Earth Overshoot Day. Classroom activities

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. In 2020 the calculated overshoot day fell on August 22 (more than three weeks later than 2019) due to coronavirus induced lockdowns around the world. 

In 2021 Spain exceeds the biocapacity of the planet on May 25th. This means that in less than 5 months, in Spain we have exhausted our ecological budget, from now on we are spending a natural capital that the Planet will not be able to regenerate. 

Find interesting educational activities related to this celebration on:

https://www.overshootday.org/kids-and-teachers-corner/classroom-activities/ 

Wikikahoot Project. English Language

The Petrer Town Council and the town's secondary schools: IES Azorín, La Canal and Paco Mollá have presented a project aimed at students in the second year of Bachillerato so that they can revise content for the university entrance exams in an interactive way. 

Pedro Civera, a teacher at our school, is one of the promoters of this initiative, which has been made possible thanks to the participation of teachers from Petrer schools and with the support of the regional education authority.

Through the following link you can access the contents related to the English language.

https://wikikahoot.iespacomolla.es/bach-ingles.html

International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)

The ICDL Foundation is a non-profit corporation. Its goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. 

The Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community. 

The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world. 

Books are categorized by language, character, genre, format, shape, color… 

Find them on:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ 

Books in English:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/library/lang2.html 

BBC Sound Effects

The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. 

There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive.

As well as browsing and searching through this treasure trove of sounds, you can also make and share your own mixes and soundscapes using the ‘mixer mode’ function.  (Source BBC Sound Effects)  

Find them on:

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

English grammar. Web del CFPA Giner de los Ríos

Página web de este centro alicantino en el que podréis encontrar explicaciones sobre gramática y sobre ortografía, ejercicios propuestos, pruebas, vídeos, imágenes y tablas con resúmenes para el estudio y numerosos enlaces clasificados por habilidades distintas.

Podéis encontrarla en:

https://plmontesinos.wixsite.com/grammar/ 

21st-Century Readers. Developing #Literacy Skills in a Digital World

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just published, with data from PISA 2018, the report 21st Century Readers: Developing Reading Skills in a Digital World, which uncovers relevant information on how 15-16 year-old students are developing reading skills in an increasingly digitised and interconnected world.

https://www.oecd.org/publications/21st-century-readers-a83d84cb-en.htm 

National Geographic Kids

Published by the National Geographic Society this resource offers amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography, along with fun competitions, games and more. 

Nat Geo Kids enables science lovers to explore the world of science. Apps, games, magazines, videos and many other materials are available on this amazing webpage.

Find it on:

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Periodic table of the figures of speech

A figure of speech is a word or phrase that entails an intentional deviation from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. 

Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence or pattern of words, and tropes, where words are made to carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify. 

This periodic table graphic by Visual Communication Guy groups the 40 different figures of speech into these categories. 

Find it on:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/periodic-table-figures-of-speech-full.html

English Teaching Forum

English Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal supporting the teaching of English around the world through the publication of innovative, practical ideas. It is published by the U.S. Department of State.

This magazine welcomes submissions from English language teachers around the world. Most of the authors published in English Teaching Forum are classroom teachers.

Find it on:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/forum 

English language resources #WJEC

Born out of a consortium of local education authorities in 1948  the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) provides trusted bilingual qualifications, straight-forward specialist support, and reliable assessment to schools and colleges across the country 

In the following link you can find the educational resources it offers related to the English language.

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=11&lvlId=0