Living St. Patrick at Luigi Pirandello School

Here at Luigi Pirandello School we are celebrating that we are in the month Saint Patrick, of one of the most beloved celebrations for the Anglo-Saxon countries that takes place on March 17^th. But for our fourth graders it goes further, why? Because we decided that our celebration is not only going around Saint Patrick but instead we chose to know a lot more about one of the most fascinating countries in the British Islands and the hometown of our celebration: Ireland.

So, we took some of the symbols that marked the entrance of Christianism into Ireland by Saint Patrick’s hand and actually is the most known emblem of this Irish Holyday, which is the Shamrock. The shamrock symbolized the powers of nature for old Celtic tribes and was the way Saint Patrick chose to explain to those ancient tribes the union of Christian trinity, Father, son and Holy Spirit. For our students the use of the shamrock is the way they can express their relation with nature and the care of environment and also communicate how they can help their mates to understand the importance of those actions.

Javier Ortega

English teacher.

The melody of learning English...

Learning English for some people has not been the best experience. “Boring”, “Hard”, “Useless” are words that are often used by english learners; but in fact, there are many enjoyable ways to improve your skills in this language.

Few of those are:

• ·         Role plays
• ·         Reading articles (or blogs like this one)
• ·         Podscasts
• ·         Story telling

These strategies can be used, considering your age and proficiency level of English language.

Other than these, there is something that will help you in the process of learning English, and you can enjoy it no matter how old you are... it is MUSIC... Who does not love it? Listening to music is a habit that almost everyone has in his/her life. You can do it almost anywhere at anytime.

Music has specials characteristics that makes it a great strategy for learning a new language. For instance, a song can get stuck in your head for days or even weeks, so you can memorize new vocabulary, phrases and improve your pronunciation without too much effort.

Another advantage of music is that you can know and get in touch with grammatical structures that belong to both formal and casual use of language (Depends on the songs that you pick). Therefore, you can learn how people use it in real situations and conversations.

If you want to start practicing, we will recommend you a very fun and interesting website where you can listen to any genre of music that you like. Check it out! In https://lyricstraining.com/  you will be able to  enjoy the advantages of learning a new language through music.

Andrea Bobadilla.

English teacher.