ENGLISH 4'S

It’s been a full 2-month period but finally we are here. This subject has been a new opportunity to learn English as well as relate our knowledge from teaching didactics to language. In this last post in our beloved blog, we will be commenting on the 3 of us personally, a few thoughts about what this course was and how much knowledge it has meant for us. So if you are ready, let’s see some reviews! JUDIT Personally, I have to say that I faced this subject with fear in the beginning. My expectations were that I couldn't keep up with the tasks but this didn't happen so I'm very glad. Thanks to my peers Maria and Mike everything was soooo easy. Both of them know way better than me then I have been really helpful because I learned a lot from them and from the course. MARIA I end up this subject very satisfied with improving my English, knowing more tools and online gadgets. Additionally, I become more active and competent with ICT's preparing myself for a possible future ...

 As we all know, events and especially classes are mainly in a virtual way. Particularly, our 3 member team would have liked to attend physically to lectures but this situation requires patience and isolation.  It is well-known that going to college can be very funny, dynamic and the overall learning most significative even though virtual modality can also give us some extras, isn't it? Some pros of it could be: - More comfort because we stay at home to meet. - We use time efficiently. - We practice using ICT's. - We have become more responsible for tasks and autonomous. Working in online teams is not easy when you do not get used to it but... Do Our efforts have been enough? So the answer is YES! In our case, we haven't met before but currently, we had learned to complement and understand each other. In the beginning, was not easy but we had accomplished the mission! We've shared each other's strong points to accomplish better tasks and results and how did we do t...

  This is one of the last posts, we will be talking about Moodle, about what has meant for us and if we find it useful. But first, let's dig into what is exactly moodle. Moodle was created by Martin Dougiamas in 2002 and was designed to provide educators and learners with an open free platform to create and deliver personalized learning environments. Today Moodle is one of the basic systems of online learning in many educative institutions across the globe. Something that people usually don't know is that the word Moodle stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.  But now let's talk a bit about our thoughts. First of all, Moodle has been our theoretical and practical support. Trough it we learned the course contents and practised certain skills. But sometimes was kind of repetitive and boring (a lot of videos, extremely large exercises with modal verbs, and complicated videos with hidden information that we had to repeat several times.

In today's post, we are going to talk about some of the main online tools that we have used through this course. Stay alert because maybe you could find some uses in the near future ;). KAHOOT What is Kahoot? Kahoot is a free platform used to make online quizzes. Using this tool, everyone can create their own close answer quizzes to test the ability of others. Usually, teachers use it a lot, due to the fact that is a quick and easy playable app. Furthermore, makes students enjoying a daily test to see what they have learned at school. Also, children revise their own thoughts and ideas about the topic and help them to continue studying. Another pro of this app is that allows infinite participation! BLOGGER What is Blogger? Blogger is a free tool which is part of Google apps where you can easily create blogs. Blogs reflect knowledge about whatever and could be individual or in teams. Its interface is very very easy so anyone with little experience working online can use this tool wit...

Do you want to know which is the newest and most effective methodology to teach? If the answer is YES, stay with us. In today's post CLIL! Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a term created in 1994 as a methodology similar to but distinct from language immersion and content-based instruction. It is an approach for learning content through an additional language (foreing or second), thus teaching both the subject and the language. CLIL is fundamentally based on methodological principles established by research on "language immersion". Learners may be encouraged to: - Predict what will happen - Carry out simple investigations or experiments - Describe and record what they observe - Find patterns, notice similarities and differences - Compare results - Draw conclusions... Now we are going to learn the theory and possible applications of the following linguistic and psycholinguistic tenet: BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OF LEARNING DOMAINS Today there is international ...

  Hello everyone and welcome to a new post related to education around the world. Ready? Today, we want to talk you about a video that we have seen in class this week. This video, focuses its attention on explaining the differences between a teacher in the US and another in Finland or anywhere else in the world. After having seen the video, we found it very interesting to summarize the most important ideas. We will organize them into point so that it is better to understand. Before starting, we leave you the link to the video. NO SPOILERS! ASPECTS THAT MAKE TEACHERS LEAVE THE CLASSROOMS IN EEUU: 1. TEACHERS SHORTAGE The offer to hire new teachers is decreasing as the number of students in public schools continues increasing. This difference results in a worrying shortage of teachers in America's high school classrooms.  2. HOURS OF WORK In the US, teachers work an average of 9 hours and a quarter per day, one hour more than the average in other countries in the world. This ca...

 Hey, what's up readers! Our today's topic is going to be a bit of grammar: CONDITIONALS. We know some of you struggle sometimes with this kind of structures, but we are going to explain them easily so you can understand. Basically, exists 4 types of conditionals named from 0 to 3. But fist fo all, what the heck is a conditional structure? Well, we mostly use conditionals to express a hypothetic action based in the future with several grades of probabilities. If the action is more probable, it will be closer to the 0 conditional, although if it is less probable, this will be written in the 3rd conditional structure (see forward). Also, it is essential to understand that all conditionals are mostly recognizable because of the "if" particle. This word plays the importance of the first part. Here we will find a structure like this: 1. IF + SUBJECT + TENSE 1 + (COMPLEMENTS) *(this part can be considered the condition). e.g. If something happens to me... While in the secon...

  Hello readers, today in our Grammar section... Modal verbs and Relative clauses! Go for it! MODAL VERBS First of all: What are Modal Verbs? In English they are a type of auxiliar verb. Usually they do not have complete meaning by themselves, and they have to be near to a main verb to work. Also, modal verbs are peculiar since they can work with a verb in its base form without conjugation and without the "s" of the third person. Modal Verbs can serve on the one hand to express ability, possibility or need, and on the other hand to express verb tenses. Let's know them! In order to learn more, we have dome a search for the best resources for you. Clic on the following links to discover them: Link 1  (A gide en Spanish to learn Modal Verbs)  Link 2 (Grammar exercices about Modal Verbs and more)  Link 3 (Video to see Modal Verbs in a real conversation) Link 4 (Video about Modal Verbs for adults) RELATIVE CLAUSES Video 1 (Relative Clauses with Amigos Ingleses) THERE ...

Welcome everyone to our first post related to GRAMMAR!  In additon to show you our class projects, we would like to help you to learn more about different tools or ways to both teach and lear english grammar. Today is the perfect day to meet past simple, past continuous and simple future tenses. Let's go! PAST SIMPLE The "Past simple" describes an action that has already ended. - When I was young I lived in Madrid (now I live in Barcelona) Click on the following links to discover some videos about the Past Simple that can help your students a lot: Video 1 Video 2 PAST CONTINOUS The "Past continuous" indicates an accion that was taking place in the past that has not ended. - When the mother came home her husband was playing with the kids. WATCH OUT! Sometimes, two acions that took place at the same time in the past are described in the sentence. In this case, the "Past simple" is used for the action that ended in the past and the "Past continuous...

 Welcome back again dear readers! We hope you stay safe and well :)  Our next move will take us to show you a brand new project that will amaze you! This one is based on the creation of an interactive poster (very useful to self-learn in these times of home quarantine. This poster was made on the app thinglink, a new discovering for our team. Happily, we adapted ourselves to this tool and we made an excellent work. In this case, the topic of the task is the seasons.                                         If we think deeply, we will realise that 24/7 we argue about the weather, the clothing that we will wear depending on that, even the food that we will consume on our daily basis depending on the season. For that reason, we think that the seasons are a huge and fundamental theme for the students on which we cannot only relate the seasons themselves but also other topics like clo...