ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SECONDARY SECTION
We would like to share these thoughts with you!!!
ATTITUDE
by: Charles Swindoll
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
ACTITUD
Cuanto más vivo, más me doy cuenta de la importancia de la actitud ante la vida.
La actitud, para mí, es más importante que los hechos. Es más importante que el pasado, que la educación, que el dinero, que las circunstancias, que los fracasos, que los éxitos, que lo que otras personas piensan o dicen o hacen. Es más importante que las apariencias, los dones o habilidades. Hará o destruirá una compañía ... una iglesia ... una casa.
Lo notable es que tenemos una opción para todos los días respecto a la actitud que asumiremos ese día. No podemos cambiar nuestro pasado ... no podemos cambiar el hecho de que la gente actúe de una manera determinada. No podemos cambiar lo inevitable. Lo único que podemos hacer es jugar en la cuerda que tenemos, y esa es nuestra actitud. Estoy convencido de que la vida es un 10% lo que me pasa y el 90% cómo debo reaccionar ante ella.
How we work!!
In our secondary school our main goal is that our students sit for Cambridge Exams:
PET in second year and FCE in fourth year. This is why we have decided to start with a new series of books called Activate! This is an exam course in three levels that has been especially designed to engage and motivate teenage students with its lively, modern design and teenage-appropriate content. Not only does Activate! have a wide range of interesting topics to keep teenagers focused on learning, it also has a fun DVD for students which offers skills –based development and practice for intermediate level students through engaging topics from contemporary teen culture. These topics are similar to the topics seen in teenage magazines, on TV programmes, in films and websites and heard in the music they listen to. These familiar topics will encourage students to discuss their own views on these issues and be actively involved in using English.
First, Second, Third and Fourth Year work with Activate! , students´s book
Each unit contains skills development in reading, writing, listening and speaking as well as topic vocabulary and grammar appropriate at this level. In addition, exam skills are practised in every unit with particular focus in the Use of English section.
Each students´s book is complemented by:
A Workbook with self-study CD-ROM that provides:
*Skills development
*Grammar and vocabulary practice
Activate! Use of English that provides:
- Grammarzones with clear grammar rules
- Intensive exam practice sections
- Grammar and vocabulary based exercises.
Activate! Grammar and Vocabulary that provides:
Material used by our students:
1st Year : ACTIVATE! B1. Editorial Pearson
- Students´s book
- Workbook without key
- Activate Grammar and vocabulary
- Readers:
-The Ring . Editorial Penguin level 3
-The faithful ghost and other Tall Tales . Oxford Dominoes 3
2nd Year : ACTIVATE! B1 +. Editorial Pearson
_ Students´s book
_ Workbook without key
_ Activate Grammar and vocabulary book.
-Readers:
- The Pearl. Penguin Active Readers. Level. 3 - Tales of mystery and imagination. Oxford bookworms readers. Level 3
3rd Year : ACTIVATE! B2. Editorial Pearson . Units 1 to 6.
_ Students´s book
_ Workbook without key
_ Use of English book.
- Readers:
- Wuthering Heights Oxford. Level 5 - Taste and other tales. By Roald Dahl. Pearson.
- The Pelican Brief. By John Grisham. Penguin Active Readers. Level 5
4th Year : ACTIVATE !B2 Units 7 to 12.
5th Year : Students who did not sit for FCE in 4TH Year, have the chance to sit for it during 5th Year.
OUR STAFF
1st Year: Alicia Estévez
Graciela de Ibarra
2nd Year: Elsa Trolli
Claudia Mambretti
3rd Year: Sonia Kevorkyan
4th Year: Gabriela González
5th Year: Gabriela Boschini
English Coordinator: Alejandra De Bello
Dates to remember!!!!!!
First Year.
April 18th : Written Test on Tenses
April 28th: Written Test on Unit 1 Activate! B1
