Sección bilingüe 3ºB & Trainee Vanesa Juncal

This year we enjoyed the company and work of a new trainee teacher.  Vanesa spent about 3 months with us and she had the opportunity to observe everything teachers and pupils have to do at school.  

It seemed her previous idea was quite different from what she found, especially because she was lucky to experience how a bilingual sections works.  She met  two groups of driven students with a very good level and doing different things at a different speed.

Of course, she chose one of those groups to carry out her teaching plan.  She had doubts about the possibility of doing everything she had planned in her ideal unit, with lots of innovative activities and a final project, where she wanted the students to create their own film reviews in the form of blog entries.

Finally, most common activities went really fast, faster than she had imagined, and they had time to do everything.  The last activity was learning how to subtitle film scenes.  Vanesa gave us a very interesting lecture on how to do it and the challenge of finding the correct translation for phrases or jokes.  We did not have enough time to do a complete work on this field, but anyone who wants to try it has the necessary tools to start.

I want to congratulate both Vanesa for her work and interest, for her enthusiasm, and the students for their great work this year.  The only bad thing is that they probably will not have bilingual section in 4th year, as there is not a teacher who wants to do the job.  By the way, congratulations to Bibiana, the biology teacher, who did a great job although it was her first year as a teacher and the difficulty of a bilingual group was challenging.  The result was great.

Finally, here is the link to the bog Vanesa created and where the students entered their reviews.

Only it is a pity I do not have their presentations, which were awesome.  

Good holiday to everyone.  I hope next year we can do nice projects, even without the bilingual section.

Links to reviews:

Vanesa's example: Peaky Blinders

Teacher's trial: Agatha Christie and the truth of murder

Students' works:

Skam

Vampire diaries

Avengers: End game

Stranger Things

Titanic

Arturo Neira - 

1º D and E projects 2021

English is a tool that helps us to communicate with the world. In the third term the students of 1st BAC D and E used it to create amazing projects about different issues of their choice.

Dr. Mutka Panda

One example is what Antonio and Claudia from 1 st D did. They recorded a short video with the title The New Smile about the pandemic and the way it changed our lives. The video shows people with and without masks. They wanted to focus on how a mask distorts our perception of others and how different a smile is with or without a mask. As a soundtrack they read a beautiful poem about the ‘New Normal’ by Mukta Panda.

 Magazine frontpage.

1st E devoted their project to an online magazine. This format allowed everybody to talk about the topic they liked best with a sense of unity. We can find articles about Travels, Beauty, Sports, Spiderman, Books, Music, Arts, Television, Photography, Fashion, Psychology and Dance. I am sure you will find at least one you would like to read. They also put in practice their digital competence with some videos and video tutorials.
These two are just a representation of the hard work they did in these last three months. They also show that the best way to learn a language is using it, and better if you use it to express things you like. 

Well done!!!
Links:
Magazine
The New Smile

A New Normal

Spring of 2020
Lives changed forever
The world truly as one humanity
Humbled to its knees
Yet united around one common goal
Pray, be present, protect, and preserve
Other priorities, other divides unimportant
Anxiety, fear, anger, frustration, sadness, grief
A myriad of emotions resonate
A humbling jarring reminder
Of who we are and what really matters
Our impermanence, our fragility
Our interdependence
All affected
No race, religion, gender, color or class
No discrimination
Only community
Only community
Committed to a CommonUnity
A new normal
A renewed respect for Mother Earth
A new respect for each other
A new hope
Of love, equality, care, gratitude and kindness
One united prayer
A better world
A new normal

~Mukta Panda

Marta Cuba ( Teacher )