Thank you!

Ja he entregat la memòria i he acabat els exàmens. Si tot va bé, aviat seré professora de secundària.
Durant els últims quatre mesos no he pogut passar gaire temps amb moltes persones importants per a mi, La meva vida social i cultural s'ha vist retallada. Altres us preguntareu perquè no contesto els e-mails. La resposta a tot això és que em faltaven hores... Una nova feina de teacher, classes a la universitat, treballs i les pràctiques a l'institut.
Però ara s'ha acabat un etapa i sento que tot serà diferent.
Només volia agraïr a totes les persones pròximes a mi, la paciència i el suport que m'heu demostrat. THANK YOU! Sense vosaltres ni hauria pogut.
I moltes gràcies per tots els comentaris positius!!!!

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Some of you may be wondering where I've been? Why does Anna not answer e-mails?
The reason is the lack of time. I've been really busy with my new job as a teacher, lessons at university, the practicum... and now I almost got it!!
If I pass the exams and the project, in some months time I'll be a secondary English teacher!
Finally, I will have some more free time!!
Thanks a lot for your support.

The last day

Yesterday was my last day of the Practicum in the high school. I finished my teaching unit before Christmas but I had to complete the 30 hours in the class, so I spent the whole morning there doing different things:

New group in the CV with Songs

I went to the class where I had been teaching and, as it is a “credit variable”, I met the new students. The core of the subject is the same, but Núria might be changing the songs.

For example, during the first sessions, they had asked her for a song by Akon. Núria had already prepared it. They listened to the song and order it. The main activity consisted on a reading comprehension about Akon’s biography. Afterwards, they were given the answers to some questions and they had to write the questions.

I found that the group was a little bit more “active” than the group from the first term and at first sight their level was better.

The song was Don’t matter by Akon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3u65f4CRLk

Aula d’acollida

I had been thinking on visiting the Aula d’Acollida during all these months and I finally found the time the very last day. I spent three one hour and I saw some students who where reading different books.

Empar, one of the teachers, explained me how the Aula worked and the changes they had been suffering during the last years.

I found it very interesting.

What I think is better from the current system, is that, as students improve their language competence, they might be assisting some lessons with their colleagues in the normal classroom and combine these hours with some hours in the Aula d’Acollida. With this system, they can have contact with other students from their class and, at the same time, they receive special help in the aspects where they have difficulties.

It’s a shame that all may be changing again soon.

1 year ESO B.- The human body

And during the last two hours, I was with Núria in 1 year of ESO.

First, the A group had class in the computer room, where they worked with a reading comprehension.

Afterwards, we moved to the class of 1 B. They had to begin with a new topic: the human body. Núria had designed an activity that consisted on cutting out pictures of magazines and creating a fantasy body. In the following sessions they will learn the vocabulary and will have to write a description of the character they have created.

During that session they all were amazed with cutting and combining shapes and photos. Some of them did really nice pieces of work!

It’s a shame that it is already to the end!! I will miss them all!!!!

Video from my teaching unit

I finally found the time to edit some videos. Here you have a short one, which I am going to use today for the oral presentation.
It is from one of the firts sessions on Umbrella by Rihanna. I had printed the lyrics and given a card with some sentences to each of my students. When they heard their sentences, they had to stand up and hang the card to order the whole song.
They really liked the activity and participated!!!

Well done, teacher Anna! :-)