School Projects

  Angliscisms Project. My students got involved in making a book about anglicisms. After a couple of lessons dealing with these all-pervasive words, they were capable of gathering information to make a project on it. Feedback?: first, one funny lesson trying to look for possible Spanish equivalents for non-adapted lexical items: play squash became jugar a espachurrar; second, the first material on their own, and thirdly, lots of surprising words, many of which they didn't know about. Download related document from Materials Section. Go to the Students' Section for further details.

Traces of English in your town. I wanted to make them aware of the presence of lots of English words around. They couldn't identify the streets of their own town till I told them I had taken those pictures the previous afternoon during one single hour walk round the town. Download related document from Materials Section.

  Advertising Project. A Power Point Presentation was the basis for introducing my students into the topic. Each advertisement contained a huge amount of useful information to be exploited: ironic pieces of fine writing, colourful pictures with surprising mottos, different types of speech, etc. Once having checked the most common elements in adverts, they became advertisers for a day and worked on their own to advertise an imaginary product. Go to the Students Section for further details.

  Water Cycle Adventure.  READERS’ THEATER SCRIPT. This 10-minute readers’ theatre play traces water in its never-ending cycle. Download related document from Materials Section.

  Video Compositions. Have you ever watched a video composition? They're funny and highly motivating. Students were requested to take a different identity and write about it. They could watch themshelves on the computer screen as they read their compostions aloud. Subtitles were attached to the digital recording for further revision. Download files from Materials Section.

  Shakespeare Project. My students had never heard about the English playwright except for  the plot of Hamlet in the worldwide stunning series of The Simpsons. After reading some adapted versions of his plays, they realized how many present films were based on Shakespeare's imagination.

Commercials Project. What if you were given the tools to become a brilliant advertiser? My students were granted the chance to make a commercial on TV and they took advantage of it. They advertised products such as "The Antisnoring Mask", "The Dreams-Come-True Glasses" or "The Magic Portable Toilet".

Movies Project. Not many people can assure that they don't like movies or have never seen a film. The new amazing digital animation movies are changing our viewpoints about cinema. But there is a long story behind them.

PowerPoint Oral Presentations. This time they had to put in their teacher's shoes and could check it's quite hard. I told my students to choose a fiction character and create a PowerPoint Presentation based on it. They raised standards in designing and building up enjoyable and funny presentations. They also did their best and became teachers for a while as they gave short but effective talks. Needless to say their audience got involved easily.