On Thursday May 21 and Friday May 22 more than 70 students from different groups: 4t ESO C (humanistic and artistic), 1r Batx B (technological), C (scientific and humanistic) and D (business) took part in several online lessons so as to have a chat with the 4 members of ‘The Jacobites’, a Scottish traditional music band: Thoran Ferguson, Lewis Kelly, Stuart Spence i Ciaran McGhee. They could ask the Scottish musicians all kinds of questions related to the kind of music they usually play or their professional careers. They also learnt about the difficult moment all the musicians and artists are living nowadays, most specially self-employed ones. Our students could make use of their very good level of English, which was the lesson’s main purpose. The young Scottish musicians encouraged them to go on learning English as it can be very useful for their future. Besides, they told them a little bit about the Scottish accent and the way they spoke English in their country. They took for granted that knowing different dialects is very important in order to communicate with people, as there are many Englishes, all of them proper English.
“The Jacobites” have played twice in Mestràlia, a traditional music festival held in July in the little village of Campredo. They were very pleased to be in contact again with Catalan students as they remembered the beautiful enjoyable moments they had in Terres de l’Ebre.