This has been our second GEP year (GEneració Plurilingüe).
The purpose of this program is to improve students’ communicative competence in English, develop basic thinking and attitudinal skills for this 21st century, acquire strategies for self-learning and encourage cooperative and project work.
Our GEP II training has allowed us to improve our knowledge of ICT tools and of teamwork methodologies. Both skills have been very helpful in approaching our activities and achieving the learning objectives.
We applied several apps and techniques, such as puzzles, quizlets, tutorials, rubrics, online questionnaires, check lists, …
Our ESO students have carried out many activities in English in different subjects.
1 ESO Mathematics: Problem solving through games and collaborative work using ICT (integers, fractions, percent, …)
Geometry project: We are architects!
PE (Physical Education) Basic physical qualities and some sports such as badminton and volleyball.
2 ESO CVE (Cultura i Valors Ètics) What’s peace?
Let’s be a hero!
Trash man
Entrepreneurship What’s it about? Qualities of an entrepreneur
Personal characteristics and abilities.
Working on creativity. Starting a business
Idea to project. Planning and communication strategy.
Presenting the idea.
3 ESO Biology: Diseases: How can we cure them?
How come drugs affect our nervous system?
Let’s talk about sex!
CVE (Cultura i Valors Ètics) Peace: vocabulary, reading comprehension, debate, video and song, meditation review and Kahoot
Refugees: video, Edpuzzle activity and poster
PE (Physical Education) Basic physical qualities and some sports such as badminton and volleyball.
4 ESO CVE (Cultura i Valors Ètics) Impact of advertising on youth: main impacts, marketing techniques, what to do about media?
Mediation
Human rights. Gender discrimination.
Although all the tasks were planned in English, if necessary, we added some input and guidelines in catalan to cater for students with more difficulties.
We have also developed our English Cracks project and some additional speaking activities in 3rd ESO.
It has been a great experience for all of us!
