All About Canada

This is the video-presentation about Canada made by Saba and Fatima. Enjoy it!

2.011: International Year of Forests

The year has been declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations to raise awareness and strengthen the sustainable forest management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests for the benefit of current and future generations.

Take a look at this video to try to understand the logo that is designed to convey the theme of “Forests for People” celebrating the central role of people in the sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of our world’s forests. 

Forests provide shelter to people and habitat to biodiversity; are a source of food, medicine and clean water. All of these elements taken together say us that forests are vital to the survival and well being of people everywhere, all 7 billion of us.

Discover all of these elements in this other video:

The song that you are going to listen and see now is called Earth Song, and was written in 1995 by Michael Jackson. Unfortunately, the lyrics show many of the problems that our planet is still suffering nowadays. You can get the lyrics of this song at this link.

Self-Steem

This presentation shows how to deal with self-steem. take a look at it. It is worth it!

English Speaking Countries Project (Outlines)

This project is devoted to extend the knowledge of the English speaking countries to the students of 4^th ESO, in all the possible aspects: culture, geography, history, art, etc.

Outline:

ð  Geographic description: Situation, regions, rivers, mountains, land area, etc.

ð  History

ð  Fast facts: official name, government, population, monetary unit, official languages.

ð  Capital city and other important cities

ð  The flag and Emblem: description and symbolism

ð  Art and culture: Painters, writers, Architecture, music and dance, etc.

ð  Sports

ð  Sightseeing (Main monuments, views, landscapes...)

Useful links with information about countries:

ð  Yahoo! Kids: http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/world-factbook/flags

ð  National Geographics: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/

ð  Fact Monster: http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html

ð  Infoplease: http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

ð  CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

ð  Atlapedia: http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

English Speaking Countries Project (Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorials)

Here you have three tutorials on how to use the Windows Live Movie maker program. The first two, which are the preferables, are English spoken. The third is in Spanish:

Food Vocabulary (Students' Presentations) 3rd Part

This is the last part of the presentations that the students of 1rst ESO have prepared about food.

This is Carmen F. presentation:

The second one is a coproduction between Saba and Bingjie:

Ismael's work:

And now, the one by Khair-un-Nisa:

And last, but not least: another coproduction by Mohammad and Gabi: