Monday, 29 April 2013

Why it's important learning English?

English is a very important language in the world and you can communicate with people almost all over the world. When you talk an international language you can use it in many scopes of our lives.
Nowadays, children start learning English in primary school and finishes at the end of their mandatory secondary school. Vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading are the most important part of English learning. However, the English school education has changed in recent years. When we were young and went to primary school, we didn’t learn in English. We started learning in English at primary school, in the middle cycle. Since then, every year at primary, secondary and high school we studied English until now that we are at University.


Nowadays, English seems to appear more frequently in our lives, one of the most common examples is the cartoons (Dora the Explorer, Pepa Pig, etc.), where the characters speak in both languages, English and Spanish and children can learn English in a funny way. When we were children these cartoons didn't exist, we only watched cartoons in Spanish. English became a really important language and it appears in some different ways of our lives. Children need to be prepared in a near future. In the future as soon as the present, the use of new technologies will be basic for development of English.


There are subjects that are currently taught in English, like Science, History or Physical Education. We think that it's a really good way to improve the English level of the students because they have more opportunities to use it with the teacher and with their classmates.

We consider that learning English is very important for children and adults. This improves the different relationships between the world and it eases the communication and the exchange of ideas, opinions, cultures, etc.





Wednesday, 20 February 2013

The beginings


On our first post we want to talk about our experiences learning English principally at school. We started English lessons at primary school, at the age of six. We remember that the first we learned was the colours and the numbers. These lessons were funny and dynamics. We improved our English level always playing games in the class. 


When we were growing up these lessons became more difficult and hard. We started to take homework and one or two books in English to read at home. The homework’s exercises were really boring, above all the grammar’s exercises. Another kind of exercises that the teacher introduced us was the listening.  In the listening you have to pay attention to a radio or CD record and answer some questions about this.  It seems easy, but we really had a lot of problems, because the narrator spoke so fast and we didn’t understand it so well.

In every English book there were some pages at all of lessons dedicated to new vocabulary. This vocabulary helped us to express ourselves better.  Learn vocabulary was more entertaining than grammar. All of the new vocabulary was related with the lesson that we were doing, for example transport, how to write a letter, food, sports… For use this vocabulary we often done some interviews to other classmates. The last hardest English lessons that we remembered was the passive voice.