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All along the first term of this 2018/2019 school year, my ESL students have been reading different books. My A1 ESL bunch chose their own basic abridged books back in October, read them thoroughly and recommended their readings to each other in an amazing book club discussion . Besides, they have been inspired by their first term reading in order to go into the kitchen and cook some tasty Christmas food, which then they have brought to school and signed up for the traditional Christmas recipe contest that the school has been holding for 25 years now. This way we are combining mediation, reading, speaking and writing language activites, with fun and enjoyable learning. Here you are their awesome outcomes, which we hope you find inspiring too!: On the other hand, my C1 ESL students have concentrated on reading a single book for the first term: ' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ', and so have contributed to the digital collaborative educational p...

Last Monday December 17 2018, we started celebrating Christmas at the school library , helping Santa out of his trouble with this Christmas gift delivery, through a brief and easy escape room, which gathered A1 - B1 ESL students around cracking codes for an hour. The students were teamed up out of the library, on the ground floor, by receiving a Christmas tree card each. There were blue, green, orange, yellow, purple and red Christmas tree cards, so as to make teams of multilevel students. You only need to print as many sets of cards as students you would like to team up, cut them according to colours, and give them out to them as they queue to get into the escape room. That way, when they start the escape room games they already belong to a team and can work together more smoothly.   Next, the school library door is locked and students are told about Santa's trouble and his need for their help, as well as how they can help Santa out, together with the game straigh...

On 13 December 2018, B2.1 and C1 ESL students gathered together at EOI Luarca, Room 32, first floor, for our first book discussion club meetup , after having been reading ' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ' novel for nearly three months. Reading is much more than opening a book and thumbing page after page. Reading means imagining the time and location where a novel is set, understanding the characters and their reactions as well as putting yourself in their shoes; analysing the authors' styles and backgrounds, reviewing, commenting and feeling the whole story, so as to later celebrate your learning with your class peers in a social event. For example, a school meetup.  This is obviously time consuming and involves prior work before joining such a book discussion club meetup, and the B2.1 and C1 ESL students who attended last Thursday's meetup were up to the challenge, and even thought of empowering everybody's brains ...

Last 12 December 2018 was one of those days when one knows for sure, if ever doubted, that being a teacher is the best job in the world! After three months learning English, this brilliant group of A1 ESL learners have absolutely left me lost for words, for their effort, their motivation, their active and skilled interactions and the competence to mediate and communicate with their peers, but above all, for their success at discussing books taking into account the little language activities they have accomplished in such short length. This learning mission started back in October, when they went down to the school library for the first time and picked a book of their choice: 'an easy book, please', I said then . However, they did not hesitate to poke into the library drawers until they found an eye-catching title. And so they began! Three months later, we have just held our first A1 ESL Book Discussion Club Meetup , where they have shared their achievements, they ...

Monday 17 December 2018 School Library Time: 18:00

Se acercan las vacaciones navideñas y un nuevo año, 2019, en el que estás invitado a participar con tus recomendaciones lectoras. En la biblioteca de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Luarca, en la planta baja, tienes a tu disposición dos árboles preparados para que dejes esa recomendación lectora que te gustaría hacerle a tus compañeros, para comenzar 2019 con actitud de lectura abierta. ¡Seguro que estas recomendaciones lectoras entre iguales van a llenar el nuevo año de buenos deseos!

On  13 December 2018 , we are having our first two book discussion club meetups, after having finished the novel entitled ' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society '. Our meetups will be in Room 32 , at our Languages School, first floor, on Thursday 13, at 17:00 and at 19:00  correspondingly, and we will be gathering for over a couple of hours to discuss and debate on the aforesaid book. How we are going to organise the meetup: - We will all be bringing the book we have previously read at home. - We will not be reading aloud, unless somebody really wishes to do so in order to highlight some paragraphs, sentences or chapters that trigger the discussion. - We will be later (the following week) watching the book-based film and having a social gathering for further debate and comparison. - We will then have a social online learning challenge entitled ' Tasty books ' (up to 20 December 2018). - We will be appointing at least one coordinator per m...