TECS World magazine

TECS World magazine
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Introduction and welcome to the magazine team
Getting to know some of the staff members at TECS-Central
TECS Student class photos
Classwork and students:
a. TECS Babies (4 and 5 year olds)
b. TECS Kids (6 to 12 year olds)
TECS Online Platform
Bonfire Night and Halloween work
Our Teenagers work:
a. Poems
b. Posters about countries
c. Recipes and Restaurant reviews
d. And many more….
Teenagers project class
Games
a. Crossword
b. Matching pets to teachers
TECS- Central preparing for the Christmas play
Saturdays at TECS
Improve your English
The Gift box
❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
own language, that goes to his heart.❞
‒Nelson Mandela
Learning a new language is not just about making the grades, correct grammar and the practicalities of ordering a
coffee. Learning a new language boosts self-confidence, broadens the mind, opens doors and develops lifelong
friendships that no other skill can. Language learning, with its unique ability to unlock the doors so often not opened
between cultures, is an exciting and positive way for people from across the globe to walk a common ground.
Run, organised and edited by the teen’s projects class, TECS World is a new project introduced to tecs this year.
TECS World aims to demonstrate the fantastic work of its students and supply information about past and future
events here at TECS. Packed full of students work, artwork, photos, games and events and more, we hope you enjoy
this year’s first edition of TECS World.
The TECS World team
Claudia Rizo Morales
Ruben Rizo Morales
Age: 13
Age: 13
Teacher at TECS: Liz
Teacher at TECS: Liz
I’m a shy person. I’m a good person
and I’m kind with my friends and with
other people sometimes. We are going
to do this magazine because we need
to inform the people about the things
we do at TECS.
I’m a teenager and I’m studying
English at TECS. I like to write
books and design magazines. This
project is very interesting. This
magazine is to learn about TECS.
It’s going to be fun and
interesting. Come and read!!!!
Paloma Garcia Cuevas
Age: 15
Teacher at TECS: Rosie
I’m sociable, happy and funny. I like
swimming, reading books, listening to
music and watching films. In the
magazine we have interviews and
celebrities. We did the work in
projects class on Fridays.
Maria Castro Zunzunegui
Age: 15
Teacher at TECS: Rosie
I’m a very shy person. I have brown
hair and I am tall. I like to do kite
surfing. We are going to do this
magazine so it is information for the
people of TECS.
Susana Martin Lopez
Maria Garcia Lacal
Age: 13
Age: 12
Teacher at TECS: Rosie
Teacher at TECS: Rosie
I’m a good person and I have a lot
of good friends. I like meeting
with my friends and with my
family. I’m kind and tidy and
sometimes I’m sociable. We are
going to do this magazine to
inform the people about some
things we do at TECS.
I’m a sociable person and fun. I like dancing and I’m
tidy and responsible. Sometimes I don’t clean my
bedroom because I always clean it and my sister never
does. The magazine is a mix of interviews and news. We
did a lot of work in projects class on Fridays. I’m not
creative but I worked on things like celebrities and the
basketball tournament and Halloween.
Getting to know some of the staff at TECS
Jessica Heaney (teacher)
Rocio Sevillano (receptionist)
What type of food do you like?
What is your favourite food?
Asian food
My favourite food is paella because I love rice
What do you think about Tecs?
Do you think it’s a good idea to have the
basketball tournament?
It’s a really good company because it cares
about its students.
What´s your favourite film?
My favourite film is Despicable me.
Yes, I do. It´s important to collect money for
charity.
What do you do in your free time?
Talk about your hobbies.
I haven´t got free time. When I was young I
played table tennis.
My hobby is playing football, going to the
beach and eating a lot.
Do you like your job?
Do you like sports?
Yes I do because I enjoy speaking with students
and parent
Yes I do
Do you speak Spanish?
Yes I do
Do you like travel?
Yes I do
Have you got any brothers or sisters?
Do you want to read the tecs magazine?
Yes I do
Do you think It´s going to be interesting?
Yes I do.
Why?
Because is important to learn about Tecs.
Yes, I have one brother.
Have you got any pets?
Yes, I live with Rosie.
Do you like books? What kind?
Yes I do I like reading biographies.
Interview by Juan and Alberto (Teens)
Interview by Rubin and Claudia (Teens)
More interviews with some of the TECS staff
Rosie Bradley (teacher)
Caroline Hendricks (teacher)
Is the colour of your hair natural?
How old are you?
Yes I was born a red headed baby
I am 25 years old
Of all the teachers at TECS who is your best
friend?
What are your likes and dislikes?
Jess, I have known her for a long time. We both
come from the wonderful city of Manchester and
she cooks me nice food.
How many piercings do you have?
7, two in my nose and lots in my ears
I like teaching English, baking cakes and going to
the cinema. I don’t like carrots and missing the
bus.
What do you do in your free time?
I draw pictures and read
And tattoos
Are you going to participate in this year’s charity
basketball tournament?
7, none on my face!
I am going to cheer
Do you like the school?
Do you like the school?
Yes I love working with the students, they are
fantastic and make the work enjoyable.
Yes I love TECS
What is your favourite animal?
The Christmas video in 2012 
I love penguins
What was your favourite project?
What is your favourite animal?
I love giraffes but also all animals
Interview by Maria (Teen)
Interview by Paloma and Maria (Teens)
Happy students at TECS
Here are a few pictures taken in the classroom
Lots more photos coming up later in the magazine
Can you spot your class?
TECS Pre Starters
Learning starts early at TECS
With a little help from Captain Jack and his friends Danny, Katie and Fluffy the 4 and 5
year old students have made a fantastic start to their language learning journey this
trimester.
Take a look at some of the fantastic work the pre starters have been doing in class.
Fantastic work Pre Starters!
Starters create a TECS WORLD!
Starters 1 Celebrity Doppelgangers
Anthony Hopkins
Jessica Simpson
Scarlett Johanson
Stephen Speilberg
Buttercup (Powerfuff Girls)
Velma (Scooby Doo)
Drew Barrimore
Brad Pitt
Danny Trejo!
Animal Descriptions and Drawings
Take a look at these fantastic animals created by some of the Starters. Well done!
New to TECS this year
TOP
TECS Online
Platform
Games! Activities! Grammar and vocabulary review! Writing practice!
Songs and Videos!
Taking TECS home with you.
1. Go to
http://top.tecs.es
2. Insert your username and password (ask your teacher)
3. Find your class folder
4. Have fun practicing English!
(See Circular for more instructions)
Learn and practice your English at home!
Post Starters
The TECS Post Starters have had lots
of fun and created some brilliant
work this trimester
See more work from our post starters on the next page
A fantastic Cartoon by one of the TECS teenagers
The superflyers have been learning all about Bonfire night.
Bonfire night is a festival celebrated every year in England on the 5th of
November.
People drink hot drinks and watch Fireworks next to a big bonfire.
Fireworks
Fireworks in November.
I like autumn.
Rocket goes bang.
Everyone is happy.
Where are the Fireworks?
Over the person come there.
Rockets go to the moon.
Kabum! They fly so high.
See the fireworks. By Carmen
Ramirez
Rockets
Rockets in the fire.
Oh so high!
Can you see them fly?
Kaboom ! They fly.
Everyone is happy on
The 5th of November.
By Silvia Ramirez Torres
Postcard Stories
The Super Flyers have produced some brilliant post cards. Great work!
Halloween was a great success as usual.
We all enjoyed the games and everybody
ate too many sweets!! The starters were
the best dancing group but there was a
special prize for Jesus. You can see how
fantastic the costumes were;
congratulations go to our winners.
Where’s the beach!
Writing by TECS teenagers
Helena Saiz:
My parents took this photo before
my uncle's wedding.
I was from the hairdresser and I
was beautiful.
I loved my dress and my hair, too.
I had a great time at the wedding!!
Zaira Penela:
This picture was when I was 4.
I loved horses. It’s important
because it brings me memories
when I was a child and my little
brother.
This was in Sanlúcar in a
restaurant. My family and I
came often there, now we rarely
go to this restaurant.
All the people are happy
A perfect world must be incriedible
Pedro save the world
People will be very happy
Earth is better know its happy
Everything will be beautiful and peaceful
Rap of the perfect world (chorus)
Really have got Friends
Funny parties and long holidays
Even after w estay with parents and family
Can make what ever you want
There is a world without wars
Find the people who isn’t happy
Environment is better know
Christiano is better know
Talk with the people, all the world one
We can live our dreams
World it’s better know
Once we can help the earth to be a best place to live
October, November, all the months are happy
Rarely be sad person you must be happy
Rap of the perfect world (chorus)
Live the present
Long snakes and big lakes
Dont think in the past
Died people we know
Posters about countries
by TECS teenagers
Fernando Diaz Segado
Andy de la Cruz
-HOW
TO PREPARE IT:
THE INGREDIENTS:
-Minced beef
-Some Jacobs cream
crackers
-An egg
-Some rosemary
-Some mustard
-Oregano
Put the minced beef in a ball and put some oregano
and mustard too. Then crack an egg and put it in
the bowl. After put in rosemary. Then get the
crackers, brake all of it, put it in the bowl and mix
all the things in the bowl. Then when you mix it you
-Spaghetti
get a paste, you must do little balls with that
-Cheese
paste. Put a little bit of oil in the pan and put the
-Two tins of tomato
-Garlic
-Chili
-Some basil
meatballs on it. Then put the spaghetti in a sauce
pan with boiled water. When the meatballs are
cooked put them on a plate. Then you put the chili,
the basil and the garlic in a pan with oil. After you
put the tomato sauce and the meatballs in the same
pan. Then you put the cooked spaghetti in the pan
again and you mix it. Finally, when all is cooked you
put it on a plate with cheese. By Cesar Otero Reyes
and Juan Mellado Gomez (Teens)
Restaurant Reviews
Blanca Paloma
My favourite restaurant is “Blanca Paloma”. It is in Puerto Sherry, in “El Puerto de Santa
Maria”. This restaurant makes pizza, in it you can eat salad and pasta too. This is an Italian
restaurant. My favourite thing on the menu is the spaghetti. The spaghetti is very delicious in
this place. I ate in this place two months ago. I like this restaurant because I like very much
pasta but I also like pizza. This restaurant is situated in a very nice
place, because it’s near of the sea.
By Joaquin Arcila Perez (Teens)
Chinese restaurant
My favourite restaurant it´s a Chinese restaurant that is in Algeciras. The food you can eat
there is Chinese food, like soup, wan- tuns, chicken with nuts and a lot of Chinese food.
My favourite thing of the menu is the wan-tun, it´s like pasta made with potato and it has meat
inside, it´s delicious.
I like it because the food it´s very good and also when my father goes to work to Málaga, he
eats there and he knows the boss of the restaurant.
I think that, the restaurant is one of my favourite restaurants for sure.
By César Otero Reyes
(Teens)
I am poems by TECS teenagers
The teenagers have written some thank you messages to people they love
To: My Mom From: Maria Subject: Thankful
I am writing to you to thank you many things like:
you always are there with even if I am loosing or wining, you do the food every day and
you also wait to me to have lunch, you have got a lot of patience with me and my sister...
I have more things to be thankful for but I have also positive news: I have good marks,
my exams are amazing, my strong point are languages and that is excellent for my future,
I have lots of fights with my sisters but I am going to as much possible to have peace in
our house, dad is not much time here but don't worry because I'm hear with you.
My room is always clean and I'm going to clean it for longer, is hilarious be with you
because you understand me, I will have with you some fights because I'm a teenager but
I will defend you always.
At Christmas we're going to have many parties for example in new year we will go to
Grazalema with my aunts, uncles, grandparents, and also my cousin Lauri and the new
To:
My Dad.
Daniela
that is so cute.
See you soon, love Maria x (Teens)
Things
that I am thankful for. I
don't know... Oh yeah I
To my mum:
Remember that this year I have
enter in your high school and I
Things that I thankful for:
hope that it goes better that in
-For do the lunch, dinner... Because is delicious.
the other and I have to say that I
-For clean the house a lot of days. Because is very clean. And it
like more than the other high
school and I’m POSITIVE that
isn´t filthy.
here the teachers aren't so sad.
-For buy somethings that I want. Because i am dlighted with these
It's SMALLER... yeah but here the
things.
people is HILARIUS and
-For go to shopping with my father and buy all the food. Because
DELIGHTED. And it's true that at
the food is delicious.
the beginning I was TERRIFED
-For prepar my birthday. Because the birthdays are delighted.
because I had to meet new
-For go to the beach in Summer with me. Because the Summer is
people and that things... My
really good.
parents are very HILARIUS and
-For help me in the exams and I had good marks. Because I am
good people.
very proud of the marks.
We play football in the
-For help me when I am very hungry. Because when I am starving,
playgrounds and basketball too. I
she does the cooking.
have not much things more to
Love from Joaquin (Teens)
say so bye dad
x
See you soon. Juan x (Teens)
My Avatar
Travel Agent
1-My avatar is tall. She is thin and
has long hair.
Amsterdam is a beautiful and amazing place to visit.
You can visit a lot of places and monuments, but first
you have to look after some things.
The first thing you have to know is how you are
going to travel. I think the best transport for that
travel is the plane. The cheapest ticket cost 405.48$
and you spend a time of 4 hours 35 minutes on the
plane.
2-My avatar is clever. She is wise
and hard -working
3-My avatar is happy. She is funny
and nice.
Maria Z
4-My avatar is pretty. She is nice
and has good-looking
5-My avatar likes Reading. She is
clever and she likes books
Other thing you have
to know is where you are going to stay. The best is
stay in a hotel. In Amsterdam the best hotel is Grand
Hotel Amrâth Amsterdam it’s expensive but is the
best hotel. This hotel have a distance of 0.8 km from
the center of the city. This hotel has a big pool and
very comfortable rooms.
Now you can decided what you are going to do and
what are you going to visit.
6-My avatar likes sports. She is
hard-working and she loves water
sports
Paloma
My avatar is pretty. She is
beautiful and tall.
My avatar likes learning new skills.
She is clever and hard-working.
My avatar is so happy. She is
friendly and cheerful.
My avatar likes reading. She is tidy
and reliable.
Amsterdam you can visit the Amsterdam arena for
watch an Ajax´s football match.
In
You can visit Albert Cuypmarkt too. That’s can be a
perfect place to visit after visit the museums of the
zone.
Enjoy your trip, Ana Ruiz and Moises (Teens)
More great work from the teenagers
My avatar likes parties. She is so
outgoing and she likes music.
My avatar likes listening to music.
She is happy and always wears
headphones.
My avatar do sport sometimes.
She is a bit lazy and quiet.
Ana Perez
Emails to Pete the alien who lives on the moon
To: pete.alien@themoon.com
From: TECS teenagers
Subject: visit earth
Hi Pete,
My name is Carlos Hanhart, I´m originally from Netherlands but actually I am living in Spain. I am 15 years old.
According to myself I am a person calm and patient, I am also happy and rather crazy, I am lazy too. I am 1.73
meters and my weight is more or less 58 kilos. I have green eyes but they are also blue, is like sea water. I have
blond, short hair, I am a little bit strong and some people think I am handsome.
I have a big family form 2 different places ( One bigger than the other) One is from Spain and the other is from
Holland, I have a crazy , happy and funny family from Spain and a clever, calm and original family of Netherlands,
they are brilliant.
My brother`s name is Nicolas and he is tall, thin, and really clever, my father is called Elbert he is intelligent,
reliable and he loves the nature and my mother`s name is Carmen she is funny, decisive and she wants to see
us happy.
I have pets too, 2 dogs and 4 cats they are really nice and they take after us it’s really strange.
So, let start showing you my planet:
First at all my country called Spain , It is in the middle of the Earth between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Ocean , We are a big country on Europe we love dance, music, bulls ,food, and power because
we were one of the biggest country in the world but that was years ago.
On the one hand I have always wanted to go to Japan cause of videogames and life there but on the other hand
I want to go to New Zealand because is amazing , everything is new and has lot of nature there are lot of
different people and is really calm there some people say that you can breathe peace. The Earth is amazing.
See you soon, Carlos Hanhart Castro
Hi Pete,
My name is Ana and I’m a human of the Earth. I heard about you want to come to visit us, so I had the idea of write an
email to you to explain you how the Earth is.
Let’s start with me. I live in El Puerto de Santa Maria, in Cadiz. I’m a teenager of 15 years with dark blonde wavy hair and
brown eyes. I’m tall and skinny and I’m very quiet, as my city. In my family, we are all quiet. In the afternoon you can’t
hear nothing in the house. My mum is a surgeon and my dad is a math teacher, so we live in fine conditions. I have a pet
called Muñeco, a ragdoll cat.
The cats of the picture are ragdoll cats too. Aren’t they adorable?
I’m a girl who loves read books (my favourite is The Book Thief) and I love chocolate and sweets. The food of the Earth is
extremely delicious.
Well, let’s continue. I go to a school called IES Francisco Javier de Uriarte, and we go here from 8:15 to 2:45 to learn things
about maths, physic and chemistry, language, biology, etc.
Now, let’s talk about the Earth. The Earth is a magical place. We have got beautiful woods, long rivers, mountains, water,
a lot of type of animals and flowers, and stunning scenerys. On the Earth we have a lot of life and is so beautiful, even if
humans have destroyed a very big part of it and we are killing it with polution.
But humans also have made Earth a more beautiful planet. Some cities and cathedrals are amazing. I recommend you
Brugge, in Belgium, or the tulip fields of Netherlands. They are very, very, very precious. We also have got music, art,
paintings, cinematics, and a lot of other things. Imagination on Earth is enormous. About me, I love rock music like
Metallica or Slipknot, and the country singer Johnny Cash is amazing. I also love dolls, and I collect a special type of doll
called “Pullip”. At the moment I only have three, but I will have more in the future (they are too expensive, damn).
I’m going to put some fantastic places of Earth to show you how pretty is this planet.
Japan (I wish someday I will visit it). Dubai
And there are a lot of fantastic places but this will take too long, so I’m going to stop, but you can search cities on Internet
(I imagine you have Internet on the Moon, because if you don’t, you won’t receive this email).
So I’m going to finish this email, I hope you come to visit us soon. Can you response this email and tell me how is life on
the Moon? I’m sure is very curious. See you soon in the Earth, Ana. ( Ana Perez Montes)
Projects Class
Fridays 7.30pm – 9pm
After the fantastic work carried out by Jess and the Projects team last year TECS hope
to continue with some exciting projects this year.
Random acts of kindness was a vision created by the teenagers last year with the hope
to plan and organise charity projects and events to raise money for local charities.
This years first event was a teens basketball tournament. The event was organisied
and advertised by the teenagers and was great fun helping raise money for the local
charity Madre Coraje. A massive thank you to all involved and a big congratulations to
the winners of the tournament. Well done everybody!
Find out about our next
project
The Gift Box
later in the magazine!
Can you find the words?
CUCUMBER, BEETROOT, LETTUCE, TOMATO, RADISH, ONION, POTATO,
AUBERGINE, PEACH, CHERRIES, GRAPES, CARROT, PEAR, BANANA
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Can you match the pet to the teacher?
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An awesome cartoon created by Carmen Perez Rodriguez
This years christmas play has a sunshine
twist. Santa Claus and Mrs Santa will be
having a sandy adventure on a beach
meeting many new Friends along the way.
The play will be acted out by this years
Super Flyers with songs by the other
classes.
However, many hands are needed to get
the show up and runnng.
Take a look at some of the students
working hard to create props for the play.
Saturdays at TECS
Learning English through sports, arts and crafts, music, cooking, games, technology,
outdoor learning and creativity!
Trinity on Saturdays
This year TECS are including Trinity revision in their Saturday kids’ sessions.
Students practice Trinity focused vocabulary and grammar with their friends
through sports, arts and crafts and games. Every Saturday is designed and
organised by our great Saturday team especially to practice for the Trinity
exam and make sure it’s fantastic fun for our super TECS kids!
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Saturday Sessions
10:30 – 13:30
Students from all centres welcome!
Pick up a Saturday Calendar from Reception or look at the bulletin board to see the
great activities we have planned!
How to improve your English
All students at TECS want the same thing: Get better at English. The students in the CAE class teamed up to write an
article with tips for other TECS students on how to improve their English, whether you’re a kid, a teenager or an
adult. Their advice? Have fun!
Kids
People usually start learning
English at the age of five. But it is
too soon to study grammar,
writing…. So we have to find
another way of making English
easier and funnier for children.
There are many appropriate
activities for their age, but here
we have some of the most useful
ones: games, stories, English
cartoons (with or without
subtitles), traditional songs and
carols, painting and drawing (to
visually memorize the words).
Teens
Adults
Secondly, teenagers have a
different way of learning English.
You cannot make them study
grammar as adults; you have to
make it funny and interesting. In
this sense one activity is to assist
to theatre plays and watch
subtitles films. Maybe they would
enjoy the time with friends using
the language in activities such as
conversations or pen-friends
letters. At this age, our
recommendation could be to
make the learning attractive and
amusing.
I believe that learning English for
adults it could be a wonderful
adventure. You will have the
chance to be a little kid and start
from the beginning, learning
numbers, colors, simple
vocabulary, everything. Your
knowledge is like a white paper to
paint. However most of the
people have an intermediate level
coming from the school years. For
them, reading books, watching
movies and listening to music,
would help to refresh vocabulary,
expressions and idioms to update
the rusty English. But if you have a
high level of English, to keep
improving and not forget it, you
have a wide range of activities to
enjoy reading newspapers,
watching the news or
documentaries, movies etc. Keep
in mind that English is global
common language in the world; it
brings you the possibility of
communication with people all
around the world.
Written by Julio Caballero
Ramos, Alvaro Valero MuñozRojas, José Mª Molina Ramírez,
Alberto Perez-Lanzac De Lorca,
Pablo Contreras Evangelista,
Natalia Fernández Delgado and
Mar Moreno Osorio.
Introduction by Caroline
Hendriks.
The Gift
Box
Last year the Projects class tried something new, The Gift Box
Project. They didn’t know how successful it would be, but
everyone got involved, from pre-starters to adults classes,
TECS students donated hundreds of toys, books, pencils and
games for children who are less fortunate than us, not only in
the Cadiz province but also in Peru and Nicaragua!
What happened?
We collected toys for poor children from TECS students and
gave them to Madre Coraje. The students of the projects class
designed posters wrote E-mails and letters for all the students
of TECS! We also went to classrooms to advertise our projects
and asked for donations for the Gift box. Madre Coraje came
and informed us about how important our project was for
them and the children.
In the end, there were too many toys for the Box! The project
was a great success! Alberto Peralta Perez
After the success of last year we are doing this project again
so we are asking you to donate any toys, books, pencils,
games and school equipment that you don’t need or use and
could help people who are less fortunate than us.
Please give your donations to your teacher before the 30th
January 2015 and let’s make it even better than last year!
Thank you
TECS would like to say a big thank you to all its students for making this
first trimester such a big success. We have had a great start to the year this
autumn with the Halloween party, the charity basketball event, the
Christmas play and many other fantastically fun activities. As we move into
this winter season we would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas
and happy new year.
The TECS world team have really enjoyed producing this first edition of
TECS world and hope you as readers have had just as much enjoyment
exploring its contents and finding out all the great things TECS students
have been doing this trimester.