. The chosen person was a princess. But then, a knight appeared. He was Saint George. He killed the dragon with his sword. The legend says that from the dragon's red blood it grew a red rose. 

So, from this legend you can understand the the tradition at Catalonia nowadays. 

Furthermore, books are important, too. But this tradition comes from Cervantes' day of death.

Related to books and as every year I will tell a story to my students. This school year will be the one you will listen to it in the link below.

After listening to the story, can you tell me the missing words?

and what about the rhyme words?

Finally, can you find the differences between the pictures?

Do it now!

Hi there,

We celebrate the Earth Day today.

It means that people around the world are becoming more conscious of the urgent need to reduce pollution and save our green and blue planet.

So, Earth Day is not just a celebration, it is a call for action!

I worked it in my English lessons at the end of the last term and students and I concluded that 3 R's are very important in our lifes: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Some students gave some ideas to us about reusing:

1. Reuse clothes from family and friends,

2. Reuse mobile phones from family, so that you can play with them.

3. Reuse plastic bags in order to reduce pollution but if you remember, use fabric bags

4. Reuse papers at school. 

5. Reuse pencils from one term to another.

After that, we enjoyed singing an amazing song about the 3 R's. Here you have it!

Easter Monday!

Hi there,
It is Easter Monday Today and that means that tomorrow will be the first day of the third Term! We will meet another time our friends and teachers and we will share our holidays experiences. Anyway, this is my speciall Mona for my godchildren.

Happy Easter to everyone!

Hi you all,
this post is specially if you are a young learner. 
Tap on the picture below and listen to the vocabulary. 
After that, practice it playing some Easter games.

What does plogging mean?

The practice of plogging encourages people to pick up litter while out running. So, it is not just good for your health, it is also good for the environment.

What I have just found out is the reason of the name. First, the practice comes from Sweeden and it is called "plogging" because is a mix between a Swedish word plocka upp that it means 'pick up' and jogging. 
The fact is that PLOGGING combines going for a run with intermittent stops to collect the rubbish. 
By the way, you can look at a group of runners (some friends and I -I am the one wearing a blue t-shirt) practising plogging in Torrent de Colobrers (photo above).

A new project is being carried on...

Hi there,

after coming back from the Netherlands where I met teachers from six different  european countries, it was time to begin our task in our schools. 

Actually, I am involved in a new project with Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands. We are four teachers of English, teaching in year 2 and year 3. We decided to share something interesting from the places where we live and here we are!

We have just designed the cover for our story where we will have two main characters who will visit our cities and will learn from our cultural heritage. Here you have a summary: