1º ESO -1 MET, A Year Full of Expectations

In 1º ESO-1 MET Oral Skills are most important. During the first weeks, they worked on Personal Information. After creating a family poster they presented their first project orally to the rest of the students. They also prepared some interviews to "celebrities", which were dramatised in class.
However, their first big project was "English Speaking Countries".
The English teacher and Sherry, the High School language assistant, introduced Britan and The U.S.A. After that, the students were given some information about the English Speaking Countries. They were divided into groups of four, surfed the net and with all that information collected they designed a poster about those countries. Finally, they presented their project to the class.

Australia

India

USA

New Zealand

South Africa

Canada

Soon after that, they read a book: The Borrowers. On this occasion they designed a flyer, which was presented orally too.
In the following PPT we can see pictures of these activities taken by the students themselves.

1º ESO MET Projects

"Funny School Times", Four Years ON

Orain dela lau urte...

Hace cuatro años...  

Four years ago, 

Julio Caro Baroja High School started its star project: 

TheTrilingualism Project.

No doubt, it is one of the projects that has given a good reputation to our school in Getxo. It started by having one more lesson in English in 1º ESO - MET and a especial English Workshop: Drama Workshop. The following school year we opened another new exciting subject: T-COM. Later, Citizenship, Ph.E., Ethics and A.E. in English would take their place in the Trilingual Projects.

This is the fourth school year with MET. All courses in ESO have arranged special classes to improve the students' command of English .  But, in order to celebrate it, this morning, over 50 MET students have joined at the Assembly Hall to sing the song that gave name to the drama play they have performed for the last four years and which made their first début  by this time in December, 2011

Funny School Times.

Funny School Times will probably be performed for the last time tomorrow evening, at 19:00 p.m. 

Students of 1º ESO - MET will close this first circle of our Trilingualism Project Drama Workshop.

Parents and friends are invited to enjoy the play performed by our wonderful school cast.

Congratulations to teachers and students!!!

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 7

Last but not least.

In Workshop 5, students finished up preparing their power point presentations, the blog post, the site report. They wrote new documents and rehearsed. At the same time, a group of them gave presentations for the English lessons. They explained what the Comenius Project is like and what they had done during the Bilateral Meeting.

In Workshop 6, in teams of 5, they presented their products, in digital format and in posters. They showed their research finding on national identities by explaining the similarities and differences between both countries. This has been the first step before studying our Common European Identity in the Trilateral Meeting next term.

Bilateral Meeting Day 7 from J. Carlos Martínez

After break, they started their last session with a song: Iratxe Cea and Carlos, the Comenius teacher and composer,  sang “Welcome Home, to Europe”, our Comenius  students’  European Anthem which will be sang by students of four different countries (Norway, France, Germany and Spain-The Basque Country) in the Trilateral Meeting in Garbsen in March, 2015.

Finally, they answered the questions of the Evaluation of the Meeting, which another group of students had previously prepared.

At quarter to three, German and Basque students kissed and hugged one another and expressed their  strong wishes to meet again, this time in Garbsen, Germany in March, 2015. But a little surprise was reserved to them at Bilbao’s Airport.

Comenius Farewell

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 6

Thursday 27th was a very hard day. To begin with, they had a very long non-stop session of tree hours (Workshop 3) in which they searched and discussed about similarities and differences between Germany and The Basque Country-Spain. In new teams, some reflected their ideas in posters and others created digital documents (docs, pp, etc).

At break our guests enjoyed an amusing and amazing break  by playing traditional Basque Games (Herri Kirolak). 

After that, a three-hour workshop-4 was held. Those who had finished went on with new tasks such as writing a post for the Comenius Blog or a report for the Comenius Site, record the activities and take pictures of the different teams for the Slide Show, review the activities for the National Evening, etc.

Bilateral Meeting - Day 6

The National Evening was a real success in many ways:  It was started by giving the prizes to the winners of the Treasure Hunt. Later, two teams competed to win the European Quiz they had created. Prizes were handed out, too. Then, they moved to the school canteen, where they enjoyed wonderful food prepared by families. Finally, they were surprised when they went into the gym and saw that Itziar and Ignacio’s team had made a wonderful disco of it.

Time passed very quickly, but it resulted in a memory for all their lives

Comenius Bilateral meeting - Day 5

All the Comenius students received a lecture on The Basque Country (Euskal Herria) by María Jesús Domínguez, supported by a PPT offered by Begoña  Ibarra (Basque Department), in order to understand the importance of their visit to Gernika (Assembly House, Peace Museum, Historical events through centuries, etc.)

At 9:00 a bus took them to our emblematic small town in the heart of Biscay. Once there, their watched a video about the Assembly House and Gernika, which was very instructive especially for German students. "Below the Oak Tree"  an iconic picture was taken to be remembered for the rest of their lives

The Peace Museum, once more, made them realize and think over the physical and moral destruction that all wars convey. As everybody knows, it is a small museum with big ideas to preserve Peace as the best gift among human beings.

Bilateral Meeting - Day 5 

In Mundaka they had lunch. Fortunately, rain had not arrived yet. They took wonderful pictures of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve.

Finally, Bermeo closed a wonderful field trip day. The small fishing town discovered them our sea traditions and a particular seaside landscape.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 4

Comenius participants have enjoyed a varied time full of  novelties today.
They started their second workshop with a new discussion and conclusions about their findings.
They produced  posters that were displayed in a gallery show where everybody could appreciate the similarities and differences between the German and Basque (or Spanish) identities.

In order to deepen in our common European identity, there were put into new binational teams to work out similarities and differences concerning the following: food, clothes, music, sports, works of art, daily routine and events, religion, festivals, folk traditions, etc.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 4, 2014 

At midday they visited the Diputación, where a guide explained in English the way we are ruled in Bizkaia. They were also given a short lesson on our History through that institution and government.

After lunch, they visited our world famous Guggenheim Museum, where they learnt a few things not only about modern architecture and Frank Gehry but also about the new concepts on arts.

Finally, they spent the rest of the day on shopping and enjoying their time in Bilbao.

Comenius Bilateral meeting. Day 3

Today it has been a very interesting day for the Comenius participants: After the welcoming by the Principal of the school, and some warm-up games to meet one another, they were received by Kepa Miñanmbres, representative of Getxo's Town Hall.

Later, they walked from Ereaga Beach to the Suspension Bridge in Las Arenas. During the walk they had to complete the Treasure Hunt questions about the Municipality.
In the afternoon, they started their First Workshop session.
As usual, we upload a visual diary.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting Day 3, 2014