This week is music week, so here goes a song that will take you to the coldest days of the year. As I write this the temperature has dropped to only 6 degrees. Last week, it was 14 degrees at exactly the same time (check meteo.cat‘s website data for Cunit).

Enjoy the song, and if you want to read the lyrics, here they go.

“You’ve got the two of hearts

And try to bluff

I’ve got enough motives

To write this song to you

I’m no longer afraid today

I can bite today

I’ve touched the sky today

‘cause I saw you again

in paradise, alone, unaware.”

This is a translation from a text. But … who is the author? Is he a professional singer? Is she a woman? Or is the author a student in 4th of ESO?

Today we plan a 6 panel comic strip. The story is this “Claudia ies a 13 year old student. She is studying for a history exam and slowly falls asleep”.

Will our students produce an interesting comic plan???

Probably you’ve seen that I have added an mp3 player on the blog. Yes, this week is dedicated to music.

4th ESO D: special musical reading session, Monday 27th.

4th ESO A: special musical reading session, Wednesday 29th.

4th ESO C and B: optional listening activity (included in the dossier results, 30%). Complete this activity at home and the teacher will ask you some questions next day in class. The transcript is here.

Probably you’ve seen that I have added an mp3 player on the blog. Yes, this week is dedicated to music.

• • • • 4th ESO D: special music reading session, Monday 27th.
  • • • 4th ESO A: special musical reading session, Wednesday 29th.
  • • • 4th ESO C and B: optional listening activity (included in the dossier results, 30%). Complete this activity at home and the teacher will ask you some questions next day in class. The transcript is here.

4th of ESO groups are now passing the equator of the 1st term. We’ve already done three exams:

• The irregular verbs exam, which showed excellent results for some groups.
• Unit 1 test, with three difficulty levels.
• The oral test, which was on the day of the student’s strike and did not affect 4th ESO B, which was taking the exam a day later.

We have also finished the first 40 activities (39 for some!) in the dossier of Unit 1. Presently, we are almost finishing the 35 activities for Unit 2, dedicated to the present perfect.

Unit 3 is very similar to Unit 2, as it also deals with the present perfect so… for most of the students in 4th ESO we might as well say that the contents for the first term are over (except for some vocabulary, of course!).

Download the text here and listen to it by clicking on the mp3 here:

Next day we’ve got our first exam. The content of the exam is:

· Cartoon language (definition of panel, speech bubble, etc.)

· Cartoon jobs (writer, colourist, letterer, etc.)

More information about the smurfs on the wikipedia and if you prefer to read it in Catalan, follow this link.

Today there was an oral exam for three groups of 4th ESO grade: 4 A, 4 C and 4 D. Some students asked me yesterday about postponing this test as they were going on strike. Unfortunately for them, the school has not accepted this strike and classes will go on as normal. This means that all the students who are not here and have not justified their absence will have a ‘0’ in this test. As stated in the school’s regulations, tests will be postponed only when the strike has been officially announced by the school, something which does not apply here.

XTEC: what do students have to do to go on strike? (Catalan text)

Avui hi havia examen oral per tres grups de 4t d’ ESO: 4t A, 4t C i 4t D. Alguns alumnes van demanar-me ahir que postposés aquesta prova ja que volien fer vaga. Malauradament per ells, l’ escola no ha acceptat la proposta de vaga i les classes procediran de manera normal. Això implica que tots els alumnes que no hagin vingut a classe i no justifiquin l’ absència tindran un ‘0’ en aquest examen. Tal i com diu la normativa, els exàmens s’ han de postoposar només quan la vaga ha estat anunciada oficialment, cosa que no es compleix en el nostre cas.

XTEC: què han de fer els alumnes per organitzar una jornada de vaga?