2010/11 1.en.5. Note taking stategies

Have a look at Xilin’s notebook. What does he do when he takes notes during lessons:

1. Use clear handwriting

2. Write the date

3. Include Headings

4. Include some drawings and images

Why is it helpful to do these things? Post your comments

2010/11 1.en.4. How to organise information in your notebook: Guidelines for Catalan, Spanish and English lessons (2)

1. Write the date at the top of the page
2. Start writing in a new page every day
3. Use both sides of the sheet of paper
4. Write neatly
5. Try to use reasonable size handwriting
6. Don’t be sloppy
7. Do not use colours for writing
8. Do not decorate your notes with drawings
9. You can use highlihters for headings
10. Use only black or blue pens
11. Leave red for corrections
12. Write a heading or a title for each activity
13. Leave some space between different activities
14. Leave margins to do revision or to add new information
15. Repeat the same labels in your notes: vocabulary, dictation, reading, phonetics, spelling, literature, debates.

2010/11 1.en.3.Note taking and Notebook guidelines for Catalan, Spanish and English lessons (1)

Things you need to take notes

• Use D4 punched hole sheets
• You can buy packets
• or a hard cover spiral notebook of punched hole sheets

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punched hole D4 sheets orSpiral notebook of D4-punched hole sheets

• Use punched holes plastic pockets to keep the handouts the teachers give you, the homework you have to hand in or the homework the teacher gives you back .

Punched hole plastic pockets

• Use a binder to keep your notes, handouts and works

• Use colour dividers to separate the different subjecs

Dividers to organise subjects in your binder:

• One for Spanish
• One for Catalan
• One for English

2010/11 1.en.2 How to use the blog : normes, normas, rules

Every post will be preceded by a number and letter code : Term, Language and number of post.

LANGUAGE CODE:

ca= Catalan

es= Spanish

en= English

fr= French

de= German

TERMS : 1,2,3,

POST: the number of post for each language starting each term from number 1

Example:  2.en.1 =Second term.English. first post

2010/11. 1.en.1.welcome to your class blog

Dear students.

My name is María Loredo, you already know that, and this year I will be your English teacher and also your tutor. On top of that, I will be with Diana, your Science teacher one hour a week, which means that we are going to spend a lot of time together. I hope we’ll have a great time and that you’ll learn many things and also have fun.

Your language teachers, Emili, Bernat, and myself, will be working together on the same topic, preparing outings and collaborating on creating materials and activities for your group. Virtudes, the German teacher,  and Inés, the French teacher  will also join us in some occasions. After all, we are all language teachers, so it is only natural that we teach you the same things.

The first topic this year that will keep us working for a while is our city, Palma. We shall work on different aspects: signs, buildings, transport, shops, museums and problems that affect city life.  There will also be some outings that will be as important as our class work.

Apart from cities, this first term we shall be working on names. Names are like our presentation card. There’s a lot in a name, and we hope you’ll have fun playing with names a bit.

Finally, it is also important in these first weeks to learn how to present  homework, how to take notes and how to organize the information you get during lessons.  We’ll use some of the posts that we made for the former students of 1ESO E and some examples from their work. Maybe we’ll ask them to come to our class to explain to you how to do it.

This last week I was away working at the university entrance examination, PAU, so you had no English and had to read a book in English and write a summary. This week we’ll check what you did and we shall start with the topic of cities one week from now.

That is all for now, I will not make this post any longer. Welcome again and good luck in this new school year!

Maria

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