Aquí tienes disponible la versión en pdf de nuestro periódico escolar que publicamos cada trimestre.
En esta ocasión publicamos el último número (núm. 57) correspondiente al primer trimestre del curso 2017/2018.
Archivo de la categoría: Bilingüismo
Languages die too. Second Part
During these Christmas holidays I found this article in the online edition of the New York Times. As it develops and expands what I mentioned about the tashuiro language and Amedeo García García, I felt I had to post it in our school’s website for those who might be interested in the topic. I must warn all of you that it is a bit long but it is worth reading and listening. 
Here you have the link to the full document which even includes a six-minute video. Hope you enjoy it.
To finish, just let me give you a piece of advice: KEEP YOUR ENGLISH ALIVE.
Ganadores del Concurso de Tarjetas de Navidad
Este año decidimos realizar en el centro un concurso de tarjetas de navidad. Les pedimos a los alumnos que escribieran sus mensajes en tres idiomas, los tres que están integrados en el programa bilingüe del centro, castellano, inglés y francés. La respuesta por parte de los alumnos ha sido muy buena y les agradecemos su participación. En la entrada del centro hemos expuesto las tarjetas presentadas y hemos utilizado algunas para crear la felicitación del centro.
Los ganadores son 1º Arianna Sánchez Pazos de 2º ESO A
2º Noelia Vicente Puerto de 1º ESO A
3º Yasmín Sevillano Tovar de 1º ESO B
Languages die too.
Languages die too.
We teachers tell our students that languages are alive. The obvious implication of this assertion is that languages die too. When the last speaker of a language dies, that language dies too. It does not matter if there are graphic documents that evidence its existence and somehow preserves it.
When we hear about the death of a language, we normally think of a weird language spoken in a remote area in India or by an uncivilized tribe in the Amazon basin.
From time to time we find information about this sad news in the newspapers. I have recently heard about Amedeo García who is the last speaker of the tashuiro, a language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
More and more people move from remote rural areas to cities, where they must get integrated to survive. In this context, with a compulsory education in the dominant language and the mass media using it, the local languages disappear. And the disappearance of a language implies the disappearance of the culture which shaped that language .
Globalization has its pros and cons. This is one of its most obvious negative consequences together with the loss of the world cultural richness.
That’s why the news of the death of the Cromarty fisherfolk dialect’s last speaker attracted my attention.
His name was Bobby Hogg and he died in 2012. He was the last fluent living speaker in the dialect of English used in some parts of the Black Isle, mainly in Cromarty, near Inverness, in Scotland.
Although it only occupied some few pages in the news that day, it was not only a sad loss for his family but for all the world.
Cromarty Fisherfolk’s Dialect
Cromarty, which counts just over 700 people, is at the very end of a sparsely populated peninsula of forest and farmland. It’s separated from Inverness, the closest city, by the Beauly Firth, a wide body of cold water where salmon run and dolphins frolic. That unique landscape shaped its people, its culture and the language that expressed it.
The Cromarty dialect included a wealth of seafaring vocabulary since this people earned their living in the sea. Another distinctive feature was the use of the archaic «thees» and «thous», pronouns now lost from the spoken English.
The aspirate «h» was often added or subtracted, so that «house» would be pronounced «oos» and «apple» would be pronounced «haypel.» The «wh» sound was often dropped entirely.
A lexicon of Cromarty words, relying in large part on Hogg’s speech, gave «Oo thee keepan?» as Cromarty’s version of «How are you?» and «Hiv thoo a roosky sazpence i thi pooch?» for «Can you lend me some money?»
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/scottish-man-dies-town-dialect-article-1.1174976
A good dictionary to work with.
Hello to all the visitors of this website!
To start with, I want here to give the answer to a question that my students quite often make me.
For me, a very useful online dictionary is Word Reference. You can also download the app in your smartphone. It provides information and examples, as well as translations of those examples, that all students can find interesting and useful.
Layers within Earth’s atmosphere by Ágata
Hello again!!
Here you have another link to the NASA website where you can learn about the layers within the Earth´s atmosphere. It is really interesting!!
Thank you very much, Enrique (1ºB), for your talk about this. Great job!!
A two-minute Nasa video.
Hello everybody!
I am Agata and I wanted to share this with all my students
Here there is a link to a two-minute NASA video. It is awesome and you will enjoy it! You cannot miss this experience!!!
Thank you very much Dolores (1ºA) for opening my window into the NASA website
Convocatoria Erasmus+ (curso 2017/2018)
Se abre la convocatoria para participar en el programa Erasmus+ Curso 2017/2018.
La convocatoria está organizada en 2 flujos:
– Flujo 1: enero-abril 2018
– Flujo 2: marzo-junio 2018
Bases Convocatoria BRIDGE TO EUROPE OCT 2017
Molletes for the Irish «Extranjero»
For some time, an Irish «Extranjero» called Oisin Gregorian was living in Marchena. He worked as a teacher of English at Aulaforum. At the same time he wrote some articles for TheJournal.ie where he also uploaded some videos telling his experiences living as an inmigrant in Spain. They can be watched on Youtube. http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/emigrating-alone-to-spain-1721704-Oct2014/
It is interesting to know what foreigners think about us and this one writes, among other things, about how he saw Marchena, the village, its people, culture and customs. Well, he does not only write about Marchena, since now he is living and working in Seville, but it is worth reading and listening to his experiences.
A very funny video is about his search for Marchena’s best mollete called Discovering Molletes. In his blog called The Irish Extranjero you can find this and some more videos that he has recorded and uploaded so far. http://theirishextranjero.blogspot.com.es/2016/07/an-ode-to-marchenas-molletes.html
And recently, last 11th April, 2017, he came back to Marchena and yesterday, the 2nd May, he uploaded a new video called In Search of Molletes. Here you have the link too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWL81AksTLw
The images that are used here are screenshots from his videos. Have a look at them and it is a good exercise for students to listen to these authentic graphic documents.
Words of Introduction from Jade Takimoto
Castles, tapas, flamenco and churros are reasons enough to attract anyone to the beautiful country that is Spain. For me, my first interest in Spain began when I first visited it as a child, enchanted by its unique culture, incredible history and delicious food.
My name is Jade Takimoto and I have had the privilege of being this years language auxiliar at instituto Lopez de Arenas. Encantada! In the past five months, I’ve assisted both students and teachers of the bilingual program. By preparing visuals and activities, I hope to have enhanced students’ engagement and overall comprehension of the English language.
Though originally from Sacramento, California, I received my Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Humboldt State University. There is where I developed the skills needed to apply to any classroom setting, but especially abroad. However, nothing could have prepared me for the challenges I have faced of teaching a foreign language in foreign county —but I will save that story for next time. I simply wish to convey my overall excitement and appreciation to be living and teaching in the beautiful region that is Andalucía, and look forward to the rest of this year with the incredibly smart and talented students of Lopez de Arenas. Gracias!
