Ashni Gandhi

This is the presentation Ashni wrote about herself, she will be with us this year as the Language Assistant teacher helping students with their oral skills.

My name is Ashni Gandhi, I am a student at the University of Illinois and major in English and Spanish.  I aspire to be a lawyer and go to law school after my studies. In my free time I like to read, stay active, and play violin. Here in Barcelona, I stay with a host mom to practice my Spanish and make the most out of my experience!

See you today in class,

Ashni

Oral speeches

1st of Batxillerat students have recently made their oral speeches about different areas, such as the Commonwealth, Literature, History and Political affairs. This is a great oppoturnity for them to improve their oral skills in English.

Congratulations Ada!!!

Congratulations to Ada Casterlar, our 2nd of Batxillerat student for her Fonix Award received yesterday.

Congratulations Ada!!!

English presentations

Here below you'll see the video that students of 2nd Batxillerat have made of  their English presentations about their future research project speech. 

See the video!!!

Language Assistants

This year we have two new Language Assistants, Victor and Silvia. They are both attending Primary and Batxillerat classes, helping our students to improve their  comprehension abilities, so that they can practise speaking and listening with them. Here is Victor's presentation.

"My full name is Victor Hugo Solano Ortega, I am 22 years old, I was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico but I was raised in Los Angeles, California.My hobbies include reading, attending concerts or music festivals, sight seeing, and going to new and exotic restaurants around town.

I am currently finishing off my undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz where I study linguistics with an emphasis in Spanish. I am also enrolled at the Autonomous University of Barcelona for one semester where I am currently taking a class in Catalan with the hope to learn a third language and also taking two other classes that focus on interpretation, translation, and intercultural communication that I know can enrich my study abroad experience here in Barcelona. 

The reason why I decided to do an internship here at Colegio San Josep Teresianas in Gràcia, was to gain some experience working at a school by teaching, being an English tutor, and to be able to learn more about the education system in Catalunya in comparison to the education system in the United States; as I hope to become a teacher myself someday."

Araceli is here!

Araceli is the Language Assistant for this year. Here's her presentation and some photos of her with Primary and Batxillerat students.

My name is Araceli and I am very excited to be the language assistant this year for students in the 3^rd- 6^th grade primary and in the 1^st and 2^nd Batxillerat classes. I am 20 years old from the United States. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, located in California. But currently, I am studying abroad here in Spain. I’m attending my 3rd year of college at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, double-majoring in Sociology and Education Sciences. After I graduate, I plan to go to graduate school to attain a teaching credential and a Master’s degree in Education. My career goal is to become an elementary school teacher.

I am happy to be interning here at Sant Josep-Teresianes. As a native English speaker, I plan to help the students with pronunciation and conversation in general. I have many ideas that would allow everyone to practice speaking, but in a way that is enjoyable for them. I hope that over the course of our time working together, the students will feel more comfortable speaking English. I cannot wait to see their improvement in this language.