Diplomas and Cerfificates for 4ºESO Bilingual students

Bilingual Program DIPLOMAS and CERTIFICATES for 4º of ESO

June 2015,  students that have finished 4º of ESO in the Bilingual Program have been awarded by "Julio Verne" High School for their continuous effort during these years. 

They are all happy with their level of English and the achieved goals.

We wish them the best in their future studies!!!

Mind maps

Mind maps: Success in studies

Mind Maps are a way of displaying information.

They help you remember important points.

They are used to simplify complex topics.

They help your brain to make relationships.

Their visual quality and colour stimulates your memory.

They improve your ability to manage information and the flow of your ideas. This increases concentration and confidence in students.

Interested in creating your own Mind Maps?

Then follow these steps,and be as crative as you want:

1. Prepare an A4 paper and some colours.
2. Place a topic in the center of the page.
3. Brainstorm ideas about it. Use key words and short sentences(Try answering what, why, where, when or how to start)
4. When you generate ideas, draw branches around the main topic.
5. Draw some sub-branches from your main branches to extend your thoughts and create associations between ideas.
6. Draw lines between toughts. Curve lines will stimulate your brain. Use the same colour to associate ideas and different colours to separate them. 
7. Draw or find pictures for each branch or sub-branch. Make each picture significant, funny or exaggerated. Images help us to remamber more easily.
8. If all your ideas appear on the paper: You have created a mind map!
9. You can try sites like this one to create mind maps on line: https://bubbl.us/  

UNITED STATES, HISTORY and MUSIC

Imagine we are in Yorktown, North America, in the 18^th century;

suddenly, you listen to an army band of drummers and fifers marching joyfully and playing this

Yankee Doodle…

 

YANKEE DOODLE LYRICS

Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-riding on a pony,
He stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

(CHORUS) Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.

Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Goodin',
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty puddin'.

(CHORUS)

And there was Gen'ral Washington,
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men-
I guess there was a million.

(CHORUS)

A long war then was fought and won:
The British were defeated,
And Yankee Doodle was the march
To which their troops retreated.
 

AFTER LISTENING,

Search about this song historical background. Can you answer to these questions or are you a real YANKEE DOODLE? The lyrics will help you!

a)      Was this song first sung by British or American troops? Search an explanation for your answer.

b)      Who were the Yankees? What “long war was fought” then? Which troops “retreated” at the end?

c)        Why is this considered today as an American patriotic song? Base your arguments on history and on some stanzas of the song, if possible.

d)      About language:

·         “Macaroni” is a term that has to do with fashion; find other words in the song connected to 18^th fashions.

·         Make the list of the irregular verbs that appear in the lyrics.

·         From what language are the expressions “a-riding” and “a-giving” a remainder?

 

INVITATION to the movie “MOULIN ROUGE” in English.

TO: all SECCIONES EUROPEAS students in “Julio Verne” Highschool.

WHERE: in Casa de Cultura of Bargas.

WHEN: Thursday 24^th of April, from 11:30 to 13:30.

Do you want to sing the songs of the movie like the actors…?

Enjoy the great music and practice with your classmates with the following

karaoke videos...!

“LADY MARMALADE”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjRiTcwkAs8&feature=fvsr

“YOUR SONG” (1ºeso)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devw9-csQq0&feature=fvwrel

“ONE DAY I´LL FLY AWAY” (2ºeso)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVnjcRHcLM&feature=fvst

“ELEPHANT LOVE MEDLEY”(3ºeso)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mlig-z9OJg&feature=related

“SPARKLING DIAMONDS” (4ºeso girls)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Kgr78I2Iw

“ROXANNE TANGO” (4ºeso boys)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7_JJG_Rxo&feature=related

Charles Dickens aniversary

CHARLES DICKENS´ BIOGRAPHY

Or try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unKuZ2wlNdw

After watching the video try to answer at least 10 questions about his life.

Once you have written the answers, show them to your English teacher, and you´ll have a reward!!

Questions about the video (choose ten):

1.      We are celebrating Charles Dickens´ anniversary, when was he born?

2.      Who was John Dickens?

3.      Where Dickens´ family moved to in 1822?

4.      How old was Charles when he had to work in a factory 11 hours a day?

5.      Who did he visit in prison every Sunday?

6.      Although he worked as a clerk in a solicitor´s office and as a journalist in a paper, what was his real passion?

7.      When was his first piece of fiction published and when did he marry Catherine?

8.      Do you know what pet he had?

9.      Where did Charles and Catherine travel in 1842?

10.  Who was Helen Ternan?

11.  Which incident left Dickens shaken and ill?

12.  How old was he when he died?

Video 2

DICKENS IN MODERN LONDON

Enjoy this video about London, and try to answer these questions on the blog.

Or try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmoY81Jk0CE&feature=related

·         What does “Dickensian” mean in modern English?

·         What is a “public house” today?

·         Who was Mr Scrooge?

·         When do we use “What the dickens is that?”

·         How is Westminster Abbey related to Charles Dickens?