The ESL Times

9 April 2013

Euthanasia

Listen to Juanjo Alonso, @juanatt, who gives his viewpoints on euthanasia and talks about how this issue was dealt with in the film called The Sea Inside.

Picture from Wikipedia

8 April 2013

How to combat stress

Listen to Montserrat Menéndez, @MfMonse, who gives us some tips to try and combat stress.

6 April 2013

Gaming's Impacts

A report by Vicky García, a C1 ESL learner at EOI Luarca.

It is difficult to believe that a child could have a new toy lorry in his hands and not know how to play with it because he had never seen one before. But that is something we will find if we think that our kids, the up and coming generation, might grow up playing without real toys. Most of our children have what they need to survive, but less and less they are not used to the beautiful multi-coloured toys. So, when they get a ball, a doll or a truck, they don’t know how to react.

Of course, our world is changing and it is important to realize that what grows, what is evolving exponentially thanks to the ICT, is the diversity and size of what we can consider new games: video games, net games or even interactive games. The modern world and the technology are giving new directions, and our kids simply adapt their form of gaming or learning.

Furthermore, it is true to say that young people spend more time in front of the computer, but it would not seem that the Internet fosters antisocial behavior. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. Studies would seem to indicate that disproportionate addictions to games or the abusive use of social networks are usually used to replace the satisfactions and relationship possibilities that real life should provide.

Finally, as an environment particularly conducive to the development of creativity, the video games can help resolve certain shortcomings in modern education curricula.

In conclusion, having fun on the interactive games is essential for young people: the important thing is to understand how our world provides new opportunities for learning, work and success.

5 April 2013

From Motril to Pluto... and beyond!!

Students of 1ESO B at IES "La Zafra" have been working on a project about our solar system. We have listened to the 'Solar System Song", researched interesting details as the size, shape, moons, etc of the different planets; the 'inner' and the 'outer' ones, the gas giants, we've found how much you would weight or how old you would be in that planet... and finally, we've made posters to show some of our findings. Here is a sample of those posters but you can find many more in OUR WIKI.
Enjoy!

(Pluto, by Ángel G.)

(Saturn, by Ismael Q.)