Deadlines for second term

These will be the deadlines for the second term (do not panic, you will have enough time to do your homework after Christmas; your duty now is enjoying your holidays!): 

1º British

Oral: 7 Wonders of ancient times _ Friday, 21 January

Exam I (Greece)_ Wednesday, 2 February

Monthly work nº3 (Classic World) _ Friday, 9 February

Exam II (Rome)_ Wednesday, 23 February

Monthly work nº4 (Ancient Britain) _ Wednesday, 9 March

Book review (details here/page 2) _ Friday, 11 March

2º British

Comic _ Monday, 24 January

Video: Spanish America TV news _ Monday, 7 February

Monthly work nº4 (America)_ Monday, 14 February

Monthly work nº5 (Modern era)_ Monday, 7 March

Exam I (if necessary)_ Monday, 21 February

Exam II (if necessary)_ Monday, 14 March

3º British

Oral: Searching a job in Europe! _ CV delivery (Monday, 17) & Interview (Monday, 24) January

Monthly work nº2 (Primary sector)_ Monday, 31 January

Videoscribe _ Monday, 14 February

Monthly work nº3 (Secondary sector)_ Monday, 21 february

Exam (Primary & Secondary sectors)_ Monday 14 & Tuesday 15, March

4º British

Monthly work nº4 (Industrial) _ Friday, 28 January

Twitter (Victorian era & Industrial): 

• Election of roles (Friday, 14 January)
• Development: Tuesday 18 to Tuesday 25, January 

Historical newspaper (1914) _ Friday, 11 February

Spanish flu vs Covid _ Friday, 18 February

Monthly work nº5 (IWW & Russia) _ Friday, 25 February

Exam (Industrial Rev, IWW & Russia Rev.)_ THURSDAY 10 & FRIDAY 11, March

Have a nice day and take care.

3º British: Ávila, a sustainable city

Have you ever think in ruling a city? Now it’s your opportunity! :) You can determine now the route Ávila will take in becoming the most environmentally friendly, safe, and sustainable it can be!

 

Firstly remember the key words: Sustainability is the way to secure the QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE FUTURE OF ALL INHABITANTS OF A CITY. It is not only about renewable energies and ecology, it is also about smart (tech) cities, about safety and about total and equal access to health, culture & leisure facilities.

 

How can you do it? Each member of the group will become one of the four Sustainability Experts, completing the urban design from an expertise point of view:

Renewable Energy Consultant

Public Transportation Manager

Accesibility Supervisor

Waste Management Officer

 

Roles decided and shared, now write a report with 10 ideas (explained as complete as possible) to improve the sustanaibility of Ávila. In that report you must incluye, at least, these requirements:

• One idea linked to energetical sources
• Two proposals linked to environment (eg. waste management, pollution, street lights,  green spaces, etc.)
• One idea about transport and mobility

Of course, in your report you HAVE TO include also some pictures and obviously also your street plan! Google maps will be a basic tool in this activity. If you, for example, want to create a solar pannels power station, you must point in the map (screenshot) where are you planning to locate it and why.

 

As you know well your place and are quite aware of what Ávila could need, you will have only one week for doing this activity. Communication, cooperation, collaboration and a bit of creativity are vital to making this research process a success!  

When finish, as usual, send it to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es in pdf format. This work will be part of the score at the end of the term. If you fail to finish them or you give it out of date, the mark will be a 0 for this work.

 

Here are some additional documents and links that can help you get started with your project design:

What's a Sustainable City, Anyway? Article by James Elsen, CEO of Sustain Lane

Safe cities for Women (United Nations Program)

European Disability Strategy

Case study: el Pris (Tenerife) 

Accesibilidad Global (in Spanish): legislation & glossary.

And you can always remember the example of Curitiba (Brasil)

 

Enjoy it! And... good luck! 

1º British: Terracotta Warriors of Xian

Welcome time-traveling students! You have chosen to research a fascinating topic that is still standing from the days of Ancient China.  This is a double-task activity that can be done individually or in groups (maximun, 3 people). When finish, send an email with your work to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es.  

First, research!. You have to do a presentation (prezi or pdf format, no other formats will be accepted) about Qin Xi Huang and his country. Items you MUST include:  

1. Map of Ancient China
2. Portrait and short biography of Qin Xi Huang
3. How was culture and society on those times?
4. The achievements of Emperor Qin Xi Huang (1): the Great Wall
5. The achievements of Emperor Qin Xi Huang (2): the Terra Cotta Warriors.  This is the most important part so try to do your best and do a complete research: when and why were they built? Where are they located? How are they made of? Who discovered them and when? etc.

To start with, you may find additional information in the following links:

Qin Dynasty (Wikipedia) It is only an introduction to the topic, but you ought to visit other (more accurate) websites like the Met Museum or the China Highlights; You can also visit  some touristical pages, such as or travel Guide .

You can add maps, portraits, photos... anything that you think is relevant. You have to elaborate your own writting; copy/paste is not allowed and it would mean a penalization on your mark. 

Second: oral speak at class! Turn yourself into an historian and teach us all you know about Qin Xi Huang and his terracotta warriors! (Duration average: 5-8 minutes). Of course, if you are doing the task in groups, ALL the members of the team HAVE TO talk. Cooperation and the use of appropiate vocabulary will be also keep in mind. 

As usual, this work is mandatory and it will be part of the score at the end of the term. If you fail to finish it or you give it out of date, the mark will be a 0. 

Enjoy the work and good luck! :)

2º British: World travellers in Medieval Times.

Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Zheng He are some of the most important travellers of all times but... who is the greatest one? Would you like to find it out? Would you like to discover their adventures? This is your oportunity!

First of all, let's have a revision about the origin of the Silk trade route though this article by Geografía Infinita (in Spanish).

This is a double-task activity and can be done individually or in groups (maximun, 4 students). First, do an online research and prepare a presentation (pdf or prezi; no other format would be accepted) with the following 7 topics:

1. Short biographies: write a short bio of each historical character (maximum: 10 lines per character). Add also their portraits.

2. Why travelling? Explain what was the main target of their travels: Bussiness? Holidays? Geographical explorations? Militar conquest?

3. Routes: How old were them when they began their journeys? How long did the journeys take? Who did the longest travel? Which countries did they visit? (Yes, in this question you can just add a map...)

4. Primary sources: find some texts from their original books. Choose one extract from it (In your presentation you have to include the text, the chapter it belongs to and the country it is talking about). Them explain why you have chosen that text in particular.

5. Deep study of the place: from the text you have chosen in the previous section, do a deeper study of the area nowadays: Are the cities mentioned on the text still existing? What does the landscape look like nowadays in this area? What differences do you observe between the original description and nowadays situation? You can add images and photos.

6. Imagine you are a young explorer. Use the Internet to research a country that you would like to visit. In a short essay (about 15-20 lines), describe the country, the people, and the sights you will see in this country.

7. Opinion: after studying these three historical characters, which one do you think that is the greatest explorer? Why?

8. Author’s credits and webgraphy (detailed sources of information you used)

Here you have some links to start:

Zheng He (in Spanish)

Marco Polo (in Spanish)

Ibn Battuta (in Spanish)

When finish, send an email with your work to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es. 

Second: oral talk at class! Turn yourself into an historian and teach us all you know about them! Required duration: 10-15 minutes. Of course, if you are doing the task in groups, ALL the members of the team HAVE TO talk. Cooperation and the use of appropiate vocabulary will be also keep in mind. 

This is a mandatory activity and you will receive a mark for it. Of course, cooperation, task-sharing and team-effort will be taken into consideration. If you fail to do it, do it out of time or just copy&paste from internet, you will have a 0.

Are you ready? Go on, enjoy... and good luck! :)

4º British: The Umbrella’s Revolution at Hong Kong, 2014

As I usually tell you in class, History is always repeated. This is the reason why is so important to have a good knowledge about our past. As an example, you will start a comparaison between the French Revolution (1789) and the so-called "Umbrella’s revolution" (2014). I am sure you will find this up-to-date activity quite different and interesting.

It is a triple-task activity. Read carefully the instructions and answer ALL the questions as completely as possible. It can be done individually or in pairs. When finish (deadline: Monday, 17 October), send your answers in PDF format as attached file to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es This activity is mandatory and you will receive a mark for it.

Task 1. Research. Use information from the BBC article “Hong Kong’s Democracy Debate” to answer the following questions:

1.1. In what year did China take control of Hong Kong?

1.2. How was the leader of Hong Kong elected before the Revolt?

1.3. What change to Hong Kong’s election process did the Chinese government announce in August 2014?

1.4. Why did this upset democracy activists in Hong Kong?

1.5. How has China responded to the protests?

Task 2. Photo analysis. From this collection of photos, choose 2 of them and explain their meaning. Maybe you need also to read this BBC explanation of symbols.  

Add the chosen photo in your document with each comment. Did you find something specially interesting or surprising in the photos? (What? Why?). Keep in mind that a photograph cannot give you a complete picture of the protests, and you should be careful about drawing conclusions from the photographs.

Task 3. Comparaison with the French Revolution. Use your own knowledge to answer the following questions:

3.1. What were the similarities and differences between both Revolutions? Name, at least, 3 similarities and 3 differences.

3.2. Did the Umbrella’s Revolt get through the same steps that the French revolution? Why?

3.3. Do you think that they (both) were a success or not? Why?

3.4. Why do YOU think people is still revolting in different parts of the world?

Ready? 3, 2, 1...

3º British: Studying Geography by riding a bike_ La Vuelta

Good news! Today I bring a new and a bit different activity for studying the Geography of Spain: La Vuelta! Run from Saturday 14 August 2021 to Sunday 5 September 2021, La Vuelta 21 was made up of 21 stages and covered a total distance of 3.417 kilometers!

 

How does it work?

You (or your group) must choose ONE of the CCAA that received La Vuelta this year  and do a detailed research of it; therefore, the first thing to do is visit the official website of the cycling tour: https://www.lavuelta.es/en/overall-route. The activity will be organise in different tasks or stages (as in the ride!) and you will be adding marks to your score. Ready? 

 

Section 1: Inaugural time trial

Exam of political Spain (CCAA – provinces – capital cities). The teacher will provide a blank map for solving the riddle in a maximun of 10 minutes during a class.

 

Section 2: Study of the physical geography of the chosen CCAA 

Create a mind-map, a prezzi or a ppt presentation with the information required in the following items (remember that it would be always a good idea to include images or maps that can illustrate your answers!):

- Brief description of its natural relief; if having several environments, include a mention of all of them (flat, mountainous, coastal...)

- Brief description of its fluvial system (What are the most important rivers in that region? Are they long or short? Why? How are their flow rates? What sea / ocean do they flow into?)

- Brief description of its weather/climate; if having several climatic areas, include a mention of all of them (do not forget to include some climate graphs to illustrate this point)

- Brief description of the tipical vegetation and fauna linked to that climatic condictions.

 

When finish this part, send your file in pdf format (or the link to your prezi presentation) to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es.

 

Section 3: Study of the human geography of the CCAA

 

Create a mind-map, a prezzi or a ppt presentation with the information required in the following items (remember that it would be always a good idea to include images or maps that can illustrate your answers!):

- Population (To check the official census, the best option is the website of INE but datosmacro could be also hepful for the detailed population piramids)

- Population analysis: is the population well balance or uneven distributed in any particular group? (eg. Very low percentage of young population). Why? Could the CCAA suffer any type of problem derivated from that?

- Is there any remarkable phenomena linked to population of that CCAA? (eg. natalist policies, migration waves...)

- Population distribution: what are the main cities? How is their shape and size?, what about the rural areas? Are the “emptied areas”? Why?... For illustrating this point it would be necessary to include images (screenshots) from google maps (you can use the "street" or "satellite" option. Or both!)

 

Again, when finish this part, send your file in pdf format (or the link to your prezi presentation) to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es.

A usual, some basic rules before starting: this activity can be done individually or in groups (maximum, 4 people); it would be a long-larsting activity, with different sections among the academic year, keep that in mind and stay focus ;) Of course, this is a mandatory activity; If you do not do it, or do it out of time, your mark here will be 0.

Ready? Steady?... go!

British: Academic Information for 2021-22

Hello, hello! Hope you have enjoyed a great summer because... we are back!

In the following links you can read the academic information for this academic year: 

1º E.S.O. British

2º E.S.O. British

3º E.S.O. British

4º E.S.O. British

As usual, you can also read the Assesment Criteria and donwload the "text book" and the monthly works for homework in the tab "APUNTES". 

Are you ready? 3... 2... 1... Let's go! :)