LANGUAGE TRIP 1st BATXILLERAT (3): THE CLIFFS OF MOHER

Today we visited the stunning Cliffs of Moher, where some famous films have been shot like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince or Ryans Daughter.







Believe it or not, we were lucky to have some patches of sun, although the wind was blowing really hard.












We marvelled at the lovely Irish landscape, there and during the trip: cottages, sheep, pasture lands, castles, towers, the Atlantic coastline, the little harbours,...










The Cliffs stand 214 m above the sea level and stretch for 8 kilometres along the Atlantic. From there, we could see the Aran Islands and Galway Bay.

LANGUAGE TRIP 1st BATXILLERAT (1): OUR FIRST DAY IN IRELAND

We arrived this morning at 12 at Dublin airport with the students of 1st of Batxillerat. We had a very interesting walking tour of Dublin with our friendly guide Denny. He told us lots of different stories about some of the most important icons of the capital city, like the story of Molly Malone, the superstition behind the belltower of Trinity College, the meaning of Ha' Penny Bridge, the importance of the historical character O'Connell and many more.

In the afternoon, we left for Galway, where our host families were expecting us.

LEARNING ENGLISH WITH SLEEPY HOLLOW

10 out of 10. This is the mark our 3rd-ESO students gave the actors in the company Clever Pants who performed an interactive, hilarious adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Teatre Ateneu today.

Both students and teachers enjoyed every minute of the play. We watched excellent acting, listened to perfectly-pitched English and roared with laughter throughout the play. Clever Pants, you rule!!!

FUN PLAYS

Yesterday morning some of our students attended the performance of a play by English Theatre Company - ETC. Our 1st and 2nd ESO students had a really great time watching Just Good Friends, a play about friendship, dreams and misunderstandings, and our 1st and 2nd Batxillerat students just loved Me TV, a satirical look at mindless media. 

Both plays were pitched at the right level of English for our students, and, as is always the case with ETC plays, they were extremely funny. The best part of it all was when our students stepped onto the stage to perform with the actors. They simply loved that, and the audience did too!

Once more, we would like to thank ETC for sharing such enjoyable moments with us.

A walk in Glendalough, learning in the real world

Today I went to Glendalough with Ana, a friend of the course. We took a bus from Dublin express to Glendalough (in Gaelic, the valley with two lakes). Allthaugh it rained almost all the time, we could take a nice walk around the lakes. The place is really wonderful.

Tower in Glendalough

The Romanic Cathedral

The Lower Lake

The Poulanas Waterfalls

The Upper Lake

Three pictures to think about

The post in the Upper lake reminds me of a collaborative work, like those that we make in class, but in the real world.

The exposition in the house of the natural park reminds me of the importance of the context, behind the simple words, to make comprehension possible.

 

Walking to the South

We are not all the time doing CLIL in Dublin. The city and its environment offers us a lot of free time opportunities.

Houth
Yesterday afternoon, we went to the South, in the town of Houth. From there, we could do a 6 km. walk beside the cliffs to the lighthouse, and return to the town, where you can rest after the walk with Fish and Chips and a paint of Guiness. This piece of coast ist known for the seals that live there.

The town Houth

The lighthouse of Houth

Our route, the yellow one

With two friends, also students in the CES

From Greystones to Bray
Also in the South of Dublin, in the coast, today we have taken a walk along the cliffs between Greystones and Bray.

Greystones

The path between Greystones and Bray

Arriving in Bray

On the way back to Dublin, by train, we got off in Sandycove, where we could visit the Tower of James Joyce. There is a little museum about this irish writer, because he lived there for 6 days, and the first chapter of one his novels, Ulysses, takes place in that tower. 

Sandycove

Reconstruction of the room where Joyce lived