OUR RIVERS

Laura Lorenzo19/02/26  

We are learning a lot about RIVER ANOIA and we decided to use all we have discovered so far to invent our own river. 
We had a lot of fun creating our river because we did not just draw.. We used blue paper and scissors to make our river with one continuous string. We had to be very careful when we used the scissors because we wanted to make it as long as possible without breaking the paper…

It was very difficult to cut thin paper and it required a lot of care. What a great way to practice cutting skills! When everybody got their rivers, it was time to measure them. Some rivers were so long that we had to help each other use the measuring tape. You can see how long our rivers are in this picture.

This activity offered us the opportunity to introduce big numbers and practice saying them. It was very fun and much easier than we thought!  After spending some sessions playing games to practice saying, reading and writing numbers in English we were ready to write the info about our rivers… We had to complete a table with the basic information of our rivers (including the length in KM!) which later served us as the prompt to start writing our text describing the river. Writing in English is not as difficult when we have the right support!

IS IT RIVER ANOIA?

Laura Lorenzo09/01/26  

As you know, we are studying how can we help our river, the river Anoia. We go to Parc Fluvial a lot and we are quite familiar with the image of the river in Vilanova but we know that the river is different in all its parts. We know the river starts near Calaf and that it ends in river Llobregat but… can we recognise the river?

We had different images and, in pairs, we had to decide if the images were river Anoia or not. We used a lot of strategies to get the correct answer: look at the animals, look at the plants around, look at the cities and towns around but it is not that easy! The best part is that it offered a great opportunity to talk in English and use structures like “I think it’s river Anoia” or “I think it is not river Anoia” to express our opinions. Do you want to try? Click here, look at the presentation and try to guess.

How many answers did you get correct? Did you recognise any other river?

PANELLETS: READING RECIPES

Laura Lorenzo26/10/25  


“Learn how to cook—try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun.”

Julia Child

As you know, Tanits have a very important mission: organizing the autumn activity of making “panellets”.  

We agreed on the recipe but… can we recognise that same recipe in English?

We had a set of dessert recipes among which we had to locate the “panellets” one. Difficult? Not at all!  Working in small groups, we discovered that every Tanit used a different strategy to do the task: looking at the numbers, finding the key words (almonds and sugar) in the text or eliminating recipes when we discovered ingredients that are not necessary in panellets (Milk- als panellets no hi ha llet!, aquesta no és!). Matching each recipe with its corresponding image was a bit more complicated but not impossible using the strategies we have shared. 

When we discovered the recipe it was time to read it more carefully and understand all the steps. Since last year we cooked pancakes in class, we were familiar with some vocabulary and it was quite easy to recognise words like MIX and ADD. We also discovered new words like SMASH and BAKE. 

Do you know these words in Catalan?  Just do like we did in class to guess the meaning: use what you already know about the recipe and the images to help you understand the text.