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Thomas Becket’s story in Anento (Zaragoza)
If you are teaching the MECD-British Council integrated curriculum, you know how interesting can be using elements to make a strong British-Spanish connection for your students. Some are well known, like the story of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, but some are not. The altarpiece of the small village of Anento in Zaragoza province, Aragon, has one of these less known connections. It is a gothic masterpiece painted by Blasco de Grañén in the 15th century which shows three stories about our Lady of Mercy, Saint Blaise and Saint Thomas Becket. Yes, Thomas Becket, the saint of Canterbury appears here and this is because his murder was a prefiguration of the problems the archbishops of Zaragoza faced at the beginning of the 15th century, a time of political instability in the Crown of Aragon. If you want to know more about this beautiful altarpiece, you can read this book, in Spanish, M.C. Lacarra, Retablo de San Blas, de la Virgen de la Misericordia y de Santo Tomás Becket de la iglesia parroquial de Anento (Zaragoza).
The whole story of Saint Thomas Becket
Murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
Talks for teachers from some conferences.
A wonderful thing about this global online world we are living in is that we can get access to some teacher training events which were recorded and uploaded to some websites. If you are interested in watching a couple of talks from two different conferences you can follow these links.
The first one is from the ELT British Conference held in Madrid on 1st October 2016 and is related to CLIL. Rebecca Place presents the idea of bringing the knowledge from outside the school into the lessons.
The second one is from the EdmodoCon held in San Mateo, California, USA, on 2th and 3rd August 2016. Stephanie Ward underlines the importance of sharing what happened in the class to the rest of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYd8CgFD8k
Discoveries, explorers and rulers of the sea at Naveluna
A small project about the discoveries and explorers of the Early Modern Era in Social Science. The pupils could choose their task: a storyboard, a fictional diary or an oral description of a painting.
There is a presentation that summarises the work of the students. You can download it in the following link: Students work Sociales Naveluna 2
This project was part of an interdisciplinary one built around Mathematics and Astronomy, called Naveluna, at IES Pedro de Luna, Zaragoza.
Famous migrants
This is an activity that was already uploaded to this website, but it was not available anymore due to some problems the website experienced. So, we have it here again. It is a non typical approach to migration that can be used for Geography or English lessons.
Here, you can get the powerpoint:
FAMOUS-MIGRANTS Aragonbilingue version
Here, you can get the worksheets:
Estancia profesional en el Reino Unido
Entre el 4 y el 17 de octubre de 2015, la profesora Elvira García Arnal, del IES Pedro de Luna de Zaragoza, ha realizado una estancia profesional de dos semanas en la Fairfield High School, de Peterchurch, Hereford, Reino Unido, dentro del programa de estancias profesionales del MECD.
La estancia ha sido una experiencia grata que ha permitido a los alumnos de español de Fairfield un contacto más directo con la lengua que estudian y a la profesora española observar la metodología con la que trabajan los profesores de Geografía y de Historia en un centro inglés, aspecto primordial dentro de la enseñanza bilingüe de currículo integrado (MEC-British Council). Agradecemos de nuevo la colaboración y amabilidad de la comunidad educativa de la Fairfield High School y especialmente del profesorado de MFL y Humanities para que esta estancia haya sido posible.
A continuación hay varios enlaces a materiales elaborados tras esta estancia profesional:
Peterchurch UK for Aragonbilingue
Poppies in the UK after professional stay
Juan de Lanuza patriot or rebel
Philip II prudent king or evil ruler
También se puede ver una presentación en inglés sobre esta estancia en el siguiente enlace:
Professional stay at Fairfield
Y la colaboración en el blog de Estancias profesionales de Educalab (MECD):
Entradilla en el blog de Estancias Profesionales
Zoom – Publicación Mensual de la Embajada de USA
Zoom In On the USA is a publication aimed to help English language students.
We hope that English language teachers will find it useful, and high school students will read it to brush up on their linguistic skills. You can receive Zoom every month by e-mail (.pdf format) requesting it throughout our subscription form.
Women of the last centuries
If you are a Social Science teacher, maybe you want to introduce the study of the last three centurias of History focusing on the people. Then, you can use this powerpoint presentation that includes the portraits of four different women.
Find the presentation here: Women of the Contemporary Era for Aragonbilingue
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