Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Rato y Aguirre 'speaking English' in a bilingual school Vallecas

MADRID .- Students from the third and fourth Elementary school bilingual audience Doctor Tolosa Latour de Vallecas have had the opportunity to converse in English with the regional president, Esperanza Aguirre, and the former Minister of Economy, Rodrigo Rato, they have reminded how important it is to learn this language.

The visit to public center-one of the first in which the Community introduced bilingual education in the year 2004 - has been developed entirely in English, a language that the president knew in his school stage and that the former manager of the International Monetary Fund mastered to perfection, for the long stage who has been residing in the United States.

Rato Aguirre presented to the students as "a very important man who has come here today to say to seeing what is relevant to speak English," while former minister assured them that they could feel fortunate for the "great opportunity" that are given to learn a language that "when you open doors seems greatest" and even "help you better understand the television series and songs."

Both have congratulated the students for the "very good English" who speak and have reported that their bilingual teachers have had to prepare "very hard" in England and Ireland in order to teach them later.

They have also encouraged the 191 children from this school (43% of total) studying in Spanish and English to seize the conversation classes and foreign culture giving them the auxiliary native of conversation coming from the United States, United Kingdom United, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Aguirre reminded that 86% percent of children from this school of Vallecas obtained "excellent results" in its consideration of the Trinity College London and why has promised them that "you can also study at institutes bilingual public" when starting Education Secondary.

Rato, for its part, has eluded respond to the political questions of journalists with the typical English sentence "my taylor is rich," but it has been submitted, along with the president, to a round of questions from children between 9 and 10 years, which has benefited their children have learned English living in the United States and that "believes" that already spoken "as well as you and me."

Fernando and Maria, two fourth graders have read a text in English to appreciate the opportunity they have to learn this language "hard and difficult", while the president told them that she learned at school, small and Now it wants to do likewise children from public schools.

One of the most gifted students has been involved in the story of the event, when Aguirre asked him what was his good accent, and he replied that his mother helped him because "it is also studying English at work, which is' between 'Towers Columbus, "referring to the Ministry of Public Administrations.

The president has explained to children from the next academic year will be 180 bilingual schools like yours in which studied more than 30,000 students and that, in addition to the ESO, its goal is to implement bilingualism in schools Free Childhood 0 to 3 years.

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