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Welcome to CHG Radio and today we have a very special program. It's going to be all English, 00:00:02

just for you to know. We've got two students from year six. Hello, Elena. Hello. And Edith. 00:00:38

Hello. Hello, welcome here to CHE Radio. We've got Luis and Esther. Hello. Hello. Welcome here, and a very, very special person. 00:00:45

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. 00:00:57

welcome marine thank you very much i'm really happy and excited to be here today okay um who 00:01:12

wants to go first uh me and what is your favorite thing about your job that's a really easy question 00:01:19

my favorite thing about my job is when i get the chance to come and visit schools when i come to 00:01:29

schools like yours and i can see actually all the fantastic work that you and your teachers 00:01:35

are doing and just how much you love um our bilingual education program that is definitely 00:01:40

the best part of my job okay could you give us an advice for us the students to get better running 00:01:46

at english um i think you've got a really excellent level of english but what i always say 00:01:52

is that the more that you read the better you're going to get at english or spanish 00:02:00

So I think a love of reading, get into the habit of reading. 00:02:05

Also get into the habit of, if you're watching TV or listening to radio, try that out in English. 00:02:09

But reading is really fundamental in improving all aspects of your English, reading, writing and speaking. 00:02:15

So love of books means much better, like English and Spanish. 00:02:23

What about your visit today? What do you think was most interesting? 00:02:30

well this radio program for a start i think this is only the second time i've ever been 00:02:34

interviewed on the radio and it's definitely the first time i've been interviewed for a school 00:02:41

radio program so that's this is a real first for me um i also think it's really important 00:02:46

to have the opportunity to get together as colleagues so meeting all of the heads again 00:02:53

talking about things that are going well 00:02:59

learning from each other 00:03:01

these conversations are so important 00:03:02

so having that chance and the space 00:03:05

to coincide 00:03:07

and just celebrate 00:03:09

I think the programme and its achievements 00:03:11

has been a really important part of today 00:03:13

Nice 00:03:15

What would you say is like 00:03:16

the staple that the British Council 00:03:19

can put on the programme 00:03:21

that makes it special? 00:03:23

I think what we do 00:03:26

is that well apart from what we are and our responsibilities are to the convenio so that's 00:03:27

teacher training research and curriculum development I think what the program does 00:03:34

and what the British Council is extremely proud of is fostering that love and these connections 00:03:39

with the UK and I can see that in all the schools that I visit you know there's a real appetite to 00:03:44

find out more about the UK to discover the UK and to actually have those links with the UK and I 00:03:49

about something that's really special and you can you can tell for example we have been doing 00:03:56

one project about scotland and um one of the tasks was um that students had to convince us 00:04:01

to travel to that place and by the end of the of the project um i really really wanted to go 00:04:08

to um you know visit scotland do you remember any of the projects that you have done like in this 00:04:16

How many years have you been here at the school? 00:04:23

How many years? 00:04:25

Nine years. 00:04:26

Yes. 00:04:27

Can you tell us something about the projects that you have done? 00:04:28

Well, we are doing a United States project right now. 00:04:33

So we get in pairs and each pair chooses a symbol from the United States 00:04:41

and investigates about it and then it presents it and we did a presentation of a country that you 00:04:50

like and after you have to book some information and facts and things like that and after we made 00:05:02

a like a book trip 00:05:11

project 00:05:16

And you have been to the Great Fire of London 00:05:19

as well, in 1666 00:05:22

remember from, that was two years 00:05:24

ago, do you remember? Yes 00:05:26

a little bit 00:05:28

Are there any songs 00:05:29

that are stuck in your head 00:05:32

from when you were studying something 00:05:34

about London? There is a very famous song 00:05:36

that every student 00:05:38

remembers, do you remember? 00:05:40

I remember one, I don't know you 00:05:42

I think if I tell you the first line, you will remember the rest. 00:05:44

Big Ben is not a person. 00:05:49

You need an infant as well. 00:05:50

Yes. 00:05:52

Right. 00:05:53

Yes. 00:05:54

So you want to sing along? 00:05:54

Can you fancy singing a little bit now? 00:05:55

No. 00:05:58

Got shy once here. 00:05:59

Any other questions that you want to... 00:06:03

Yes. 00:06:07

Do you have a favorite book? 00:06:09

oh i read all the times that's a really difficult question um i love reading reading is such an 00:06:11

important part of um of my life um i love reading in english and spanish at the moment um i'm reading 00:06:18

a really funny book called um this is going to hurt and it's about a junior doctor and his 00:06:26

adventures of being a doctor this is really funny and and entertaining um but i read all sorts of 00:06:32

different stories and so it's quite hard for me to choose a favorite book um so I'm going to get 00:06:39

back to you on that one I love the Harry Potter books for example um I'm trying to think of books 00:06:45

um that you might be aware of and and are good for like to have in your library I love those 00:06:51

and when I was little of course I read all the Enid Blyton stories they were a big part of my 00:06:57

childhood um and I love Scottish authors as well there's a whole range of authors um that I love 00:07:02

and for example Christopher Brookmeyer that sort of thing but they're I think for when you're a 00:07:10

little bit older um but yeah love books and graphic novels as well so comics I love them as well 00:07:14

what movies do you like good question um i like spanish cinema and i like british cinema so 00:07:23

kind of a bit of a mix i like stories which tell really personal stories so personal journeys and 00:07:34

stories which have happy endings i don't really like sad films so so that's the kind of films 00:07:41

that i tend to watch i also when when my children were younger i used to love all of the sort of 00:07:48

The animated films and movies, they were brilliant 00:07:54

because they were really funny and nice, like Toy Story and all of that. 00:07:58

I've got really fond memories of watching films like that. 00:08:01

Very nice. 00:08:05

Okay. 00:08:07

Well, I think that's the end of the interview. 00:08:08

I know time flies. 00:08:12

Thank you very much, Maureen, for being here with us. 00:08:14

Let's hope you can come back some other time to CHE Radio. 00:08:18

You can tell us more things. 00:08:21

Ladies, Meredith and Elena 00:08:23

Thank you very much 00:08:26

You're welcome 00:08:27

And Esther and Luis, thank you very much 00:08:28

Thank you 00:08:31

We'll see you soon 00:08:32

Thank you, bye 00:08:34

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