Muchos de los centros educativos de Cantabria participan en proyectos europeos, entre ellos Comenius, que tiene como objetivo poner en contacto a adolescentes de diferentes países. Una profesora del IES Valle de Piélagos nos cuenta cómo partipan desde su centro y nos envía un resumen de algunos de los trabajos de los alumnos que participan en este curso.
El año pasado establecimos los primeros contactos con cinco países diferentes de Europa: Suecia, República Checa, Francia, Italia y España.
Uno de los objetivos fundamentales de nuestro proyecto es poner en contacto a adolescentes de diferentes países para que establezcan un intercambio multicultural.
En el área de «Idiomas Modernos» (Inglés y Francés) hemos realizado la revista «Student’s Voice», «Le Voix des Estudients». Esta revista es nuestra contribución al proyecto y en ella los estudiantes hablan de su región, costumbres, su historia, mitología, deportes, cine, música, humor, y sobre todo de aquello que a ellos personalmente les interesa de su entorno. Es muy interesante para los alumnos ver reflejada su opinión en un medio que pueda compartir con otros jóvenes de su edad en otro idioma y de lugares muy distantes del suyo.
EL OBJETIVO
Mientras trabajan en esta revista su motivación e interés por conocer lo que ocurre a adolescentes de otras culturas aumenta y se fomenta el intercambio y enriquecimiento mutuo.
Para finalizar he de decir que el esfuerzo que realizan al escribir en Inglés o Francés sus artículos para la revista, es sorprendente e infinitamente superior al esfuerzo que realizan cuando hacen otro tipo de actividades.
Vamos a hablar de nuestros amigos en el «Proyecto Comenius»
Hemos aprendido mucho de ellos gracias a los e-mails que hemos estado intercambiando.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Happy Holidays to everyone from all of us here in the Languages Laboratory. We wish you enjoy your Christmas holidays. Peace on Earth and good will to all the students and teachers.
AN E-MAIL FROM ITALY
Una profesora Italiana
Dearest Spanish friends,
My name is MªAntonietta and I’m a teacher of English. I want to tell you things about my school and we would like you to send many e-mails to our students in Benevento.
I will soon give your students’ email addresses to mine so that they can start exchanging messages. They are aged from 14 to 19/20 so they are older than yours: therefore I think it would be better to involve students from the first class, and also those ones from the third because they are nice kids and would really enjoy writing letters to pen pals!
My school is called «Istituto tecnico per geometri» which means it is a school for aspiring surveyors. It is situated in Benevento which, is an ancient Roman city full of Roman remains: the Arch of Trajanus, the Roman Theatre, Santa Sofia’s church etc. Actually the city is much older than that: they have casually found remains of the Sannite people and strata of even older ages in a locality called contrada Cellarulo and think the authorities are studying a project for the recovery and maintenance of the site which is very interesting from a tourist and archaeological point of view.
My school is in the center of Benevento, in piazza Risorgimento,
near other other two schools so the square is usually full of children early in the morning and at exit time. It’s a very lively area, actually.
The curricula are very interesting because they are full of cultural and technical professional subjects concerning the surveying field. The number of inscriptions has been lately dropping since the building construction sector was undergoing a serious crisis; but now many building sites have opened so I thing the surveying profession and also this type of studies will soon be fashionable again. Besides students do not only specialize in the building construction sector but focus mainly on the recovery of old
buildings, especially those which have artistic and architectonic value.
Our school offers a wide range of opportunities: we have had post diploma courses for many years by now and from this year we will also organize courses for drop out students (students who have left school before the age of 18 and so have to attend a vocational course), for adult learners (we have ECDL – European Computer Driving Licence preparatory courses, CAD courses, etc.)
Also after morning classes, students who have special interests may attend music workshops (guitar, piano, singing), photography lessons, CAD courses, theatre workshops, computer courses, etc.
In the past years we took part into Leonardo Program. We were contracting partener of Aresleo project. If you are curious to see what it was about, just go to www.isfol.it and look for Aresleo. It was one of the pilot project approved in the first year when Leonardo started.
Now I’ve finished celebrating my school of which I’m very fond, as you must have noticed…, and I just add that my students are very lively and, to make things sound more realistic, sometimes I wish they were less noisy and more diligent…
I’m the veteran of a group of four English teacher, so I can ask the others if they would like to collaborate with our project. There is also a French teacher who might be involved.
I hope to hear from you very soon so that I can get a deeper insight into what you’ve planned. Did you know that Benevento is famous as the «witch town»? Maybe we might develop something about the legends of our countries.
Students in my area have been on strike for more than one month because they are against the reform the government is going to approve. This is the reason why you haven’t received e-mails for so long. The situation is getting more and more complicated
because, as you can imagine, we are very back with syllabus.
I hope everything will be all right soon but Christmas holidays are coming so there will be another stop in school activities. However I’m very interested in this Comenius and I hope to reestablish normality soon.
Happy Chistmas for everybody.
Love from,
Maria Antonietta
DESDE CANTABRIA
Estos son algunos de los correos electrónicos escritos por nuestros alumnos sobre quiénes son, qué hacen, cómo es Cantabria, etc.
PARA ITALIA
Hello !
My name is Carmen. I am twelve years old .I live in Oruña. I live with my parents, Sara and Juan ,my brothers Juan and Esteban and my sister Marina.
All my brothers are younger than me. I will have twins one boy and one girl.
I like skating ,sailing… I am tall. I like going to the cinema with my friends.
My favourite drink is coke and my favourite food is rice with clams. My favourite colour is blue.
Happy Christmas
From Carmen
2ºA
E-MAILS TO SWEDEN
Adrián y Daniel, alumnos de 1ºA
Hello!,
We are very happy to send e-mails to students from other countries and tell them many things from our country and region.
We are Adrián and Daniel. We live in Renedo, a small village in Cantabria. We are Spanish. Daniel, my friend, has got two brothers and I have a sister. We are going to a secondary school in Renedo.
Daniel: I am twelve years old. I am small and I have dark hair. I practice football and I like tennis, too. My favourite food is octopus a la gallega, it is a way of cooking the octopus. My favourite drink is coke and I hate ketchup. My favourite colour is green and my favourite hobby is playing with the computer.
Adrian: I am twelve years old. I am tall, thin and I have blonde hair. I practice football and bowling. My favourite food is hamburger with chips and my favourite drink is coke. I hate tomatoes. My favourite colour is green and one of my favourite subjects is maths.
We are from Cantabria, a small region of Spain. We live in a small village, Renedo. Our secondary school is in Renedo. It’s called «Valle de Piélagos». In our secondary school there are a lot of places like: laboratory, a lot of classrooms and two breaks. There are 430 boys and girls and 47 teachers. Our favourite day at school is Monday. Our favourite subject is English class. We are good at English and Maths. We play football, tennis and bowling. We wear very simple clothes, shorts and jeans. Our favourite football team is Racing de Santander. We love music : rock&roll, and our favourite singer is Michael Jackson. We like the film «Taxi Express».
Adrian: my favourite actress is Julia Roberts.
Daniel: my favourite actress is Penelope Cruz.
Daniel: when I grow up, I want to be an architect.
Adrian: when I grow up, I want to be an actor.
Adrian: I get up at eight o´ clock.I don´t have breakfast. I go to school at a quarter past eight.I come back to school at half past two. I have lunchat three o´clock. I do my homework at a quarter to four.
A GREAT SUMMER IN POLIENTES
Por Carmen, Sofía y Elena, alumnas de 2ºA.
Last summer we went to a camping to Polientes. It is a village near Reinosa. We liked that camping very much. These are some of the things we did there:
-Riding bikes
-Swimming in the swimming pool and in the river
-Sing walking
-Ddoing rafting
-Climbing
-Having parties
-Having funny horror nights
Many friends from school and our family (cousins) went there.
The first week we thought that it wasn´t much interesting but the second one we liked it a lot.
We made a lot of friends :
-Berta and Regina from Logroño
-Esther and Lara from Limpias near Ampuero
-Luna from Castro Urdiales
-Blanca ,Mar and Maria from Reinosa
-Tania, from Guarnizo… and many more.
In the midle of our stay we celebrated a parents day. During the whole day many people from our families came to see us and they took us to a restaurant near the Ebro.
In Polientes we took English classes. Our English teachers’ names were Pilar and Elida.
CANTABRIA NUESTRA REGIÓN
Andrea y Alicia, alumnas de 2ºC
In Cantabria you can do a lot of things in your free time. In summer you can go to the beach, we’ve got a lot of beaches. People go in the evening to the beach, they think it’s very relaxing.
In winter you can go to the cinema (the most popular cinemas are in the Corte Inglés & in Valle Real).Other days of the week,you can go to restaurants, next to the beach, you’ve got a lot of good seafood, and fish.
You can go to see a football match to Santander, the capital of Cantabria. But when you feel cold you can make a fire in your chimney and play games with your family or with your friends.
In Cantabria young people aren’t at home, all of us like going out with friends.