Welcome Party, by Aitziber and Alba

We met in the airport of Loiu at 11 o'clock. We were so excited because we were going to Boston. We went on the first airplane at 1:20 The flight was short. We took a train to a different terminal in Madrid. Two hours later, we boarded the plane and flew to Boston. The flight was long but felt short. On the plane we watched Spider Man and read books. We arrived in Boston at 6:15 and we were really happy. Then, we got on a big yellow school bus and drove to Scituate, the town we are staying in. 

We were very nervous about meeting our exchange partners, but when we met them we were so happy. We all went to the homes we are staying at and then a lot of us went to an ice cream shop in Scituate. It was delicious! Then, we drove around Scituate, but it was so dark out that we could not see anything. We visited the lighthouse and tried to walk on a jetty, but it was so cold that we did not want to stay long. We all went to Bridget's house, who is Alba's partner. There was a fire there and we all hung out and had a lot of fun.

 The next day, we woke up early and had breakfast. It was delicious, but there was so much food! We were very full! Then, some of us went to a large supermarket named Target. They had so much stuff there! There were so many more options and they sold iphones for only ninety nine dollars. In the afternoon, we went to a beach called Nantasket. It was beautiful but the water was very cold. We also went on a carousel,which was interesting. That night we watched a scary movie and we screamed during most of the movie. It was scary but good! Then we went to a girl's house whose name is Taylor. There were a lot of kids. It was very hot in the basement, but we played ping pong. 

On Monday, after being at Kate's house, we went shopping to a store named Office Max, which has school supplies, to a store called Walmart, which the American kids called "sketchy". Then we went back to Kate's house and helped them with their Spanish summer homework. In the afternoon we had a wonderful Welcome Party with a lot of food at the Harrington's (Inigo's  house)There, we played some games called spikeball and corn hole. 

That was the end of our first weekend in the USA.

Welcome Party by Aitziber and Alba

Scituate ~ Getxo Student Exchange

Here we are once again!
Our school is already taking part in the student exchange with Scituate High School. Last Saturday we arrived at Boston Airport where Virginia Lima and Kate Ciulla, the teachers from Scituate, welcomed us. We got on the yellow school bus and after 40 minutes, we were hugged by all the families. We are sure the same scene took place 30 years ago when our two schools started this marvelous exchange program.  We will learn English and American Culture as well as live the American life. We will, of course, have great fun until our return to Getxo on September 14^th!

Writers: Elena, Maria Jesus and Kate

IT Director: Carlos

IT Consultant: Mary Struzziero

Thanks to Virginia for her PC…and to Phil for his patience!

Scituate Getxo Student Exchange 2014 from J. Carlos Martínez

3-ESO-MET improves their MET Projects

Students from 3-ESO-MET have been working on different projects all along the year. After three school years working inside the Trilingualism Project, their learning results are highly satisfactory.

In the following links we can have a look at the PPTs made by the students to present their porfolios: Alain, Ander G, Aitor, Aritz, Choi, Christian, Endika, Hugo,  Ibon Mnez, Jahany, Jose, Jorge, Laura, Mike, Nacho,  Robert, Victor M.

In the following Prezi, we can see the four main projects they have been working on.

Click here to see and share the Prezi. Remember to use full screen and click on the arrows that appear at the bottom of the frame (right or left)

Drama Workshop, an exciting dynamic class

If we were asked what our 1-ESO- Drama Workshop MET students have been doing during the school year 2013-2014, and if we were asked to summarise it in a single image, this could be the image:

DRAMA WORKSHOP

Congratulations to all of them for their craziness and happiness, for the time shared together   in the English Drama Workshop.

(To watch the images of the PREZI thoroughly, open the link, use the full screen and press on the middle bottom arrows of the frame.)

COIN bets on Projects with the New Technologies

Along the current year, COIN -1st  Bach has been working with projects on different topics.
They started presenting their favourite film and Film Review with drive documents and PPTs (Harry Potter, Ted, Pulp Fiction, Karate Kid, etc.).

During the next evaluation they were working on Risky Sports. As usual, they first seached on them in the net and prepared a script. On this ocassion they made a glogster as a support for their oral presentation. In teams of two people they presented Formula One, Climbing, Rafting, Surfing, etc. (see the Label COIN in this blog).

Coin 2014

As usual,  the students evaluated the other students' presentations
Their third project was a totally speaking project on Urban Legends and Role-Playing.
Finally their last project was on English Speaking Countries. 
This has been the most complete in any sense. To do so, they have learnt how to use PREZI and Timetoast.

To have a look at them, click here, 

and a Prezi containing all the Prezis they have created will appear.  Don't forget that to be able to watch it thoroughly, you have to press on the middle bottom arrows of the frame.

RECIPES IN 2nd DBH (2.1, 2.2 and 2.3)

In our English book, Unit 6 is about FOOD, and as we like recipes and cooking, we decided to make delicious dishes.
First, students answered questions about cooking: Do you like to cook? Why? Why not? Would you like to learn?... Then, we watched videos and played games to revise vocabulary related to cooking: verbs, food, tools...  and we also went shopping, measured ingredients, mixed and baked a delicious cake (just with games and videos).
After that, students followed these instructions to create a presentation of a recipe (HTB material):



These are some of their productions:

Here you can see Danel presenting his recipe


Some students even dared to record themselves while cooking

TRIP TO LONDON

The last week of March twenty-six students from 1st batxillerato and three teachers visited London. We stayed in a beautiful Victorian hotel near Hyde Park.

We could practise our English and  had a really good time, we went nearly everywhere in London: the British Museum, the National Gallery, Covent Garden, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Hyde Park, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge...

But we also had time for shopping in Oxford Street, Harrods or the biggest shopping centre in Europe: Westfield.


We took a boat along the river Thames and went to Greenwich; the view of London from the boat was unique, maybe as good as from The London Eye.

Some of us saw the well-known musical The Lion King, it was a wonderful experience!












And some others even took part in a show in Candem Town.

Exhausting but unforgettable.
We want to go back to London soon!!!