IES Cerro del viento. Sección Bilingüe

Looking out of my classroom window.

2011-05-05T08:05:00.000-07:00

This is Yolanda and Franco's compositions.
From our window we can see an excellent view, for example a nice and flat hill, it’s got beautiful vegetation. Behind the hill there is a nice and quiet beach. The beach has got fine, white sand like snow.
On our left we can see a classroom. There are students in it.
In front of our classroom we can see the football bleachers.
Above the football field there is a cable car.
Our view is beautiful!

Lieve, Melania & Álvaro
From the window of my classroom we can see a cloudy sky, the yard of my high school, many green palm trees, other trees, small mountains that are not very high , the cable car, benches, bins, a fountain, houses, buildings and blocks of flats, spotlights and the Mediterranean Sea at the back.

Mª Plaza y Mª Victoria Ramos
From the window of our classroom we can see some hills.
In the distance there is the sea.
There are a lot of houses, buildings ...We can see a cable car, a yard, some flowers and trees.
We can see the playground of our high school.
It is a hot and sunny day.

This is Nacho , Antonio and Goyo . From the high school window we can see a small football field. On the right of the football field there are many seats. On the left we can see the other part of the high school. Behind the football pitch we can see some plants and many trees . Over the high school we can see the cable car, lots of buildings and two mountains.
In the distance we can see the blue sea.

María castillo, María Fernanda and Josefina
From the window of my classroom we can see yellow and white buildings, palm trees, football field, mountains, stands, bins, stairs, a fountain, a cable car, flowers, the sea, a wall, two benches, sometimes we can also see birds.

José and Sebastián
From the window of my classroom we can a football ground with bleachers. Also we can see a cable car , palm trees , a yard and even the roof of the school, the sea and many houses and some apartments. There are bins, fountains and flowers.

Hi Ana we are Iker and Jorge.
From the window of the class we can see some houses and buildings we can see some people too. They are walking. We can see our play ground too, normally there are some children playing on it, but now they are in class. We can see some trees and birds. At the back we can see a hill, the sea, and the cable car. Today the sky is very blue.

Obras de teatro en inglés

2010-06-26T03:37:00.000-07:00

A lo largo de este tercer trimestre se han llevado a cabo la puesta en escena, en tres ocasiones distintas, de dos obras de teatro en inglés: "Revolting Rhymes" y "Summer Camp".
La primera de ellas, un cuento seleccionado de "Revolting Rhymes", es una versión adaptada del cuento de los tres cerditos con la que el público emocionado podía sentir la ilusión de la infancia y viajar al mundo de la fantasía e imaginación. La segunda obra, una proyección de contrastes culturales, con un mensaje de hermanamiento y respeto entre las personas de distintas nacionalidades, nos recuerda las grandes representaciones y shows de Broadway; colorido, dinamismo, baile y mucha música. Todo un curso en escena y perfectamente coordinados, ha sido realmente increíble.
Las profesoras que han dirigido ambas obras son Carmen González y Elena González. El encargado de coordinar la imagen y sonido ha sido Francisco Mendoza y las coreografías han corrido a cargo de Nines Algar. Todos ellos y los artistas, los alumnos de 2º de ESO A (grupo bilingüe) y dos alumnas de 1º de ESO B, estaban comprometidos con el reto de representar dos obras en inglés y han logrado divertir, ilusionar y emocionar a un público que nunca olvidará el evento.
Los profesores implicados ya están nuevamente pensando y proyectando una futura obra de teatro para el próximo curso, así que les deseamos desde ahora, mucho ánimo y les damos nuestra más sincera enhorabuena.

Exchange programme. Trip to England, November 2009

2010-01-02T01:52:00.001-08:00

Composition written by Lucía P.R. 4º ESO A

The aeroplane landed in London at London Stanted Airport. First we went to the school where we were going to spend some of our stay. The school was impressive.
The families that would receive us in their houses were there to welcome us, they were waiting for us. They were very nice!
The students who didn’t have a family to stay with went to the hotel in a family’s car.
The second day, everybody went to the school; “King Edward Grammar School”. We had breakfast there and later we met our partners. We were with them in their class. When the lessons finished, we went to the shopping centre in Chelmsford. There were two shopping centres all together! Finally, we ate in an Italian restaurant and we went to sleep.
On the 7th of November, we went to London by train. When we arrived there, we walked and we got into the underground. When we got out of the underground, the first thing that we saw was The London Eye. It was very very big!
Then, we walked to Big Ben and took some photos there. After that, we went to Coven Garden Street and got into the “Market”. We ate there and finally, we went to Hide Park, a huge park.
When we arrived in Chelmsford, we went to the cinema. I saw “The Man who Stared the Goats”, and other guys saw “This is it”, Michael Jackson’s film.
On Sunday, we spent all day with our families and we were with the teachers in the village centre.
On Monday, we went to school. We stayed with our partners and we met more people.
On Tuesday we went to Cambridge. I liked it so much because the universities are immense! On that day, a Spanish guide was with us. She showed us all the important places in the city. We saw several colleges, universities and churches.
The next day we were at school for two hours and later we went to a close village to play tennis. It was fun because the man who was with us was very nice.
At four we went to a shopping centre in Chelmsford again.
On Thursday, we went back to London. That day we saw Buckingham Palace, but we didn’t see Queen Elisabeth!
Later, we went to Oxford Street and we spent a lot of time there.
On Friday, we went to school and we met the English Students. When we finished the lessons, we went to ice-skate.
On Saturday, we went to Colchester by train, an English guide was with us that day. We saw the village and a Roman theatre.
The day of the arrival in Spain: It was a sad day, because we loved England. We went to London Stanted Airport by bus and we got to the plane at a quarter to twelve.
The travel was fantastic and I will do another travel the same as this one, with all the people!

A bilingual student.

2009-01-23T13:15:00.001-08:00

A lot of people think that it is excellent to be bilingual, but in my opinion, it’s not always that great. Of course you have advantages, for example: it makes it so much easier to find a job, companies always want employees to speak two or more languages; it also makes it easier to learn another language; it opens doors to communicate with all sorts of people with different nationalities. You can also help or even teach without difficulty. When you travel you can get your message across. It is also an advantage being able to understand songs, news, books and specially films, which is the most important thing, or one of them, because I can´t stand watching films that aren’t in original version, it’s fantastic being able to listen and understand the actual voices of the actors and actresses.
Despite all this you do get “lots of sticks” from other people that don’t appreciate bilingual situations. From an early age, I’ve been laughed at for pronouncing correctly, or for always having the right answers in class. Also teachers have expected a lot from me, I had a teacher who would have me marking my class-mate’s exams …
I’ve lived longer in England so I dominate the language better than I do Spanish, even though I don’t struggle, so it’s easier for me to learn in English, which makes me come to the conclusion that being bilingual makes the person easily adapted and change language while speaking and still, be able to understand which is different for those who aren’t bilingual. These have to process the information that they want to receive or send and then translate it into their original language.

I guess that it’s not that bad being bilingual.

By Natalia Hidalgo. 2º Bach. B

First group of the Bilingual Section

2008-09-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Our first-year class of the “Bilingual Section” had their first English lesson today.
They looked happy and interested in what they were being explained in English. This is the language that they will also hear and use in other four different subjects over the course of the next four years. This means a real challenge for them and it will be a nice experience for the teachers.
We hope these students can benefit from this opportunity and we wish them very good luck.
They were very excited about having some news about them published on the blog, and they all wanted to show up in the picture with their teachers Carmen and Marina from the English Department.
We’ll try to maintain this symbolic action every year and see how they look like when they finish 4º ESO. ;-)
Ana Suárez

Trip to London

2008-07-07T07:54:00.001-07:00

During the last week of June, a Group of students went on a trip with Marina and Carmen, our English teachers. They stayed in London and had a wonderful time. We hope to enjoy this experience from now on, since we’ll start our “bilingual courses experience” in just two months' time.

Icknield High School visit

2008-06-01T03:54:00.001-07:00

A group of students from Icknield High School, near London, came to visit us on the 21st of May.
It was a very nice experience for our students to be able to meet them, play paddle, football and basketball and speak English with British students. We offered them a tour. Some of our students performed for them at the gym, we tasted some nice “tapas”, and the students interviewed each other, using the language they are studying.

There is a picture of that intercultural day above.

Our trip to Gibraltar/Nuestro viaje a Gibraltar.

2008-05-18T02:28:00.000-07:00

Here you have some pictures taken during the tour. I hope you like it.

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To be bilingual…

2008-04-24T13:22:00.001-07:00

I asked one of my students to write a composition of the benefits about being bilingual, an this is the excellent composition she wrote:

“To me, to be bilingual is something special, a gift perhaps, something that some people can’t handle as well as others. The advantages that I have from other people by speaking two languages is an extremely positive thing for me, I look at it as a very important thing for me in the future.
For example, I get to know and understand two different cultures, people ask for my help in situations like going to the doctors, vet, police station, even court! I can also try my best to teach other people English or Spanish, I find it easier to pick up on other languages. It can also be quite funny when Spanish people think I can’t speak their language and start saying things that they shouldn’t!
Another important example is the day I have a job interview and I inform them that I can speak another language!
I suppose I have to thank my dad for putting me in a Spanish school when I was just four years old; straight from England; a choice that is difficult, hard and not easy for a parent to do, so I had no other choice but to adapt to it!
Hopefully this wont be an anticlimax and I will possibly learn another language fluently and enjoy a career in this field in the future”.

.Robyn 1º Bach. B

Being Bilingual

2008-02-05T13:53:00.001-08:00

Being bilingual is an awesome thing. You can travel around the world and not be afraid of not understanding others. I was born in a Spanish speaking country, Uruguay, but I moved to Florida when I was around six years old. At first it was very difficult because I only knew Spanish, and in Florida they speak English. I had bilingual teachers who helped me learn English and become bilingual just like them. I am now 15 years old and I live in Spain, a Spanish speaking country. My Spanish is not as good as before, but I am not afraid to communicate with others. I can comprehend and communicate with others because I am bilingual. Now we all know that learning a second language is difficult but it’s beneficial for your future. I am now learning a third language, French, and its very difficult. But I know that when I’m done studying French I will be able to travel or even move to France and be able to communicate with others with no fears. In the future I will be able to move to any English, Spanish, French speaking country because I am bilingual. When I am out looking for a job many companies look for bilingual people, just because it’s better for the company. They don’t have to hire two people for the same job. Meaning they don’t have to hire one person to translate while the other one is communicating. Now another language sounds hard but it can be also fun. You can learn the culture of any language of the country you’re studying. For example when you learn French you learn that French is the official language of France and many other facts. You learn new things, things you expected you would never know. Being bilingual helps your future and also your personality. You can read any book you want in any language you want, you can travel the world, make new friends and keep in touch with them. Making new friends who are bilingual, you exchange facts about each other and learn new things about different places and different cultures. As a student goes off to collage or the University being bilingual lets you apply to universities around the world. Being bilingual will help you in the present and in the future.

María, 4º ESO A

Matemáticas en inglés

2008-01-21T11:44:00.000-08:00

Hace unos días, Pepe, profesor de matemáticas del centro, propuso un ejercicio manual de papiroflexia a un grupo, consistente en realizar un cubo y una pirámide siguiendo una instrucciones escritas. La actividad tenía para el profesor dos finalidades, comprender volúmenes, formas, y conceptos de geometría, y por otro lado, y esto fue lo relevante para mí, profesora de inglés, que leyeran las instrucciones en inglés. Esta es la idea del Curriculum Integrado, esto es lo que se hará a partir del año que viene en este centro bilingüe, y esta es la línea en la que hay que trabajar.

Está bien pensar que estos chicos ya no se molestarán cuando deban leer, las instrucciones de uso de un GPS, cámara o iPod, no traducidas al español.

Los alumnos en esa clase, aprendieron cómo expresar la orden en inglés, el presente simple, el gerundio, la voz pasiva, mucho vocabulario…, todo ello sin apenas darse cuenta, y por supuesto, a hacer un cubo y una pirámide.

Ana Suárez

Estancias en el extranjero

2008-01-10T09:42:00.000-08:00

ORDEN de 18 de diciembre de 2007, conjunta de la Consejería de Educación y la Consejería para la Igualdad y Bienestar Social, por la que se convocan estancias en el extranjero al amparo del programa «Idiomas y Juventud» para el curso escolar 2007-2008 y se establecen los requisitos, los criterios de prioridad y el procedimiento para la adjudicación de las mismas.

Orden

Traductores

2007-11-25T00:16:00.000-08:00

Un grupo de alumnos de nuestro centro participó el pasado día catorce de este mes en un concurso de jóvenes traductores que organiza la Dirección General de Traductores de la Comisión Europea y que se celebraba simultáneamente en veintisiete estados de la UE. La prueba, que consistía en traducir un texto, entre dos lengua elegidas por los alumnos, de las veintitrés lengua oficiales de la Unión, fue llevada a cabo en la biblioteca de nuestro centro y estuvo coordinada por Marina, jefa del departamento de inglés.

Initial Impressions of Cerro del Viento

2007-10-28T09:02:00.000-07:00

Our assistant teacher Sarah Mitchell wrote this article for us. You will like it.

"When I first arrived to Cerro del Viento my first challenge was entering the building. After a struggle with the intercom I was let in and went straight to the teacher’s lounge. There I met almost 20 teachers, all friendly and eager to help me on my first day. I noticed many of them spoke very quickly, making it much harder to understand them. However, some—especially the language teachers—spoke slowly and clearly so I could understand the advice and instructions they gave me.

Walking through the hallways, I was immediately reminded of my High School and Middle School: the noise and the crowded, rushed time between classes when I tried to talk to my friends as much as possible before I had to go to my next class. I also caught a few couples kissing in the corners of the hallway and saw much flirting between boys and girls. The styles of fashion are quite different, but I see certain articles of clothing and accessories that are similar to what I see in the United States. Also, just as in my schools in the U.S., there is a wide variety of students at Cerro del Viento—different clothes, some with piercings, wearing perfume, makeup, hair gel, others not.

The most obvious difference between Cerro del Viento and my school is the frighteningly loud bell to mark the end of class. In my school class ended at a certain time and the teacher let you go when they wanted. If you were late for your next class, you could blame it on the teacher (but only sometimes). Here, the bell rings very loudly to alert students and teachers. Also, I noticed teachers and students alike leave directly after school whereas in my school there were students and teachers after school until 8pm or 9pm every day for sports, after-school help with class work, musical rehearsal, homework etc. However, aside from these small differences, Cerro del Viento seems very similar to my High School and Middle Schools. The weirdest part is being on the other side of the desks, teaching instead of being taught!"

Sarah Mitchell

Primeros pasos del proyecto

2007-10-28T09:00:00.000-07:00

IES Cerro del Viento es Centro Bilingüe porque hace unos años los profesores de este centro se embarcaron en un interesante proyecto para desarrollar un currículum integrado bilingüe y hace apenas un mes, por fin, se ha convertido en una realidad.

Lo que en un principio resultó ser un trabajo muy centrado en la redacción de documentos desde distintas áreas, este año se está dedicando a la elaboración de programaciones y material; labor a coordinar por la profesora de inglés, Carmen González y a desarrollar por nuestros lectores Noah Northcott-Grant y Sarah Mitchell, ambos de Estados Unidos, quienes con su entusiasmo y dedicación nos están ayudando a dar los primeros pasos e iniciar los trabajos de base para su puesta en funcionamiento, definitivamente, en el curso 2008/09.

La que os escribe, Ana Suárez, os anima a redactar comentarios y a escribir para este blog.