European Day of Languages

,,PALANAČKA GIMNAZIJA“ priduržila se obeležavanju Evropskog dana jezika. U holu škole, u petak 25. septembra, održana je priredba pod nazivom ,,KOLIKO JEZIKA GOVORIŠ, TOLIKO LJUDI VREDIŠ“. Inicijativu za proslavu ovog značajnog događaja za naš kontinent pokrenuo je Aktiv profesora stranih jezika, a najveći deo organizacije samog događaja na sebe je preuzeo Učenički parlament naše škole na čelu sa predsednikom Lazarom Kuzmanovićem. U programu je učestvovalo 20-tak učenika koji su pevali i recitovali na stranim jezicima – engleskom francuskom, ruskom i latinskom.

Tema ovogodišnje proslave u Evropi je MULTILINGVALIZAM, kao faktor od vitalne važnosti za savremeno društvo i odraz razvijenosti i prilagođenosti svake evropske zemlje, posebno u vreme migracija i zajedničkog življenja ljudi koji pripadaju različitim kulturama i koji govore različitim maternjim jezicima. Osim poznavanja različitih jezika, treba naglasiti i razumevanje različitih kultura i tradicija naroda i zemalja u Evropi i u svetu, što nužno vodi u toleranciju, razumevanje i skladan suživot ljudi iz svih delova sveta.

Prilog o ovom događaju možete pogledati ovde

 

FCE Practice Tests

Here are a few  links to places where you can find practice all the parts of the FCE (B2 level) exam:

 

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_grammar.htm

http://www.maltassist.org/Cambridge_Practice_Tests_for_First_Certificate_1.pdf

 

Hippo competition

Just a quick note 🙂 for all of you who think about taking part in Hippo competition this school year.

Here is the link to online practice papers

http://www.hippo-competition.org/eng/practice.html

 

Speaking exam

Here are a few links to extremely useful and interesting videos presenting the speaking part of a Cambridge exam. I hope you will find them helpful when preparing your ESOL exams.

 

Talk about yourself – http://goo.gl/FbRYgW

Describe a photo or picture – http://goo.gl/OjCEWS

Discussion – http://goo.gl/U651l1

Information gap – http://goo.gl/0VDqV4

Tell a personal anecdote – http://goo.gl/YQW4WX

Oral presentation – http://goo.gl/XKu028

 

Shakespeare – 450 years alive and counting

In order to join the worldwide celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, today,  my third-year students 🙂 in Palanačka gimnazija and I have had a model lesson titled “William Shakespeare – The Man, His Work and His Legacy“. I would like to thank my colleagues for coming, my colleague assistants for helping me during the lesson, and last but not least, special thanks go to my students (3/5) for being utterly cooperative and attentive.

Here is the link to the presentation, my modest contribution to the great event:

William Shakespeare – The Man, His work and His Legacy

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet’s monologue – balcony scene)

Sonnet 18 (Michael York)

All the world’s a stage monologue (Morgan Freeman)

 

 

Mind Maps

To all those who could describe themselves as “mind map“ types of learners I warmly recommend the site I have recently come across. There you can get a free download of this application which you can use extensively for learning many subjects. Once you master the technical things about creating a mind map, you can find it both exciting and extremely useful.

The address where you can find more about this and download the application for free is the following:

http://thinkbuzan.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prepositions of place

Here are some nice illustrations to show the use of the prepositions of place. They are generally easy to use, but there are a few ambiguous cases, so these pictures may be useful not to make unnecessary mistakes.