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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 ...

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 ...

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!