1. PROJECT

This project was carried out with students from 2ºESO and was supervised by their English teachers: Delia Borrego and María Martín.

The goal of this project was for students to get to know those Spanish figures than are behind the street names of the town they live in. Some of these famous Spaniards were painters, architects, sailors, writers, or belonged to the crown. The amount of information they have been working with was huge; so another objective was to be able to  analyse all the data out there on the internet and select the relevant one for their own purposes. 

Our intention is to share what we have been learning about our heritage with students from other countries and let them have an approach to our monuments and historical characters. 

2. FINAL PRODUCT

- Creation of online timelines wih biographical details of some Spaniards behind the names of Boadilla´s street names

- Power Point presentations of famous Spanish figures: painters, architects, kings,..

- Creation of Kahoot games with the common topic of Famous Spaniards who inspired the names of our town streets

STEPS WE HAVE FOLLOWED

STEP 1. LET´S GET TO WORK!

Our students were first asked to look at the map of Boadilla and find names of streets named after historical figures. Once they had done that, they chose a famous Spaniard and searched for information related to him/her. In addition, one of the groups  focused on the architect our school is named after, Ventura-Rodriguez, and all those18th -century  historical figures that were relevant to his life and work.   

STEP 2: CREATING TIMELINES 

Students  created timelines of the different characters chosen, all of them related to Boadilla, its palace, the church and the convent.

This is the result:

 

STEP 3: PRESENTING THEIR MATERIALS

After all their hard work, students took their timelines and ppt presentations to school and used them to talk to their classmates about the different biographies they had prepared. They also had to be prepared to answer to all the questions asked.

 

 

STEP 4: CREATE A KAHOOT

Students also created questionnaires about what they had just learnt through the app Kahoot.it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) SHARING

The last step is to share it with students from other countries and see how much they know about the characters we have been studying.

 

All this information has also been posted in the school bilingual blog

 

 

 

We have also had a different approach to the palace of Infante Don Luis and this is the result!

 

4. OBJECTIVES

- Get to know famous Spaniards relevant to the history of our country and to the construction of our town, Boadilla. 

- Be able to select relevant information from the internet or other sources and summarize it..

- Produce short written texts with accurate grammar and using the necessary linkers and connectors.

- Use the Power Point tool to present information

- Be able to present work in front of an audience and answer questions related to the topic. 

 

5. DIGITAL TOOLS USED

• Timeline online tool
• Kahoot platform
• email
• etwinning platform
• skype
• twinspace
• Power Point tool

6. SYLLABUS USED

• Use of past simple
• Use of past continuous
• Vocabulary related to biographies
• Sequencing connectors and time expressions
• Use of passive

 

 

7. RUBRIC FOR EVALUATION

	Scheduled on time     2 point	Correct information     2 point	Personal  and original work (not copied from the internet) 2 point	Quality of final result     2 point	Correct use of Englihs language and pronunciation 2 point
TIMELINE
PRESENTATION
KAHOOT
Total points: ____/30

 

These activities have been carried out by students from 2ºE and 2ºF (bilingual group), along with their teachers, Delia Borrego and María Martín.