“Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty in words” Edgar Allan Poe In class we are learning about rhyme in Catalan, Spanish and … English! We were familiar with the concept of rhyme because in our life we have listened and learned a lot of poems, songs and word games. In fact, it is precisely […]
RHYME OR NOT RHYME? NOT SO EASY IN ENGLISH! Llegeix més »
“Don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.” Roald Dahl Last week we had a lot of fun while practising English by going to Can Papasseit to watch a theatre play: Little Red Rocks. Because watching a theatre play in English can be
LET’S GO TO THE THEATRE! Llegeix més »
“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures” Harvey Pekar. A l’aula hem anat un pas més enllà de les descripcions físiques dels personatges. A partir dels còmics, hem descobert que les imatges també expliquen històries i que, sovint, ens transmeten molta més informació del que sembla a primera vista.
DESCOBRINT EL CÒMIC Llegeix més »
“Comics are the gateway to literacy” David Kracov During these months we have been discovering TINTIN, the character that gives name to our class. We read comics and watched the film “Castafiore’s jewels” and we discovered quite a lot about the characters. We have identified the main characters in the series and we have discussed
COMIC CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS Llegeix més »
“A true flag is torn from the soul of people. A flag is something that everybody owns, and that is why they work” Gilbert Baker During all September we have been working on flags. It all started when we used flags to reflect on the countries where people speak English as a first language. We
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde We are now Tintins and one of our routines is reading in English every week. We read some books in English last year but we never thought about how they were
DISCOVERING THE ENGLISH LIBRARY Llegeix més »