Nº 4- Junio 2013

June 2013

Nº 4

CONTENTS Our project in Novadors 2013.........................................1 News ..................................................................................2 Opinion .............................................................................5 Storytelling........................................................................7 School Life........................................................................ 8 Art and Entertainment ................................................... 16 Credits............................................................................... 17

SEE YOU BACK IN SEPTEMBER!!!

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Our project in Novadors 13 The ESL Times is an online Collaborative Project. It's a place where we'll publish an English digital magazine while learning and enjoying together.

Last Friday 5th July we were in Castell贸n (Valencia) at Novadors 2013 meeting. There, some members of the group (Diego, Anna and Manuel) were introducing The ESL Times project.

We wanted everyone to participate, so we proposed as the final activity, they had to write "in English" their opinion or a message. Here you can see the video we recorded.

A good experience.

Thanks everyone! Thanks Novadors!

Contact us: Blog: http://theesltimes.blogspot.com.es/ Twitter: @TheESLTimes E-mail: magazine.esl@gmail.com

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NEWS &

Colour your English 2013-06-13

An English free application: "Colour your English". Depeloped by Elisa Bueno Brinkmann and Manuel Merlo Fernández, both are teachers in IES Abdera-ADRA, Almería.

"Colour your English" is aimed at children between twelve and thirteen aged (1st and 2nd ESO level) to learn and improve their english.

The main character, a twelve years olg boy, named Brian, will guide the students through his life along the multimedia activities and resources.

There are four different modules: People in my life, Welcom to my school, A house in the country and Let's go places. All of them have seven different sections: Vocabulary, Grammar, Storyline, Culture, Meeting Point, WebQuest, Open Camera.

"Colour your English" wan the INTEF 2nd price to Materiales Educativos 2008.

So after this short introduction to this free app, available to work on line as well as to download in your computer, it only rests to go on check it, and enjoy yourself with it!.

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Hard rock cafe II 2013-06-20

Today, some reporters of ESO4 at IES La Zafra in Motril, present a second post about the "HRC Project" they did a few weeks ago. The post was meant to be a radio program including some interviews to some of the people who took part in the project, but finally they have decided to include some pictures and turn it into a video. Here's the result. We hope you like it:

Today, some reporters of ESO4 at IES La Zafra in Motril, present a second post about the "HRC Project" they did a few weeks ago. The post was meant to be a radio program including some interviews to some of the people who took part in the project, but finally they have decided to include some pictures and turn it into a video. Here's the result. We hope you like it:

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ThingLink in the classroom 2013-06-21

ThingLink is a simple piece of code that users can install on their website or blog. This code allows teachers or students to designate parts of sites or pages (pictures, etc.) that will produce a pop-up with a description and or a link to something else on the web.

This is a great way to make static images interactive as well and using ThingLink will also allow users to track analytics of the images and links that they have shared.

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OPINION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Multiple inteligences 2013-06-10

Let's start with a brief debate: If you had to define intelligence, what definition would you give?

How do you think we currently measure intelligence? Do you think it should be measured that way?

Where do people get their intelligence from?

Now, go to an intelligence test: Visit this intelligence test and try to answer as many questions as you can.

Do the questions give a true reflection of intelligence, in your opinion?

Let's watch a video where Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader.

Each is put through a series of tests to discover who the most intelligent is.

Video 1 Any clue about who might win this battle of the brains?

But, before actually congratulating the winner, I think you should have a look at these other intelligence tests: Getting the cork out of the bottle.

How many uses can you think of for a sock?

Creating a picture called 'the Creative Process', in five minutes, with only a piece of paper and some pencil crayons.

Building the tallest tower with Jenga.

While you are watching, think of answers for the questions below: How is intelligence currently measured?

How do the experts in the programme consider that intelligence should be measured?

Where do people get their intelligence from?

Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 Video 6

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Creativity in Education is not an option 2013-06-11 Why is Creativity important in Education?

Discuss.

Watch this interview with Sir Ken Robinson and reflect on his beliefs and thoughts. Do you share them?

Then, answer the following questions: 1. According to Sir Ken Robinson, there’s a false assumption when people think about education.

Which is it?

2. How does that assumption show itself?

3. What is the contradiction between politicians’ and business leaders’ responses?

4. What kind of survey did IBM launch?

5. What was found out by means of this poll?

6. Why were CEOs worried about that issue in terms of business running?

7. What does creative teaching require? Why? 8. Why is there a cultural imperative too?

9. What sort of challenges do we face in our current world?

10. What is a task for Education?

11. What is the third big reason to go into creative teaching, and why?

After listening to the interview, discuss with your mates: Do you agree with Sir Ken Robinson?

Are you ready to transform Education?

How? If you'd like to check how well you have done with the listening comprehension questions, you can use this answer key sheet.

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STORYTELLING &

Professions 2013-06-18

The students in 6th Primary at Capileira (Granada) chose a job to talk about it.

We recorded the audio and here you can listen it.

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A trip to USA: a collaborative story

2013-06-24

This is the story that had written the students in 5th and 6th Primary from CPR Barranco de Poqueira.

We decided make it in collaboration. First, from Bubion school, pupils began the story. Two weeks later, it was completed and finished in Capileira school.

They all worked in groups, writing and drawing the pictures.

I hope you like it!

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SCHOOL LIFE &

From Busquistar to the world 2013-06-03

The students at CPR Los Castaños in Busquistar (Granada) have done a virtual trip around the world where they had to travel to visit one important monument.

They have found out about the transports that could use also timetables, places and tickets prices.

In this document you can see the result of the work. I hope you like it!

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Talking about feelings in the esl lessons 2013-06-04 Year 2. Primary School.

Colegio San Gregorio.

One of our topics in the ESL lessons is THE FAIR, and in this topic we deal with feelings vocabulary.

The words the students have learned are: HOT, DIZZY, SAD, SCARED, HAPPY, SLEEPY, BORED, THIRSTY, CROSS, COLD, HUNGRY. We work in pairs, each pair worked on one of these feelings. And they have to ask the question: WHEN AM I ….. ?

They had to talk about three different situations where they can feel that feeling.

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Later we decided to make a poster in which all the pairs could express their work and situations, A POSTER ABOUT THE FEELINGS OF THE CLASS. THIS WAS THE FINAL POSTER It will be placed on the classroom wall until the end of the

school year.

At the end of the topic, after talking a lot of time of our feelings we recorded a video in which they answered the question: WHEN ARE YOU HAPPY?

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We are Journalists! 2013-06-05

Year 2 students at "Colegio San Gregorio" are the new reporters for the ESL Times.

Welcome to the Company!

This time I proposed my students to do an interview to their partner about personal things like favourite colours, hobbies or about their families.

The first step they have to write seven questions they wanted to ask to their classmates. Then they got into pairs to do the interview.

As a good journalist they had to register all the information the person gave to them. In this video you can see how Zu Lei and Diego started with the activity. They are eight years old.

When they had all the information they have to create the article in which they describe thier friend with all they information they had registered and collected with the interview.Then they draw a picture as a photo for the newspaper in which they had to be with their friend. Here you can see the final product of AndrĂŠs, another of my eight year-old students.

They filed the activity in their own Portfolio Folder to record their achievement and progress into English.

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My town Rocks!! 2013-06-06

We will possibly prepare a longer article giving more details, videos, etc about one of our latest English Projects at IES "La Zafra", but in the meanwhile, we'd like to show you a first chapter with some general information about the type of project, some photos and comments.

We hope you like our work!!

We'll keep in touch!!

ESO 4B. IES "La Zafra". Motril

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Chicken breast witn tomato sauce 2013-06-07

Thanks to @gracielasd, who designed this recipe and cooked an online meal for all of us while learning English at EOI Luarca.

Ingredients: Olive oil.

Four chicken breast fillets Tinned tomatoes.

An onion.

Some cheese.

Some flour.

2 eggs.

1/4L Whipped cream.

A lettuce.

Walnuts.

Add the finely chopped onions to the hot olive oil in a pan.

Mix the tomatoes.

Sprinkle with the salt and oregano and stir the mixture occasionally.

The sauce has to be in low temperature during 20 minutes; then you can add the whipped cream and keep warm for five more minutes. Š 2013 The ESL Times

12 While the sauce is ready, arrange in a shallow dish and add one chicken fillet, a slice of cheese and the other chicken fillet. Sprinkle with salt.

Coat the fillets with flour and beaten eggs.

Then, sear for about three minutes or until the fillets begin to cook through Uncover skillet and flip the fillets.

At the end, add the chicken fillets to the sauce and cook for five more minutes.

The chicken is accompanied by a salad.

Trim off the bottom of the lettuce and put in a salad bowl with some nuts. Add a little salt, lemon juice and olive oil.

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I am a sport journalist 2013-06-12

These are the final tasks about the activity: I AM A JOURNALIST Do you know who are Javier Sotomayor & Renaud Lavilenie?

Here you can find the different Y5B JOURNALIST's presentations: HECTOR'S DATA CARDS - MARINA'S DATA CARDS - MÓNICA'S DATA CARDS - BORJA'S DATA CARDS - MARCOS' DATA CARDS - LUISMI'S DATA CARDS - DANIEL'S DATA CARDS -ESTEFANIA'S DATA CARDS - ÓSCAR'S DATA CARDS - JAIME'S DATA CARDS - ALICIA'S DATA CARDS - CARMEN'S DATA CARDS - ÁLVARO'S DATA CARDS - GISELLE'S DATA CARDS ADRÍAN'S DATA CARDS - EMMA'S DATA CARDS - ALEXANDRA MADALINA'S DATA CARDS MARÍA'S DATA CARDS This activity was made by Y5 San Gregorio School.

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Teaching opposites 2013-06-17 Year 2.Colegio San Gregorio.

In our aim to improve and increase our students' vocabulary, we taught them OPPOSITES. This is our schedule for two ESL lessons:

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13 1.We introduce the new vocabulary to them with the flashcards and using different vocabulary games on the carpet.

2. We played a special BINGO, they created the bingo card in their notebooks and they had to choose nine adjectives. The teacher passed the flashcards around and they had to guess what the opposite was, and check if they had it into their bingo card.

3. Then we played a pair game, with some miniflashcards in which they had to look for an adjective and its opposite.

4. Then we created OUR OPPOSITES BOOK, in which the students had to choose five adjectives and their opposites, they had to draw and write sentences about them.

In the following video you can see the final book made by Zu Lei, one of my Year 2 students. He is seven years old and he is Chinese.

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Some of them had the opportunity of reading their books to their classmates. Here you are the moment when Andrés told them about his opposites book.

I hope you have liked it and found it useful for your esl lessons!.

Javier Ramos Sancha. @javiramossancha http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com

Sea Adventures Hero's Memories 2013-06-19

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These are the final tasks about the activity: SEA ADVENTURES HERO'S MEMORIES I

This is part of Mónica's task.

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Here you can find the different Y6B Sea Adventures Hero's memories.

RAQUEL'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES MÓNICA'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES IRUNE'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES CRISTINA'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES DANIEL'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES MADELINE'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES JESUS' SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES ENRIQUE'S SEA ADVENTUTE HERO MEMORIES ETNA'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES MARÍA MARTÍN'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES © 2013 The ESL Times

15 MARIO'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES IRATI'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES SOFÍA'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES JAVIER'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES ÁLVARO'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES CARLOS´ SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES MARÍA TORICES' SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES LAURA'S SEA ADVENTURE HERO MEMORIES Below you can find the different Y6A Sea Adventures Hero's memories.

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Alejandro's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Angy's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Angela's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Inés' Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Héctor's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Jesús' Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Rodrigo's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Jose Luis' Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Aroa's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Alaitz's Sea Adventures Hero's Memories Paula's Sea Adventures Hero's Memories Lucia Guerra's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Samuel's Sea Adventures Hero's Memories Alba's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Judit's Sea Adventures Hero's Memories Belen's Sea Adventure Hero's Memories Marco's Sea Adventures Hero's Memories

These tasks have been created by @javiramossancha and @julisanzmamolar

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ART AND ENTERTAINMENT &

Skateboard masters 2013-06-14

Are you already a skateboard star or do you think there are some tricks that you can still learn?

Now, direct from Motril, our champion Emanuel, shows us some tricks that will make you fly (and hopefully land) on your 'slim vehicle' Pay attention to Ema's advice and... enjoy!!

Good luck!!

How to do skateboarding from Ema Carter

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Reporters in this magazine: •

Anna Sorolla Lerma. Burriana (Valencia)

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Colegio San Gregorio. Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia)

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CPR Barranco de Poqueira. Capileira (Granada)

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CPR Los Castaños. Busquistar (Granada) EOI Luarca. Luarca (Asturias) IES La Zafra. Motril (Granada)

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