Week 23: March 29th, 2023- Easter, Alba's presentation and people in trouble

 

- We exchanged our plans and Easter traditions we had read about.

- We listened to our classmate Alba Hita and her interesting presentation about her job.

- We read and worked with some people writing to The Guardian Weekly and their problems.

- Homework: 

I gave you two pages from the book 100 Things to Know About Planet Earth for you to read and tell us after Easter break.

Week 22: March 22nd, 2023- Poetry and Easter

Poet Maya Angelou

- We told each other about the poems and poets we had read about.

- María Luisa liked her poem by Maya Angelou so much that we saw the very Ms Angelou reading it.

- We saw a video about World Poetry Day and

- We wrote a poem together with lines from the poems I gave you and this is our poem.

- We saw the video of the contest Seconds of Beauty and an example of Seconds of Beauty from students.

- We saw the video Bloom and commented it.

- We told each other about Easter traditions in Mexico and Poland with a reading activity.

Homework:

- We are recording 3,4 5 seconds of something beautiful to send to your teacher so that we can create our visual poem. Besides, you are going to prepare to be able to tell us about either the Easter celebration of a place you know well or your Easter plans. 

Week 21: 15th March, 2023- Happy to chat benches and Academy Awards

 

- We started with your short presentations about the women scientists that I had given you.

- We saw a short video about Happy to Chat Benches in Cardiff, and discussed about the idea.

- We saw about another bench in Canada, in Richmond Hill.

- We saw a little bit of the song winner of the Academy Awards for this year.

- As we can't work with this song, we did an exercise on Shallow, the winner of 2018.

Homework:

- In preparation for next week's session, I'd like you to do two things: on the one hand, you could write an entry on this older virtual wall I opened two years ago on women scientists and inventors. It could be about the scientists you read or researched a bit. I'll read and give you the feedback on your production.

On the other hand, I'd like to celebrate both the coming of spring and Poetry's Day, which is celebrated on March 21st, and I invite you to have a look at these two websites with poems to find one you'd like to read and tell us about next day. Check out Poetry Foundation and Lithub to see if you find something interesting.

Week 20: March 8th, 2023- London and Women's Day

 

Elephant sculpture outside Spittafileds Market

- We warmed up having a look at the document with ten London photos to discuss where they came from.

- We did a reading and speaking exercise on the Memorial Bench Squeme in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in small groups.

- We saw a video on famous women inventors and did a UN questionnaire. We got 4 out of 10 ;-))

Homework:

You have one copy of a scientist to read about and tell us next day from this comic. 

Week 19: March 1st, 2023- Our first presentation and London!

This is a London mew, these back streets I told you about.

- We started the class with the very interesting talk about social media and children by our classmate Tomás. It stirred quite a few questions! Thanks Tomás for breaking the ice!

- We went through a few notices from last weekend in London and we tried to guess where the photos had been taken and what they were meant for.

- We saw a video on the 15 Most interesting tourist attractions in London and completed an exercise.

Homework:

I have put together ten different notices from London and my suggestion is that you go through them and tell me in a recording where you image I took the photo and what the notice means and wants people to do.