ENGLISH ONLINE

Learning a foreign language is very important nowadays.

It's important that children learn English at an early age because it's easier for them than adults.

For children to show an interest in English we should make this a fun learning experience. Nowadays we have many resources for a more funny and meaningful learning.

Thanks to the new technologies we have a great variety of content, games, app, videos ... A very fun and economical way to learn the new language. It's only necessary to have internet access and an electronic device.

Here you can see some resources online:

Http://www.funenglishgames.com/
It's a website for children to learn English with activities, videos, games ...

It's a video so that the little ones learn new vocabulary in English



Http://www.educapeques.com/los-juegos-educativos/juegos-de-ingles-para-ninos/portal.php?contid=70&accion=listo
It's a game that children can complete words, make matches, sort letters, choose the right word ... and have several levels of difficulty.

BULLYING

Hi!!

I talk about bullying in class.


What is bullying?¿?


Bullying is the deliberate and continuous physical  or psychological abuse of a child by another or others, who behave cruelly for the purpose of subjecting and frightening him or her in order to obtain a favorable outcome for the bully or simply to satisfy the need to attack and destroy that these usually present.

Bullying implies a continuous repetition of teasing or aggression and can lead to social exclusion of the victim.



 Characteristics:

- Teasing, threats, physical attacks, systematic isolation, etc
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- It tends to originate problems that are repeated and prolonged for a certain time.

- It is usually caused by a student, supported by a group, against a victim who is defenseless.
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- The victim develops fear and rejects the context in which he suffers violence; Loss of confidence in oneself and in others, and decreased school performance.

- It diminishes the capacity of moral understanding and empathy of the aggressor, while a reinforcement of a violent style of interaction takes place.


- It reduces the quality of life of the environment in which it occurs: difficulty achieving objectives and increase of problems and tensions.


Types 


- Physical: pushing, kicking, aggression with objects,

- Verbal: insults and motes.

- Psychological: undermine the individual's self-esteem and foster a sense of fear.



- Social: seeks to isolate the youth from the rest of the group and colleagues.

Similarities between Ireland and Galicia

I have chosen this topic because the last week I read an article about this in the newspaper and I found it interesting. I had listened something about it, but I have decide to look for some new information. I hope you enjoy the reading.

The result of a genetic study of the Trinity College of  Dublin announced in 2010 showed that Irish people could have direct descendant of Galicians and Basques. The three races would share the Y chromosome. This theory coincides with the mythical legend of Breogan,a Celtic king whose descendants and whose army would have arrived in Ireland and would have conquered it, respectively, after the death of the first ones mentioned.

In fact, Celts, in the Iron Age, founded the culture, religion and homeland of Galicia that later would transfer to Ireland in the later emigration to the British Islands. As evidence of this, actually there are many coincidences in the culture of both nations: in mythology, there are heroic and mysterious legends, characters as gods and magical witches; in music, the bagpipe, the tambourine, the folk dance and music; in linguistics, each nation has an meaning of the word morriña, in Irish, cumha; in culinary terms, the copious meals; finally, the most acknowledged similarities: the rainy weather and the green landscapes. 

Now, we have to pray for Galicia to approach our sister nation's high per capita so that the parallelism is completely happy.

Landscape of Irlanda

Landscape of Galicia

Typical Galician dance and music

Typical Irish dance and music

Erasmus experience

In the first semester, I had been an Erasmus student in Warsaw, when I arrived in the country I was very surprised because I didn’t expect it as it was. The first week, while I was looking for a flat for rental, I stayed in a hostel with more Erasmus students, finally we found one. Luckily, our landlord spoke English, so we didn’t have any problem talking with her.

At the beginning, it was a bit strange as it was very far from Spain and the Polish people wasn’t very friendly with foreigners.

Few days after that, the first of October, the classes at University started, where I had to catch a tram to go there. In the class, we were all Erasmus students, Turkish and Spanish. I chose five subjects but later I decided to change two of them, because, they were taught in Polish, being so difficult. The teachers were very nice, and the coordinator solved all the problems quickly.

There was an association called ESN, which organized trips and other activities. One of these trips organized by them, was to Krakow, which I decided to go, enjoying very much the city and meeting many interesting people.

The weeks were passing and the weather was getting very cold. In November, we were at 0 degrees celsius or even less. In this month, my friends and I traveled to Wroclaw, a charming but small Polish town.

 At the end of November, we traveled to Berlin, which I loved it. After this trip, we went to Stockholm, a nice city too but very expensive.

In December it was snowy, so it was very cold. At the end of this month, I returned to Spain for Christmas.

After Christmas, I returned to Warsaw, when I got off the plane it was very cold, -14 degrees. In this month I didn’t travel, but my friends came to visit me.

Finally in February, I returned to Spain.

To sum up, I loved this experience and I recommend it to everyone.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Hello everybody!!

I liked a lot of the English language in secondary school. I paid attention to the way of my teacher's teaching and I imagined how would be my way of teach when I be teacher.

My thoughts changed when I was in Baccalaureate because I began to hate the English language. I had writing and grammar exercises all time since I was child. I never did oral exams and I think that this is very important. 

I think that the method of schools should change. The subject of English should be more practice and more oral exercises or exams  than writing exercises.

To teach English to child without “traditional methods” I think it's good:

1.  Don't force the situation.
2. To create mystery in the class.
3. To see cartoons in original version.
4. To play with funny games.
5. To sing English songs to learn new vocabulary.

We will be future teachers of English and we should keep it in mind when we become great teacher. This  change depends on us.

THANKS YOU!!