Global Climate Strike!

 

This week will be historic. In over 150 countries, people are stepping up to support young climate strikers and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. The climate crisis won’t wait, so neither will we.  Those are the first sentences in the web page https://globalclimatestrike.net/  and it´s worth watching the presentation video too!

What do you think after watching the video? Do you agree? Should students and young people in general be the leaders of this movement, following the example of Greta Thunberg? And what can you personally do about it?

For starters, let´s be really pessimistic and imagine a bleak, dark future with our planet on the verge of being destroyed in 2050, as the U.N. has already warned.  Imagine you are in your forties and are telling your children about the wonderful planet you inhabited when you were a teenager. Write three sentences you can tell your children to explain what you could do when you were a teenager ( and you can´t do now because of enviromental problems). 

Example: when I was a teenager, we used to swim in the sea.

Watch this video before thinking about the senteces to get some inspiration. 

Now let´s try to be optimistic! We know most depends on our world leaders ,but think of a list of things you could do ( or convince your parents to do at home) and share it with the rest of your classmates.

Voki

Would you like to create your own avatar? Here you have an example with voki.com

This is me

Holiday Nightmares!!!

Holidays are supposed to be the best time of the year, right? Well... watch this video and find out what happened to these poor tourists who may never take a holiday again!

Did you have a good trip?

After coming back from our holidays everybody wants to explain about their wonderful trip (or is it travel?) to New York, and the nice travel (or is it journey?) by plane, and how wonderful the voyage (or is it trip?) was.... but all these words are very confusing!! Help!

Have a look at this useful page and learn the difference between these words, so that you can focus on telling your nice experience properly next time.

Back to school!!!!

Did you get the joke?

Sorry, I know, it is a very bad one....

Welcome to the new school year!!!

Magazines

Our students of 1st ESO were in the mood for journalism and created two really nice magazines, helped by Ainhoa, our trainee teacher. Here you have the results. Enjoy!!!

THE MAGAZINE ( 1st ESO A)

THE BEST MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD ( 1st ESO D)

The Seven Families Game

Imagine you are seven families who come from different parts of England and are together in Hawaii because your children are participating in a football tournament. Suddenly, something very unusual happens....

Oh my God!!! What a tragedy! Luckily, everybody survives, but now you have to go around the class with your family card, asking each other questions to find the rest of the members of your family. Hurry up, you are impatient to find out if everybody is safe!

These are the questions you can ask each other:
What is your name?
Where do you live?
What are the names of your children?
What are the names of your parents?
How old are you?
How many children have you got?
How many brothers and sisters have you got?

Did you find the rest of the members of your family? Now you have to  sit down and tell each other   what happened.  Sit with the rest of your family and write down a dialogue about every member´s survival story. Remember to ask all the members of your family where they were and what happened to them, how they survived, etc... The last part of the dialogue can be about what you will do to celebrate that everybody is safe and sound. You will have to act it in front of the class. You can dress up a little for your role play, if you want. Every member of the family has to speak a minimum of 10 times!