ENGLISH PORTFOLIO. 1ST TERM 19/20

English portfolio

     

     Hi, I'm Marta Palma and I am a student of I.E.S Cartima. I am 15 years old and I love english.

I am going to introduce all the projects we have done this term.

• Climate change:

In this project we had to realise about how global warming can change our lifes. Climate change is very important now and we did this project to know more about it. The final product was filming a flipgrid about our opinion and our experience about global warming.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

• Halloween:

Halloween is from United States of America and we did a project about it at the end of October and at the beginning of November. We wanted to celebrate it too and we were looking for some information and doing some tasks. The final product was carrying out a pumpkin decorating workshop with students in first and in second year.

 Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash

• Fair Saturday:

This project was very important because we participated in the global movement of Fair Saturday doing documentaries about NGOs. 

My group did a documentary about “Madre Coraje”. 

In the subject of english we had to do subtitles for the video. With the subtitles, more people can watch the video.

     My favourite project this term was Climate Change. Now I am going to explain deeper all the tasks we did in the project.

The objectives were:

• To raise awareness about the importance of the environmental laws and agreements that governs have made.
• How humans must interact with their environment.
• To know about the main points of the Paris Agreement 2019.
• To learn and review vocabulary related to the environment, pollution, ecology…

     This project had this different tasks:

Writing:

We had to look for information about environmental laws of different countries owing we had to do a writing about it.

I had some difficulties with the vocabulary because I have never done something related to climate change in english so I look for the meanings in wordreference.

Here you have my own writing.

Speaking:

It was a little task where we recorded an audio having a conversation about environmental laws in our group.

We did it with the writing we had done before.

Memes:

Memes are very trending topic now on the Internet and we did some of them too. We created some memes about global warming. We know that a meme is something funny and global warming is something worrying but we tried to do something funny.

In this task, I learnt how to do a meme and I discover that there are some webs where you have pictures of famous memes and you only have to put text on it.

Here you have the web that I used for the memes

Here you can see my memes:

Final product:

We had to do a flipgrid (a flipgrid is a video of yourself talking about some issue) talking and answering this questions:  What do you think about Climate change? Can governments help to reduce global warming? 

We had to give our opinion and talk about our experiences in around 1:30 min. 

     The final product was individually but the memes were in group and each of us gave a lot of ideas and we work very well in the group.

    Now, I am going to show you how I make notes in my notebook about vocabulary and gramar.

I think that I spent the time very well because I was always on time in all the lessons and I tried to speak and practise english a lot with my class.

     This term I had a very good group in the subject of english so I think that we worked very well and we did all the tasks on time. 

I am usually the coordinator in all groups but this time, we could choose the group and in my group, all of us were coordinators so, this time, I was the speaker.

For the next term, we have to speak more english in the class because we forgot it and we speak spanish. 

     The best thing in the subject was that the teacher didn’t choose the group so we can do it. When we chose the group we work more and we work comfortable. I think that chose the group is a very important thing in the subject of english because we have to practise and speak all time in english and if I work with people that I don’t want to work with, I think that I am not going to try to speak english. In conclusion, I prefer to choose the groups than work with people that I don’t know.

Other good thing was that we were working with real sources and it was one of the best things to learn too.

    This term, I learnt a lot about volunteers in the UK and before we started the Fair Saturday project, I didn’t know the big importance of been volunteer and I didn’t know why people become a volunteer. Now, I am more interesting in become a volunteer than before.

     In my opinion, I tried to use a lot english in the class but sometimes I forget it and I start to speak in spanish. In the next term, I have to speak more english in class because I think that practising is the best way to learn.

     In the next term this are my objectives:

• Speak more english in the class
• Study more vocabulary
• Try to study all days
• Take notes of all the grammar we will learn

    In conclusion, we have done a lot of things this term and the most important thing is be funny speaking english. I learnt a lot about Fair Saturday and about Global Warming.