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Theater 2017

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Un año más recibimos la visita de la compañía de teatro MOVING ON en nuestro pueblo. Este jueves 18 de mayo tuvimos la suerte de ver la obra "Change the Channel", representada íntegramente en inglés, y adaptada para los alumnos de 3º ESO en adelante. 

La obra ha sido dinámica, divertida e interactiva, pues son varios los alumnos que han subido al escenario a colaborar con los actores expresándose en la lengua inglesa. Así mismo, debemos hacer constar que hemos trabajado de una manera interdisciplinar la coeducación, ya que la obra abarcaba, entre otros temas, las desigualdad entre sexos en el ámbito laboral.

Podemos decir que la representación ha sido un éxito, pues así lo han manifestado nuestros alumnos, y esperamos que podamos contar con esta compañía también el próximo curso.

Company: Moving On

Audience: 12 y 18 years

Language: English

Duration: 50 minutes

Date: 18 May 2017

Fermi Mun 2014

"Aquarius"

We are going to the theater!!!

 Friday, 4th April

"Aquarius"

This the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”

That’s what the song says, but just what is behind this idea of a “New Age” and the approach of the fateful year 2012? With the help of some of the best songs from the 60’s and 70’s performed live, Rupert Marshall, musician, anthropologist and director of Firewalk Theatre, describes the revolutionary counter-culture philosophy of that time, offering us an alternative analysis of “la crisis”; a kind of musical lecture about what’s wrong today and why it is.

Aimed at students of English of an intermediate level and above this one-man show can be can be put on in any venue since it does not require any specialized theatrical infrastructure. 

The show lasts one hour and twenty minutes.

"Aquarius/

Let the Sunshine In" 

Today's preparatory work in the classroom.  You can download the songs used in the talk, as well as the lyrics. We are doing some exercises and activities based on them.

Today's preparatory work

"(I Can't Get no) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones

Visit to Minas de Riotinto

Last Thursday, 7th November, the English Department and some students went to Minas de Riotinto to visit Bellavista District. They spent a great time and learnt many things about Riotinto Mining Museum and a Victorian House.

The town of Las Minas de Riotinto has always been based around, and dependent on, the mines themselves which give it its name. Las Minas reached its peak of prosperity and importance in the late 19th/early 20th century, when the British were running the mines.

Riotinto is also famous for the local poet and writer Juan Cobos Wilkins. His bestselling novel El Corazón de la Tierra (The Heart of the Earth),  based on the story of a popular uprising at the mines in 1888, was recently made into an Anglo-Spanish film.

An English Letterbox 

Victorian House 21 

 

The House was inaugurated in 2005 and it gives you the opportunity to do a flash-back journey to the Victorian times and taste a flavour similar to the one that you can see in legendary films like Out of Africa and a Passage to India.

This semidetached house of 540 m2 presents the following disposition:

• GROUND FLOOR: Daily live area (dinning room, living room, hall, front and  back garden). Service area (kitchen, pantry, woodshed and servants bathroom).
• FIRST FLOOR: (bedrooms, office and bathroom).
• SECOND FLOOR: (servants’ room, lumber room and play room).

Apart from the main rooms, two display spaces have been installed. The first one has been set up in the office and was designed to show why and how the district was built, how many construction stages were needed to complete it and how many buildings compose the neighbourhood: dwellings, Presbyterian Chapel and the English Club). The second display room is situated in the old play room and shows through pictures the daily life of the British inhabitants during eighty one years of presence in the town (reference link.)

Nuestra Señora de la Peña Crags

A picture is worth a thousand words.....

Fermi Model United Nations

The Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Fermi" is pleased to host the XII edition of the Fermi Model United Nations that will take place on 17,18,19 April 2013 in Nuoro (Italy) and our high school, IES Don Bosco,  has been invited to participate in this new edition again. 

The topics which are going to be debated this year are:

1. ECOSOC:

Human actions are dismantling Earth's natural ecosystems, resulting in species extinctions at a much faster rate than previously predicted. Over the last two decades, strong scientific evidence has emerged showing that the loss of the world's biological diversity reduces the productivity and sustainability of natural ecosystems and decreases their ability to provide society with goods and services like food, wood, and fertile soils.

Without a full understanding od the fundamental ecological processes that link biodiversity, ecosystem and human economic sustainable growth an irreversible decline and perhaps destruction of human an animal habitat will be almost inevitable. How can the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other international enviironmental agencies slow down or even stop this process?

The United Nations Environment Programme

2. HRC:

"Millions of women and girls around the world are assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated or even murdered in wht constitutes appalling violations of their human rights... We must fundamentally challenge the culture of discrimination that allows violence to continue." (Secretary- General Ban Kimoon for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2012).

What measures can the UN and the State Members adopt in order to raise public awareness and increase political commitment for preventing and ending all forms of violence against women and girls in all parts of the world?


International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November

PS: Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world

Some class rules...

Dear students,

The idea of this blog is to make you to "use" English. Your contribution will be to do a reading, watching and/ or listening task and then post your comments on the blog. I'm sure you will enjoy the experience of using a blog for the English classroom.

Pay attention to the following rules:

• 1. before you click on the link/s, check you have understood the task
• 2. always use English,
• 3. be careful with spelling and punctuation.
• 4. use the dictionary, but don't look for every word you don't know (use the context to guess the meaning).
• and....

And pay attention to the following rules, too:

 
And that's all for now!

Welcome!!

Hi! Welcome to our virtual classroom! This blog has been created for you! Here you have the opportunity to practise and improve your English in a different and more original way. You will find songs, activities, your projects and links to some useful and interesting sites.

I welcome all comments and suggestions! But please in English!