3st 1st studios present Face by Benjamin Zephanian

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Working with native speakers in class at 3rd 1st

Graduate from the University of Michigan. Currently completing a Fulbright U.S. Student Award with the English Teaching Assistant program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from March until November 2016. Was a dual concentrator in Spanish and International Studies, with a focus in International Norms, Security and Cooperation. Held a Community Action and Social Change minor in the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Interests include international relations, politics, government, Latin American cultures, NGOs, non-profits, romance languages, human rights, social justice, community action/social change, community organizing. Experience includes study and volunteer work in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Cusco

ENS No 1 - Proyecto Intercultural, 4/10/16-8/11/16

Docente: Malena Gomez Sierra

Asistente: Brinley Bruton

"El proyecto consiste en proyectar distintas escenas de películas, audios o canciones en los cuales los alumnos vean el uso de vocabulario específico o expresiones idiomáticas relacionadas con temas tales como: Miedo - Felicidad - Tiempo - Animales - Partes del cuerpo, etc.”

            In each class, we will watch clips of American TV shows that provide scenes of the idioms used in context from Idioms in Action DVDs.  The idioms will be separated by their themes, and we will cover one or two themes each class.  After watching the clips, the students will be asked to identify the common idiom among them.  We will then define the idiom together.  At the end of each class (except the fifth class), we will complete a review activity to solidify the idioms.  The third class will include a review game of all of the idioms learned up until that point.  In the fifth class, I would like every student bring to class one idiom from each of the themes that we discussed or from another theme (like sports, money, numbers, weather, emotions, etc.) — themes will be assigned to students.  The sixth class will included a review game off all idioms learned, including the ones brought to class by the students.

•   Class 1, 4/10/16: Body Part Idioms

•   Body part Idioms

•   A shoulder to cry on (DVD 2)

•   Bend somebody’s ear (DVD 2)

•   Head over heels (DVD 2)

•   At face value (DVD 1)

•   Blink of an eye (DVD 1)

•   Get under someone’s skin (DVD 1)

•   Pick someone’s brain (DVD 1)

•   Rack one’s brain (DVD 1)

•   Activity: Assign students to small groups, and assign each group two idioms from the list that they just learned.  Students will write scenarios to be acted out by the group using these idioms in context.  They should be creative!

•   Class 2, 11/10/16: Animal Idioms, Time Idioms

•   Time idioms

•   In the nick of time (DVD 1)

•   Days are numbered (DVD 1)

•   Time of one’s life (DVD 1)

•   Crack of dawn (DVD 1)

•   Animal Idioms

•   Bee’s knees (DVD 2)

•   Kill two birds with one stone (DVD 1)

•   Cry wolf (DVD 2)

•   A little bird told me (DVD 1)

•   Activity: Students complete worksheet that includes sentences and phrases with fill-in-the-blank spaces and a word bank.  The students must fill in the blanks with the words from the word bank and identify whether or not the sentence or phrase is an idiom.

•   Class 3: 18/10/16: Color Idioms; Review game of all idioms learned so far

•   Color idioms

•   Out of the blue (DVD 2)

•   Get/have the blues (DVD 2)

•   Pot of gold (DVD 2)

•   Once in a blue moon (DVD 2)

•   Review Game: Words from all of the idioms learned so far will be cut out and mixed up.  Students separated into two teams will compete to form all idioms correctly before the other team.

•   Class 4, 25/10/16: Food Idioms, Nature Idioms

•   Nature idioms

•   Beat around the bush (DVD 2)

•   Cry someone a river (DVD 2)

•   Over the moon (DVD 1)

•   Happy camper (DVD 1)

•   Food idioms

•   Peas in a pod (DVD 1)

•   Bread-winner (DVD 2)

•   Bad egg (DVD 2)

•   Bad apple (DVD 1)

•   Activity: Students will choose from strips of paper that included questions or situations.  The student must respond to the question or situation using an idiom in their answer — requires creativity!

•   Class 5, 1/11/16: Music Idioms; Student Presentations of Idioms

•   Music idioms

•   Face the music (DVD 1)

•   Not to miss a beat (DVD 2)

•   Music to someone’s ears (DVD 1)

•   March to the beat of one’s own drum Student presentations of new idioms

•   Class 6, 8/11/16: Review game of all idioms

•   Review Game: Students are split up into two teams.  Taking turns, two students from each team will be in the “hot seat.”  One student explains to the other student the meaning of an idiom without using any of the same words that appear in the idiom, and the other student has to guess.  The team with the most correctly guessed idioms wins.

Linkage project: sharing Zootopia with primary school students

GOOD JOB 1ST 1ST STUDENTS!!!!!!

YOU WERE AWESOME !!!!

Plurilingual schools visit

   THANK YOU 1ST COURSES FOR YOUR WORK!!!!!!   

HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION at 1st 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMwLrpWBp6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V90AmXnguw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_nTMprod00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPOq8R-RxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afJvW915Fs


SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IB videos: Ecobricks

Students from the IB have made some great videos about ecobricks. Watch them and enjoy them!

WRITING FOR TALKING Our cause of concern by 1º1º

 Our cause of concern:  Robbery

        By Santiago Gonzalez Bugtrup and Julián Tognón

The topic we are going to talk about is the robbery.

We choose this topic because nowadays there are a lot of robberies, some of them using the violence, or even killing the victim. We searched information of the robberies, including the definition of robbery, the types of robbery and some cases.

The most “used” definition of robbery is:

“Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force or by putting the victim in fear”.

There are different types of robbery:

Armed robbery, aggravated robbery, mugging, carjacking, extortion, bragging, stick-up and steaming.

Researches show that the most dangerous country regarding theft is Argentina because 973 per 100000 people are stolen, also in 2015 there were 10,500 deaths and injuries from robberies.

Sometimes the victim decides to punish the robber by his own hand, injuring him or killing him, when the victim does that then the police proceed to put him in jail, but when the robbers injure someone and they capture them, they only left him in jail for some hours.

Finally we have one more concern, sometimes kids get influenced by what they see so a small group of kids becomes robbers, but they usually rob candies, food and drinks. If they are not stopped then in the future they will rob in houses and rob money. We think that if there were no poor people in the world, then the robbers will not exist, but  people only think of themselves so they will not do anything.

SMOKING - WATER POLLUTION - KIDNAPPING

Cheers!!!!!!

Happy day!!!

Lenguas Vivas teacher training college`s students at Normal 1

Learning while playing at 5º3º (second language)

Thanks Catalina Perkins

wonderful practice classes!!!

Shrek, the musical

by Tamara and Micaela 5°3°

Shrek, the musical

                                                           

Shrek, the musical

                                                           by Iara Crema 3º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                                            by Martín Lazo 3º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                                          by Iñaki García 1º1º

Shrek, the musical

 
   
                                                        by Sol Mora 3º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                                    by Barbie Nazabal 3º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                                           by Jessica Ormeño 5º4º

Shrek, the musical

                                              by Damaris, Chiara, Várvara & Janet 3º1º

Shrek, the musical

 

                                                  by Sofi Ramirez 5º4º

Shrek, the musical

                                                      by Ivan Laurito 5º4º

Shrek, the musical

                                           by Emma Gamarra, Paloma López Lafratta 3º1º

Shrek the musical

                                                                         
                               
                                                             by Dante Martinez 1º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                     
                                                         By Nahual and Agustina 1º1º

Shrek, the musical

                                                               by Jazmin 3º 1º

A play of our own

Learning about Shakespeare's life using cell phones in English class

                        https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/05e067a7-92a4-4836-bccc-f44e9cf4b48d

                          Learning & Having fun at 3º 1º students' class

Celebrating our bicentennial

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

He was an argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh president of Argentina. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837.

Sarmiento was born on February 15^th in 1811, in San Juan, Argentina. In 1816 he entered a “school of the Nation”. When  he finished primary, his mother wanted him to study for the priesthood in Córdoba, but Sarmiento refused and filed a scholarship to study in San Juan.

His first exile was in 1831 because of the federal victory in his province and was exiled until 1836. The second was in 1840, because of the strong criticism that directed the government from the newspaper “El Zonda”, he spent 9 years in Chile.

He was noted for his laborious struggle in public education so as to contribute to the scientific and cultural progress of their country. He became governor of San Juan, where he enected the Law on compulsory primary education. At 57 he was elected president of the Republic, who served between 1868 and 1874.

Sarmiento died in Asunción, Paraguay at the age of 77 from a heart attack. He was buried in Buenos Aires.

Lourdes Ferreira & Florencia Melgin

5º3º (2nd language)

Celebrating our Bicentennial

Juana Azurduy

She was born on July 12 , 1780. She is the representative of thousands of anonymous women who fought for the emancipation of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata.
She studied in “Convento de Santa Teresa de Chuquisaca” to become a nun but she was fired at 17 years old because she was a rebel.
In 1805, she married Colonel Manuel Padilla Asencia . In 1812 , Azurduy organized the " Batallón Leales” and with her husband were put under the command of General Belgrano who gave him his sword in recognition of his struggle.
Azurduy , who fought even while pregnant and lost her children in the fight against the troops of the Spanish conquest, died in poverty in Sucre on May 25, 1862 . She was buried in a mass grave and their remains were exhumed just a hundred years later and placed in a mausoleum built in his honor in the city of Sucre .

Daniela Manduka & Sarah Riqueza
5º3º - 2nd language

Celebrating our Bicentennial

                    Manuel Belgrano

                   

 

We chose Manuel Belgrano because was patriot very important for our nation.

Manuel Belgrano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 3 June, 1770.

He was the fourth son of thirteen brothers, his father was Don Domingo Belgrano and his mother Josefa Gónzales Casero. He studied in Spain at the University of Salamanca in 1786 and at Valladolid, where he graduated with a degree in law in 1793.

After that he was the secretary of the Buenos Aires official merchants’ guild (1794) , a position in which he advocated liberal ideas, particulary in Education and Economic reform.

He received his first military experience during the unsuccessful British invasion of the vice royalty of Rio de la Plata. In 1812 he decreed the adoption of what was became Argentina’s national flag.

Belgrano, like many other leaders of the South American independence movement, favoured the establishment of a monarchical type of government. To find a ruler, he went to Europe with Bernardino Rivadavia, who later became the first president of the Argentine republic. 

He died on June 20, 1820.

Julieta and Cecilia

5º3º 2nd language

Celebrating our Bicentennial

MARIANO MORENO

We chose Mariano Moreno because of his values, he was worried about people and he fought for social equality.

        

Mariano Moreno was born on September 23th 1778, in Buenos Aires. He was Manuel Moreno’s and Argumosa’s son.

He had thirteen brothers. He studied at Colegio San Carlos and he graduated with honors. Then he went to the University of Chuquisaca where he got his liberal ideas defending the free commerce and the Indian rights.

          He was a lawyer, a journalist and a politician of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. He was one of the main idealists and impellers of the May’s Revolution and he had an important role as one of the two secretaries of Primera Junta.

         He died on March 4^th 1811, on board of the English ship “Fame”, he was poisoned and his body was thrown to the sea. 

Guadalupe Sosa

Melina Díaz                                                                                                                                                           5º3º 2nd language

We are all invited!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Ring by Bernard Smith: 3°1° students' workshop

GREAT PERFORMANCE !!!!!!!!

P/S To enjoy one of our presentation press HERE

WRITING FOR TALKING: 5°4° STUDENTS' PRESENTATION

     MY PET - MY BEST FRIEND - MY FAMILY - SOCIAL         NETWORKS  - ADICTIONS - FALSE PROFILES

                                                                          WELL DONE GUYS!!!!

Visit to the theater: SHREK MUSICAL

POST SHOW REFLECTIONS
Choose one the following topics  and prepare a multimedia poster.

At the end of the story, Princess Fiona chooses to marry Shrek instead of Lord

Farquaad. This activity encourages the young people to think about why Shrek and

Fiona are so happy together.

• What qualities does Shrek have that Lord Farquaad does not? 
• What do Shrek and Fiona have in common? What do they like most about each other?
• Can you describe your favourite moment?
• How did the show make you feel?
• Do you feel rejected for being different sometimes? Do you think there are any students in your School that might feel rejected and lonely for being different? How can we help them?
• Can you relate the concept “BULLYING” to how people treated Shrek before they get to know him?
• Do you think Shrek’s love for Fiona depended on her looks?
• Is there anything you learned from the play that might help you in you everyday life?
• Is Theatre a reflection of Society? In what? why?
• What did you like most of your Theatre Experience?

The best work will get a prize!!!!

EXPANDING BORDERS PROJECT: 5º3º students' performance

                                                         Thank you Keva!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Junior assistance project

Asistente de Idioma - Programa Fulbright

En 2016, un total de 26 jóvenes norteamericanos pasarán poco menos de un año en Argentina desarrollando proyectos de investigación o de apoyo a la comunidad. Cinco de estos becarios se quedarán en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires cuyas autoridades educativas los han seleccionado para trabajar como Asistentes de idioma inglés en distintos ámbitos de la educación pública.

Una de ellas, Keva Luke, de Albany, Estado de New York, nos estuvo asistiendo en la ENS 1. Keva tiene  títulos en Enseñanza de Español, en Cultura Latina y Caribeña y en Globalización y Estudios Multiculturales.

Durante seis semanas realizó actividades con los alumnos de 5to 3ra de nuestro Bachillerato en Comunicaciones, que consistieron fundamentalmente en práctica del idioma inglés profundizando los conocimientos sobre la cultura norteamericana e intercambiando videos con estudiantes de escuelas secundarias de Estados Unidos.

El cronograma del Proyecto “Expandiendo fronteras”  se detalla a continuación:

• Semana 1: 12 de abril de 2016- Social Media
• Semana 2: 19 de abril de 2016- Music Trivia
• Semana 3: 26 de abril de 2016- American History Trivia
• Semana 4: 3 de mayo de 2016- "My Argentina" presentation (grabación)
• Semana 5: 10 de mayo de 2016- Cuisine in the USA
• Semana 6: 17 de mayo de 2016- Argentine Recipes

Agradecemos a la Profesora Malena Gómez Sierra por el trabajo conjunto.

Agradecemos a la Asociación Cooperadora “16 de abril” por el llavero de la escuela que Keva se llevó como recuerdo de su paso por el Normal 1.

Prof. Adriana Díaz

Coordinadora del Departamento de Inglés