The Costa Blanca Guide Book

  The Flyers photo assignment is an annual event in the Flyers Saturday Club lesson calendar. It is a fun module that is enjoyed by all the students. We start off the day by first of all discussing the vocabulary that is used in the world of photography followed by a look at some of the equipment that can be used. This term there was an emphasis on this subject to link in with the topic of my town. After the theory, the students are given an assignment and in their groups, they go outside to take photos of the following categories - Landscape: Nature: Sport: Portrait: Selfie: Black and White: Fun Aleis, Sebastian and Salva look towards the Meditteranean to take a photo of a Landscape. Back in the classroom, Mr Mike looks at the photos taken by Raul A beautiful study of Nature on Sarah's Phone Sarah takes an action shot of Carmen at the Volleyball net

Back to Home Page Costa Blanca Guidebook - The Story (So far!) By Mike Dennison It's an age-old question for teachers of any subject; "just how am I going to make my lesson fun and relevant".  For us teachers in Saturday Club we have to take into account our students have been in school all week leading up to the weekend and of course may well have had English language theory lessons from their regular teachers. The last thing they need on a Saturday morning is more of the same. It's with that in mind I decided to research a fun way of bringing English to life and I looked in the latest Cambridge English teacher resources and picked the subject of 'My Town'. I'd been prompted to use it as a teaching tool owing to the students looking up their own hometowns on Google Maps and Street View whilst we were doing activities in the ICT room. Since the middle of April, lessons have been planned to enable students to learn the vocabulary for a guide book including...