CLIL SCIENCE AND MATHS: SOUTH WALES

Sunday, 26^th February 2017

Today we had an Educational visit to South Wales. It has been a long day !

At 7:45 am all the 2^nd week course European teachers met outside Cheltenham town Hall. Neil introduced us to each other during our way to The Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum of Wales at Blaenavon World Heritage Site https://museum.wales/bigpit/ while he showed us the beautiful countryside and explained some curiosities about the area: in Wales all the advertisements are written in both languages, Welsh and English. Imagine you could only see this sign “Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru” (it means National Coal Museum)

Oh my god! What a strange sensation to be at 90 m² underground. “It is true that you can experience the sights, sounds, smells and atmosphere of an authentic coal mine”. Unfortunately, my English level is not high enough to understand Welsh people, they have a hard accent and it was difficult to follow the explanations during the visit. But the miner who guided the one-hour tour underground was very patient with us and repeated all that we required him to repeat quietly.

Then, we spent two hours walking along St Fagans Welsh National History Museum, Cardiff. It is an open-air Museum of Welsh life and St Fagans Castle, where you can explore how people in Wales have lived, worked and spent their leisure time. It was raining a lot and I couldn´t enjoy much.

https://museum.wales/stfagans/

Then, we had our free afternoon in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. This is the flag of Wales, I really love it.