BLOGGING IN ZALLA

Take part in our contest

2011-12-12T00:37:00.005+01:00

Listen to the questions my favourite friend asks. Then, if you know the answer leave a comment with the answer and your name. Who will be the student with more correct answers?

Steve Jobs

2011-11-15T00:08:00.001+01:00

Source

Our avatars

2011-10-26T23:06:00.005+02:00

Our students in 1A have created an avatar and they have described it for us.

Visit the site and listen to them. Well done, boys and girls!

The London Eye

2011-09-09T09:13:00.000+02:00

50 adjectives to describe the personality

2011-09-06T23:09:00.002+02:00

Choose four adjectives from this link and try to describe a person (or several people) that you know well. Use this structure:

"Peter is ................. because he ............................"

AudioPal

2011-04-05T23:50:00.000+02:00

Hello students,

If you are preparing your speaking exercise for next day I think you should visit this website AudioPal.
This web 2.0 tool gives you the opportunity to listen to a text that you have written previously. It is a very easy way to listen to your writings or essays in a good English. Try it!

The Olympic Games

2011-03-30T09:21:00.003+02:00

Speaking about a picture

2011-03-24T22:34:00.004+01:00

Who took the picture?

Where and when did it happen?

What was the weather like?

Who is in the picture?

What were they (he/she) wearing?

What were they doing?

What happened before and after taking the picture?

Why have you chosen that picture?

Sam visited us

2011-03-18T08:39:00.003+01:00

On the 15th of March Sam, from Burlington Books, visited our school. Our students took part in his ¿show? ¿lesson? In fact, they enjoyed a lot and learnt about British culture.

Sam por

My students' recipes 1.A

2011-02-28T00:22:00.001+01:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More recipes

My students' recipes 1.D

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Open publication - Free publishing - More recipes

After our visit to Bilbao

2011-02-15T22:25:00.001+01:00
Here you have an exercise of Reading Comprehension that can be interesting after our visit to Bilbao.

The City of Bilbao

After watching the video

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Choose the correct answer:

1.- Saturday was a day
of cleaning
of demonstrations
of celebration
2.-The demonstrations have lasted
10 days
18 days
80 days
3.- Who started to rebuild their country?
Those who were demonstrating on Friday
Those who were city cleaners
Old people
4.- What does the old man say?
The country is dangerous because of the demonstrations
There isn't any danger. People are quiet . They expect a democratic government
5.- Some people began taking down the tents and preparing to go home while others
are protesting
are fighting
are staying
6.- The demonstrators demaded
free and transparents elections
the return of Mubarak
the help of the army
7.- What has been the position of the army in this issue?
they supported Mubarak against demonstrators
they didn't break down on demonstrators
they killed some people in the streets

Egyptians celebrate Mubarak departure and look for the future

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Mikel preparing English breakfast

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Iñigo preparing the English breakfast

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Gorka preparing the English breakfast

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Pronunciation: Irregular verbs

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A UFO sighting

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Audio taken from esl-lab

Bassar Al-Assad

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BassarAl-Assad

Robert G. Edwards

2010-12-01T15:02:00.001+01:00
This description has been written by Nerea Palacio, 3.A

Robert G

Norman Foster's description

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Norman Foster

Describing people

2010-11-27T00:00:00.002+01:00
At the 3rd level, we have been learning how to describe people physically. Here your have a good example of that. Congratulations Markel!

DILMA ROUSSEFT

Traditional English Breakfast

2010-11-02T12:39:00.001+01:00

1960s commercials

2010-10-29T15:52:00.004+02:00

2010-04-14T12:46:00.002+02:00

This term we are going to read this book: The secrets of Silver Lake. Our first exercise has been to predict the plot of the book. My students have written a short paragraph about the book and this is the result. Well done!

My students' project

2010-03-22T19:26:00.004+01:00
As I commented on a previous post, in January we started a new project from the HTB program. Our final product was a digital story based on the news. Here we have the results and some of them are very good. There is a long list of videos and I'll try to upload most of them.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE by Olatz, Aritz and Andoni

Our school banks on the post-16 education

2010-03-05T22:36:00.003+01:00
We are again in the media. Here you can read an article about our town and our school.

Tears of change (HTB project)

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http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=80

Innocent lost: Child labor in Nepal

2010-01-25T00:19:00.003+01:00

INNOCENCE LOST: CHILD LABOR IN NEPAL (6 min.)

About half of the population in Nepal, 11,258,000, is under the age of 18. About half of those children work in bondage, and a majority of them work regularly. Children in Nepal are working in difficult circumstances often as slaves. They work in carpet factories and at brick kilns, in domestic service and in agriculture, on plantations and in constructions, in stone quarries and in transportation, in coal mines and as migrant workers.

TEENAGE PROSTITUTION

40 thousand Nepalese girls under 16 in Indian brothels are forced into prostitution.

The trafficking of girls from Nepal into India for the purpose of prostitution is probably the busiest slave traffic of this kind anywhere in the world.

Nepalese girls as young as eleven are trafficked into India.

COAL MINES

With no opportunity for agriculture in the mountains, many ruined families that live in the hills are forced to send their children to work in the coal mines. They work long hours with little to eat or drink. Often they get only rice or clear broth to eat.

The children work in hazardous conditions.

Children are often sent to work long hard hours in factories. The conditions are often dangerous, sometimes even working with chemicals or toxic waste.

CHILDREN LABOUR IN RESTAURANTS

Approximately 80% of the children work 14 hours per day.

Many of them are forced to work a variety of jobs in restaurants.

Many children also work as servants in the homes of the wealthy, where they are often sexually abused.

FAMILIES TORN APART

Street children earn their living by selling newspapers, cleaning garbage and even begging.

In Nepal, it is estimated that there are 5.000 children who’ll laid on the streets of cities due to varied socioeconomic and sociopsychological reasons and family violence.

SOLD INTO SLAVERY

The burden of a large family, poverty, lack of awareness and the existing traditional culture are the baselines that compel and encourage parents to sell their children into slavery. And most of the time, their parents don’t even know where they are. The only time that children are allowed to go home is during annual religious holiday.

Children are not going to school due to their parents’ financial problems and are involving themselves in the worse form of child labour.

They are also compelled to work in vulnerable conditions to support their families. Parents sell their children into slavery for about 60 American dollars a year.

Economic and educational opportunities must be provided to the Nepalis.

In this way, we can return the innocence of childhood to the children of Nepal. Innocence that now is lost.

A picture is worth a thousand words

2010-01-07T23:55:00.006+01:00
In our class all of you agreed with that sentence. Do you remember the creamy and crunchy ice cream in the picture? Hundreds of words came to our minds at the sight of the image.
Now you have to prepare a post in your blog with this title: A picture is worth a thousand words. You will have to include:
A suggestive picture
A caption: at least 25 words with the feeling you have while seeing the picture.
Your name
The tag (etiketa): English
The deadline for your post in the blog: 17th of January

Here you have an example of the post.

This is Garazi and her new rolling skates. In this picture you can see the first day she decided to put on all the stuff and start skating. We spent a long time trying to fix the knee pads, the elbow pads, the hand pads and the helmet. She was really exciting, but she almost moved a pair of metres along the pavement. We really enjoyed!

Some of my students' posts: Nerea, Aritz, Mikel,

New year, new projects

2010-01-07T23:32:00.004+01:00

As we have commented in class, this term we are working in a new project: Materials for an Integrated Approach to Languages. The language subjects: Spanish, Basque and English are working together with similar materials, similar methodology and similar aims.
The type of text we will deal with is Narrative. The fild is the language in the mass media and the topic in our English subject will be "You Be the Reporter".
Our main objectives are
To recognize interpretative and informative journalistic genres.
To recognize and to employ features of new articles, newspaper reports and digital stories.
To get to know and analyse the resources used to value and interpret events.
To develop a critical mind towards information in the mass media.
To learn to criticize own productions and peers' ones with the aim of improving linguistic competence.
At the end of the unit, the students working in groups will produce a narrative text: a digital story. We will publish our productions on the Internet (our blogs, the school's web,...)

Back to school again!

2010-01-06T22:57:00.004+01:00
The new year has just started and we are a year older, but the term continues ...
In this situation I always remember a traditional song by Gene Autry. Sure you haven't heard of it, but the title is quite suggestive.

- Gene Autry Lyrics

And, of course, it reminds me the "squeamish" film Sleepless in Seatle. Sorry, but I love that film.

Who is Tavi Gevinson?

2010-01-02T01:21:00.004+01:00

That 13-year-old girl started writing her blog in March, 2008. As the media says, she loved fashion and commented on fashion designs. Here you can read the first post of her blog:
Well I am new here.... Lately I've been really interested in fashion, and I like to make binders and slideshows of "high-fashion" modeling and designs. I'd like to know of neat websites and magazines, so comments are welcome. I plan on posting pictures in the future, but for now, I'm just getting started. Yours truly, Tavi
But now she has become a guest in the front row in most important fashion shows, she appears on TV and newspapers, and she has even invited to visit the most important designers in Tokio.

Click here and visit her blog. It could be interesting.

My favourite carol

2009-12-15T22:56:00.003+01:00
Here I leave you the carol we will sing in class next Friday. I like this cracking version of the song.

Congratulations

2009-12-15T14:27:00.002+01:00

Our team of Robotics took part in the Basque championship of Lego last Saturday. They spent the whole Saturday showing their robots and they arrived at the final part. In the end, they got a very good 5th position of Euskadi. Well done! We are very proud of you.

Zalla BHI on television

2009-12-13T19:19:00.007+01:00
Last week ETB came to our institute. Some of our students are preparing some robots to take part in an International contest of Lego. The programme where our friends appeared is "Sut&Blai" and it is really very interesting.

Here you can visit their blog and their webpage

Merry Christmas

2009-12-13T01:40:00.004+01:00

Next Friday we will have to answer a very easy quiz about Christmas. It could be interesting if you read some websites about Christmas traditions previously. The winner of the quiz will receive a sweet gift and a lot of congratulations. Try to get that honour by visiting these links that I include here:

Santa Claus' home
Christmas dinner in England
Christmas Day
Christmas cards
Christmas pudding
Christmas crackers
Christmas book

Alfred Nobel's timeline with Dipity

2009-11-02T23:27:00.001+01:00

Alfred Nobel's Biography on Dipity.

Nobel Laureates (2)

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After filling the chart with your chosen laurate, it is time to write his or her biography. Remember several things:
-the verbs must be in past (3rd person singular)
-Narrate the events of his/her life in chronological order
-Don't forget to use time expressions like "in 1996" "when she was 18" "At the age of 35" "between 1990 and 2000"
-You could include a pair of nice pictures
-Use only words that you understand and know its meaning (cope and paste is not accepted in this writing)

You should share the writing with me (Google Docs)

Some of my students' good examples:
Susana's biography (Octavio Paz)
Itsasne's biography (Willis Eugene Lamb)
Maitane's biography (Otto Loewi)

What did you do yesterday?

2009-11-02T22:52:00.002+01:00
Real English is not so easy. Listen to these interviews and try to understand what they did yesterday. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the regular verbs /t/, /d/ or /id/ (as we practiced in class). Don't desperate, it is a question of time, sure!

Nobel Laureates (1)

2009-10-25T22:31:00.005+01:00

Now you know more about Alfred Nobel's life. Do you think he had an interesting life? According to his will, Alfred Nobel's enormous fortune was to be used to establish prizes to award those who had done their best to benefit mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

In this exercise you should choose a Nobel Laureate that died, and find information about his or her life. Click on this link and choose one. You can find that person's own autobiography. Other good source is wikipedia (in English, of course).

The first step is to fill in the table that you can download from scribt and then, share with me (Google Docs)

Nobel Laureate

On the day I was born ..

2009-10-22T23:18:00.006+02:00

Here you have some webpages to find information about what happened on the day you were born. If you find something interesting, it could be a good idea to write a post about it.

"On the day I was born, 15th of March, 1967, the Beatles recorded this song "Within you without you" for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Here you can listen to the song.

Some of my students' productions:
Itziar's

How to insert a post with a video

2009-10-15T22:00:00.003+02:00

Now it is your chance to insert your own post in English in your blog. Do you know how to do it?
You click on "Nueva Entrada".
In "Título" you should write: Kipper "the rescue"
With the tab "Edición de HTML" insert the embed code (insertar) of the video from Youtube.
Now you can write the story kept in Google Docs.
Don't forget to write your name or names at the end.
In the small window "Etiqueta" or tag, you should write: English
When you finish, send me your blog address (to my e-mail)
Good Luck

Exercises online

2009-09-27T00:48:00.005+02:00

You can review the simple present and present continuous with these links to different exercises:
self-evaluation tests (7 exercises)
Present forms
Present simple o continuous?
Present simple o continuous?
Verb tense exercise 1 simple Present/present continuous
Verb tense exercise 2 simple present/present continuous
Simple present or present progressive/Exercise 2
Don't forget to send me by e-mail the scores you get in each exercise. You have a table to fulfill in your gmail address. Enjoy the exercises online!

In case you don't receive the table, you can download it with this link.

What are they doing?

2009-09-21T23:14:00.004+02:00
As you can image, we are revising the present continuous and a bit of vocabulary. Did you like "Kipper the dog"? Anyway, now you have to write the story of the cartoon. Don't forget to include the linkers we have seen today on the blackboard and a simple presentation of the characters and the initial situation.
Here you have the different scenes you could comment on, when writing the story. Ok?

Some of my students' productions:
Igor's story
Amaia's story
Oihane's story
What Are They Doing

Kipper, the dog

2009-09-15T23:04:00.001+02:00
Here you have the video we have seen in class. As you know, at the end of the lesson you should write the story using the given structures. I hope you like it.