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Welcome to CHG Radio and today we have a very special program. It's going to be all English,

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just for you to know. We've got two students from year six. Hello, Elena. Hello. And Edith.

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Hello. Hello, welcome here to CHE Radio. We've got Luis and Esther. Hello. Hello. Welcome here, and a very, very special person.

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She's Maureen, and she's from the British Council, and we're going to be talking to her a little bit about the project, about, well, what is it that makes us special, and I'm sure more things to come.

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welcome marine thank you very much i'm really happy and excited to be here today okay um who

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wants to go first uh me and what is your favorite thing about your job that's a really easy question

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my favorite thing about my job is when i get the chance to come and visit schools when i come to

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schools like yours and i can see actually all the fantastic work that you and your teachers

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are doing and just how much you love um our bilingual education program that is definitely

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the best part of my job okay could you give us an advice for us the students to get better running

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at english um i think you've got a really excellent level of english but what i always say

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is that the more that you read the better you're going to get at english or spanish

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So I think a love of reading, get into the habit of reading.

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Also get into the habit of, if you're watching TV or listening to radio, try that out in English.

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But reading is really fundamental in improving all aspects of your English, reading, writing and speaking.

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So love of books means much better, like English and Spanish.

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What about your visit today? What do you think was most interesting?

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well this radio program for a start i think this is only the second time i've ever been

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interviewed on the radio and it's definitely the first time i've been interviewed for a school

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radio program so that's this is a real first for me um i also think it's really important

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to have the opportunity to get together as colleagues so meeting all of the heads again

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talking about things that are going well

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learning from each other

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these conversations are so important

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so having that chance and the space

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to coincide

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and just celebrate

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I think the programme and its achievements

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has been a really important part of today

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Nice

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What would you say is like

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the staple that the British Council

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can put on the programme

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that makes it special?

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I think what we do

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is that well apart from what we are and our responsibilities are to the convenio so that's

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teacher training research and curriculum development I think what the program does

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and what the British Council is extremely proud of is fostering that love and these connections

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with the UK and I can see that in all the schools that I visit you know there's a real appetite to

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find out more about the UK to discover the UK and to actually have those links with the UK and I

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about something that's really special and you can you can tell for example we have been doing

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one project about scotland and um one of the tasks was um that students had to convince us

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to travel to that place and by the end of the of the project um i really really wanted to go

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to um you know visit scotland do you remember any of the projects that you have done like in this

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How many years have you been here at the school?

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How many years?

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Nine years.

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Yes.

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Can you tell us something about the projects that you have done?

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Well, we are doing a United States project right now.

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So we get in pairs and each pair chooses a symbol from the United States

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and investigates about it and then it presents it and we did a presentation of a country that you

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like and after you have to book some information and facts and things like that and after we made

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a like a book trip

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project

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And you have been to the Great Fire of London

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as well, in 1666

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remember from, that was two years

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ago, do you remember? Yes

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a little bit

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Are there any songs

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that are stuck in your head

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from when you were studying something

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about London? There is a very famous song

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that every student

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remembers, do you remember?

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I remember one, I don't know you

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I think if I tell you the first line, you will remember the rest.

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Big Ben is not a person.

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You need an infant as well.

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Yes.

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Right.

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Yes.

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So you want to sing along?

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Can you fancy singing a little bit now?

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No.

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Got shy once here.

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Any other questions that you want to...

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Yes.

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Do you have a favorite book?

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oh i read all the times that's a really difficult question um i love reading reading is such an

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important part of um of my life um i love reading in english and spanish at the moment um i'm reading

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a really funny book called um this is going to hurt and it's about a junior doctor and his

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adventures of being a doctor this is really funny and and entertaining um but i read all sorts of

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different stories and so it's quite hard for me to choose a favorite book um so I'm going to get

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back to you on that one I love the Harry Potter books for example um I'm trying to think of books

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um that you might be aware of and and are good for like to have in your library I love those

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and when I was little of course I read all the Enid Blyton stories they were a big part of my

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childhood um and I love Scottish authors as well there's a whole range of authors um that I love

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and for example Christopher Brookmeyer that sort of thing but they're I think for when you're a

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little bit older um but yeah love books and graphic novels as well so comics I love them as well

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what movies do you like good question um i like spanish cinema and i like british cinema so

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kind of a bit of a mix i like stories which tell really personal stories so personal journeys and

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stories which have happy endings i don't really like sad films so so that's the kind of films

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that i tend to watch i also when when my children were younger i used to love all of the sort of

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The animated films and movies, they were brilliant

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because they were really funny and nice, like Toy Story and all of that.

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I've got really fond memories of watching films like that.

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Very nice.

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Okay.

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Well, I think that's the end of the interview.

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I know time flies.

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Thank you very much, Maureen, for being here with us.

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Let's hope you can come back some other time to CHE Radio.

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You can tell us more things.

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Ladies, Meredith and Elena

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Thank you very much

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You're welcome

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And Esther and Luis, thank you very much

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Thank you

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We'll see you soon

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Thank you, bye