Congratulations for your presentations!. Now,  we know a lot of things about Holland and Amsterdam. Make sure you saved the information in your doc document. 

I have good news: We have got the tickets!! We will leave on Tuesday, 13th March and will come back on Tuesday 20th March 2011. We will have the list of Dutch students very soon!

The quickest way to go to Amsterdam is by plane. Many of you have never travelled by plane or been to an airport. You should know a few things before getting on the plane.

Do you know the meaning of these words?? "check in", "departures", "flight", "arrivals", "gate", "crew", "delay". ..

To my students:

A. Write the meaning of the words above in a new article in your blog

B. Go to Randall's ESL Listening Lab and follow these steps:

1. Go to Listening quizzes for Academic Purposes, (difficult)

2. Click on "Airport announcement" 

3. Do the pre-listening and listening exercises (Read Quiz Script, explanation of Answers and Text Completion Quiz)

4. Add 5 new words you have learnt in your article.

5. If you have time, do some more listening practice about flying: Go to General Listening Quizzes, easy and do the exercises on "Travel on Sky Airlines" 

How many inhabitants does the Netherlands have?

Which is the largest national park in the Netherlands?

How many windmills are still working today?

Which city is the centre of the cheese trade?

What is the name of a famous Dutch painter born in Delft?

What is the title of his most famous painting?

Do tulips come originally from Holland?

How many bridges are there in Amsterdam? What are the opening hours of Van Gogh museum??

 All these questions and many others can be answered using one of these two links:

• Let's visit Amsterdam


• Discover the Netherlands

To my students

1. Write an article about The Netherlands and/or Amsterdam. Go to one of these two links and choose 12/13  questions (you can also mix questions of the two documents).  You wil find the answers using the links on the right of these two sites. When you have the answers, write a new chapter in your doc document, titled "The Netherlands and its capital, Amsterdam."  You can add photos to illustrate your article. When the text is finished, paste it in a new entry in your blog.

2. Prepare an oral presentation with your findings. You must choose one topic and write a comment to this article to tell me what you are going to talk about. You can also choose one of the options at  the end of the links above. You can use visual aids (photos, ppt,  poster) to help you with your presentation. 

You have three sessions to prepare your project. On the 8th of November you have to be ready for your oral presentation.

 Before beginning the project make sure you have published all previous articles:

• about the exchange


• about who you are


• about Caldes town festival


• about Naalwijk

Naalwijk is a little town between the Hague and Delf, about 50 minutes from Amsterdam. There are many interesting things we can learn about his town: culture, weather, celebrations, sightseeing, etc.

TO MY STUDENTS

In this article you are going to write about Naaldwijk. First, look for information about this town! Then summarize it in this entry. Display some pictures to illustrate your information.

Caldes de Montbui is an interesting town, there are many things to visit and many cultural traditions. There is also a especial "festival" called "The Festa Major", which means something like "The main party", and it lasts for about 4 or 5 days.

To my students

Write about your town, Caldes de Montbui. Write about the interesting sites, about its culture and history and about its celebrations. You can also write about the "Festa Major", and insert some pictures so that the Dutch students can get an idea of what it is like.

In this group there are 20 students. At the moment there are 5 boys and 15 girls. One of this girls cannot go to Holland, so we might include another boy or another girl, (we will see if the school organization allows us to do it). These students work in pairs. Each pair has its blog (see the list on the right), and the students are publishing their work on their blogs. We would like this tool to be the way to exchange communication between our students and the Dutch students and teachers. We hope it works!.

There are two teachers in the group as well. Dolors, the coordinator of the project and teacher of English, and Marta, a science teacher who speaks English very well and likes participating in this kind of projects. We are looking forward to meeting the teachers and students of Naaldwijk and share this interesting experience.

 TO MY STUDENTS :

Write your article about WHO YOU ARE,  including a short description of your personality and physical appearance. You can also talk about your hobbies, family, friends, and whatever you want to publish. Some of you have already written this article. If so, write about your town and the town festival (festa major de Caldes).

Remember to bring a photo of you for the blog!!

Well, hello to everybody and welcome to this blog, a site to share information. This is the first message to introduce a new project. A project between two classes, between two countries, between two cultures. A class from the school in Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona, Spain) called "IES MANOLO HUGUE" is going to exchange information with a class from a school in Naadwijk (Holland). What information is going to be exchanged? What can the students involved be interested in? Taking into account that they are 14-15 years old... Perhaps we can let them talk and ask what they want to know about each other...

TO MY STUDENTS:

what do you expect from this project? Talk about your expectations, ambitions, fears, doubts...