Hi, I'm Chapela one of the three teachers of English at IES La Pobla de Segur in La Pobla de Segur, Lleida. I am the Head of the Foreign Languages Department of our IES where I also teach German. French is also taught, but unfortunately only as a second foreign language, like German. We are a small department (only four teachers), but very active indeed. Since 1991 we have been carrying out regular scholar exchanges with Germany and France. We have also had language assistants from Canada and Germany, and we have taken part in a Comenius project _Learning Together in a Changing Europe, and travelled to Austria, Finland and England. Unfortunately, we haven't done any exchanges with the UK, but now we have contacts in the Isle ofd Wight, Aberdeen, and ... who knows? We may be flying to Cowes or Huntly soon. Let's keep our fingers crossed, just in case!

We also work on projects that involve the use of new technologies like The Lords of the River, Let's Discover Pallars Together or The Enigma of Malta, to mention just the most popular. In fact, our projects The Lords of the River , Arnau Mir de Tost, The Enigma of Malta and From the Pre-Pyrenees to the Jurassic Coast won an Orator grant and students from 3rd and 4th ESO went to Canada in September 2005, the ones from 1st and 2nd ESO went to Switzerland with the bilingual project in French and German about Arnau Mir de Tost and the feudal times, 1st Batxillerato went to Malta in September 2008, and in 2009 the students of 3rd and 4th ESO went to England with their project about the Jurassic Era. We also work with Blogs and use Webquests and Treasure Hunts.

You can contact me through my e-mail. I'll be delighted to tell you more about our department.