IES Francisco Ayala 1º Bachillerato Students' PLE blogs

For the first time this year, the English Department is teaching an Integrated Project to students of the flexible bilingual group of 1º Bachillerato, some study science others social science, for only an hour a week . In fact, this subject has been designed to contribute to complete the required time of exposure to English for the bilingual English-Spanish modality of Bachillerato.

The project, with the title Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for Learning to Learn, Increasing Autonomy and Improving Communicative and Digital Competences, has as main objectives to improve the key competences mentioned in an integrated way, particularly in the written code, and, at the same time, to learn to curate contents they consider relevant for their personal and academic expectations and share them with other teenagers.

We have been working for two months so far and, despite the technical difficulties caused by poor connection, I can see they are progressing as you can check visiting the blogs some of them have created:

Luisa & Maria's blog

Lucía & Pedro's blog

Javier & Joaquin's blog

Elena & Irene's blog

Andrea & Diego's blog

Álvaro & F. Javier's blog

Esteban & Iván's blog

May this Integrated Project help my students to develop their PLE

Why to learn English?

We love languages, they help people to think, to identify themselves, to express their feelings and emotions, to communicate and share ideas. It's great to learn languages, even neurologists recommend it as it can help to prevent or delay some mental disorders. 

Why should you learn English then? Could you think about at least 3 good reasons to learn this language? I'm sure most of you could. Perhaps your reasons coincide with the ones that wikipedia offers in Significance of English language. Check it!

We could tell you we have been learning for years because we like it, we can communicate internationally, and we can enjoy in a deeper way with cultures in English, not one, but many as it is the language of the United Kingdom, Ireland, The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malta, some Caribbean countries as Jamaica. 

Having the opportunity to read Shakespeare, Washington or John Irving, Poe, Keats, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Wilde, V. Woolf, McCullers, Fitzgerald, Heminguay, Steinbeck, Gordimer, Coetzee, Follet and many other great writers is a pleasure you could enjoy. 

And what to say about science and technology, just imagine it!