Hello my students!.

   All of you must do the exercises that are on my web. Just click on 1 eso, 2 eso or 3 eso. and next download it. The students who have failed in june must bring the homework the day of the exam in september. The rest will do it  during the first week of the course. Remember I will give you till 0,5 points extra in the first term.

Happy summer!

My best exercises: in my wardrobe

I love surfing the net searching Esl websites. The more I explore them the more I realize how many good teachers of english there are all over the world. They are teachers who like working with the new technologies and they offer their work to everybody.
Copying that way of working has helped me a lot so far. I am doing my own web and I realize it is my wardrobe. The place where I save all my exercises and the best of all: they are in the correct drawer. At the beginning of my career as a teacher I didn't use to have my exercises in the right order. Now, whatever exercise I need I find it inmediately in my "wardrobe".

E-pals project

A new year, a new project. This time we are going to work www.e-pals.com. It offers us the possibility to interact with students all over the world.
I registered in e-pals and made a profile of my students. Next day I had more than 15 e-mails from teachers, mainly from the USA, who also want their students interchange emails.
I started talking with a teacher of spanish in Penn Yan, New York. She teaches spanish there and their students were the same age as mine.
We've just started working. The american students started writing in spanish, introducing themselves and talking about the place where they live. Next, we answered in english.
I think it is a good activity. Besides practicing the language, they are meeting new people and a culture which is diferent for them.

The day we were The Beatles

Last year we had the idea of performing something related with "The Beatles". We didn't know how to begin, which songs to choose... But we did it. Step by step we chose 14 songs, not the most famous ones because I think all of them are very well-known. I chose songs because of the easy vocabulary, and others because of the grammar structure. I love them all, anyway. Once I had worked them in my lessons with the pupils, the teacher of music started his job. His target was to join all voices, music, harmonies etc. After lots of weeks he really got it.
We needed something else, not only singing. I wrote a play in valencian about a couple in their 60's. They were parents very late and they had a very young daughter called "Michelle". She is a very modern girl, likes David Ghetta, Black eyed Peas.... and she thinks her parents are very old-fashioned in music.
Her parents had met when they were very young, and had lived the final decade of the beatles. They, finally, song by song, show their daughter that they have also been young and modern like Michelle.
Last June, 23rd, our school performed "50 anys de Beatles". We were very succesful.
All the teachers in our school helped us. We were 70 students singing on the stage.
Thank you all!!!!

I feel good with my new pupils

Hiya,

This year I am in charge of a new group of pupils. They are about twelve and thirteen years old. I think it is a very good group. Besides, they usually participate a lot in my lessons. They, well, some of them, try to speak in english and that is the most important. If you never try, you can never know how good you can be in english.
I would dare to say that if they go on studying this way, when this group finishes ESO, more than 50 % of them will be competent enough to keep any conversation.

bye 4 now

A 27 year old boy writer

Here I am again,
One of my favourite hobbies is watching videos of famous speeches.
As Internet gives us the possibility to get "almost" everything, I was searching the net and found a speech given by Obama, in November 2008, after being elected President of the United States of America. I don't know if this man is going to improve America, I really hope so, but what it is sure, he is one of the most talented speakers in the world.
A young 27 year old "boy" is the owner of Obama's words. Jon Favreau is his name. He is the new president's speechwriters director. But Obama makes them his words.
You can see a video and the tapescript in
http://www.colegioavemaria.com/MIS%20VIDEOS.htm

The new president of the USA

Mr. Obama is the new president of the United States of America. He has been chosen by the american people because they think he is the right person to save America and the world of the terrible economic crisis all over the world.
This moment is very special for the USA, because he is the first "black" who is going to manage the first country of the world. But he was not the first "black" man who has tried to be the president. Martin Luther King, who was killed in 1968, was the first man who tried to bring hope to the world. His words "I have a dream" are still with us.
Mr. Obama may Martin Luther's words come true. Obama can!

Question: How must be the leader of a group?