Thursday, February 3, 2011

Let's speak about our schools!

February 4, 2011

Hi dear students:

Today we're gonna read, listen, write and speak about our schools, do you know enough vocabulary to speak about it? let's learn some!  Go to:

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/education.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vc-school-lb.html 

http://www.inglesmundial.com/A2/lessonhome.htm

Some interesting readings to do:


http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/E/en_calidad_colombia_sigue_en_puesto_bajo/en_calidad_colombia_sigue_en_puesto_bajo.asp?CodSeccion=211

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/education/Can-America-Win-the-Education-Race-115134669.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1631854,00.html

Homework assignment:

Write in "comments" a short description about your school. Be ready to speak about it next class. Take into account the vocabulary studied in class.

Good luck!

5 comments:

  1. My school is wonderful, is located in Aranjuez neighborhood, the physical plant is big and its design is european style and have two floors.
    It is currently painted yellow color.
    The school have: theather, restaurant, store, warehouse and photocopier also has scenarios sports like futboll, basquetball, volleiball, beach volleiball, shuffleboard court and swimming pool. There is also access to school transpor and ample parking.
    The two March is the birthday of the educational institution. 86 years.
    The institution has been designated to serve the Deaf and blind population of Medellín, besides sighted and listeners.
    It has specialist teachers the class differents, interpreters sign language, models deaf and support theacher for the deaf and blind.
    Difficulties:
    The physical plant is badly damaged by the passing years and the pigeons that live on the roof have caused this damage and attempts to banish pigeons is difficult.
    At the beginning of the school year, is difficult to work with deaf students because lack of interpreters and deaf models.
    This year there are few students in grades kindergarten and first of the Deaf.

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  2. I work in Francisco Luis Hernández Betancur school.

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  3. The Monseñor Gerardo Valencia Cano School is located in Robledo neighborhood,.It has 1387 students in two sections: San German and The Portada. In general the 41 teachers teach your subject.
    The school offers scholarships to the best students in each grade. It has high level in ICFES or pruebas SABER.
    This school has sexuality, ecology, free time and school parents projects.
    Other students activities are:
    -Sport ( voleiball and basketball) with the INDER.
    -Dance with Ballet of Antioquia.
    -Investigation with University of Antioquia and Colciencias.

    My dificulties in the school are for evening schedule and little support for parents in the homework.

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  4. Gladis Elena Madrid MadridFebruary 8, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    My school is very old, my school is 80 years but my school is not important.
    My school is located in Villa Hermosa la Mansión neighborhood and only in 1994 was created in high school
    My school is small, it has 800 students
    the problems of violence and drugs are small.

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  5. I work at I.E. Guadalupe school at seat Graciela Jimenez.It`s biger, here there are one thousand two hundred students between kinder garden to 9th degree.
    The students are very affectionate and they love to go to the school.
    We are thirty- four teachers of primary and secundary school, we are very appointment with our work, we love that we do... to teach.

    But in my school there are difficults: Children that haven`t father or mother, some to they are worker, they wash cars or to sell varuios things as candys or at supermarket.
    The social`s problem as drugs, unemployment and violence are other difficults that leave not that our children study in better condictions.

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