Child-driven education

Hi guys,

Last day I was reading some of the cards what were hanging outside to celebrate Book's Day and there was one that particularly grabbed my attention. It said:

" A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary"

Yesterday, while I was waiting for ages to do my interview, I stated the quotation aloud. Regarding this matter, I met a teacher that recommended me to watch the video below and I must say I am fascinated about it (Antonio, if you're reading this, thanks a bunch!!!)

This time education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. 

In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

I hope you like it!!!

Click here for follow up activities based on this video.

Listening with videos

Dear all;

Today we are going to practise a new way to do listening comprehensions. This time, we will see some videos and you will have to complete different activities.

Click here to start watching them

June exams

The school has already published
the official calendar for June's exams.

The dates are official, hence they can't be modified or changed. Click here to check or have a look at the chart below

EXÁMENES ESCRITOS MARTA JUNIO 2013

CURSO	DÍA	HORA	AULA	RESULTADOS	REVISION
Intermedio 1 B	30 mayo	17-19.45	1	11 JUNIO (20h)	12 JUNIO (18h)
Avanzado 2 B	14 junio	15.45-20.10	2	24 JUNIO (20h)	25 JUNIO (18H)

EXÁMENES ORALES MARTA JUNIO 2013

                                                

CURSO	DÍA	HORA	AULA
Intermedio 1 B	3 junio	Check here	6
Avanzado 2 B	13 y 17 junio	Check here	2

Advertising

As you know, advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. 

In this video, Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

And here you can have a look at some of the funniest commercials all over the world

 

Quantifiers

As you know this week in class we are having a look at quatifiers. Here you are a very good presentation in case grammar in your books isn't enough for you.