Greetings from Chicago!!!!

Hi everyone!!!

I arrived safely in Chicago a few days ago. It was a long trip, about 9 hours on the airplane, but not horrible. Now I'm here in Chicago getting to see all my family and friends for the first time in many months. It's quite hot here the past few days, about 35 degrees. How is everything in Salamanca? What have you guys been doing? I miss everyone and the school a lot! I've told everyone about our class and how much I enjoyed the year there. I'm going to Seattle today for my uncle's wedding. Seattle is in the state of Washington, on the west coast, about a 4 hour plane trip. I'll post some pictures when I'm there. I'll keep posting on the blog and I hope to hear from you all too! My email address is: cara.hageman@gmail.com, so you can email me and tell me all about what you're doing and practice your English too!

Hope to hear from you. Miss everyone!

Cara

OUR LAST PROJECT: MY CHILDHOOD

Hi everybody!!!

The end of our academic course is getting closer and nowadays we are dealing with past tenses in the classroom, that is the reason why we are going to put in practise all we have learnt, making a presentation about our childhood.

To make it properly, take into account these rules:

1. Select pictures of you, when you were a child, up to now.
2. You can use as many slides as you want but remember you only have 3 minutes for your whole presentation.
3. In each slide you should write a sentence using the past tense describing the picture of your childhood.
4. When you present your powerpoint to the rest of the class you should explain what you did in the pictures you have chosen and they can ask you as many questions as they want.

Here you are a sample presentation about my childhood. Enjoy it and do your best!!!
http://www.scribd.com/AscenMartinR/d/95736559-Ascen-Childhood#fullscreen

A visitor to our class

On the last day of the term we had a special visitor in our class.  My mom, Linda, came from Chicago all the way to Villamayor!  During the hour with our bilingual group everyone had a great time getting to know each other.  The class began with the students welcoming my mom and giving her an introduction to the course.

Then each student came forward and told a little about themselves, what they like to do, how old they are.  The introduction was complete with a powerpoint filled with pictures for each student!  Then it was my mom's turn.  She told the class about her life and her family; and about different parts of the USA based on where we all live and have traveled!



After, there were questions about life in the USA and the visit to Spain and even some authentic Easter treats for the class.  It was a great visit and I know my mom loved meeting all of you!  You made her feel very welcome and she was really impressed with all the questions you asked and how well you speak and understand English!  Great job guys!!

Sports Video Project

Hi everyone-

I wanted to make sure everyone was clear about our newest project.  You're working with your partner to make a video about an uncommon or unusual sport.  Everyone has selected a sport and you should have already started to look for some information with your partner.  Tomorrow we will be in the computer lab again and you will have more time to work. 

Here is some of the important information you need to know:

1. No words in the video.  Only video clips, pictures and music.
2. If you want to record your voice talking about the sport you should do that AT HOME and bring in what you're going to say so that we can correct mistakes BEFORE you record it.
3. Follow the "Sport Fact File."  This means you need to tell us about:
       -why you chose this sport
       -basic information (number of players, equipment used)
       -where and when it's played (season, countries, championships)
       -the history of the sport
       -rules of the sport

***remember that you're telling us this information by recording your voice and adding it to the video or speaking when you present the video in class (similar to the "Strange Animal" powerpoint presentation you did)

Bring you pen drive with you every class!!! You can't save the video unless you have your pen drive!  If you want music, you can bring the songs you want on the pen drive.

Let us know if you have any questions.  We're excited to see the finished videos!!
     

Sports Origins

Here's the link that we looked at in class on Monday about the origins of different sports.

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1967-sports-origins#

NEW TOPIC: SPORTS

Hi guys!!! We start a new and motivating topic: SPORTS. I would like to know lots of things about you and your interests in terms of sports....
In order to introduce this topic, last Wednesday we watched a video about SILLY SPORTS IN THE UK, didn´t we?? Now it is your turn to comment and post your opinions on this video. I would like to know things such as, the sport you liked most, the one you liked least and the one you´d like to try.
New oral project will come in this new topic to know if you are good or bad at sports. Be ready for a challenging week.

READY FOR THE AMERICANS!!!

Hi everybody!!! This is the song We told you in class. Listen to it and be ready to dance next Monday Ok???

Don´t forget to post questions you are interested in asking our American students, at least two or three. In one week 15 students from New York City are coming to our High School. We hope you all, take part in this amazing experience!!!

BFN!!!