Story writing

The students of complementaria had the task of writing a story using the the cards given in red ink. After learning the verbs in past participle and some linking words they organized this funny story. They worked in team having a laugh and a good result. The students enjoyed and expressed the satisfaction of learning. The story hasn't got a title yet. What impressed me about the result of this activity was the ease that the student showed to create the story with just a little knowledge. Even better the students has the goal to improve it.

The story:

"They sang, danced and drank in the party. We visited the museum; read, wrote, studied and spoke about the history, also drove to the restaurant and took the menu but we did not look at the prices. Next we ate and thought  to run. At the end we had time to play and made cookies"

Learning Styles Showcase

Language learning turns in a meaninful experience when students learn to recognize themselves as individual learners with different learning styles. In the photo, apprentices from Accounting and finances 454487 in Socorro, explore those possibilities while practicing and reviewing technical vocabulary related to their program. Image & text by Nelson Gutiérrez

Selling and buying stuff

Gestion empresarial students from Curiti selling their products in an activity where they have offer and buy in english, they had cleaning products, patties, cookies, juice, pizza, potato chips and sandwichs. It was a wonderful activity and oportunity for them to practice conversations while having fun (and making money). Picture and Text by Willy Wandurraga

The Visitor...

 Having the contact with an audience it is a challenge. In this opportunity, students of Mantenimiento de Computo from Socorro, were doing a dissertation related to Immigration. This topic was based on a movie The Visitor directed by Thomas McCarthy. The purpose was to talk about some subtopics like: American dream, illegal vs. legal and so on. They had to present a research article using one author as a reference, make a Prezi presentation, a video related to the topic and finally ready to talk in English! Wearing nice out fits, they were nervous, but at the end happy because of the challenge! Thanks!

By: Lily Rojas

Groovy Movement at Sena.

Students from the group of Business Management Technology, got wild dancing and putting into practice the prepositions of place using different parts of the body. Through movements and with extraordinary body coordination, they learned the meaning of the verbs and linking verbs and phrases. I think this is a great approach to introduce one of the many lessons in store to learn not only English but any other language today.

IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT MY FAMILY

During this activity students from the Early Childhood program in Curití were supposed to design a family tree containing English vocabulary related to the family members.The idea was to present their family background describing specific personal details of the members such as job, age, where they come from and so on.Also, students had to make use of the Anglo-Saxon possessive form “´s” so that their descriptions didn’t lack of natural English-speech.To build up the posters, students used diverse materials in order to not only show their English skills, but also their artistic abilities. 

Masonry Started!

Students from Mogotes technicians in Masonry were playing different activities like Bingo and "the captain says" to improve their vocabulary as "greetings", "alphabet" and "numbers". Also they learnt different   building related words. Class started last june and every day each student had to prepare a fun activity to learn new vocabulary according with the program. By: Jenny Gómez

June “Environmental Week!”

Hey Guys! June started with the “Environmental Week!” at INPEC San Gil. During this week different students shared a great time with their classmates and teachers of SENA. We played a five-a-side football Tournament where 11 teams were part of it, although only 2 of won it, everybody was fulfilled. The gifts were cleaning sets. People learned about “How to care the world” and what they can do to care it.  It was a really great time and we all had fun and learned with the “Environmental Week!”