HOMEWORK: Listening activities

Below you have the list of the listening activities you´ll have to do as homework from 22nd May to 19th June 2009.
(taken from http://www.esl-lab.com/)

Listen to them and do the "listening and vocabulary exercises". After that, you have to report your scores to my e mail.
You should also do the post-listening exercises for they could be asked in the final exam. Don´t hesitate to ask me if you have any doubt.

http://www.esl-lab.com/hotelreservations/hotelreservationsrd1.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/universitydegree/universitydegreerd1.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/night/nightrd1.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/review/review.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/dear/dearrd1.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/airport/airportrd1.htm

Remember to use The Rhymezone dictionary whenever you need it.

The IYA Project

Hi everybody,
We are going to start our term project, which I hope you find interesting and useful.
First, you must go to http://www.geocities.com/conchy_castro/MY_CORNER.html and open the file The IYA( International Year of Astronomy) project in Projects and Webquests.
You will have to post in "comments" your first impressions about the tasks- interesting, boring, useful, easy...
After this first comment, you will use the email to report how you are doing and ask any doubt you have.

Discovering English and American literature

Hi,
This school year we are going to know more about English and American literature, and we´ll try to do some research on the historical and social background.
You already know what to do, which author you will have to study and who you are going to do the task with.
Now you will have to report me about your progress in this task. You can can send me a comment or an e-mail telling who you are working with, how you are sharing responsabilities...
At the end of the March you will have to do an oral exposition of it, and also you will have to write your opinion on the activity.
Hope you enjoy it and learn!

WRITING BIOGRAPHIES

Hello everybody and welcome to school year 2007-08.
Today I want you to look for information about a known person and then write a biography.
Please, click on one of the names below and read about the person you´ve chosen. Then write a comment telling who you have chosen and why.
Paul Auster
Cormac MacCarthy
Bill Gates
Aung San Suu Kyi
Oliver Sacks
Marisa Monte
Felipe González

WORKING WITH SONGS

My dear students of 1º Bachillerato - A,
When you read this, it' s supposed you have just listened to the song (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay and done the activities. So now it´s time to evaluate it!
Did you like the song? Why?
Did you like the activity?, Was it interesting?
Name some facts you read about the 50s and 60s that you consider shocking, interesting, funny...

Welcome to school year 2006-07

Hello everybody,
Now we have started the school year and everything seems arranged, it´s time for us to start working on our projects and reporting our suggestions, feedbacks, evaluation and so on to this blog.
Perhaps the first thing to do is to briefly comment about the beginning of the year: How you feel,your first impressions...

Greece

On 30th March, I went to Greece on a school exchange trip. We are involved in a european project which implies meeting our partners twice a year for a week.We were a team of three teachers and four students eager to know more about Greece and the Greek.
First we stayed for two days in Athens. We went to the Acropoli , saw the change of the guard, went for a walk to the Pireo and wandered around the Flea Market.
Then, we took a train and went to Thessaloniki. There we met our Greek and Polish partners.The four students were hosted by families. We went to school, worked for a while, toured around and socialized.
It was both a holiday and a working time. It was a short visit, but also exhausting as we tried to asimilate as much as we could and didn´t want to miss neither their architectonical wonders, nor the opportunity to learn more about their school system, nor the chance to experience their love for their music and dances...It was amazing, at least for me, to see how young people enjoyed their free time listening to and dancing their traditional music.
When I came back, our Easter holidays started so I could rest...and do nothing. I read a lot, listened to music, went for walks by the seaside, cooked for my family...So, this year I feel I had a great Easter holiday: I´ve travelled, I´ve learnt a lot of new things, I´ve rested and now feel ready to start the daily routine again.
What about you my students? Have you had a good holiday? What have you done?
I´m looking forward to reading about your holidays...