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ORGANIZED BY: GEP GROUP, LANGUAGE DEPARTAMENTS & P.E. DEPARTMENT

SAINT GEORGE’S DAY- COURSE 2023-24

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OBJECTIVES

To give more visibility to Saint George’s Day, which is celebrated in Catalonia and also England.
To celebrate plurilingualism and the many different languages which are spoken at our highschool.
To do motivating activities in Catalan, Spanish, English and German.
To play Medieval games and sports.
To foster interdepartmental work and collaboration.
To motivate GEP students from 2nd ESO to prepare activities for 1st of ESO students in English.
To offer an activity in English for primary school students (a theatre play).

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ORGANIZERS

Department of Foreign Languages
Department of Catalan
Department of Spanish
Department of Physical Education
SIEI (Special needs unit)
Newcomer’s Class

With the participation of:

English and German language assistants Tirzah Bryan & Isa Krechner
External agents.

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TRANSVERSAL ACTIVITIES

Saint George’s dragons exhibition.
Second-hand book market.
Roses and hand-made products sale (SIEI).
Literary and photography prizes.
Tale readings in the newcomer’s class.

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ACTIVITIES FOR 1st ESO

Medieval games and sports.
Scottish dances with the Scottish language assistant Tirzah Bryan.
Magic tricks in English with ‘Jack the Magician’.
Games in English (games designed by 2nd and 3rd ESO students in their GEP subjects).
Songs in English (class karaokes).
Concert 'Sing Along' (live music in English!).
Theatre: Saint George’s legend (performed by 3rd ESO students in the subject ‘Alternativa a la Religió’ with the philosophy teacher (GEP teacher)).
Gymkhana on Saint George’s in Catalan.

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Jack the Magician and Sing Along concert

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Sing Along concert

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Theatre performance for primary school students from Escola Europa

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Scottish dances with Tirzah Bryan

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Medieval games

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ACTIVITIES FOR 2nd ESO

Songs in English (class karaokes).
Culture and language workshops in Catalan.
Acronyms in Spanish.
Scottish dances with the Scottish language assistant Tirzah Bryan.
Online cultural activities with teachers from Oxford publishing house.
Cultural activities with Christopher Perry, an English teacher.
Concert 'Sing Along' (live music in English!).

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Workshop in Catalan:

‘100 paraules, una imatge’

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Group reading ‘Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen’ de Manuel de Pedrolo

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ACTIVITATS A 3r ESO

Songs in English (class karaokes).
Culture and language workshops in Catalan.
Audiobook in Spanish.
Cultural activities with Christopher Perry, an English teacher.
Group reading in Catalan.
Concert 'Sing Along' (live music in English!).

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Culture class with Christopher Perry

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Group reading of ‘Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen’

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ACTIVITATS A 4t ESO

Concert 'Sing Along' (live music in English!).
Workshops in Catalan
Culture class about India with Susen Ahluwalia.
Theatre in German.
Micropoems in Spanish.
Online culture activities with teachers from Cambridge Publishing House.