The world outside

Now, you will be soon leaving the school. It will the time to make big decisions, whether to continue with your studies or stop and try to find a job.

How can you find out what’s best for you?

In pairs or groups of three complete the following tasks:

1.- The school organises talks by people who have just finished the college education and others that are already working.

Join as many as you can and prepare a summary of the one you’ve found more interesting.

2.- Interview people in different professional fields  and find out about  the qualifications required, the career prospects, the social demand for their services, their working conditions and their degree of satisfaction.

We advise you to both talk to college graduates as well as other who opted for vocational studies (Cicles Formatius).

Collect the information and prepare your conclusions.

Later, you will have to submit all this information orally in front of your classmates.

The News

Get to know what's going on inside and outside Narcís Oller, Valls and the Alt Camp.

Have you ever stopped to think that what happens near us also takes place somewhere else around the globe?

In pairs or groups of three find related pieces of news which portray this fact.

Now, follow Melissa's advice at "Reporting News" and prepare your own presentation.

Connections

In such a big school as Narcís Oller not everything is just about lessons and exams.

There are many other activities and projects you may even have never heard of.

We want you to learn more about them and the best way to do it is straight from the horse's mouth.

Here you have a few of those:

* “Mediació” service (Conflict resolution commitee)
* The school choir
* NO-TEEN: Our English magazine 
* Escoles verdes (Green schools project)
* Treball de recerca (Research Project at Batxillerat)
* Solar Energy (Renewable energy sources)
* AMPA (Parents association)
* Tutoria (Student progress assessment service)
* ERASMUS PROJECT: Exchange to Sweden
* Treball d'excel·lència (High performace project)
* Sport at school (Project to introduce other sports in the school activity)
* Canteen service (Meals adapted to everyone’s needs)
* Janitors/Caretakers
* E.A.P (Psichological and paedagogic support service) 
* SIEI (Special Education Support Unit)
* Vocational Studies
* Career Counselling Service (Coordinació Batxillerat)

* Servei Comunitari (Community Service) at 3rd Year ESO

* Drama at NO

In pairs, find those members of our community who are in charge of these programmes and projects and interview them. Follow your teacher's instructions.

Controversial Issues

Every society, no matter how many members it has, organises itself through a set of rules.

Our school is no different from any other social structure. We have our regulations, which deal with a range of issues.

Here you have a list containing some of them and related topics which tend to be controversial outside school.


* Smoking (Ban in enclosed areas)

* Timetable structure (Lunch break? Yes or no)

* Mobile phones at school (Misused, disruptive and intrusive)

* Digital books (Vs Paper books)

* Uniforms (the importance of personal appearance)

* Single-sex school (Social difference by gender)

* Disruptive behaviour (vandalism and hooliganism)

* Migration (Integration, adaptation, mixed cultures and changes in society)

* Inclusion (Handicapped people in modern society)

* Automatic promotion (faked success, easy fame and the value of true effort)


Of course, not everyone agrees with the status quo and there are always voices who disagree.

Your task this time will be a debate.

Choose one of the topics above and with 3 more partners follow your teacher's instructions.

CV-Get to know your classmates

This is the model with instructions of the first oral activity in our project.

This version will help you complete your partner's CV.
You will receive an empty form in word format via email so that you can fill in your personal information.
All forms will be then hung up around the classroom and you will have to pick one belonging to someone you have never met/studied with before.
Your teacher will instruct you on how to get the rest of the information.
Our advice is that you should interview your classmate so as to be able to learn the missing details.
You should also ask him/her to give you some pictures to illustrate your future oral presentation (ie. Power Point format).
Remember oral presentation are assessed both contentwise (accuracy, fluency and so forth) and formally (body language, Power Point, etc).

Open publication - Free publishing - More language

A Very Important Remark:
Presentations cannot be read. 
You can use your classmate's form to help you through your task BUT only if it has been filled in with key words, not sentences.