Classroom Language 1

Good morning everybody! As I promised in class, I compiled the sentences of the week we worked on in class over the last 2 months and created an animation with them. What you have to do is to write them on your notebooks at the begining of unit 3. Besides the sentences, the animation has my English pronunciation so you need to put your headphones on to listen to me reading them. Don't panic. See you.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody. I made the video below for my students of 1st course of Bachillerato and now for you to keep your English alive out of the classroom. I hope you like it.

Unit 2 (Materials): Classroom activities (solved)

Hi everybody! This animation is for you all to prepare the exam you are going to take this coming Thursday. I am aware of the amount of vocabulary you have to learn but, as I told you in class, you only have to match the tools with their names, tools and woodworking techniques, recognise materials and classify them into the correct group (wood, metals, ...), distinguish the properties of wood and metals and little else.... Good luck!

Unit 2 (Materials): IT Room activities

Hello, everybody. Here you have the activities we are doing these weeks in the IT Room (we will finish this set of activities next week) . Take a look at it before doing them on Moodle website. They are the same activities but now in English. I know that this unit is a difficult one because of the amount of new vocabulary both in Spanish and English. I hope you all take this challenging task as a stimulus to improve your technical English.
The animation below shows the names of woodworking tools. Cheer up!

Unit 2 (Materials): Workbook activities

Hi everybody! I have finally finished translating the workbook into English. If you feel like to practice your technical English click here to download these activities. They are the same exercises we are working on in the classroom. In a few days I will publish these activities on the Moodle website of our school. See you in class.

Unit 1 (Technical drawing): Classroom activities solved

Hi everybody! As you all know, we are taking our first exam the coming Monday (November 4th). Tthe Workbook Activities are solved here (below). Remember you have these activities and the ITRoom Activities available on Moodle website until the fourth of November. Most of you will do the exam in English and the extra vocabulary exercise is related to the posts below. Good luck everybody.

• Unit1: IT Room Activities
• Unit1: Classroom Activities
• Unit1: Resolution  Classroom Activities:

Unit 1 (Technical drawing): Technical Drawing Vocabulary

Hi! Here you have some activities to improve your technical English by reviewing the vocabulary used in the classroom. You need to put your headphones on to listen to the real English pronunciation. Select the 4 different types of activity by clicking on the drop-down menu (menu desplegable).

Unit 1 (Technical drawing): IT Room and Classroom activities

Hi there! I have just published on Moodle website the classroom activities (the same activities you have in your workbook). These 20 activities are under "CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES" label. Some of you have already completed the IT Room activities at home. Remember, I will add 10% of the score obtained on these two activities to the average score of  the unit.

Unit 1 (Technical drawing): Technical English

Hi there! If you feel like practising the English vocabulary of the unit you can watch the animation below. Each slide shows the word and its pronunciation. There are three words spoken by me. Don't forget to put your headphones on. Good luck.

Unit 1 (Technical drawing): Workbook activities

Hi! For those who want to revise the English vocabulary of the unit  (technical drawing), click here to download the file.Next week we are going to start the workbook activities in the classroom (unit 1). You can download the English wording of these activities by clicking on this elink. See you.

Wellcome to the course 2013/14

Hi everybody! This is my first blog in English so I apologize, in advance, for the many mistakes I am going to make. This is my first attempt to teach my subject (Technologies) in English and I will try to do my best.
This blog is for my studens of 1st course of ESO (1º C) and it has two purposes: to communicate with my students out of class and help them with the content subject and the English language neccesary for the class.
Over the last three weeks we have been working on the first unit (Unit 0: Introduction to Technologies) and the second unit (Technical drawing). Besides the content (how to draw lines, angles, circles and the views of an object) we are focusing on the vocabulary (set square, protractor, overhead view,...) of the lesson. In the IT Room we are practicing both aims (content and vocabulary) and in the Workshop we are building a card box to put away the tangram pieces. If you want to do these exercises at home click on the elinks below:

• Unit 1 (Technical drawing): ITRoom activities
• Unit 1 (Technical drawing): Workshop activities

That is all for now. See you in class.