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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...

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 ...

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...