LECTURE: "LENGUAS EN CONTACTO"

On Friday 20th March, a former Spanish Language and Literature teacher of Institut Jaume Callís in ic, came to our school to give as a lecture about Languages in Contact. Although retired, she is still active, publishing books on Children Literature, giving lectures, and teaching at university. She has books published on the matter of Languages in Contact. 

 

She started by explaining what a language is, she compare a language to a human being, alive...

 

She went on explaining about how our mother tongue influence the way we see the world and also shapes the way we speak/write foreign languages.

 

The second part was devoted to the history of the influences of English in Catalan and Spanish

The students also interviewed her.

Here you can find a video recording of the first part of her lecture. And an audio file with the full lecture.

3.1. VIDEOCONFERENCES: GUESS THE MESSAGES / ADIVINA LOS MENSAJES

Los alumnos también se encontraron en Skype, y en grupos, se turnaron en decir sus frases, mientras los otros miembros del grupo adivinaban las palabras inglesas escondidas en las frases.

Students also met each other on Skype, and in groups they took turns to say their sentences, while the other members of the group guessed the hidden English words.

videoconferences

SPAIN -ITALY:

SPAIN-SWITZERLAND

3.1. GUESS THE MESSAGES! /ADIVINA LOS MENSAJES!

Creación cinco grupos de trabajo transnacionales, con alumnos de los tres países, según área de trabajo:

- Comida /hábitos

- Deportes

- Tradiciones y celebraciones

- Ciencia y tecnología

- Ocio: cine, teatro, publicidad, música…

Los alumnos prepararon una lista con frases en sus lenguas (italiano, suizo alemán, catalán y castellano), con palabras inglesas de uso frecuente.

He aquí los vídeos con las frases: 

Creation of 5 transnational working groups (students of the 3 countries) on each topic:

- Food and eating habits

- Sports

- Traditions and celebrations

- Science and technology

- Entertainment

Students created a list with sentences in their own languages (Italian, Swiss German, Catalan and Spanish) which included commonly-used English words

Here are the videos with the sentences: 

THE SPANISH / CATALAN MESSAGES:  

THE ITALIAN MESSAGES:

Los alumnos también se encontraron en Skype, y en grupos, se turnaron en decir sus frases, mientras los otros miembros del grupo adivinaban las palabras inglesas escondidas en las frases.

Students also met each other on Skype, and in groups they took turns to say their sentences, while the other members of the group guessed the hidden English words.