Innovative Teaching Practices

        This activity has the main objective of putting into practice, using the new technologies, some of the vocabulary and grammar contents seen in class and related to the topic of the unit (movies) as well as developing their abilities to summarize texts.       The main advantage of using Timetoast for this purpose is that they have to cooperate and work together to select the basic information from the texts provided and a general view, thanks to the timespan, of the box office evolution of some of the most important films of the 21st century.        First of all, we went to the computer classroom to perform the task. Then, we organised the groups of students and logged in the Timetoast webpage. After explaining the students how the webpage works and the meaning of some words such as draft, I provided them the different texts about the highest-grossing movies of the 21 st century (20 in total) collected from...

  In the images related to reading, we can observe several types of texts and books such as novels and newspapers. Some of them were chosen by someone else for sure, for instance the children at school, which is the most common thing when you are a kid beginning to read. Your parents, elder siblings or teachers are usually the ones who recommend you some books or comics in your childhood. Furthermore, a ll the images share the feeling of being very interested and focus on the act of reading. A feeling so powerful that make you forget about everything around you.  I do like the black and white picture of the woman pointing a drawing at the girl because it reminds me when my mother and I used to read together. Besides, the picture of the children at the school also reminds me the great amount of spanish books I read when I was a teen at high school. Nowadays, I enjoy reading a lot and different genres such as novel, poetry, comic and essay in both languages (Spanish and English)...