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This project has been funded with support from the european Commission

© Barcelona 2014

Cover designed by Francesc Mir

Edited byCol·legi Pare Manyanet - Les Corts. Barcelona, Spain

Gimmnazija Jutja Barakoviæa, Zadar, Croatia

Glatasaray Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey

The Westgate School, Slough, United Kingdom

Liceo Scientifico Statale, “Alberto Eisntein”, Palermo, Italy

Werner von Siemens Gymnasium, München, Germany

Coordinating SchoolLiceul Tehnologic Economic “Virgil Madgearu”, Iaºi, Romania

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Set of short activities to do in class

Those activities are aimed for students of 3rd and 4th ESO

Content

1. Arts. The art puzzle

2. Spanish. Don Quixote

3. Catalan. Compact tales

4. English. People we admire Sant Jordi

5. Science. Who’s who? Scientists in a crossword

6. Social Science. Different personalities and their role in History

7. Technology. Inventor vs. inventions

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Visual and Plastic Education. “Learning to read works of art”

Description:

Working on Catalan Architecture-Sculpture-Painting.

Correction and time spent are tested.

This activity can be done individually or in groups, also as a competitive game while

working three works of art at the same time.

It can be used as the initial activity to start working styles and eras, social class and function

of art throughout history.

The works of art are:

Medieval Art. Romanesque. “Pantocràtor de Tahüll” work of Master Tahull. Painting.

Art Nouveau. “Palau de la Música Catalana” Lluis Domenech i Montaner. Architecture.

Realism-Symbolism Art “Els primers freds” (“First Cold”) by Miquel Blay. Sculpture.

Students have to relate works of art of three different periods and styles of our culture.

Students must rebuild the different images of the work from the pieces of a puzzle,

identifying the work, the author and the style to which they belong.

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Author: Miquel BlayArtwork: First colds (Els Primers freds)Realism/Simbolism (Realisme/Simbolisme)

Author: Master TahullArtwork: Pantocràtor de TaüllRomanesque (Romànic)

Author: Lluis Domenech i MontanerArtwork: Palau de la MúsicaModernism (Modernisme)

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Spanish. “Literature without order”

Description:

Working on “Don Quixote”.

The activity planned by the Spanish language

department was to choose the first paragraph of the

famous novel ‘Don Quixote’, written by our most

international writer Don Miguel de Cervantes

Saavedra, translate it into English and then print the

text on cards of different colors.

Then we cut it into smaller pieces, with one or two sentences in each piece, and the students

had to sort the different fragments of the first paragraph in the correct order.

Different fragments of the first paragraphs of Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote”


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Different fragments of the first paragraphs of Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote”


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Catalan. “Literature in less than 5 minutes”

Description:

Compact Tales.

Since we are working on Pere Calders, one of our most prominent 20th Century writers

and that he was a master in the art of narrative, we have discovered irony, absurdity,

genius, the unusual aspect of reality by reading his so-called synthetic tales.

We chose some of them and we read them in class.

The stories have no more than 6 lines but are

intended to make people reflect.

The next day the students also tried to write one,

and the ones who did read them in class.

EXAMPLES

The Express

Nobody wanted to tell him what time the train would come. Everybody saw him with

so many suitcases that they felt sorry to tell him that there had never been neither a

station nor tracks there.

Balance

Just as he was about to catch the bucket, he

tripped and fell into the well. As he was falling,

he saw his whole life go by, and he found it

plain and monotonous (as we would say) so he

swallowed the water to drown with exemplary

resignation.


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Discretion

We invited him to think and said he did not want to bother us so he would think when

he got home.

The mirror of the soul

We had never met anywhere, any time, but he looked like a neighbour of mine so much

that he greeted me warmly… he was also confused.


English. “People we admire”

Description

People who deserve to be admired

This activity is based on groups of four students each, where they have to prepare an

oral expression talking about someone whose life deserves to be admired.

They explain everything they have found out about that person, giving details about his/

her work, his/her thought, that is to say, everything that made him/her a person deserving

admiration. We have tried to focus on Catalan people. They belong to different fields such

as music, cinema, literature, international organizations, etc.

The students who are listening are given the chance to ask their classmates about these

characters. This activity has different goals: the first one is to have an approach to local

people who have/had a remarkable life. Through this approach they will get some values

–at least we hope so-.It is also a way to improve their English skills since very often they

have to look for very specific vocabulary regarding to the fields where the different

“admirable” people used to belong. Some of them are still alive but in most cases, they are

dead.

When we started this activity, we used power points to make them more attractive but

soon we noticed that the expressions lasted too much so we decided not to use them.

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English. “Sant Jordi”

Description

Same book different details

Sant Jordi is the Catalan for St George, the patron saint of Catalonia. The Diada de Sant

Jordi, which is St George’s Day (23 April), is a festival that has been taking place over

the years, with lots of balconies in the city draped with the senyera, the Catalan national

flag. The festival’s star elements are culture and love, represented by books and roses,

and its main meeting point in Barcelona is along the Ramblas, which you will find

packed from end to end with book and flower stalls.

It is usual on St George’s Day to find books in every language, but there most stalls

specialize in Catalan and Spanish, given that St George’s Day here is seen as a day for

promoting and championing Catalan and Spanish culture. St George’s Day has been the

Book Day ever since the first third of the 20th century.

The activity we organized on that occasion and after the festivity was to check which

books sold the most and match the different authors and their books and do a little

research (the internet) on them and by groups. Time spent was tested. It was a short

activity which proved to be successful because many of the students knew about most

of the titles.

Catalan Fiction

1. L’avi de 100 anys que es va escapar per la finestra (La Campana), de Jonas Jonasson

2. Quan érem feliços (Destino), de Rafael Nadal

3. Memòria d’uns ulls pintats (Empúries), de Lluís Llach

4. Jo confesso (Proa), de Jaume Cabré

5. La dona veloç (Planeta), d’Imma Monsó

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Spanish Fiction

1. El enredo de la bolsa y la vida (Seix Barral), d’Eduardo Mendoza

2. El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó (Salamandra), de Jonas Jonasson

3. El lector de Julio Verne (Tusquets), d’Almudena Grandes

4. El prisionero del cielo (Planeta), de Carlos Ruiz Zafón

5. Las horas distantes (Suma de Letras), de Kate Morton

Catalan non-Fiction

1. Memòries III: de la bonança a un repte nou (1993-2011) (Proa), de Jordi Pujol

2. El menjar de la família (La Magrana), de Ferran Adrià

3. Viatge a l’optimisme (Destino), d’Eduard Punset

4. Fago (La Campana), de Carles Porta

5. Diguem prou! (Angle), d’Arcadi Oliveres

Spanish Non-Fiction

1. Más allá del crash (Los libros del Lince), de Santiago Niño Becerra

2. La comida de la familia (RBA), de Ferran Adrià

3. La soledad de la reina: Sofía, una vida (La esfera de los libros), de Pilar Eyre

4. El arte de no amargarse la vida (Oniro), de Rafael Santandreu

5. Haciendo majaradas, diciendo tonterías (Espasa), de Mario Vaquerizo

Media Books

1. APM? El circ de la tele (Ara llibres), diversos autors

2. El llibre de jocs de Crackovia (Columna), diversos autors

3. En directe (Rosa dels vents), de Josep Cuní i Pilar Rahola

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Chidren’s

1. Stilton: El llibre i la rosa (Estrella Polar), de Geronimo Stilton

2. Una rosa per a... pintar (Susaeta), diversos autors

3. El meu primer llibre de Sant Jordi (Estrella Polar), diversos autors

4. Londres 2012 (Ediciones B), de Francisco Ibáñez

5. Stilton: El secret del coratge (Estrella Polar), de Geronimo Stilton

1. Los juegos del hambre I (Molino), de Suzanne Collins

2. En llamas (Los juegos del hambre II) (Molino), de Suzanne Collins

3. Londres 2012 (Ediciones B), de Francisco Ibáñez

4. El día del libro (Destino), de Gerónimo Stilton

5. Stilton: El secreto del valor (Planeta), de Gerónimo Stilton

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Science. “Who’s who?”

Description

Scientists in a crossword

Guess all the words in the next crosswords with the names of famous scientists in Spanish

History

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1. Spanish primatologist who discovered Snowflake, a very rare albino gorilla that lived

in the zoo of Barcelona

2. Pioneer investigator in the

microscopic structure of the

brain. He is considered the

father of modern Neuroscience

3. He was the first European to

correctly describe the function

of the lung circulation

4. Spanish biochemist who

worked in understanding the

origin of life. Participated in

several NASA missions,

including Apollo mission to

the Moon and the Viking lander


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5. He is an internationally recognized leader in the study of cancer metastases. Currently

he is chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Cancer Center

6. Spanish - American Doctor of Medicine and Biochemistry he was awarded the Nobel

Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research in the synthesis of RNA

7. Molecular biologist who discovered the first oncogene.


Social Science. “Historical personalities”

Description

Different personalities and their role in History

Historical characters have been chosen from different periods or stages of Political History

of Spain. Pictures of those characters, their names and the historical period to which they

belong to have been printed in folio using the same format.

Some characters have already been studied in previous courses, others are studied in the

course and others are known for their role or historical relevance. The characters are:

Alfonso XII

Francisco Franco

Felipe González

Isabel II

Fernando II of Aragon

Juana la Loca.

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These characters may change on other occasions depending on the Historical period we

are studying.

Students previously divided into groups identify character, name and historical stage in

the shortest time possible…this way students relate the character image visually with his

stage name in a most practical and educational way.

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Technology. “Inventor vs Inventions?”

Description

Who invented what?

In Technology class, we worked on the historical part of inventions. We prepared a 5

minutes activity where students had to relate the Spanish inventor to the invention made.

Students recognized half of them, and the other half took quite a long time. They had fun

trying to guess the latter. Here is the list we worked on.

INVENTIONS

Digital calculator

Hypodermic disposable syringe

The stapler

Microseismograph

Laryngoscope

The sharpener

Talgo train

Submersible vessel

Submarine,made of Steel and driven by electric power

Autogiro, precursor of the helicopter

The mop

Lollipops

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