Well, today it was our first day so I had the chance to welcome the group of students I’ll be teaching this year in 2nd Bachillerato: wow, I’m exhausted!!! I’ve known them for a long time, some of them have been with me for four years now and they do not seem to have grown too mature during this time. ‘Though most of them are 18 and over, they’re still too noisy and..well, I guess playful is the word.
One of my colleagues asked me if I didn’t think posting this was risky, as most of them know where to find my site…well, if they were able to read and actually understand this post, I’d be so happy that nothing could spoil that moment of perfect bliss!! LOL
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As the former chairwoman of the Canarian Teachers of English Association, TEA, I can’t but recommend all EFL teachers or prospective teachers working in the Canaries to become members. Lest’s TEA share! I keep surfing the net looking for good stuff to use in class, but quite often you feel like peaople do not share their own materials anymore…just links or ideas but not actual files for teachers. This site is quite cool. It belongs to the Department of English of a Secondary School, La Arboleda. Check the section called Ficheros. Well, I’ve thought my first post should be devoted to explain some things about this site, and the first one is probably the name!! When I still updated my previous website (elrebumbio.org), many people asked me what the name meant, and not only English-speaking visitors but also Spanish-speaking ones. The word “rebumbio” means, according to the Royal Academy of Spanish Language, “ruido retumbante“, that is ‘booming noise‘. However it is not a common word in the Spanish mainland,but it is in the Canary Islands, where we speak quite differently from Castillian Spanish. I chose that name because I wanted my website to be a “noisy” one, somewhere where I could mix loads of different stuff aimed at helping students to communicate in English.So it became “El Rebumbio” de Sara Martín. But after some time, when I decided to design a new site for my students, I wanted something easier for them to remember. I’ve always found the way students refer to their teachers really amazing. They might not address me as Sara, ‘though many of them do, but call me “seño” (abbreviation of traditional “señorita”, which is used for female teachers, although it actually means “Miss”…) so despite having been married for a long time, I am doomed, like all female teachers in the Canaries, to be addressed by my students as an eternal spinster!!! But that’s only when talking TO me. However, when talking ABOUT me 99% of students refer to me as “Sara la de inglés“, that’s “Sara,the one who teaches English“…and they even ask other teachers where “saraladeinglés” is, as if it were my complete name and surname. And if you can’t beat them…at least they’ll remember your site! So this is the long story of why this site is called “saraladeingles.com”. And if you are a teacher in the Canaries, think about it…you are probably known as “pepeeldehistoria” or “luisaladematemáticas”… |
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