Using the Press in the Classroom
During 2009 students took part in the project "Aprender con el periódico" with the help of the language assistants. They brought real newspapers from US and we had the opportunity to browse and analyse them during English lessons. So the lessons were very interesting: there were some serious economic newspapers which were difficult to understand because of the technical vocabulary, and there was one called "The Onion" extremely ironic and fun (so Diane said!). Since it was Election Year we also learned a lot of Presidential Elections and Obama´s life... and finally came the worst part of it: hard work. Mª Eugenia and Diane made us create our own newspapers. We had to choose news from recent papers in English and present them to the class. We practised some translation, a lot of reading, writing and speaking and covered all the sections: national, international, sports, economy, entertainment and social life. We also did some team work with the Swedish students on exchange and our newspapers have been hanging on the bulletin board with thumbtacks all the year along.
What else can we say? We enjoyed the activity since it was cool and a good opportunity to work and learn in a different way. (1º Bachillerato students)
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